Quantum Pharmaceutical Limited
Registered name: QUANTUM PHARMACEUTICAL LIMITED
Part of Target Healthcare Group Holdings Limited groupQuantum Pharmaceutical Limited made £235m revenue and £8.6m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025. read from filing text
Quantum Pharmaceutical Limited’s revenue grew 17% to £235m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £8.6m profit and 279 employees. The company is classified under “manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations” and is based in Burnopfield; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Burnopfield, North East
- Age
- 22 yrs · since 2004
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £119m | £175m | £200m | £235m |
| Cost of sales | £102m | £144m | £171m | £202m |
| Gross profit | £17.2m | £30.7m | £29.2m | £32.5m |
| Operating profit | £7.1m | £17m | £12.3m | £10m |
| Profit before tax | £6.9m | £16m | £11.3m | £8.6m |
| Profit (best available) | £6.9m | £16m | £11.3m | £8.6m |
| Staff costs | £7.1m | £9.5m | £9.5m | £12.1m |
| Employees (average) | 218 | 276 | 250 | 279 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | 5.8% | 9.1% | 5.6% | 3.7% |
| Gross margin | 14.5% | 17.6% | 14.6% | 13.9% |
| Revenue per employee | £546k | £633k | £802k | £841k |
| Profit per employee | £31.9k | £57.9k | £45.2k | £30.7k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲47% | ▲14.6% | ▲17.1% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲130% | ▼29.3% | ▼24.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲26.6% | ▼9.4% | ▲11.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £678k | £3.5m | £3.3m | £10.1m |
| Net assets | £4.7m | £15.4m | £23.8m | £26.6m |
| Debtors | — | £38.8m | £43.8m | £49.2m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 3.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 13.9%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £841k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £30.7k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 21%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▲12%
- Now £26.6m
- Cash at bank
- ▲205%
- Now £10.1m
- Headcount
- ▲12%
- Now 279
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Target Healthcare Group Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Target Healthcare Group Limited75–100%
- Quantum Pharmaceutical Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (5)
- Target Healthcare LimitedRev. £37.3m · Profit £2.2m
- Pern Consumer Products LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Quantum Aseptic Services LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Target Healthcare (Ni) LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Target Healthcare (Wholesale) LimitedRev. — · Profit £1.2m
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £8.6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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