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Company description
F.HINDS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 5 January 1918; registered for 108 years; registered office reported in MIDDLESEX. Its primary declared activity is 47789 · Other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (not commercial art galleries and opticians).
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
- F.HINDS LIMITED
- Company number
- 00149328
- 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
30 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
24 December 2025Next statement due
7 January 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 27.7%
- Mean bonus gap
- 57.9%
- Women receiving bonus
- 95.6%
- Men receiving bonus
- 94.5%
- Women in top quartile
- 61.8%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 84.1%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 88.8%
- Women in lower quartile
- 79.7%
Earlier reporting years (9)
- 500 to 9998.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49999.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99912.7% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99914.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99918.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499916.6% median hourly gap
- Not Provided17.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99917.2% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99913.7% 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 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 15 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- 120 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-2
- Financial period started
- 31 March 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £40,235,357
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £10,060,182
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £1,463,711
- 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
- 120 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms vary across the business depending upon the type of supplier. Most jewellery stock suppliers are paid on monthly terms (payment before the end of the following month following the date of the invoice) which arrives just after 45 days. We try to use local suppliers wherever possible, but our supply chain is global. Stock deliveries have to be transported to the UK and pass through customs.
All precious metal items, whether made in the UK or overseas need to go through the legally required Assay Office hallmarking procedure and be delivered to us. Given that a significant proportion of the value of the items that we sell is in the precious metal that they contain, it is vital to be sure that these are as descried before payment can be made. On arrival, all deliveries need to be inspected and to pass Quality Control checks to ensure that we are providing a high-quality product to our customers.
We pay our suppliers promptly compared to many businesses. In addition, we are proud that we pay our invoices in accordance with the terms agreed with our suppliers. We believe that it is right to provide generous payment terms to our suppliers, but even more important to always pay them when promised, as businesses small and large need certainty in their finances. - Dispute resolution process
Relationships with suppliers are dealt with by individual buyers, all of whom are either directors or senior managers. If an issue was to arise, this would be considered in the first instance by the buyer. If there was a situation where this did not resolve the issue, then the matter would be escalated to the board of directors. This has not happened for many years.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 30.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay5.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay0.0% 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
F.HINDS LIMITED
LEI 213800LY297L55L6PO49 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 5 January 1918
- Initial LEI registration
- 3 February 2014
- LEI last updated
- 27 August 2025
- Next renewal
- 19 September 2026
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- 24 PARK ROAD, UXBRIDGE, GB-LND, UB8 1NH, GB
- Headquarters address
- 24 PARK ROAD, UXBRIDGE, GB-LND, UB8 1NH, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
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06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- F.HINDS LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Statement period
- 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Approved
- 19 August 2026
- Sectors
- Consumer services, including accommodation, hospitality, tourism and leisure 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
- £60 million to £100 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 21 August 2026
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 child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery
Training described
Your whole organisation
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Professional auditors Workers within your organisation
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff
Grievance mechanisms
Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Other monitoring
Regular supplier visits by directors and buying staff
Demonstrated progress
Performance indicators included in statement
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Supplier checks in non EU countries namely, India and Far East
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers
- Group: Children
- Location: India
- Mitigation: Suppliers visited in person by purchasing Director for checks
- Risk: Regular review of supply chain
- Mitigation: As per previous answer plus regular review/audit
- Risk: Regular review of recruitment procedures and policy
- Area: Within your own operations
- Group: Other vulnerable groups
- Mitigation: Robust checks made during recruitment process
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07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
F.Hinds Limited
Registration Z5500315
- Registered from
- 4 July 2001
- Current end date
- 3 July 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.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Hinds Ltd
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House, London
- Registration number
- 04414510
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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09 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
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10 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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11 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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