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Company description
OGILVY & MATHER GROUP (HOLDINGS) LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 30 October 1895; registered for 130 years; registered office reported in LONDON, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 73110 · Advertising agencies.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 4 trade marks, 2 procurement 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
- OGILVY & MATHER GROUP (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
- Company number
- 00045810
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 3 total · 0 outstanding · 3 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
29 November 2025Next statement due
13 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 18.8%
- Mean bonus gap
- 14.4%
- Women receiving bonus
- 31.6%
- Men receiving bonus
- 47.1%
- Women in top quartile
- 49.5%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 63.2%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 69.5%
- Women in lower quartile
- 73.8%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 99921.4% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99920.4% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99921.6% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99923.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499924.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499932.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499921.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499924.0% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2024 – 30 June 2024
- Filed
- 12 August 2024
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 45 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 42.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 45 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Our standard payment terms are 45 days based on receipt of a valid invoice.
- Dispute resolution process
We have a dedicated dispute resolution process to ensure that all supplier invoices are processed as efficiently as possible. We provide suppliers with details of the issues that may affect the processing of their invoices and assistance by providing guidance on what is to be provided on their invoices to ensure payment can be made in a timely manner. We have a dedicated AP helpdesk that offers suppliers support through to query resolution and which can be contacted via a dedicated e-mail address or phone number. All invoices that are in query are logged and if the query is unresolved at the time that payment is due, the reason for the delay in payment is communicated to the relevant supplier.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 32.0 average days to pay42.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay41.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay35.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay51.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay51.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay45.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay43.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay49.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay44.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay44.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay43.0% 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.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- OGILVY & MATHER GROUP (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- WPP 2005 LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 8 May 2026
- Sectors
- Media, publishing, arts and entertainment
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
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 22 June 2026
Earlier linked statements (1)
- OGILVY & MATHER GROUP (HOLDINGS) LIMITED31 December 2025
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.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Ogilvy & Mather Group (Holdings) Limited
Registration Z1609094
- Registered from
- 19 January 2009
- Current end date
- 18 January 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.
07 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Creative Agency
Post Office · ocds-b5fd17-590aaadc-2647-4df8-8307-393bcef1c3b7
- Supplier named in award
- Ogilvy and Mather Group
- Award value
- £9,100,000
- Contract period
- 1 April 2019 – 31 October 2023
- Published
- 25 June 2025
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 79342000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-590aaadc-2647-4df8-8307-393bcef1c3b7-2025-06-25T09:51:24+01:00
Provision of Strategic Support for GREAT Domestic Campaign
DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE · ocds-b5fd17-5aef25d5-9205-43d2-913d-c4e8ef78320e
- Supplier named in award
- Ogilvy & Mather (Holding) Ltd
- Award value
- £4,200,000
- Contract period
- 3 August 2017 – 31 July 2019
- Published
- 18 June 2019
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 79000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-5aef25d5-9205-43d2-913d-c4e8ef78320e-2019-06-18T16:44:49+01:00
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
NEO
Owner Ogilvy & Mather Group (Holdings) Limited · classes 9,35,42
- Filed / designated
- 1 November 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 November 2023
continuous commerce
Owner Ogilvy & Mather Group (Holdings) Limited · classes 35
- Filed / designated
- 6 March 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
OGILVY ACTION
Owner Ogilvy & Mather Group (Holdings) Limited · classes 35
- Filed / designated
- 9 October 2006
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 October 2016
THE KNOWLEDGE REFINERY
Owner Ogilvy & Mather Group (Holdings) Limited · classes 16,35,38,40,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 19 November 2003
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 November 2013
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Ambassador Square
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors (as a firm)
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Unlimited Company
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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09 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
10 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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11 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
13 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
15 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.
16 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: OGILVY GROUP (HOLDINGS) LIMITED(THE)
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
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.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
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.