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Company description
ESSITY UK LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 12 July 1996; registered for 30 years; registered office reported in BEDFORDSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 17120 · Manufacture of paper and paperboard, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records, 17 procurement records, 1 waste registration. 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
- ESSITY UK LIMITED
- Company number
- 03226403
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 4 total · 2 outstanding · 2 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 2025Next accounts due
30 September 2027Last statement made up to
2 July 2026Next statement due
16 July 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- -73.3%
- Mean bonus gap
- -73.2%
- Women receiving bonus
- 96.9%
- Men receiving bonus
- 97.6%
- Women in top quartile
- 41.8%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 23.1%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 21.7%
- Women in lower quartile
- 20.3%
Earlier reporting years (9)
- 1000 to 4999-19.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-19.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-17.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-20.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-9.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-87.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-12.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-12.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-6.6% 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
- 23 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 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
- £280,104,413
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £81,209,317
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £58,528,032
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £53,051,283
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 35.0%
- 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
Default payment terms of 90 days are applied unless shorter payment terms are agreed with the supplier. Most used payment terms include 45 days and 60 days.
- Dispute resolution process
The purchaser contacts the supplier to try to resolve the situation and then will inform Accounts who will chase for any expected credit notes
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 47.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay71.0% outside terms
- 51.0 average days to pay62.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay51.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay52.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay50.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay56.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay54.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay83.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay82.0% 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 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
ESSITY UK LIMITED
LEI 549300RTLO4KPPCHWU48 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 12 July 1996
- Initial LEI registration
- 13 January 2014
- LEI last updated
- 25 April 2026
- Next renewal
- 12 June 2027
- Managing LOU
- 5299000J2N45DDNE4Y28
- Legal address
- Southfields Road, Dunstable, GB-BDF, LU6 3EJ, GB
- Headquarters address
- Southfields Road, Dunstable, GB-BDF, LU6 3EJ, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 549300RTLO4KPPCHWU48 to LEI 549300G8E6YUVJ1DA153
- Initial registration
- 12 June 2024
- Last updated
- 25 April 2026
- Next renewal
- 12 June 2027
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2025-01-01T00:00:00+01:00; End: 2025-12-31T00:00:00+01:00; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2024-06-05T00:00:00+02:00; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD; Start: 2026-03-02T00:00:00+01:00; Type: DOCUMENT_FILING_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 549300RTLO4KPPCHWU48 to LEI 549300G8E6YUVJ1DA153
- Initial registration
- 12 June 2024
- Last updated
- 25 April 2026
- Next renewal
- 12 June 2027
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2025-01-01T00:00:00+01:00; End: 2025-12-31T00:00:00+01:00; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2024-06-05T00:00:00+02:00; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD; Start: 2026-03-02T00:00:00+01:00; Type: DOCUMENT_FILING_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- ESSITY UK LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 4 March 2026
- Sectors
- Cosmetics and toiletries Fashion, textiles, apparel and luxury goods Healthcare and pharmaceuticals Other
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
- 6 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 compulsory overtime Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery
Training described
Your front line staff Procurement staff Your suppliers
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Trade unions or worker representative groups Civil society organisations Professional auditors Workers within your supply chain Businesses in your industry or sector
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff Third party audit arranged by your organisation Third party audit arranged by your supplier Announced audit Unannounced audit
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Actions addressing ILO indicators
Financial remediation, including repayment of recruitment fees Change in training
Demonstrated progress
Essity measures share of spend with suppliers who commit to its Supplier Code of Conduct, where forced labor and modern slavery risks are brought up. For 2025 Essity achieved 95% vs 94% in 2024. Essity also favours certified raw materials, gaining a 99.7% share in 2025 of pulp that is FSC or PEFC vs 98.8% in 2024. Other certifications used in our choice of raw materials that are part of the work against modern slavery and other sustainability risks are BCI for cotton and RSPO for palm oil.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Largest risk is with suppliers outside our direct contractual relationships, in the early stages of the value chain. Risk especially evident among suppliers in certain regions of Asia & Latin America
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 2 suppliers Tier 3 suppliers and below
- Group: Migrants
- Location: Colombia Malaysia Vietnam
- Mitigation: Essity performs on site audits of strategic suppliers. Strategic and high-risk suppliers are required to complete SEDEX self-assessments. Suppliers operating in high-risk areas are subject to SMETA ethical audits.
- Risk: The probability of forced labour is particularly high in industries that rely heavily on migrant labour, especially in regions such as South East Asia and parts of the Middle East.
- Tier: Tier 3 suppliers and below
- Location: United Arab Emirates China Malaysia Saudi Arabia Vietnam
- Risk: For vulnerable groups (refugees/migrant workers) we estimate forced labour risks are global, particularly in industries/service sectors where demand for low skilled workers/staff is easily replaced.
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers Tier 2 suppliers Tier 3 suppliers and below
- Group: Migrants Refugees
- Location: Germany France United Kingdom India Italy Netherlands Sweden United States
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.
07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Essity UK Limited
Registration Z6189908
- Registered from
- 20 December 2001
- Current end date
- 19 December 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.
08 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Wound Closure
Supply Chain Coordination Limited · ocds-b5fd17-5db00aa6-9512-4f42-b14a-dd2da260db77
- Supplier named in award
- Essity UK Limited
- Award value
- £400,000,000
- Contract period
- 19 January 2026 – 18 January 2030
- Published
- 14 October 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 24911200
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-5db00aa6-9512-4f42-b14a-dd2da260db77-2025-10-14T14:33:42+01:00
Provision of a Community Adult Bladder and Bowel Service (Continence Delivery and Supply)
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust · ocds-b5fd17-cc95ec3e-738c-4b27-82bc-310fead72ea1
- Supplier named in award
- Essity Limited
- Award value
- £4,318,828.03
- Contract period
- 21 August 2025 – 20 August 2027
- Published
- 12 September 2025
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 85142400
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-cc95ec3e-738c-4b27-82bc-310fead72ea1-2025-09-12T16:10:54+01:00
Cleaning Equipment Supplies & Associated Products 2024
NHS Supply Chain · ocds-b5fd17-138b6f5f-ac77-4fa4-970d-927ebeb8578a
- Supplier named in award
- Essity UK Ltd - Professional Hygiene
- Award value
- £19,157,500
- Contract period
- 16 June 2025 – 15 June 2029
- Published
- 5 December 2024
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 39830000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-138b6f5f-ac77-4fa4-970d-927ebeb8578a-2024-12-05T09:18:28Z
Orthoses, Podiatry and Immobilisation 2025
NHS Supply Chain · ocds-b5fd17-389dec84-68cf-4f14-abdc-7709c5cf777b
- Supplier named in award
- Essity UK Limited
- Award value
- £714,000,000
- Contract period
- 3 March 2025 – 2 March 2027
- Published
- 17 March 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 18832000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-389dec84-68cf-4f14-abdc-7709c5cf777b-2025-03-17T15:47:19Z
187_24 Paper Hygiene Consumables and Dispensers
Espo · ocds-b5fd17-6ccc1042-3771-4915-ba91-4f04d40dc541
- Supplier named in award
- Essity UK Limited
- Award value
- £16,800,000
- Contract period
- 1 January 2024 – 31 March 2026
- Published
- 20 December 2023
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 33760000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-6ccc1042-3771-4915-ba91-4f04d40dc541-2023-12-20T15:33:25Z
Paper Hygiene Products 2023
NHS Supply Chain · ocds-b5fd17-17877968-8b29-4885-86ad-73b2a42ef605
- Supplier named in award
- Essity UK Ltd - Professional Hygiene
- Award value
- £27,000,000
- Contract period
- 8 April 2024 – 7 April 2026
- Published
- 1 December 2023
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 33772000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-17877968-8b29-4885-86ad-73b2a42ef605-2023-12-01T10:58:56Z
Provision of Acute and Community Health and Social Care Equipment Products and Services.
Cambridgeshire Community Services - NHS Trust · ocds-b5fd17-8f6ff8be-b2db-43f4-bbeb-f6669d024c33
- Supplier named in award
- ESSITY UK LIMITED
- Award value
- £282,834
- Contract period
- 1 November 2023 – 31 October 2025
- Published
- 21 December 2023
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 85142400
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-8f6ff8be-b2db-43f4-bbeb-f6669d024c33-2023-12-21T12:32:56Z
SBRI: Industrial Fuel Switching Phase 2: Demonstration Projects
BEIS · ocds-b5fd17-912231b6-4dc4-4d5a-b887-6a16f4b20dbe
- Supplier named in award
- ESSITY UK LIMITED
- Award value
- £52,491,766.08
- Contract period
- 13 March 2023 – 31 March 2025
- Published
- 11 July 2023
- Procedure
- Other - SBRI open competition
- Main CPV
- 09100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-912231b6-4dc4-4d5a-b887-6a16f4b20dbe-2023-07-11T16:34:17+01:00
Cleaning Equipment Supplies & Associated Products
North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) · ocds-b5fd17-fa606f99-cb9b-4a5b-a8e4-586be889f43c
- Supplier named in award
- ESSITY UK LIMITED
- Award value
- £71,180,000
- Contract period
- 9 August 2021 – 8 August 2023
- Published
- 19 May 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 39830000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-fa606f99-cb9b-4a5b-a8e4-586be889f43c-2021-05-19T17:57:32+01:00
Cleaning Equipment Supplies & Associated Products
North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) · ocds-b5fd17-fa606f99-cb9b-4a5b-a8e4-586be889f43c
- Supplier named in award
- ESSITY UK LIMITED
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 9 August 2021 – 8 August 2023
- Published
- 19 May 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 39830000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-fa606f99-cb9b-4a5b-a8e4-586be889f43c-2021-05-19T17:57:32+01:00
The Supply of Paper Hygiene and Associated Dispensers
Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation · ocds-b5fd17-b9735642-f793-4d25-8670-d4a742332bc2
- Supplier named in award
- ESSITY UK LIMITED
- Award value
- £9,500,000
- Contract period
- 11 August 2018 – 10 August 2022
- Published
- 20 August 2018
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 33760000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-b9735642-f793-4d25-8670-d4a742332bc2-2018-08-20T11:47:32+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.
09 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Essity Holding Uk Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- England
- Registration number
- 03665635
- Notified
- 18 July 2024
Mr Kevin John StarrSee 6 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- Wales
- Notified
- 7 March 2017
- Ceased
- 18 July 2024
Mr Nils Petter Lindhoilm
- Has significant influence or control (as a firm)
- Nationality
- Swedish
- Country of residence
- Sweden
- Notified
- 1 June 2016
- Ceased
- 7 March 2017
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10 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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11 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.
12 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.
13 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
YPO - 001137 Paper Hygiene and Associated Dispensers
Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation · updated 5 August 2026
- Tender value
- £5,000,000
- Awards
- 4
Lymphoedema hosiery
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF DERBY AND BURTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · updated 11 June 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
For the Provision of a Continence Home delivery Service to RDash NHS FT
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust · updated 28 May 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
For the Provision of a Continence Home delivery Service to RDash NHS FT
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust · updated 28 May 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
187_24 Paper Hygiene Consumables and Dispensers
ESPO · updated 20 December 2023
- Tender value
- £26,400,000
- Awards
- 3
23_23 Cleaning Chemicals and Hand Soaps
ESPO · updated 24 January 2023
- Tender value
- £11,000,000
- Awards
- 4
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.
14 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.
15 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Manufacture of household and sanitary goods and of toilet requisites
16 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
6 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.
17 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Detected change
Accounts due date: 2026-09-30 → 2027-09-30
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS UK LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
18 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.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
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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