Tennants Distribution
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.
Onafhankelijke chemicaliëndistributeur gevestigd in Manchester
Tennants Distribution is een van de grootste onafhankelijke chemicaliëndistributeurs in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, gevestigd in Manchester. Het is een bedrijfslid van de European Association of Chemical Distributors (FECC).
- Type
- distributor (our classification of the record, not a statement by the company)
- Role
- Distributor (official record)
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1995 (matches the state register)
- Website
- https://tennantsdistribution.com
- Categories
- Chemicaliën en kunststoffen
- Markets
- Verenigd Koninkrijk
Listed in a source registry
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 14 official records from 10 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
- Registered food manufacturer or packer (record type: registered-food-manufacturer) [official record; status green] A government food register lists it as making or packing food, checked on the date shown. effective since 1901-01-01. Food Standards Agency, food hygiene rating scheme (UK)
- 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
- Licensed to sponsor foreign workers (record type: licensed-sponsor) [official record; status green] The interior ministry vetted this employer and licensed it to hire from abroad; a shell company does not hold such a licence. checked 2026-08-12. UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors (workers)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Owners named in the company register (record type: ownership-on-record) [official record; status green] Controlling owner on record: Tennants Consolidated 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
- 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)
- 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: Timothy Griffiths. The people leading the company are named in a public record. checked 2026-10-13. Companies House (officers)
- 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
- On the company register (record type: registered-since) [official record; status green] On the company register since 1995-11-28. Shows how long the company has been on the state register, which is hard to fake and easy to check. effective since 1995-11-28. 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
- 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. Transport Engineer
- 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)
- 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
Import rules for these goods
- Chemical substances imported into the EU above 1 tonne/year must be REACH-registered. ECHA (REACH)
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