JOHN SWIRE & SONS OVERSEAS LIMITED
Company details
- Registered name
- JOHN SWIRE & SONS OVERSEAS LIMITED
- Company number
- 04986766
- Registered office
- SWIRE HOUSE, 59 BUCKINGHAM GATE, LONDON, SW1E 6AJ, UNITED KINGDOM · 201 other companies at this postcode
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated on
- 5 December 2003
- Status
- Active
- Age
- 22 years
- Nature of business (SIC)
- 82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.
- Accounts — next due
- 30 Sept 2026
- Accounts — last made up to
- 31 Dec 2024
- Confirmation statement — next due
- 19 Dec 2026
- Confirmation statement — last
- 05 Dec 2025
What the register says
Facts from the register, with the dates they are filed under. Not a score: what they mean is for you to judge, and every line can be checked against Companies House itself.
- A person with significant control here also controls 20 other companies.
Companies House register snapshot, read 02/09/2026.
Officers
4 active · 11 resigned
People with significant control
Beneficial owners holding over 25% of shares, voting rights or the right to appoint directors
Corporate structure
Who controls this company, and who they control in turn
Connections
Serving officers
Change history
Reconstructed from the dated records Companies House publishes
| Date | Change | Was | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24/08/2026 | Director resigned | DE GENTILE-WILLIAMS, Philippe Anthony Wynne | — |
| 24/08/2026 | Director appointed | — | PELLING, Sean Colin |
| 03/10/2018 | Secretary appointed | — | MORRIS, David Charles |
| 13/07/2018 | Secretary resigned | DIBBEN, Ann Marie | — |
| 29/06/2018 | Director appointed | — | DE GENTILE-WILLIAMS, Philippe Anthony Wynne |
| 23/08/2016 | Secretary resigned | MORRIS, David Charles | — |
| 23/08/2016 | Secretary appointed | — | DIBBEN, Ann Marie |
| 06/04/2016 | Person with significant control added | — | John Swire & Sons Limited |
| 01/10/2015 | Secretary resigned | FARMERY, Joanna Louise | — |
| 01/10/2015 | Secretary appointed | — | MORRIS, David Charles |
| 01/01/2015 | Director appointed | — | SWIRE, Merlin Bingham |
| 31/12/2014 | Director resigned | HUGHES-HALLETT, James Wyndham John | — |
| 01/06/2009 | Secretary resigned | ADAMS, James Robert | — |
| 01/06/2009 | Secretary appointed | — | FARMERY, Joanna Louise |
| 31/12/2008 | Director resigned | JOHANSENS, Peter Andre | — |
| 24/02/2005 | Director resigned | BRIDGMAN, Timothy Clive | — |
| 01/01/2005 | Director appointed | — | JOHANSENS, Peter Andre |
| 01/01/2005 | Director appointed | — | HUGHES-HALLETT, James Wyndham John |
| 01/05/2004 | Secretary appointed | — | ADAMS, James Robert |
| 30/04/2004 | Secretary resigned | POPE, Geoffrey Christopher | — |
Financial highlights
No figures could be read from the accounts filed on 20 Nov 2025. Companies House holds some filings only as a document image, which carries no tagged figures; the filing itself is on the register either way.
Documents for JOHN SWIRE & SONS OVERSEAS LIMITED
Need this one company on file? Buy the document on its own — no plan required.
The full registration record as held today — name, number, status, registered office, company type, previous names, officers, PSC and SIC codes, timestamped for your file.
Every figure the company’s own accounts state, across each filed period, with year-on-year movement. Most UK companies file small or micro-entity accounts — a balance sheet and a headcount, no turnover or profit.
Who controls the company: persons with significant control, the nature of that control, the ownership graph and every other company those controllers hold.
Filing history
Most recent filings
Data protection register
Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office as a data protection fee payer.
The ICO publishes no company number, so this is matched on the registered name and confirmed by the postcode. Check the ICO entry before relying on it.
Get this company via API
Every field on this page is available as structured JSON behind one endpoint and one API key.
GET /v1/company/gb/04986766
X-Api-Key: $OPENDATA_KEYFrequently asked questions
What is the company number of JOHN SWIRE & SONS OVERSEAS LIMITED?▾
Where is JOHN SWIRE & SONS OVERSEAS LIMITED registered?▾
Who runs JOHN SWIRE & SONS OVERSEAS LIMITED?▾
What is the SIC code of JOHN SWIRE & SONS OVERSEAS LIMITED?▾
Who controls JOHN SWIRE & SONS OVERSEAS LIMITED?▾
When are the next accounts of JOHN SWIRE & SONS OVERSEAS LIMITED due?▾
About JOHN SWIRE & SONS OVERSEAS LIMITED (04986766)
JOHN SWIRE & SONS OVERSEAS LIMITED is a private limited company incorporated on 5 December 2003 and registered in the United Kingdom under company number 04986766. Its registered office is at SWIRE HOUSE, 59 BUCKINGHAM GATE, LONDON, SW1E 6AJ, UNITED KINGDOM. The recorded nature of business is other business support service activities n.e.c. (SIC 82990). The company is currently active , with statutory accounts last made up to 31 December 2024. 15 active officers are on record , and the person with significant control is John Swire & Sons Limited. This profile is provided by opendata.bot by Noetikos, aggregating official data from Companies House bulk data , last refreshed 12 September 2026.
Companies at the same registered office
Other business support service activities n.e.c. across UK registers
The same sector and the same company, seen through every register we hold
Explore by sector
Every UK company records what it does as a SIC code — browse the sectors around this one.