MELFORD LABORATORIES LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£588,169
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1986-01-31
- Employees
- 15 (2025 accounts · was 14 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Bildeston Road, Chelsworth, Ipswich, IP7 7LE
- Postcode
- IP7 7LE
- Capital
- 22,260 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-11-01
- Next due by
- 2026-11-15
Nature of business (SIC)
- 20590 Manufacture of other chemical products not elsewhere classified
Officers 6 current · 6 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by West Olive Holdings Limited Partnership (32-0471837) — since 2016-04-29
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z870478X (Tier 2), registered since 2004.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- melford.co.uk
Melford Laboratories Ltd is an established producer of fine organic intermediates and reagents.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| FORCESCAPE LIMITED | 1986-10-14 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 61 STATION ROAD, SUDBURY, SUFFOLK, CP10 6SP | 1992-01-23 |
| BOREHAMGATE HOUSE, KING STREET, SUDBURY, SUFFOLK CO10 6ED | 1987-06-01 |
| 47 BRUNSWICK PLACE, LONDON, N1 6EE | 1987-02-04 |
Among its peers
Among the biggest employers
of 44 similar companies in IP — measured against the wider sector, with 15 staff. 2nd oldest of its local peers.
Competitors Ipswich
This company ranks 4 among manufacture of other chemical products not elsewhere classified in Ipswich.
The class of 1986
50%
of the 18,365 companies incorporated in 1986 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2023-01-13
- Where
- Suffolk
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK420811 | Suffolk | Leasehold | 2023-01-13 | — |
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