Agrexco Agricultural Export Company Limited
Agrexco Agricultural Export Company Limited is a company on the UK Companies House register with address or ownership links to Israel. This profile is part of UK companies linked to 'Israel'; see UK companies linked to 'Israel': Methodology for how companies were selected and scored.
Profile
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| Type | Overseas company (UK establishment) |
| Founded | 1 Sep 1964 |
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| Headquarters | 121 Ha Chashmoniam St, Tel Aviv, 67133, Israel |
| Industry | n/a (overseas company/entity – no SIC) |
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- Category: A / O / T (Israeli entity on the UK register (overseas company or overseas entity) with an Israeli registered address; officer(s) with an Israeli correspondence address; documented activity in the occupied territories (entity or parent group)); connection score 6
- Company number: FC014576[1]
- Status: Active
- Type: Overseas company (UK establishment)
- Incorporated / registered: 1 Sep 1964
- SIC: n/a (overseas company/entity – no SIC)
- Registered office: 121 Ha Chashmoniam St, Tel Aviv, 67133, Israel
- Overseas registration (CH): parent registry The Registrar Of Companies 97 Jaffo Street Jerusalem 91281; registration number 51-015562-5; legal form Private Limited; stated business activity: Export Of Fruits, Vegetables & Flowers
- Listing / market cap: Not listed. Government-owned when it filed at CH; liquidated in 2011.[2]
Israel connection:
- Overseas company registered in Israel (51-015562-5), registered office Tel Aviv; stated business "export of fruits, vegetables & flowers". All 31 recorded director appointments have Israeli correspondence addresses; CH still shows 14 as current, although the company was ordered into liquidation in Israel in Sept 2011.[2]
Persons with significant control (CH):[1]
- None shown. Overseas companies (UK establishments) have no PSC register.
Directors (CH; 31 director appointments, 14 current; † = Israel correspondence address, 31 appointments):[1]
| Name | Born (month/year) | Service | † |
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| Shay Aba | December 1977 | Nov 2010–present | † |
| Arie Abramovich | November 1952 | Nov 2010–present | † |
| Zvi Alon | October 1940 | Nov 2010–present | † |
| Shlomo Atzmoni | May 1955 | Nov 2010–present | † |
| Eitan Ben-David | May 1959 | Nov 2010–present | † |
| Yael Ilus-Akram | January 1965 | Nov 2010–present | † |
| Shmuel Levit | October 1954 | Nov 2010–present | † |
| Shimshon Madmoni | September 1957 | Nov 2010–present | † |
| Jamal Medlege | May 1964 | Nov 2010–present | † |
| Yuval Oren | July 1950 | Nov 2010–present | † |
| Guy Propper | October 1976 | Nov 2010–present | † |
| Michal Shinwell | March 1980 | Nov 2010–present | † |
| Ester Vishnitzki | February 1972 | Nov 2010–present | † |
| Meir Yifrach | June 1947 | Nov 2010–present | † |
| Haim Bar-Shai | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Meir Ben-Meir | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Arron Bialystock | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Menashe Blauweiss | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Moshe Cohen | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Reuben Eland | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Yacov Friedman | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Abraham Harenbeni | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Yitzhak Livneh | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Rafi Louzia | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Zvi Mablin | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Ezra Meier | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Hillel Minitz | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Haim Molco | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Simha Ofer | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Amnon Safran | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
| Arieh Ziff | – | Jul 1988–Dec 2010 | † |
Current secretary: Chaim Heller †; David Vaknine[1]
Latest accounts (income/expenditure): Group accounts for FY to 31 Dec 2009 (filed 26 Nov 2010; scanned, read by OCR, € thousands, consolidated): revenues 487,814 (2008: 543,309); operating income 6,029 (2008: loss 4,938); net loss (106) (2008: (7,775)). No later accounts were filed.[3]
Arms trade involvement: None documented. The company's stated business is not in the arms trade.
Supply to the IDF / Israel MOD / Israeli security services: None documented in the sources reviewed.
Activities in the occupied territories: Corporate Watch reports that Agrexco had a regional office in the occupied Jordan Valley and worked with growers in most settlements there, and that its general manager told a 2004 UK trial that it marketed 60–70% of all agricultural produce grown in Israeli settlements.[4] Successor company: Who Profits documents packing houses of Agrexco Carmel (now owned by Ampa Group) in four Jordan Valley settlements in 2022 and a blueberry farm in the occupied Syrian Golan.[5] The 2022 findings relate to the successor business, not to this UK establishment.
Links to the Israeli government: Set up by the Israeli government in 1956 as a state-owned exporter[5]; Globes described it as "government-owned" when it went into liquidation.[2]
WZO / JNF / Jewish Agency / Keren Hayesod: None found in the sources reviewed.
Controversies (protests, legal cases, export-licence rulings):
- Target of UK and European boycott campaigns from 2004 for trading settlement goods, including a 2004 blockade of its UK depot that led to a trial of seven activists.[4]
- Entered formal liquidation in Sept 2011 after losses that Corporate Watch attributes partly to boycotts in Europe.[4][2] In April 2012 the UK Co-op stopped buying from Agrexco and other exporters over settlement links.[6]
See also
- UK companies linked to 'Israel'
- UK Companies with Address or Ownership Links to Israel - Alphabetical
- UK Companies with Address or Ownership Links to Israel - Ranked by density of connection
- UK Companies with documented links to business activity in the Occupied Palestinian territories and the occupied Golan
- UK defence, security, surveillance and dual-use technology companies with documented business ties to 'Israel'
- UK companies linked to 'Israel': Methodology
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Companies House, Agrexco Agricultural Export Company Limited (FC014576): company overview Find and update company information (GOV.UK).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Chen Ma'anit and Lilach Weissman, Agrexco heads for liquidation Globes, 11 September 2011.
- ↑ Companies House, Agrexco Agricultural Export Company Limited (FC014576): filing history Find and update company information (GOV.UK).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Corporate Watch, Israeli government exporter Carmel-Agrexco forced into liquidation Corporate Watch, 26 September 2011.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Who Profits Research Center, Agrexco Carmel Agricultural Export Company Who Profits, information valid to 9 May 2022.
- ↑ Who Profits Research Center, Agrexco is back in business Who Profits.