ARCANIA APOTHECARY LTD
Company number 04070168 · Monitor this company
The confirmation statement for this company is overdue.
Executive summary
Arcania Apothecary Ltd is a well-established, owner-controlled niche player in UK perfume and toiletry manufacturing, distinguished from SME peers by 25 years of self-funded equity growth and freehold property ownership. FY2025 marks a clear soft patch — net assets down 6.8%, working capital marginally negative, cash cover of creditors at just 4.5%, and a 36% stock build against falling debtors — consistent with sector-wide destocking and cost pressures rather than fundamental impairment. Solvency remains sound, but liquidity management and single-director concentration are the principal risks to monitor against an otherwise resilient competitive position.
Shareholders' funds
£1,993,291
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2000-09-12
- Employees
- 52 (2025 accounts · was 51 in 2024)
- Registered office
- The Fragrance House Second Floor, Haydon, Wells, Somerset, England, BA5 3FF
- Postcode
- BA5 3FF
- Capital
- 2 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-09-12
- Next due by
- 2026-09-26 Overdue
Nature of business (SIC)
- 20420 Manufacture of perfumes and toilet preparations
Officers 1 current · 3 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| MONTVALE LODGE PAULTON ROAD, HALLATROW, BRISTOL, AVON, BS39 6EG | 2016-03-14 |
| 2 ROOD COTTAGE, KINGWESTON ROAD, BUTLEIGH, GLASTONBURY, SOMERSET, BA6 8TF | 2012-06-07 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 13 similar companies in BA
The largest employer among its local peers (52 staff).
3rd oldest of its local peers, trading since 2000.
Competitors Bath
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3. MAYSAMA LTD
This company ranks 2 among manufacture of perfumes and toilet preparations in Bath.
The class of 2000
41%
of the 75,535 companies incorporated in 2000 are still active today; 56% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 2 titles
- Freehold
- 1
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2015-12-09
- Where
- Somerset (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WS74338 | Somerset | Freehold | 2015-12-09 | — |
| WS74340 | Somerset | Leasehold | 2015-12-09 | — |
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