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Company description
J SAINSBURY PLC is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Public Limited Company”. Incorporated on 10 November 1922; registered for 103 years; registered office reported in LONDON, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 47110 · Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating. In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 28 February 2026, it reported turnover £33,647,000,000, profit after tax £393,000,000, net assets £6,150,000,000, average employees 91,000.
Among active companies with electronic accounts available to BritDB, it ranks 1 by latest disclosed GBP turnover; this is a dataset comparison, not a credit rating. This BritDB profile also contains linked public 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 SAINSBURY PLC
- Company number
- 00185647
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 32 total · 14 outstanding · 18 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
28 February 2026Next accounts due
6 September 2027Last statement made up to
25 July 2025Next statement due
8 August 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Turnover
- £33,647,000,000
- Profit before tax
- £619,000,000
- Profit after tax
- £393,000,000
- Net assets
- £6,150,000,000
- Current assets
- £3,514,000,000
- Equity
- £6,150,000,000
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 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
J SAINSBURY PLC
LEI 213800VGZAAJIKJ9Y484 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- B6ES
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 10 November 1922
- Initial LEI registration
- 24 January 2014
- LEI last updated
- 17 December 2025
- Next renewal
- 10 February 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- 33 CHARTERHOUSE STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, EC1M 6HA, GB
- Headquarters address
- 33 CHARTERHOUSE STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, EC1M 6HA, 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.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- J SAINSBURY PLC
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- SAINSBURY'S SUPERMARKETS LTD
- Statement period
- 1 March 2025 – 28 February 2026
- Approved
- 1 July 2026
- Sectors
- Cosmetics and toiletries Durable consumer goods, including electronics and appliances, home furnishings and other accessories Fashion, textiles, apparel and luxury goods Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing Healthcare and pharmaceuticals
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
- 2 July 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 compulsory overtime 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 Human resources Procurement staff Your suppliers
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Trade unions or worker representative groups Civil society organisations Professional auditors Workers within your organisation Workers within your supply chain Central or local government Law enforcement, such as police, GLAA and other local labour market inspectorates Businesses in your industry or sector
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff Third party audit arranged by your organisation Audit conducted by your supplier’s staff Third party audit arranged by your supplier Announced audit Unannounced 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
Working with industry initiatives. Conducting Human Rights Impact Assessments and worker voice programmes in our supply chains beyond Tier 1. Launching our new whistleblowing hotline.
Actions addressing ILO indicators
Financial remediation, including repayment of recruitment fees Change in policy Change in training Referring potential victims to government services Supporting victims via NGO Supporting investigations by relevant authorities Other
Demonstrated progress
We share transparency on cases related to forced labour indicators and actions taken to address these issues. We highlight case studies to demonstrate our remediation actions and challenges. We report on the numbers of audits and critical non-compliances identified in third-party ethical audits linked to forced labour indicators. We report on number of training courses completed by our colleagues and suppliers that increase awareness and capacity to take action to address modern slavery.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Seasonal migrant workers on SWS visa in the UK fresh produce sector. We co-fund and participate in the SWS Taskforce on industry solutions to safeguard workers coming into the UK through the scheme.
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers Tier 2 suppliers Tier 3 suppliers and below
- Group: Migrants
- Location: United Kingdom
- Mitigation: Through our membership of the Seasonal Worker Scheme Taskforce, we actively contribute to workstreams focused on improving worker education, access to information, financial resilience and effective grievance mechanisms, while also promoting due diligence and good practice throughout recruitment and on-farm employment.
- Risk: Migrant workers in the seafood sector. We participate in industry collaborations, investigation and remediation efforts to address issues in our supply chain.
- Group: Migrants Other vulnerable groups
- Location: United Kingdom South Korea Maldives Thailand Vietnam
- Mitigation: We collaborate with other industry stakeholders to improve labour standards and human rights due diligence in the seafood sector, advocate to governments and support projects. We conducted Human Rights Impact Assessments to further understand and address risks in our supply chain. We participate in industry collaboration, investigation and remediation efforts to address issues identified in our supply chain.
- Risk: Workers in garment and high-risk cotton supply chains. We are part of ETI and Fair Labour Association (FLA) initiatives to address Human Rights issues in our supply chains.
- Group: Women Migrants Children Other vulnerable groups
- Location: Bangladesh China India
- Mitigation: Our suppliers must source cotton through one of our accepted independent programmes. We expect all reasonable efforts be made to identify fibre origin and the route of cotton through the supply chain and we collect this information through our supplier reporting platform. We conduct due diligence on suppliers in high-risk supply chains and collaborate with the industry, and initiatives such as the ETI and Fair Labour Association (FLA) to address Human Rights impacts.
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
J Sainsbury PLC
Registration Z8222450
- Registered from
- 27 October 2003
- Current end date
- 26 October 2026
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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
HYDE & WILDE
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 32
- Filed / designated
- 25 September 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 September 2027
ROAM
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 32
- Filed / designated
- 25 September 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 September 2027
PRISM
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 3
- Filed / designated
- 18 September 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 September 2027
SAINSBURY’S COMPLETE NUTRITION
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 31
- Filed / designated
- 24 August 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 August 2027
SAINSBURY’S FARMHOUSE KITCHEN
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 31
- Filed / designated
- 24 August 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 August 2027
FINE FLAKES BY SAINSBURY’S
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 31
- Filed / designated
- 24 August 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 August 2027
SAINSBURY'S SOURCE OF NATURE
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 3
- Filed / designated
- 9 August 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 August 2027
SOUTHERN SKIES
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 33
- Filed / designated
- 25 July 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 July 2027
STAR GAZER
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 33
- Filed / designated
- 25 July 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 July 2027
AZANA
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 33
- Filed / designated
- 18 July 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 July 2027
SENOR DEL CASTILLO
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 33
- Filed / designated
- 28 June 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 28 June 2027
MEN ADVANCE
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 3,8
- Filed / designated
- 8 June 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 8 June 2027
THE SAINSBURY'S FOUNDATION
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 3,16,24,25,29,30,31,32,33,35,36,41,42,45
- Filed / designated
- 19 May 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 May 2027
SAINSBURY'S FAIRLY TRADED
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 3,16,24,25,29,30,31,32,33,35,36,41,42,45
- Filed / designated
- 19 May 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 May 2027
SAINSBURY'S SUPER SOFT
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 9 May 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 May 2027
PITCHERS
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 33
- Filed / designated
- 13 April 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 April 2027
TU SECRET SHAPING
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 10 April 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 April 2027
ACTIVE LEGS
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 25
- Filed / designated
- 10 April 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 April 2027
MARQUES DE MONTINO GRAN SELECCION
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 33
- Filed / designated
- 5 April 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 April 2027
SAINSBURY'S MY HAIR MATTERS
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 3
- Filed / designated
- 24 March 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 March 2027
SAINSBURY'S MY SKIN MATTERS
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 3
- Filed / designated
- 24 March 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 March 2027
DRURY 173
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 33
- Filed / designated
- 13 January 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 January 2027
KLIPSPRINGER
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 33
- Filed / designated
- 25 November 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 November 2026
ALVORADA
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 33
- Filed / designated
- 25 November 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 November 2026
VILLETTA
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 33
- Filed / designated
- 31 October 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 October 2026
OraCare+
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 3,5
- Filed / designated
- 4 October 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 October 2026
CONTRALTO
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 33
- Filed / designated
- 30 September 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 September 2026
LA CAMINADA
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 33
- Filed / designated
- 29 September 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 29 September 2026
SAINSBURY'S SMARTOFFERS
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 9,35
- Filed / designated
- 26 September 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 September 2026
CAMINO DEL DIEGO
Owner J Sainsbury plc · classes 33
- Filed / designated
- 26 August 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 August 2026
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.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No PSC entry for this company was present in the imported snapshot.
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.
08 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
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.
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.