J SAINSBURY PLC
United Kingdom - Registry no. 00185647 - 33 Charterhouse Street, London, England, EC1M 6HA
- Registry profile
- Officers
- Ownership (persons with significant control)
- Charges and secured debt
- Sanctions screening
- Adverse media and enforcement
- What we could not check
- Sources
Assessment
No compliance red flags identified from free public sources. Active, long-established listed retailer with current filings.
- Registry status: active; accounts and confirmation statement up to date.
- No sanctions-list match on the OFAC SDN list or the FCDO UK Sanctions List (downloaded and screened 2026-10-18).
- 14 charges outstanding out of 32 registered.
- Ownership: PSC register exempt because shares are listed on a UK regulated market.
1.Registry profile Clear
Companies House, the UK official company register.
Status
Active. Public limited company.[1]
Source: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-10-18
Incorporated
10 November 1922.[1]
Source: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-10-18
Registered office
33 Charterhouse Street, London, England, EC1M 6HA.[1]
Source: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-10-18
Industry (SIC)
47110 - Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating.[1]
Source: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-10-18
Accounts and filings
Last accounts made up to 28 Feb 2026; next accounts to 6 Mar 2027 (due 6 Sep 2027). Confirmation statement current (last 25 Jul 2026). Latest filing 14 Oct 2026.[2]
Source: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-10-18
2.Officers Info
Officers on record
67 officers on record, 56 of them historic resignations.[3]
Source: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-10-18
Serving officers (examples)
Nicolas Grant (Secretary); Blathnaid Bergin; Joanna Bertram; Kate Bickerstaffe; Stephen Hare; Jo Nell Harlow. Serving directors are listed at the source.[3]
Source: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-10-18
3.Ownership (persons with significant control) Info
PSC register
Exempt from PSC disclosure since 25 July 2017 because voting shares are admitted to trading on a UK regulated market. Ownership is via the public float.[4]
Source: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-10-18
4.Charges and secured debt Info
Charges register
32 charges registered: 14 outstanding, 18 satisfied, 0 part satisfied. The register entries and their dates are listed at the source; outstanding charges are common treasury arrangements for large issuers and are not by themselves a distress signal.[5]
Source: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-10-18
5.Sanctions screening Clear
Exact and fuzzy name match against the lists as downloaded on 2026-10-18. The UN consolidated list is not screened (its terms allow personal, non-commercial use only); the EU list is not yet covered.
6.Adverse media and enforcement Clear
Public sources only. Searched for fraud, bribery, insolvency, winding-up and sanctions news.
Company-level findings Clear
No material adverse media found at company level in the sources searched: no enforcement actions, sanctions designations, insolvency events or winding-up petitions. An isolated 2026 report of a store employee's till-refund theft (Nottingham) concerns an individual, not the company.[1]
Source: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-10-18
What we could not check
These areas are not covered by this report. Absence from this report is not evidence that nothing exists.
- Court records and civil litigation - No free, reusable court-records source is covered. Civil claims would not necessarily appear here.
- Politically exposed persons (PEP) screening - Requires a paid PEP database, which this service does not use.
- Beneficial ownership beyond the register - The PSC register is exempt for listed companies, so shareholders above the public float are not shown.
- Credit score, payment behaviour, financial strength - Credit data is commercial. Only filing dates are reported, not accounts analysis.
- Identity verification of individuals, and personal background of officers - This service covers companies, not personal profiling.
- UN Security Council and EU consolidated sanctions lists - UN terms allow personal, non-commercial use only, so the UN list is not screened in a paid report; an EU list source route is not yet covered.
- Group structure and subsidiaries - Not extracted from the register for this report.
Sources
- Companies House - company overview (J SAINSBURY PLC) - https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00185647 (retrieved 2026-10-18)
- Companies House - filing history - https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00185647/filing-history (retrieved 2026-10-18)
- Companies House - officers - https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00185647/officers (retrieved 2026-10-18)
- Companies House - persons with significant control - https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00185647/persons-with-significant-control (retrieved 2026-10-18)
- Companies House - charges - https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00185647/charges (retrieved 2026-10-18)
- OFAC Sanctions List Search (US Treasury) - https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/ (retrieved 2026-10-18)
- UK Sanctions List (FCDO) - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-uk-sanctions-list (retrieved 2026-10-18)
Free public sources only; no paid databases, no credit scoring, no identity verification beyond registry data. Informational only, not legal, financial or investment advice. Findings reflect the sources on the retrieval date shown.