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Company description
DHL GLOBAL FORWARDING (UK) LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 15 August 2000; registered for 26 years; registered office reported in STAINES-UPON-THAMES, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 52290 · Other transportation support activities.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 8 PSC records, 4 trade marks, 2 procurement 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
- DHL GLOBAL FORWARDING (UK) LIMITED
- Company number
- 04056042
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 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
6 September 2026Next statement due
20 September 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 8.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 35.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 86.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 81.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 28.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 35.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 36.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 48.0%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 1000 to 49996.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49997.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49997.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49998.5% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9997.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499910.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49999.0% 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
- 30 August 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 99 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 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £270,697,671
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £81,679,170
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £22,403,885
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £190,885,805
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 29.0%
- 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
During the reporting period, the maximum payment period that the company agreed to was 90 days.
Certain suppliers have signed supplier finance procurement contracts where the payment terms are 90 days.
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
DHL Global Forwarding (UK) Limited is part of the DHL group of companies in the UK.
DHL Purchase Order Terms and Conditions sets out that subject to satisfactory receipt and acceptance of the Goods and/or Services, invoices shall become due for payment sixty (60) days after the receipt of a correct invoice by DHL (unless applicable law requires a shorter payment period). Payment shall be made in the currency as stated in the Purchase Order. - Other payment-term information
Variations to the standard payment terms can only be approved by a director.
- Dispute resolution process
Invoices should be emailed to correct address. We utilize a document scanning system which can only read a single .pdf invoice in each file. Although multiple .pdf invoice files per email are acceptable, the inclusion of any other document or file type will cause a delay in the invoice being processed. Invoices must include a job reference, purchase order number or be clearly marked with the DHL contact name to ensure invoices can be processed promptly.
DHL Global Forwarding (UK) Limited follows the DHL Group dispute resolution process as outlined in the Group's Supplier Terms & Conditions, available at:
https://group.dhl.com/en/about-us/supplier-portal/purchase-order-terms-and-conditions.html
Supplier disputes are handled in accordance with these procedures unless alternative dispute resolution arrangements have been explicitly agreed and documented within a local contract.
Earlier payment reports (5 shown)
- 24.0 average days to pay53.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay53.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay57.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay63.0% outside terms
- 53.0 average days to pay23.0% 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 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Secure Delivery International
Home Office · ocds-b5fd17-615e5543-031f-4d3a-ba32-fb188b12445a
- Supplier named in award
- DHL GLOBAL FORWARDING (UK) LIMITED
- Award value
- £35,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 September 2017 – 28 February 2022
- Published
- 9 September 2020
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 64100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-615e5543-031f-4d3a-ba32-fb188b12445a-2020-09-09T14:21:52+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
BAKER BRITT
Owner DHL Global Forwarding (UK) Limited · classes 36,39
- Filed / designated
- 30 November 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 November 2017
WARMQUEST
Owner DHL Global Forwarding (UK) Limited · classes 36,39
- Filed / designated
- 30 November 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 November 2017
PANDAIR
Owner DHL Global Forwarding (UK) Limited · classes 36,39
- Filed / designated
- 30 November 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 November 2017
BRANTFORD
Owner DHL Global Forwarding (UK) Limited · classes 36,39
- Filed / designated
- 30 November 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 November 2017
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
Dhl Global Forwarding International Holdings B.V.
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- Netherlands
- Legal authority
- Dutch Law
- Legal form
- Private Limited Liability Company
- Place registered
- Netherlands Chamber Of Commerce, Maastricht
- Registration number
- 95113185
- Notified
- 29 November 2024
Deutsche Post Beteiligungen Holding Gmbh
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Legal authority
- German Law
- Legal form
- Limited Liability Company
- Notified
- 24 November 2023
- Ceased
- 29 November 2024
Ms Miriam Marcela Gagna
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- Italian
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 8 April 2019
- Ceased
- 19 July 2023
Mr Michael Paul YoungSee 5 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 17 March 2017
- Ceased
- 19 July 2023
Mr Remco Pieter Van Oerle
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- Dutch
- Country of residence
- Switzerland
- Notified
- 15 August 2016
- Ceased
- 30 June 2022
Mr Steven Norman BarkerSee 3 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 15 August 2016
- Ceased
- 31 December 2016
Mrs Vari Isabel CameronSee 5 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 15 August 2016
- Ceased
- 8 April 2019
Deutsche Post Dhl Beteiligungen Gmbh
- Has significant influence or control
- Country registered
- Germany
- Legal authority
- German Law
- Legal form
- Gmbh
- Place registered
- Handelsregister Bonn
- Registration number
- Hrb 18920
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 24 November 2023
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.
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.
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.
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.
10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
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.
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
Confirmation statement due date: 2026-09-20 → 2027-09-20
- 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.
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.