---
title: "THE ECONOMIST BOOKS LIMITED — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/eb51700a-4d97-5eae-9086-4d4ae39b9dbe
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/eb51700a-4d97-5eae-9086-4d4ae39b9dbe
identifier: oo:GB-COH-01775942
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# THE ECONOMIST BOOKS LIMITED

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** [GB](https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions/gb)  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-01775942`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/eb51700a-4d97-5eae-9086-4d4ae39b9dbe  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/eb51700a-4d97-5eae-9086-4d4ae39b9dbe  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **THE ECONOMIST NEWSPAPER (HOLDINGS) LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/2abc6a01-4a94-530e-94e2-abac2ba6ada3
- **ECONOMIST NEWSPAPER LIMITED(THE)** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/70a8b349-18de-518e-b13f-ebdd9532b904
- **THE ECONOMIST NEWSPAPER (HOLDINGS) LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/2abc6a01-4a94-530e-94e2-abac2ba6ada3
- **The Economist Newspaper Limited** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/1d777496-5e5b-449f-a9c7-14cf25e40da8

### 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:** `01775942`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 1983-12-07
- **Registered office:** The Adelphi, 1 - 11 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6HT, England
- **SIC:** 74990

### Officers

- GRUT, Oscar Kolya Meisen — secretary · Danish · appointed 2002-07-01
- BRADLEY-JONES, Luke — director · British · appointed 2026-08-01
- GRUT, Oscar Kolya Meisen — director · British,Danish · appointed 2017-05-12
- WOOD, Neil Timothy — director · British · appointed 2026-08-10
- ABESSER, Susan Jane — secretary · British · appointed 2000-07-04 · resigned 2002-07-01
- BRESNAN, Patrick Richard — secretary · British · resigned 1994-12-31
- WALES, Anthony Edward — secretary · British · appointed 1995-01-01 · resigned 2000-07-04
- ALEXANDER, Helen — director · British · appointed 1997-01-01 · resigned 2008-07-15
- ALEXANDER, Helen — director · British · resigned 1994-08-01
- BROUGH, Stephen Patrick — director · British · resigned 1994-08-01
- CLAYTON, Ross — director · British · resigned 1994-08-01
- GORDON, David Sorrell — director · British · resigned 1993-05-06
- MALIK, Kiran Bir Singh — director · British · appointed 1997-07-21 · resigned 2005-07-12
- MUNRO, James Peter — director · New Zealander · resigned 1994-07-29
- NAUGHTON, Shane Paul — director · Irish · appointed 2017-05-12 · resigned 2021-03-31
- RASHBASS, Andrew — director · British · appointed 2008-07-16 · resigned 2013-07-18
- ROY, Marcus Kumar — director · British · appointed 2021-04-01 · resigned 2026-08-10
- SALAME BORO, Lara — director · British · appointed 2019-09-02 · resigned 2026-07-31
- SCARDINO, Marjorie Morris, Dame — director · American · resigned 1996-12-31
- STIBBS, Christopher John — director · British · appointed 2005-07-13 · resigned 2019-08-30

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- [The Economist Newspaper (Holdings) Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/2abc6a01-4a94-530e-94e2-abac2ba6ada3) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · England — since 2016-09-30
- [The Economist Newspaper Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/1d777496-5e5b-449f-a9c7-14cf25e40da8) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · Great Britain — ceased 2016-09-30

## Provenance

- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01775942
- companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01775942

## 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 **THE ECONOMIST BOOKS LIMITED** — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/eb51700a-4d97-5eae-9086-4d4ae39b9dbe · pricing https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **THE ECONOMIST BOOKS LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/eb51700a-4d97-5eae-9086-4d4ae39b9dbe · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/eb51700a-4d97-5eae-9086-4d4ae39b9dbe._

_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"._