---
title: "HAMLEYS (FRANCHISING) LIMITED — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f01922b8-69d6-5946-80e1-58366ccce513
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/f01922b8-69d6-5946-80e1-58366ccce513
identifier: oo:GB-COH-05639053
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# HAMLEYS (FRANCHISING) LIMITED

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** [GB](https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions/gb)  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-05639053`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f01922b8-69d6-5946-80e1-58366ccce513  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/f01922b8-69d6-5946-80e1-58366ccce513  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **The Hamleys Group Limited** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/9f9d60c4-31e1-46be-ad24-a203b69d3f67
- **RELIANCE BRANDS HOLDING UK LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/b5edf548-9566-514e-81fe-907cedcbf05d

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

A **4-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:** `05639053`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 2005-11-29
- **Registered office:** 7 Howick Place, 2nd Floor, London, SW1P 1BB, England
- **SIC:** 47650

### Officers

- SHOOSMITHS SECRETARIES LIMITED — corporate secretary · appointed 2013-02-27
- ROBERTS, Gregory Neil — director · British · appointed 2020-08-01
- VARGHESE, Saji — director · British · appointed 2023-06-27
- DUNN, Alasdair Andrew — secretary · British · appointed 2006-05-10 · resigned 2013-02-26
- DWS SECRETARIES LIMITED — corporate secretary · appointed 2005-11-29 · resigned 2006-05-10
- CUNNINGHAM, Ralph Brander — director · British · appointed 2017-06-16 · resigned 2019-02-28
- CURRIE, Paul Anthony — director · British · appointed 2008-03-19 · resigned 2009-05-07
- DUNN, Alasdair Andrew — director · British · appointed 2006-05-10 · resigned 2017-06-16
- GANG, Wu — director · Chinese · appointed 2019-02-28 · resigned 2019-07-16
- GRUNBERG, Jean-Michel Victor — director · French · appointed 2012-09-17 · resigned 2015-11-25
- HIDALGO, Rudolph — director · French · appointed 2012-09-17 · resigned 2015-11-25
- JABLONOWSKI, Alexander David — director · British · appointed 2017-07-24 · resigned 2018-10-09
- LE FRANCOIS DES COURTIS, Jean Marie Robert — director · French · appointed 2012-09-17 · resigned 2015-11-25
- MATHER, Nicholas Charles Holt — director · British · appointed 2006-05-10 · resigned 2008-05-02
- MEHTA, Darshan Rasiklal — director · Indian · appointed 2019-07-16 · resigned 2024-11-15
- OSBORNE, Katherine Anne — director · British · appointed 2006-05-10 · resigned 2007-05-31
- REYNISSON, Gudjon Karl — director · Icelandic · appointed 2008-05-02 · resigned 2017-09-30
- SHAIKH, Sohail Ahmed — director · British · appointed 2019-07-16 · resigned 2020-07-31
- SHARMA, Dilip Kumar — director · British · appointed 2019-08-28 · resigned 2023-06-12
- SHEN, Yong — director · British · appointed 2018-10-09 · resigned 2019-08-31

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- [Reliance Brands Holding Uk Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/b5edf548-9566-514e-81fe-907cedcbf05d) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · United Kingdom — since 2020-08-14
- [The Hamleys Group Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/9f9d60c4-31e1-46be-ad24-a203b69d3f67) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · United Kingdom — ceased 2020-08-14

## Provenance

- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05639053
- companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05639053

## 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 **HAMLEYS (FRANCHISING) LIMITED** — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f01922b8-69d6-5946-80e1-58366ccce513 · pricing https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **HAMLEYS (FRANCHISING) LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f01922b8-69d6-5946-80e1-58366ccce513 · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/f01922b8-69d6-5946-80e1-58366ccce513._

_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"._