TXT In plain English
Company description
THE ORION PUBLISHING GROUP LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 19 November 1991; registered for 34 years; registered office reported in LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 58110 · Book publishing.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 4 PSC records, 18 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
- THE ORION PUBLISHING GROUP LIMITED
- Company number
- 02663988
- 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
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
4 October 2025Next statement due
18 October 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 17 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 90 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No retention clauses reported
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
- £5,088,767
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £485,072
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £298,053
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £1,409,254
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 4.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 7.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
The industry norm for UK Publishing/Printing/Bind are end of month plus 90 days.
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with payments
- Not supplied
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Our standard payment terms for goods and services are 30 days from date of invoice. We pay for proforma, deposits and events invoices immediately.
- Dispute resolution process
Disputed invoices are referred to the relevant buyer to resolve by way of a credit or ultimately accept the additional costs against whatever actual goods/services were provided.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 72.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 75.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 69.0 average days to pay27.0% outside terms
- 67.0 average days to pay31.0% outside terms
- 65.0 average days to pay27.0% outside terms
- 69.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 79.0 average days to pay31.0% outside terms
- 69.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 66.0 average days to pay32.0% outside terms
- 65.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 72.0 average days to pay26.0% 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.
04 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
The Orion Publishing Group Limited
Registration Z3538433
- Registered from
- 5 April 2013
- Current end date
- 4 April 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
BELGRAVIA
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 9,16,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 9 December 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 December 2025
MRS BEETON'S
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 9,38,41
- Filed / designated
- 24 April 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 April 2023
MRS BEETON'S
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 35
- Filed / designated
- 24 April 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 April 2022
Figurative mark
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 22 September 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 September 2018
GOLLANCZ
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 18 September 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 September 2018
VICTOR GOLLANCZ
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 18 September 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 September 2018
Seven Dials
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 20 June 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 20 June 2018
MRS BEETON'S SPECIAL VICTORIAN
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 16,21,24,29,30
- Filed / designated
- 11 May 1985
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 May 2026
In a great tradition Mrs Beeton's
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 21,29,30,31,32
- Filed / designated
- 16 April 1973
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 April 2018
SEVEN DIALS
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 9 March 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
POSTBOOKS
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 13 July 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 July 2010
ORCS
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 9,16,25,28,41
- Filed / designated
- 9 December 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 December 2009
ACHILLES
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 10 June 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 June 2007
Figurative mark
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 9,16,25,28,41
- Filed / designated
- 24 May 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 May 2017
Anthony Ant
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 9,16,25,28,41
- Filed / designated
- 24 May 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 May 2017
SCIENCEMASTER
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 22 September 1992
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 September 1999
MRS BEETON'S
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 9,16,38,42
- Filed / designated
- 19 July 1988
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 July 2015
MRS BEETON'S SPECIAL VICTORIAN
Owner The Orion Publishing Group Limited · classes 42
- Filed / designated
- 1 October 1986
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 October 2017
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.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Louis Hachette Group Sa
- Owns 50% to 75% of shares
- Country registered
- France
- Legal authority
- Eu Law
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- N/A
- Registration number
- N/A
- Notified
- 16 December 2024
Hachette Uk (Holdings) Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom Law
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 03701589
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
Lagardere Sa
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- France
- Legal authority
- Eu Law
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- N/A
- Registration number
- N/A
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
Vivendi Se
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- France
- Legal authority
- Eu Law
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- N/A
- Registration number
- N/A
- Notified
- 1 December 2023
- Ceased
- 16 December 2024
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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
10 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.
11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
12 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.
13 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
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House 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.