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Company description
BERRY GARDENS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 3 May 1983; registered for 43 years; registered office reported in MAIDSTONE, KENT, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 46310 · Wholesale of fruit and vegetables.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records. 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
- BERRY GARDENS LIMITED
- Company number
- 01719714
- 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 2025Next accounts due
30 September 2027Last statement made up to
9 April 2026Next statement due
23 April 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 47.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 38.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 38.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 39.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 41.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 42.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 56.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 69.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 250 to 4996.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4998.1% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4995.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49913.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49913.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49912.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49913.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49916.9% 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
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 31 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- 30 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-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £114,870,638
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £20,363,935
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £532,207
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £13,397,069
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 44.0%
- 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
Standard payment terms are 30 days, but these can vary depending on the supplier and the nature of the contract
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms are 30 days, but these can vary depending on the supplier and the nature of the contract
- Other payment-term information
On occasions extended payment terms are agreed with some suppliers beyond 60 days. This is by exception and separately agreed.
- Dispute resolution process
In the event of a dispute on an invoice the accounts payable team will contact the supplier concerned as soon as possible for resolution
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 32.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay34.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay32.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay63.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay63.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay76.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay60.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay56.0% outside terms
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
- 42.0 average days to pay61.0% 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
BERRY GARDENS LIMITED
LEI 984500I11C0F4OAF8T51 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 3 May 1983
- Initial LEI registration
- 6 January 2022
- LEI last updated
- 24 February 2026
- Next renewal
- 24 February 2027
- Managing LOU
- 529900T8BM49AURSDO55
- Other legal names
- KG FRUITS LIMITED; KENTISH GARDEN MARKETING LIMITED; A.F.I. (KENTISH GARDEN) MARKETING LIMITED
- Legal address
- Unit 20 Wares Farm, Redwall Lane, Linton, Maidstone, GB-KEN, ME17 4BA, GB
- Headquarters address
- Unit 20 Wares Farm, Redwall Lane, Linton, Maidstone, GB-KEN, ME17 4BA, 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.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- BERRY GARDENS LIMITED
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 31 May 2026
- Sectors
- Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing
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
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 3 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 Other
Training described
Your whole organisation
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Trade unions or worker representative groups Professional auditors Workers within your organisation Workers within your supply chain Law enforcement, such as police, GLAA and other local labour market inspectorates Businesses in your industry or sector
Social audits
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
Other monitoring
Worker voice/engagement surveys, townhalls with Q&A sessions
Demonstrated progress
KPI Monitoring
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Migrants from Eastern Europe and Nepal predominantly packing fruit in our UK packing facility
- Area: Within your own operations
- Group: Migrants
- Mitigation: Due diligence, audits, raising awareness
- Risk: Migrants performing agricultural work at any of our grower's sites in the UK and other growing regions such as Morocco and Portugal
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers
- Mitigation: Due Diligence, audits, raising awareness
- Risk: Migrant workers supplied by labour provider packing fruit in our UK packing facility.
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
Berry Gardens Limited
Registration Z9750788
- Registered from
- 26 January 2007
- Current end date
- 25 January 2027
- Trading names
- Driscoll’s
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
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 31 October 2022
Berry Gardens Growers Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- Uk
- Legal authority
- Communities And Benefits Societies Act
- Legal form
- Industrial And Provident Society
- Place registered
- Financial Conduct Authority
- Registration number
- Ip20399r
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 31 October 2022
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09 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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10 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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11 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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12 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.
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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
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
- Company name
Previous name: KG FRUITS LIMITED
- 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.