---
title: "ABBOTT RAPID DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5e4e5883-4cd7-5301-a8e2-682c4e1ca13c
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/5e4e5883-4cd7-5301-a8e2-682c4e1ca13c
identifier: oo:GB-COH-01716581
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# ABBOTT RAPID DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** GB  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-01716581`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5e4e5883-4cd7-5301-a8e2-682c4e1ca13c  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/5e4e5883-4cd7-5301-a8e2-682c4e1ca13c  

## Cross-source identity

The same real-world entity, resolved across sources:

- **ABBOTT RAPID DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED** — GLEIF · `lei:549300B430RB6WACB262` — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/d60e180c-eab8-571b-a495-cf2f36211b39

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **ABBOTT EQUITY HOLDINGS UNLIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f45a7e89-39b4-59a2-998a-69c5d45fe203
- **ALERE UK HOLDINGS LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/e706595d-cf5b-5e8e-a872-88c6b98fee22
- **Alere Uk Holdings Limited** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/3ebf77ef-90c0-403b-af65-3d37af63c913
- **ABBOTT EQUITY HOLDINGS UNLIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f45a7e89-39b4-59a2-998a-69c5d45fe203

### UBO chain (walk to the ultimate owner)

1. **ABBOTT EQUITY HOLDINGS UNLIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *ABBOTT RAPID DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED*
1. **ALERE UK HOLDINGS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *ABBOTT RAPID DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED*
1. **Alere Uk Holdings Limited** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *ABBOTT RAPID DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED*
1. **ABBOTT EQUITY HOLDINGS UNLIMITED** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *ABBOTT RAPID DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED*
1. **ALERE INC.** — parent → *ABBOTT RAPID DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED*
2. **Alere Switzerland Gmbh** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *ALERE UK HOLDINGS LIMITED*
2. **Abbott Laboratories** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *ALERE UK HOLDINGS LIMITED*
2. **ABBOTT EQUITY HOLDINGS UNLIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *ABBOTT EQUITY HOLDINGS UNLIMITED*
2. **ABBOTT EQUITY HOLDINGS UNLIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *ABBOTT EQUITY HOLDINGS UNLIMITED*
2. **Abbott Laboratories** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *ABBOTT EQUITY HOLDINGS UNLIMITED*
2. **Abbott Laboratories** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *ABBOTT EQUITY HOLDINGS UNLIMITED*

## Company profile (live · UK Companies House)

- **Company number:** `01716581`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 1983-04-20
- **Registered office:** Abbott House, Vanwall Business Park, Maidenhead, SL6 4XE, England
- **SIC:** 32500

### Officers

- BOND, David Andrew — director · British · appointed 2024-06-10
- DU TOIT, Gabrielle — director · South African · appointed 2025-04-04
- COULING, Geoffrey — secretary · British · appointed 2007-10-02 · resigned 2017-10-03
- FELLOWS, Trevor — secretary · appointed 2017-10-03 · resigned 2024-06-10
- ISAACS, Janet — secretary · British · resigned 2007-10-02
- ALMOND, Bernard Andrew — director · British · appointed 2003-09-01 · resigned 2007-10-02
- BLOMQUIST, Tomas — director · Swedish · appointed 2015-09-23 · resigned 2019-08-26
- BURROWS, Norman Frank — director · British · appointed 2002-01-01 · resigned 2007-10-02
- CASSEY, Stuart Edward — director · British · appointed 2011-09-06 · resigned 2015-09-23
- CHINIARA, Ellen Vanessa — director · American · appointed 2007-10-02 · resigned 2017-10-03
- EPSTEIN, Gerald — director · British · appointed 1998-01-01 · resigned 2001-06-09
- FARRELL, Michael David — director · British · appointed 2015-09-23 · resigned 2017-10-03
- FELLOWS, Trevor — director · British · appointed 2011-09-06 · resigned 2024-06-10
- FELLOWS, Trevor — director · British · appointed 2007-01-01 · resigned 2007-10-02
- HALL, Gordon James — director · British · appointed 1998-01-01 · resigned 2001-03-31
- HORNE, David Norman — director · British · appointed 1998-01-01 · resigned 2015-09-23
- ISAACS, Janet — director · British · resigned 2007-10-02
- ISAACS, Robert Arthur — director · British · resigned 2007-10-02
- LAVIN, James Patrick — director · British · appointed 2000-03-01 · resigned 2006-08-14
- LLOYD, Samantha — director · British · appointed 2019-10-22 · resigned 2024-06-10

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- [Abbott Equity Holdings Unlimited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f45a7e89-39b4-59a2-998a-69c5d45fe203) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · United Kingdom — since 2021-10-01
- [Alere Uk Holdings Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/3ebf77ef-90c0-403b-af65-3d37af63c913) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · England — ceased 2021-10-01

## Provenance

- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01716581
- companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01716581

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **ABBOTT RAPID DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5e4e5883-4cd7-5301-a8e2-682c4e1ca13c · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/5e4e5883-4cd7-5301-a8e2-682c4e1ca13c._

_Risk levels are heuristic investigative leads, not legal determinations of beneficial ownership. Every claim carries a source; an absent edge means "not yet observed in current sources", not "does not exist"._