VAX LIMITED, WR9 8YB : Companies House Number 01341840

Executive summary

VAX Limited leverages its 45-year heritage and specialized focus on carpet and steam cleaning to maintain a defensible niche within the highly competitive UK floorcare market. Operating as a subsidiary with a hybrid wholesale and direct-to-consumer model, the company's future growth hinges on expanding its high-margin DTC channel and recurring consumable sales while navigating the strategic constraints imposed by its parent corporate structure.

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Overview

Company type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 1977-12-01
Registered office: Artillery House, Heritage Way, Droitwich, Worcestershire, England, WR9 8YB
Postcode: WR9 8YB
Capital: 40 GBP
Accounts category: Full
Charges: 3 outstanding

Accounts

Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Next due by: 2026-09-30
Financial year end: 31 December

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated: 2026-08-12
Next due by: 2027-08-26

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Nature of business (SIC)

46439 Wholesale of radio, television goods & electrical household appliances (other than records, tapes, CD's & video tapes and the equipment used for playing them)

Officers 2 current · 32 resigned

Danielle Maree CLAYTON Director

Appointed 2022-02-23

MR David WINTERBOTTOM Director

Appointed 2016-12-31

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Patents 50

Patent publications naming VAX LIMITED as applicant.

A dust separator/collector assembly

GB2504776A published 2014-02-12
Chassis for a suction cleaner

GB2500191A published 2013-09-18
Wheel-supporting arrangement

GB2490711A published 2012-11-14
SUCTION CLEANER

WO2012127242A2 published 2012-09-27
Suction cleaner

GB2489266A published 2012-09-26

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Patent data from the European Patent Office (Open Patent Services).

Modern slavery statement

Registered a modern slavery statement for 2022 (period to 2021-12-31) — 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 — ZA057696 (Tier 3), registered since 2014.

Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Gender pay gap

9.33%

Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity

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Contact details

Website: vax.co.uk
Phone: 01905795959, 03300268455, 01905799655

Buy Vax vacuum cleaners, carpet cleaners, steam cleaners and more from the Vax official website. Experience powerful award-winning everyday solutions today.

Previous company names

Name	Date changed
VAX APPLIANCES LIMITED	1993-08-09

Previous registered addresses 3

Address	Changed on
2 COLMORE SQUARE 5TH FLOOR, 38 COLMORE CIRCUS QUEENSWAY, BIRMINGHAM, B4 6BN	2018-09-04
QUILLGOLD HOUSE, KINGSWOOD ROAD, HAMPTON LOVETT, DROITWICH, WORCS., WR9 0QH	2014-07-17
QUILLGOLD HOUSE, WEST STONE, BERRY HILL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, DROITWICH WORCESTERSHIRE WR9 9AS	1988-06-28

Among its peers

Among the oldest 25%

of 591 similar companies in WR — measured against the wider sector, trading since 1977

The class of 1977

51%

of the 7,314 companies incorporated in 1977 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.

A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.

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Property in England & Wales 2 titles

Leasehold: 2
Most recent registration: 2023-06-21
Where: Worcestershire (2)

Title number	County	Tenure	Registered	Price paid
WR207965	Worcestershire	Leasehold	2023-06-21	—
WR154737	Worcestershire	Leasehold	2014-10-01	—

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