Emma Bridgewater Ltd

What is established and what is not

No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 9 official records from 5 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. Nothing here confirms manufacturing, ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.

Facts on file, each with its evidence type

• 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 2026-08-28. Companies House (officers)
• Directors named in the company register (record type: leadership-on-record) [official record; status green] Registry lists Director: Emma Mary Bridgewater. The people leading the company are named in a public record. checked 2026-08-28. Companies House (officers)
• Owners named in the company register (record type: ownership-on-record) [official record; status green] Controlling owner on record: Elephant Design Limited. Names the company's owners or controllers as the register records them. checked 2026-08-28. Companies House (PSC)
• Annual accounts filed with the register (record type: annual-accounts-filed) [official record; status green] Annual accounts filed for 2025, revenue £27.4M. Indicates the company still meets its reporting duties. checked 2026-08-28. Companies House (accounts)
• registry-activity (record type: registry-activity) [official record; status green] Line of business as recorded in the state register: 23410 - Manufacture of ceramic household and ornamental articles. Shows what the state itself says the company does, which you can compare with what it promises you. effective since 1985-09-03. Companies House free company data product (UK)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 2026-08-28. Companies House
• On the company register (record type: registered-since) [official record; status green] On the company register since 1985-09-03. Shows how long the company has been on the state register, which is hard to fake and easy to check. effective since 1985-09-03. 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)
• Active in the UK registry (record type: ch-active) [official record; status green] The national company register still lists it as active. checked 2026-08-28. 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. BBC

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: रसोई और टेबलवेयर (registered activity code). 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 उपहार और नवीनता: 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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• Sanctions and watchlists (OpenSanctions)