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Company description
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Public Limited Company”. Incorporated on 30 January 1986; registered for 40 years; registered office reported in LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 58110 · Book publishing, with 2 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 26 trade marks, 8 procurement 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
- BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Company number
- 01984336
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 13 total · 0 outstanding · 13 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
28 February 2025Next accounts due
31 August 2026Last statement made up to
24 June 2026Next statement due
8 July 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 21.3%
- Mean bonus gap
- 53.5%
- Women receiving bonus
- 78.9%
- Men receiving bonus
- 82.5%
- Women in top quartile
- 63.1%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 71.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 78.6%
- Women in lower quartile
- 80.5%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 99919.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99912.7% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99920.5% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99914.8% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99911.7% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99919.7% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49921.7% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49917.2% 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
- 31 August 2025 – 28 February 2026
- Filed
- 27 March 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 180 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-2
- Financial period started
- 1 March 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £18,882,168
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £13,322,635
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £17,606,713
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £17,599,559
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 26.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 180 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The standard contractual payment terms for suppliers is 30 days however this varies for each supplier dependent on the nature of the expense.
- Dispute resolution process
When a payment dispute is raised the accounts payable team deal with them as quickly as possible and escalate to the relevant contact within the business where necessary.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 33.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay31.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay34.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay33.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay37.0% 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
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
LEI 213800ZL2PEC4C6UOQ53 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- B6ES
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 30 January 1986
- Initial LEI registration
- 23 October 2017
- LEI last updated
- 3 June 2026
- Next renewal
- 23 July 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- 50 BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, GB-LND, WC1B 3DP, GB
- Headquarters address
- 50 BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, GB-LND, WC1B 3DP, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
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
- BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 March 2024 – 28 February 2025
- Approved
- 27 August 2025
- 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
Not reported as covered
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
- 29 August 2025
Policies described
Other
Training described
Your whole organisation
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Civil society organisations Businesses in your industry or sector
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff Third party audit arranged by your organisation
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
Other monitoring
Membership of the Book Chain Project (an industry wide initiative), ICTI Ethical Toy Program, sourcing paper only from the Forestry Stewardship Council approved sources.
Demonstrated progress
We are in the early stages of developing effectiveness measures. The EcoVadis platform (detailed in the Statement) will support future KPIs.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Book production services in China and the Far East.
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 3 suppliers and below
- Group: Other vulnerable groups
- Mitigation: Direct engagement and visits by senior staff; participation in industry-wide initiatives such as FSC, the Book Chain Project and ICTI certification in China
- Risk: Support services to our office in India
- Area: Within your own operations
- Mitigation: Local management operate to high standards, Directors and senior UK based management visit frequently, and local support staff are not contracted out and are included as part of the team. While aware of the potential for exploitation, the risk is not considered high.
- Risk: There is no third risk
- Area: N/A
- Mitigation: We do not perceive a third area of risk, this entry is only made in order to complete the return.
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
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Registration Z7552956
- Registered from
- 20 February 2003
- Current end date
- 19 February 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
Online Legal Resources - Bloomsbury
Ministry of Justice · ocds-b5fd17-de163761-f7b5-4149-bbd0-c33faf56c4db
- Supplier named in award
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Award value
- £1,090,000
- Contract period
- 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2028
- Published
- 6 September 2024
- Procedure
- Negotiated procedure without prior publication (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 79970000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-de163761-f7b5-4149-bbd0-c33faf56c4db-2024-09-06T16:36:28+01:00
Legal Publications Print & eBook 24-25 Call Offs
Ministry of Justice · ocds-b5fd17-93635f09-69f7-4fed-be5d-8e6fafb773ed
- Supplier named in award
- BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Award value
- £4,462,373
- Contract period
- 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025
- Published
- 25 July 2024
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 22120000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-93635f09-69f7-4fed-be5d-8e6fafb773ed-2024-07-25T22:55:00+01:00
Legal Publications Print & eBook Call Offs 2023/24
Ministry of Justice · ocds-b5fd17-76045526-84f4-49a0-9fb5-21e94e412d33
- Supplier named in award
- BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Award value
- £5,050,000
- Contract period
- 1 April 2023 – 31 March 2024
- Published
- 25 April 2023
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 22120000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-76045526-84f4-49a0-9fb5-21e94e412d33-2023-04-25T09:42:45+01:00
Legal Publications Print & eBook
Ministry of Justice · ocds-b5fd17-fcf45fc3-ece7-4988-a11b-8294ab99cd09
- Supplier named in award
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Award value
- £4,805,016
- Contract period
- 1 April 2022 – 31 March 2023
- Published
- 4 November 2022
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 22120000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-fcf45fc3-ece7-4988-a11b-8294ab99cd09-2022-11-04T11:44:23Z
Key collection of packages to provide essential reading in an accessible digital format
UNIVERSITY OF DERBY · ocds-b5fd17-70f72808-5e9c-4191-8f8c-f78524b03dde
- Supplier named in award
- BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Award value
- £7,468
- Contract period
- 1 December 2021 – 31 December 2021
- Published
- 14 December 2021
- Procedure
- Other - Sole supply
- Main CPV
- 80420000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-70f72808-5e9c-4191-8f8c-f78524b03dde-2021-12-14T12:35:27Z
Online Legal Resources
Ministry of Justice · ocds-b5fd17-7d8d21f7-09d1-4475-b12c-ead6705c1a04
- Supplier named in award
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Award value
- £780,000
- Contract period
- 22 October 2021 – 31 March 2024
- Published
- 19 November 2021
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 22000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-7d8d21f7-09d1-4475-b12c-ead6705c1a04-2021-11-19T09:45:27Z
Printed Legal Publications and ebooks
Ministry of Justice · ocds-b5fd17-010ae23f-2790-4c6b-ad3a-b3427c0e33e3
- Supplier named in award
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Award value
- £4,753,350
- Contract period
- 1 April 2021 – 31 March 2022
- Published
- 4 November 2022
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 22000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-010ae23f-2790-4c6b-ad3a-b3427c0e33e3-2022-11-04T17:23:31Z
Framework for the Provision of Legal Publications - Print and eBook
Ministry Of Justice · ocds-b5fd17-a361e2fb-adc8-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b
- Supplier named in award
- Bloomsbury plc
- Award value
- £215,000
- Contract period
- 1 April 2017 – 31 March 2020
- Published
- 9 October 2019
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 22100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-a361e2fb-adc8-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b-2019-10-09T14:34:16+01:00
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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
OLD HOUSE
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 14 December 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 December 2026
33 1/3
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 29 July 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 29 July 2025
CONWAY
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 13 November 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 November 2024
MUSIC EXPRESS
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 1 August 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 August 2024
BLOOMSBURY SPARK
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 13 December 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 December 2023
BLOOMSBURY SPARK
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 13 December 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 December 2023
HART PUBLISHING
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 21 November 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 November 2023
Figurative mark
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 21 November 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 November 2023
FEATHERSTONE
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 17 July 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 17 July 2022
Figurative mark
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 17 July 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 17 July 2022
BLOOMSBURY INNOVATIONS
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · classes 9,16,35
- Filed / designated
- 25 June 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 June 2022
BLOOMSBURY PAPERBACKS
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 29 October 2001
- Valid until / renewal due
- 29 October 2021
BLOOMSBURY
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 29 October 2001
- Valid until / renewal due
- 29 October 2021
REED'S
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 16,41
- Filed / designated
- 23 September 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 September 2019
CORPUS WORLD ENGLISH
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 19 May 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 May 2019
DATABASE WORLD ENGLISH
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 19 May 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 May 2019
Figurative mark
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 19 February 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 February 2027
KNOW THE GAME
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 7 February 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 February 2026
BERG
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 23 March 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 March 2021
WHO'S WHO
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 6 September 1991
- Valid until / renewal due
- 6 September 2018
WHO'S WHO Published . annually . since . 1849
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 6 September 1991
- Valid until / renewal due
- 6 September 2018
BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 29 October 2001
- Valid until / renewal due
- 29 October 2011
BLOOMSBURY
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 14 October 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 October 2010
ENDICTA
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 17 February 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 17 February 2007
Figurative mark
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 12 January 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 12 January 2005
Figurative mark
Owner Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 12 January 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 12 January 2005
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
12 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.
13 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.
14 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.
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
- 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.
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.
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.