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Company description
SIGMA PHARMACEUTICALS PLC is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Public Limited Company”. Incorporated on 15 May 1981; registered for 45 years; registered office reported in LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 46460 · Wholesale of pharmaceutical goods.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 4 trade marks, 7 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
- SIGMA PHARMACEUTICALS PLC
- Company number
- 01561802
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 19 total · 2 outstanding · 17 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
31 August 2025Next accounts due
28 February 2027Last statement made up to
26 June 2026Next statement due
10 July 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- -217.5%
- Mean bonus gap
- -122.2%
- Women receiving bonus
- 23.3%
- Men receiving bonus
- 33.2%
- Women in top quartile
- 44.3%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 25.8%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 11.3%
- Women in lower quartile
- 35.7%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 250 to 4991.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4994.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49913.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4994.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-5.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-10.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-5.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-10.6% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 March 2020 – 31 August 2020
- Filed
- 22 October 2020
- Shortest standard term
- 14 days
- Longest standard term
- 30 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 49.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
30 days from end of month
- Dispute resolution process
Sigma A/P liase with the supplier and get assitance from relevant departments within Sigma.
Earlier payment reports (5 shown)
- 47.0 average days to pay32.0% outside terms
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
- 44.0 average days to pay25.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 51.0 average days to pay35.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
SIGMA PHARMACEUTICALS PLC
LEI 549300QSDOOY04YQ0O18 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- B6ES
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 15 May 1981
- Initial LEI registration
- 26 February 2014
- LEI last updated
- 14 January 2026
- Next renewal
- 30 January 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- FIFTH FLOOR WATSON HOUSE, 54-60 BAKER STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, W1U 7BU, GB
- Headquarters address
- UNIT 1-7, COLONIAL WAY, WATFORD, GB-HRT, WD24 4YR, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
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.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Sigma Pharmaceuticals Plc
Registration ZA376226
- Registered from
- 18 May 2018
- Current end date
- 17 May 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
07 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
The Provision of Nicotine Replacement Therapy for North Northamptonshire Council
North Northamptonshire Council · ocds-b5fd17-c5016552-9643-482c-8d71-c5b952d2bf50
- Supplier named in award
- SIGMA PHARMACEUTICALS PLC
- Award value
- £400,000
- Contract period
- 1 April 2023 – 31 March 2027
- Published
- 28 March 2023
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 33693200
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-c5016552-9643-482c-8d71-c5b952d2bf50-2023-03-28T11:42:15+01:00
Pharmaceuticals used for Nicotine Replacement Therapy
Thurrock Council · ocds-b5fd17-5448ff87-eec5-4f14-abf8-bcbbd1fbc7e5
- Supplier named in award
- SIGMA PHARMACEUTICALS PLC
- Award value
- £208,000
- Contract period
- 1 September 2020 – 31 August 2023
- Published
- 1 July 2020
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 33693200
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-5448ff87-eec5-4f14-abf8-bcbbd1fbc7e5-2020-07-01T14:48:18+01:00
Contracts for the supply of Azithromycin & Dexamethasone products pt2
Department of Health and Social Care · ocds-b5fd17-15e59374-9657-49f6-9967-394f00bbe769
- Supplier named in award
- Sigma Pharmaceuticals Plc
- Award value
- £2,108,686.32
- Contract period
- 11 May 2020 – 31 May 2020
- Published
- 18 June 2020
- Procedure
- Negotiated procedure without prior publication (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 33600000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-15e59374-9657-49f6-9967-394f00bbe769-2020-06-18T15:14:53+01:00
Contract for the supply of anti malarials and antiretrovirals_357
Department of Health and Social Care · ocds-b5fd17-97097490-d212-4e95-b8a5-a94c8c08cf0d
- Supplier named in award
- Sigma Pharmaceuticals Plc
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 18 March 2020 – 30 April 2020
- Published
- 29 April 2020
- Procedure
- Negotiated procedure without prior publication (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 33600000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-97097490-d212-4e95-b8a5-a94c8c08cf0d-2020-04-29T15:01:30+01:00
Contract for the supply of anti malarials and antiretrovirals_350
Department of Health and Social Care · ocds-b5fd17-e060e092-abca-4cb9-a585-6a5767393296
- Supplier named in award
- Abbvie Ltd
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 18 March 2020 – 30 April 2020
- Published
- 29 April 2020
- Procedure
- Negotiated procedure without prior publication (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 33600000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-e060e092-abca-4cb9-a585-6a5767393296-2020-04-29T12:37:43+01:00
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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
SIGVEN
Owner Sigma Pharmaceuticals plc · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 21 September 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 September 2026
MyVit
Owner Sigma Pharmaceuticals plc · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 18 November 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 November 2024
MAAMOX
Owner Sigma Pharmaceuticals Plc · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 6 February 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
ETB
Owner Sigma Pharmaceuticals Plc · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 25 October 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 October 2015
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Orion Holdings (Uk) Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Registrar Of Companies In England & Wales
- Registration number
- 08802898
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
09 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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
SOL - Nicotine Replacement Therapy
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF SOLIHULL · updated 10 February 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
The Provision of Nicotine Replacement Therapy for North Northamptonshire Council
North Northamptonshire Council · updated 28 March 2023
- Tender value
- £400,000
- 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.
13 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.
14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
15 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
2 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.
16 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
17 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
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.