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Company description
THOMAS RIDLEY AND SON,LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 17 October 1917; registered for 108 years; registered office reported in SLOUGH, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 46342 · Wholesale of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beverages, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 8 procurement records, 1 waste registration. 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
- THOMAS RIDLEY AND SON,LIMITED
- Company number
- 00148692
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 11 total · 0 outstanding · 11 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 June 2025Next accounts due
31 March 2027Last statement made up to
3 August 2026Next statement due
17 August 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 13 August 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 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-3
- Financial period started
- 1 July 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £7,617,445
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £16,961,990
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £2,094,519
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £19,404,096
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 59.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 22.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The standard is the end of the month +30 days
- Dispute resolution process
Raise the issue with the supplier. (Person responsible for the purchase). Pay the invoice when the issue is resolved or request a credit note from the supplier.
Earlier payment reports (4 shown)
- 39.0 average days to pay75.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay85.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay82.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay89.0% 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
- THOMAS RIDLEY AND SON,LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Statement period
- 21 March 2020 – 22 March 2021
- Approved
- 22 March 2021
- Sectors
- Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing Transportation, logistics, and storage
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
- £36 million to £60 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 21 April 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 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
83_25 Supply of Ambient, Chilled, Frozen Foods and Fresh Fruit, Vegetables and Salads
Espo · ocds-b5fd17-f71688dc-55b2-45e0-9ffa-c119df134bd4
- Supplier named in award
- THOMAS RIDLEY AND SON LIMITED (t/a Thomas Ridley Foodservice)
- Award value
- £400,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 August 2025 – 31 July 2027
- Published
- 23 July 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 15000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-f71688dc-55b2-45e0-9ffa-c119df134bd4-2025-07-23T09:29:20+01:00
Multi Temperature Food Solutions
FOODBUY EUROPE LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-43db703d-55c7-43ce-8eee-941d6cf6e30f
- Supplier named in award
- Thomas Ridley & Son Ltd
- Award value
- £240,000,000
- Contract period
- 9 August 2021 – 8 August 2025
- Published
- 6 July 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 15000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-43db703d-55c7-43ce-8eee-941d6cf6e30f-2021-07-06T11:30:22+01:00
Framework for the Frozen food and groceries
LONDON BOROUGH OF HAVERING · ocds-b5fd17-82e642d3-9200-4bfd-b321-e2a9bfd6b4d2
- Supplier named in award
- THOMAS RIDLEY & SONS LTD
- Award value
- £36,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 September 2021 – 31 August 2025
- Published
- 2 November 2022
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 15300000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-82e642d3-9200-4bfd-b321-e2a9bfd6b4d2-2022-11-02T17:14:50Z
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.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Caterfood 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
- Registrar Of Companies
- Registration number
- 06566108
- Notified
- 20 January 2023
Ridley Godfrey (Holdings) Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Has significant influence or control
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Uk
- Legal form
- Private Limited
- Place registered
- Uk
- Registration number
- 08617327
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 20 January 2023
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
07 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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08 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.
09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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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.
10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Milk, Dairy, Bread & Baked Goods
THE UNIVERSITY CATERERS ORGANISATION LIMITED · updated 15 July 2026
- Tender value
- £20,000,000
- Awards
- 7
Provision of Ambient, Chilled and Fresh Food items for Patient Shops
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · updated 19 March 2026
- Tender value
- £400,000,000
- Awards
- 5
Frozen Foods and Groceries Framework
London Borough of Havering · updated 4 February 2026
- Tender value
- £27,000,000
- Awards
- 2
Fresh & Frozen Meat and Poultry Framework
London Borough of Havering · updated 15 April 2025
- Tender value
- £8,500,000
- Awards
- 2
Fresh Butchered Meat and Poultry and Associated Products (2026 - 2030)
THE UNIVERSITY CATERERS ORGANISATION LIMITED · updated 12 August 2026
- Tender value
- £32,000,000
- Awards
- 1
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.
11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
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.
12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco
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
5 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
1 exact company-number registration.
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
- Detected change
Confirmation statement due date: 2026-08-17 → 2027-08-17
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- 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.
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.