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Company description
GKN AUTOMOTIVE LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 29 May 1891; registered for 135 years; registered office reported in BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 70100 · Activities of head offices.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- GKN AUTOMOTIVE LIMITED
- Company number
- 00034104
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 4 total · 0 outstanding · 4 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
1 September 2025Next statement due
15 September 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 July 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Filed
- 30 January 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 104 days
- Longest standard term
- 104 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-2
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £76,688,288
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £1,503,807
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £629,117
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £78,821,154
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 35.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 104 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The company’s standard terms and conditions of purchase (available at: www.GKNAutomotive.com/GeneralPurchasingConditions) provide that payment will be due on the first bi-weekly GKN payment run date falling ninety (90) days after the later of the date on which: (a) a validly issued invoice is received by GKN; or (b) title to the products passes to GKN and/or the services are provided in full (as applicable). However, in practice these terms only apply in the absence of agreement and the company agrees payment terms with its suppliers on a case by case basis.
As referred to below in a subsequent question GKN does offer supply chain finance options in relation to qualifying contracts to certain suppliers however, we can confirm that we currently have no suppliers using supply chain financing. - Dispute resolution process
Due to the nature of the company’s activities, disputes with its suppliers are very infrequent. The company does not have a formal dispute resolution process. Any disputes or queries should be raised with the relevant company contact for that particular contract (which varies from contract to contract) who will attempt to resolve that dispute with the supplier informally in the first instance. There have been no formal legal disputes about payments/invoices between the company and its suppliers in the reporting period.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 79.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 79.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 65.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 86.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 75.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 73.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay5.0% outside terms
- 53.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 54.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 78.0 average days to pay77.0% outside terms
- 64.0 average days to pay86.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
04 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- GKN AUTOMOTIVE LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- DOWLAIS GROUP PLC
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 28 January 2026
- Sectors
- Automotive, machinery and heavy electrical equipment
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 25 February 2026
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Earlier linked statements (1)
- GKN AUTOMOTIVE LIMITED31 December 2021
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
05 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
GKN Automotive Limited
Registration Z8954741
- Registered from
- 25 February 2005
- Current end date
- 24 February 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Gkn Automotive Holdings Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Company Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- England And Wales
- Registration number
- 12156613
- Notified
- 18 September 2019
Gkn Enterprise Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 984980
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 18 September 2019
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07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
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08 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
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12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
13 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
14 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: GKN DRIVELINE HEADQUARTERS LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.