NORFOLK PLANT SCIENCES LIMITED
Company number 06302772 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Norfolk Plant Sciences has staged a remarkable recovery from technical insolvency in 2024 to a positive net asset position in 2025, achieved almost entirely through a substantial debt-to-equity conversion and new share capital issuance. However, the company's underlying "metabolism" remains impaired, as it continues to burn through cash with deeply negative retained earnings. While the immediate crisis has been averted, the company's survival still hinges on ongoing investor support until its biotechnology can be successfully commercialized.
Shareholders' funds
£1,435,674
Balance sheet as at 2025-07-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2007-07-05
- Employees
- 5 (2025 accounts · was 4 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ
- Postcode
- WC2H 9JQ
- Capital
- 10 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-07-31
- Next due by
- 2027-04-30
- Financial year end
- 31 July
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-05
- Next due by
- 2027-07-19
Nature of business (SIC)
- 72110 Research and experimental development on biotechnology
Officers 5 current · 7 resigned
Contact details
- Website
- norfolkplantsciences.com
GM purple tomatoes
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| TAYVIN 381 LIMITED | 2008-02-07 |
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 20-22 BEDFORD ROW LONDON, WC1R 4JS | 2017-05-30 |
| JOHN INNES CENTRE NORWICH RESEARCH PARK, COLNEY LANE, NORWICH, NORFOLK, NR4 7UH | 2014-07-14 |
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 04/03/2008 FROM, MERLIN PLACE, MILTON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, CB4 0DP | 2008-03-04 |
| MERLIN PLACE, MILTON ROAD, CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, CB4 0DP | 2008-03-04 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 112 similar companies in WC
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (5 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2007.
No.9 of the largest research and experimental development on biotechnology companies in London →
Competitors London
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3. NEWALR&D LTD
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5. SENTCELL LTD
This company ranks 9 among research and experimental development on biotechnology in London.
The class of 2007
28%
of the 228,174 companies incorporated in 2007 are still active today; 69% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.