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Company description
DUFERCO UK LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 1 April 1998; registered for 28 years; registered office reported in BROMSGROVE, WORCESTERSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 46720 · Wholesale of metals and metal ores.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC 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
- DUFERCO UK LIMITED
- Company number
- 03538773
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 11 total · 5 outstanding · 6 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
1 April 2026Next statement due
15 April 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 6 May 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 45 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 October 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £12,343,305
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £34,753,880
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £57,519,058
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £94,859,166
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 52.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 84 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
"Duferco UK (DUK) has three different kind of suppliers: 1. suppliers of material, 2. suppliers of service (e.g. transportation cost, storage etc.), 3. suppliers of overhead (e.g. auditors, consultants, etc.). Each of these three categories has differents payment terms and different practices.
1. MATERIAL: the standard payment term is 45 days from bill of lading date. IMPORTANT NOTE: DUK buy most of the material from Duferco SA, a related group company based in Switzerland. DUFERCO SA ALLOW DUK TO DELAY PAYMENTS OF MATERIAL, THEREFORE THE STATISTICS ON THE UNPAID INVOICES PRESENTED IN THIS REPORT WILL BE NEGATIVELY IMPACTED BY THESE INTRAGROUP (AND INTERNATIONAL) TRANSACTIONS.
2. SERVICE: the standard payment term is 30 days from invoice date.
3. OVERHEAD: the standard payment term is by net monthly account." - Other payment-term information
IMPORTANT NOTE: DUK buy most of the material from Duferco SA, a related group company based in Switzerland. DUFERCO SA ALLOW DUK TO DELAY PAYMENTS OF MATERIAL, THEREFORE THE STATISTICS ON THE UNPAID INVOICES PRESENTED IN THIS REPORT WILL BE NEGATIVELY IMPACTED BY THESE INTRAGROUP (AND INTERNATIONAL) TRANSACTIONS.
- Dispute resolution process
DUK has a very solid relationship with its suppliers and in case of disputes, they are resolved through negotiations both verbally and written. The department in charge of this process is the accounting and payable office.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 52.0 average days to pay68.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay49.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay56.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay57.0% outside terms
- 51.0 average days to pay60.0% outside terms
- 52.0 average days to pay69.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay64.0% outside terms
- 62.0 average days to pay72.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay71.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay78.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay78.0% 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 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Mrs Sabina CroceSee 2 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- Italian
- Country of residence
- Switzerland
- Notified
- 1 April 2025
- Anti Money Laundering Supervisory Bodies: HMRC
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-01-13T00:00:00Z
- Authorised Corporate Service Provider Name: LAW DEBENTURE CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED ACSP
- Identity Verified On: 2025-12-02T00:00:00Z
- Preferred Name: SABINA CROCE
State Owned Assets Supervisions And Administration Commission Of The People's Government Of Hebei Province - China
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Legal authority
- The People'S Republic Of China
- Legal form
- Special Commission Of The People'S Republic Of China
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
Mr Bruno BolfoSee 5 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- Italian
- Country of residence
- Switzerland
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 1 April 2025
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05 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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06 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.
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07 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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08 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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09 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.
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10 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
11 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.
12 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
13 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.
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.