---
title: "WESTMINSTER TOBACCO COMPANY LIMITED — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5350cc88-03e9-56ef-84a1-1ba908baaad2
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/5350cc88-03e9-56ef-84a1-1ba908baaad2
identifier: oo:GB-COH-00106879
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# WESTMINSTER TOBACCO COMPANY LIMITED

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** [GB](https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions/gb)  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-00106879`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5350cc88-03e9-56ef-84a1-1ba908baaad2  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/5350cc88-03e9-56ef-84a1-1ba908baaad2  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/0b64a0c9-e433-55ef-bdd6-57257e9d23f6
- **BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/0b64a0c9-e433-55ef-bdd6-57257e9d23f6

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

A **18-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:** `00106879`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 1910-01-06
- **Registered office:** Globe House, 1 Water Street, London, WC2R 3LA
- **SIC:** 74990

### Officers

- [BATS LIMITED](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/8499568f-6c18-5839-9205-0f9f1531ca3f) — corporate secretary · appointed 2024-09-03
- FERNANDO, Halahawaduge Kasun Saminda — director · Australian · appointed 2022-05-31
- RIDIRECTORS LIMITED — corporate director · appointed 2011-02-07
- ANDERSON, Murray Gilliland Charles — secretary · British · appointed 2000-07-31 · resigned 2008-12-16
- CLARKE, Peter Lampard — secretary · British · resigned 1997-12-09
- COOK, Philip Michael — secretary · British · appointed 1997-12-09 · resigned 2000-07-31
- CORDESCHI, Richard — secretary · British · appointed 2009-01-21 · resigned 2013-05-03
- ELLIS, Sallie — secretary · appointed 2013-08-22 · resigned 2015-03-04
- GRIFFITHS, Ann Elizabeth — secretary · appointed 2015-03-04 · resigned 2017-02-28
- MCCORMACK, Peter — secretary · appointed 2021-04-01 · resigned 2021-11-26
- MEHTA, Shital — secretary · appointed 2022-03-07 · resigned 2024-09-03
- ADAMS, Paul Nicholas — director · British · resigned 2000-12-30
- ARIS, Gregory — director · British · appointed 2021-04-12 · resigned 2022-09-07
- BRAMLEY, Barry David — director · British · resigned 1996-04-30
- BROOKES, Nicholas George — director · British · resigned 1993-04-05
- BUCKLEY, Fiona — director · British · appointed 2013-08-26 · resigned 2017-06-01
- CASEY, Robert James — director · American · appointed 2002-04-04 · resigned 2011-02-07
- CHALFEN, Stuart Philip — director · British · appointed 1999-07-26 · resigned 2000-07-31
- COLFER, Noelle — director · British · appointed 2017-06-01 · resigned 2020-03-31
- COOK, Philip Michael — director · British · appointed 2000-07-31 · resigned 2000-12-20

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- [British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/0b64a0c9-e433-55ef-bdd6-57257e9d23f6) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · England — since 2016-04-06

## Provenance

- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00106879
- companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00106879

## 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 **WESTMINSTER TOBACCO COMPANY LIMITED** — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5350cc88-03e9-56ef-84a1-1ba908baaad2 · pricing https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **WESTMINSTER TOBACCO COMPANY LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5350cc88-03e9-56ef-84a1-1ba908baaad2 · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/5350cc88-03e9-56ef-84a1-1ba908baaad2._

_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"._