TXT In plain English
Company description
RATHBONE KEAR LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 7 April 2005; registered for 21 years; registered office reported in BRADFORD, WEST YORKSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 10710 · Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 2 trade marks. 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
- RATHBONE KEAR LIMITED
- Company number
- 05417123
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 1 total · 1 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
27 October 2024Next accounts due
31 July 2026Last statement made up to
27 March 2026Next statement due
10 April 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 0.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 13.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 12.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 9.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 14.8%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 16.9%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 22.4%
- Women in lower quartile
- 34.0%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 250 to 499-5.7% median hourly gap
- Less than 250-8.8% median hourly gap
- Less than 2501.7% median hourly gap
- Less than 2503.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4999.6% median hourly gap
- Less than 2509.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49910.5% 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
- 27 October 2025 – 26 April 2026
- Filed
- 26 May 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 27 October 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £58,105
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £237,322
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £3,419,273
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £14,973
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 9.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 120 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Rathbone Kear Limited has standard payment terms of 14 days for small suppliers (defined as having sales to Morrisons of less than £100k and submitting invoices electronically) and 7 days for livestock suppliers. All other suppliers' standard payment terms are 30 or 60 days.
- Other payment-term information
Average days to pay have been calculated on the basis of when cleared funds are received by the supplier in accordance with guidance from the Department for Business, Energy & Industry Strategy . Under our standard terms payment date is when the payment is processed. Morrisons makes a Supply Chain Finance solution available to its suppliers which allows them to receive payments ahead of their standard payment terms.
- Dispute resolution process
If a supplier has a query regarding an invoice or payment it will be handled by our dedicated Accounts Payable help desk through both freephone telephone and email. Details of which are available on our website. Once it is logged, there is a formal resolution and escalation process in place.
Suppliers are also able to contact the relevant site Accounts Payable teams directly for assistance or queries regarding invoices and payments
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 53.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 52.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 55.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 46.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 48.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay2.0% 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 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- RATHBONE KEAR LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- WM MORRISON SUPERMARKETS LIMITED
- Statement period
- 31 October 2024 – 29 October 2025
- Approved
- 22 April 2026
- Sectors
- Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing
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
- 1 May 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 Human resources 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 organisation Workers within your supply chain Law enforcement, such as police, GLAA and other local labour market inspectorates Businesses in your industry or sector
Social audits
Third party audit arranged by your organisation Third party audit arranged by your supplier Announced 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
Supporting investigations by relevant authorities
Demonstrated progress
Our statement set goals and reports on progress in each case.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Migrant worker exploitation in UK and Southern European agriculture and food processing
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers Tier 2 suppliers
- Group: Migrants
- Location: Spain United Kingdom Italy
- Mitigation: Modern Slavery Group to review incidents, assess risk and drive improvement. Colleague training and briefing to raise awareness. Internal incident management and remediation process. Support the UK Seasonal Worker Scheme Taskforce to develop tangible actions to help safeguard and ensure access to workers’ rights in UK horticulture. Participated in ETI Grievance Mechanisms in Agriculture project to improve access to grievance mechanisms for vulnerable agricultural workers in Italy and Spain.
- Risk: Forced and bonded labour in the Chinese and Indian manufacturing sectors
- Group: Women Migrants
- Location: China India
- Mitigation: Third party audits at all tier one sites. Commissioned the specialist audit body TRN to conduct worker-focused, dialogue-based visits to selected factories based on risk. Training sessions and workshops for suppliers in our Chinese supply chain. All cotton sourced from China must be BCI certified. Restrictions on sourcing from countries and regions at extreme risk of human rights issues and/or where audits cannot be freely conducted.
- Risk: Migrant worker exploitation in the fish and seafood industry
- Tier: Tier 2 suppliers
- Mitigation: To address these risks within our supply chain we committed to funding and engaging in the ETI Shrimp responsible purchasing practices project. We are also developing a questionnaire to be directed to our key seafood suppliers to enhance our due diligence and identify potential actions to be taken in collaboration with our suppliers to improve working conditions in our fish and seafood supply chain.
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.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Rathbone Kear Limited
Registration Z9325040
- Registered from
- 30 January 2006
- Current end date
- 29 January 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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
STARBAKE
Owner Rathbone Kear Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 4 July 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 July 2026
RATHBONES
Owner Rathbone Kear Limited · classes 30
- Filed / designated
- 27 January 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 January 2026
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
Wm Morrison Supermarkets Holdings Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 10830110
- Notified
- 31 January 2018
Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited
- Has significant influence or control
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England)
- Legal form
- Public Limited Company (Listed)
- Place registered
- Register Of Companies In England And Wales
- Registration number
- 00358949
- 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
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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
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.
13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
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
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.
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.
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.
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.