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Company description
HOTEL CHOCOLAT LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 1 April 1993; registered for 33 years; registered office reported in ROYSTON, HERTFORDSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 10821 · Manufacture of cocoa and chocolate confectionery.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 22 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
- HOTEL CHOCOLAT LIMITED
- Company number
- 02805730
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- AUDIT EXEMPTION SUBSIDIARY
- Mortgage charges
- 17 total · 0 outstanding · 17 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 December 2024Next accounts due
28 September 2026Last statement made up to
31 March 2026Next statement due
14 April 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 0.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 22.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 21.2%
- Men receiving bonus
- 26.2%
- Women in top quartile
- 48.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 73.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 77.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 74.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 499912.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499914.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499914.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49994.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49998.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49995.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49996.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49992.0% 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
- 26 December 2022 – 2 July 2023
- Filed
- 27 July 2023
- Shortest standard term
- 60 days
- Longest standard term
- 90 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-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 45.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 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 from invoice date. Payment runs are performed every two weeks and include all invoices which match an authorised and receipted Purchase order and are either due or will fall due within the week following
- Other payment-term information
During the reporting period a company restructure impacted the purchase ledger team which resulted in delays to invoice processing and payment. New ways of working and new team members are now in place to ensure more prompt payment going forwards
- Dispute resolution process
The Company is committed to dealing with its suppliers in a fair, honest and professional manner. The main point of contact for disputes is Accounts Payable team. To resolve a dispute, the supplier is required to provide any missing information, corrected invoice or credit note.
Earlier payment reports (10 shown)
- 37.0 average days to pay39.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay39.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay40.0% 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 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Hotel Chocolat Limited
Registration Z8740078
- Registered from
- 28 September 2004
- Current end date
- 27 September 2026
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
CHOCMOBILE
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30,35,43
- Filed / designated
- 5 May 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 May 2027
CRYPTOPHER
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 24 March 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 March 2027
WINGSTON
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 24 March 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 March 2027
WITCHNEY
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 24 March 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 March 2027
TEAOLAT
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 5,30
- Filed / designated
- 10 February 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 February 2027
RABBERT
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 22 November 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 November 2026
ELIZAPECK
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 22 November 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 November 2026
WOOLLIAM
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 22 November 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 November 2026
RARE & VINTAGE
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30,35,39
- Filed / designated
- 10 October 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 October 2026
H BOX
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30,35,39,43
- Filed / designated
- 10 October 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 October 2026
VELVETISER
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 7,11,21
- Filed / designated
- 21 September 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 September 2026
RABOT 1745
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 3,30,43
- Filed / designated
- 18 August 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 August 2026
SUPERMILK
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 24 September 2014
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 September 2024
HOTEL Chocolat.
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30,35,39
- Filed / designated
- 28 February 2006
- Valid until / renewal due
- 28 February 2026
HOTEL Chocolat.
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 28 February 2006
- Valid until / renewal due
- 28 February 2026
HOTEL CHOCOLAT
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30,35,39,43
- Filed / designated
- 10 August 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 August 2022
CHEZ CHOCOLAT
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30,35,39
- Filed / designated
- 10 August 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 August 2022
CHOCEXPRESS
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30,39
- Filed / designated
- 3 May 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 3 May 2026
CHOCOGRAM
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 7 August 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 August 2020
CHOCOLATE SANCTUARY
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30,35
- Filed / designated
- 28 February 2006
- Valid until / renewal due
- 28 February 2016
CHOCOLATE BLISS POINT
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30,35
- Filed / designated
- 28 February 2006
- Valid until / renewal due
- 28 February 2016
Figurative mark
Owner Hotel Chocolat Limited · classes 30,39
- Filed / designated
- 3 May 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 3 May 2006
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.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Hotel Chocolat Group Ltd
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 08612206
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
13 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.
14 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
15 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.
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.