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Company description
WARNER MUSIC UK LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 13 January 1961; registered for 65 years; registered office reported in LONDON, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 46431 · Wholesale of audio tapes, records, CDs and video tapes and the equipment on which these are played, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 20 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
- WARNER MUSIC UK LIMITED
- Company number
- 00680511
- 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 September 2025Next accounts due
30 June 2027Last statement made up to
5 December 2025Next statement due
19 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 0.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 47.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 92.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 93.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 43.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 58.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 51.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 58.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- Less than 2508.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49916.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49913.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49917.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49914.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49918.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49923.1% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49921.0% 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 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 8 May 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 1 days
- Longest standard term
- 90 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-3
- Financial period started
- 1 October 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £268,486
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £3,832
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £273,667
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £545,984
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 12.0%
- 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
Standard terms for royalty payments are 90 days post the end of the exploitation period, standard terms for certain artist payments are 1 day after receipt. All other suppliers [etc]
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
All suppliers of goods and services are offered 45 day payment terms from the date of receipt of the invoice by the accounts payable team, except for other Warner Music Group companies, which have typical payment terms of 60 days. Shorter payment terms may be available by exception if agreed during the contract negotiation period. Invoices in nearly all cases will only be processed when they include reference to a valid purchase order number, invoices are then paid on weekly payment runs as they fall due.
- Dispute resolution process
Payment disputes are initially reported to Accounts Payable where a member of the team will investigate the dispute with the account relationship holder. When required the dispute will be escalated to the Accounts Payable Manager & Financial Controller. Once resolved the supplier will be paid in accordance with its payment terms or if the invoice is past its due date then on the next payment run.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 31.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay55.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay50.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay53.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay45.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay38.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay43.0% 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
- WARNER MUSIC UK LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- WARNER MUSIC INTERNATIONAL SERVICES LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 October 2023 – 30 September 2024
- Approved
- 17 March 2025
- Sectors
- Fashion, textiles, apparel and luxury goods Media, publishing, arts and entertainment
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Not reported as covered
Due diligence
Not reported as covered
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 26 March 2025
Earlier linked statements (1)
- WARNER MUSIC UK LIMITED30 September 2020
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
Warner Music UK Limited
Registration Z1365864
- Registered from
- 30 September 2008
- Current end date
- 29 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
RUN THE MIC
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9,38,41,45
- Filed / designated
- 11 July 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 July 2027
MENO RECORDS
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9,25,41
- Filed / designated
- 30 September 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 September 2026
THE FIREPIT
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9,35,36,38,41,42,45
- Filed / designated
- 2 March 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 2 March 2026
PURE GARAGE GARAGE
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9,16,25
- Filed / designated
- 5 July 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 July 2020
ETERNAL eternal records
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 5 September 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 September 2021
ETERNAL
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 5 September 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 September 2021
CLUBBER'S BIBLE
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 14 November 2001
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 November 2011
LANDSLIDE
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9,16,25,41
- Filed / designated
- 14 November 2001
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 November 2011
HIPHOP PURE HIP HOP
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9,16
- Filed / designated
- 8 June 2001
- Valid until / renewal due
- 8 June 2011
BIG UP YOURSELF
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9,16,25,41
- Filed / designated
- 19 January 2001
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 January 2011
apex
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 30 November 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 November 2010
hopefield
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9,16,25
- Filed / designated
- 12 October 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 12 October 2010
INNER LIFE
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 3 July 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 3 July 2010
INNA LIFE
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 3 July 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 3 July 2010
ULTIMA
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 20 June 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 20 June 2017
warner.esp
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9,35,42
- Filed / designated
- 7 May 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 May 2006
T
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 8 August 1990
- Valid until / renewal due
- 8 August 2007
E ERATO
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 20 September 1986
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 March 2007
KOROVA
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 19 February 1980
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 February 2011
ERATO
Owner Warner Music UK Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 5 April 1965
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 April 2010
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
Warner Music International Services Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Company Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Register Of Companies For England And Wales
- Registration number
- 02258593
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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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.
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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.
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11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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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
Wholesale of audio tapes, records, CDs and video tapes and the equipment on which these are played
Sound recording and music 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.