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Company description
FES LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 27 August 1973; registered for 53 years; registered office reported in STIRLING, SCOTLAND. Its primary declared activity is 43210 · Electrical installation.
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
- FES LIMITED
- Company number
- SC053848
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 6 total · 4 outstanding · 2 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 August 2025Next accounts due
31 May 2027Last statement made up to
26 February 2026Next statement due
12 March 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 September 2025 – 28 February 2026
- Filed
- 30 March 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 70 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 September 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £12,304,510
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £21,692,313
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £13,100,750
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £4,133,290
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 46.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 100.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 70 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Retention circumstances
Retentions are applied on a contract by contract basis and the percentage of retention is based on the risk profile of the contract and subcontractor.
Retention parity policy
Retention clauses applied will be no more onerous than those applied to us on a particular contract. In some instances we will apply no retention clauses to our subcontractors even when we have a retention clause.
Retention release
Retention is released to the subcontractor when their work and all outstanding defects are completed satisfactorily.
Retention release stages
Retention is usually released in 2 parts. Firstly on completion of the works and secondary on completion of any defect work.
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- 64.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 7.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Purchase ledger payments – Payment will be made 45 days after the end of month of the date of the valid invoice unless stated in the purchase order. A valid invoice has to include our purchase order number, goods need to have been delivered and all required documentation provided. The receipt date for said invoice will be assumed to be 3 days after the date of invoice.
Sub contract ledger payments – Standard payment terms are variable between 30 and 70 days from the date of the valuation and is dependent on the subcontract agreement. - Other payment-term information
The statistical information provided includes payments to both purchase ledger and subcontract suppliers.
- Dispute resolution process
FES Ltd are committed to resolving any disputed invoices quickly. The purchase ledger team carry out monthly purchase ledger reconciliations to highlight any invoices which are not on the ledger and to request these from supplier. A purchase administration team carry out follow up request for GRN’s and Service Reports.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 54.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 54.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 58.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 59.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 60.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 60.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 63.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 64.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 71.0 average days to pay59.0% outside terms
- 68.0 average days to pay61.0% outside terms
- 66.0 average days to pay39.0% 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 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- FES LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- FES HOLDINGS LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 September 2024 – 31 August 2025
- Approved
- 5 January 2026
- Sectors
- Construction, civil engineering and building products
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
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 20 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
Earlier linked statements (1)
- FES LIMITED30 August 2020
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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
FES
Owner FES Limited · classes 37
- Filed / designated
- 5 December 2003
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 December 2023
FES
Owner FES Limited · classes 37,42
- Filed / designated
- 16 May 2001
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 May 2021
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.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Fes Holdco Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- Scotland
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Uk Register
- Registration number
- 637820
- Notified
- 2 August 2019
Forth Holdings Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- Scotland
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Uk Companies Register
- Registration number
- 201964
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 2 August 2019
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06 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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07 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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08 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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10 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
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11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
12 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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13 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
14 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.
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.
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