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Company description
POLAR SPEED DISTRIBUTION LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 5 February 1996; registered for 30 years; registered office reported in BEDFORDSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 49410 · Freight transport by road.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 1 trade mark, 6 procurement records, 1 waste registration, 2 other public-register 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
- POLAR SPEED DISTRIBUTION LIMITED
- Company number
- 03155092
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 12 total · 4 outstanding · 8 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
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
- -66.7%
- Mean bonus gap
- -23.8%
- Women receiving bonus
- 17.2%
- Men receiving bonus
- 28.4%
- Women in top quartile
- 31.4%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 28.7%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 27.1%
- Women in lower quartile
- 20.2%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 999-4.0% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-1.2% median hourly gap
- 500 to 999-0.9% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9993.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-1.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-4.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-0.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 499-6.2% 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
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 24 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 5 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-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £0
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £64,617,762
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £23,798,861
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £10,584,795
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 59.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
UPS policy releases payment a few days before the due date during business days.
Under invoice creation date (ICD) policy, invoices are received when they are available in UPS’s accounts payable processing sites. An invoice creation date is assigned when the invoice is available in the payment system.
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
45 Days from receipt of invoice
- Dispute resolution process
UPS’ dispute resolution process is outlined in contractual agreement with each supplier and outlined in UPS Terms and Conditions.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 39.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay25.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 49.0 average days to pay36.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay27.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay34.0% outside terms
- 51.0 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 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- POLAR SPEED DISTRIBUTION LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- MARKEN LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 19 May 2026
- Sectors
- Healthcare and pharmaceuticals Transportation, logistics, and storage
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
- 2 July 2026
Earlier linked statements (2)
- POLAR SPEED DISTRIBUTION LIMITED31 December 2025
- POLAR SPEED DISTRIBUTION LIMITED31 December 2023
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.
UK Additional public registers
Schools, childcare, care and HSE records
Polar Speed Distribution Limited
24 May 2024 · Improvement Notice
Polar Speed Distribution Limited
24 May 2024 · Improvement Notice
Identity methods differ by source. DfE links use source-supplied company numbers. Ofsted and Scottish care links are unique exact name-and-postcode candidates. HSE links require one unique exact Companies House organisation name. Verify candidate associations independently.
06 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Homecare Medicines Services
East Of England NHS Collaborative Hub · ocds-b5fd17-925a3744-f570-421b-8044-1365900905c7
- Supplier named in award
- Polar Speed Distribution Limited
- Award value
- £200,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 December 2021 – 30 November 2025
- Published
- 17 November 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 85149000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-925a3744-f570-421b-8044-1365900905c7-2021-11-17T09:43:20Z
NHS National Framework Agreement Home Delivery Service Pulmonary Hypertension
NHS England · ocds-b5fd17-2f93a6ed-1f6a-48a5-a72a-c5c81d374536
- Supplier named in award
- Polar Speed Distribution Limited
- Award value
- £12,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 June 2020 – 31 May 2022
- Published
- 17 March 2020
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 85141210
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-2f93a6ed-1f6a-48a5-a72a-c5c81d374536-2020-03-17T09:08:56Z
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
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.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Ups (Uk Holding) 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
- 04958150
- 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.
08 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.
09 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.
10 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.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Provision of Mickey Buttons & Extensions
MID CHESHIRE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · updated 8 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Risdiplam Oral Solution (Homecare)
BELFAST HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST · updated 25 April 2024
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Risdaplam Oral Solution (Homecare)
BELFAST HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST · updated 6 July 2023
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Procurement of Risdaplam Oral Solution (Homecare)
BELFAST HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST · updated 9 September 2022
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
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.
12 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
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.
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
4 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
1 exact company-number registration.
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.
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.
Organisation enforcement records linked by one unique exact company name.
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.