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Company description
RICHER SOUNDS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 29 November 1978; registered for 47 years; registered office reported in LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 47430 · Retail sale of audio and video equipment in specialised stores.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 1 waste registration. 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
- RICHER SOUNDS LIMITED
- Company number
- 01402643
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 38 total · 2 outstanding · 36 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
3 May 2025Next accounts due
31 January 2027Last statement made up to
13 August 2026Next statement due
27 August 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 72.9%
- Mean bonus gap
- 0.5%
- Women receiving bonus
- 86.9%
- Men receiving bonus
- 96.7%
- Women in top quartile
- 14.7%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 11.9%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 7.3%
- Women in lower quartile
- 12.7%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 250 to 499-2.7% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-12.9% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-5.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-3.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-4.8% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-2.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-5.8% 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
- 2 November 2025 – 2 May 2026
- Filed
- 16 September 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 4 May 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £44,851,274
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £41,174,546
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £0
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £860,258
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 28.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The Company's policy is to agree appropriate terms of payment individually with suppliers and to abide by those terms based on the timely submission of satisfactory invoices. Where no specific agreement exists the company will make payment on 30 day terms.
- Dispute resolution process
The Company is committed to dealing with its suppliers in a fair, honest and professional manner. Disputes are directed in the first instance to our Accounts Payable team. Escalation of the dispute would be directed to the head of department that made the order or to the Finance Director or Financial Controller.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 30.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay1.0% 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 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Richer Sounds Trustee Limited
- Owns 50% to 75% of shares
- Controls 50% to 75% of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Company Limited By Guarantee Without Share Capital
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 11956949
- Notified
- 25 July 2019
Mr Julian RicherSee 37 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 13 August 2016
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-03-04T00:00:00Z
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06 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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07 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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08 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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10 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
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11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
12 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
1 exact company-number registration.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
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13 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Detected change
Confirmation statement due date: 2026-08-27 → 2027-08-27
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 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.
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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