OPTICAL EXPRESS LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£61,855
Balance sheet as at 2024-12-28
What it does
The principal activity of the company during the year was ophthalmic refractive surgery and opticians.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1995-11-03
- Employees
- 549 (2024 accounts · was 582 in 2023)
- Registered office
- 200 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G2 5SG
- Postcode
- G2 5SG
- Capital
- 199 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-12-28
- Next due by
- 2026-09-30
- Financial year end
- 30 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-11-07
- Next due by
- 2026-11-21
Nature of business (SIC)
- 86900 Other human health activities
Officers 5 current · 3 resigned
Group structure 3 subsidiaries
Controlled by DCM (OPTICAL HOLDINGS) LIMITED — since 2016-04-06
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104 BELLSHILL SVP LIMITED Dissolved
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211 EASTCHEAP SVP LIMITED Dissolved
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SVP GLOUCESTER LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Care Quality Commission 20 locations
Regulated by CQC — 1 rated Outstanding, 6 rated Good, 13 not yet rated.
All locations and inspection reports are on this provider's CQC page.
Using CQC information, © Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence.
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
Matched by registered name to the register of licensed sponsors (Home Office, updated daily) — check the register itself before relying on it. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2021 (period to 2021-04-08) as part of the DCM (OPTICAL HOLDINGS) LIMITED group statement — 2 years on the registry.
Read the statement summary on the government modern slavery statement registry. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z7042771 (Tier 3), registered since 2002.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
0.0015%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · in the top 10% for parity
Contact details
- Website
- opticalexpress.co.uk
- Phone
- 0800 023 2020
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Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| OPTICAL EXPRESS (CENTRAL) LIMITED | 2001-04-09 |
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| CLAIRMONT SOLICITORS, 9 CLAIRMONT GARDENS, GLASGOW G3 7LW | 2004-07-05 |
| 274 SAUCHIEHALL STREET, GLASGOW, STRATHCLYDE, G2 3EH | 1999-04-26 |
| 82 MITCHELL STREET, GLASGOW, G1 3PX | 1996-04-15 |
| 3 HILL STREET, EDINBURGH, EH2 3JP | 1995-11-21 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 726 similar companies in G
The largest employer among its local peers (549 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1995.
Competitors Glasgow
This company ranks 160 among other human health activities in Glasgow.
The class of 1995
47%
of the 235 companies in this sector incorporated in 1995 are still active today; 51% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 36 titles
- Leasehold
- 36
- Most recent registration
- 2025-09-24
- Where
- Greater London (5), Norfolk (3), West Midlands (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NK547620 | Norfolk | Leasehold | 2025-09-24 | — |
| AGL643376 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2025-03-27 | — |
| AGL640046 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2025-02-06 | — |
| AA77392 | Essex | Leasehold | 2024-11-27 | — |
| WK542428 | Warwickshire | Leasehold | 2024-11-27 | — |
| CH736717 | Cheshire West And Chester | Leasehold | 2024-11-08 | — |
| SY905778 | Surrey | Leasehold | 2024-11-06 | — |
| WSX449845 | West Sussex | Leasehold | 2024-10-16 | — |
| WT479449 | Wiltshire | Leasehold | 2024-10-09 | — |
| BB36051 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2024-10-04 | — |
| MM200904 | West Midlands | Leasehold | 2024-09-30 | — |
| CH735545 | Cheshire East | Leasehold | 2024-09-20 | — |
| NK538560 | Norfolk | Leasehold | 2024-08-01 | — |
| ST383897 | Bath And North East Somerset | Leasehold | 2023-11-21 | — |
| TY600840 | Tyne And Wear | Leasehold | 2023-11-06 | — |
| MS709518 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2023-10-17 | — |
| BB27991 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2023-07-25 | — |
| CYM866473 | Cardiff | Leasehold | 2023-04-11 | — |
| NYK499908 | York | Leasehold | 2022-11-08 | — |
| YY174318 | West Yorkshire | Leasehold | 2022-11-02 | — |
Showing 20 of 36.
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