Skip to content
Governance Register

Company

NEW Balance Athletic Shoes (U.K.) Limited

NEW Balance Athletic Shoes (U.K.) Limited is an active UK company (number 01616165), incorporated 1982, with 4 current directors including Kevin Michael Doyle and Joseph Eugene Preston. Source: Companies House, updated 4th October 2026.

Official record Companies House · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

Network

The large node is NEW Balance Athletic Shoes (U.K.) Limited. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.

Who leads it

Previous officers 13

  1. John Withee 2015-2019 Director View profile
  2. Francis Allen 2015-2018 Director View profile
  3. Robert Demartini 2015-2018 Director View profile
  4. Alan Roy Hed 2009-2016 Director View profile
  5. Jonathan Ram 2007-2015 Director View profile
  6. Alistair Donald Cameron 2003-2007 Director View profile
  7. Lawrence Russell Lucas 1998-2000 Director View profile
  8. John Larsen 1997-2015 Director View profile
  9. James Edward Tompkins 1994-2009 Director View profile
  10. David Robinson 1993 Director View profile
  11. Lars Olof Samuelson 1994 Director View profile
  12. Peter Gorty 1994-1999 Secretary View profile
  13. Stephen Howard Jones 1994 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

About

Incorporated
23/02/1982

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.

  • James Spiro Davis
    75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06

Group

  1. NEW Balance Athletic Shoes (U.K.) Limited is controlled by James Spiro Davis
    Evidence
    active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 · source: Companies House PSC register

Ultimately controlled by James Spiro Davis.

2 other companies in this group

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.

4 directors on the board

7.5y median 7.9y
average tenure
7.9y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (4)

0
also govern a charity
0
left in the last 12 months

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving directors could step down together
  • No director brings board experience from anywhere else
  • Narrow spread of sectors across the board

Where to look Suggested search: succession planning for long-tenured seats; a director with board experience elsewhere.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
01616165
Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data