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Company description
HOPWELLS LTD is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 8 December 1978; registered for 47 years; registered office reported in ILKESTON, DERBYSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 56290 · Other food services. In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 27 December 2024, it reported turnover £77,651,356, profit after tax −£7,028,368, net assets £6,229,207, average employees 320.
Among active companies with electronic accounts available to BritDB, it ranks 589 by latest disclosed GBP turnover; this is a dataset comparison, not a credit rating. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 8 procurement 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
- HOPWELLS LTD
- Company number
- 01404481
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 3 total · 1 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
27 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
12 May 2026Next statement due
26 May 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Turnover
- £77,651,356
- Gross profit
- £18,040,358
- Operating profit
- −£7,193,861
- Profit before tax
- −£7,161,047
- Profit after tax
- −£7,028,368
- Fixed assets
- £4,049,703
- Net assets
- £6,229,207
- Current assets
- £14,492,125
- Current liabilities
- £12,312,621
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £6,229,207
- Cash at bank
- £2,598,908
- Equity
- £6,229,207
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 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 20.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 48.9%
- Women receiving bonus
- 8.5%
- Men receiving bonus
- 79.6%
- Women in top quartile
- 9.2%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 24.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 40.8%
- Women in lower quartile
- 16.0%
Earlier reporting years (5)
- 250 to 4992.7% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-6.1% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4999.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4999.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4995.5% 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.
05 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 July 2024 – 31 December 2024
- Filed
- 17 January 2025
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- 76 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-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 30.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 76 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Payment terms are agreed individually with suppliers. The most common payments terms are 14 days, 30 days, 45 days and 60 days
- Dispute resolution process
Any dispute arising is initially negotiated between our purchase ledger team and the suppliers credit control team. If necessary this will be escalated to director level.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 33.0 average days to pay16.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 34.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 32.0 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
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.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- HOPWELLS LTD
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- T.P. HOPWELL (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
- Statement period
- 31 December 2022 – 29 December 2023
- Approved
- 6 September 2024
- Sectors
- Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing Transportation, logistics, and storage
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
- £60 million to £100 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 4 August 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.
07 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Supply & Distribution of Ambient, Chilled and Frozen products to Finham Park Multi Academy Trust
Finham Park Multi Academy Trust C/O Pelican Procurement Services · ocds-b5fd17-a349f07d-bd9b-4460-b03e-64fad609d7c3
- Supplier named in award
- Hopwells Limited
- Award value
- £214,253
- Contract period
- 31 August 2024 – 30 August 2026
- Published
- 23 October 2024
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Main CPV
- 15000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-a349f07d-bd9b-4460-b03e-64fad609d7c3-2024-10-23T17:45:15+01:00
Frozen Food Contract
Bedford Borough Council · ocds-b5fd17-9f5ef6be-70e6-4a2f-af85-4699f67d9e25
- Supplier named in award
- HOPWELLS LTD
- Award value
- £120,000
- Contract period
- 25 April 2022 – 24 April 2024
- Published
- 25 April 2022
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 15000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-9f5ef6be-70e6-4a2f-af85-4699f67d9e25-2022-04-25T16:55:46+01:00
Tender for the supply and distribution of food and Beverages to Leicestershire County Care
Leicestershire County Care C/O Pelican Procurement Services · ocds-b5fd17-3020d683-f32d-416f-92db-3f3bc8e766fc
- Supplier named in award
- Hopwells Limited
- Award value
- £144,269
- Contract period
- 1 October 2021 – 29 September 2023
- Published
- 17 October 2024
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Main CPV
- 15000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-3020d683-f32d-416f-92db-3f3bc8e766fc-2024-10-17T17:45:15+01:00
Multi Temperature Food Solutions
FOODBUY EUROPE LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-43db703d-55c7-43ce-8eee-941d6cf6e30f
- Supplier named in award
- Hopwells Ltd
- Award value
- £240,000,000
- Contract period
- 9 August 2021 – 8 August 2025
- Published
- 6 July 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 15000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-43db703d-55c7-43ce-8eee-941d6cf6e30f-2021-07-06T11:30:22+01:00
catering food & Beverages
West Northamptonshire Council · ocds-b5fd17-fd7011e8-a3bc-4e52-b754-88c7201b5933
- Supplier named in award
- Hopwells Ltd
- Award value
- £150,000
- Contract period
- 2 April 2021 – 31 March 2027
- Published
- 24 April 2025
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 15800000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-fd7011e8-a3bc-4e52-b754-88c7201b5933-2025-04-24T15:47:41+01:00
NEPO407 Food & General Provisions
Association Of North East Councils · ocds-b5fd17-e9636d98-c12b-4ca1-a7f9-be4c6594c275
- Supplier named in award
- Hopwells Limited
- Award value
- £48,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 January 2020 – 31 December 2023
- Published
- 23 May 2023
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 15000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-e9636d98-c12b-4ca1-a7f9-be4c6594c275-2023-05-23T15:27:50+01:00
NEPO407 Food & General Provisions
Association Of North East Councils · ocds-b5fd17-e9636d98-c12b-4ca1-a7f9-be4c6594c275
- Supplier named in award
- Hopwells Limited
- Award value
- £480,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 January 2020 – 30 June 2026
- Published
- 23 May 2023
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 15000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-e9636d98-c12b-4ca1-a7f9-be4c6594c275-2023-05-23T15:27:50+01:00
NEPO407 Food & General Provisions
South Tyneside Council · ocds-b5fd17-394d56c1-c83d-4864-a4cf-087c49b32052
- Supplier named in award
- Hopwells Ltd
- Award value
- £6,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 January 2020 – 31 December 2023
- Published
- 20 August 2020
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 15000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-394d56c1-c83d-4864-a4cf-087c49b32052-2020-08-20T15:20:02+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
T. P. Hopwell (Holdings) Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- English Law
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 1285847
- Notified
- 27 December 2023
Mrs Lilian HopwellSee 6 companies with this PSC name →
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 27 December 2023
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09 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
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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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13 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
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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
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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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.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
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.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
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Financial regulation and licences.
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