Puckator Ltd
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.
Wholesale gifts, giftware and home accessories supplier
Puckator is a UK importer and wholesale supplier of gifts, novelty items, themed giftware and home accessories based in Cornwall. It supplies independent retailers, garden centres, museum and souvenir shops and online sellers across the UK and Europe.
- Type
- distributor (our classification of the record, not a statement by the company)
- Role
- Distributor (official record)
- Location
- East Taphouse, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1997 (matches the state register)
- Website
- https://www.puckator.co.uk
- Categories
- Gifts & Novelty, Home Décor & Textiles, Seasonal & Party Supplies
- Markets
- United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, France
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 13 official records from 8 official sources are on file. 6 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. The trading role above rests on the official records listed below, and only as far as each literally goes. Nothing here confirms manufacturing or ownership beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- 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 2026-08-28. 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 2026-08-28. Mail server of the company domain
- Listed in a source registry (record type: listed-in-registry) [official record; status green] Found in a named public register, not only on its own website. checked 2026-08-24. Environment Agency public registers (England)
- Registry ID checks out with the state register (record type: registry-id-verified) [official record; status green] Helps confirm the company on this page is the same legal entity as in the register. effective since 2026-06-19. Companies House
- Places goods on the market (national producer register) (record type: places-goods-on-market; this record does not by itself establish manufacturing) [official record; status green] A state register lists this company as placing these goods on the market, as their maker or importer. By itself it does not show who makes them. checked 2026-09-07. Registre national des producteurs (ADEME/SYDEREP), France
- Named directors on file (record type: directors-on-file) [official record; status green] 4 directors on file. The register names the people who run the company, so there is someone answerable if something goes wrong. checked 2026-10-13. Companies House
- Annual accounts filed with the register (record type: annual-accounts-filed) [official record; status green] Annual accounts filed for 2025. Indicates the company still meets its reporting duties. checked 2026-10-13. Companies House (accounts)
- Directors named in the company register (record type: leadership-on-record) [official record; status green] Registry lists Director: Nicholas Mark Howard. The people leading the company are named in a public record. checked 2026-10-13. Companies House (officers)
- Owners named in the company register (record type: ownership-on-record) [official record; status green] Controlling owner on record: Puckator Holdings Limited. Names the company's owners or controllers as the register records them. checked 2026-10-13. Companies House (PSC)
- Active in the UK registry (record type: ch-active) [official record; status green] The national company register still lists it as active. checked 2026-10-13. Companies House
- A director was appointed, on the official record (record type: officer-appointed) [official record; status green] Shows that a named person answers for the company on the public record. checked 2026-10-13. Companies House (officers)
- 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. checked 2026-08-28. OpenSanctions
- Customer reviews: 1327 on Reviews.io (record type: customer-reviews) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Public reviews, shown as counted, not as our opinion. checked 2026-08-28. Reviews.io
- 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. checked 2026-08-28. OpenSanctions
- On the company register (record type: registered-since) [official record; status green] On the company register since 1997-08-01. Shows how long the company has been on the state register, which is hard to fake and easy to check. effective since 1997-08-01. Companies House free company data product (UK)
- Trade role recorded in the register (record type: registered-trade-role) [official record; status green] The state register itself records whether the company sells wholesale, retails, or acts as an agent - not a claim the company made about itself. effective since 2026-08-01. Companies House free company data product (UK)
- Registered for trade, not manufacturing (record type: registered-trade-only) [official record; status amber] Indicates the register lists trade, not production. checked 2026-06-20. Companies House
- Mentioned in independent media (record type: media-mention) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] The press has written about it. A fact, not an endorsement. checked 2026-07-18. Insider Media Ltd
- Active legal entity ID (LEI) (record type: lei-active) [official record; status green] A global identifier used in finance; an active one is renewed yearly. checked 2026-09-07. GLEIF global LEI register (golden copy)
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: Gifts & Novelty (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, Seasonal & Party Supplies: 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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