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Company description
APPLE (UK) LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 14 October 1981; registered for 44 years; registered office reported in LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 62090 · Other information technology service activities.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 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
- APPLE (UK) LIMITED
- Company number
- 01591116
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 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 September 2025Next accounts due
30 June 2027Last statement made up to
26 August 2025Next statement due
9 September 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 41.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 35.2%
- Women receiving bonus
- 93.6%
- Men receiving bonus
- 97.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 15.3%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 13.9%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 27.2%
- Women in lower quartile
- 40.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 499917.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499918.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499920.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499919.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499922.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99921.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49915.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49924.0% 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
- 28 September 2025 – 28 March 2026
- Filed
- 23 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 1 days
- Longest standard term
- 45 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 28 September 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £10,559,460
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £50,899,656
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £2,035,225
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £9,136,925
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 51.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 45 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
No
Retention circumstances
Retention clauses are included in construction contracts for more complex construction works, which will take significant time to execute and which are higher value (retentions are automatically included in contracts of a value of £150,000 or over, but are also included in lower value contracts which are for complicated works and/or for works which will take significant time to execute)
Retention release
Half on completion of snags, half on completion of warranty period with no outstanding items, typically 1 year
Retention release stages
Half on completion of snags, half on completion of warranty period with no outstanding items, typically 1 year
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- 0.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 4.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms are 45 days (either from the invoice date or the day we receive the invoice, depending on the contract or Purchase Order T&Cs), however specific terms are negotiated depending on the commercial situation.
- Other payment-term information
No
- Dispute resolution process
Reasons for not being able to pay based on usual payment terms include receiving late or non-compliant invoices or invoices that are in dispute. We have a dedicated Finance Support Helpdesk which is reachable by email. Vendors with invoice queries can contact this team and if the helpdesk is not able to resolve they will escalate the issue to the accounts payable team. The accounts payable team will reach out to the internal business contacts to investigate why the invoice has not been approved for payment.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 36.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay16.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay16.0% 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 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
APPLE (UK) LIMITED
LEI 549300QKDHYRRQH2MB86 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 14 October 1981
- Initial LEI registration
- 23 January 2014
- LEI last updated
- 3 March 2026
- Next renewal
- 8 March 2027
- Managing LOU
- 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12
- Other legal names
- APPLE COMPUTER (UK) LIMITED
- Legal address
- 280 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4AG, GB
- Headquarters address
- 280 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4AG, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 549300QKDHYRRQH2MB86 to LEI 549300G81RQKP7XW2N18
- Initial registration
- 31 August 2023
- Last updated
- 4 March 2025
- Next renewal
- 8 March 2027
- Validation sources
- ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY
- Validation documents
- OTHER_OFFICIAL_DOCUMENTS
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2021-01-01T00:00:00.000Z; End: 2021-12-31T00:00:00.000Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2022-06-09T00:00:00.000Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD; Start: 2020-09-27T00:00:00.000Z; End: 2021-09-25T00:00:00.000Z; Type: DOCUMENT_FILING_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 549300QKDHYRRQH2MB86 to LEI HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394
- Initial registration
- 31 August 2023
- Last updated
- 4 March 2025
- Next renewal
- 8 March 2027
- Validation sources
- ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY
- Validation documents
- OTHER_OFFICIAL_DOCUMENTS
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2021-01-01T00:00:00.000Z; End: 2021-12-31T00:00:00.000Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2017-11-15T00:00:00.000Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD; Start: 2020-09-27T00:00:00.000Z; End: 2021-09-25T00:00:00.000Z; Type: DOCUMENT_FILING_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- APPLE (UK) LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Statement period
- 29 September 2023 – 28 September 2024
- Approved
- 28 May 2025
- Sectors
- Durable consumer goods, including electronics and appliances, home furnishings and other accessories Information technology and telecommunication Professional and administrative services and supplies, including legal, consulting and accounting services
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
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 30 June 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 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Apple (UK) Limited
Registration ZA054298
- Registered from
- 6 May 2014
- Current end date
- 5 May 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.
08 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Procurement of Apple Devices
MAGENTA LIVING · ocds-b5fd17-d5e51834-915c-4a8c-b251-93c1ea3841ce
- Supplier named in award
- APPLE (UK) LIMITED
- Award value
- £30,000
- Contract period
- 15 February 2022 – 14 February 2023
- Published
- 11 March 2022
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 72222300
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-d5e51834-915c-4a8c-b251-93c1ea3841ce-2022-03-11T12:08:20Z
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.
09 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Apple Inc.
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- Usa
- Legal authority
- California
- Legal form
- Public Corporation
- Place registered
- California
- Registration number
- C0806592
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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.
10 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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11 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.
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12 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.
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13 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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14 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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15 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
16 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.
17 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: APPLE COMPUTER (UK) LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
18 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.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
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.
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.