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Company description
RAIL GOURMET U.K. LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 27 April 1995; registered for 31 years; registered office reported in LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 56103 · Take-away food shops and mobile food stands.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 7 trade marks, 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
- RAIL GOURMET U.K. LIMITED
- Company number
- 03052537
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 3 total · 0 outstanding · 3 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 September 2025Next accounts due
30 June 2027Last statement made up to
5 February 2026Next statement due
19 February 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 7.4%
- Mean bonus gap
- 9.2%
- Women receiving bonus
- 4.4%
- Men receiving bonus
- 9.4%
- Women in top quartile
- 22.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 39.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 39.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 41.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 9994.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4994.1% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4992.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-0.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4993.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-0.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49990.5% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9991.8% 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
- 30 June 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- 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
- £9,029,404
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £219,916
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £622,258
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £5,541,861
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 52.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
N/A
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Unless specially negotiated suppliers are paid at the end of the month following the date of the invoice.
- Other payment-term information
N/A
- Dispute resolution process
A claim relating to any disputed invoice is raised with the supplier. Rail Gourmet UK Limited has standardised processes for managing supplier payments and a dedicated team responsible for supplier reconciliations and dispute resolutions.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 41.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 49.0 average days to pay32.0% outside terms
- 54.0 average days to pay35.0% outside terms
- 52.0 average days to pay31.0% outside terms
- 127.0 average days to pay48.0% outside terms
- 77.0 average days to pay94.0% outside terms
- 51.0 average days to pay34.0% outside terms
- 50.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 50.0 average days to pay38.0% outside terms
- 49.0 average days to pay32.0% 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
- RAIL GOURMET U.K. LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- SSP GROUP PLC
- Statement period
- 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2025
- Approved
- 20 March 2026
- Sectors
- Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing
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
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 24 March 2026
Policies described
Freedom of workers to terminate employment Freedom of movement Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents Other
Training described
Human resources Executive-level staff Procurement staff
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Civil society organisations Workers within your organisation Businesses in your industry or sector
Social audits
Third party audit arranged by your supplier
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Other monitoring
Slave-Free Alliance (SFA) conducted an independent gap analysis of our approach to managing modern slavery in our business operations and supply chains.
Actions addressing ILO indicators
Other
Demonstrated progress
Our actions are measured against our targets and key performance indicators (KPIs). These enable us to measure effectiveness and monitor our progress in managing modern slavery risks within our business and supply chains.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Our risk assessments indicate that the highest modern slavery risk exposure in our own operations relates to migrant workers in our EEME region recruited from other countries.
- Area: Within your own operations
- Group: Migrants
- Mitigation: We updated our Human Rights Policy, with support from our partners, Slave-Free Alliance, with more details on specific requirements including formal adoption of the Employer Pays Principle, committing to the prohibition of all forms of recruitment fees. We also developed a new Migrant Worker Standard to support our Human Rights Policy by providing more detailed controls, requirements and practical steps relating specifically to migrant workers.
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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
EUROPEAN RAIL CATERING
Owner Rail Gourmet U.K. Limited · classes 35,39,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 4 October 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 October 2026
PREGO
Owner Rail Gourmet U.K. Limited · classes 29,30,32,42
- Filed / designated
- 22 August 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 August 2007
O B S
Owner Rail Gourmet U.K. Limited · classes 35,39,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 11 May 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 May 2005
OBS
Owner Rail Gourmet U.K. Limited · classes 35
- Filed / designated
- 22 September 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 September 2001
OBS
Owner Rail Gourmet U.K. Limited · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 26 March 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 March 2001
OBS
Owner Rail Gourmet U.K. Limited · classes 41
- Filed / designated
- 26 March 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 March 2001
OBS
Owner Rail Gourmet U.K. Limited · classes 42
- Filed / designated
- 26 March 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 March 2001
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
Rail Gourmet Uk Holdings Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 3039862
- Notified
- 16 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.
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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.
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10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
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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
1 procurement process 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
- Detected change
Accounts due date: 2026-09-30 → 2027-06-30
- 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.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
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.