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Company description
BRISTOL FRUIT SALES (MARKET) LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 30 June 1971; registered for 55 years; registered office reported in LIVERPOOL, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 46310 · Wholesale of fruit and vegetables.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 4 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
- BRISTOL FRUIT SALES (MARKET) LIMITED
- Company number
- 01016224
- 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
31 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
23 April 2026Next statement due
7 May 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 15.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 63.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 72.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 69.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 17.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 23.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 33.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 18.0%
Earlier reporting years (3)
- 250 to 499-2.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-11.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-1.0% 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
- 31 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
- 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
- £25,671,401
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £4,036,923
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £837,854
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £21,203,340
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 67.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 45 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
There are no general formal standard terms with suppliers. Terms are generally agreed with suppliers on a case by case basis informally.
- Dispute resolution process
If an invoice is in query this is raised with the supplier. The company and the suppliers are in regular communication which helps resolves any disputes arising on a timely basis. The query is generally resolved by discussion with either the P/L clerk or salesman.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 39.0 average days to pay52.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay60.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay61.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay66.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay70.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay44.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay53.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay50.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay60.0% outside terms
- 34.0 average days to pay59.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay56.0% 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
- BRISTOL FRUIT SALES (MARKET) LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- DOLE LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 16 June 2026
- Sectors
- Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing
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
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 23 June 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
Training described
Your front line staff Procurement staff Your suppliers
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Civil society organisations Professional auditors Workers within your organisation Workers within your supply chain Businesses in your industry or sector
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff Third party audit arranged by your supplier
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
Other monitoring
Shared intelligence & stakeholder engagement through the FNET (Food Network for Ethical Trade), Spanish Ethical Forum, Egyptian Ethical Forum, New Moroccan Ethical Forum, SWS Taskforce (UK).
Actions addressing ILO indicators
Other
Demonstrated progress
We have changed the format of our report to state the key activities and outcomes. This expands on our previous statements that generalised our activity. We have also included a section on examples of allegations and our investigation of these allegations as there were indicators of MS . We believe that by being more transparent this shows we have the mechanisms in place to be able to address and mitigate issues if a case of Modern Slavery were to be found in our organisation or supply chain.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Recruitment fees in terms of potential links with bonded labour and pushing workers wages below living wage
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 2 suppliers Tier 3 suppliers and below
- Group: Women Migrants Refugees Children
- Location: Egypt Spain United Kingdom Morocco
- Mitigation: We are sponsoring programs in the UK, Spain and Morocco which engages workers through an App that provides workers with information on their rights as well as allows us to engage with workers to ask questions but also for them to ask questions of their employer / recruiter We are engaged with the FNET Empowering Work group which focuses on capacity building within our supply chains. To promote worker voice through different channels and ensure that actions to mitigate risk are taken
- Risk: Ineffective or non-existant worker engagement to ensure that worker voice is heard.
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers Tier 2 suppliers Tier 3 suppliers and below
- Mitigation: Collaborative action through FNET (UK & World), Spanish Ethical Forum (Spain), SWS Taskforce (UK), Egyptian Ethical Forum (Egypt) and new stakeholder engagement in Morocco which is in it's very early stages. Ensuring that Tier 1 suppliers promote worker consultation either with Union or through worker committee
- Risk: Lack of inclusion and diversity preventing developmen and training of workers to be able to advance their roles.
- Mitigation: In our own business we have the Dole Women's Leaders Network to promote mentoring and career guidance for women. In our supply chain we are working collaboratively through our stakeholder engagement and sponsorship / membership with forums in North Africa in particular where there are significant cultural challenges encouraging the development of women workers. We recently engaged with growers in both Egypt (December 2025) and more recently in Morocco (April 2026) to champion this cause.
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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
GrowFair
Owner Bristol Fruit Sales (Market) Limited · classes 29,30,31,35
- Filed / designated
- 6 March 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 6 March 2017
Justgrow
Owner Bristol Fruit Sales (Market) Limited · classes 29,30,31,35
- Filed / designated
- 6 March 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 6 March 2017
CORNISH PRIDE
Owner Bristol Fruit Sales (Market) Limited · classes 31
- Filed / designated
- 8 November 1990
- Valid until / renewal due
- 8 November 2017
DIMARK
Owner Bristol Fruit Sales (Market) Limited · classes 31
- Filed / designated
- 7 June 1989
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 June 2016
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
Dole 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 Limited Company
- Place registered
- The Registrar Of Companies For England, Scotland And Wales
- Registration number
- 5953208
- 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.