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Company description
UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 18 March 1969; registered for 57 years; registered office reported in LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 96090 · Other service activities n.e.c..
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 14 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
- UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS LIMITED
- Company number
- 00950138
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 2 total · 0 outstanding · 2 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 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
21 December 2025Next statement due
4 January 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 24 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 1 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
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
- £79,046,601
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £56,940,327
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £19,940,125
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £76,880,452
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 28.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 10.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Retention release
The money is released in stages
Retention release stages
50% on practical completion, 50% on rectification of defects/ end of defects liability period.
- Retention in all contracts
- Yes
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- 0.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 0.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms is 30 days
- Dispute resolution process
We use a designated accounts payable helpdesk to assist and support all our suppliers . They handle and direct queries or dispute arising to the relevant business user/unit for escalation and resolution.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 39.0 average days to pay38.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay42.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay45.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay40.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay49.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay43.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay41.0% 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.
04 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- UNIVERSAL MUSIC HOLDINGS LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 2 July 2026
- Sectors
- 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
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 3 July 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 compulsory overtime 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 whole organisation
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Workers within your organisation
Social audits
Third party audit arranged by your supplier
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
Demonstrated progress
THROUGH OUR MERCHANDISE BUSINESS , WE ARE COGNISANT THAT HERE THERE IS A GREATER RISK OF MODERN SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN OUR SUPPLY CHAIN. WE MINIMISE SUCH RISKS BY SELECTING SUPPLIERS WHO SHARE OUR COMMITMENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND INCORPORATING OUR SUPPLIER SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY POLICY INOT OUR MANUFACTURING AGREEMENTS
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: MERCHANDISE BUSINESS SALE AND MANUFACTURE OF APPAREL AND OTHER GOODS HIGH RISK AS TEXTILES IS GLOBALLY RECOGNISED AS A HIGH RISK INDUSTRY
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers
- Group: Children
- Location: India
- Mitigation: OUR PROCUREMENT PROCESS INVOLVES INITIATIVES TO IDENTIFY AND MITIGAGE RISK. LARGER RETAIL PARTNERS ARE AUDITED, WE USE SEDEX REGISTERED SUPPLIERS TOPROTECT WORKERS FROM UNSAFE CONDITIONS, FORCED LABOURETC
- Risk: AS ABOVE
- Location: China
- Mitigation: OUR PROCUREMENT PROCESS INVOLVES INITIATIVES TO IDENTIFY AND MITIGAGE RISK. LARGER RETAIL PARTNERS ARE AUDITED, WE USE SEDEX REGISTERED SUPPLIERS TO PROTECT WORKERS FROM UNSAFE CONDITIONS, FORCED LABOUR ETC.SUPPLIERS FOR OUR MERCHANDISE SIGN AGREEMENTS WHICH REQUIRES THEM TO COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE LABOUR LAWS FOR MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS .
- Location: Turkey
- Mitigation: OUR PROCUREMENT PROCESS INVOLVES INITIATIVES TO IDENTIFY AND MITIGAGE RISK. LARGER RETAIL PARTNERS ARE AUDITED, WE USE SEDEX REGISTERED SUPPLIERS TO PROTECT WORKERS FROM UNSAFE CONDITIONS, FORCED LABOUR ETC.SUPPLIERS FOR OUR MERCHANDISE SIGN AGREEMENTS WHICH REQUIRES THEM TO COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE LABOUR LAWS FOR MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS.
Earlier linked statements (1)
- UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS LIMITED31 December 2022
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.
05 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS LIMITED
Registration Z5512937
- Registered from
- 20 July 2001
- Current end date
- 19 July 2027
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
POP PARTY
Owner Universal Music Operations Limited · classes 9,38,41
- Filed / designated
- 16 February 2005
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 February 2025
POP PARTY
Owner Universal Music Operations Limited · classes 9,38,41
- Filed / designated
- 16 February 2005
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 February 2025
ucj
Owner Universal Music Operations Limited · classes 9,41
- Filed / designated
- 17 October 2003
- Valid until / renewal due
- 17 October 2013
RELOADED
Owner Universal Music Operations Limited · classes 9,41
- Filed / designated
- 4 July 2001
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 July 2011
WONDERBOY
Owner Universal Music Operations Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 16 February 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 February 2010
*WB
Owner Universal Music Operations Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 16 February 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 February 2010
REDIAL
Owner Universal Music Operations Limited · classes 9,16,25,41
- Filed / designated
- 25 February 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 February 2008
REDiAL
Owner Universal Music Operations Limited · classes 9,16,25,41
- Filed / designated
- 25 February 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 February 2008
DANCE zone
Owner Universal Music Operations Limited · classes 3,9,14,16,18,21,24,25,28,30,32
- Filed / designated
- 1 February 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 February 2006
SPEAKING VOLUMES
Owner Universal Music Operations Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 20 September 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 20 September 2005
funny business
Owner Universal Music Operations Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 20 September 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 20 September 2005
POLYTEL
Owner Universal Music Operations Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 6 February 1992
- Valid until / renewal due
- 6 February 2009
DEBUTANTE
Owner Universal Music Operations Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 16 August 1960
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 August 2015
Qualiton
Owner Universal Music Operations Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 17 February 1960
- Valid until / renewal due
- 17 February 2005
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
Universal Music Leisure 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
- 3384487
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.