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Company description
J.BARBOUR & SONS,LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 11 September 1912; registered for 114 years; registered office reported in TYNE & WEAR. Its primary declared activity is 14190 · Manufacture of other wearing apparel and accessories n.e.c..
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 30 April 2025, it reported profit after tax £31,829,000, net assets £200,835,000, average employees 0. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 12 PSC records, 30 trade marks. 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
- J.BARBOUR & SONS,LIMITED
- Company number
- 00124201
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 7 total · 0 outstanding · 7 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
30 April 2025Next accounts due
31 January 2027Last statement made up to
17 February 2026Next statement due
3 March 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Profit after tax
- £31,829,000
- Fixed assets
- £29,709,000
- Net assets
- £200,835,000
- Current assets
- £220,865,000
- Current liabilities
- £47,188,000
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £203,386,000
- Cash at bank
- £90,915,000
- Equity
- £200,835,000
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
04 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 0.5%
- Mean bonus gap
- 67.3%
- Women receiving bonus
- 91.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 90.5%
- Women in top quartile
- 55.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 47.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 72.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 76.0%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 1000 to 49997.2% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9998.2% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9992.5% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9992.4% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9990.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9999.8% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9993.0% 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.
05 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 November 2025 – 30 April 2026
- Filed
- 8 May 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 60 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- 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-3
- Financial period started
- 1 May 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £35,858,833
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £98,307,186
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £21,682,986
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £41,463,774
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 52.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Barbour operate payment to a set of standard terms, which are 60 days for goods for re-sale, 30 days for non goods and 14 days for rent and utilities. Variations to these terms do exist based on mutual agreements with trusted suppliers
- Dispute resolution process
Payment disputes are settled in the first instance by the purchase ledger team. Where disputes cannot be settled through this process, the issue is escalated to the Head of Finance and ultimately the Managing Director. If this issue is still not resolved through this process it will be escalated to the company's Legal Department
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 54.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 48.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay27.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 60.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 50.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 49.0 average days to pay34.0% outside terms
- 48.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 50.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 49.0 average days to pay20.0% 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.
06 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
J.BARBOUR & SONS,LIMITED
LEI 2138009QKVWF78U8RE66 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 11 September 1912
- Initial LEI registration
- 8 October 2019
- LEI last updated
- 1 October 2026
- Next renewal
- 8 October 2027
- Managing LOU
- 529900F6BNUR3RJ2WH29
- Legal address
- SIMONSIDE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 9PD, GB
- Headquarters address
- SIMONSIDE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, SOUTH SHIELDS, NE34 9PD, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NATURAL_PERSONS
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NATURAL_PERSONS
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.
07 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- J.BARBOUR & SONS,LIMITED
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 May 2024 – 30 April 2025
- Approved
- 1 September 2025
- Sectors
- Fashion, textiles, apparel and luxury goods
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
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 30 September 2025
Policies described
Freedom of workers to terminate employment Freedom of movement Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees Prohibits compulsory overtime Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents
Training described
Your front line staff Procurement staff Your suppliers
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Trade unions or worker representative groups Civil society organisations Professional auditors Businesses in your industry or sector
Social audits
Third party audit arranged by your organisation Third party audit arranged by your supplier Announced audit
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Other monitoring
We: 1) hired a labour rights agency to assess manufacturing sites, connecting with migrant workers in their languages; and 2) continued membership of a monitoring multi-stakeholder-initiative.
Actions addressing ILO indicators
Financial remediation, including repayment of recruitment fees Supporting victims via NGO
Demonstrated progress
Our FY24-25 statement demonstrates industry and stakeholder collaboration, access-to-remedy and compensation for affected workers, the use of experts to engage supply chain workers and confirm worker satisfaction of remedy, transparently declaring a wider network of direct business partners, and the setting of progress goals.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: The risks of Child Labour hiring, and long working hours in a contracted Myanmar clothing manufacturer is the highest risk in our supply chain.
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers
- Group: Women Children
- Location: Myanmar (Burma)
- Mitigation: To understand risks and have regular briefings, we continued our membership of Eurocham Myanmar; and MADE in Myanmar multi-stakeholder-initiative monitored and trained in one site.
- Risk: Bonded/Forced Labour of foreign migrant workers manufacturing clothing in Mauritius in contracted sites is the second highest risk in our supply chain.
- Group: Migrants
- Location: Mauritius
- Mitigation: We hired a labour rights agency to monitor Mauritius sites.
- Risk: Child Labour, Forced Labour and Long Working Hours in India is the third highest risk in our contracted supply chain manufacturing clothing, footwear and accessories.
- Location: India
- Mitigation: We hired a Child Rights agency in this financial year to train sites in the following financial year.
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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
BARBOUR
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 3,9,14,18,25
- Filed / designated
- 30 July 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 July 2024
BARBOUR INTERNATIONAL
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 3,9,14,18,25
- Filed / designated
- 30 July 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 July 2024
The Barbour BLACK STREAK
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 1 March 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 March 2023
BLACK STREAK
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 7 January 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 January 2023
BARBOUR TECH
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 18,25
- Filed / designated
- 25 June 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 June 2022
BARBOUR INTERNATIONAL
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 1,3,9,12,14,16,18,21,24,25,26,28,35,37,39,40,41
- Filed / designated
- 27 October 2009
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 October 2019
BARBOUR INTERNATIONAL
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 24 September 2009
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 September 2019
Barbour
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 3,14,16,18,21,24,25,26
- Filed / designated
- 20 May 2008
- Valid until / renewal due
- 20 May 2018
BARBOUR NIHILO NISI DURO
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 3,14,16,18,21,24,25,26
- Filed / designated
- 20 May 2008
- Valid until / renewal due
- 20 May 2018
BARBOUR
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 1,3,9,12,14,16,18,21,24,25,26,28,35,37,39,40,41
- Filed / designated
- 20 May 2008
- Valid until / renewal due
- 20 May 2018
THORNPROOF
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 24,25
- Filed / designated
- 13 February 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 February 2028
DURHAM
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 24 February 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 February 2025
Figurative mark
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 31 October 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 October 2024
Figurative mark
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 31 October 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 October 2024
LIDDESDALE
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 21 March 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 March 2021
BURGHLEY
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 25 February 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 February 2021
BORDER
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 12 June 1992
- Valid until / renewal due
- 12 June 2019
LIDDESDALE
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 18
- Filed / designated
- 16 February 1982
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 February 2023
GAMEFAIR
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 6 January 1972
- Valid until / renewal due
- 6 January 2027
BEACON
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 6 April 1971
- Valid until / renewal due
- 6 April 2026
GALA FOREST
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 23,24,25
- Filed / designated
- 26 October 1923
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 October 2027
BEACON BRAND
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 1 May 1915
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 May 2019
Figurative mark
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 18,25
- Filed / designated
- 17 November 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
Figurative mark
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 18,25
- Filed / designated
- 8 September 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
Figurative mark
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 8 September 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
BARBOUR
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 8 September 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
BARBOUR
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 8 September 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
BARBOUR
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 8 September 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
Figurative mark
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 18,25
- Filed / designated
- 7 September 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
Figurative mark
Owner J. Barbour & Sons Limited · classes 18,25
- Filed / designated
- 7 September 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
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
Dame Margaret Barbour
- Owns 50% to 75% of shares
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-03-23T00:00:00Z
Mr George William Straker
- Has significant influence or control (as a trust)
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-05-26T00:00:00Z
Mrs Helen Frances TavrogesSee 2 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control (as a trust)
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-04-08T00:00:00Z
Mrs Helen Mary Barbour
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-03-23T00:00:00Z
Mr Ian Donald Bergin
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 1 May 2019
- Ceased
- 25 September 2023
Mr Joseph Matthew Bernhoeft
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 1 May 2019
- Ceased
- 22 September 2023
Mr Owain Ryan Llewellyn-PaceSee 3 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 1 May 2019
- Ceased
- 8 March 2023
Mr Paul Robert WilkinsonSee 5 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 1 May 2019
- Ceased
- 25 September 2023
Mr Ian Richard Sime
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 30 October 2017
- Ceased
- 25 September 2023
Mr Ian Melvin Beattie
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 25 September 2023
Mr Stephen Mitchell Buck
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 25 September 2023
Mrs Brenda Readman-BellSee 3 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 18 August 2017
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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.
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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.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
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.
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.
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
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
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.
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