KINESIS LIMITED
Company number 03362013 · Monitor this company
The most recent accounts indicate this company is dormant and not trading.
Executive summary
Kinesis Limited was a high-growth, award-winning niche distributor of chromatography and laboratory consumables whose ~5% PBT margins and international reach were typical of, and toward the stronger end of, the UK life science tools distribution sector. Its 2016 acquisition by Cole-Parmer (Antylia Scientific) exemplified the industry's consolidation wave, and the operating business has since been fully absorbed into the parent's UK platform. Today the company is a dormant, compliantly maintained legal shell with no sector participation — its industry story is complete, and residual interest in the entity is purely administrative.
Shareholders' funds
£1,785,972
Balance sheet as at 2016-12-31
What it does
Supplier of medicinal chemistry consumables and equipment.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1997-04-29
- Employees
- 48 (2016 accounts · was 47 in 2016)
- Registered office
- 3rd Floor 1 Ashley Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, United Kingdom, WA14 2DT
- Postcode
- WA14 2DT
- Capital
- 69,095 GBP
- Accounts category
- Dormant
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-30
- Financial year end
- 30 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-01-06
- Next due by
- 2027-01-20
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46460 Wholesale of pharmaceutical goods
Officers 2 current · 16 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by COLE-PARMER INSTRUMENT COMPANY LIMITED — since 2016-10-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Contact details
- Website
- kinesis.co.uk
Cole-Parmer, an Antylia Scientific company, provides the widest range of lab equipment and supplies for pharmaceutical, biopharma, healthcare, and environmental.
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 9 ORION COURT, AMBUSCADE ROAD, COLMWORTH BUSINESS PARK, EATON, SOCON, ST NEOTS, CAMBRIDGESHIRE PE19 8YX | 2007-01-24 |
| GANE JACKSON SCOTT, 144 HIGH STREET, EPPING, ESSEX CM16 4AS | 2007-01-24 |
| 84 TEMPLE CHAMBERS, TEMPLE AVENUE, LONDON, EC4Y 0HP | 1997-06-08 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 23 similar companies in WA
2nd largest employer among its local peers (48 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1997.
Competitors Warrington
This company ranks 3 among wholesale of pharmaceutical goods in Warrington.
The class of 1997
43%
of the 50,528 companies incorporated in 1997 are still active today; 54% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.