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Company description
NEW LOOK RETAILERS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 1 March 1982; registered for 44 years; registered office reported in WEYMOUTH, DORSET. Its primary declared activity is 47710 · Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores, with 3 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC 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
- NEW LOOK RETAILERS LIMITED
- Company number
- 01618428
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 22 total · 6 outstanding · 16 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
29 March 2025Next accounts due
27 December 2026Last statement made up to
10 August 2025Next statement due
24 August 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 52.9%
- Mean bonus gap
- 69.6%
- Women receiving bonus
- 1.5%
- Men receiving bonus
- 1.4%
- Women in top quartile
- 71.6%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 78.9%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 94.1%
- Women in lower quartile
- 94.9%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 5000 to 19,9994.7% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,9995.2% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,9998.0% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,9990.0% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,9992.8% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,99913.5% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,99920.9% 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
- 30 September 2025 – 28 March 2026
- Filed
- 21 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 60 days
- Longest standard term
- 75 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-2
- Financial period started
- 30 March 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £68,356,107
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £80,485,512
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £75,555,569
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £60,406,457
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 33.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 75 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms for Goods for Resale contracts;
75 days from invoice date
Standard payment terms for Goods Not for Resale contracts;
Standard payment terms are 60 days following the end of the month of the invoice date. - Dispute resolution process
New Look has a dedicated accounts payable helpdesk that offers suppliers support through to query resolution. The team can be contacted by email Monday to Friday (9am – 5pm). Contact by e-mail is usually acknowledged or dealt with within a maximum of 3 working days.
Suppliers have the option to directly submit invoices to our E-Invoicing and document management partner which also provides real time data that includes invoice approval and invoice payment status.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 69.0 average days to pay41.0% outside terms
- 66.0 average days to pay42.0% outside terms
- 53.0 average days to pay38.0% outside terms
- 54.0 average days to pay25.0% outside terms
- 50.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 57.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 54.0 average days to pay25.0% outside terms
- 51.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 63.0 average days to pay33.0% 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
NEW LOOK RETAILERS LIMITED
LEI 213800UGAULQ1FVD4B35 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 1 March 1982
- Initial LEI registration
- 3 January 2014
- LEI last updated
- 8 December 2025
- Next renewal
- 11 January 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- NEW LOOK HOUSE, MERCERY ROAD, WEYMOUTH, GB-DOR, DT3 5HJ, GB
- Headquarters address
- NEW LOOK HOUSE, MERCERY ROAD, WEYMOUTH, GB-DOR, DT3 5HJ, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
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
- NEW LOOK RETAILERS LIMITED
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025
- Approved
- 30 September 2025
- Sectors
- Fashion, textiles, apparel and luxury goods
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
- 28 January 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 whole organisation Human resources Procurement staff
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Trade unions or worker representative groups Civil society organisations Professional auditors Workers within your organisation Workers within your supply chain Businesses in your industry or sector
Social audits
Third party audit arranged by your organisation Audit conducted by your supplier’s staff Third party audit arranged by your supplier Announced audit Unannounced audit
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
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
New Look Retailers Limited
Registration Z5298484
- Registered from
- 26 February 2001
- Current end date
- 25 February 2027
- Trading names
- NEW LOOK
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 Ownership and control
People with significant control
New Look Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 01996366
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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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
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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14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Retail sale of footwear in specialised stores
Retail sale of leather goods in specialised stores
Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
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.
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.
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.