Bacardi Limited: version 2
Saved 2026-09-14 16:42 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled what could be settled on the queued prefix_inferred item and refreshed the stub against registry sources. Prefix 5010677 stays in gs1_prefixes_inferred: Verified by GS1 and the retired GEPIR lookup return a marketing page, SEC EDGAR full-text search for the digits returns only unrelated 13F holdings, listex.info has no record and the wholesaler page that groups these EANs under Bacardi Martini sent an empty body, so no fetched source names the licensee; About now states that search, adds that GS1 UK issues the 500-509 blocks and names the two British group companies a later pass should check (Bacardi Global Brands Limited, the UK registered address Bacardi itself publishes, and Bacardi U.K. Limited, named Bacardi-Martini Limited until 1999). Newly sourced: register_ids LEI:549300R32WTQNHNN5055 and BM-ROC:16025 from GLEIF, with the Bermuda entity's 1990 creation date and Clarendon House / Pitts Bay Road addresses in About, which also now flags that founded 1862 is the Cuban business, not this entity. Added References rows gleif, gs1prefix, bacardiuk and ch-bacardiuk; re-fetched bacardibe, offprefix (still 143 packs today) and wiki-bacardi, all still current, and kept every existing fact and row. Nothing was removed; no relations were added, since Bacardi Limited is the ultimate parent and subsidiaries state ownership on their own pages.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Bacardi Limited <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Bacardi Limited
legal_name: Bacardi Limited
country: BM
website: https://www.bacardilimited.com/
register_ids: LEI:549300R32WTQNHNN5055, BM-ROC:16025
gs1_prefixes_inferred: 5010677
founded: 1862
<!--/identity-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Bacardi | name | | | |
| Bacardí | search | | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | ------------ | --------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | -------- |
| bacardibe | https://www.bacardilimited.com/country-info/belgium/ | Bacardi Limited: Belgium — registered address of S.A. Bacardi-Martini Belgium N.V. | 2026-09-14 | Bacardi Limited | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| bacardiuk | https://www.bacardilimited.com/country-info/united-kingdom/ | Bacardi Limited: United Kingdom — registered address of Bacardi Global Brands Limited | 2026-09-14 | Bacardi Limited | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| gleif | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records?filter%5Bentity.legalName%5D=Bacardi%20Limited | GLEIF LEI record 549300R32WTQNHNN5055: Bacardi Limited, Hamilton, Bermuda | 2026-09-14 | GLEIF | registry | | 549300R32WTQNHNN5055 | | cc0 | GLEIF | |
| ch-bacardiuk | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00366786 | Companies House: BACARDI U.K. LIMITED (00366786), previous names and status | 2026-09-14 | Companies House | registry | | 00366786 | | | | |
| gs1prefix | https://www.gs1.org/standards/id-keys/company-prefix | GS1: GS1 Company Prefix — prefixes 500-509 are issued by GS1 UK | 2026-09-14 | GS1 | registry | | | | | | |
| offprefix | https://search.openfoodfacts.org/search?q=code:5010677*&fields=code,brands,product_name,countries_tags | Open Food Facts search: the 143 packs recorded under GS1 prefix 5010677 | 2026-09-14 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | | | ODbL | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| wiki-breezer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacardi_Breezer | Wikipedia: Bacardi Breezer | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| wiki-bacardi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacardi | Wikipedia: Bacardi | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Bacardi Limited is the largest privately held, family-owned spirits company in the world, founded in Santiago de Cuba in 1862 by Facundo Bacardí Massó, a Spanish wine merchant from Sitges in Catalonia, and owned by his family for seven generations.[^wiki-bacardi] It is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, is the group of companies that includes Bacardi International Limited, employs more than 8,000 people and sells in roughly 170 countries across a portfolio of more than 200 brands and labels, among them Bacardí rum, Martini, Bombay Sapphire, Grey Goose, Eristoff, Noilly Prat and the Breezer ready-to-drink range.[^wiki-bacardi][^wiki-breezer][^offprefix] The Bermudian company itself was created on 22 November 1990, is registered as number 16025 at Clarendon House, Hamilton, gives its head office as 65 Pitts Bay Road, Pembroke and carries LEI 549300R32WTQNHNN5055; the 1862 date is the founding of the business in Cuba, not of this entity.[^gleif] Its Belgian company is S.A. Bacardi-Martini Belgium N.V. of Medialaan 50, Vilvoorde, and the registered address it gives for the United Kingdom is Bacardi Global Brands Limited, The Steward Building, 12 Steward Street, London.[^bacardibe][^bacardiuk]
GS1 company prefix 5010677 stays recorded as inferred rather than sourced. All 143 packs Open Food Facts holds under it carry a Bacardi group brand — Bacardi, Martini, Bombay Sapphire, Grey Goose, Eristoff, Noilly Prat, Breezer, Oakheart and Seven Tiki — so the licensee is a company of this group.[^offprefix] A search on 14 September 2026 found no source naming it: GS1's Verified by GS1 service and the retired GEPIR lookup answer a marketing page instead of a record, a full-text search of SEC EDGAR filings for the digits returns only unrelated fund holdings, and web searches for the prefix return barcode explainers rather than a registrant. GS1 UK issues the 500-509 blocks, so the licence most likely sits with one of the group's British companies — Bacardi Global Brands Limited, the address Bacardi itself gives for the United Kingdom, or Bacardi U.K. Limited, incorporated in 1941 and named Bacardi-Martini Limited until 1999 — but nothing published says which, so no company is written into gs1_prefixes.[^gs1prefix][^bacardiuk][^ch-bacardiuk]
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