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Company description
OPTICHROME LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 29 January 1963; registered for 63 years; registered office reported in SURREY. Its primary declared activity is 18129 · Printing n.e.c..
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 30 April 2025, it reported net assets £1,791,189, average employees 42. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 6 procurement 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
- OPTICHROME LIMITED
- Company number
- 00748294
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- TOTAL EXEMPTION FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 3 total · 0 outstanding · 3 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 January 2027Last statement made up to
30 November 2025Next statement due
14 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Fixed assets
- £847,925
- Net assets
- £1,791,189
- Current assets
- £2,443,981
- Current liabilities
- £1,307,603
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £1,984,303
- Cash at bank
- £129,660
- Equity
- £1,791,189
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 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Optichrome Limited
Registration Z5911501
- Registered from
- 22 October 2001
- Current end date
- 21 October 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.
05 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
4403.PS.LWM.24 Print Services Framework Agreement for High Quality Litho Sheet Fed & Digital Printing (non Wide Format)
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · ocds-b5fd17-9e363f06-f9c3-401d-b38c-2da263e658a4
- Supplier named in award
- Optichrome Ltd
- Award value
- £800,000
- Contract period
- 1 November 2025 – 31 October 2027
- Published
- 21 July 2025
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 22100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-9e363f06-f9c3-401d-b38c-2da263e658a4-2025-07-21T12:14:50+01:00
DPS for Design, Print and Related Services
Southampton City Council · ocds-b5fd17-4b84b1f9-4f7e-4bb5-872d-f91ac1116d93
- Supplier named in award
- Optichrome Ltd
- Award value
- £139,991.83
- Contract period
- 17 December 2022 – 16 November 2026
- Published
- 23 December 2025
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 79800000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-4b84b1f9-4f7e-4bb5-872d-f91ac1116d93-2025-12-23T09:23:27Z
2858/LM - Print services University of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam University - Framework Agreement
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · ocds-b5fd17-813d04c2-f823-43fb-971d-9fd2aba5afcd
- Supplier named in award
- Optichrome Ltd
- Award value
- £3,500,000
- Contract period
- 1 November 2021 – 31 October 2023
- Published
- 23 November 2021
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 79800000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-813d04c2-f823-43fb-971d-9fd2aba5afcd-2021-11-23T16:22:59Z
1890/LM - Print Services Framework Agreement - High Quality Litho Sheet Fed, Digital Print & Wide Format Print
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD · ocds-b5fd17-9cd6f36b-6718-48f7-aa28-17fac1eda927
- Supplier named in award
- OPTICHROME LIMITED
- Award value
- £1,150,000
- Contract period
- 1 September 2018 – 31 August 2020
- Published
- 3 September 2018
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 22000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-9cd6f36b-6718-48f7-aa28-17fac1eda927-2018-09-03T09:53:07+01:00
Print Services Framework
UNIVERSITY OF DERBY · ocds-b5fd17-eab8ff04-7c9e-4e98-917b-b527809739dc
- Supplier named in award
- OPTICHROME LIMITED
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 20 August 2018 – 19 August 2021
- Published
- 19 October 2018
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 22000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-eab8ff04-7c9e-4e98-917b-b527809739dc-2018-10-19T15:32:17+01:00
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Optichrome Group Ltd
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Uk
- Legal form
- Ltd Company
- Place registered
- England
- Registration number
- 03170078
- Notified
- 1 November 2024
Miss Natalie StephensSee 7 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Has significant influence or control (as a firm)
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2025-12-03T00:00:00Z
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.
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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.
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09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
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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
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.
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.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
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.
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