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Company description
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 29 September 1902; registered for 123 years; registered office reported in LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 70100 · Activities of head offices.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record. 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
- BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED
- Company number
- 00074974
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 2 total · 0 outstanding · 2 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
27 June 2026Next statement due
11 July 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 14.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 32.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 97.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 96.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 46.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 44.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 51.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 53.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 99910.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99915.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99928.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99923.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99930.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99932.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99929.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99931.0% 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 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 29 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 120 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £84,343,131
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £67,481,700
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £34,968,549
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £23,157,048
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 39.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 120 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Retention release
1.5% released on practical completion, 1.5% released at end of 12 months defects rectification
Retention release stages
1.5% released on practical completion, 1.5% released at end of 12 months defects rectification
- Retention in all contracts
- Yes
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- 3.0%
- Retention compared with client
- 0.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 0.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
D025 - Due on the 25th of next month
Some contracts contain a fortnightly payment run clause that states Suppliers accept that BAT’s payment processing centres operate a fortnightly payment run system and that, if the due date for payment of the Valid Invoice falls after the fortnightly payment run day in the relevant week, the Valid Invoice will be paid on the following fortnightly payment run day. This clause is agreed with Suppliers as part of the contract negotiation process before it is implemented. - Dispute resolution process
If suppliers have any queries related to invoices and payments they can contact fsd_uk@bat.com, which acts as an information center.
FSD UK will provide details such as status of invoices, date of payments and statement of account reconciliations.
For any dispute related to the terms and conditions agreed, FSD UK will direct the suppliers to the relevant BAT personnel to obtain information about their query.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 42.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay27.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay37.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay17.0% 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 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED
LEI 213800SAI4Q2FU9D4Y09 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 27 September 1902
- Initial LEI registration
- 2 April 2014
- LEI last updated
- 23 April 2026
- Next renewal
- 14 May 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- GLOBE HOUSE, 1 WATER STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, WC2R 3LA, GB
- Headquarters address
- GLOBE HOUSE, 1 WATER STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, WC2R 3LA, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO P.L.C.
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 14 April 2026
- Sectors
- Other
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
- 6 May 2026
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07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
British-American Tobacco (Holdings) 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
- 00262254
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
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09 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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10 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.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
11 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.
12 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.
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13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 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.
15 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
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 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.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
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.