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Companies House was a member of the Public Data Group, an advisory board which between 2011 and 2015 sought to improve public access to government data. [25] Companies House is also responsible for dissolving companies. [26] In 2020, there were approximately 4.3 million businesses on the Companies House register. [27]
The Westcoast Group employs more than 1,600 people across a number of locations in the UK, Ireland and Europe. Westcoast Limited was the largest privately owned company in the Thames Valley before being a merger with European distributor ALSO group was announced in July 2024
In corporate law, the directors register is a list of the directors elected by the shareholders, generally stored in the company's minute book.By law, companies are required to keep this list up to date to remove those directors who are deceased or resign, and to add those who have been elected by the shareholders [1] However, the register must also list any person who had been a director ...
Every limited company must file annually a confirmation statement (previously an annual return), as required by section 853A of the Companies Act 2006, [2] which confirms that its information held at Companies House is correct. To help companies meet this filing requirement, Companies House may send a pre-printed "shuttle" form to each company ...
A company can increase its authorised share capital by passing an ordinary resolution (unless its articles of association require a special or extraordinary resolution). A copy of the resolution – and notice of the increase on Form 123 – must reach Companies House within 15 days of being passed. No fee is payable to Companies House.
In 2019, the Register of Beneficial Ownership was introduced into Ireland. That was implemented on the back of the EU’s Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive, which essentially requires all member states to hold adequate, accurate and current information of all beneficial owners. A beneficial owner is someone who owns more than 25% of a company.
After extensive privatisation of the public sector during the Margaret Thatcher administration, there remain few statutory corporations in the UK. Privatisation began in the late 1970s, and notable privatisations include the Central Electricity Generating Board, British Rail, and more recently Royal Mail.
The company's name is an abbreviation of Cement Roadstone Holdings, and was formed through the merger in 1970 of Cement Ltd (established in 1936) and Roadstone Ltd (established in 1949). [2] According to Jonathan Guthrie of the Financial Times, it is pronounced "Cee Orr Haitch". [3] The company went public on the Irish Stock Exchange in 1973. [4]