Cultech

What Cultech does

Cultech Limited is a privately held UK contract manufacturer of nutritional supplements, established in 1994 and headquartered in Port Talbot, Wales. The company operates a single-site manufacturing platform with a headcount of 251-500 employees, providing specialist formulation knowledge combined with wide-ranging manufacturing capabilities to brand owners in the global nutritional supplements industry. Its service portfolio spans contract manufacturing, New Product Development (NPD), Quality Assurance under ISO 9001:2015 and strict GMP procedures, and a proprietary freeze drying process capability that supports innovative product presentations. The firm's differentiation rests on an integrative manufacturing service model that brings in-house research scientists together with formulation, process, and production technologies.

The company's go-to-market is sales-led and B2B, targeting nutritional supplement brand owners and finished product customers who require custom formulations, private-label manufacturing, and flexible production approaches. Pricing is quote-based and negotiated per contract rather than publicly disclosed. Cultech also operates three wholly owned consumer-facing sub-brands - Proven Probiotics, LAB4 Probiotics, and VEGA Vitamins - distributed through dedicated UK e-commerce sites, providing a secondary revenue stream and a vehicle for showcasing manufacturing capability.

Ownership is private and founder/management-held with no disclosed parent, institutional investors, or funding rounds. The company maintains compliance documentation including a Human Rights and Modern Slavery Statement and has received branding support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Revenue, financials, leadership team details, and M&A history are not publicly disclosed; the structured dataset contains no funding rounds, investments, contact details, management team entries, or recent transactions.

Name

Cultech

Legal name

Cultech Limited

Website

https://cultech.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Cultech is a UK-based (Port Talbot) contract manufacturer of nutritional supplements, founded 1994, serving global brand owners with formulation, GMP-compliant manufacturing, and freeze drying capabilities. It also operates three consumer sub-brands: Proven Probiotics, LAB4 Probiotics, and VEGA Vitamins.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nutritional Supplement Manufacturing

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYCRADAOAM

Fortification Ingredients (Vitamins, Minerals, Nutrient Premixes)

Consumer Products & Retail/Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Manufacturing & Brands/CPG Ingredients, Flavorings & Additives Brands

Keywords

• Contract manufacturing
• Nutritional supplements
• Probiotic formulations
• Freeze drying services
• Private label manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Port Talbot

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Contract Manufacturing Services: Contract manufacturing of nutritional food supplements for the healthcare market, providing specialist formulation knowledge and wide-ranging manufacturing capability to the global supplements industry

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Cultech is a UK-based contract manufacturer of nutritional supplements, established in 1994. The company provides specialist formulation knowledge, freeze drying capability, and GMP-compliant production services to global nutritional supplement brands on a contract/private-label basis. It also operates three wholly-owned consumer supplement brands: VEGA Vitamins, LAB4 Probiotics, and Proven Probiotics.

Product overview

Cultech is a contract manufacturer of nutritional supplements established in 1994, offering over 30 years of experience. The company provides a fully integrative manufacturing service combining research scientists with formulation, process, and production technologies. Its portfolio includes specialist contract manufacturing services (the core offering), supported by new product development and freeze drying capabilities, all under ISO 9001:2015 quality assurance. Cultech operates three consumer-facing sub-brands: Proven Probiotics, LAB4 Probiotics, and VEGA Vitamins, which are marketed to the healthcare market globally.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Proven Probiotics: Probiotics brand operated by Cultech
• LAB4 Probiotics
• VEGA

Products and services

• Cultech Contract Manufacturing Services Full-service contract manufacturing for nutritional supplements, offering specialist formulation knowledge combined with wide-ranging manufacturing capabilities (including freeze drying and quality assurance) to global supplements brands. Customers supply their own brand and designs; Cultech produces specific formulations on their behalf.
• Proven Probiotics

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Almac Group: UK- and Ireland-based contract manufacturer with consumer health and nutritional product capabilities, directly comparable to Cultech's UK-based contract manufacturing and formulation services.
• Sirio Pharma: CDMO focused on nutritional supplements and consumer health products globally, competing for the same brand-owner contract manufacturing customers as Cultech.
• Biocatalysts: UK-based specialist enzyme and biocatalyst producer with manufacturing operations serving health and nutrition customers; comparable mid-sized UK specialty manufacturer with B2B contract exposure.
• Recipharm: European CDMO with significant nutritional supplement and consumer health manufacturing capacity, overlapping with Cultech's contract manufacturing service offering to brand owners.
• Aenova: European contract development and manufacturing organisation serving the pharma and consumer health/nutritional supplement markets, directly comparable to Cultech's B2B contract manufacturing model.

Broad incumbents

• Thermo Fisher Scientific: Large life sciences and contract manufacturing group with consumer health manufacturing services; much broader scale but competes for premium-quality supplement and consumer health contract manufacturing.
• Kerry Group: Global taste and nutrition ingredients group serving supplement and functional food brand owners; overlaps with Cultech in supplying nutritional formulations and finished products to brand customers.
• Eurofins: Large testing, certification and contract services group active in food and supplement quality testing; adjacent to Cultech through quality assurance, GMP testing and consumer health product services.
• Lonza: Global CDMO with consumer health and nutrition capabilities following its Capsugel acquisition; broader scale and product portfolio than Cultech but competes for nutritional supplement contract manufacturing wins.
• Catalent: Large global CDMO offering softgel, oral and other dosage forms for consumer health and supplement customers; competes with Cultech in contract manufacturing but at significantly larger scale and broader capability.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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