Rapid Electronics

What is established and what is not

No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 9 official records from 6 official sources are 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. 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

• 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 2026-09-07. Environment Agency public registers (England)
• 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 2026-09-03. 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. checked 2026-09-03. OpenSanctions
• Active in the UK registry (record type: ch-active) [official record; status green] The national company register still lists it as active. checked 2026-09-03. Companies House
• Named directors on file (record type: directors-on-file) [official record; status green] 3 directors on file. The register names the people who run the company, so there is someone answerable if something goes wrong. checked 2026-09-03. Companies House
• 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
• 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 2026-09-03. Companies House (officers)
• Directors named in the company register (record type: leadership-on-record) [official record; status green] Registry lists Director: James Glen Bates. The people leading the company are named in a public record. checked 2026-09-03. Companies House (officers)
• Owners named in the company register (record type: ownership-on-record) [official record; status green] Controlling owner on record: Rapid Electronics Holdings Ltd. Names the company's owners or controllers as the register records them. checked 2026-09-03. Companies House (PSC)
• 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 2026-09-03. Companies House (accounts)
• Certificates named on their own site (record type: certificate-page-on-site; this record does not by itself establish manufacturing) [stated or published by the company, not an official record; status amber] Shows where the company itself claims the certificate, so you can open that page and judge it. checked 2026-09-03. Company's own certification page
• On the company register (record type: registered-since) [official record; status green] On the company register since 1980-07-28. Shows how long the company has been on the state register, which is hard to fake and easy to check. effective since 1980-07-28. 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)

Relationships

4 relationship(s) on file. Each line names the other party, the relationship as its source records it, and the source. A record of a relationship is not a finding about control beyond what it literally says.

Recorded in a source

• Rapid Electronics Holdings Ltd: Person with significant control. Companies House (PSC)
• 2 more officer(s), not named in the record: Officer in the register. Companies House
• James Glen Bates: Officer in the register. Companies House (officers)

Candidates, not confirmed

• rapidonline.com: Website of this business. Source record

Import rules for these goods

• Electronics for the EU need CE marking incl. RoHS substance limits, and producers must register for WEEE take-back in each member state of sale. European Commission (CE)
• Electronics for the US market need FCC equipment authorization under 47 CFR Part 15, which covers unintentional radiators such as switch-mode power supplies, not only radio devices. US FCC (Part 15)

Goods family established: Électronique grand public (the company's own text), Matériel électrique et énergétique (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 category Fournitures et matériel de bureau: 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.

Check independently

Before a first order, ask whose products they sell and on what basis: a distribution agreement or the manufacturer's authorisation.

• Sanctions and watchlists (OpenSanctions)
• VAT number check (EU VIES)