TXT In plain English
Company description
FARSHORE BOOKS LTD is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 18 February 1948; registered for 78 years; registered office reported in LONDON, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 58110 · Book publishing.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 30 June 2025, it reported net assets £7,095,000. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 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
- FARSHORE BOOKS LTD
- Company number
- 00449706
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- MICRO ENTITY
- 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
30 June 2025Next accounts due
31 March 2027Last statement made up to
21 February 2026Next statement due
7 March 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Net assets
- £7,095,000
- Current assets
- £7,095,000
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £7,095,000
- Equity
- £7,095,000
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2020 – 30 June 2020
- Filed
- 27 July 2020
- Shortest standard term
- 1 days
- Longest standard term
- 120 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-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
- 29.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 120 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
Legal term of copyright
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
30 days
- Other payment-term information
Of the total number of invoices paid late, 36% have terms of 1 day. These largely relate to publishing royalties which are paid on signature of contract.
- Dispute resolution process
Resolve directly with supplier at the earliest.
Earlier payment reports (4 shown)
- 40.0 average days to pay64.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay68.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay66.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay75.0% 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
FARSHORE BOOKS LTD
LEI 2138008HHR39XUSY9E53 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- Not supplied
- Initial LEI registration
- 24 February 2014
- LEI last updated
- 12 February 2022
- Next renewal
- 11 February 2022
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Other legal names
- EGMONT BOOKS UK LIMITED
- Legal address
- THE NEWS BUILDING, LONDON BRIDGE STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, SE1 9GF, GB
- Headquarters address
- THE NEWS BUILDING, LONDON BRIDGE STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, SE1 9GF, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 2138008HHR39XUSY9E53 to LEI 213800WUGGDQ1QK4M646
- Initial registration
- 24 February 2014
- Last updated
- 12 February 2022
- Next renewal
- 11 February 2022
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2019-12-31T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2014-02-24T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: OTHER_ACCOUNTING_STANDARD
- Validation reference
- https://www.egmont.com/sites/default/files/2020-03/EGT%20Annual%20Report%202019.pdf
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 2138008HHR39XUSY9E53 to LEI 213800WUGGDQ1QK4M646
- Initial registration
- 24 February 2014
- Last updated
- 12 February 2022
- Next renewal
- 11 February 2022
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2019-12-31T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2014-02-24T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: OTHER_ACCOUNTING_STANDARD
- Validation reference
- https://www.egmont.com/sites/default/files/2020-03/EGT%20Annual%20Report%202019.pdf
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 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Harpercollins Publishers Limited
- Has significant influence or control
- Country registered
- Scotland
- Legal authority
- Scotland
- Legal form
- Company
- Place registered
- Scotland
- Registration number
- 27389
- Notified
- 7 October 2021
Egmont Holding Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- Uk
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Liability Company
- Place registered
- Uk
- Registration number
- 1257172
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 7 September 2021
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
- Company name
Previous name: EGMONT BOOKS UK LIMITED
- Company name
Previous name: EGMONT UK LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
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.