{"name":"ISO-ANALYTICAL LIMITED","company_number":"03907808","status":"Liquidation","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"2000-01-17","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"Suite A, Victoria House, 19-21 Ack Lane East, Bramhall, Cheshire, SK7 2BE","postcode":"SK7 2BE","sic_codes":[{"code":71200,"description":"Technical testing and analysis"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[],"warnings":["The annual accounts for this company are overdue.","The confirmation statement for this company is overdue."],"accounts":{"category":"Total Exemption Full","year_end":"31 January","last_made_up_to":"2023-01-31","next_due":"2024-10-31"},"employees":null,"financials":[{"financial_date":"2023-01-31","net_assets":733991,"cash":370069},{"financial_date":"2022-01-31","net_assets":655774,"cash":270021},{"financial_date":"2021-01-31","net_assets":615613,"cash":253712},{"financial_date":"2020-01-31","net_assets":586001,"cash":194090},{"financial_date":"2019-01-31","net_assets":600614,"cash":200364}],"officers":{"current":3,"resigned":2,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":3,"outstanding":2},"gazette_notices":[{"date":"2024-05-21","kind":"insolvency"},{"date":"2024-05-09","kind":"insolvency"},{"date":"2024-03-28","kind":"insolvency"},{"date":"2024-03-28","kind":"insolvency"}],"insolvency_outcome":{"active_today":false,"filings":[{"form":"LIQ13","date":"2026-09-28","description":"Return of final meeting in a members' voluntary winding up"}]},"ai_summary":"Iso-Analytical Limited is a highly stable, conservatively financed niche player in the UK technical testing and analysis sector, demonstrating a decade of consistent profitability with minimal leverage and strong cash generation. Its financial profile — low liabilities, substantial cash reserves, and steady asset growth — places it in the upper quartile of small analytical laboratories for financial resilience. However, the company's current liquidation status, combined with overdue filings, suggests a planned exit or strategic wind-down rather than distress, given the healthy balance sheet at last reporting. The key industry context is that this represents a boutique specialist exiting a consolidating market increasingly dominated by global testing conglomerates.","website":"http://iso-analytical.co.uk","links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/iso-analytical","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/iso-analytical/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/iso-analytical/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03907808","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/iso-analytical/financial","gazette":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/iso-analytical/gazette","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/iso-analytical/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/iso-analytical/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/iso-analytical/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/iso-analytical"}