UNILEVER UK LIMITED
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† UNILEVER UK LIMITED filed these accounts on paper, so Companies House publishes them only as a scanned image. The figures for the years marked † were read automatically from the scan and kept only where the statements add up (for example net assets equal total equity), but a reading error is still possible — check the original accounts at Companies House.
Ratios
2025Sector comparison
SIC 10520Where the company stands among the 710 active companies whose first SIC code is 10520 (Manufacture of ice cream).
- UNILEVER UK LIMITED£622.7m
- MACKIE'S LIMITED£23.6m
- PALACIOS FOOD UK LIMITED£11.7m
- MARSHFIELD FARM ICE CREAM LIMITED£10m
- C D T SIDOLI (WELSHPOOL) LIMITED£8.4m
- BECKLEBERRYS LIMITED£7m
- NEW FOREST ICE CREAM LIMITED£6.6m
- IRMA MANAGEMENT LIMITED£5.4m
- BEECHDEAN MANUFACTURING LTD£5.3m
- SHOREBUTTON LIMITED£5.2m
Positions are approximate. Figures come from each company's latest accounts; money and employee figures are compared only with companies that filed accounts in pounds for a period ending in the last two and a half years and are not dormant, so those groups are smaller than 710. The line on each bar marks the median.
Summary: UNILEVER UK LIMITED
What kind of company is it?
UNILEVER UK LIMITED is a private limited company registered with Companies House under company number 00334527. It was incorporated on 9 Dec 1937. Its status is active. The registered office is in Kingston upon thames (KT1). Its nature of business (SIC 2007) is manufacture of ice cream (10520), manufacture of soap and detergents (20411).
How is the company doing financially?
The latest accounts in the database are for 2025 (period ending 31 Dec 2025); the company files full accounts. Turnover was £1,696,426,000. Profit for the year was £139,754,000. Net assets were £622,691,000, down 26.4% on the previous year. Total assets were £1,413,087,000 and total liabilities £767,128,000. Figures are available for 2 financial years (2024–2025).
How does it compare with similar companies?
Compared with 710 active companies whose first SIC code is 10520: By net assets it ranks higher than 99% of them (median £11,754). By total assets it ranks higher than 99% of them (median £87,331). It is older than 99% of them (median age 5.5 years).
Does it supply the public sector?
The company is named as a supplier in 6 public contract award notices from 5 public sector buyers since 2017. Contracts awarded to it alone have a combined published value of £900k. Its most frequent buyer is NHS Supply Chain (2 contracts). 5 of the awards are shared with other suppliers, typically framework agreements.
What do public registers and reports show?
It appears on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee, Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker). HMRC lists it as an importer of goods, mainly optical, medical and measuring instruments, machinery, electrical equipment. HMRC lists it as an exporter of goods, mainly cereal and bakery products, vegetable and fruit preparations, miscellaneous food preparations. In its latest payment practices report it took an average of 65 days to pay suppliers, and 5% of invoices were not paid within agreed terms. Its gender pay gap report for 2025/26 shows median hourly pay for women 10.4% higher than for men. It has a modern slavery statement on the government registry.
Who runs and controls the company?
One person with significant control is registered.
When are its next filings due?
The next accounts are due by 30 Sep 2027. The next confirmation statement is due by 8 May 2027.
Filed accounts2024–2025
| 2024 † | 2025 † | |
|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | 1,696,426,000 |
| Profit for the year | — | 139,754,000 |
| Total assets | 1,514,772,000 | 1,413,087,000 |
| Total liabilities | 656,285,000 | 767,128,000 |
| Net assets / total equity | 845,637,000 | 622,691,000 |
A dash (—) means no accounts were filed for that year or the item is not in the accounts; 0 is a zero stated in the accounts. Small companies usually file only a balance sheet, so the profit and loss account is often missing.
Public contracts
6 contractsUNILEVER UK LIMITED is named as a supplier in 6 public contract award notices from 5 public sector buyers since 2017. The 1 contract awarded to it alone with a published value add up to £900k. 5 awards are shared with other suppliers and not counted in that total.
- NHS Supply Chain
- 2 contracts
- Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council
- 1 contract · £900k
- Bournemouth Borough Council - Main Number
- 1 contract
- Scotland Excel
- 1 contract
- Supply Chain Coordination Limited
- 1 contract
- Ambient Foods 2025‡Supply Chain Coordination Limited · shared by 13 suppliers, up to £19,149,695 in total · 4 lots
- Supply Only and Supply & Distribution of Groceries and Provisions‡Scotland Excel · shared by 5 suppliers, up to £14,000,000 in total
- Supply and Delivery of Ice Cream Products for BCP Council‡Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council · £900,000
- Canned Goods E-Auction July 2022NHS Supply Chain · shared by 31 suppliers, up to £36,888,285 in total
- Ambient Food‡NHS Supply Chain · shared by 15 suppliers, up to £9,651,604 in total · 4 lots
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- The Supply and Delivery of Ice-Cream Products‡Bournemouth Borough Council - Main Number · shared by 2 suppliers, up to £1,500,000 in total
From contract award notices on Contracts Finder (since 2016) and Find a Tender (since 2021), published by the Cabinet Office under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Values are as published by the buyer and usually cover the whole contract term; the total leaves out awards shared between several suppliers, where the published figure is a ceiling for all of them, placeholder values and single figures of £1 billion or more. Notices marked ‡ do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name. Contracts below the publication thresholds and those of devolved buyers that publish elsewhere are not included.
Statutory reporting
- Average time taken to pay invoices
- 65 days
- Invoices not paid within agreed terms
- 5%
- Standard payment terms
- 30–90 days
- Member of a payment code
- No
- Within 30 days 28%
- 31 to 60 days 20%
- After 60 days 52%
Earlier periods (7)
- Period ending
- Days to pay
- Within 30 days
- Late
- 31 Dec 2025
- 62
- 32%
- 3%
- 30 Jun 2025
- 63
- 31%
- 3%
- 31 Dec 2024
- 64
- 29%
- 5%
- 30 Jun 2024
- 63
- 30%
- 3%
- 31 Dec 2023
- 63
- 31%
- 2%
- 30 Jun 2023
- 64
- 31%
- 1%
- 31 Dec 2022
- 63
- 31%
- 2%
- Median hourly pay
- women 10.4% higher
- Mean hourly pay
- women 9.3% higher
- Median bonus pay
- women 180.8% higher
- Employer size
- 1000 to 4999 employees
Earlier years (8)
- Year
- Median hourly pay
- Mean hourly pay
- 2024/25
- women 6.5% higher
- women 9.2% higher
- 2023/24
- women 5.3% higher
- women 7.7% higher
- 2022/23
- women 5.3% higher
- women 9.6% higher
- 2021/22
- women 3.9% higher
- women 9.2% higher
- 2020/21
- women 2.1% higher
- women 6.9% higher
- 2019/20
- women 4.4% higher
- women 8.1% higher
- 2018/19
- women 5.8% higher
- women 9.7% higher
- 2017/18
- women 1.3% higher
- women 9.4% higher
A positive gap means women's average hourly pay is lower than men's across the whole employer; it is not a comparison of pay for the same work. View on the Gender pay gap service
- 2021
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (UNILEVER PLC)
Figures the company reported itself to the government's Check payment practices service, Gender pay gap service and Modern slavery statement registry (Open Government Licence v3.0). Only large companies and employers with 250 or more staff have to report, so most companies have nothing here.
Registers and licences
- Licence type and rating
- Temporary Worker (A rating), Worker (A rating)
- Routes
- Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee, Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker
On the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, which lists organisations licensed to sponsor workers from overseas.
Listed by HMRC as an importer of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: optical, medical and measuring instruments, machinery, electrical equipment, plastics and miscellaneous food preparations.
Listed by HMRC as an exporter of goods in 12 of the last 12 months on record, most recently August 2026. Main goods: cereal and bakery products, vegetable and fruit preparations, miscellaneous food preparations, perfumery and cosmetics and soaps and waxes.
From HMRC's monthly lists of importers and exporters. Traders can ask to be left off the lists, so absence does not mean a company does not trade.
Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Care Quality Commission, Home Office and HM Revenue & Customs, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Entries marked ‡ come from lists that do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name.
History
7 events- Financial year 2025 endedAccounts: turnover £1.7bn, net assets £622.7m
- Financial year 2024 endedAccounts: net assets £845.6m
- Unilever Uk & Cn Holdings Limited registered as a person with significant control
- Unilever Uk Group Limited ceased to be a person with significant control
- Unilever Uk Group Limited registered as a person with significant control
- Name changed to UNILEVER UK LIMITEDPreviously LEVER FABERGE LIMITED
- Company incorporatedPrivate limited company
Dates as recorded at Companies House: incorporation, name changes, officer appointments and resignations, current and former persons with significant control, and the end of each financial year with figures in the database.