Portmeirion Group
Company-provided description, not an official-source fact. Certifications, capacities, years and market positions stated in it are the company's own claims until a record below confirms them.
British ceramics and homeware manufacturer supplying wholesale to department stores and gift retailers worldwide.
Portmeirion Group manufactures premium ceramics, glassware, and homeware under brands including Portmeirion Botanic Garden, Spode, Royal Worcester, and Pimpernel. The group supplies wholesale to over 60 countries through department stores, independent gift retailers, and B2B trade accounts managed from its Stoke-on-Trent UK headquarters. Its iconic Botanic Garden pattern is one of the UK's best-selling tableware designs, providing strong retail turnover for wholesale partners. Trade buyers access seasonal collections, licensing options, and bespoke gifting ranges through dedicated trade sales teams. The company also supplies its Heritage brands to museum shops and visitor attractions internationally.
- Type
- Not established by any record (our catalog import lists it as manufacturer; that is not evidence of the role)
- Role
- Role not established by any record
- Location
- Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1960 (from our catalogue record; not confirmed by the company or by a state register)
- Website
- portmeiriongroup.com
- Categories
- Kitchen & Tableware, Home Décor & Textiles, Gifts & Novelty
- Markets
- United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Germany, Canada, South Africa, Japan, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. No official record is on file. 5 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. Nothing here confirms manufacturing, ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- First recorded on the web archive (record type: web-presence-since) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] The company website was already online in 2010. Shows a web archive saw a page at this address on that date. It does not show who ran the site then. checked 2026-08-04. Internet Archive (Wayback)
- No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. Screened by name only: no legal entity is established for this record, so this is not a clearance. checked 2026-09-03. OpenSanctions
- No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. Screened by name only: no legal entity is established for this record, so this is not a clearance. checked 2026-09-03. OpenSanctions
- Website domain registered (record type: domain-registered) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows how long this web address has been registered. That is the age of the domain, not of the company: a domain can change owners. checked 2026-09-03. Domain registry record
- Business email on the company's own domain (record type: corporate-mail-on-domain) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows the domain runs its own email rather than a free mailbox. It describes the domain, not who owns it. checked 2026-09-03. Mail server of the company domain
Claimed certifications, not confirmed by us
- ISO 9001, Quality Management IAF CertSearch
Import rules for these goods
- Consumer goods sold in the EU fall under the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR, applies since 13 Dec 2024): a responsible person in the EU is mandatory. EUR-Lex: Regulation (EU) 2023/988 (GPSR)
Goods family established: Kitchen & Tableware (the company's own text). The exact product, operation and trade route needed to determine a product-specific requirement are not established here. Product-specific import rules not established for the catalog categories Home Décor & Textiles, Gifts & Novelty: no record or company text names goods of this kind. A catalog category alone is our classification, not proof of what the company makes or sells.
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