--- title: "Mars Food UK Limited: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/mars-food-uk-limited-melton-mowbray-771424 register_status: active register_as_of: 2026-10-30 publisher: Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk) source: UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Open Government Licence v3); Companies House --- # Mars Food UK Limited: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, Mars Food UK Limited (Companies House 06649971, Melton Mowbray) holds A-rated Worker and Temporary Worker sponsor licences covering the Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee, Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker and Skilled Worker routes, and has appeared on the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors since at least 4 August 2013 (source: Borderless, from the GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors and Companies House). ## Key facts - Register status: Active: on the current register and licensed to sponsor workers - Licence type and rating: Temporary Worker (A rating); Worker (A rating) - Visa routes: Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee; Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker - First seen on the register: 4 August 2013 or earlier - Industry: Manufacturing & Industrial - Town: Melton Mowbray - Registered address: 3d Dundee Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 4LG - Companies House number: 06649971 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06649971) - Register data as of: 30 October 2026 (GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors, re-read daily) - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/mars-food-uk-limited-melton-mowbray-771424 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 36 licensed sponsors in Melton Mowbray: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/melton-mowbray - One of 8,077 in Manufacturing & Industrial: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/manufacturing-industrial - Among 10,782 Global Business Mobility sponsors: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/route/global-business-mobility ## Companies House changes since it joined the register 35 changes worth checking, checked 26 October 2026, newest first: - 25 Aug 2026: New director appointed: MOONEY, Timothy Robert James. Director change recorded on 25 Aug 2026. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 5 Feb 2026: Director resigned: READE, Nicholas William. Director change recorded on 5 Feb 2026. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 8 Apr 2025: Director resigned: KIMBERLEY, Helen Michelle. Director change recorded on 8 Apr 2025. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 8 Apr 2025: New director appointed: FINCHAM, Matthew. Director change recorded on 8 Apr 2025. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 27 Aug 2024: New director appointed: GOPIENKO, Pavel. Director change recorded on 27 Aug 2024. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 23 May 2024: New director appointed: READE, Nicholas William. Director change recorded on 23 May 2024. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 12 Mar 2024: Director resigned: PARTON, Andrew Richard. Director change recorded on 12 Mar 2024. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 15 Feb 2023: Notification of Mars Slough Uk Holdings Limited as a person with significant control. New majority owner or controller recorded on 15 Feb 2023. If control of your organisation has passed to a new owner, the licence does not transfer automatically, and a new licence application may be needed within 20 working days. - 15 Feb 2023: Cessation of Mars Slough Uk Holdings Limited as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 15 Feb 2023. If this changes who owns or controls your organisation, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 15 Feb 2023: Notification of Mars Petcare Uk Holdings Limited as a person with significant control. New majority owner or controller recorded on 15 Feb 2023. If control of your organisation has passed to a new owner, the licence does not transfer automatically, and a new licence application may be needed within 20 working days. - 15 Feb 2023: Cessation of Mars Petcare Uk Holdings Limited as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 15 Feb 2023. If this changes who owns or controls your organisation, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 15 Feb 2023: Notification of Food Manufacturers (G.B. Company) as a person with significant control. New majority owner or controller recorded on 15 Feb 2023. If control of your organisation has passed to a new owner, the licence does not transfer automatically, and a new licence application may be needed within 20 working days. - 15 Feb 2023: Cessation of Mars Melton Uk Holdings Limited as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 15 Feb 2023. If this changes who owns or controls your organisation, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 20 Jan 2023: Director resigned: TOPALIAN, Armen. Director change recorded on 20 Jan 2023. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 11 Apr 2022: New director appointed: THOMPSON, Richard. Director change recorded on 11 Apr 2022. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 5 Apr 2022: New director appointed: FRIEDMAN, Timothy William. Director change recorded on 5 Apr 2022. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 2 Jul 2021: Director resigned: LANGER, Ian James. Director change recorded on 2 Jul 2021. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 5 May 2021: New director appointed: WOOD, Kajal. Director change recorded on 5 May 2021. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 4 May 2021: New director appointed: TOPALIAN, Armen. Director change recorded on 4 May 2021. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 20 Feb 2021: Director resigned: SARGEANT, Craig Andrew. Director change recorded on 20 Feb 2021. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 20 Mar 2020: Director resigned: SELBY, Helen Kathryn. Director change recorded on 20 Mar 2020. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 10 Dec 2019: New director appointed: KIMBERLEY, Helen Michelle. Director change recorded on 10 Dec 2019. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 10 Dec 2019: New director appointed: SELBY, Helen Kathryn. Director change recorded on 10 Dec 2019. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 14 Aug 2019: Director resigned: HAINES, David James. Director change recorded on 14 Aug 2019. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 29 Dec 2017: Secretary resigned: WILLIAMS, Carol. Company secretary change recorded on 29 Dec 2017. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - + 10 earlier changes on the web page Companies House cannot show who holds the licence roles or whether a change was reported to the Home Office, so these are prompts to check against your own records, not findings. ## Sponsored jobs No listings matched yet. Job listings are harvested daily from Reed, Adzuna, Jooble and Careerjet and matched back to the register by employer name. ## Common questions about Mars Food UK Limited ### Is Mars Food UK Limited a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Mars Food UK Limited in Melton Mowbray is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors and has been since at least 2013. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can Mars Food UK Limited sponsor? Mars Food UK Limited is licensed for Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee, Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker and Skilled Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Temporary Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Mars Food UK Limited based? The register lists Mars Food UK Limited at 3d Dundee Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 4LG. This is usually the head office; the job itself may be somewhere else. ### How current is this information? This page uses the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors, as published on 30 October 2026, and Companies House records for company number 06649971. We update it daily. Always confirm a licence status on GOV.UK. ## About this data - Source register: UK Home Office, Register of Licensed Sponsors (Workers), https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers (Open Government Licence v3). GOV.UK is authoritative; confirm there before relying on a licence status. - Company records: Companies House, https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/ - Published by Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk), an OISC-regulated UK immigration provider. This is public register data, not legal advice. - "First seen on the register" is when this organisation first appeared in our data, not the official licence grant date. - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/mars-food-uk-limited-melton-mowbray-771424 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/mars-food-uk-limited-melton-mowbray-771424.md - Site overview for AI agents: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/llms.txt - Something wrong? Request a correction from the web page and the Borderless team will check it.