Coombe Castle International
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.
Esportatore e distributore di prodotti lattiero-caseari britannici e irlandesi
Coombe Castle International è un esportatore e distributore con sede nel Wiltshire di formaggio, burro e panna britannici e irlandesi. L'azienda consolida i prodotti di diversi caseifici e rifornisce clienti della vendita al dettaglio e della ristorazione in molti paesi.
- Type
- distributor (our classification of the record, not a statement by the company)
- Role
- Distributor (official record)
- Location
- Melksham, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1980 (matches the state register)
- Website
- https://www.coombecastle.com
- Categories
- Prodotti lattiero-caseari, Alimenti gourmet e di specialità
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 13 official records from 9 official sources are on file. 4 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
- Market access approved: European Union (record type: market-access-eu) [official record; status green] Shows the facility is on the destination market's list of establishments approved for the listed goods. A listing is not an observation of current production. checked 2026-08-22. TRACES NT, European Commission register of approved establishments (DG SANTE)
- 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
- 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
- Operating permit for the production site (record type: operating-permit) [official record; status green] Shows an authority issued a permit for an installation at this site for the activity named in the record. A permit is not an inspection report and not an observation that production is running today. effective since 2026-08-01. FSA approved food establishments (Reg. EC 853/2004, England and Wales)
- 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
- Named directors on file (record type: directors-on-file) [official record; status green] 5 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
- 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)
- Directors named in the company register (record type: leadership-on-record) [official record; status green] Registry lists Director: John Frederick Gibson. 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: Coombe Castle Holdings Limited. Names the company's owners or controllers as the register records them. checked 2026-10-13. Companies House (PSC)
- Annual accounts filed with the register (record type: annual-accounts-filed) [official record; status green] Annual accounts filed for 2025, revenue £35.1M. Indicates the company still meets its reporting duties. checked 2026-10-13. Companies House (accounts)
- On the company register (record type: registered-since) [official record; status green] On the company register since 1980-11-28. Shows how long the company has been on the state register, which is hard to fake and easy to check. effective since 1980-11-28. 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)
- 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
- 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. checked 2026-09-10. GLEIF Global LEI record
- 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 2026-10-23. GLEIF global LEI register (golden copy)
- 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 2026-10-21. 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 2026-10-21. OpenSanctions
Relationships
5 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
- Coombe Castle Holdings Limited: Person with significant control. Companies House (PSC)
- 4 more officer(s), not named in the record: Officer in the register. Companies House
- John Frederick Gibson: Officer in the register. Companies House (officers)
- The Creamery Western Way Melksham SN12 8FH, SN12, Melksham: Holds the site's permit, registry number WQ 208. TRACES NT, European Commission register of approved establishments (DG SANTE)
- EU: Approved for this market, country EU. TRACES NT, European Commission register of approved establishments (DG SANTE)
Candidates, not confirmed
- coombecastle.com: Website of this business. Source record
Import rules for these goods
- EU imports of food of animal origin and many other food categories must be pre-notified in TRACES and enter through border control posts. European Commission (TRACES)
- US imports require the foreign facility to be FDA-registered and the importer to run a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). US FDA
Goods family established: Prodotti lattiero-caseari (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 Alimenti gourmet e di specialità: 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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