---
title: "CABLETEL HERTS AND BEDS LIMITED — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/8080044e-c3e9-508b-997b-3a6790bc2fbd
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/8080044e-c3e9-508b-997b-3a6790bc2fbd
identifier: oo:GB-COH-01785533
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# CABLETEL HERTS AND BEDS LIMITED

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** GB  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-01785533`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/8080044e-c3e9-508b-997b-3a6790bc2fbd  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/8080044e-c3e9-508b-997b-3a6790bc2fbd  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **VIRGIN MEDIA LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/fb71bde6-c2c2-500a-8291-1663ddc34a1a
- **Virgin Media Limited** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/aaf6038d-8dcf-4a11-a493-aa35e85c0961

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

1. **VIRGIN MEDIA LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *CABLETEL HERTS AND BEDS LIMITED*
1. **Virgin Media Limited** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *CABLETEL HERTS AND BEDS LIMITED*
2. **VIRGIN MEDIA OPERATIONS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *VIRGIN MEDIA LIMITED*
2. **VIRGIN MEDIA INVESTMENTS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *VIRGIN MEDIA LIMITED*
2. **VIRGIN MEDIA SENIOR INVESTMENTS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *VIRGIN MEDIA LIMITED*
2. **VIRGIN MEDIA OPERATIONS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *VIRGIN MEDIA LIMITED*
3. **GENERAL CABLE LIMITED** — beneficial owner 75% → *VIRGIN MEDIA OPERATIONS LIMITED*
3. **VIRGIN MEDIA SENIOR INVESTMENTS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 50% → *VIRGIN MEDIA OPERATIONS LIMITED*
3. **Diamond Cable Communications Limited** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *VIRGIN MEDIA OPERATIONS LIMITED*
3. **VIRGIN MEDIA SENIOR INVESTMENTS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 37.5% → *VIRGIN MEDIA OPERATIONS LIMITED*
3. **VIRGIN MEDIA INVESTMENT HOLDINGS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *VIRGIN MEDIA INVESTMENTS LIMITED*
3. **VMED O2 UK HOLDCO 5 LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *VIRGIN MEDIA INVESTMENTS LIMITED*
3. **VMED O2 UK HOLDCO 5 LIMITED** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *VIRGIN MEDIA INVESTMENTS LIMITED*
3. **Virgin Media Investment Holdings Limited** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *VIRGIN MEDIA INVESTMENTS LIMITED*
3. **Virgin Media Investments Limited** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *VIRGIN MEDIA SENIOR INVESTMENTS LIMITED*
4. **VIRGIN MEDIA FINANCE PLC** — beneficial owner 100% → *VMED O2 UK HOLDCO 5 LIMITED*
4. **VIRGIN MEDIA SENIOR INVESTMENTS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *GENERAL CABLE LIMITED*
4. **VIRGIN MEDIA INVESTMENTS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *GENERAL CABLE LIMITED*
4. **VIRGIN MEDIA FINANCE PLC** — beneficial owner 100% → *VIRGIN MEDIA INVESTMENT HOLDINGS LIMITED*
4. **VMED O2 UK HOLDCO 5 LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *VIRGIN MEDIA INVESTMENT HOLDINGS LIMITED*
4. **VMED O2 UK HOLDCO 4 LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *VIRGIN MEDIA INVESTMENT HOLDINGS LIMITED*
4. **VMED O2 UK HOLDCO 4 LIMITED** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *VIRGIN MEDIA INVESTMENT HOLDINGS LIMITED*
4. **VMED O2 UK HOLDCO 5 LIMITED** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *VIRGIN MEDIA INVESTMENT HOLDINGS LIMITED*
4. **Virgin Media Finance Plc** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *VIRGIN MEDIA INVESTMENT HOLDINGS LIMITED*
5. **VMED O2 UK HOLDCO 3 LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *VMED O2 UK HOLDCO 4 LIMITED*
5. **VIRGIN MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *VIRGIN MEDIA FINANCE PLC*
6. **VMED O2 UK FINANCING II LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *VMED O2 UK HOLDCO 3 LIMITED*
6. **VMED O2 UK HOLDINGS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *VIRGIN MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED*
6. **LIBERTY GLOBAL EUROPE 2 LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *VIRGIN MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED*
6. **VMED O2 UK LIMITED** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *VIRGIN MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED*

## Company profile (live · UK Companies House)

- **Company number:** `01785533`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 1984-01-24
- **Registered office:** 500 Brook Drive, Reading, RG2 6UU, United Kingdom
- **SIC:** 82990, 99999

### Officers

- [VMED O2 SECRETARIES LIMITED](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/fdec17a5-5fca-5be7-87e6-63dc5038bca5) — corporate secretary · appointed 2021-11-01
- BOYLE, Julia Louise — director · British · appointed 2021-10-01
- HARDMAN, Mark David — director · British · appointed 2021-10-01
- JAMES, Gillian Elizabeth — secretary · appointed 2010-04-30 · resigned 2021-11-01
- JAMES, Gillian Elizabeth — secretary · British · appointed 2000-09-04 · resigned 2004-10-01
- LUBASCH, Richard Joel — secretary · British · appointed 2002-02-20 · resigned 2002-05-03
- MACKENZIE, Robert Mario — secretary · British · appointed 1994-03-15 · resigned 2004-01-01
- MINTA, Anthony John — secretary · British · resigned 1994-03-15
- VIRGIN MEDIA SECRETARIES LIMITED — corporate secretary · appointed 2004-10-01 · resigned 2010-04-30
- BARR-SMITH, Adrian — director · British · resigned 1993-06-30
- BLUMENTHAL, George — director · Us Citizen · appointed 1994-03-15 · resigned 1995-07-21
- BOOTH, Ralph Harman — director · American · resigned 1996-09-03
- CARR, George — director · American · appointed 1995-07-21 · resigned 1996-06-05
- CARR, George — director · American · resigned 1994-03-15
- CARTER, Stephen Andrew — director · British · appointed 2000-12-01 · resigned 2002-02-20
- CASTELL, William Thomas — director · British · appointed 2019-09-09 · resigned 2020-03-09
- DUNN, Robert Dominic — director · British · appointed 2013-11-29 · resigned 2019-09-09
- GALE, Robert Charles — director · British · appointed 2010-04-30 · resigned 2013-11-29
- GALE, Robert Charles — director · British · appointed 2004-03-24 · resigned 2004-10-01
- GOAD, Robert Timothy — director · American · resigned 1996-09-03

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- [Virgin Media Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/aaf6038d-8dcf-4a11-a493-aa35e85c0961) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · United Kingdom — since 2016-04-06

## Provenance

- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01785533

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **CABLETEL HERTS AND BEDS LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/8080044e-c3e9-508b-997b-3a6790bc2fbd · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/8080044e-c3e9-508b-997b-3a6790bc2fbd._

_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"._