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Company description
R.TWINING AND COMPANY LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 27 October 1953; registered for 72 years; registered office reported in LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 46370 · Wholesale of coffee, tea, cocoa and spices.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records, 30 trade marks. 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
- R.TWINING AND COMPANY LIMITED
- Company number
- 00525071
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- 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 August 2025Next accounts due
31 May 2027Last statement made up to
15 June 2026Next statement due
29 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 32.7%
- Mean bonus gap
- 23.1%
- Women receiving bonus
- 89.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 87.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 46.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 58.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 61.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 55.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 250 to 49918.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49910.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4994.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4996.1% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4997.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49914.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4997.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4996.4% 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 September 2025 – 28 February 2026
- Filed
- 26 March 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 90 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 September 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £30,209,403
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £15,450,293
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £4,166,239
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £11,956,000
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 33.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
90 days from the date of the invoice. We offer supplier finance, through which signed up suppliers can take payment for their invoices early (through an intermediary), but they do incur charges depending on how early they take payment. Therefore the terms we have to declare are those which govern us paying the intermediary.
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms for suppliers are within 60 days of the invoice. This is stated on all our purchase orders and applied to all suppliers, unless different terms are negotiated.
Where suppliers are identified as small, our standard practice is to pay these within 30 days of the invoice, unless shorter terms are negotiated. - Other payment-term information
Following the implementation of a new ERP in 2025, we continue to experience some challenges in our payment processes. These are stable and we have in place an improvement plan to enhance our process and capabilities. We expect to see a reduction in the number of invoices not paid with in terms going forward.
- Dispute resolution process
1. Suppliers are advised at the time of sending a purchase order to raise any future queries with the person who has created them. The Finance team are able to inform suppliers with the name of this person.
2. If a supplier believes we have failed to make a payment within the time it is due then they would normally raise this with either the person who raised the purchase order or the Finance team.
3. Twinings take a proactive approach to managing any disputes regarding payments.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 33.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay10.0% 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
R.TWINING AND COMPANY LIMITED
LEI 2138004BQEQSRTOCEN98 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 27 October 1953
- Initial LEI registration
- 17 December 2013
- LEI last updated
- 30 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 21 December 2026
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- WESTON CENTRE, 10 GROSVENOR STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, W1K 4QY, GB
- Headquarters address
- SOUTH WAY, WALWORTH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, ANDOVER, GB-HAM, SP10 5AQ, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 2138004BQEQSRTOCEN98 to LEI GBQKSY6W7G0OHCQ8OQ72
- Related legal entity
- ASSOCIATED BRITISH FOODS PLC →
- Initial registration
- 17 December 2013
- Last updated
- 30 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 21 December 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2024-08-31T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2013-12-17T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: IFRS
- Validation reference
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00525071/filing-history/MzQ2NzkzODk4NGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 2138004BQEQSRTOCEN98 to LEI 213800DE48PQJ6VNN980
- Related legal entity
- WITTINGTON INVESTMENTS LIMITED →
- Initial registration
- 17 December 2013
- Last updated
- 30 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 21 December 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2024-08-31T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2013-12-17T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: IFRS
- Validation reference
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00525071/filing-history/MzQ2NzkzODk4NGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
TWININGS OF LONDON
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 30 May 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 May 2022
TWININGS GETS YOU BACK TO YOU
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 5,21,30,32,35
- Filed / designated
- 23 June 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 June 2021
SUNSHINE
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 27 October 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 October 2020
SUNSHINE GREY
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 27 October 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 October 2020
TWININGS TWIST
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30,32
- Filed / designated
- 30 July 2008
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 July 2018
TWININGS
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 4 September 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 September 2027
SUNSET ROSE
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 23 June 2003
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 June 2023
MOOD MATCH MENU
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30,32,43
- Filed / designated
- 11 September 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 September 2020
LADY GREEN
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 27 January 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 January 2019
LADY GREY
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 29
- Filed / designated
- 27 November 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 November 2018
LADY GREY
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 4 July 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 July 2025
PRATTS
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 17 August 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 17 August 2020
JACKSONS
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 22 September 1988
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 September 2025
EARL GREY
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 29
- Filed / designated
- 3 August 1988
- Valid until / renewal due
- 3 August 2025
SUNSET
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 9 July 1988
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 July 2025
LEMON GROVE
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 28 May 1988
- Valid until / renewal due
- 28 May 2025
COUNTRY WAY
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 21 May 1988
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 May 2025
SPRING GARDEN
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 21 May 1988
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 May 2025
COUNTRY GARDEN
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 5
- Filed / designated
- 21 June 1984
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 June 2025
COUNTRY GARDEN
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 21 June 1984
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 June 2025
Figurative mark
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 29 December 1978
- Valid until / renewal due
- 29 December 2019
GOLDEN LION
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 26 September 1978
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 September 2019
JACKSONS OF PICCADILLY
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 23 September 1974
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 September 2025
TWININGS
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 25 May 1971
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 May 2026
SCEPTRE
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 25 May 1967
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 May 2022
TWINING SOVEREIGN
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 3 May 1967
- Valid until / renewal due
- 3 May 2022
TWINING
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 7 September 1966
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 September 2021
QUEEN MARY
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 27 July 1966
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 July 2021
NAMOSA
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 15 December 1960
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 December 2025
TWININGS
Owner R. Twining and Company Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 16 July 1946
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 July 2025
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Twining Crosfield & Co 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
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 00144900
- Notified
- 24 March 2022
Associated British Foods Plc
- 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
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Public Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 00293262
- Notified
- 21 March 2022
- Ceased
- 24 March 2022
Twining Crosfield & Co. 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
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 00144900
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 21 March 2022
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
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 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.
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.