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Company description
WATER 2 BUSINESS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 7 May 2013; registered for 13 years; registered office reported in BRISTOL, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 96090 · Other service activities n.e.c..
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records, 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
- WATER 2 BUSINESS LIMITED
- Company number
- 08518831
- 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
30 June 2025Next accounts due
31 March 2027Last statement made up to
15 April 2026Next statement due
29 April 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 3 August 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 90 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 July 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £202,274,870
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £2,843,614
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £13,884,512
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £14,013,606
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 5.0%
- 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
Maximum contractual payment period is 90 days contractually agreed with a Supplier.
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms for qualifying contracts are 30 days, 45 days and 90 days based on agreed contractual payment period. Payments are made via BACs or Faster Payment when they fall due.
- Dispute resolution process
Any dispute arising out of or in respect of the invoice may be referred in writing by either party to the counterparty . Failing resolution of the dispute by the counterparty within 1 (one) calendar month of the reference to them the dispute may immediately be referred in writing by either Party for determination to the Company’s Finance Manager and Supplier sales manager who shall seek to reach agreement of the dispute.
Earlier payment reports (3 shown)
- 19.0 average days to pay5.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay6.0% 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 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Water 2 Business Limited
Registration ZA225056
- Registered from
- 3 January 2017
- Current end date
- 2 January 2027
- Trading names
- water2business, w2b, Water2Business, W2B
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.
05 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Water, Wastewater and Ancillary Services (2)
Crown Commercial Service · ocds-b5fd17-0526d350-b655-4cad-be8f-8e13b469782a
- Supplier named in award
- WATER 2 BUSINESS LIMITED
- Award value
- £2,000,000,000
- Contract period
- 22 September 2020 – 21 September 2024
- Published
- 21 October 2020
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 65100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-0526d350-b655-4cad-be8f-8e13b469782a-2020-10-21T11:24:44+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.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Pennon Group Plc
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Governed By The Laws Of England And Wales
- Legal form
- Corporate
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 02366640
- Notified
- 31 January 2025
Wessex Water Limited
- Owns 50% to 75% of shares
- Controls 50% to 75% of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 02366633
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
Bristol Water Holdings Limited
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom
- Legal form
- Corporate
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 02630760
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 31 January 2025
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
- 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.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
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.