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Company description
GENUS BREEDING LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 29 November 1974; registered for 51 years; registered office reported in BASINGSTOKE, HAMPSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 71200 · Technical testing and analysis.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 1 procurement record. 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
- GENUS BREEDING LIMITED
- Company number
- 01192037
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- AUDIT EXEMPTION SUBSIDIARY
- 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
30 June 2025Next accounts due
31 March 2027Last statement made up to
10 November 2025Next statement due
24 November 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 9.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 35.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 72.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 79.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 29.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 31.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 37.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 48.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 99913.9% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99913.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99916.4% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99918.4% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99923.4% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99915.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99912.9% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99912.2% 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
- 28 July 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 July 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £10,474,396
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £6,822,352
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £569,152
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £5,229,565
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 43.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 2.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
N/A
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Payment terms are agreed with suppliers as part of negotiations. The most common payment terms of invoices in the period are Net 30 days
- Other payment-term information
N/A
- Dispute resolution process
Disputes are resolved through a process involving the relevant parties and accounts payable. Disputes should be resolved to adhere to payment terms
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 28.0 average days to pay56.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay56.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay44.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay54.0% outside terms
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
- 26.0 average days to pay34.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay25.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay31.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay18.0% 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
- GENUS BREEDING LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- GENUS PLC
- Statement period
- 1 July 2024 – 30 June 2025
- Approved
- 18 November 2025
- 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
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 19 November 2025
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
Genus Breeding Limited
Registration Z8672388
- Registered from
- 8 July 2004
- Current end date
- 7 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.
07 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
ITT FOR PROJECTS 10082164 10085980 10085509
UK RESEARCH & INNOVATION · ocds-b5fd17-a7a171e3-6ab4-4526-af8d-e6b73b126c3c
- Supplier named in award
- GENUS BREEDING LIMITED
- Award value
- £37,650
- Contract period
- 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2028
- Published
- 17 October 2023
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 79421100
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-a7a171e3-6ab4-4526-af8d-e6b73b126c3c-2023-10-17T09:43:10+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.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Genus Investments 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
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 02028517
- Notified
- 29 June 2023
Genus Plc
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England & Wales
- Legal authority
- Uk Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Public Limited Company
- Place registered
- England & Wales
- Registration number
- 02972325
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 29 June 2023
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.
09 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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10 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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11 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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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.
13 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.
14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
15 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.
16 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
17 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.
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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