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Company description
ECONOMIST NEWSPAPER LIMITED(THE) is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 14 January 1929; registered for 97 years; registered office reported in LONDON, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 58110 · Book publishing, with 3 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 5 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
- ECONOMIST NEWSPAPER LIMITED(THE)
- Company number
- 00236383
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- 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 March 2026Next accounts due
31 December 2027Last statement made up to
28 September 2025Next statement due
12 October 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 31.3%
- Mean bonus gap
- 0.7%
- Women receiving bonus
- 81.5%
- Men receiving bonus
- 78.4%
- Women in top quartile
- 38.5%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 46.8%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 50.5%
- Women in lower quartile
- 61.9%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 99919.4% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99916.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99920.4% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99922.4% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99919.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99929.5% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99929.2% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99929.5% 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 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 1 May 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 April 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £33,365,870
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £18,752,067
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £469,494
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £20,436,288
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 19.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The Economist’s default payment terms are 30 days from date of invoice. However payment terms depend on agreements with respective suppliers
The most common supplier terms during the reporting period are:
• 30 days: 92%
• 15 days: 8% - Dispute resolution process
The Accounts Payable team registers all invoices within the financial system on a daily basis. Invoices are then sent to staff in the business for approval, via workflow. If any invoices are disputed, the staff members responsible will workflow the invoice back to Account Payable, providing details of the dispute. Disputed invoices are placed on hold.
Payment disputes are dealt with by the staff member responsible for the supplier relationship. The accounts payable team are able to identify invoices in dispute and regularly follow up with staff members to check status of approval. Once the dispute is resolved, the invoice is approved and paid.
A payment dispute may also be raised by contacting the accounts payable team.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 18.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay42.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay44.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay45.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay34.0% outside terms
- 17.0 average days to pay32.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay39.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay38.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay37.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay37.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay48.0% 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
ECONOMIST NEWSPAPER LIMITED(THE)
LEI 213800S7UDH53XSVVX07 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 14 January 1929
- Initial LEI registration
- 22 January 2014
- LEI last updated
- 31 December 2025
- Next renewal
- 1 March 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- THE ADELPHI, 1-11 JOHN ADAM STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, WC2N 6HT, GB
- Headquarters address
- THE ADELPHI, 1-11 JOHN ADAM STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, WC2N 6HT, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
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
- ECONOMIST NEWSPAPER LIMITED(THE)
- Group submission
- Yes
- Statement period
- 1 April 2023 – 31 March 2024
- Approved
- 12 September 2024
- Sectors
- Education and research Media, publishing, arts and entertainment
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
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 30 September 2024
Earlier linked statements (1)
- ECONOMIST NEWSPAPER LIMITED(THE)31 March 2022
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 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Economist Newspaper Limited(The)
Registration Z7134617
- Registered from
- 16 September 2002
- Current end date
- 15 September 2027
- Trading names
- CFO EUROPE, THE WORLD IN, THE ECONOMIST, INTELLIGENT LIFE, ECONOMIST.COM, EUROPEAN VOICE
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.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Sfc International Holdings Limited
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- United Kingdom
- Registration number
- 17045665
- Notified
- 20 April 2026
Exor N.V.
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Country registered
- The Netherlands
- Legal authority
- Dutch Civil Code
- Legal form
- Naamloze Vennootschap (Public Listed Company)
- Place registered
- Trade Register Of The Chamber Of Commerce, Amsterdam
- Registration number
- 64236277
- Notified
- 11 December 2016
Mr Stephen John Richard SmithSee 2 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Nationality
- Canadian
- Country of residence
- Canada
- Notified
- 20 April 2026
- Ceased
- 20 April 2026
- Anti Money Laundering Supervisory Bodies: HMRC
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-05-06T00:00:00Z
- Authorised Corporate Service Provider Name: ELEMENTAL COSEC LIMITED ACSP
- Identity Verified On: 2026-02-27T00:00:00Z
- Preferred Name: STEPHEN JOHN RICHARD SMITH
Lady Lynn Forester De Rothshild
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Nationality
- American
- Country of residence
- United States
- Notified
- 26 April 2023
- Ceased
- 20 April 2026
- Appointment Verification Statement Date: 2026-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Statement Due On: 2026-07-14T00:00:00Z
Exor S. P. A.
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Country registered
- Italy
- Legal authority
- Italian Company Law
- Legal form
- Societa Per Azioni
- Place registered
- Milan Stock Exchange Isin It0001353140
- Registration number
- To 91712
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 11 December 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.
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
Publishing of newspapers
Publishing of consumer and business journals and periodicals
Other publishing activities
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
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement 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.
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.