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Company description
CLOSE BROTHERS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 9 February 1924; registered for 102 years; registered office reported in LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 64999 · Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 9 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
- CLOSE BROTHERS LIMITED
- Company number
- 00195626
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 8 total · 7 outstanding · 1 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 July 2025Next accounts due
30 April 2027Last statement made up to
19 November 2025Next statement due
3 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 53.3%
- Mean bonus gap
- 62.9%
- Women receiving bonus
- 86.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 86.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 27.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 41.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 54.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 61.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 499936.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499937.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499936.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499941.5% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499940.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499941.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499941.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499941.0% 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.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 February 2026 – 31 July 2026
- Filed
- 29 August 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 August 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £64,861,047
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £16,178,702
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £8,012,001
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £23,452,301
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 13.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Retention circumstances
Retention clauses are used on certain construction projects to support timely completion of works and to protect the entity against defects identified after completion.
Retention release
50% of the retention amount is released upon completion of the project. The remaining 50% is released 12 months after project completion.
Retention release stages
50% of the retention amount is released upon completion of the project. The remaining 50% is released 12 months after project completion.
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- 5.0%
- Retention compared with client
- 0.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 0.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Close Brothers Limited agrees appropriate terms of payment with suppliers for each transaction or series of transactions, and abides by those terms based on the timely submission of valid invoices.
In the absence of agreed terms with a supplier, the Group’s policy is to pay within 60 days of receipt of a valid invoice.
The most frequently agreed term with suppliers is 30 days from receipt of a valid invoice. - Dispute resolution process
Close Brothers Limited and the supplier will first attempt to resolve any dispute by referring it for formal discussion between Close Brothers Limited’s authorised representative and the supplier (both acting reasonably and in good faith). If Close Brothers Limited’s authorised representative and the supplier are for any reason unable to resolve the dispute within 14 days of the date of its referral to them, the dispute may be referred to court by either Close Brothers Limited or the supplier.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 20.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 17.0 average days to pay16.0% outside terms
- 17.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay26.0% 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
CLOSE BROTHERS LIMITED
LEI LC2LS8O497851NSB4L61 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 9 February 1924
- Initial LEI registration
- 6 June 2012
- LEI last updated
- 13 November 2025
- Next renewal
- 24 November 2026
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- 10 CROWN PLACE, LONDON, GB-LND, EC2A 4FT, GB
- Headquarters address
- 10 CROWN PLACE, LONDON, GB-LND, EC2A 4FT, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI LC2LS8O497851NSB4L61 to LEI 213800W73SYHR14I3X91
- Related legal entity
- CLOSE BROTHERS GROUP PLC →
- Initial registration
- 6 June 2012
- Last updated
- 13 November 2025
- Next renewal
- 24 November 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2024-07-31T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: IFRS
- Validation reference
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00195626/filing-history/MzQ1MDQ5OTcyOWFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI LC2LS8O497851NSB4L61 to LEI 213800W73SYHR14I3X91
- Related legal entity
- CLOSE BROTHERS GROUP PLC →
- Initial registration
- 6 June 2012
- Last updated
- 13 November 2025
- Next renewal
- 24 November 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2024-07-31T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: IFRS
- Validation reference
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00195626/filing-history/MzQ1MDQ5OTcyOWFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
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.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- CLOSE BROTHERS LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- CLOSE BROTHERS GROUP PLC
- Statement period
- 1 August 2020 – 31 July 2021
- Approved
- 27 January 2022
- Sectors
- Financial, insurance and real estate activities
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
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 29 March 2022
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07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Close Brothers Limited
Registration Z5313910
- Registered from
- 5 March 2001
- Current end date
- 4 March 2027
- Trading names
- Corporate Asset Solutions, Close Brothers Asset Finance and Leasing, ONE BUSINESS FINANCE, Blue Finance, CLOSE BROTHERS PROPERTY FINANCE, CLOSE BROTHERS SAVINGS, CLOSE BROTHERS TREASURY, CLOSE BROTHERS BUSINESS FINANCE, CLOSE BROTHERS AVIATION AND MARINE, CLOSE BROTHERS ASSET FINANCE, CLOSE PREMIUM FINANCE, WARRIOR, CLOSE FINANCE (CHANNEL ISLANDS), CLOSE MORTGAGES, CNC TECHNOLOGY FINANCE, ARROW, ARMED SERVICES FINANCE, ARROW CREDIT CARD, COLOMBERIE (JFSC), GB FINANCE, THE LEISURE PAYMENT COMPANY, BRAEMAR FINANCE, WARRIOR MOTOR FINANCE, RELIANCE FINANCIAL CONTRACTS, CLOSE PAYMENT SERVICES, ARROW CARD, CLOSE BROTHERS COMMERCIAL FINANCE, CLOSE BROTHERS MILITARY SERVICES, FINANCIACION DE SEGUROS, FINANCIAL WARRIOR, NAAFI FINANCIAL SERVICES, CLOSE MOTOR FINANCE, CLOSE BROTHERS MOTOR FINANCE, CLOSE BROTHERS RETAIL FINANCE
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
FastForwrd Retail Finance
Owner Close Brothers Limited · classes 9,35,36,42,45
- Filed / designated
- 2 May 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 2 May 2027
QuickStrt
Owner Close Brothers Limited · classes 9,35,36,42,45
- Filed / designated
- 2 May 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 2 May 2027
eclick
Owner Close Brothers Limited · classes 36
- Filed / designated
- 25 June 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 June 2023
Novitas
Owner Close Brothers Limited · classes 36
- Filed / designated
- 18 November 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 November 2021
PROMPT
Owner Close Brothers Limited · classes 36
- Filed / designated
- 23 August 1989
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 August 2026
Connect
Owner Close Brothers Limited · classes 36
- Filed / designated
- 18 July 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
SHARELOAN
Owner Close Brothers Limited · classes 36
- Filed / designated
- 24 June 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 June 2017
Figurative mark
Owner Close Brothers Limited · classes 36
- Filed / designated
- 13 June 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 June 2006
Figurative mark
Owner Close Brothers Limited · classes 36
- Filed / designated
- 1 October 1986
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 October 2017
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
Close Brothers 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 And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 6582618
- Notified
- 14 April 2016
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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
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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
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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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