Running a limited company: your responsibilities
Signs, stationery and promotional material
Signs
You must display a sign showing your company name at your registered company address and wherever your business operates. If you鈥檙e running your business from home, you do not need to display a sign there.
Example
If you鈥檙e running 3 shops and an office that鈥檚 not at your home, you must display a sign at each of them.
The sign must be easy to read and to see at any time, not just when you鈥檙e open.
Stationery and promotional material
You must include your company鈥檚 name on all company documents, publicity and letters.
On business letters, order forms and websites, you must show:
- the company鈥檚 registered number
- its registered office address
- where the company is registered (England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland)
- the fact that it鈥檚 a limited company (usually by spelling out the company鈥檚 full name including 鈥楲imited鈥� or 鈥楲td鈥�)
If you want to include directors鈥� names, you must list all of them.
If you want to show your company鈥檚 share capital (how much the shares were worth when you issued them), you must say how much is 鈥榩aid up鈥� (owned by shareholders).
There are different rules for what you need to include on invoices.