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Company description
WATSON-MARLOW LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 14 March 1990; registered for 36 years; registered office reported in FALMOUTH, CORNWALL. Its primary declared activity is 21100 · Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products, with 3 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 25 trade marks, 2 procurement records, 1 waste registration. 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
- WATSON-MARLOW LIMITED
- Company number
- 02481019
- 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
31 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
7 April 2026Next statement due
21 April 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- -2.4%
- Mean bonus gap
- 19.4%
- Women receiving bonus
- 11.3%
- Men receiving bonus
- 9.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 25.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 28.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 27.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 27.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 9999.5% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9996.8% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9998.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49913.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49915.7% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49911.1% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49915.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49918.8% 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 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 30 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 62 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-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £13,775,933
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £16,236,944
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £11,880,093
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £20,503,294
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 47.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 62 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
60 days EOM +2
- Dispute resolution process
Any disputes are referred to the purchasing teams who deal with them in a timely manner.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 48.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 49.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay34.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay25.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay15.0% 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 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- WATSON-MARLOW LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- SPIRAX GROUP PLC
- Statement period
- 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2023
- Approved
- 15 May 2024
- Sectors
- Automotive, machinery and heavy electrical equipment Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing Healthcare and pharmaceuticals Mining, metals, chemicals and resources (including oil and gas) Transportation, logistics, and storage Utilities: gas, water and electricity Waste management and recycling
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 24 February 2025
Policies described
Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Other
Training described
Your suppliers
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Workers within your organisation
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
Other monitoring
AI monitoring of Tier 1 suppliers; Suppliers provide responses to the Slavery and Trafficking Risk Template; Suppliers required to upload to portal evidence to demonstrate compliance with standards
Demonstrated progress
New One Planet strategy places additional focus on responsible supply chains. We continue to add functionality and features to supplier Portal for enhanced monitoring.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: There is particular concern w/our Tier 1, 2, & 3 suppliers in India, Taiwan, & China, where there may be reliance on migrant workers; this creates risks for potential ethical/compliance issues.
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers Tier 2 suppliers Tier 3 suppliers and below
- Group: Migrants
- Location: China India Taiwan
- Mitigation: Supplier audits, monitoring, and compliance requirements
- Risk: Less visibility with sub-suppliers
- Tier: Tier 2 suppliers Tier 3 suppliers and below
- Group: Other vulnerable groups
- Location: United Kingdom
- Mitigation: We continue to hold our Tier 1 supplier to standards set out in our Supplier Sustainability code, which obligates the supplier to flow down the standards to their own supply chain, and will enforce those requirements via audits and monitoring.
- Risk: n/a
- Area: The statement does not include a third risk.
- Mitigation: The statement does not include a third risk.
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Watson-Marlow Limited
Registration ZA523492
- Registered from
- 28 May 2019
- Current end date
- 27 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
Award of contract for refurbishment of a laboratory filling/capping machine
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-87defb0e-33db-41e9-a032-b85e148ec4db
- Supplier named in award
- Watson Marlow Ltd
- Award value
- £200,000
- Contract period
- 1 February 2019 – 1 April 2020
- Published
- 1 February 2019
- Procedure
- Negotiated procedure without prior publication (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 38810000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-87defb0e-33db-41e9-a032-b85e148ec4db-2019-02-01T14:24:27Z
Single Use Equipment
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-204f956d-c4d3-4703-9391-53643a6debba
- Supplier named in award
- Watson Marlow Limited
- Award value
- £300,000
- Contract period
- 11 December 2017 – 10 December 2021
- Published
- 25 July 2018
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 38000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-204f956d-c4d3-4703-9391-53643a6debba-2018-07-25T13:30:35+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
QUANTUM
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 7,9
- Filed / designated
- 15 February 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 February 2026
CERTA
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 7
- Filed / designated
- 20 November 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 20 November 2025
ASEPCO
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 6,7,9,20,37,42
- Filed / designated
- 12 June 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 12 June 2025
ASEPTIMIX
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 7
- Filed / designated
- 3 June 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 3 June 2025
DRIVESURE
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 7
- Filed / designated
- 21 September 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 September 2022
RENU
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 7,9,17
- Filed / designated
- 9 December 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 December 2021
QDOS
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 7,9,17
- Filed / designated
- 11 October 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 October 2021
ACCUSIL
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 10
- Filed / designated
- 14 January 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 January 2021
ACCUSIL
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 9,10,17
- Filed / designated
- 6 January 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 6 January 2021
MasoSine
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 7
- Filed / designated
- 27 August 2009
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 August 2019
SCI-Q
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 9,10,17
- Filed / designated
- 4 January 2001
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 January 2021
PumpPro
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 7
- Filed / designated
- 15 April 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 April 2020
PumpPro
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 15 April 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 April 2020
PumpPro
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 17
- Filed / designated
- 15 April 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 April 2020
WATSON-MARLOW
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 7,9,10,17
- Filed / designated
- 15 September 1992
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 September 2019
SINE
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 7
- Filed / designated
- 8 May 1986
- Valid until / renewal due
- 8 May 2027
MARVINAL
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 17
- Filed / designated
- 16 November 1983
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 November 2024
FLUOROSIL
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 7,9,17
- Filed / designated
- 12 October 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 12 October 2010
BIOPRENE
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 15 November 1990
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 November 2007
BIOPRENE
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 10
- Filed / designated
- 15 November 1990
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 November 2007
BIOPRENE
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 17
- Filed / designated
- 14 November 1990
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 November 2007
WATSON-MARLOW
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 10
- Filed / designated
- 14 June 1986
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 June 2007
WATSON-MARLOW
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 7
- Filed / designated
- 26 February 1986
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 February 2007
WATSON-MARLOW
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 17
- Filed / designated
- 26 February 1986
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 February 2007
MARPRENE
Owner Watson-Marlow Limited · classes 17
- Filed / designated
- 16 November 1983
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 November 2004
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
Spirax Group Plc
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Uk
- Legal form
- Public Limited Company
- Place registered
- Register Of Companies
- Registration number
- 00596337
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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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.
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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.
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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
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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13 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
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
Manufacture of pumps
Manufacture of machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing
Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies
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
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
1 exact company-number registration.
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.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
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.
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