TXT In plain English
Company description
DS SMITH PACKAGING LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 18 June 1959; registered for 67 years; registered office reported in LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 17219 · Manufacture of other paper and paperboard containers.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 30 trade marks, 1 procurement record, 1 other public-register 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.
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
- DS SMITH PACKAGING LIMITED
- Company number
- 00630681
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 10 total · 2 outstanding · 8 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 April 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
12 June 2026Next statement due
26 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- -173.8%
- Mean bonus gap
- -40.8%
- Women receiving bonus
- 56.1%
- Men receiving bonus
- 58.6%
- Women in top quartile
- 27.9%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 13.4%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 9.2%
- Women in lower quartile
- 25.6%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 49991.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49992.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49994.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49999.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49998.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49998.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499910.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499911.1% 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 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 29 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 90 days
- Longest standard term
- 120 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- 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 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £26,000,000
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £81,000,000
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £267,000,000
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £26,500,000
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 22.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 120 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
90 days
- Dispute resolution process
Complaints or concerns should be raised in the first instance with the Accounts Payable team, for which all suppliers have contact details. The Accounts Payable team will escalate where applicable to the Accounts Payable team leader, and the Group legal team.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 84.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 81.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 76.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 79.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 76.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 70.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 77.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 77.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 78.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 79.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 79.0 average days to pay12.0% 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
- DS SMITH PACKAGING LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- DS SMITH LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 19 August 2026
- Sectors
- Forestry, timber products, paper and containers and packaging Waste management and recycling
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
- 26 August 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 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 front line staff Human resources Executive-level staff Procurement staff Other
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Trade unions or worker representative groups Professional auditors Workers within your organisation
Social audits
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
We use third party risk-assessment tools to monitor sustainability risk, which includes human rights within our supply chain.
Demonstrated progress
We set ourselves annual KPIs to increase our human rights due diligence year on year which includes modern slavery risk. We are adopting the Government's publish transparency guidelines to improve our processes and risk assessment and how we report progress made in our annual statement.
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.
UK Additional public registers
Schools, childcare, care and HSE records
DS Smith Packaging Limited
18 November 2024 · Improvement Notice
Identity methods differ by source. DfE links use source-supplied company numbers. Ofsted and Scottish care links are unique exact name-and-postcode candidates. HSE links require one unique exact Companies House organisation name. Verify candidate associations independently.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
DS Smith Packaging Limited
Registration ZA154358
- Registered from
- 30 November 2015
- Current end date
- 29 November 2026
- Trading names
- Retail Packaging, Heavy Duty Packaging, Ralegh, Sheet Feeding, Packaging Services
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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
DISCS
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 42
- Filed / designated
- 30 September 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 September 2026
PACE
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16,35,39,42
- Filed / designated
- 30 June 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 June 2025
FIT
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 7,9,42
- Filed / designated
- 30 June 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 June 2025
CrateMaster
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16,17,20,35,39
- Filed / designated
- 24 October 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 October 2021
GOGGLEBOXES
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16,17,35
- Filed / designated
- 11 August 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 August 2021
TRANSIT-FLUTE
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16,17,20
- Filed / designated
- 2 August 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 2 August 2021
I-FLUTE
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16,17,20
- Filed / designated
- 2 August 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 2 August 2021
HIFLEX
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 2 August 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 2 August 2021
FlowPack
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16,17,20
- Filed / designated
- 29 March 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 29 March 2021
intensive
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16,20
- Filed / designated
- 30 November 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 November 2020
T-FLUTE
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16,17,20
- Filed / designated
- 1 September 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 September 2020
ecoart
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16,35
- Filed / designated
- 11 June 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 June 2020
R-FLUTE
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16,17,20
- Filed / designated
- 12 March 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 12 March 2020
ABBEYVISUAL
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 26 June 2006
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 June 2026
ABBEYFOIL
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 26 June 2006
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 June 2026
ABBEYTEX
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 26 June 2006
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 June 2026
ABBEYFLEX
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 15 September 2003
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 September 2023
ABBEYSCREEN
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 15 September 2003
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 September 2023
SOVEREIGN
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 20
- Filed / designated
- 9 August 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 August 2022
MASTERFLUTE
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16,20
- Filed / designated
- 24 July 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 July 2022
CORRTOTE
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 16 July 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 July 2022
QUADMASTER
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16,20
- Filed / designated
- 11 July 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 July 2022
ABBEYLITE
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 27 July 2001
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 July 2021
OVENBOARD
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 26 September 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 September 2020
OVENFLUTE
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 26 September 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 September 2020
PSM
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 6,16,17,20,35,39,40,42
- Filed / designated
- 11 February 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 February 2020
TPM TOTAL PACKAGING MANAGEMENT
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 3 December 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 3 December 2018
LOADMASTER
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 23 May 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 May 2018
STOREMASTER
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 23 May 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 May 2018
Ecotainer
Owner DS Smith Packaging Limited · classes 20
- Filed / designated
- 27 May 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 May 2027
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.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Ds Smith (Uk) Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 501594
- Notified
- 6 April 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.
08 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.
09 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.
10 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.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
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.
12 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.
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
1 procurement process 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.
15 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Detected change
Accounts due date: 2026-09-30 → 2026-12-31
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- 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.
Organisation enforcement records linked by one unique exact company name.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact 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.