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Rentokil Initial (1896) Limited
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Previous officers 49
- Michael Ellis 2024-2025 View profile
- Jeffreys Kristen Hampson 2020-2024 View profile
- Patricia Mary Haughey 2019-2020 View profile
- Jonathan Ellis Hauck 2015-2019 View profile
- Daragh Patrick Feltrim Fagan 2014-2022 View profile
- Stuart Michael Ingall-Tombs 2011-2015 View profile
- Martin Lee Nicholas 2011-2011 View profile
- David John Mcconnachie 2008-2011 View profile
- Paul Griffiths 2006-2014 View profile
- Colin James Tyler 2006-2008 View profile
- Gareth Trevor Brown 2006-2013 View profile
- Andrew Elliott Macfarlane 2005-2008 View profile
- Henry James Lindsay Chandler 2003-2009 View profile
- Martin Douglas Ellis 2001-2003 View profile
- Jose Antonio Ferreira Duarte 2001-2003 View profile
- Edward Forrest Brown 2001-2006 View profile
- Clive Merrick Norman Ward 2001-2006 View profile
- Alexander Sirrell Young 2001-2003 View profile
- Robert Ward Jones 1996-2006 View profile
- James Christie Falconer Wilde 1996-2003 View profile
- Graham Bremner Foote 1996-1998 View profile
- Roger Christopher Payne 1996-2005 View profile
- Dr Allan Ross Jones 1996-2001 View profile
- Geoffrey Herbert Whalley 1996-2000 View profile
- Jacobus Antonius Alting 1996-1997 View profile
- Sir Clive Malcolm Thompson 1996-2000 View profile
- Christopher Thomas Pearce 1996-2000 View profile
- Michael John Ewing 1996-1996 View profile
- Ernest Patterson 1996-1996 View profile
- Sir Keith Roderick Whitson 1996-1996 View profile
- Graham Kettle 1996-1996 View profile
- Raymond John Hart 1996-1996 View profile
- Baroness Detta O'Cathain 1994-1996 View profile
- Keith Frederick Payne 1993-1996 View profile
- George Duncan 1996 View profile
- Sir Christopher Chataway 1996 View profile
- William Boulton 1993 View profile
- Lord Mark Fitzalan Howard 1996 View profile
- Timothy Gold Blyth 1993 View profile
- Lord Norman Beresford Tebbit 1996 View profile
- John Murray Allan 1994 View profile
- Sir Timothy Hugh Bevan 1992 View profile
- Luther Johnson Clark 1996 View profile
- Robert David Mackenzie 1994 View profile
- Sir Christopher George Francis Harding 1996 View profile
- Catherine Stead 2016-2024 View profile
- Daragh Patrick Feltrim Fagan 2016-2016 View profile
- Alexandra Jane Laan 2007-2016 View profile
- John Reginald Parry 1994 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- What it does
- Other business support service activities n.e.c.
- Incorporated
- 26/10/1896
- Registered office
- Crawley
- Previous names
- BET Limited (until 26/06/2012)
Ownership
Owned by (1) iOwned byIndividuals and companies registered as having significant control over this company, from the Companies House PSC (persons with significant control) register. People whose ownership could not be confirmed to one individual are not listed as confirmed owners.
- Rentokil Initial 1927 PLC
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06
Group
- Rentokil Initial (1896) Limited
is controlled by Rentokil Initial 1927 PLC
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 · source: Companies House PSC register - Rentokil Initial 1927 PLC
is controlled by Rentokil Initial Holdings Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 · source: Companies House PSC register - Rentokil Initial Holdings Limited
is controlled by Rentokil Initial PLC
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 · source: Companies House PSC register
Ultimately controlled by Rentokil Initial PLC.
57 other companies in this group
- Target Express Limited
- Target Express Parcels Limited
- Industrial Clothing Services Limited
- Prokill (UK) LTD
- Rentokil Initial Holdings Limited
- Rentokil Initial Investments Limited
- Rentokil Initial (1993) Limited
- Hometrust Limited
- Rentokil Dormant (NO.6) LTD
- Anzak Landscapes LTD
- Enigma Services Group Limited
- Rentokil Initial Services Limited
- Rentokil Limited
- Castlefield House Limited
- Rentokil Initial Investments South Africa
- BET Pension Trust Limited
- RI Dormant NO.12 Limited
- Rentokil Property Holdings Limited
- Opel Transport & Trading Company Limited
- Peter COX Limited
- BET (NO. 68) Limited
- Dudley Industries Limited
- BPS Offshore Services Limited
- Plant Nominees LTD
- Enviro-Fresh Limited
- Rentokil Terminix Funding PLC
- Rentokil Initial Asia Pacific Limited
- BET (NO. 18) Limited
- Rentokil Initial Pension Trustee Limited
- 02059330
- Prokill Limited
- RI Dormant NO.18 Limited
- B.E.T. Building Services Limited
- TEB Cleaning Services Limited
- RI Dormant NO.6 Limited
- Rentokil Insurance Limited
- Rentokil Initial 1927 PLC
- BET Environmental Services LTD
- AW Limited
- Grayston Central Services Limited
- Initial Medical Services Limited
- Chard Services Limited
- Rentokil Overseas Holdings Limited
- CHL Legacy Limited
- Rentokil Initial UK LTD
- SVM International Services Limited
- Broadcast Relay Service (Overseas) Limited
- RI Dormant NO.20 Limited
- Rentokil Initial Finance Limited
- Target Express Holdings Limited
Ownership paths are calculated from Companies House persons-with-significant-control filings. Each step shows the filed nature of control and dates; a step marked "ceased" is historical, not current.
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
2 directors on the board
- Bente Salt Director · appointed 2025
- Rachel Eleanor Canham Director · appointed 2022
2.6y median 2.6y
average tenure
4.3y
longest tenure
0
directors past 6 years
First-time vs portfolio directors
Portfolio (2)
- Bente Salt Director · appointed 2025
- Rachel Eleanor Canham Director · appointed 2022
0
also govern a charity
1
left in the last 12 months
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
Professional services 11Business services 10Dormant 3Finance 3Property 1
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 00049855
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Private Limited Company
- Accounts next due
- 30/09/2027
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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