Diageo

What is established and what is not

No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 11 official records from 9 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 manufacturing role above rests on the official records listed below, and only as far as each literally goes: a facility registration or licence is not an observation of current production. Nothing here confirms ownership or trading status 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 2026-08-24. Environment Agency public registers (England)
• 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: Melissa Bethell. The people leading the company are named in a public record. checked 2026-08-28. Companies House (officers)
• 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 2026-08-28. Companies House (accounts)
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• Named directors on file (record type: directors-on-file) [official record; status green] 11 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 1886-10-21. Shows how long the company has been on the state register, which is hard to fake and easy to check. effective since 1886-10-21. 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. Yahoo Finance UK
• Site address listed in a government regulator's register (record type: facility-registered) [official record; status green] Shows the regulator records a site of this company at a named address. A registration is not an observation of current production. checked 2026-09-24. BPOM (Indonesian Food and Drug Authority), public register of manufacturing facilities behind product registrations (Sarana)
• 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

Claimed certifications, not confirmed by us

• ISO 9001, Quality Management IAF CertSearch

Import rules for these goods

Product-specific import rules not established for the catalog category 葡萄酒、啤酒和烈酒: neither the company's own description nor an official activity code shows that its own goods are 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 for the ISO 9001, Quality Management certificate number, its holder and the products it covers.

• Sanctions and watchlists (OpenSanctions)