Neogen Culture Media

Name

Neogen Culture Media

Website

https://labm.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1982

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Neogen Culture Media is a UK-based manufacturer of microbiological culture media, supplements, and immunomagnetic separation (IMS) products serving food-safety, clinical, veterinary, and environmental laboratories. The Heywood-headquartered firm has operated under labm.com since 1982.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Microbiological Culture Media & Laboratory Reagents

NAICS

In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing (325413)

SIC

In Vitro & In Vivo Diagnostic Substances (2835)

akta.pro primary industry

Microbiology & Infectious Disease Diagnostics (Culture/ID/AST) (HLAHAAAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Microbiological Reference Cultures, Strains & Controls (Food Micro) (AFALAKAF), Protective Cultures & Biopreservation (Anti-Listeria, Anti-Mold, Shelf-Life Cultures) (AFAJAJAF)

Keywords

• Microbial culture media
• Laboratory reagents
• Immunomagnetic separation
• Microbiological testing supplies
• Culture media supplements

Headquarters

HQ city

Heywood

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel

Core offering

Neogen Culture Media develops and manufactures microbiological culture media, supplements, and immunomagnetic separation (IMS) techniques for laboratory customers. The company's products support microbiological testing workflows, and it operates from Heywood, United Kingdom, using the labm.com web domain.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Microbiological Culture Media Prepared culture media products used by laboratories to grow and isolate microorganisms for diagnostic, food-safety, clinical, and research testing applications.
• Culture Media Supplements Additive supplements used alongside culture media to support the growth or selective isolation of specific microorganisms in laboratory workflows.
• Immunomagnetic Separation (IMS) Techniques Immunomagnetic separation reagents and techniques designed for laboratories to capture and concentrate target microorganisms from samples as part of microbiological testing workflows.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Direct peers

• bioMérieux: Global leader in microbiological diagnostics, including culture media, IMS reagents, and pathogen detection kits. Directly comparable to Neogen Culture Media across the core culture-media and IMS product lines.
• HiMedia Laboratories: India-based manufacturer of microbiological culture media, supplements, and IMS-related products, serving global food-safety and clinical microbiology markets — a direct small-to-mid specialist peer.
• Hardy Diagnostics: US-based specialty manufacturer of microbiological culture media and related diagnostic products, closely comparable in scale and product focus to a small culture-media specialist.
• E&O Laboratories: UK-based specialist manufacturer of prepared culture media and supplements for microbiology laboratories, the closest geographically and scale-wise direct peer to Neogen Culture Media.

Emerging players

• CHROMagar: Specializes in chromogenic culture media for pathogen detection, an adjacent specialty within the same culture-media category that increasingly competes for food-safety and clinical microbiology spend.

Broad incumbents

• Bio-Rad Laboratories: Diversified life sciences supplier with microbiology media, IMS reagents, and food-pathogen testing products that overlap with Neogen Culture Media's portfolio.
• BD (Becton Dickinson): Major supplier of microbiology products including culture media, IMS-based pathogen detection (e.g., BD EpiCenter), and laboratory instruments used in clinical microbiology.
• Merck KGaA (Sigma-Aldrich / MilliporeSigma): Manufactures microbiological culture media, supplements, and reference strains for laboratory and industrial applications, overlapping with Neogen Culture Media's product portfolio.
• Thermo Fisher Scientific (Oxoid): Owns the Oxoid brand of microbiological culture media and supplements, the most direct broad-line competitor in traditional culture media for clinical and food-safety labs.
• Neogen Corporation: US-based food safety and animal safety diagnostics company; the name overlap with 'Neogen Culture Media' suggests a possible parent, affiliate, or brand-licensing relationship and is the most thematically linked incumbent.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/NCMCultureMedia

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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