ABBOTT LABORATORIES LIMITED

Active
Company number 00329102Private limited companyIncorporated 1937

Key figures

£871,804,000
Net assets 2024

† ABBOTT LABORATORIES LIMITED filed these accounts on paper, so Companies House publishes them only as a scanned image. The figures for the years marked † were read automatically from the scan and kept only where the statements add up (for example net assets equal total equity), but a reading error is still possible — check the original accounts at Companies House.

Ratios

2024

Sector comparison

SIC 46460

Where the company stands among the 2,974 active companies whose first SIC code is 46460 (Wholesale of pharmaceutical goods).

Turnover£639,882,000
Higher than 95% · median £23,764,000 among 214 that publish turnover
Net assets£871,804,000
Higher than 99% · median £32,520
Total assets£870,795,000
Higher than 99% · median £255,000
Cash£6,614,000
Higher than 95% · median £90,159
Employees580
Higher than 99% · median 1
Company age89.4 years
Older than 99% · median 6.2 years
Largest in this sector by net assets
  1. CSL BEHRING HOLDINGS LIMITED£11bn
  2. VIIV HEALTHCARE UK LIMITED£5.7bn
  3. MCKESSON GLOBAL SOURCING LIMITED£1bn
  4. MCKESSON MEDICAL-SURGICAL SOURCING LIMITED£999.5m
  5. PFIZER LIMITED£984m
  6. ABBOTT LABORATORIES LIMITED£871.8m
  7. GLAXOSMITHKLINE UK LIMITED£779m
  8. UNIKERIS LIMITED£642m
  9. HALEON UK TRADING LIMITED£554.8m
  10. MUNDIPHARMA MEDICAL COMPANY LIMITED£461.7m

Positions are approximate. Figures come from each company's latest accounts; money and employee figures are compared only with companies that filed accounts in pounds for a period ending in the last two and a half years and are not dormant, so those groups are smaller than 2,974. The line on each bar marks the median.

Summary: ABBOTT LABORATORIES LIMITED

What kind of company is it?

ABBOTT LABORATORIES LIMITED is a private limited company registered with Companies House under company number 00329102. It was incorporated on 23 Jun 1937. Its status is active. The registered office is in Maidenhead (SL6). Its nature of business (SIC 2007) is wholesale of pharmaceutical goods (46460).

How is the company doing financially?

The latest accounts in the database are for 2024 (period ending 31 Dec 2024); the company files full accounts. Turnover was £639,882,000. Profit for the year was £256,187,000. Net assets were £871,804,000. Cash at bank and in hand was £6,614,000. Total assets were £870,795,000 and total liabilities £494,083,000. The company had an average of 580 employees.

How does it compare with similar companies?

Compared with 2,974 active companies whose first SIC code is 46460: By turnover it ranks higher than 95% of the 214 that publish turnover (median £23,764,000). By net assets it ranks higher than 99% of them (median £32,520). By total assets it ranks higher than 99% of them (median £255,000). By cash it ranks higher than 95% of them (median £90,159). By number of employees it ranks higher than 99% of them (median 1). It is older than 99% of them (median age 6.2 years).

Does it supply the public sector?

The company is named as a supplier in 91 public contract award notices from 53 public sector buyers since 2014. Contracts awarded to it alone have a combined published value of £2.1bn. Its most frequent buyer is UK Health Security Agency (10 contracts). 27 of the awards are shared with other suppliers, typically framework agreements.

What do public registers and reports show?

It is registered with the Care Quality Commission as a provider with one active location. It appears on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee, Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker). HMRC lists it as an importer of goods, mainly optical, medical and measuring instruments, electrical equipment, machinery. HMRC lists it as an exporter of goods, mainly optical, medical and measuring instruments, machinery, electrical equipment. In its latest payment practices report it took an average of 52 days to pay suppliers, and 40% of invoices were not paid within agreed terms. Its gender pay gap report for 2025/26 shows median hourly pay for women 12.7% lower than for men.

Who runs and controls the company?

One person with significant control is registered.

When are its next filings due?

The next accounts are due by 30 Sep 2027. The next confirmation statement is due by 29 Nov 2026.

Filed accounts2024
2024 †
Turnover639,882,000
Profit for the year256,187,000
Cash at bank and in hand6,614,000
Total assets870,795,000
Total liabilities494,083,000
Net assets / total equity871,804,000
Average number of employees580

A dash (—) means no accounts were filed for that year or the item is not in the accounts; 0 is a zero stated in the accounts. Small companies usually file only a balance sheet, so the profit and loss account is often missing.

Public contracts

91 contracts

ABBOTT LABORATORIES LIMITED is named as a supplier in 91 public contract award notices from 53 public sector buyers since 2014. The 64 contracts awarded to it alone with a published value add up to £2.1bn. 27 awards are shared with other suppliers and not counted in that total.

Contracts per year
Main buyers53
UK Health Security Agency
10 contracts · £17.3m
NHS Supply Chain
7 contracts
Public Health England
5 contracts · £19m
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
5 contracts · £1.4m
Department of Health and Social Care
4 contracts · £208.3m
Contracts
  1. ACT analyser support contractSOMERSET NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · £20,058 · runs until Oct 2036
  2. Enteral Feeding and Associated Items‡Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust · £685,000
  3. WSFT - Pathology - AlinIQ Indexor‡West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust · £1,090,000 · 2 lots · runs until Sep 2036
  4. UKHSA Diagnostics & Research Open Framework‡Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Heal… · shared by 81 suppliers, up to £5,200,000,000 in total · runs until Sep 2028
  5. Supply of Quadra Allura PM3562MEDWAY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · £12,000
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  1. Abbott Maintenance, UKHSA Birmingham Laboratory​‡UK Health Security Agency · £106,526 · runs until Mar 2028
  2. PHW-DIR-60856 Serology Managed Service Contract‡Public Health Wales NHS Trust · £1,254,216
  3. Laboratory Consumables BBVU‡UK Health Security Agency · £200,000 · runs until Jan 2027
  4. SERVICE I-STAT ALINITY‡East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust · £37,440 · runs until May 2031
  5. Diabetic Hybrid Closed Loop‡University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust · £679,023 · runs until May 2027
  6. Core Molecular Testing‡Lothian Health Board · £3,000,000
  7. Virology AMS & Software refresh‡UK Health Security Agency · £20,000
  8. Abbott Laboratories Ilumien Optis OCT system - fully comp‡Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · £27,000
  9. Abbott Laboratories - ARCHITECT i2000SR (ISR01569)Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · £20,228 · runs until Jan 2027
  10. Enteral Feeds‡The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (NSS) · shared by 7 suppliers, up to £1,648,000 in total · 8 lots
  11. Insulin Pumps, Continuous Glucose Monitoring, Products Contributing to the Delivery of Hybrid Closed Loop Pathways and Associated Products‡Supply Chain Coordination Limited · shared by 12 suppliers, up to £1,067,000,000 in total · runs until Nov 2027
  12. Insulin Pumps, Continuous Glucose Monitoring, Products Contributing to the Delivery of Hybrid Closed Loop Pathways and Associated Products‡Supply Chain Coordination Ltd (SCCL) · shared by 7 suppliers, up to £446,932,000 in total
  13. Microbiology & Serology Testing‡NHS Blood and Transplant · shared by 2 suppliers, up to £29,800,000 in total · runs until Apr 2032
  14. Laboratories Managed Service‡NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde · £510,000,000
  15. Oral Nutritional Supplements - REFRESH Trial - AbbottUniversity of Plymouth · £166,666 · runs until May 2028
  16. Microbiology and Serology Testing‡NHS Blood and Transplant · £28,565,218
  17. I-STAT ALINITY ANALYSER & ACCESSORIESDERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · £28,118
  18. Managed Services Contract – Medical Biochemistry & Immunology‡Cardiff and Vale University Health Board · £99,652,746
  19. Consumables for Abbott platforms‡UK Health Security Agency · £800,000 · runs until Jan 2027
  20. Adult Oral Nutritional Supplements‡NHS Lanarkshire · £1,034,304
  21. P0072 The Provision of Enteral Feeds‡Stockport NHS Foundation Trust · £700,000
  22. Maintenance of maldi biotyper mass spectrometer‡NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University… · £6,650,000
  23. Enteral Feeds‡SWYT · £50,000
  24. PAN Pathology MES - SRH/WOR‡University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust · £97,330,636 · 2 lots · runs until Aug 2029
  25. CLINICAL MANAGED SERVICES, INCLUDING MANAGED MAINTENANCE SERVICES (SBS10251)NHS Shared Business Services Limited · £652,500,000
  26. Abbott Laboratories Ilumien Optis OCT system s/n14374090 fully comp maintenance‡Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · £36,000 · runs until Feb 2027
  27. EP consumables - Abbott‡Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · £1,331,363 · runs until Dec 2026
  28. Blood Glucose and Ketones monitoring‡Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · £650,000
  29. Insulin Infusion Pumps, Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems and Associated Consumables‡The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (NSS) · shared by 8 suppliers, up to £64,000,000 in total
  30. Maintenance 23/24 Abbott 2x Ensite velocity systems‡King's College Trust · £30,000
  31. Abbott Laboratories - ARCHITECT i2000SR (ISR01569) maintenance‡Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · £9,478
  32. Pathology Managed Services Framework‡The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust · £150,000,000 · 3 lots
  33. NP167/22 Multi Modality Imaging Equipment and Maintenance Framework‡The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS") · shared by 33 suppliers, up to £213,000,000 in total
  34. S&M for Birmingham lab (BBV)‡UK Health Security Agency · £115,498
  35. Consumables for Birmingham lab (BBV)‡UK Health Security Agency · £1,391,092
  36. Laboratory Managed Serivce‡University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust · £41,000,000
  37. The supply of Blood Glucose & Ketone Monitoring Systems for Point of Care Testing‡Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust · £241,000
  38. Abbott Service and Maintenance‡UK Health Security Agency · £61,816
  39. Nutritional Products, Devices, Consumables and Associated Services [3960617]‡Procurement and Logistics Service · shared by 8 suppliers, up to £90,000,000 in total · 5 lots
  40. Alinity Systems‡UK Health Security Agency · £189,781
  41. Supply of Vascular Products : Grafts and consumables via Tower 6 (HST)University Hospitals of Leicester Nhs Trust · shared by 15 suppliers, up to £262,000 in total
  42. Supply of Enteral Feeds, Ancillaries & Provision of Pumps & Home Delivery Service‡Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust · £10,300,000
  43. Provision of Oral Nutritional Supplements to NHS Wales hospitals‡NWSSP Procurement Services · shared by 7 suppliers, up to £378,951 in total
  44. Insulin Pumps, Continuous Glucose Monitoring, Closed Loop Insulin Delivery Systems and Associated ProductsNHS Supply Chain · shared by 15 suppliers, up to £100,000,000 in total
  45. Insulin Pumps, Continuous Glucose Monitoring, Closed Loop Insulin Delivery Systems and Associated Products‡NHS Supply Chain Operated by DHL Supply Chain Limited acting as agent of Supply Chain Coo… · shared by 6 suppliers, up to £14,500,000 in total
  46. Abbott service and maintenance‡UK Health Security Agency · £61,061
  47. Abbott Alinity m PCR Reagents_31 March 2022‡UK Health Security Agency · £14,333,561
  48. Blood glucose consumables and EQA materials‡NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership - Procurement Services · £237,488
  49. Blood Glucose Meters & Associated Consumables‡NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University… · £468,765
  50. Cardiology Stents - DES‡National Services Scotland · shared by 6 suppliers, up to £5,180,000 in total · 2 lots
  51. Laboratory Managed Service - Extension‡NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde · £28,300,000
  52. M2000 Amplifications Test Kits‡Department of Health and Social Care (T&T) · £28,400,295 · 2 lots
  53. Test Control Kits‡Department of Health and Social Care (T&T) · £156,200
  54. Provision of BNP iSTAT CartridgesMinistry of Defence · £31,369
  55. Alinity m PCR reagents‡Department of Health and Social Care · £16,927,488
  56. National Microbiology Framework - Lot 1: Diagnostic Goods and Services‡Public Health England · shared by 100 suppliers, up to £3,000,000,000 in total
  57. Supply of Oral Nutritional Supplements‡NHS Lanarkshire · £4,103,619
  58. Alinity m PCR reagents‡Department of Health and Social Care (T&T) · £5,646,949 · 2 lots
  59. Consumables for Portable POCT Blood Analysers‡South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust · £90,000
  60. Medical ITNHS SUPPLY CHAIN · shared by 73 suppliers, up to £591,323,781 in total
  61. HEY/16/087 - RADIOLOGY VASCULAR & GENERAL CONSUMABLES‡Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · shared by 22 suppliers, up to £3,580,653 in total
  62. Cytogenetic Digital Image Capture & Analysis System‡NHS Lothian · £216,406
  63. Enteral Feeding, Bile Bags and Associated ProductsNHS SUPPLY CHAIN · shared by 26 suppliers, up to £70 in total
  64. Provision of Alinity m SARS-CoV-2 assays and associated consumables.Public Health England · £18,000,000
  65. Provision of Abbott Alinity Machines and Architect IA SARS-CoV-2 IgG testing consumablesPublic Health England · £1,000,000
  66. Abbott Reagents‡Department of Health and Social Care · £47,251,724
  67. Contract for the supply of goods related to testing for Covid-19‡Department of Health and Social Care · £135,161,955
  68. Provision of PCR tests for the detection of SARS-CoV-2‡Department of Health and Social Care · £8,963,712
  69. NSSCOVID-19 -198 Supply of Serology Antibody Tests‡The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS") · £167,313
  70. Laboratory Managed Service‡NHS Shetland · £3,394,000
  71. Total Cardiology SolutionsNHS SUPPLY CHAIN · shared by 25 suppliers, up to £250,000,000 in total
  72. Laboratory Managed Service‡NHS Orkney · £3,858,896
  73. BTH 325 Feeds Contract Extension‡Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · £1,400,000
  74. Enteral Feeds 2018South of England Procurement Centre · £8,178,510
  75. Microbiology Single Testing Platform for the Welsh Blood Service‡NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership · £4,215,910
  76. Medical Devices for Cardiac Related Procedures‡Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · shared by 2 suppliers, up to £13,496 in total
  77. Enteral Feeding Services‡NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership · shared by 3 suppliers, up to £1 in total
  78. Point of Care Testing - Contracts Finder‡HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting as agent for the University Hospitals of Coventry and… · shared by 18 suppliers
  79. Cardiac Surgery, Cardiac Rhythm Management, Diagnostic and Interventional Consumables and Associated Products‡NHS SUPPLY CHAIN · shared by 76 suppliers
  80. Nutritional Products, Administration, Consumables and Associated Services‡Procurement and Logistics Service · shared by 22 suppliers, up to £31,250,000 in total
  81. PHE Public Health Microbiology Framework - Lot 2 Development‡Public Health England · shared by 40 suppliers
  82. PHE Public Health Microbiology Framework - Lot 1 Diagnostics‡Public Health England · shared by 59 suppliers, up to £120,000,000 in total
  83. Microbiology and Serology (including Viral and Auto Immunity)- Urine Screening, Blood & Culture Media, Identification and Susceptibility Testing, Antibody and…‡NHS SUPPLY CHAIN · shared by 35 suppliers, up to £44,000,000 in total
  84. Liquid Based Cytology Systems and High Risk HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Testing Systems for Cervical Cancer Screening‡NHS SUPPLY CHAIN · shared by 7 suppliers
  85. Extension to current provision of a managed laboratory service for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust‡Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · £92,853,966 · runs until May 2029
  86. Extension to current provision of a managed laboratory service for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust‡Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust · £28,507,952 · runs until May 2029

From contract award notices on Contracts Finder (since 2016) and Find a Tender (since 2021), published by the Cabinet Office under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Values are as published by the buyer and usually cover the whole contract term; the total leaves out awards shared between several suppliers, where the published figure is a ceiling for all of them, placeholder values and single figures of £1 billion or more. Notices marked ‡ do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name. Contracts below the publication thresholds and those of devolved buyers that publish elsewhere are not included.

Statutory reporting

Payment practices1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026
Average time taken to pay invoices
52 days
Invoices not paid within agreed terms
40%
Standard payment terms
30–90 days
Member of a payment code
No
  • Within 30 days 21%
  • 31 to 60 days 46%
  • After 60 days 33%
Earlier periods (7)
Period ending
Days to pay
Within 30 days
Late
31 Dec 2025
50
23%
37%
30 Jun 2025
58
9%
19%
31 Dec 2024
57
10%
22%
30 Jun 2024
59
9%
26%
31 Dec 2023
62
10%
26%
30 Jun 2023
66
8%
26%
31 Dec 2022
63
9%
38%

View the latest report on GOV.UK

Gender pay gap2025/26
Median hourly pay
women 12.7% lower
Mean hourly pay
women 10.6% lower
Median bonus pay
women 31.8% lower
Employer size
500 to 999 employees
Lower pay quarter61.4% womenLower middle54.3% womenUpper middle42.1% womenUpper pay quarter39.6% women
Earlier years (7)
Year
Median hourly pay
Mean hourly pay
2024/25
women 16.8% lower
women 17.2% lower
2023/24
women 15.6% lower
women 15.7% lower
2022/23
women 12.4% lower
women 17.8% lower
2021/22
women 17.2% lower
women 17.4% lower
2020/21
women 16.6% lower
women 19.3% lower
2018/19
women 16.9% lower
women 23.6% lower
2017/18
women 24.2% lower
women 26% lower

A positive gap means women's average hourly pay is lower than men's across the whole employer; it is not a comparison of pay for the same work. View on the Gender pay gap service

Figures the company reported itself to the government's Check payment practices service, Gender pay gap service and Modern slavery statement registry (Open Government Licence v3.0). Only large companies and employers with 250 or more staff have to report, so most companies have nothing here.

Registers and licences

Care Quality Commission1 location
  1. Not yet ratedAbbott Nurse Advisor ServiceMaidenhead · Community health - NHS & Independent

Active registered locations in England with their latest overall rating. View the provider at the CQC

Sponsor licence‡
Licence type and rating
Temporary Worker (A rating), Worker (A rating)
Routes
Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee, Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker

On the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, which lists organisations licensed to sponsor workers from overseas.

International trade‡

Listed by HMRC as an importer of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: optical, medical and measuring instruments, electrical equipment, machinery, toys, games and sports goods and miscellaneous manufactures.

Listed by HMRC as an exporter of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: optical, medical and measuring instruments, machinery, electrical equipment, plastics and miscellaneous food preparations.

From HMRC's monthly lists of importers and exporters. Traders can ask to be left off the lists, so absence does not mean a company does not trade.

Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Care Quality Commission, Home Office and HM Revenue & Customs, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Entries marked ‡ come from lists that do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name.

History

4 events
  1. Financial year endedAccounts filed at Companies House
  2. Financial year 2024 endedAccounts: turnover £639.9m, net assets £871.8m, 580 employees
  3. Abbott Uk Holdings Limited registered as a person with significant control
  4. Company incorporatedPrivate limited company

Dates as recorded at Companies House: incorporation, name changes, officer appointments and resignations, current persons with significant control, and the end of each financial year with figures in the database. Former persons with significant control are not listed.