Imperial Tobacco Holdings: version 2

Saved 2026-09-20 08:20 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled the flagged gap: the direct registered owner was missing. Companies House shows Imperial Tobacco Holdings (2007) Limited, company 05987726, as this company's sole active person with significant control with 75 per cent or more of the shares since 6 April 2016, so the file now carries owned_by -> company/imperial-tobacco-holdings-2007 at sourced, and that owner is created here as a full company stub (register 05987726, incorporated 3 November 2006 as Alnery No. 2648 Limited, renamed 19 January 2007, registered office 121 Winterstoke Road, Bristol) with its own owned_by -> company/imperial-brands, so the walk up the group no longer skips an entity. The existing parent_org -> company/imperial-brands is kept and raised from derived to sourced, now resting on the owner's own PSC filing rather than on an inference, with from: 2016-04-06. All four register pages were re-fetched today and every References accessed date moved to 2026-09-20; added References rows ch-2007 and psc-2007 (Companies House overview and PSC for 05987726) and gleif-search (GLEIF full-text search). Also added the missing Identity summary and registered_address, a disambiguation naming the 05987726 namesake, an Establishments office row for the Bristol registered office, a search alias, and the Imperial Brands offices photograph from Wikimedia Commons as kind other with a note saying it shows the building, not a product. About was rebuilt around the full four-company chain (Imperial Tobacco Limited -> this company -> Imperial Tobacco Holdings (2007) Limited -> Imperial Brands PLC) and keeps every fact the old version carried; nothing was removed as unsupported. Two gaps stated in the last paragraph: no LEI is recorded for either UK holding company (a GLEIF full-text search returns only the lapsed Dutch Imperial Tobacco Holdings International B.V. at Joure, whose relationship to this company no source read here states), and no source names a GS1 company prefix licensed to it. No cleanup flags filed: company/imperial-brands already states in About that no company owns it, so the walk up terminates correctly.. Current is v4.

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# Imperial Tobacco Holdings <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Imperial Tobacco Holdings
disambiguation: intermediate holding company of the Imperial Brands group, Companies House 03087180; not Imperial Tobacco Holdings (2007) Limited, company 05987726, which owns it
summary: Intermediate holding company of the Imperial Brands group in Bristol, Companies House 03087180, registered owner of Imperial Tobacco Limited.
legal_name: Imperial Tobacco Holdings Limited
registered_address: 121 Winterstoke Road, Bristol, England, BS3 2LL
country: GB
register_ids: GB-CH:03087180
founded: 1995-08-03
<!--/identity-->

## Relations <!--relations-->
| role       | target                                 | market | from       | until | ended | status  | source    | note                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| ---------- | -------------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by   | company/imperial-tobacco-holdings-2007 |        | 2016-04-06 |       |       | sourced | ^psc-ith  | Companies House records Imperial Tobacco Holdings (2007) Limited, company 05987726, as the sole active person with significant control of this company, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares, notified 6 April 2016. |
| parent_org | company/imperial-brands                |        | 2016-04-06 |       |       | sourced | ^psc-2007 | The direct owner's own register filing names Imperial Brands PLC, company 03236483, as its sole person with significant control with 75 per cent or more of the shares, so the listed group parent sits two steps above.  |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind   | address                                         | country | source  | note                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| ---- | ------ | ----------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|      | office | 121 Winterstoke Road, Bristol, England, BS3 2LL | GB      | ^ch-ith | Registered office as Companies House states it; it is the Imperial Brands group head office, shared with the group parent, the direct owner and the United Kingdom operating company. |
<!--/establishments-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                              | type   | locale | from       | until      |
| --------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---------- | ---------- |
| Imperial Tobacco Holdings Limited | legal  |        |            |            |
| Imperial Tobacco Holdings Ltd     | search |        |            |            |
| Attendfriend Limited              | legal  |        | 1995-08-03 | 1996-06-07 |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref          | url                                                                                                          | title                                                                         | accessed   | publisher       | kind     | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | -------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| ch-ith       | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03087180                                  | Companies House: IMPERIAL TOBACCO HOLDINGS LIMITED (03087180) overview        | 2026-09-20 | Companies House | registry |           | 03087180  |         |         |             |          |
| psc-ith      | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03087180/persons-with-significant-control | Imperial Tobacco Holdings Limited: persons with significant control           | 2026-09-20 | Companies House | registry |           | 03087180  |         |         |             |          |
| ch-2007      | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05987726                                  | Companies House: IMPERIAL TOBACCO HOLDINGS (2007) LIMITED (05987726) overview | 2026-09-20 | Companies House | registry |           | 05987726  |         |         |             |          |
| psc-2007     | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05987726/persons-with-significant-control | Imperial Tobacco Holdings (2007) Limited: persons with significant control    | 2026-09-20 | Companies House | registry |           | 05987726  |         |         |             |          |
| psc-sub      | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01860181/persons-with-significant-control | Imperial Tobacco Limited: persons with significant control                    | 2026-09-20 | Companies House | registry |           | 01860181  |         |         |             |          |
| gleif-search | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records?filter%5Bfulltext%5D=Imperial%20Tobacco%20Holdings                  | GLEIF LEI records, full-text search for "Imperial Tobacco Holdings"           | 2026-09-20 | GLEIF           | registry |           |           |         | CC0     |             |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Imperial Tobacco Holdings Limited is an intermediate holding company in the Imperial Brands group, registered in England as private limited company 03087180, active, with its registered office at 121 Winterstoke Road, Bristol, the group head office, and a recorded business of activities of other holding companies not elsewhere classified.[^ch-ith] Its direct owner is Imperial Tobacco Holdings (2007) Limited, company 05987726, which Companies House records as its sole active person with significant control, holding 75 per cent or more of the shares since 6 April 2016.[^psc-ith] That company's own filing names the listed group parent Imperial Brands PLC, company 03236483, as its person with significant control on the same notified date, so this company sits two steps below the top of the group.[^psc-2007] One step below it, Companies House records this company as the sole person with significant control of Imperial Tobacco Limited, company 01860181, the group's United Kingdom operating company, again with 75 per cent or more of the shares since 6 April 2016.[^psc-sub]

The registration is older than the name it carries: Companies House shows it incorporated on 3 August 1995 as Attendfriend Limited and renamed on 7 June 1996.[^ch-ith] Its owner began the same way, incorporated on 3 November 2006 as Alnery No. 2648 Limited and renamed on 19 January 2007, which is where the year in that company's name comes from.[^ch-2007] The pair are separate registrations filed at the same Bristol address under near-identical names, and both are distinct from the operating company Imperial Tobacco Limited and from the listed parent Imperial Brands PLC, so the four are easily mistaken for one another; the walk up the group runs Imperial Tobacco Limited, this company, Imperial Tobacco Holdings (2007) Limited, Imperial Brands PLC.

Two things this review could not settle. No Legal Entity Identifier is recorded for this company: a GLEIF full-text search for the name returns a single record, the lapsed Dutch registration of Imperial Tobacco Holdings International B.V. at Joure, whose relationship to this company no source read here states.[^gleif-search] And no source read here names a GS1 company prefix licensed to this company, so no barcode block is tied to this page.
<!--/about-->