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Company description
GROUP 1 RETAIL LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 19 December 1923; registered for 102 years; registered office reported in MAIDSTONE, KENT, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 45111 · Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles, with 2 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 1 procurement 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
- GROUP 1 RETAIL LIMITED
- Company number
- 00194561
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- AUDIT EXEMPTION SUBSIDIARY
- Mortgage charges
- 25 total · 1 outstanding · 24 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
5 June 2026Next statement due
19 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 24.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 24.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 60.9%
- Men receiving bonus
- 81.7%
- Women in top quartile
- 18.3%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 23.8%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 44.4%
- Women in lower quartile
- 24.8%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 499910.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499913.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499917.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499917.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499920.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499915.5% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,99916.2% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,9994.7% 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 January 2024 – 30 June 2024
- Filed
- 17 July 2024
- Shortest standard term
- Not supplied
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- Not supplied
- Supply-chain finance
- Not supplied
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- No
- Payments made
- No
- Supplier-list charging policy
- Not supplied
- Supplier-list charges made
- Not supplied
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
- 55.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 53.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 57.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 66.0 average days to pay32.0% outside terms
- 77.0 average days to pay27.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay28.0% 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 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- GROUP 1 RETAIL LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- INCHCAPE PLC
- Statement period
- 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2023
- Approved
- 1 March 2024
- 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
Not reported as covered
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
- 17 May 2024
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
Group 1 Retail Limited
Registration Z5437528
- Registered from
- 21 June 2001
- Current end date
- 20 June 2027
- Trading names
- AUDI APROVED USED HYDE, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN - TWICKENHAM, CHELTENHAM VOLKSWAGEN, CHESHIRE OAKS AUDI, CHESTER AUDI, COOPER, COOPER BMW, COOPER MINI, DANE CHESTER, DANE MOTOR COMPANY, DANE VOLKSWAGEN, DANE WIRRAL, GERARD MANN, GILBERT LAWTON, GILBERT LAWTON - MACCLESFIELD, GILBERT LAWTON VOLKSWAGEN, H A FOX JAGUAR, H A FOX DONCASTER, H A FOX LEEDS, H A FOX NORWICH, H A FOX NOTTINGHAM, H A FOX PRESTON, H A FOX YORK, HUNTERS LAND ROVER - DERBY, HUNTERS LAND ROVER - GUILDFORD, HUNTERS LAND ROVER - KINGS LYNN, HUNTERS LAND ROVER - NORWICH, HUNTERS LAND ROVER - SOUTHAMPTON, HUNTERS LAND ROVER - CHESTER, HUNTERS LAND ROVER - PRESTON, INCHCAPE AUTOFIT, INCHCAPE AUTOPARC, INCHCAPE COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS, INCHCAPE CONTACT CENTRE, INCHCAPE FINANCE, INCHCAPE MILTON KEYNES, INCHCAPE MONEY, INCHCAPE TOYOTA - BATTERSEA, INCHCAPE TOYOTA - BASINGSTOKE, INCHCAPE TOYOTA - BURTON, INCHCAPE TOYOTA - DERBY, INCHCAPE TOYOTA - GUILDFORD, INCHCAPE TOYOTA - NOTTINGHAM, INCHCAPE TOYOTA - OXFORD, INCHCAPE TOYOTA - SANDHURST, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN - SHREWSBURY, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN - TELFORD, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN - ALTRINCHAM, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN BOLTON, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN BURY, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN CHELTENHAM, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN CHESTER, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN EXETER, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN HYDE, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN MACCLESFIELD, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN MANCHESTER, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN OLDHAM, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN STOCKPORT, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN SWINDON, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN WEST LONDON, INCHCAPE VOLKSWAGEN WIRRAL, JAMES EDWARDS, JAMES EDWARDS LAND ROVER, LEXUS BATTERSEA, MACCLESFIELD AUDI, MANN EGERTON VOLKSWAGEN, MANN EGERTON VOLKSWAGEN - EXETER, MINSTER, MINSTER JAGUAR, NORTHFIELD GARAGE, SMITH KNIGHT FAY, SMITH KNIGHT FAY - BURY, SMITH KNIGHT FAY - HYDE, SMITH KNIGHT FAY - OLDHAM, SMITH KNIGHT FAY - STOCKPORT, SMITH KNIGHT FAY VOLKSWAGEN, STOCKPORT AUDI, SWINDON AUDI, TETBURY AUDI, THE USED CAR BUYING SERVICE, TWICKENHAM VOLKSWAGEN, VOLKSWAGEN VAN CENTRE (CHELTENHAM), VOLKSWAGEN VAN CENTRE (MANCHESTER), WEST LONDON VOLKSWAGEN
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.
07 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
ENQ727 - 2 x Hybrid Public Protection Vehicles
Derby City Council · ocds-b5fd17-ec99941c-18d4-4eff-b15f-1b0e9618efd7
- Supplier named in award
- INCHCAPE RETAIL LIMITED
- Award value
- £27,851.54
- Contract period
- 13 May 2021 – 12 May 2028
- Published
- 21 July 2021
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 34110000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-ec99941c-18d4-4eff-b15f-1b0e9618efd7-2021-07-21T10:21:17+01:00
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.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Group 1 Automotive Uk Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- England And Wales
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 06099813
- Notified
- 1 August 2024
Inchcape International 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
- United Kingdom (England)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- United Kingdom (England) Companies House
- Registration number
- 3580629
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 1 August 2024
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.
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.
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.
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
Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles
Wholesale trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories
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
- Company name
Previous name: INCHCAPE RETAIL LIMITED
- 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.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
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.