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Company description
CHARLES RIVER U.K. LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 18 March 1969; registered for 57 years; registered office reported in KENT. Its primary declared activity is 72110 · Research and experimental development on biotechnology. In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 27 December 2025, it reported turnover £22,173,000, profit after tax £18,827,000, net assets £108,190,000, average employees 129.
Compared with the previous available reporting period, turnover decreased by 5.4%. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 4 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- CHARLES RIVER U.K. LIMITED
- Company number
- 00950184
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
27 December 2025Next accounts due
30 September 2027Last statement made up to
17 April 2026Next statement due
1 May 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Turnover
- £22,173,000
- Gross profit
- £8,345,000
- Operating profit
- £1,664,000
- Profit before tax
- £20,130,000
- Profit after tax
- £18,827,000
- Fixed assets
- £102,153,000
- Net assets
- £108,190,000
- Current assets
- £10,544,000
- Current liabilities
- £4,507,000
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £108,190,000
- Equity
- £108,190,000
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
Earlier imported periods (1)
- Full Accounts£90,450,000 net assets
04 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
CHARLES RIVER U.K. LIMITED
LEI 54930017ZPRXTS7IWM05 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 18 March 1969
- Initial LEI registration
- 23 June 2016
- LEI last updated
- 4 March 2026
- Next renewal
- 2 April 2027
- Managing LOU
- 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12
- Legal address
- Manston Road, Margate, CT9 4LT, GB
- Headquarters address
- Manston Road, Margate, CT9 4LT, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 54930017ZPRXTS7IWM05 to LEI 549300OMHGY2GAU5U758
- Related legal entity
- CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES HOLDINGS LIMITED →
- Initial registration
- 23 May 2024
- Last updated
- 28 March 2025
- Next renewal
- 2 April 2027
- Validation sources
- ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY
- Validation documents
- OTHER_OFFICIAL_DOCUMENTS
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2022-01-01T00:00:00.000Z; End: 2022-12-31T00:00:00.000Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 1969-03-18T00:00:00.000Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 54930017ZPRXTS7IWM05 to LEI 549300BSQ0R4UZ5KX287
- Initial registration
- 23 May 2024
- Last updated
- 28 March 2025
- Next renewal
- 2 April 2027
- Validation sources
- ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY
- Validation documents
- OTHER_OFFICIAL_DOCUMENTS
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2022-01-01T00:00:00.000Z; End: 2022-12-31T00:00:00.000Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 1969-03-18T00:00:00.000Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
05 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
GSS24969 - Laboratory Research Materials
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-2dd02d4d-d289-45db-aa9a-de813c7b7f95
- Supplier named in award
- Charles River UK Ltd
- Award value
- £14,467.44
- Contract period
- 20 December 2024 – 31 March 2025
- Published
- 20 December 2024
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 71900000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-2dd02d4d-d289-45db-aa9a-de813c7b7f95-2024-12-20T15:47:46Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
06 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
07 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
08 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
2526-079-STA-PHW Provision of Preclinical Research Models for Public Health Wales
Public Health Wales NHS Trust · updated 1 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Colony Management 2025/26
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER · updated 3 March 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Lab Consumables
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 5 January 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
10 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
12 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
3 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
13 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.