LAUNCH DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED
Company number 02427295 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Launch Diagnostics Limited is a long-established healthcare diagnostics company with sector resilience in its favour, but the assessment is significantly constrained by absent financial data and recent director departures. The company is wholly controlled by a holding company, introducing group contagion risk that must be evaluated through parent company accounts. Credit approval should be conditional upon receipt and satisfactory review of full financial statements for both the company and its parent, together with clarification of the recent board changes.
Shareholders' funds
£8,012,766
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The company's principal activity is to provide diagnostic reagents and hospital laboratory instrumentation
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1989-09-28
- Employees
- 46 (2025 accounts · was 47 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Lakeview West Crossways Business Park, Galleon Boulevard, Dartford, Kent, England, DA2 6QE
- Postcode
- DA2 6QE
- Capital
- 1,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 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
- 2025-10-11
- Next due by
- 2026-10-25
Nature of business (SIC)
- 86900 Other human health activities
Officers 2 current · 12 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by LAUNCH DIAGNOSTICS HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2016-04-13
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 4
£3,000,404,961 total awarded value where published.
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z3286659 (Tier 2), registered since 2012.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| ASH HOUSE ASH ROAD, NEW ASH GREEN, LONGFIELD, KENT, DA3 8JD | 2010-12-20 |
| 10, OVERCLIFFE, GRAVESEND, KENT, DA11 0EF. | 2002-12-17 |
| 27A, MAXWELL ROAD,, NORTHWOOD,, MIDDLESEX,, HA6 2X4. | 1991-07-02 |
| SUITE 17, CITY BUSINESS CENTRE, LOWER ROAD, LONDON SE16 1AA | 1989-10-19 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 576 similar companies in DA
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (46 staff).
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1989.
No.1 of the largest other human health activities companies in Dartford →
Competitors Dartford
This company ranks 1 among other human health activities in Dartford.
The class of 1989
50%
of the 21,096 companies incorporated in 1989 are still active today; 44% 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
- 2024-11-18
- Where
- Kent
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT174293 | Kent | Leasehold | 2024-11-18 | — |
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