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Company description
OPTICAL EXPRESS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 3 November 1995; registered for 30 years; registered office reported in GLASGOW, SCOTLAND. Its primary declared activity is 86900 · Other human health activities.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 28 December 2024, it reported profit after tax £12,931,000, net assets £61,855,000, average employees 549. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 9 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
- OPTICAL EXPRESS LIMITED
- Company number
- SC161469
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 7 total · 3 outstanding · 4 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
28 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
7 November 2025Next statement due
21 November 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Profit before tax
- £17,076,000
- Profit after tax
- £12,931,000
- Fixed assets
- £15,673,000
- Net assets
- £61,855,000
- Current assets
- £87,168,000
- Current liabilities
- £37,034,000
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £65,807,000
- Cash at bank
- £1,853,000
- Equity
- £61,855,000
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
04 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 41.5%
- Mean bonus gap
- 57.5%
- Women receiving bonus
- 66.2%
- Men receiving bonus
- 33.8%
- Women in top quartile
- 51.7%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 68.1%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 74.6%
- Women in lower quartile
- 67.7%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 500 to 99915.7% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99911.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499922.8% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99926.7% median hourly gap
- Not Provided50.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499919.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499911.4% 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.
05 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 28 December 2025 – 27 June 2026
- Filed
- 24 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- 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
- 28 December 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £24,988,232
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £1,348,717
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £956,260
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 5.0%
- 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
The company's standard payment term are that invoiced amounts are paid within 30 days of the end of the month in which a correctly rendered invoice is received. Significant contracts are subject to specific credit terms negotiated and set out at the contracting stage and will therefore vary.
- Dispute resolution process
Any disputes unresolved with the accounts payable department are escalated to the Company Secretary and thereafter, if unresolved, to the Finance Director.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 8.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 10.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 10.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 11.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 8.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 12.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 12.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay5.0% outside terms
- 8.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 8.0 average days to pay4.0% 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.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- OPTICAL EXPRESS LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- DCM (OPTICAL HOLDINGS) LIMITED
- Statement period
- 8 April 2020 – 8 April 2021
- Approved
- 8 April 2021
- Sectors
- 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
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 9 April 2021
Policies described
Freedom of workers to terminate employment 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
Training described
Your whole organisation Your front line staff Human resources Executive-level staff Procurement staff
Worker engagement and working conditions
Workers within your organisation
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
Demonstrated progress
Introduction of annual Code of Conduct training for all employees. Including scoring of their understanding and knowledge. Continuous review of our policies and practices internally and with our supply chain. Supply Chain Code of Conduct policy will be in place by end of 2021.
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.
07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Optical Express Limited
Registration Z7042771
- Registered from
- 15 August 2002
- Current end date
- 14 August 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
eye CLINIC
Owner Optical Express Limited · classes 5,9,44
- Filed / designated
- 15 June 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 June 2020
health C L I N I C
Owner Optical Express Limited · classes 44
- Filed / designated
- 18 November 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 November 2019
eye C L I N I C
Owner Optical Express Limited · classes 5,9
- Filed / designated
- 18 November 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 November 2019
Ciel
Owner Optical Express Limited · classes 5,9
- Filed / designated
- 18 March 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 March 2019
ORACLE
Owner Optical Express Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 27 November 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 November 2018
THE EYE CLINIC
Owner Optical Express Limited · classes 5,9,42
- Filed / designated
- 22 December 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 December 2027
GIORGIO VENTURI
Owner Optical Express Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 13 May 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 May 2017
si,VEDO
Owner Optical Express Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 13 May 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 May 2017
Paolo Riva PAOLO RIVA OCCHIALI
Owner Optical Express Limited · classes 9
- Filed / designated
- 13 May 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 May 2017
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.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Dcm (Optical Holdings) Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- Scotland
- Legal authority
- Scottish
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- Sc146610
- 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.
09 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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10 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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11 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.
12 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.
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13 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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14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
15 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.
16 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
17 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
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.
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