---
title: "BUTTONS BEAR AND FRIENDS LIMITED — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/04e6c358-55b8-5aeb-903e-e42e2487613c
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/04e6c358-55b8-5aeb-903e-e42e2487613c
identifier: oo:GB-COH-01433838
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# BUTTONS BEAR AND FRIENDS LIMITED

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** [GB](https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions/gb)  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-01433838`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/04e6c358-55b8-5aeb-903e-e42e2487613c  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/04e6c358-55b8-5aeb-903e-e42e2487613c  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **HUMATT LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/96a5ad32-f02a-5398-9072-d5c3e47a55a9

### UBO chain (walk to the ultimate owner)

A **16-step** ownership/control chain to the ultimate beneficial owner is resolved for this entity. The full cited chain unlocks with a paid API key or a one-off dossier — https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

## Company profile (live · UK Companies House)

- **Company number:** `01433838`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 1979-06-29
- **Registered office:** Alhambra House, 9 St Michael's Road, Croydon, CR0 2ZD, United Kingdom
- **SIC:** 99999

### Officers

- CHAING, Ben Ka Ping — director · British · appointed 2014-07-28
- GARDNER, Edward Danny — secretary · British · appointed 2004-03-01 · resigned 2014-07-28
- MATTHEWS, Susanna Yin Fan — secretary · British · resigned 2005-01-26
- CHAN, Man Tat — director · British · resigned 1998-07-02
- GARDNER, Edward Danny — director · British · appointed 2004-03-01 · resigned 2014-07-28
- GARDNER, Gary Timothy — director · British · appointed 2005-01-26 · resigned 2014-07-28
- JOHNSON, Kevin Andrew — director · British · appointed 2014-07-28 · resigned 2024-04-19
- MATTHEWS, James Gordon — director · British · appointed 2001-11-26 · resigned 2003-06-30
- MATTHEWS, Lloyd Harry — director · British · resigned 2005-01-26
- MATTHEWS, Susanna Yin Fan — director · British · appointed 1998-07-02 · resigned 2001-11-26

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- [Humatt Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/96a5ad32-f02a-5398-9072-d5c3e47a55a9) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · United Kingdom — since 2016-04-06

## Provenance

- companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01433838
- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01433838

## Get the full, resolved dossier (agent-callable)

The above is the free teaser. The resolved **multi-hop UBO chain**, ownership **%**, full **financial history**, itemised **assets** and the hop-by-hop **exposure path** are the paid depth — callable as tools from your agent:

```bash
npx -y @whiteintel/mcp-server   # then: get_dossier · trace_ownership_path · check_offshore_exposure
```

Or unlock a one-off cited dossier for **BUTTONS BEAR AND FRIENDS LIMITED** — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/04e6c358-55b8-5aeb-903e-e42e2487613c · pricing https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **BUTTONS BEAR AND FRIENDS LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/04e6c358-55b8-5aeb-903e-e42e2487613c · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/04e6c358-55b8-5aeb-903e-e42e2487613c._

_Risk levels are heuristic investigative leads, not legal determinations of beneficial ownership. Every claim carries a source; an absent edge means "not yet observed in current sources", not "does not exist"._