CENTRAL PHARMA CONTRACT HOLDINGS LIMITED
Company number 08126719 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Central Pharma Contract Holdings occupies a defensible niche in the pharmaceutical and healthcare supply chain, utilizing its regulatory expertise to secure high-value contract packing and serialization work. However, the group's strategic position is currently constrained by a fragile balance sheet featuring £1.97M in net liabilities and alarmingly low operating cash conversion, necessitating recent equity injections to stabilize the business. To unlock its true potential, leadership must aggressively transition from capital investment to operational efficiency, diversifying its client base to absorb substantial fixed costs and restore positive equity.
Shareholders' funds
£2,723,723
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the group in the year under review was that of contract packing for the pharmaceutical and health supplement industries.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2012-07-02
- Employees
- 200 (2025 accounts · was 227 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Central Pharma Caxton Road, Elm Farm Industrial Estate, Bedford, MK41 0HT
- Postcode
- MK41 0HT
- Capital
- 272 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 0 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
- 2026-07-27
- Next due by
- 2027-08-10
Nature of business (SIC)
- 64209 Activities of other holding companies not elsewhere classified
Officers 3 current · 3 resigned
Group structure 4 subsidiaries
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Contact details
- Website
- centralpharma.com
- Phone
- +441234272252, +441234989000, 0001321959877
Central Pharma offer a range of services for the pharmaceutical, healthcare & medical device sector including filling & packing, specialist storage and serialisation
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 563 similar companies in MK
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (200 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2012.
Competitors Milton Keynes
This company ranks 49 among activities of other holding companies not elsewhere classified in Milton Keynes.
The class of 2012
52%
of the 1,988 companies in this sector incorporated in 2012 are still active today; 46% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.