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Company description
SPEEDO INTERNATIONAL LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 13 January 1928; registered for 98 years. Its primary declared activity is 14190 · Manufacture of other wearing apparel and accessories n.e.c., with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records. 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
- SPEEDO INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
- Company number
- 00227323
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 12 total · 3 outstanding · 9 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
1 February 2025Next accounts due
31 October 2026Last statement made up to
8 August 2025Next statement due
22 August 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 February 2026 – 31 July 2026
- Filed
- 14 August 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- 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 February 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £4,343,866
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £3,504,311
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £14,237,283
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £1,997,653
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 11.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
We usually work to our suppliers' payment terms. In absence of formal terms we will apply 30 days.
- Dispute resolution process
In the event of a dispute, the supplier would contact our AP department or their lead contact in our business. We would determine if a late payment was a result of administrative error, or dispute over the services. Where the late payment was administrative, we would request immediate payment from the AP team. Where there was a clear dispute over performance of the contract, we would agree a remediation/correction plan with our supplier. In the unlikely event that no agreement is reached with the supplier, we would involve our internal and external legal consultants over any expected litigation action.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 74.0 average days to pay53.0% outside terms
- 58.0 average days to pay52.0% outside terms
- 56.0 average days to pay36.0% outside terms
- 59.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 53.0 average days to pay39.0% outside terms
- 61.0 average days to pay37.0% outside terms
- 55.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay47.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay33.0% outside terms
- 55.0 average days to pay47.0% 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
SPEEDO INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
LEI 2138009EHMPKWH4LTT49 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 13 January 1928
- Initial LEI registration
- 18 November 2015
- LEI last updated
- 14 February 2024
- Next renewal
- 3 March 2021
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- 8 MANCHESTER SQUARE, LONDON, GB-LND, W1U 3PH, GB
- Headquarters address
- ENTERPRISE WAY, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 1EN, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_PUBLIC
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_PUBLIC
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
- SPEEDO INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- PENTLAND BRANDS LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 February 2025 – 31 January 2026
- Approved
- 27 May 2026
- Sectors
- Fashion, textiles, apparel and luxury goods
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
- 2 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
Training described
Your whole organisation
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Trade unions or worker representative groups Professional auditors Businesses in your industry or sector
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff Third party audit arranged by your organisation 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
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Forced labour Predominantly in Asia & the Pacific - with heightened risks in Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan and Taiwan.
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers Tier 2 suppliers Tier 3 suppliers and below
- Group: Women Migrants Refugees Children
- Mitigation: In 2025, we added staff in Bangladesh to provide greater coverage in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka).
- Risk: Health & Safety In all regions - heightened risks in Bangladesh, China, Pakistan and Taiwan.
- Group: Migrants
- Mitigation: Regular assessments, remediation monitoring.
- Risk: Purchasing practices In all regions - heightened risks in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Pakistan and Taiwan.
- Group: Women Migrants
- Mitigation: Continued our work on purchasing practices within our commitments as a member of ACT.
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
Speedo International Limited
Registration Z5408646
- Registered from
- 9 January 2007
- Current end date
- 8 January 2027
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 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Pentland Group 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
- 11439197
- Notified
- 2 November 2021
Pentland Group 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
- 793577
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 2 November 2021
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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.
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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.
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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.
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11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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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.
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13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Wholesale of clothing and footwear
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
- 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.
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.
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.