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Company description
WHICH? LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 13 December 1960; registered for 65 years. Its primary declared activity is 58142 · Publishing of consumer and business journals and periodicals, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 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
- WHICH? LIMITED
- Company number
- 00677665
- 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
30 June 2025Next accounts due
31 March 2027Last statement made up to
1 December 2025Next statement due
15 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 2.5%
- Mean bonus gap
- 5.6%
- Women receiving bonus
- 87.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 88.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 29.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 58.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 57.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 43.0%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 250 to 49920.7% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49913.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49914.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99912.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4997.7% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49917.1% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49915.0% 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
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 21 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 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
- 1 July 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £10,518,381
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £1,005,031
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £1,885
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £1,396,162
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 7.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Where Which? operates its relationships on its own terms, the standard contractual length of time for payment of invoices is 30 days. Some suppliers have a higher term and some have a lower term. The maximum length of time applied during the reporting period was 30 days. There were no changes to the standard payment terms during the reporting period.
- Dispute resolution process
Complaints or concerns relating to payment practices will, in the first instance, be considered and/or investigated by the Finance Team following
receipt. Disputes are handled on a case by case basis with appropriate input
from the relationship manager, Group Risk and Group Legal as considered necessary. Supplier correspondence relating to invoices, changes to details and complaints should be sent directly to the Finance Team via email.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 25.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 15.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 15.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay16.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay13.0% 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
- WHICH? LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- CONSUMERS' ASSOCIATION
- Statement period
- 1 July 2024 – 30 June 2025
- Approved
- 24 September 2025
- Sectors
- Charitable / not-for-profit activities Consumer services, including accommodation, hospitality, tourism and leisure Media, publishing, arts and entertainment
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
- £60 million to £100 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 16 October 2025
Policies described
Freedom of workers to terminate employment Freedom of movement Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits compulsory overtime Prohibits discrimination
Training described
Other
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Workers within your organisation
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Other monitoring
Our culture encourages people to call out discrimination, harassment and victimisation. Our anonymous employee survey is a forum for staff to raise concerns including those relating to modern slavery
Demonstrated progress
Each year, we commit ourselves to achieve a set of goals for the upcoming financial year which are shared with our Group Audit and Risk Committee. During our financial year 2024/25, we continued to monitor our initial set of key performance indicators to assess our modern slavery risk and track the overall effectiveness of our measures to eradicate it in our business and minimise the risk of it in our supply chain.
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.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Which? Limited
Registration Z7154913
- Registered from
- 23 September 2002
- Current end date
- 22 September 2026
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
Which? Trusted traders
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 7 June 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 June 2026
WHICH? TRUSTED TRADER
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 28 April 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 28 April 2026
WHICH? TRUSTED TRADER
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 28 April 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 28 April 2026
WHICH? CAR
Owner Which? Limited · classes 35
- Filed / designated
- 9 November 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 November 2025
Which?
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,36,38,39,41,42,43,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 4 November 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 November 2025
WHICH? REVIEWS
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,36,38,39,41,42,43,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 9 October 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 October 2025
WHICH? ADVICE
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,36,38,39,41,42,43,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 9 October 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 October 2025
WHICH? BEST BUY TASTE TEST
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,38,41,42,45
- Filed / designated
- 6 August 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 6 August 2025
WHICH? LEGAL
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,38,41,45
- Filed / designated
- 4 November 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 November 2024
WHICH? LEGAL
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,38,41,45
- Filed / designated
- 4 November 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 November 2024
Which? Insurance Advisers
Owner Which? Limited · classes 35,36,38,41
- Filed / designated
- 21 August 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 August 2024
WHICH? MONEY COMPARE
Owner Which? Limited · classes 35
- Filed / designated
- 5 August 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 August 2024
MONEY COMPARE
Owner Which? Limited · classes 35
- Filed / designated
- 5 August 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 August 2024
Which? Money Compare
Owner Which? Limited · classes 35
- Filed / designated
- 5 August 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 August 2024
WHICH? TRUSTED TRADERS
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,38,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 9 August 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 August 2023
WHICH? LEGAL SERVICE
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,38,41,45
- Filed / designated
- 25 June 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 June 2023
WHICH? LEGAL SERVICE
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,38,41,45
- Filed / designated
- 25 June 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 June 2023
WHICH? MORTGAGE ADVISERS
Owner Which? Limited · classes 35,36
- Filed / designated
- 2 April 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 2 April 2023
Which? Mortgage Advisers
Owner Which? Limited · classes 35,36
- Filed / designated
- 26 March 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 March 2023
WHICH? WILLS
Owner Which? Limited · classes 16,45
- Filed / designated
- 13 March 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 March 2023
Which? University
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,38,41,42,45
- Filed / designated
- 13 March 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 March 2023
which works for you
Owner Which? Limited · classes 35,39,41
- Filed / designated
- 24 May 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 May 2022
WHICH? WORKS FOR YOU
Owner Which? Limited · classes 35,39,41
- Filed / designated
- 24 May 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 May 2022
Recommended Provider Which? Enter Category and date here
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,36,38,39,41,42,43,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 31 January 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 January 2022
Awards 2012 Which? Enter Category Here
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,36,38,39,41,42,43,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 31 January 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 January 2022
Best Buy Which? Enter Category and date here
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,36,38,39,41,42,43,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 31 January 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 January 2022
WHICH? TRAVEL
Owner Which? Limited · classes 9,16,35,36,38,39,41,43
- Filed / designated
- 17 September 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 17 September 2020
WHICH? MOBILE
Owner Which? Limited · classes 35
- Filed / designated
- 17 September 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 17 September 2020
which? Mortgage Advisers
Owner Which? Limited · classes 35,36
- Filed / designated
- 19 August 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 August 2020
Which? TEST LAB
Owner Which? Limited · classes 35,42
- Filed / designated
- 11 December 2009
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 December 2019
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
Consumers' Association
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Company Limited By Guarantee
- Place registered
- England And Wales Companies Registry
- Registration number
- 580128
- 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
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.
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
Other publishing activities
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.
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
- 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.
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.