CENTRAL PHARMA CONTRACT HOLDINGS LIMITED
Company number 08126719 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Central Pharma Contract Holdings occupies a defensible niche in the pharmaceutical and healthcare supply chain, utilizing its regulatory expertise to secure high-value contract packing and serialization work. However, the group's strategic position is currently constrained by a fragile balance sheet featuring £1.97M in net liabilities and alarmingly low operating cash conversion, necessitating recent equity injections to stabilize the business. To unlock its true potential, leadership must aggressively transition from capital investment to operational efficiency, diversifying its client base to absorb substantial fixed costs and restore positive equity.
Shareholders' funds
£2,740,428
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the group in the year under review was that of contract packing for the pharmaceutical and health supplement industries.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2012-07-02
- Employees
- 227 (2024 accounts · was 219 in 2023)
- Registered office
- Central Pharma Caxton Road, Elm Farm Industrial Estate, Bedford, MK41 0HT
- Postcode
- MK41 0HT
- Capital
- 272 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-27
- Next due by
- 2027-08-10
Nature of business (SIC)
- 64209 Activities of other holding companies not elsewhere classified
Officers 3 current · 3 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Contact details
- Website
- centralpharma.com
At Central Pharma our experts provide pharmaceutical, medical device, cell & gene and healthcare industries with visibility, serialisation, storage, packing and transport.
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 549 similar companies in MK
3rd largest employer among its local peers (227 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2012.
Competitors Milton Keynes
This company ranks 45 among activities of other holding companies not elsewhere classified in Milton Keynes.
The class of 2012
52%
of the 1,981 companies in this sector incorporated in 2012 are still active today; 46% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.