ZimCompany › From the United Kingdom
You can own and register a Zimbabwean company from the United Kingdom without flying there, and you do not have to be Zimbabwean to do it. Ownership carries no residency or citizenship requirement. A Private Business Corporation needs no Zimbabwe resident director at all, while a Private Limited Company needs one resident director and a resident company secretary, which ZimCompany can supply as annual lines.
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Anyone registering a Zimbabwean company while they are in the United Kingdom. That is a Zimbabwean living in Britain who wants a company in Zimbabwe, a British investor putting money into a Zimbabwean business, and a UK company opening a Zimbabwean subsidiary to contract, invoice, employ or bid. The filings are the same for all three, and the questionnaire asks who will own the company so the ownership requirements land in the right estimate.
This page covers the three things that actually differ because you are in Britain: which documents have to be certified and how, how you pay us, and when you can reach a person.
The 2021 and 2022 census returns counted 130,593 Zimbabwe-born residents of the United Kingdom, and a large share of them send money to Zimbabwe every month while owning nothing registered there. That gap is usually paperwork rather than money, and it is the reason Britain was one of the first markets we set up for. It is not a restriction on who this page serves.
For every director, member or shareholder we need a clear scan of the identity document or passport and a proof of address. Where an owner is a company, we need its registration documents too. What has to be certified, and by whom, depends on what is being registered and who is on the register, so we send you a document list with your estimate rather than a generic one up front. We do not publish a certification or embassy requirement we have not confirmed, because getting that wrong costs you a week and a courier fee.
It is worth knowing what the heavy route costs, because some agents route every overseas client through a notarised power of attorney. Figures published for that route in Britain run to around GBP 50 to GBP 200 for a notary public per document, GBP 30 to GBP 80 for attestation at the Zimbabwean embassy in London, GBP 20 to GBP 50 for a solicitor witnessing a signature, and GBP 15 to GBP 80 for courier. Those are somebody else numbers, not ours, and we quote them only so you can compare what you are being asked to do.
Your quote carries a card pay link and is priced in United States dollars. Your bank converts at its own rate. Cards issued outside Zimbabwe are sometimes declined by the acquirer, and if that happens we send bank transfer details instead. You pay a deposit when the job is instructed and the balance when the work is done, before documents are released, and our fee and the government fee are separate numbers on every quote.
You can also pay by transfer or through a remittance service, and someone in Zimbabwe can settle a balance locally on your behalf.
We work Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00 Harare time, which is UTC+2 all year because Zimbabwe does not change its clocks. Britain runs one hour behind Harare in summer and two hours behind in winter. In practice a message sent from London before mid-afternoon reaches Harare inside the working day.
The rule is the same wherever you are reading this. A Private Business Corporation is held by members under section 252(1) of the Companies and Other Business Entities Act [Chapter 24:31] and no section of the Act puts a residency duty on a member, which suits a single owner outside Zimbabwe. A Private Limited Company needs one director ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe under section 195(2) and a company secretary ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe under section 198(1), and it is the only route for a company registered outside Zimbabwe, because section 253(1) bars a body corporate from being a PBC member.
If you are not a Zimbabwean citizen, or the owner is a company registered outside Zimbabwe, you still get a price from the questionnaire rather than a sales call. Foreign ownership adds a mandatory Zimbabwean company secretary, a registered office in Zimbabwe where you have none, and notes on ZIDA registration and on reserved sectors that carry no figure and are not added to your total.
Yes. Ownership has no residency requirement and no citizenship requirement. Only a Private Limited Company needs a director ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe, under section 195(2) of the Companies and Other Business Entities Act, and a Private Business Corporation does not.
Yes, as the shareholder of a Zimbabwean Private Limited Company. It cannot use a Private Business Corporation, because section 253(1) allows only individual natural persons to be members. A foreign-owned company must also hold a Zimbabwean company secretary, which we quote as its own annual line.
Not necessarily. Some agents route every overseas client through one. We confirm your actual document list with your estimate and we do not ask you to certify anything the filing does not need.
No. Quotes are priced and charged in US dollars, and your bank converts. If a UK-issued card is declined by the acquirer, we send bank transfer details.
Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00 Harare time, which is UTC+2 all year. That is one hour ahead of London in summer and two hours ahead in winter.
ZimCompany registers and runs Zimbabwean companies for people and businesses anywhere in the world: owners living outside Zimbabwe, foreign investors, and companies registered elsewhere that need a Zimbabwean entity. Email [email protected] or message +263 77 272 4514 on WhatsApp. We work 9:00 to 17:00 CAT, UTC+2 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
ZimCompany is a Lioncap Ventures service. Lioncap Ventures (Pvt) Ltd, registration 16326A02102024, Harare, Zimbabwe. Start with the questionnaire at https://zimcompany.com/start.