---
title: "GROVES & LINDLEY LIMITED — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5fa8a7de-decb-5b83-9433-ae4326f7006d
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/5fa8a7de-decb-5b83-9433-ae4326f7006d
identifier: oo:GB-COH-00573162
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# GROVES & LINDLEY LIMITED

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** [GB](https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions/gb)  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-00573162`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5fa8a7de-decb-5b83-9433-ae4326f7006d  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/5fa8a7de-decb-5b83-9433-ae4326f7006d  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **Mr Oswald Franco** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/28affdd9-a9f0-5dfe-8dff-43f15e14005b
- **Mr Oswald Franco** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f22bffb7-b465-463e-9276-06a9c66d7f7e

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

A **2-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:** `00573162`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 1956-10-19
- **Registered office:** Unit 26, Upper Mills, Slaithwaite, Huddersfield, HD7 5HA, England
- **SIC:** 74990

### Officers

- FRANCO, Oswald — director · Italian · appointed 2002-09-27
- FRANCO, David — secretary · British · resigned 1992-09-01
- FRANCO, Simon — secretary · British · appointed 1993-12-31 · resigned 2002-09-27
- SOOTHILL, Alison Jennifer — secretary · British · appointed 1992-09-01 · resigned 1993-12-31
- SYKES, John Christopher — secretary · British · appointed 2002-09-27 · resigned 2015-02-11
- FRANCO, David — director · British · resigned 2002-09-27
- STRINGER, Joan Shirley — director · British · resigned 1992-08-31

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- Mr Oswald Franco — 75–100% shares · individual PSC · Cyprus — since 2016-04-06

## Provenance

- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00573162
- companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00573162

## 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 **GROVES & LINDLEY LIMITED** — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5fa8a7de-decb-5b83-9433-ae4326f7006d · pricing https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **GROVES & LINDLEY LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/5fa8a7de-decb-5b83-9433-ae4326f7006d · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/5fa8a7de-decb-5b83-9433-ae4326f7006d._

_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"._