Forensics Limited
Registered name: FORENSICS LIMITED
Part of Abbott Laboratories groupForensics Limited made £0 revenue and a £47k loss in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Forensics Limited’s revenue was £0 in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with a loss of £47k. The company is classified under “other human health activities” and is based in Abingdon; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Abingdon, South East
- Age
- 19 yrs · since 2007
- 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 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £180k | £0 | £0 |
| Cost of sales | −£140k | £0 | £0 |
| Gross profit | £40.3k | £0 | £0 |
| Operating profit | £249k | −£95.2k | −£12k |
| Profit before tax | £226k | −£135k | −£47k |
| Profit after tax | £226k | −£135k | −£47k |
| Profit (best available) | £226k | −£135k | −£47k |
| Employees (average) | 5 | 0 | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 125.5% | — | — |
| Gross margin | 22.3% | — | — |
| Revenue per employee | £36.1k | — | — |
| Profit per employee | £45.3k | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼100% | — |
| Profit growth | — | ▼159.6% | — |
| Headcount growth | — | ▼100% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Oct 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
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- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
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- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
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- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
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- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- 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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Abbott Laboratories (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Alere UK Holdings Limited75–100%
- Abbott Toxicology Limited75–100%
- Forensics Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (3)
- Abbott Healthcare Connections LimitedRev. £7.8m · Profit £1m
- Ig Innovations LimitedRev. £67k · Profit −£599k
- Cozart LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit −£47k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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