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Company description
SMITHS NEWS PLC is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Public Limited Company”. Incorporated on 2 August 2004; registered for 22 years; registered office reported in SWINDON, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 70100 · Activities of head offices.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record. 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
- SMITHS NEWS PLC
- Company number
- 05195191
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 2 total · 1 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
30 August 2025Next accounts due
28 February 2027Last statement made up to
1 February 2026Next statement due
15 February 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
SMITHS NEWS PLC
LEI 2138004O33ONVOOQXB02 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- B6ES
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 2 August 2004
- Initial LEI registration
- 7 December 2016
- LEI last updated
- 31 March 2026
- Next renewal
- 30 May 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Other legal names
- CONNECT GROUP PLC
- Legal address
- ROWAN HOUSE CHERRY ORCHARD NORTH, KEMBREY PARK, SWINDON, GB-SWD, SN2 8UH, GB
- Headquarters address
- ROWAN HOUSE CHERRY ORCHARD NORTH, KEMBREY PARK, SWINDON, GB-SWD, SN2 8UH, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
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.
04 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- SMITHS NEWS PLC
- Group submission
- Yes
- Statement period
- 1 July 2024 – 30 August 2025
- Approved
- 1 September 2025
- Sectors
- 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
- 19 January 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 whole organisation
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
Demonstrated progress
We have KPIs against which we track on an annual basis
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Sourcing of labour from high-risk countries
- Area: Within your own operations
- Group: Migrants
- Mitigation: Oversight of right to work
- Risk: Temporary / foreign / ISP or agency workers
- Mitigation: Monitoring and oversight of right to work in UK
- Risk: limited worker access to pensions, and representation
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers
- Mitigation: Through our colleague forums we have sought to create a safe space for conversations with workers and, separately, we ensure that any whistleblowers or persons who raise concerns are adequately
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.
05 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Smiths News PLC
Registration ZA054169
- Registered from
- 23 May 2014
- Current end date
- 22 May 2027
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.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 18 February 2021
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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.
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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.
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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.
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10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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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.
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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
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.
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14 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
- Company name
Previous name: CONNECT GROUP PLC
- Company name
Previous name: SMITHS NEWS PLC
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
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.
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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