{"name":"WAYMADE PLC","company_number":"01856320","status":"Active","type":"Public Limited Company","incorporated":"1984-10-17","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"Monarch House, Miles Gray Road, Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom, SS14 3RW","postcode":"SS14 3RW","sic_codes":[{"code":46460,"description":"Wholesale of pharmaceutical goods"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[{"name":"WAYMADE LIMITED","changed_on":"2013-01-02"},{"name":"WAYMADE PLC","changed_on":"2012-10-29"},{"name":"WAYMADE HEALTHCARE PLC","changed_on":"2012-10-12"},{"name":"WAYMADE PLC","changed_on":"1995-12-29"}],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Group","year_end":"31 December","last_made_up_to":"2025-12-31","next_due":"2027-06-30"},"employees":null,"financials":[],"officers":{"current":5,"resigned":8,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":6,"outstanding":1},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"Waymade PLC occupies a defensible niche position within the UK pharmaceutical distribution sector, leveraging four decades of trading history and specialty medicine focus to compete on margins rather than volume against dominant full-line wholesalers. The company's family-controlled ownership structure (75%+ held by the [name withheld] family) provides strategic agility but creates governance and succession risks typical of such arrangements, while its modest capital base may constrain growth ambitions as larger competitors increasingly target the specialty distribution segment. The transition between various corporate identities and the PLC designation without apparent public market listing suggests a company that has strategically evolved its positioning, with current \"global access to specialty medicines\" branding indicating an international sourcing model well-suited to post-Brexit supply chain realities, though scale disadvantages relative to major wholesalers remain a structural challenge.","website":"https://www.waymade.co.uk/","links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/waymade","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/waymade/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/waymade/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01856320","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/waymade/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/waymade/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/waymade/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/waymade"}