CYDEN LIMITED
Company number 04470941 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
CyDen Limited is a niche leader in home-use IPL hair removal devices with a distinctive dual model spanning ODM manufacturing and branded product sales. While the company has achieved a remarkable turnaround from near-insolvency in 2016 to £32M net assets by 2025, its financial profile reveals structural challenges: gross margins of 23% significantly trail medical device industry norms of 40-65%, reflecting heavy ODM dependency on a single customer that represents an existential concentration risk. The chronically thin cash position (0.8% of revenue) and four-year revenue decline from pandemic peaks suggest the company must urgently accelerate its transition toward higher-margin branded revenue through SmoothSkin whilst managing the vulnerability of its ODM relationship.
Shareholders' funds
£32,321,313
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
retail
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2002-06-26
- Employees
- 269 (2025 accounts · was 224 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Office Block A Bay Studios Business Park, Fabian Way, Swansea, United Kingdom, SA1 8QB
- Postcode
- SA1 8QB
- Capital
- 25,678 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-06-26
- Next due by
- 2027-07-10
Nature of business (SIC)
- 32500 Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies
Officers 3 current · 28 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by IPULSE LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA005926 (Tier 2), registered since 2013.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- cyden.com
Cyden designs and manufactures IPL hair removal products for use in the home combining technological innovation with clinical understanding.
Previous registered addresses 9
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| TECHNIUM 2 KINGS ROAD, SWANSEA, SA1 8PJ | 2018-07-18 |
| TECHNIUM 1 KINGS ROAD, SWANSEA, SA1 8PH | 2012-03-28 |
| TECHNIUM 2, KINGS ROAD, SWANSEA, SA1 8PJ | 2008-07-17 |
| TECHNIUM 2, KINGS ROAD, SWANSEA, SA1 8PJ | 2008-07-17 |
| TECHNIUM, KINGS ROAD, SWANSEA, SA1 8PH | 2005-07-08 |
| 72 BRYNTEG ROAD, GORSEINON, SWANSEA, SA4 4FR | 2003-06-20 |
| 72 BRYNTEG ROAD, GORSEINON, SWANSEA, SA4 4FR | 2003-06-20 |
| CARNGLAS CHAMBERS, 95 CARNGLAS ROAD TYCOCH, SWANSEA, SA2 9DH | 2002-07-17 |
| CARNGLAS CHAMBERS, 95 CARNGLAS ROAD TYCOCH, SWANSEA, SA2 9DH | 2002-07-17 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 18 similar companies in SA
2nd largest employer among its local peers (269 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 2002.
Competitors Swansea
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4. KAYDIAR LTD
This company ranks 1 among manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies in Swansea.
The class of 2002
39%
of the 122,927 companies incorporated in 2002 are still active today; 58% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.