---
title: "JOHN SMITH & SON GROUP LIMITED — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/32f17545-00ee-58d1-9ac4-c9892e07d2e0
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/32f17545-00ee-58d1-9ac4-c9892e07d2e0
identifier: oo:GB-COH-SC006905
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# JOHN SMITH & SON GROUP LIMITED

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** [GB](https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions/gb)  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-SC006905`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/32f17545-00ee-58d1-9ac4-c9892e07d2e0  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/32f17545-00ee-58d1-9ac4-c9892e07d2e0  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **CUBIT GROUP LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/71f3fa49-f184-55d9-b984-4ad037d38184
- **Mr Peter Leigh Gray** (beneficial owner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/aac202e0-c3d4-5d33-9856-4489d63d3d31
- **JS ASPIRE GROUP HOLDINGS LTD** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/fb5443aa-4e7a-4667-bdc3-911652fdfbe6
- **CUBIT GROUP LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/71f3fa49-f184-55d9-b984-4ad037d38184
- **Mr Peter Leigh Gray** (beneficial owner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/c6710636-0d25-4d74-810c-8506c214df6a

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

A **13-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:** `SC006905`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 1908-09-24
- **Registered office:** Building 1 9 Haymarket Square, Edinburgh, EH3 8RY, United Kingdom
- **SIC:** 62012, 85590

### Officers

- FOOKS, Matthew Guy — secretary · appointed 2015-07-29
- DALE, Nicholas Siegfried — director · British · appointed 2023-03-23
- GRAY, Peter Leigh — director · British · appointed 2001-11-29
- LAKE, Peter William — director · British · appointed 2011-12-01
- LINDSAY, Stuart Robert — director · British · appointed 2003-06-19
- MAHONEY, Richard Hugo Wyndham — director · British · appointed 2025-07-01
- MARSHALL, David Craig — director · British · appointed 2016-06-24
- ADAMS, Edward Laurence John — secretary · appointed 2015-01-20 · resigned 2015-07-29
- JEYES, Peter Martin — secretary · British · appointed 2001-11-29 · resigned 2014-08-01
- NOTARANGELO, Pietro Raffaele — secretary · British · appointed 1997-10-01 · resigned 2000-10-30
- SHEARER, Robert Coutts — secretary · British · appointed 2000-10-30 · resigned 2001-11-29
- TURNER, David J — secretary · British · resigned 1997-09-30
- ANDERSON, William Taylor Campbell — director · British · appointed 2001-11-29 · resigned 2011-04-30
- ANDERSON, William Taylor Campbell — director · British · resigned 2001-11-29
- BURSEY, Sam — director · British · appointed 2015-11-10 · resigned 2019-01-04
- CLOW, Robert George Menzies — director · British · resigned 2000-10-30
- DOUGLAS, Joan — director · British · appointed 1998-11-01 · resigned 2000-01-28
- FIELD, Terence Frederick — director · British · appointed 2002-09-17 · resigned 2007-12-31
- GRAHAM, John Michael Denning — director · British · resigned 2000-10-30
- GRAY, James Richard — director · British · appointed 2001-11-29 · resigned 2019-02-06

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- [Js Aspire Group Holdings Ltd](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/fb5443aa-4e7a-4667-bdc3-911652fdfbe6) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · England — since 2025-10-06
- [Cubit Group Ltd](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/71f3fa49-f184-55d9-b984-4ad037d38184) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · England — ceased 2025-10-06
- Mr Peter Leigh Gray — significant influence or control · individual PSC · England — ceased 2023-02-20

## Provenance

- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC006905
- companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC006905

## 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 **JOHN SMITH & SON GROUP LIMITED** — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/32f17545-00ee-58d1-9ac4-c9892e07d2e0 · pricing https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **JOHN SMITH & SON GROUP LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/32f17545-00ee-58d1-9ac4-c9892e07d2e0 · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/32f17545-00ee-58d1-9ac4-c9892e07d2e0._

_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"._