BRIGHTWAKE LIMITED
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Executive summary
Brightwake Limited is a long-established UK medical device manufacturer facing a challenging convergence of sector-wide headwinds. The 2025 financial year saw a significant deterioration, with turnover declining 7.5% to £18.9m, gross margins contracting to 30% (below the 35-55% industry norm), and an operating loss of £1.77m replacing the prior year's modest profit. The company is caught between the MDR regulatory transition inflating compliance costs and lengthening market access, NHS procurement practices that refuse inflationary price increases, and the loss of a major OEM contract. While the balance sheet remains reasonably robust with net assets of approximately £7.9m, the current trajectory is unsustainable without margin recovery, and the unconventional diversification into structural steel fabrication introduces additional execution risk and management distraction at a time when focus on the core medical device business is paramount.
Shareholders' funds
£7,867,255
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
the manufacture of medical devices, more specifically, advanced wound care products and blood filtration surgical devices.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1978-03-07
- Employees
- 230 (2025 accounts · was 231 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Sidings Road, Lowmoor Ind Est, Kirkby In Ashfield, Notts, NG17 7JZ
- Postcode
- NG17 7JZ
- Capital
- 15,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-12
- Next due by
- 2027-07-26
Nature of business (SIC)
- 32500 Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies
Officers 4 current · 5 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 3
£1,753,859,915 total awarded value where published.
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Contact details
- Website
- brightwake.co.uk
Brightwake work in partnership with clients to delver holistic medical device product development, commercialisation and contract manufacturing solutions
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 34 similar companies in NG
The largest employer among its local peers (230 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1978.
Competitors Nottingham
This company ranks 3 among manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies in Nottingham.
The class of 1978
51%
of the 8,636 companies incorporated in 1978 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2006-03-20
- Where
- Nottinghamshire
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NT418060 | Nottinghamshire | Leasehold | 2006-03-20 | — |
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