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Company description
GREENCORE PREPARED MEALS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 15 March 1935; registered for 91 years; registered office reported in WORKSOP, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 10890 · Manufacture of other food products n.e.c..
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record. 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.
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01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- GREENCORE PREPARED MEALS LIMITED
- Company number
- 00298325
- 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
26 September 2025Next accounts due
30 June 2027Last statement made up to
10 October 2025Next statement due
24 October 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
- 60.3%
- Women receiving bonus
- 46.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 38.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 25.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 30.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 27.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 45.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 49993.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49992.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49997.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49996.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49995.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49995.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49993.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49995.0% 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
- 27 September 2025 – 27 March 2026
- Filed
- 24 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 90 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- 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
- 27 September 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £4,736,615
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £13,799,410
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £152,879,101
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £5,962,194
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 12.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 71.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 150 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
90 days (120 days for invoices due for payment in March and September)
- Dispute resolution process
If Greencore Prepared Meals Limited disputes any invoice or part of any invoice issued by the supplier to Greencore Prepared Meals Limited or receives an invoice in respect of any goods which Greencore Prepared Meals Limited believes (acting reasonably) have not been properly provided then:
The Greencore Prepared Meals Limited will pay that part of the invoice which is not the Disputed Sum in accordance with the payment terms;
The Greencore Prepared Meals Limited will be entitled to withhold payment of the disputed sum;
The parties will negotiate in good faith to resolve the dispute, but if a resolution cannot be reached within ninety (90) days of the start of such negotiations, the matter will be referred to the Courts;
The supplier will provide all such information and evidence as may be reasonably necessary to verify the disputed sum; and
following resolution of the dispute, Greencore Prepared Meals Limited will pay to the Supplier that part of the Disputed Sum (if any) as it is resolved is payable by Greencore Prepared Meals Limited
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 84.0 average days to pay5.0% outside terms
- 86.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 87.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 92.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 92.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 79.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 87.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 87.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 87.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 84.0 average days to pay5.0% outside terms
- 84.0 average days to pay9.0% 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
- GREENCORE PREPARED MEALS LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- Greencore Group PLC
- Statement period
- 28 September 2024 – 26 September 2025
- Approved
- 29 October 2025
- Sectors
- Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing
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
- 23 March 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
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Professional auditors Workers within your organisation Workers within your supply chain Law enforcement, such as police, GLAA and other local labour market inspectorates 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
Other monitoring
Monitoring of working hours internally Supply chain linked on Sedex to enable monitoring of supply chain working conditions
Actions addressing ILO indicators
Other
Demonstrated progress
KPI's on: Supplier Sedex Registration Stronger Together Business Partnership Third Party Independent Ethical Audit
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Agency labour in direct operations - redesigned agency audit programme to enable deep dive risk identification and enhanced focus on worker testimony.
- Area: Within your own operations
- Group: Women Migrants
- Mitigation: Fully redesigned internal ethical audit programme to focus on detection of risks among the agency workforce, and workers engaged in non-production activities such as catering and security. Updated programme focuses on triangulation of records, management testimony and worker testimony.
- Risk: Recruitment fees in protein supply chain (Asia) - ongoing collaborative work with multi stakeholder working group.
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 2 suppliers
- Mitigation: Collaboration with a multi-stakeholder industry working group delivering an action plan to provide remedy. Actions remain ongoing.
- Risk: Recruitment fees in protein supply chain (UK) - supporting suppliers with audit findings relating to the skilled worker visa route
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers Tier 2 suppliers
- Group: Migrants
- Mitigation: Collaboration with suppliers and customers to understand existing systems in place, challenges around these systems and opportunities for improvement.
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06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Greencore Prepared Meals Limited
Registration ZA102357
- Registered from
- 23 February 2015
- Current end date
- 22 February 2027
- Trading names
- Greencore Prepared Meals Ltd - Wisbech
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07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Greencore Foods Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 07441672
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
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09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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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
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13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
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.
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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
- Company name
Previous name: HAZLEWOOD CONVENIENCE GROUP I LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 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.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
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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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