SELDEN RESEARCH LIMITED
Company number 00984285 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Selden Research is a well-established, family-owned UK manufacturer of professional cleaning chemicals occupying a credible mid-tier market position, with turnover approaching £30M and steady growth. However, operating margins of approximately 3.7% sit materially below typical specialty chemicals benchmarks of 6-10%, indicating meaningful competitive pressure or cost structure challenges that constrain profitability. The business demonstrates strategic ambition through the Proton acquisition and sustainable packaging innovation, while maintaining a conservative balance sheet, though the relatively tight cash position and exposure to energy price volatility through their gas-dependent CHP system present ongoing vulnerabilities that warrant monitoring.
Shareholders' funds
£13,445,584
Balance sheet as at 2025-09-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company is the manufacture of chemical cleaning products and aerosols.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1970-07-10
- Employees
- 179 (2025 accounts · was 174 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Staden Business Park, Staden Lane, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 9RZ
- Postcode
- SK17 9RZ
- Capital
- 12,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-09-30
- Next due by
- 2027-06-30
- Financial year end
- 30 September
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-10
- Next due by
- 2027-07-24
Nature of business (SIC)
- 20411 Manufacture of soap and detergents
- 20590 Manufacture of other chemical products not elsewhere classified
Officers 6 current · 1 resigned
Public contracts won 2
£600,000 total awarded value where published.
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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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Contact details
- Website
- selden.uk
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 61 similar companies in SK — measured against the wider sector
The largest employer among its local peers (179 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1970.
The class of 1970
54%
of the 3,725 companies incorporated in 1970 are still active today; 40% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 3 titles
- Leasehold
- 3
- Most recent registration
- 2020-10-07
- Price paid, where recorded
- £96,000
- Where
- Derbyshire (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DY547106 | Derbyshire | Leasehold | 2020-10-07 | £96,000 |
| DY471307 | Derbyshire | Leasehold | 2012-10-26 | — |
| DY471310 | Derbyshire | Leasehold | 2012-10-26 | — |
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