Greenkote PLC

UK holding company (Greenkote PLC until October 2025, now Greenkote Limited) of a zinc diffusion-coating group listed in the UN database of businesses involved in settlement-related activities (activity (g))

Greenkote PLC (now Greenkote Limited)
Type	Private limited company since 27 October 2025; previously a public limited company (Companies House no. 05363416)
Founded	Company incorporated 14 February 2005
Headquarters	167–169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London (registered office since 1 September 2026)
Industry	Treatment and coating of metals (SIC 25610); manufacture of other fabricated metal products (SIC 25990)
Revenue	£12,161,530 (group turnover, 2025)
Number of employees	192 (group average, 2025)

Greenkote PLC is the name under which the UK holding company of the Greenkote group traded from 20 April 2005 to 27 October 2025; the company (number 05363416) is now Greenkote Limited. The group describes itself as in the "rust prevention coating" business, with a traditional powder and e-coat coating operation in Mexico, a coating plant and headquarters in Ohio, and a research and development subsidiary in Israel. The company is named, as "Greenkote P.L.C." with the United Kingdom as home State, in the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights' database of business enterprises involved in settlement-related activities in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Listing in the United Nations settlements database

Greenkote P.L.C. is entry 112 in the 2020 report (activity (g), United Kingdom), entry 72 in the 2025 update (activity (g)), and entry 89 in annex I of the update of 25 September 2026, listed under activity (g) with the type of involvement given as "Direct linkage". The report defines activity (g) as "the use of natural resources, in particular water and land, for business purposes" and says "direct linkage" is the connection between an enterprise's operations, products or services and an adverse impact through its business relationships. It states that the database "does not purport to constitute a judicial or quasi-judicial process of any kind, nor does it provide any legal characterisation" of the listed activities or of an enterprise's involvement, and that it reflects a factual assessment for the period 2 August 2019 to 15 April 2026.

The United Nations table gives no narrative of the facts behind the listing, and the accounts read for this page do not mention the West Bank, settlements or any activity of the group outside Israel's internationally recognised territory; they give the group's Israeli subsidiary's address as Caesarea. What basis the United Nations used for the listing is therefore not documented here. Amnesty International wrote in November 2021 that it had written to a UK minister in 2020 about Greenkote, Opodo and JCB after the three were included on the United Nations list.

Companies House record

The company was incorporated on 14 February 2005 as Greenkote Limited and became Greenkote PLC on 20 April 2005. A certificate of re-registration from public limited company to private was filed on 27 October 2025, and the register shows the name Greenkote Limited from that date. (The chairman's statement in the 2025 accounts gives the date of the change from PLC to limited company as 27 October 2024, not 2025; the register's certificate is dated 27 October 2025, the date used here.) Its SIC codes are 25610 and 25990. The persons-with-significant-control register records a statement that the company knows of no registrable person or entity, and the accounts say the directors do not consider there to be an ultimate controlling party. The registered office moved on 1 September 2026 from Highdown House, Yeoman Way, Worthing, West Sussex to 167–169 Great Portland Street, London.

Current officers of Greenkote Limited (formerly Greenkote PLC) (05363416) as listed by Companies House on 11 November 2026 (name, role, status and dates only; former officers are not listed here)

Name	Role	Status	Appointed	Resigned
Robert Hayim	Director	Active	28 February 2005	–
Dr Mark John Gore	Director	Active	2 April 2012	–
Prism Cosec Limited	Secretary	Active	20 August 2018	–

Group and accounts

The group accounts for 2025 were audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited, approved on 8 September 2026 and filed on 15 September 2026. They describe the company as a holding company whose subsidiaries are Greenkote NA Holdings, Inc. (which oversees Greenkote USA, Inc. at Brook Park, Ohio, and Greenkote IPC Mexico, Inc., holding the Mexican operating company Industrial Powder Coatings de Mexico S.A. de C.V.) and Greenkote (Israel) Ltd. The Israeli subsidiary is described as carrying out research and development of diffusion coating technology and production of diffusion coatings, with its registered address in Caesarea; the strategic report says it "handles R&D developments".

Greenkote Limited (group): turnover for 2025 and 2024 (£)

Item	2025	2024
Coating services	11,323,526	10,838,167
Diffusion coating materials	838,004	304,871
Turnover	12,161,530	11,143,038
by destination: Europe	5,675	13,497
by destination: Middle East	241,619	291,374
by destination: North America	11,914,235	10,838,167

The strategic report records profit before tax of £784,767 for 2025 against a loss of £28,455 in 2024. The group employed an average of 192 people in 2025 (190 in 2024), of whom 190 were in North America, one in the UK and Europe and one in Israel. The auditor's report draws attention to a material uncertainty about the group's ability to continue as a going concern, citing note 2 (the effect of political and economic instability in certain geographies), and the strategic report says the group relies primarily on its Mexican operations; the accounts also say that options on future production of its "Greenkote materials" are under consideration because of Israel's geopolitical instability. A contingent liability note says the company received participation from the State of Israel's Office of the Chief Scientist in research and development costs and owes royalties on related sales, with approximately £2 million refundable at 31 December 2025. The directors' report says no political donations were made.

Not to be confused with

A separate company, Greenkote Metal Finish Limited (company 04472816, incorporated 28 June 2002, a metal-finishing company with a different set of officers and persons with significant control), is on the Companies House register under a similar name. The records read for this page show no ownership or officer link between the two companies.

See also

• JCB
• Who Profits
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• UK companies linked to 'Israel'

Identification and limits

• This page uses Companies House records for company 05363416 (and, for the name check, 04472816), the group accounts for 2025, three United Nations database documents and Amnesty International's press release, all read on 11 November 2026.
• The accounts are scanned images; the turnover, profit before tax, destination analysis, employee numbers, subsidiary table and the Chief Scientist note were checked against the page images.
• The accounts and the United Nations documents do not say what activity led to the listing under (g); nothing on this page asserts one.
• The accounts' figures are for the group, not the parent company alone. Only current officers are shown, with names, roles and dates.
• The Who Profits and Charity Commission records were not applicable to this company; the Who Profits company pages were not searched for Greenkote.