BIORELIANCE LTD.

Company number SC122851 ·

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Overview

Company type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
1990-02-09
Registered office
13 Queens Road, Aberdeen, AB15 4YL
Postcode
AB15 4YL
Capital
5,768,404 GBP
Accounts category
Full

Accounts

Last made up to
2025-12-31
Next due by
2027-09-30
Financial year end
31 December

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2026-02-09
Next due by
2027-02-23
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 74909 Other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified

Officers 8 current · 26 resigned

Appointed 2024-03-31
Appointed 2023-03-01
SITE HEAD Appointed 2014-07-01
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT Appointed 2014-07-01
VICE PRESIDENT, SAFC GLOBAL SALES Appointed 2012-01-31

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Group structure

Controlled by Merck Kgaa (HRB6164) — since 2022-12-06

Controlled by BIORELIANCE UK ACQUISITION LIMITED — since 2016-04-06

From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.

Modern slavery statement

Registered a modern slavery statement for 2026 (period to 2025-12-31) as part of the MERCK SERONO LIMITED group statement — 7 years on the registry.

Read the statement summary on the government modern slavery statement registry. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Data protection registration

Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA251203 (Tier 3), registered since 2017.

Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Gender pay gap

2.13%

Women's median hourly pay above men's, 2025/26 · in the top quarter for parity

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Contact details

Website
http://www.bioreliance.com

Previous company names

NameDate changed
MICROBIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATES LTD. 1997-07-04
MICROBIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL, LTD.1993-10-28

Previous registered addresses 5

AddressChanged on
C/O MCGRIGORS LLP, JOHNSTONE HOUSE 52-54 ROSE STREET, ABERDEEN, AB10 1UD2012-08-22
UNIT 5, TODD CAMPUS, WEST OF SCOTLAND SCIENCE PARK, GLASGOW, G20 0XA2010-10-21
3 FOUNTAIN DRIVE, INCHINNAN BUSINESS PARK, PAISLEY, PA4 9RF2007-05-03
STIRLING UNIVERSITY INNOVATION, PARK, HILLFOOTS ROAD, STIRLING FK9 4NF2006-05-10
9 HILL STREET, EDINBURGH, EH2 3JT1993-10-26

Among its peers

Among the oldest 25%

of 771 similar companies in AB, trading since 1990

221 companies are registered at this postcode →

The class of 1990

48%

of the 240 companies in this sector incorporated in 1990 are still active today; 49% have since been dissolved.

A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.

Survival rates for every incorporation year →