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Company description
PRINCIPAL CATERING CONSULTANTS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 5 September 1989; registered for 36 years; registered office reported in RUBERY, WEST MIDLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 56210 · Event catering activities.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 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
- PRINCIPAL CATERING CONSULTANTS LIMITED
- Company number
- 02419830
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- AUDIT EXEMPTION SUBSIDIARY
- Mortgage charges
- 7 total · 1 outstanding · 6 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
30 June 2025Next accounts due
31 March 2027Last statement made up to
6 August 2025Next statement due
20 August 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 100.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 100.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 3.8%
- Women in top quartile
- 88.8%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 95.5%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 97.4%
- Women in lower quartile
- 96.9%
Earlier reporting years (2)
- 250 to 49911.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49910.4% 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 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 29 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Offered
- Payment codes
- Prompt Payment Code
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 October 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £141,654
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £420,222
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £64,037
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £65,968
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 65.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 9.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms are 60 days, this is the payment of invoices on the 28th of the month following processing to predetermined cut off days, normally two days prior to period end.invoices are paid on time based on invoice date,this equates to 60 days on average.All small businesses with employees of 50 or less are paid on 30 days terms
- Dispute resolution process
Disputed invoices are managed locally by the operating units,challenges are made directly with the suppliers. Ordinarily quantity disputes are resolved by the supplier providing the necessary signed ''proof of delivery''to support invoice quantity.
Earlier payment reports (9 shown)
- 49.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 70.0 average days to pay91.0% outside terms
- 64.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 68.0 average days to pay75.0% outside terms
- 61.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 73.0 average days to pay87.0% outside terms
- 75.0 average days to pay100.0% outside terms
- 70.0 average days to pay99.0% outside terms
- 98.0 average days to pay99.0% 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 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- PRINCIPAL CATERING CONSULTANTS LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- CH & CO CATERING GROUP LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2019
- Approved
- 16 November 2020
- Sectors
- Consumer services, including accommodation, hospitality, tourism and leisure
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
- 13 April 2021
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
Framework for the Provision of School Catering Services
MEDWAY COMMERCIAL GROUP LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-48ab2797-3aab-4e83-b90d-499745e47dd8
- Supplier named in award
- Principals by CH&CO t/a Principals
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 1 August 2019 – 31 July 2023
- Published
- 25 June 2019
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 55524000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-48ab2797-3aab-4e83-b90d-499745e47dd8-2019-06-25T13:38:29+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.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Ch & Co Catering Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Company Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Register Of Companies, England & Wales
- Registration number
- 2613820
- Notified
- 31 December 2021
Ch & Co Catering Group (Holdings) Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- Uk
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- England And Wales
- Registration number
- 9504990
- Notified
- 1 June 2017
- Ceased
- 1 June 2017
Harbour & Jones Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 05016914
- Notified
- 1 May 2016
- Ceased
- 31 December 2021
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08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
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09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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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.
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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.
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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
- 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.
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