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Company description
UNISERVE LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 21 June 1984; registered for 42 years; registered office reported in UPMINSTER, ESSEX. Its primary declared activity is 50200 · Sea and coastal freight water transport. In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 December 2024, it reported turnover £243,858,000, profit after tax £22,782,000, average employees 635.
Among active companies with electronic accounts available to BritDB, it ranks 108 by latest disclosed GBP turnover; this is a dataset comparison, not a credit rating. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 3 procurement records, 1 waste registration. 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
- UNISERVE LIMITED
- Company number
- 01826635
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 4 total · 0 outstanding · 4 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
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
12 August 2026Next statement due
26 August 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Turnover
- £243,858,000
- Gross profit
- £103,471,000
- Operating profit
- £26,057,000
- Profit before tax
- £20,215,000
- Profit after tax
- £22,782,000
- Fixed assets
- £17,431,000
- Current liabilities
- £130,818,000
- Cash at bank
- £21,516,000
- Equity
- £353,433,000
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.
04 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 20.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 49.5%
- Women receiving bonus
- 76.6%
- Men receiving bonus
- 74.7%
- Women in top quartile
- 41.9%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 18.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 29.9%
- Women in lower quartile
- 30.5%
Earlier reporting years (5)
- 500 to 9990.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9994.6% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99922.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-5.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-10.1% 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 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
UNISERVE LIMITED
LEI 2138002U8MAXPS2VSE77 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 21 June 1984
- Initial LEI registration
- 31 October 2023
- LEI last updated
- 1 November 2025
- Next renewal
- 31 October 2025
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- UPMINSTER COURT, 133 HALL LANE, UPMINSTER, GB-ESS, RM14 1AL, GB
- Headquarters address
- UPMINSTER COURT, 133 HALL LANE, UPMINSTER, GB-ESS, RM14 1AL, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
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06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- UNISERVE LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- GB GLOBAL MANAGEMENT LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2021
- Approved
- 2 July 2021
- Sectors
- Transportation, logistics, and storage
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
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 10 May 2022
Training described
Your whole organisation
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07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Uniserve Limited
Registration ZA536430
- Registered from
- 18 July 2019
- Current end date
- 17 July 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
DHSC International Freight and Logistics Solutions
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) · ocds-b5fd17-ad653b91-57ad-492a-883c-0ff17a916eed
- Supplier named in award
- Uniserve
- Award value
- £96,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 May 2021 – 30 April 2022
- Published
- 30 April 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 60000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-ad653b91-57ad-492a-883c-0ff17a916eed-2021-04-30T13:20:44+01:00
Logistics and Warehousing
Crown Commercial Service · ocds-b5fd17-cb7703c0-07d5-49d8-ba07-7a087121cb7e
- Supplier named in award
- Uniserve Limited
- Award value
- £2,500,000,000
- Contract period
- 20 October 2020 – 16 November 2024
- Published
- 19 November 2020
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 60100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-cb7703c0-07d5-49d8-ba07-7a087121cb7e-2020-11-19T21:06:29Z
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
Uniserve Holdings Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Liabilty Company
- Place registered
- England & Wales
- Registration number
- 02234562
- Notified
- 1 August 2016
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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
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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
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14 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
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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
1 procurement process linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
1 exact company-number registration.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
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17 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Detected change
Confirmation statement due date: 2026-08-30 → 2027-08-26
- Detected change
Accounts due date: 2026-09-30 → 2026-12-31
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts 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.
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.
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