The Firmwatch take
Sussex Apothecary Limited is a 26-year-old retail, active on the Companies House register. The latest filed accounts (year to 31 August 2025) show GBP 12 in net assets, with 1 cautionary signal worth monitoring. No insolvency or strike-off filings appear in our public Companies House and Gazette data.
Refreshed 24 May 2026
Pulse · Net assets, 2024–2025
↗ £0Incorporated
14 December 1999
26 years on the register
Sector
Dispensing chemist
SIC 47730
Size
Not classified
Net assets
£12
Bottom 30% in sector
Cash at bank
Not disclosed
Not required for this filing type
Latest filing
None yet
Analytics
Risk, value and sector comparison
Insolvency risk
38/100
watch risk
Estimated public-data value
£9 - £16
medium confidence - net asset range
Sector comparison
Sector: Retail
Sample: 166,319 companies
Negative net assets: 21.8%
- Net assets vs sector median
- -£691
- Working capital vs sector median
- -£2,196
- Sector median current ratio
- 1.10
Thin net asset buffer
The company reports a small visible net asset position.
Limited working capital
The short-term asset buffer is positive but small.
Weak current ratio
Current assets are less than 75% of current liabilities.
Risk and value are estimates from public accounts only. They are not a credit score, valuation opinion or insolvency prediction guarantee. See methodology.
Balance sheet
Full extracted balance sheet
Bottom 30% in sector · Sector medians shown for 166,319 retailers (2025).
Cash at bank
Bank balances disclosed in the public accounts.
Not disclosed
Current assets
Assets expected to turn into cash within one year.
£12
Current liabilities
Amounts due within one year (short-term creditors).
£16,585
Working capital
Current assets minus current liabilities.
£12
Median £2k
Fixed assets
Long-term tangible and intangible assets.
Not disclosed
Total assets less current liabilities
Fixed assets plus working capital.
£12
Net assets
What's left after liabilities are deducted from assets.
£12
Median £703
Equity (capital & reserves)
Shareholder funds.
£12
Current ratio
Current assets divided by current liabilities. Above 1.0× is usually easier to fund.
0.0×
Median 1.1×
Figures extracted from the company's public XBRL/iXBRL filing. Fields shown as Not disclosed are not legally required for this filing type and are absent from the source document — they are not necessarily zero.
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