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Company description
FIFTY5BLUE UK LTD. is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 25 April 1933; registered for 93 years; registered office reported in LONDON, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 73110 · Advertising agencies.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 6 PSC records, 8 procurement 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
- FIFTY5BLUE UK LTD.
- Company number
- 00275304
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 5 total · 1 outstanding · 4 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
4 November 2025Next statement due
18 November 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 0.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 15.6%
- Women receiving bonus
- 89.4%
- Men receiving bonus
- 95.5%
- Women in top quartile
- 26.9%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 26.5%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 40.4%
- Women in lower quartile
- 27.8%
Earlier reporting years (5)
- Less than 250-2.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4996.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4993.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-0.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-12.7% 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 January 2023 – 30 June 2023
- Filed
- 31 July 2023
- Shortest standard term
- 14 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 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-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 27.0%
- 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
Our standard terms are 60 days end of month from receipt of invoice.
- Other payment-term information
Whilst our standard terms are 60 days end of month of receipt of invoice, for freelancers and small contractors, we have an exception process to set these up to pay between 14 and 30 days.
- Dispute resolution process
We resolve our disputes with internal and external queries by using an automated Service Now Helpdesk which is self-service. At Kantar, vendors can email invoicestopay@kantar.com with a query. If it relates to a previous invoice submitted they should note the FIN number received when they first submitted invoice as this will help deal with queries. SLAs on query responses are 2 working days from receipt. Within the automated response received when a query is submitted there is also an escalation process if the query is not resolved to a satisfactory standard.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 32.0 average days to pay53.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay74.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay55.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay61.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay70.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay59.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay49.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay48.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay50.0% outside terms
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
- 34.0 average days to pay71.0% 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 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- FIFTY5BLUE UK LTD.
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 15 April 2026
- Sectors
- 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
- Under £36 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 1 June 2026
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
Fifty5Blue UK Ltd.
Registration Z6105555
- Registered from
- 27 November 2001
- Current end date
- 26 November 2026
- Trading names
- Kantar Media
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 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Communications Consumer Data
DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA & SPORT · ocds-b5fd17-b95ace97-c2d9-4205-9835-220352b2306b
- Supplier named in award
- KANTAR MEDIA UK LTD
- Award value
- £30,000
- Contract period
- 9 April 2020 – 8 September 2020
- Published
- 9 September 2020
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 79980000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-b95ace97-c2d9-4205-9835-220352b2306b-2020-09-09T16:57:59+01:00
C20190246 - Ofcom Market Research Framework
OFCOM · ocds-b5fd17-52d305f6-d080-4d62-8b65-c630fafb1de6
- Supplier named in award
- Kantar Media UK Ltd
- Award value
- £20,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2024
- Published
- 5 August 2020
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 79310000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-52d305f6-d080-4d62-8b65-c630fafb1de6-2020-08-05T11:44:35+01:00
THE PROVISION OF TARGET GROUP INDEX SURVEY DATA
Crown Commercial Service · ocds-b5fd17-7b9d9e6e-30e9-42fc-a9f6-2955cb952047
- Supplier named in award
- KANTAR MEDIA UK LTD
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 9 April 2018 – 8 April 2019
- Published
- 20 April 2018
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 22000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-7b9d9e6e-30e9-42fc-a9f6-2955cb952047-2018-04-20T11:00:26+01:00
Media Monitoring Corporate & Census
Office for National Statistics · ocds-b5fd17-b4321301-4080-4b7f-b0fb-a6209c0303b5
- Supplier named in award
- KANTAR MEDIA UK LTD
- Award value
- £59,250
- Contract period
- 1 April 2018 – 31 March 2022
- Published
- 29 October 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 73000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-b4321301-4080-4b7f-b0fb-a6209c0303b5-2021-10-29T11:19:10+01:00
Segmentation of UK Registered Businesses (phase 1 & 2)
DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE · ocds-b5fd17-d1116179-c82d-414c-966d-36fb385847a4
- Supplier named in award
- KANTAR MEDIA UK LTD
- Award value
- £79,750
- Contract period
- 1 March 2018 – 6 July 2018
- Published
- 20 September 2019
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 73110000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-d1116179-c82d-414c-966d-36fb385847a4-2019-09-20T15:09:16+01:00
Community Life Survey
The Department For Culture Media & Sport · ocds-b5fd17-2119809a-6a08-4b23-b6b6-c5736021e5c7
- Supplier named in award
- KANTAR MEDIA UK LTD
- Award value
- £700,000
- Contract period
- 12 February 2018 – 31 October 2020
- Published
- 27 February 2018
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 79311000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-2119809a-6a08-4b23-b6b6-c5736021e5c7-2018-02-27T15:07:09Z
Notice of Award of Tender for Media Monitoring Services
LEGAL OMBUDSMAN · ocds-b5fd17-00f19974-fdc5-4c8c-a600-409ef27bd05d
- Supplier named in award
- KANTAR MEDIA UK LTD
- Award value
- £12,480
- Contract period
- 1 February 2018 – 31 January 2020
- Published
- 14 March 2018
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 79900000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-00f19974-fdc5-4c8c-a600-409ef27bd05d-2018-03-14T14:56:04Z
Research into online Child Sexual Exploitation
Home Office · ocds-b5fd17-e05e7365-0627-4db5-8953-9a769168e7ce
- Supplier named in award
- KANTAR MEDIA UK LTD
- Award value
- £99,729
- Contract period
- 15 December 2017 – 31 March 2018
- Published
- 22 February 2018
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 79300000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-e05e7365-0627-4db5-8953-9a769168e7ce-2018-02-22T10:18:09Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Greenwich Netherlands Holdings B.V.
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- Netherlands
- Legal authority
- Dutch Civil Code
- Legal form
- Private Limited Liability Company
- Place registered
- Tmf Netherlands B.V.
- Registration number
- 96537906
- Notified
- 1 August 2025
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 25 March 2020
- Ceased
- 27 November 2020
Kantar Group Holdings Ltd
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Notified
- 5 December 2019
- Ceased
- 1 August 2025
Wpp 2005 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
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 01003653
- Notified
- 23 October 2019
- Ceased
- 5 December 2019
J. Walter Thompson U.K. Holdings Limited
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- England
- Registration number
- 00280055
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 23 October 2019
Mortimer Square Limited
- Owns 50% to 75% of shares
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- England
- Registration number
- 03341063
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 23 October 2019
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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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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
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
- Company name
Previous name: KANTAR MEDIA UK LTD
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: BMRB LTD.
- 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.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
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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