TXT In plain English
Company description
BAYER CROPSCIENCE LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 8 January 1927; registered for 99 years; registered office reported in READING, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 46750 · Wholesale of chemical products.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC 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
- BAYER CROPSCIENCE LIMITED
- Company number
- 00218826
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 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
16 June 2026Next statement due
30 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 16 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 130 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £2,558,047
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £1,486,161
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £1,089,838
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £611,837
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 40.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 10.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms are 60 days on receipt of invoice. Depending on the category of spend, higher or lower standard payment terms may also be employed in line with industry standards for those spend areas.
- Dispute resolution process
The main point of contact for disputes is the Bayer Source to Pay - Shared Services Centre in Bangalore. In most cases, if an email is received regarding extremely due unpaid invoices, the vendor is asked to provide PDF copy of invoice/s with the Bayer contact person and/or Purchase Order number. Also, the email is forwarded to Procurement to look into the vendor concern and provide advice on how to deal with the vendor and its invoice.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 60.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 63.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 92.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 79.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 66.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 54.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 88.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 56.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 51.0 average days to pay17.0% 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.
04 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
BAYER CROPSCIENCE LIMITED
LEI 529900QNM3U4BRYKSF69 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 8 January 1927
- Initial LEI registration
- 2 November 2013
- LEI last updated
- 23 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 1 December 2026
- Managing LOU
- 5299000J2N45DDNE4Y28
- Legal address
- 400 South Oak Way, Reading, GB-RDG, RG2 6AD, GB
- Headquarters address
- 400 South Oak Way, Reading, GB-RDG, RG2 6AD, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 529900QNM3U4BRYKSF69 to LEI 549300J4U55H3WP1XT59
- Initial registration
- 30 November 2017
- Last updated
- 23 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 1 December 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2024-01-01T00:00:00+01:00; End: 2024-12-31T00:00:00+01:00; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2017-11-08T00:00:00+01:00; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD; Start: 2025-02-25T00:00:00+01:00; Type: DOCUMENT_FILING_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 529900QNM3U4BRYKSF69 to LEI 549300J4U55H3WP1XT59
- Initial registration
- 30 November 2017
- Last updated
- 23 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 1 December 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2024-01-01T00:00:00+01:00; End: 2024-12-31T00:00:00+01:00; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2017-11-08T00:00:00+01:00; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD; Start: 2025-02-25T00:00:00+01:00; Type: DOCUMENT_FILING_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
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
- BAYER CROPSCIENCE LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- BAYER PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 4 June 2026
- Sectors
- 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
- 10 June 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 Your front line staff Human resources Executive-level staff Procurement staff Your suppliers
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Professional auditors Workers within your organisation Workers within your supply chain
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff Third party audit arranged by your organisation Announced audit
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Demonstrated progress
All reports are investigated. As in previous years, in 2025 there were no confirmed cases of child labour, forced labour, or human trafficking. 1,334 assessments & 100 audits of our suppliers were conducted in 2025 (2024 comparatives are 1,324 and 131.) Bayer is now also utilising an AI web-scraping tool to review suppliers from publicly available information, to analyse their policies and to pick up on externally reported litigation, law enforcement, sanctions and adverse news coverage.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Risks of child labour in India
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Don't know
- Group: Children
- Location: India
- Mitigation: Bayer's Child Care Programme has run for many years in the countries in which we identified the risk of child labour infractions in the seed supply chain - India, Bangladesh and the Philippines and, more recently, Thailand and Indonesia. Via the programme, Bayer raises awareness about this issue among suppliers and clearly communicates its requirements. It involves systematic and repeated inspections of individual seed producers in their fields by local Bayer employees during the growing season.
- Risk: Risks of child labour in Thailand
- Location: Thailand
- Risk: Risks of child labour in Indonesia
- Location: Indonesia
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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
Baby Bio
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 1,5
- Filed / designated
- 14 June 2001
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 June 2021
FIREFLY
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 13 June 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 June 2027
RECITAL
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 13 June 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 June 2027
ATTILA
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 13 June 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 June 2027
CELLO
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 25 April 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 April 2027
RAINBOW
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 25 April 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 April 2027
LONGBOW
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 25 April 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 April 2027
HAVEN
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 25 April 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 April 2027
MOBIUS
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 14 June 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 June 2026
SQUIRE
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 14 June 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 June 2026
VIOLA
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 14 June 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 June 2026
ZEPHYR
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 14 June 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 June 2026
SONATA
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 11 June 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 June 2026
FICAM
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 24 February 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 February 2025
BABY BIO
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 31
- Filed / designated
- 31 December 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 December 2020
AQUAPY
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 7 July 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 July 2020
PEARL
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 14 May 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 May 2020
MERLIN
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 24 October 1991
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 October 2018
HELIX
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 24 October 1991
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 October 2018
OTHELLO
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 23 May 1991
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 May 2018
REGATTA
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 20 January 1989
- Valid until / renewal due
- 20 January 2026
STRIKE
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 1
- Filed / designated
- 16 February 1988
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 February 2025
ASSET
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 25 November 1987
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 November 2024
UPGRADE
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 1
- Filed / designated
- 9 October 1987
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 October 2018
KESTREL
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 11 August 1987
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 August 2018
ARDENT
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 21 July 1987
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 July 2018
SCORPIO
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 15 July 1987
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 July 2018
CHECKMATE
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 11 January 1984
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 January 2025
TRIUMPH
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 17 October 1979
- Valid until / renewal due
- 17 October 2020
TATTOO
Owner Bayer CropScience Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 25 July 1978
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 July 2019
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.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Bayer Ag
- Has significant influence or control
- Country registered
- Germany
- Legal authority
- Commercial Register
- Legal form
- Listed Public Company, Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Commercial Register B Of The Amstgericht (Local Court) Cologne
- Registration number
- Hrb 48248
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
Bayer Plc
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England & Wales
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Unlisted Public Limited Company, Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House, Cardiff
- Registration number
- 935048
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
13 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.
14 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
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
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.