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Company description
ABB LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 1 June 1999; registered for 27 years; registered office reported in WARRINGTON, CHESHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 27120 · Manufacture of electricity distribution and control apparatus, with 3 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 18 trade marks, 15 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
- ABB LIMITED
- Company number
- 03780764
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 4 total · 3 outstanding · 1 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
1 June 2026Next statement due
15 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 25.5%
- Mean bonus gap
- 8.3%
- Women receiving bonus
- 74.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 75.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 21.1%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 15.7%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 24.7%
- Women in lower quartile
- 30.6%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 499927.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499927.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499926.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499928.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499931.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499930.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499930.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499932.7% 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
- 28 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 120 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
- £10,773,025
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £64,159,835
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £100,724,765
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £23,013,983
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 36.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 120 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
For 3rd Party suppliers, the global payment terms are 90 days end of month from date of invoice with payment by the 4th working day of the following month. These terms are applied to new suppliers, and to new contracts. The procurement teams based in the local business units can deviate from these standard terms based upon spend and size of supplier company. For intercompany suppliers, the standard terms are 60 days from date of invoice.
- Other payment-term information
N/A
- Dispute resolution process
The business process for resolving disputes is managed by the local business Procurement teams, together with a central Accounts Payable Team. There is a 'no PO no Pay' policy in place throughout the organization
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 68.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 75.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 69.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 72.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 67.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 69.0 average days to pay68.0% outside terms
- 67.0 average days to pay70.0% outside terms
- 72.0 average days to pay65.0% outside terms
- 69.0 average days to pay51.0% outside terms
- 71.0 average days to pay68.0% outside terms
- 69.0 average days to pay67.0% 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
ABB LIMITED
LEI 549300P7NR29RQ6L6N76 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 1 June 1999
- Initial LEI registration
- 13 December 2013
- LEI last updated
- 16 July 2026
- Next renewal
- 9 August 2027
- Managing LOU
- 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12
- Other legal names
- BACKCLOTH LIMITED
- Legal address
- Daresbury Park, Daresbury, Cheshire, Warrington, WA4 4BT, GB
- Headquarters address
- Affolternstrasse 44, Zurich, CH-ZH, 8050, CH
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 549300P7NR29RQ6L6N76 to LEI 5493000LKVGOO9PELI61
- Initial registration
- 17 September 2020
- Last updated
- 19 August 2025
- Next renewal
- 9 August 2027
- Validation sources
- ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY
- Validation documents
- OTHER_OFFICIAL_DOCUMENTS
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2019-01-01T00:00:00.000Z; End: 2019-12-31T00:00:00.000Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2017-06-02T00:00:00.000Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_PUBLIC
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 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
High Speed Two (HS2) Limited, Phase One Stations - Framework Agreement for Uninterruptible Power Supply & Central Battery Systems
HS2 · ocds-b5fd17-37dd9559-aa30-40a8-bd11-f49cf7a24e98
- Supplier named in award
- ABB Limited
- Award value
- £66,465,630
- Contract period
- 28 October 2024 – 27 October 2034
- Published
- 15 November 2024
- Procedure
- Competitive procedure with negotiation (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 31000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-37dd9559-aa30-40a8-bd11-f49cf7a24e98-2024-11-15T16:57:43Z
High Speed Two (HS2) Limited, Phase One Stations - Framework Agreement for Low Voltage Power Components
HS2 · ocds-b5fd17-7d3a52e5-9bf9-4327-b151-d18d6d3d4249
- Supplier named in award
- ABB LIMITED
- Award value
- £22,194,327
- Contract period
- 17 September 2024 – 16 September 2034
- Published
- 4 October 2024
- Procedure
- Competitive procedure with negotiation (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 31000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-7d3a52e5-9bf9-4327-b151-d18d6d3d4249-2024-10-04T14:28:22+01:00
BE23237 - Support Contract
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-fae2f6d8-4845-4514-9d1d-f190b0e6aa22
- Supplier named in award
- ABB Ltd
- Award value
- £10,734
- Contract period
- 10 January 2024 – 31 December 2024
- Published
- 15 January 2024
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 72250000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-fae2f6d8-4845-4514-9d1d-f190b0e6aa22-2024-01-15T15:47:58Z
Expert Consultancy Support Framework
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-e62a77ba-f3fa-4a54-9efe-ee0a07e4d616
- Supplier named in award
- ABB LIMITED
- Award value
- £250,000
- Contract period
- 23 May 2022 – 8 May 2026
- Published
- 22 July 2022
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 71000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-e62a77ba-f3fa-4a54-9efe-ee0a07e4d616-2022-07-22T17:00:47+01:00
Safety Management System Project Phase 2 - Development of Standards
SOUTH TEES SITE COMPANY LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-20741d06-8862-4dbb-b287-cede84b6a5b3
- Supplier named in award
- ABB Limited
- Award value
- £29,932
- Contract period
- 1 March 2021 – 31 May 2021
- Published
- 10 March 2021
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 79000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-20741d06-8862-4dbb-b287-cede84b6a5b3-2021-03-10T13:52:42Z
Distributed Control System Support Services for NIBF2
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-bf409d1d-dc01-473c-a426-32f36bb07016
- Supplier named in award
- ABB LIMITED
- Award value
- £45,949
- Contract period
- 12 November 2019 – 12 November 2022
- Published
- 8 November 2019
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 51900000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-bf409d1d-dc01-473c-a426-32f36bb07016-2019-11-08T12:10:56Z
1361 rerun - Process Engineering Toolkit
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-7cd82860-97fd-4337-85ec-f8a3ddaf8c54
- Supplier named in award
- ABB Ltd
- Award value
- £181,000
- Contract period
- 11 September 2019 – 11 September 2023
- Published
- 24 September 2019
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 48000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-7cd82860-97fd-4337-85ec-f8a3ddaf8c54-2019-09-24T13:30:51+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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
CONFIGPILOT
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 19 December 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 December 2026
EZLINK
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 14 June 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 June 2026
Vector
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 31 January 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 January 2021
CALMASTER
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9,42
- Filed / designated
- 11 December 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 December 2025
AQUAMASTER
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 5 May 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 May 2021
WATERMASTER
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 5 May 1994
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 May 2021
AQUAPROBE
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 17 May 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 17 May 2020
TORBAR
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 27 January 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 January 2020
FLOWMASTER
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 12 March 1992
- Valid until / renewal due
- 12 March 2019
CLEARSPAN
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 22 June 1978
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 June 2019
B-SHARP
Owner ABB Limited · classes 42
- Filed / designated
- 26 January 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 January 2012
PHOCUS
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 18 November 1993
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 November 2010
AQUAMAG
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 26 September 1990
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 September 2007
CONTROLMASTER
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 13 March 1989
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 March 2016
NOFLOTE
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 14 September 1978
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 September 2009
DELTAPI
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 30 April 1965
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 April 2010
AQUALARM
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 29 May 1962
- Valid until / renewal due
- 29 May 2007
VERIFLUX
Owner ABB Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 16 November 1960
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 November 2005
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
Abb Holdings Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- English
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- The Registrar Of Companies Uk
- Registration number
- 2923872
- 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
UVDB Powered by Achilles QUDM for Goods, Works and Services
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 19 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Installation of Temporary Centralised Battery System (CBS) for emergency lighting in Brooksby Building following fire
THE PIRBRIGHT INSTITUTE · updated 5 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Air circuit breakers
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board · updated 11 June 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Control Systems OEM - ABB Ltd Equipment Service and Maintenance
Sellafield Limited · updated 28 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Waste Vitrification Plant Distributed Control System Critical Spares
Sellafield Limited · updated 8 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Supply of NOx Gas Analyser
UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL NUCLEAR LABORATORY LIMITED · updated 27 March 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
CSP26029 - Spares & Diagnostics Expertise for ABB Control System
UK Research and Innovation · updated 28 January 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Robotic Equipment
Southampton Solent University · updated 19 June 2025
- 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
Electrical installation
Wholesale of electronic and telecommunications equipment and parts
Activities of head offices
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
8 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.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
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.