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Company description
KINGFISHER PLC is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Public Limited Company”. Incorporated on 16 September 1982; registered for 43 years; registered office reported in LONDON, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 70100 · Activities of head offices. In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 January 2026, it reported turnover £12,945,000,000, profit after tax £245,000,000, net assets £6,158,000,000, average employees 71. Compared with the previous available reporting period, turnover increased by 1.3%.
Among active companies with electronic accounts available to BritDB, it ranks 2 by latest disclosed GBP turnover; this is a dataset comparison, not a credit rating. Additional structured Wikidata facts list industries: retail; headquarters: London; stock exchanges: OTC Markets Group, London Stock Exchange. External links found through that exact match are isolated on the dedicated source page. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 7 trade marks. 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
- KINGFISHER PLC
- Company number
- 01664812
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- 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
31 January 2026Next accounts due
31 July 2027Last statement made up to
12 December 2025Next statement due
26 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Turnover
- £12,945,000,000
- Profit before tax
- £378,000,000
- Profit after tax
- £245,000,000
- Net assets
- £6,158,000,000
- Current assets
- £3,574,000,000
- Equity
- £6,158,000,000
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.
Earlier imported periods (1)
- Accounts£6,344,000,000 net assets
04 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 21.2%
- Mean bonus gap
- 77.4%
- Women receiving bonus
- 68.5%
- Men receiving bonus
- 69.7%
- Women in top quartile
- 40.6%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 39.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 45.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 62.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 250 to 49912.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49915.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49918.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49934.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49942.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49929.3% median hourly gap
- Less than 25036.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99931.1% 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 February 2026 – 31 July 2026
- Filed
- 26 August 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 21 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 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-3
- Financial period started
- 1 February 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £26,414,737
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £9,571,508
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £1,953,857
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £5,062,508
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 35.0%
- 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
Goods not for Resale (GNFR) contracts = 60 Days
Small Businesses = 30 Days
Intercompany Payments = 21 Days after the period end - Dispute resolution process
The first point of contact should be with the Accounts Payable Team.
Email: AccountsPayableHelpdesk@kingfisher.com
Tel: 0330 678 0876
The Accounts Payable team will escalate to the Finance Team if there are any disputes they are unable to resolve.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 30.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay36.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay37.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay33.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay32.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay34.0% 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 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
KINGFISHER PLC
LEI 213800KBMEV7I92FY281 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- B6ES
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 16 September 1982
- Initial LEI registration
- 31 January 2014
- LEI last updated
- 26 January 2026
- Next renewal
- 31 January 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- 1 PADDINGTON SQUARE, LONDON, GB-LND, W2 1GG, GB
- Headquarters address
- 1 PADDINGTON SQUARE, LONDON, GB-LND, W2 1GG, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
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.
07 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- KINGFISHER PLC
- Group submission
- Yes
- Statement period
- 1 February 2025 – 31 January 2026
- Approved
- 25 June 2026
- Sectors
- Other
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
- 1 July 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 Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery Other
Training described
Your whole organisation Your front line staff Procurement staff Your suppliers Other
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Workers within your organisation Workers within your supply chain
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff Third party audit arranged by your organisation Announced audit
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
Other monitoring
Roll out of app enabling colleagues to upload photos and feedback from factory visits. Enabling insight into conditions and potential issues outside of the audit process.
Actions addressing ILO indicators
Financial remediation, including repayment of recruitment fees Other
Demonstrated progress
All goods for resale production sites supplying us with finished goods are required to hold an active membership with one of our nominated ethical audit platforms such as Sedex and amfori BSCI. — 84% of suppliers complied (2024: 82%). — For OEB suppliers, the figure was 95% (2024: 95%) and 82% for non OEB (2024: 79%). Goods not for resale suppliers accounting for 76% of in-scope spend had been EcoVadis assessed in 2025. 82% of those who re-assessed either improved or maintained their score.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: An audit in India found overcrowded, unsuitable worker housing and inconsistent attendance records, preventing verification of working hours, overtime, and wage payments.
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers Tier 2 suppliers
- Group: Other vulnerable groups
- Location: India
- Mitigation: The factory demolished the existing accommodation and allocated new accommodation for their workforce. Their computerised system for recording attendance, overtime and wages, which had been temporarily disconnected, was reinstated and evidence of record-keeping was shared with us ahead of the follow-up audit. The Ethical Compliance Team held monthly meetings with the factory to review the corrective action plan and monitor improvements and upgrades. All non-compliances closed.
- Risk: A third-party audit and worker interviews identified that one supervisor at a site in Malaysia required workers to fill in a logbook whenever they wished to use the toilet.
- Location: Malaysia
- Mitigation: The supervisor was instructed to discontinue use of the logbook. Workers were informed that use of the logbook had been discontinued. The factory has confirmed that this practice has been discontinued. A follow-up audit will be conducted in 2026 to confirm implementation of the corrective action, including worker interviews
- Risk: An audit in China found excessive working hours and delayed overtime payments due to a non-compliant banking hours system, causing workers to wait extended periods for overtime pay.
- Location: China
- Mitigation: Overtime wages are now paid at the end of each month, in compliance with the law. The factory implemented additional controls to monitor working hours and prevent excessive overtime. The supplier has made changes to its ethical sourcing practices to better align with the Kingfisher Human Rights Policy. A third-party follow-up audit verified that the corrective actions had been implemented. Worker interviews confirmed that overtime wages are now paid in line with local law.
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.
08 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Kingfisher PLC
Registration Z2652705
- Registered from
- 9 May 2011
- Current end date
- 8 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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
iQE
Owner Kingfisher plc · classes 9,11,17,19,35,36,37,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 11 May 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 May 2022
iQE CLEVER ENERGY
Owner Kingfisher plc · classes 9,11,17,19,35,36,37,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 11 May 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 May 2022
COOKE & LEWIS
Owner Kingfisher plc · classes 7,11,20,21
- Filed / designated
- 27 October 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 October 2020
home ECO
Owner Kingfisher plc · classes 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,11,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,24,25,27,28,31,37,40,44
- Filed / designated
- 29 September 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 29 September 2020
QWAL
Owner Kingfisher plc · classes 6,8,9,11,16,17,19,21,22
- Filed / designated
- 30 December 2009
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 December 2019
KINGfiSHER
Owner Kingfisher plc · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 16 February 2001
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 February 2021
KINGFISHER
Owner Kingfisher plc · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 16 February 2001
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 February 2021
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
09 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No PSC entry for this company was present in the imported snapshot.
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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
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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
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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
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
18 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.
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.
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