BASF PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
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† BASF PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 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
2024Sector comparison
SIC 20140Where the company stands among the 322 active companies whose first SIC code is 20140 (Manufacture of other organic basic chemicals).
- NUFARM UK LIMITED£495.9m
- CARGILL BIOINDUSTRIAL UK LIMITED£376m
- ABCAM LIMITED£348.3m
- PHARMARON UK LIMITED£181m
- BRENNTAG UK LIMITED£150.8m
- BASF PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY£131.7m
- MASTER BUILDERS SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED£115.7m
- PHARMARON BIOLOGICS (UK) LTD£74.7m
- SOLUTIA UK LIMITED£51.7m
- EVONIK CHEMICALS LIMITED£49.3m
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 322. The line on each bar marks the median.
Summary: BASF PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
What kind of company is it?
BASF PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY is a public limited company registered with Companies House under company number 00667980. It was incorporated on 18 Aug 1960. Its status is active. The registered office is in Stockport (SK1). Its nature of business (SIC 2007) is manufacture of other organic basic chemicals (20140), wholesale of chemical products (46750).
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 £829,270,000. Profit for the year was £20,105,000. Net assets were £131,722,000. Total assets were £204,873,000 and total liabilities £172,072,000. The company had an average of 442 employees.
How does it compare with similar companies?
Compared with 322 active companies whose first SIC code is 20140: By turnover it ranks higher than 97% of the 56 that publish turnover (median £21,792,447). By net assets it ranks higher than 96% of them (median £38,342). By total assets it ranks higher than 96% of them (median £772,882). By number of employees it ranks higher than 97% of them (median 2). It is older than 96% of them (median age 6.9 years).
Has it received government grants?
It is recorded as the recipient of 11 central government grants worth £645.3k, mainly from Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
What do public registers and reports show?
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 plastics, rubber, paper and paperboard. HMRC lists it as an exporter of goods, mainly miscellaneous chemicals, plastics, machinery. In its latest payment practices report it took an average of 30 days to pay suppliers, and 0% of invoices were not paid within agreed terms. Its gender pay gap report for 2025/26 shows median hourly pay for women 13.4% lower than for men. It has a modern slavery statement on the government registry.
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 Jun 2027. The next confirmation statement is due by 7 Jun 2027.
Filed accounts2024
| 2024 † | |
|---|---|
| Turnover | 829,270,000 |
| Profit for the year | 20,105,000 |
| Total assets | 204,873,000 |
| Total liabilities | 172,072,000 |
| Net assets / total equity | 131,722,000 |
| Average number of employees | 442 |
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.
Government grants
11 grantsBASF PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY is recorded as the recipient of 11 central government grants since 2021, together worth £645.3k.
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- 7 grants · £541.5k
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
- 4 grants · £103.7k
- Smart Sprayer for Black-Grass Mapping and Resistance MonitoringDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £74,551 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme 22/23
- The Sentinel Crop Disease Surveillance NetworkDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £2,386 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme 22/23
- HiBarFilm2 - High barrier monomaterial flexible films for food contact applicationsDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £22,244 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme 22/23
- Flue2Chem - Building a UK value chain in converting industrial waste gases into sustainable materials for consumer products.Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £4,550 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme 22/23
- Smart Sprayer for Black-Grass Mapping and Resistance MonitoringDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology · £104,757 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme
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- The Sentinel Crop Disease Surveillance NetworkDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology · £20,690 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme
- The Sentinel Crop Disease Surveillance NetworkDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology · £11,469 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme
- Smart Sprayer for Black-Grass Mapping and Resistance MonitoringDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology · £46,162 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme
- Flue2Chem - Building a UK value chain in converting industrial waste gases into sustainable materials for consumer products.Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £72,677 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme
- Flue2Chem - Building a UK value chain in converting industrial waste gases into sustainable materials for consumer products.Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £264,932 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme
- HiBarFilm2 - High barrier monomaterial flexible films for food contact applicationsDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology · £20,835 · UKRI - ISCF - Scheme
From the Government Grants Register published by the Cabinet Office (financial years 2016/17 onwards, Open Government Licence v3.0). It covers grants from central government departments and their agencies where the register states the recipient's company number and the recipient name matches this company; grants from local authorities, lottery distributors and devolved governments are not included.
Statutory reporting
- Average time taken to pay invoices
- 30 days
- Invoices not paid within agreed terms
- 0%
- Within 30 days 30%
- 31 to 60 days 67%
- After 60 days 3%
Earlier periods (7)
- Period ending
- Days to pay
- Within 30 days
- Late
- 31 Dec 2025
- 23
- 30%
- 0%
- 30 Jun 2025
- 23
- 42%
- 0%
- 31 Dec 2024
- 31
- 37%
- 0%
- 30 Jun 2024
- 31
- 35%
- 0%
- 31 Dec 2023
- 35
- 33%
- 0%
- 30 Jun 2023
- 25
- 30%
- 0%
- 31 Dec 2022
- 27
- 31%
- 0%
- Median hourly pay
- women 13.4% lower
- Mean hourly pay
- women 9.6% lower
- Median bonus pay
- women 4% lower
- Employer size
- 250 to 499 employees
Earlier years (8)
- Year
- Median hourly pay
- Mean hourly pay
- 2024/25
- women 9.2% lower
- women 3.2% lower
- 2023/24
- women 6.8% lower
- women 3% lower
- 2022/23
- women 14.3% lower
- women 6.1% lower
- 2021/22
- women 9.1% lower
- women 7.1% lower
- 2020/21
- women 13% lower
- women 8.7% lower
- 2019/20
- women 12.1% lower
- women 9.6% lower
- 2018/19
- women 4% lower
- women 4.8% lower
- 2017/18
- women 5.4% lower
- women 5.8% 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
- 2021
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement
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
- 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.
Listed by HMRC as an importer of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: plastics, rubber, paper and paperboard, nickel and machinery.
Listed by HMRC as an exporter of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: miscellaneous chemicals, plastics, machinery, inorganic chemicals and organic chemicals.
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- Financial year endedAccounts filed at Companies House
- Financial year 2024 endedAccounts: turnover £829.3m, net assets £131.7m, 442 employees
- Basf U.K. Holdings Limited registered as a person with significant control
- Company incorporatedPublic 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.