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Company description
OPTOS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Public Limited Company”. Incorporated on 26 August 1992; registered for 34 years; registered office reported in DUNFERMLINE, FIFE. Its primary declared activity is 26701 · Manufacture of optical precision instruments, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 7 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
- OPTOS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
- Company number
- SC139953
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 7 total · 0 outstanding · 7 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 2026Next accounts due
30 September 2027Last statement made up to
22 July 2026Next statement due
5 August 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 4.6%
- Mean bonus gap
- -2.5%
- Women receiving bonus
- 93.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 95.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 23.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 25.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 22.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 35.0%
Earlier reporting years (3)
- 250 to 4998.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49910.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4997.5% 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
- 1 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 12 May 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 45 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 April 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £21,468,251
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £24,336,197
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £11,400,028
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £357,646
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 41.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Our standard payment terms are 45 days
- Dispute resolution process
Dispute resolution process – Initially via accounts payable team and then through escalation to appropriate team. To resolve a dispute the supplier is required to provide any missing information or a corrected invoice. Optos follow a strict no purchase order no pay policy. The purchase order is communicated by Optos's procurement team at the time of placing the order.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 38.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 42.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 43.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 49.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 40.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 49.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay0.0% 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
- OPTOS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- Nikon Corporation
- Statement period
- 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025
- Approved
- 12 September 2025
- Sectors
- Automotive, machinery and heavy electrical equipment Durable consumer goods, including electronics and appliances, home furnishings and other accessories Healthcare and pharmaceuticals
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
- 23 September 2025
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 Your front line staff Human resources Executive-level staff Procurement staff Your suppliers The wider community
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 Central or local government Businesses in your industry or sector
Social audits
Third party audit arranged by your organisation
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
Other monitoring
For important tier 1 procurement partners that account for the top 80% of transaction volume, we implement CSR assessments (self-assessment survey) once every three years, in addition to the audits.
Demonstrated progress
In FY2025, we will set a target of 100% participation rate in the RBA assessment of human rights due diligence; redefine RBA efforts as human rights efforts and conduct surveys at non-manufacturing group companies (in Japan and overseas); establish a grievance mechanism involving an independent third-party expert; and, increase the number of companies subject to audit.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Non-conformity to CSR Survey and audit of suppliers/procurement partners in the supply chain
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers
- Group: Other vulnerable groups
- Location: China Japan Poland
- Mitigation: 1 out of 15 new procurement partners (in Poland) did not meet the target criteria of the CSR survey and audit. We have asked this company to formulate an improvement plan and will monitor its progress throughout out the year. The aim is to fulfil the improvements within FY2025. Monitoring of 2 companies (China and Japan) following audit requests last year regarding labour laws violations in the supply chain. The aim is to fulfil the improvements within FY2025.
- Risk: Human rights violations in the supply chain of mineral resources
- Location: Angola Burundi Congo (Democratic Republic) Central African Republic Rwanda South Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zambia
- Mitigation: We aim to prevent of human rights violations (such as modern slavery and human trafficking) via our Responsible Minerals Sourcing Policy and by conducting investigations of our product components on usage and supply chain of mineral resource.
Earlier linked statements (1)
- OPTOS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY31 March 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.
06 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
CF - Complete Ophthalmology Solutions 3
Supply Chain Coordination Limited · ocds-b5fd17-a02ac208-89fb-4485-964c-eee06128ea7e
- Supplier named in award
- Optos Public Limited Company
- Award value
- £360,000,000
- Contract period
- 3 November 2025 – 2 November 2027
- Published
- 2 October 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 33662100
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-a02ac208-89fb-4485-964c-eee06128ea7e-2025-10-02T09:56:31+01:00
SILVERSTONE OCT
HULL UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST · ocds-b5fd17-cb7c8e61-b722-4ee8-b2eb-f7ffff6a07ac
- Supplier named in award
- OPTOS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
- Award value
- £145,000
- Contract period
- 17 July 2020 – 16 July 2030
- Published
- 24 December 2020
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 33100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-cb7c8e61-b722-4ee8-b2eb-f7ffff6a07ac-2020-12-24T16:06:12Z
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07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Nikon Corporation
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- Japan
- Legal authority
- Companies Act
- Legal form
- Corporation
- Place registered
- Japanese Commercial Register
- Registration number
- 5010001008763
- Notified
- 26 May 2016
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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.
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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.
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10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
SERVICE MAINTENANCE OF AQUA RETINAL IMAGING SYSTEM
HULL UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST · updated 15 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Service Contract for Retinal Screening Equipment
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF DERBY AND BURTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · updated 14 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
OPTOS California RG and ICG maintenance
SOMERSET NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · updated 19 January 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Maintenance of Medical Equipment
YORK TEACHING HOSPITAL FACILITIES MANAGEMENT LLP · updated 12 December 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
SERVICE MAINTENANCE OF AQUA RETINOL IMAGING SYSTEM
HULL UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST · updated 30 July 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
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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.
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13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery n.e.c.
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
5 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
- Detected change
Accounts due date: 2026-09-30 → 2027-09-30
- 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.
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.
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