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Company description
VML(UK) LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 27 August 1982; registered for 44 years; registered office reported in LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 73110 · Advertising agencies.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 6 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
- VML(UK) LIMITED
- Company number
- 01660783
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- 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
31 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
12 January 2026Next statement due
26 January 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 69.4%
- Mean bonus gap
- 24.3%
- Women receiving bonus
- 16.9%
- Men receiving bonus
- 22.7%
- Women in top quartile
- 40.4%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 52.5%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 66.5%
- Women in lower quartile
- 66.5%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 99923.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49919.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49923.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49913.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49921.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49938.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49938.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49944.7% 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 2019 – 30 June 2019
- Filed
- 25 September 2019
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 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
- 70.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
Unless otherwise stated in the purchase order, J. Walter Thompson Group Limited operate within the standard payment terms as above.
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
End of following month from date of invoice.
- Dispute resolution process
J. Walter Thomson Group Limited have a defined dispute resolution process to ensure that all supplier invoices are processed as efficiently as possible.
Suppliers are provided with details of the issues that may affect the processing of their invoices and assistance by providing guidance on what is to be provided on their invoices to ensure payment can be made in a timely manner.
The AP helpdesk offers suppliers support through to query resolution and can be contacted via a dedicated e-mail address or phone number. All invoices that are in query are logged and if unresolved at the time of supplier payment, details of the reasons for payment delay are communicated to the relevant suppliers
Earlier payment reports (3 shown)
- 27.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay39.0% outside terms
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
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
- WUNDERMAN THOMPSON UK LTD
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- WPP 2005 LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 8 May 2026
- Sectors
- Media, publishing, arts and entertainment
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
- 22 June 2026
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 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
C0235 - UKIB Website & Associated Services
NATIONAL WEALTH FUND LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-fac072e7-b954-4ca7-840f-ee2464842b76
- Supplier named in award
- VML (UK) Limited
- Award value
- £178,000
- Contract period
- 3 August 2023 – 2 March 2026
- Published
- 25 March 2026
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 72413000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-fac072e7-b954-4ca7-840f-ee2464842b76-2026-03-25T16:10:38Z
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.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Wpp Brands (Uk) Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- England And Wales
- Registration number
- 00280055
- Notified
- 17 April 2020
Mr Julian GautierSee 8 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 26 November 2019
- Ceased
- 17 April 2020
Mr Christopher Henry St John Hoare
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 26 November 2019
Mr Keith Kelley WilkinsSee 2 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 16 July 2019
Mr Ngen Siak YapSee 14 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Has significant influence or control (as a firm)
- Nationality
- Malaysian
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 26 November 2019
Ms Sally Sharon Bird Spensley
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 16 July 2019
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.
08 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.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
09 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.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
10 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.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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.
12 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.
13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 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.
15 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
- Company name
Previous name: WUNDERMAN THOMPSON (UK) LIMITED
- Company name
Previous name: J. WALTER THOMPSON GROUP LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 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.
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.