01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- MARKS AND SPENCER P.L.C.
- Company number
- 00214436
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
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
29 March 2025Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
9 February 2026Next statement due
23 February 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 20.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 60.5%
- Women receiving bonus
- 74.5%
- Men receiving bonus
- 74.5%
- Women in top quartile
- 56.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 80.9%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 20,000 or more5.5% median hourly gap
- 20,000 or more6.2% median hourly gap
- 20,000 or more6.5% median hourly gap
- 20,000 or more4.8% median hourly gap
- 20,000 or more4.1% median hourly gap
- 20,000 or more4.0% median hourly gap
- 20,000 or more4.2% median hourly gap
- 20,000 or more3.3% 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
- 28 September 2025 – 28 March 2026
- Filed
- 27 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- 75 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Offered
- Payment codes
- The Groceries Supply Code of Practice (M&S Plc)
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
M&S standard payment terms are:
• Food suppliers: 19 days
• Fashion, Home and Beauty (FH&B) suppliers: 75 days
• Goods Not for Resale suppliers: 75 days
• GIST: End of month following date of invoice
Payments that fall due on a weekend or bank holiday are paid and cleared by the prior working day.
In certain circumstances, M&S may agree to shorter payment terms with suppliers as part of an overall commercial agreement.
Small food suppliers that have annual spend of under £4m have terms of 7 days. - Other payment-term information
• M&S offer a Supply Chain Finance solution that enables suppliers to obtain funds in advance of agreed payment terms.
• M&S are entitled to offset any of the supplier’s invoices any amounts owing to M&S by the supplier. - Dispute resolution process
Specialist supplier help desks are available to manage all supplier queries. This includes Goods Receipt, PO, EDI, Invoicing and Payment queries.
The specialist supplier help desks offer suppliers the benefit of having a central contact available to help resolve their issue:
o The teams will be the single point of contact for all delivery, invoice and payment queries.
o They track queries and seek resolution.
A supplier portal is available for FH&B and Goods Not for Resale suppliers to view the payment status of invoices.
For food suppliers, there is the “One Food Platform” which enables suppliers to update their business contact details; enable purchase order amendments; use a stock movement tool and to also access the supplier portal.
For FH&B, as well as our UK based supplier help desk and portal, we have regional offices in Bangladesh; India; Sri Lanka; Hong Kong; Vietnam and China which can then communicate using local customs and languages.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 33.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 34.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 34.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay1.0% 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
MARKS AND SPENCER P.L.C.
LEI 213800CN1RI3UCIZWB95 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- B6ES
- Next renewal
- 14 January 2027
- Headquarters address
- WATERSIDE HOUSE, 35 NORTH WHARF ROAD, LONDON, GB-LND, W2 1NW, GB
LEI data provides a global legal-entity identity, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links these records only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- MARKS AND SPENCER P.L.C.
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 30 March 2025 – 28 March 2026
- Approved
- 15 May 2026
- Sectors
- Consumer services, including accommodation, hospitality, tourism and leisure Fashion, textiles, apparel and luxury goods Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing
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
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.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Marks And Spencer Group Plc
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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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
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
Other retail sale in non-specialised stores
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
1 procurement process 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
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 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.
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.