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Company description
VPK PACKAGING LTD is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 2 August 1934; registered for 92 years; registered office reported in KETTERING, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 17211 · Manufacture of corrugated paper and paperboard, sacks and bags.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 4 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
- VPK PACKAGING LTD
- Company number
- 00290827
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 5 total · 0 outstanding · 5 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 2025Next accounts due
4 October 2027Last statement made up to
13 November 2025Next statement due
27 November 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 65.7%
- Mean bonus gap
- -7.6%
- Women receiving bonus
- 76.5%
- Men receiving bonus
- 79.8%
- Women in top quartile
- 16.8%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 10.7%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 17.3%
- Women in lower quartile
- 16.8%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 9990.6% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-0.2% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-0.9% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-13.5% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-0.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-2.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-4.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-9.8% 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 July 2019 – 31 December 2019
- Filed
- 18 February 2020
- Shortest standard term
- 14 days
- Longest standard term
- 80 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
- 16.0%
- 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
30days EOM
- Dispute resolution process
If an invoice does not match the purchase order, then the PO originator is contacted and requested to resolve the query. Either by correcting the PO or contacting the supplier directly.
Earlier payment reports (2 shown)
- 27.0 average days to pay40.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay46.0% 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
- VPK PACKAGING LTD
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 January 2020 – 31 December 2020
- Approved
- 1 January 2021
- Sectors
- Forestry, timber products, paper and containers and packaging
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
- 22 April 2021
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
Human resources Executive-level staff Procurement staff
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Trade unions or worker representative groups Professional auditors Workers within your organisation Businesses in your industry or sector
Social audits
Third party audit arranged by your organisation Audit conducted by your supplier’s staff
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Demonstrated progress
Regularly update modern slavery statement, provide training and Procurement monitor suppliers. KPI's will be developed in the near future.
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
VPK Packaging Ltd
Registration ZA016940
- Registered from
- 29 August 2013
- Current end date
- 28 August 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 Environmental regulation
Environment Agency records
VPK PACKAGING LTD
EPR/HP3924SH · NN14 2SR
- Permit or record holder
- VPK PACKAGING LTD
- Record date
- 10 June 2024
- Local authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Regulated site or public record address
- VPK Packaging, Stoke Albany Road, Desborough, Kettering, NN14 2SR
- Activity
- MCP
- Grid reference
- SP7971384440
- Easting
- 479713.000
- Northing
- 284440.000
- All populated source fields
- Permission Number: EPR/HP3924SH; Name: VPK PACKAGING LTD; Activity Type Description: MCP; Site Address: VPK Packaging, Stoke Albany Road, Desborough, Kettering, NN14 2SR; Site Postcode: NN14 2SR; Site Grid Reference: SP7971384440; Easting: 479713; Northing: 284440; Local Authority: North Northamptonshire; Permission Date: 2024-06-10
These are candidate company associations. The public-register downloads do not supply Companies House numbers. BritDB requires one unique exact holder-name and postcode match; the regulated site may differ from the registered office, so verify the record at source.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Vpk Uk Holding Ltd
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Limited Liability
- Legal form
- Limited
- Place registered
- Companies House England
- Registration number
- 00269244
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
Mr Jean-Paul Wilfred MacharisSee 3 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares (as a firm)
- Nationality
- Belgian
- Country of residence
- Belgium
- Notified
- 1 November 2016
- Ceased
- 31 December 2016
Mr Pierre Ivan Rene MacharisSee 6 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares (as a firm)
- Nationality
- Belgian
- Country of residence
- Belgium
- Notified
- 1 November 2016
- Ceased
- 31 December 2016
Vpk Packaging Group Nv
- Has significant influence or control (as a firm)
- Country registered
- Belgium
- Legal authority
- Belgian Company Law
- Legal form
- Belgian Limited Entity
- Place registered
- Belgium
- Registration number
- Be 0400.313.852
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 31 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
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
- Company name
Previous name: RIGID CONTAINERS LIMITED
- 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.
Candidate permit and enforcement associations based on a unique exact holder-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.