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Company description
AO MOBILE LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 18 March 2011; registered for 15 years; registered office reported in BOLTON, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 74990 · Non-trading company.
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
- AO MOBILE LIMITED
- Company number
- 07570386
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 5 total · 0 outstanding · 5 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 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
18 March 2026Next statement due
1 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 2021 – 31 March 2022
- Filed
- 26 April 2022
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 135 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-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 19.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 135 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
Payment runs are run every Wednesday to pay invoices due up to Friday to clear on the Friday so any invoices due on any day other than a Friday will always be paid late
- Other payment-term information
N/A
- Dispute resolution process
For queries related to payment of invoices, suppliers should initially contact the PurchaseLedger@AO.co.uk who will assist in resolving straight forward issues.
Disputes which are more will be escalated to the Purchasing for Qty or Pricing issues for Stock queries for all non stock queries Purchase ledger will escalate to the relevant department to resolve all disputes as quickly as possible so to pay suppliers within the agreed payment terms.
Earlier payment reports (7 shown)
- 57.0 average days to pay78.0% outside terms
- 73.0 average days to pay82.0% outside terms
- 67.0 average days to pay73.0% outside terms
- 62.0 average days to pay69.0% outside terms
- 62.0 average days to pay69.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay32.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay48.0% 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 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
AO MOBILE LIMITED
LEI 213800R3O4HE52J6H421 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 18 March 2011
- Initial LEI registration
- 16 October 2019
- LEI last updated
- 20 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 20 October 2026
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Other legal names
- MOBILE PHONES DIRECT LIMITED; MOBILE PHONES DIRECT (ONLINE) LIMITED
- Legal address
- AO PARK 5A THE PARKLANDS, LOSTOCK, BOLTON, GB-BOL, BL6 4SD, GB
- Headquarters address
- AO PARK 5A THE PARKLANDS, LOSTOCK, BOLTON, GB-BOL, BL6 4SD, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 213800R3O4HE52J6H421 to LEI 2138005FFOAJIUZY4375
- Related legal entity
- AO WORLD PLC →
- Initial registration
- 16 October 2019
- Last updated
- 20 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 20 October 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2024-04-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2025-03-31T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2019-10-16T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: IFRS
- Validation reference
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07570386/filing-history/MzQ4MjkyNjIyOWFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 213800R3O4HE52J6H421 to LEI 2138005FFOAJIUZY4375
- Related legal entity
- AO WORLD PLC →
- Initial registration
- 16 October 2019
- Last updated
- 20 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 20 October 2026
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2024-04-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2025-03-31T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2019-10-16T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: IFRS
- Validation reference
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07570386/filing-history/MzQ4MjkyNjIyOWFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
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.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- AO MOBILE LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- AO WORLD PLC
- Statement period
- 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2021
- Approved
- 27 July 2021
- Sectors
- Durable consumer goods, including electronics and appliances, home furnishings and other accessories Transportation, logistics, and storage Waste management and recycling
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
- 30 September 2021
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
Procurement staff
Worker engagement and working conditions
Businesses in your industry or sector
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Other monitoring
All suppliers currently go through a risk assessment process.Where red flags are identified further discussions will take place and relations assessed as required.
Demonstrated progress
The following objectives will form our KPI's for the following 12 months. 1Reviewing the Supplier Onboarding Process as a part of responsible procurement & raise awareness to suppliers 2Continue monitoring Goods Not for Resale suppliers through our improved risk base approach to due diligence. 3 Reviewing high risk supplier’s worker rights through our onboarding questionnaires 4 Review our training systems to include Modern Slavery awareness and due diligence
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Staff provided by third party services providers within warehousing and logistics
- Area: Within your own operations
- Group: Migrants Refugees
- Location: United Kingdom
- Mitigation: A new Supplier Code of Conduct will be introduced during the year which includes clear requirements on Modern Slavery. The Code will be rolled out initially to suppliers that have been assessed for potential higher risk of modern slavery, including those providing temporary worker recruitment within logistics The Code states that AO reserves the right to check compliance, for example through self-assessments and audits which may be carried out by AO or through a third party.
- Risk: Staff provided by third party services providers within recycling operation
- Mitigation: a new Supplier Code of Conduct will be introduced during the year which includes clear requirements on Modern Slavery. The Code will be rolled out initially to suppliers that have been assessed for potential higher risk of modern slavery, including those involved in providing services or labour within cleaning recycling. AO reserves the right to check compliance, for example through self-assessments and audits which may be carried out by AO or through a third party.
- Risk: Workers within GNFR suppliers in the UK
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers
- Group: Women Migrants Refugees
- Location: Germany United Kingdom
- Mitigation: A new Supplier Code of Conduct will be introduced during the year which includes clear requirements on Modern Slavery. The Code will be rolled out initially to suppliers that have been assessed for potential higher risk of modern slavery within GNFR. Audits of higher risk GNFR suppliers will be considered on a case by case basis. The Code of Conduct and new onboarding questionnaire will be applied to all new GNFR suppliers.
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06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Ao Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- Englamd
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 06861978
- Notified
- 17 December 2018
Mr Karl Eslie BorgesSee 3 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 50% to 75% of shares
- Controls 50% to 75% of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 17 December 2018
Ms Susan Jane BorgesSee 2 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 17 December 2018
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
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.
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
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.
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: MOBILE PHONES DIRECT LIMITED
- Company name
Previous name: MOBILE PHONES DIRECT (ONLINE) LIMITED
- Company name
Previous name: MOBILE PHONES DIRECT ONLINE LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 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.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company 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.