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Company description
BUNZL PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Public Limited Company”. Incorporated on 22 January 1940; registered for 86 years; registered office reported in LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 70100 · Activities of head offices.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 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
- BUNZL PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
- Company number
- 00358948
- Company type
- Public 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 December 2025Next accounts due
30 June 2027Last statement made up to
23 June 2026Next statement due
7 July 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
BUNZL PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
LEI 213800Q1Q9DV4L78UM09 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- B6ES
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 22 January 1940
- Initial LEI registration
- 11 January 2017
- LEI last updated
- 6 January 2026
- Next renewal
- 13 January 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Other legal names
- BUNZL PLC
- Legal address
- YORK HOUSE, 45 SEYMOUR STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, W1H 7JT, GB
- Headquarters address
- YORK HOUSE, 45 SEYMOUR STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, W1H 7JT, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
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.
04 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- BUNZL PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
- Group submission
- Yes
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 22 April 2026
- Sectors
- Cleaning and security services Consumer services, including accommodation, hospitality, tourism and leisure Fashion, textiles, apparel and luxury goods Forestry, timber products, paper and containers and packaging Transportation, logistics, and storage
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
- 28 May 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
Human resources Executive-level staff Procurement staff Your suppliers
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Workers within your organisation Workers within your supply chain Law enforcement, such as police, GLAA and other local labour market inspectorates
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff Third party audit arranged by your organisation Announced audit
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
Actions addressing ILO indicators
Financial remediation, including repayment of recruitment fees Change in policy Change in training Referring potential victims to government services Supporting investigations by relevant authorities
Demonstrated progress
Over the past decade, we have completed more than 7,000 supplier assessments, using the risk-based approach to assessment and auditing that we have applied for more than 16 years. In 2025, we increased the proportion of high risk spend covered by our programme to more than 90%, achieving the target we set in 2021. 2021: 73% high risk spend covered 2022: 76% high risk spend covered 2023: 81% high risk spend covered 2024: 89% high risk spend covered 2025: 93% high risk spend covered
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Labour: • Forced Labour • Child Labour • Freedom of Association • Unfair discrimination • Continuous work for more than 30 consecutive days without at least one day’s rest
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers Tier 2 suppliers Tier 3 suppliers and below
- Group: Women Migrants Children
- Location: United Arab Emirates Bangladesh Brazil China Colombia Egypt Honduras Indonesia India Cambodia South Korea Sri Lanka Mexico Malaysia Peru Pakistan Thailand Tunisia Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Taiwan
- Mitigation: For more than 15 years we have taken a risk based approach to auditing in our supply chain, we are proud that our approach is a benchmark for ethical auditing in our sector and it allows us to provide a thorough level of oversight over our supply chain for our customers. In 2025, we continued to expand our audit programme and assessed 1,430 suppliers. We increased the proportion of high-risk spend covered by our assessment and auditing programme to 93% (up from 89% in 2024).
- Risk: Health and safety: • Evacuation routes and exits unsafe or blocked • Firefighting equipment difficult to access • Dormitories not located separately from production • Structurally unsafe buildings
- Risk: N/A
- Area: N/A
- Group: Other vulnerable groups
- Mitigation: N/A
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.
05 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Provision of Janitorial Supplies
New College Durham · ocds-b5fd17-f4822f19-7e55-4ce3-b996-bb3bcdf1ee84
- Supplier named in award
- BUNZL CLEANING & HYGIENE SUPPLIES
- Award value
- £86,000
- Contract period
- 1 September 2023 – 31 August 2027
- Published
- 15 August 2023
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 24000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-f4822f19-7e55-4ce3-b996-bb3bcdf1ee84-2023-08-15T12:55:10+01:00
Cleaning Equipment Supplies & Associated Products
North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) · ocds-b5fd17-fa606f99-cb9b-4a5b-a8e4-586be889f43c
- Supplier named in award
- BUNZL CLEANING & HYGIENE SUPPLIES
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 9 August 2021 – 8 August 2023
- Published
- 19 May 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 39830000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-fa606f99-cb9b-4a5b-a8e4-586be889f43c-2021-05-19T17:57:32+01:00
Cleaning Equipment Supplies & Associated Products
North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) · ocds-b5fd17-fa606f99-cb9b-4a5b-a8e4-586be889f43c
- Supplier named in award
- BUNZL CLEANING & HYGIENE SUPPLIES
- Award value
- £71,180,000
- Contract period
- 9 August 2021 – 8 August 2023
- Published
- 19 May 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 39830000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-fa606f99-cb9b-4a5b-a8e4-586be889f43c-2021-05-19T17:57:32+01:00
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.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No PSC entry for this company was present in the imported snapshot.
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07 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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08 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.
09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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10 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.
11 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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12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
13 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.
14 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
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
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.
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.