PENLON LIMITED
Company number 03228364 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Penlon Limited presents a mixed risk profile for institutional investors. The qualified audit opinion on stock valuation and significant gross margin decline are substantive concerns that require thorough investigation, particularly regarding the circumstances of the auditor change and the reliability of inventory figures that underpin both the balance sheet and cost of sales. On balance, the company benefits from an established market position in a resilient healthcare sector, parent company financial support, and an improving cash position. The concentrated ownership structure and lack of dividend history warrant scrutiny of intercompany arrangements before any investment commitment.
Shareholders' funds
£12,265,340
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of manufacturing medical instruments and supplies.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1996-07-23
- Employees
- 119 (2024 accounts · was 131 in 2023)
- Registered office
- 1-5 Barton Lane, Abingdon Science Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 3NB
- Postcode
- OX14 3NB
- Capital
- 12,265,340 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-31
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-23
- Next due by
- 2027-08-06
Nature of business (SIC)
- 32500 Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies
Officers 5 current · 27 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by INTERMED LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
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EAST HEALTHCARE LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 9
£1,346,000,080 total awarded value where published.
Showing the 5 most recent of 9.
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Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2025 (period to 2024-12-31) — 2 years on the registry.
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA337973 (Tier 2), registered since 2018.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- penlon.com
- Phone
- 03031231113
Penlon is a long established medical device company, based near Oxford, in the UK. Our key areas of business are: Anaesthesia delivery; Airway Management; Suction Control and Oxygen Therapy.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| INHOCO 528 LIMITED | 1996-11-04 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 1-5 ABINGDON SCIENCE, PARK BARTON LANE, ABINGDON, OXFORDSHIRE, OX14 3NB, UNITED KINGDOM | 2012-04-18 |
| ABINGDON SCIENCE PARK, BARTON LANE, ABINGDON, OX14 3PH | 2012-04-17 |
| RADLEY ROAD, ABINGDON, OXFORDSHIRE, OX14 3PH | 2003-06-13 |
| 100 BARBIROLLI SQUARE, MANCHESTER, M2 3AB | 2002-12-23 |
| DENNIS HOUSE MARSDEN STREET, MANCHESTER, M2 1JD | 1997-12-12 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 41 similar companies in OX
The largest employer among its local peers (119 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1996.
No.2 of the largest manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies companies in Oxford →
Competitors Oxford
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4. ADLENS LTD
This company ranks 2 among manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies in Oxford.
The class of 1996
45%
of the 41,233 companies incorporated in 1996 are still active today; 52% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.