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Follow ownership and control

Who controls a company, who has run it, and the register and date behind each step.

This company is the head of a group of 55 others. I need to know who controls it and who has sat on its board.

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Step by step, on real recordsiEach example below is live from the public register, not a mock-up.

  1. 1

    Follow control to the top

    Each step comes from the Companies House register of persons with significant control: who controls whom, the nature of control and the date it was notified. This is Wittington Investments Limited.

    Why it matters. Cite the register and the notification date, not our page.

    Open the group tab

    Company - Grosvenor Street, LondonWittington Investments Limited
    1. Wittington Investments Limited is controlled by Sophia Mary Weston
      75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06
    2. Wittington Investments Limited is controlled by Jana Ruth Khayat
      75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06
    3. Wittington Investments Limited is controlled by Kate Hobhouse
      75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06
    4. Wittington Investments Limited is controlled by Melissa Baron Murdoch
      75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06
    5. Wittington Investments Limited is controlled by Guy Howard Weston
      75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06
    6. Wittington Investments Limited is controlled by George Garfield Weston
      75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06
    7. Wittington Investments Limited is controlled by Alannah Weston
      75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2018-12-10
    8. Wittington Investments Limited is controlled by Galen Weston
      75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06

    Source: Companies House register of persons with significant control (PSC). A step marked ceased would be history, not current. · See the group

  2. 2

    List the officers, now and before

    Current directors with the year each joined, and the officers who left, most recent first.

    Company - Grosvenor Street, LondonWittington Investments Limited

    Now

    Most recently left of 9 previous

    Source: Companies House · updated 25th October 2026 · See every officer

  3. 3

    Put the source on the file

    The register, the edition date and the licence, plus what Governance Register calculated rather than copied.

    Company - Grosvenor Street, LondonWittington Investments Limited
    Official source
    Companies House
    Register edition
    25th October 2026
    Licence
    Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
    Calculated here
    Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
    Identity
    Records are treated as the same person only where our identity-matching rules support it. Confirmed relationships are supported by the approved identity-matching evidence and rules. Likely relationships are supported by sufficient evidence to suggest the records concern the same individual, but are not established as confirmed; they are shown with the label “Likely the same person”. How people are matched

    Source: Companies House · updated 25th October 2026 · See the sources

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Try it on a real groupiOpen a real ownership chain, or follow the entity you are investigating.

Wittington Investments groupWittington Investments officers

What is open and what needs an account. Ownership, officers and sources are open to everyone, with no account. Every record names its register and edition date. There is no citation export yet: note the edition date shown on the Sources tab.

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Official sources

Board and officer records from the Charity Commission, OSCR, the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Companies House and the Department for Education, with other public registers named on each record. Every fact shows its register and date.

How we handle data

Careful matching

Records are joined into one person only where our identity-matching rules support it. Confirmed relationships are supported by the approved evidence and rules. Likely relationships are shown with the label “Likely the same person”. Connections are calculated here and labelled as calculated.

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