ALPHA LABORATORIES LIMITED

Active
Company number 01215816Private limited companyIncorporated 1975

Key figures

£29,775,820+3.1%
Net assets 2024/25
+3.1%
Average annual growth 2024–2024/25
010 m20 m30 m20242024/25

ALPHA LABORATORIES LIMITED does not disclose its turnover in its latest accounts; the profit for the year is as stated in the accounts.

Ratios

2024/25

Sector comparison

SIC 46180

Where the company stands among the 7,662 active companies whose first SIC code is 46180 (Agents specialized in the sale of other particular products).

Net assets£29,775,820
Higher than 99% · median £14,418
Total assets£33,902,316
Higher than 99% · median £72,273
Cash£5,025,815
Higher than 99% · median £42,748
Employees1
Around the median · median 1
Company age51.4 years
Older than 99% · median 6.2 years
Largest in this sector by net assets
  1. WESTBANK GROUP LIMITED£70.2m
  2. AUDIO-TECHNICA LIMITED£51.3m
  3. TK ACCESS SOLUTIONS LIMITED£50.7m
  4. NESTLE PURINA UK COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS LIMITED£37.9m
  5. ALPHA LABORATORIES LIMITED£29.8m
  6. ASSISI PET CARE LIMITED£26.3m
  7. BEIRA LTD£25.9m
  8. CTEC (NI) LIMITED£21.2m
  9. SYLVAMO UK LIMITED£21.1m
  10. PURAGEN LIMITED£20.6m

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 7,662. The line on each bar marks the median.

Summary: ALPHA LABORATORIES LIMITED

What kind of company is it?

ALPHA LABORATORIES LIMITED is a private limited company registered with Companies House under company number 01215816. It was incorporated on 12 Jun 1975. Its status is active. The registered office is in London (EC1M). Its nature of business (SIC 2007) is agents specialized in the sale of other particular products (46180).

How is the company doing financially?

The latest accounts in the database are for 2024/25 (period ending 30 Sep 2025); the company files full accounts. Profit for the year was £924,945. Net assets were £29,775,820, up 3.1% on the previous year. Cash at bank and in hand was £5,025,815. Total assets were £33,902,316 and total liabilities £4,035,932. The company had an average of 1 employee. Figures are available for 2 financial years (2024–2024/25).

How does it compare with similar companies?

Compared with 7,662 active companies whose first SIC code is 46180: By net assets it ranks higher than 99% of them (median £14,418). By total assets it ranks higher than 99% of them (median £72,273). By cash it ranks higher than 99% of them (median £42,748). By number of employees it is around the median of them (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 32 public contract award notices from 16 public sector buyers since 2015. Contracts awarded to it alone have a combined published value of £129.7m. Its most frequent buyer is NHS Blood and Transplant (6 contracts). 11 of the awards are shared with other suppliers, typically framework agreements.

What do public registers and reports show?

HMRC lists it as an importer of goods, mainly pharmaceuticals, miscellaneous chemicals, plastics. HMRC lists it as an exporter of goods, mainly miscellaneous chemicals, plastics, paper and paperboard. It has modern slavery statements on the government registry for 2 years.

Who runs and controls the company?

The company has 2 current directors. 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 20 Dec 2026.

Dividends

from the accounts
2024

Dividends paid in the financial year: £615,905 (19% of the profit for the year).

Filed accounts2024–2024/25
20242024/25
Profit for the year3,290,699924,945
Cash at bank and in hand24,053,0635,025,815
Total assets33,645,63133,902,316
Total liabilities4,634,0834,035,932
Net assets / total equity28,887,51429,775,820
Average number of employees711
Average pay (per year)67,1633,544,303
Dividends paid615,905—

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.

Principal activity

Accounts 2025

The principal activity of the Company is the distribution of specialised laboratory equipment, diagnostics, reagents and consumables to clinical and research laboratories. The Company supplies customers across the public and private healthcare sectors, including hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, academic institutions and research organisations.

As described in the company's latest filed accounts.

Public contracts

32 contracts

ALPHA LABORATORIES LIMITED is named as a supplier in 32 public contract award notices from 16 public sector buyers since 2015. The 21 contracts awarded to it alone with a published value add up to £129.7m. 11 awards are shared with other suppliers and not counted in that total.

Contracts per year
Main buyers16
NHS Blood and Transplant
6 contracts · £3.5m
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University…
4 contracts · £2.6m
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
3 contracts · £57m
UK Health Security Agency
3 contracts · £4.8m
Department of Health and Social Care
2 contracts · £44.1m
Contracts
  1. 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 £6,250,000,000 in total · 2 lots · runs until Sep 2028
  2. Supply of Micro Pastettes‡NHS Blood and Transplant · £105,000 · runs until Mar 2027
  3. NHSS Bowel Screening Test Kits and Analysers‡NHS Tayside · £2,534,107
  4. Supply of Blood Collection Transport KitGloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · £5,000 · runs until Apr 2027
  5. Supply of Laboratory Consumables and Chemicals from Alpha Laboratories‡UK Health Security Agency · £120,000 · runs until Mar 2027
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  1. Supply of Micro Pastettes‡NHS Blood and Transplant · £100,000
  2. Call-off Agreement for the Purchase of Laboratory Consumables and Laboratory Che‡NHS Blood and Transplant · £1,200,000 · runs until Dec 2028
  3. NHSSC Led Mini Competition for Safety Finger Lancets Via Lot 2 Blood Lancets of the Blood Draw Tools and Accessories Framework Agreement.‡Supply Chain Coordination Limited · shared by 25 suppliers, up to £20,000,000 in total
  4. Lot 9a Mini-Comp Call-off Contract Award from SUPC Inter Regional Laboratory Agreement Consumables & Chemicals LAB4043 SU‡Swansea University · shared by 10 suppliers, up to £75,000,000 in total · 3 lots
  5. PHW-OJEU-54113 Faecal Immunochemical Testing‡NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University… · £2,304,243
  6. Call off agreement for the purchase of LW4243‡NHS Blood and Transplant · £80,692
  7. CLI-OJEU-51547 Pathology Consumables, Equipment, and Instruments‡NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University… · shared by 17 suppliers, up to £1,759,538 in total · 11 lots
  8. Maintenance of maldi biotyper mass spectrometer‡NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University… · shared by 58 suppliers, up to £6,500,000,001 in total · 4 lots
  9. Supply of Antisera Reagents‡NHS Blood and Transplant · £1,920,000
  10. Pathology Equipment & Consumables‡NHS Blood and Transplant · £77,000
  11. UK SBS RE21225 Laboratory Consumables FrameworkUK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · shared by 30 suppliers, up to £9,500,000 in total
  12. Laboratory ConsumablesUK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £57,000,000 · 6 lots
  13. CA9537 - Home FCP Testing‡Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · £51,168
  14. Nasopharyngeal Swabs‡UK Health Security Agency · £2,175,000
  15. NERBE 54 SWABS‡UK Health Security Agency · £2,475,000
  16. Supply of Nerbe 54 Swabs‡Department of Health and Social Care (T&T) · £2,040,000 · 2 lots
  17. NHS Scotland Bowel Screening FIT Kits, Distribution and Analysers‡NHS Tayside · £3,917,304
  18. National Microbiology Framework - Lot 1: Diagnostic Goods and Services‡Public Health England · shared by 100 suppliers, up to £3,000,000,000 in total
  19. Faecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) to provide support for patients identified with symptoms associated with bowel cancer.‡NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University… · £298,880
  20. PHE_Covid-19 Emergency Purchases - ecm_8050Public Health England · £12,494
  21. Supply of saline vials for COVID 19 testing‡Department of Heath and Social Care · £9,170,000 · 2 lots
  22. Funnels for Saliva Test Kits‡Department of Health and Social Care · £3,640,000
  23. Supply of Tubes and Funnels for Covid-19 Testing‡Department of Health and Social Care · £40,480,000
  24. 690 - Supply of Laboratory Consumables and Equipment‡Centre for Process Innovation · shared by 13 suppliers, up to £5,000,000 in total
  25. UK SBS Non Disposable Handheld Pipettes, Repeaters and Pipette Controllers‡UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · shared by 10 suppliers, up to £2,000,000 in total
  26. 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
  27. Laboratory Equipment, Consumables, Accessories and Ancillaries including Medical and Scientific Refrigeration, Blood Banks, Mortuary and Autopsy‡NHS SUPPLY CHAIN · shared by 58 suppliers, up to £33,000,000 in total

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

Modern slavery statements2
2026
Statement · summary on GOV.UK
2025
Statement · summary on GOV.UK

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

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: pharmaceuticals, miscellaneous chemicals, plastics, optical, medical and measuring instruments 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, paper and paperboard, pharmaceuticals and optical, medical and measuring instruments.

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

29 events
  1. Financial year 2024/25 endedAccounts: net assets £29.8m, 1 employee
  2. Ann GILES resignedSecretary
  3. Robert Gary VINT resignedDirector
  4. Ann GILES resignedDirector
  5. Talia Louise GILES resignedDirector
  6. Nathan Scott GILES resignedDirector
  7. Anne Marie GILES resignedSecretary
  8. Anne Marie GILES resignedDirector
Earlier events (21)
  1. Peter Bo SOELBERG appointedDirector
  2. Philip Michael WALKER appointedDirector
  3. Diploma Uk Holding Limited registered as a person with significant control
  4. Ms Talia Louise Giles ceased to be a person with significant control
  5. Nathan Scott Giles ceased to be a person with significant control
  6. Financial year 2024 endedAccounts: net assets £28.9m, 71 employees
  7. Ms Talia Louise Giles registered as a person with significant control
  8. Nathan Scott Giles registered as a person with significant control
  9. Mrs Anne Marie Giles ceased to be a person with significant control
  10. Ann GILES appointedSecretary
  11. Robert Gary VINT appointedDirector
  12. Mrs Anne Marie Giles registered as a person with significant control
  13. David GILES resignedDirector
  14. Mrs Anne Marie Giles ceased to be a person with significant control
  15. Ann GILES appointedDirector
  16. Talia Louise GILES appointedDirector
  17. Mrs Anne Marie Giles registered as a person with significant control
  18. Nathan Scott GILES appointedDirector
  19. William John ROACH resignedDirector
  20. William John ROACH appointedDirector
  21. Company incorporatedPrivate limited company

Dates as recorded at Companies House: incorporation, name changes, officer appointments and resignations, current and former persons with significant control, and the end of each financial year with figures in the database.