Company Ownership & Group Structure

Give it a list of companies and get back who owns each one and what each one owns: the direct parent, the ultimate parent at the top of the group, and the direct subsidiaries. Every link says where it came from, how sure we are and the evidence behind it. The data covers organisations only. We never return individuals.

People use it for:

• KYB and onboarding checks: see the group a new customer or supplier belongs to before you sign.
• Selling to groups: find the parent that holds the budget, or every subsidiary of an account you already have.
• M&A and market research: map a group's UK, French, Norwegian, Singapore and LEI-registered companies.
• Supplier risk: spot suppliers that share an ultimate parent, so one failure doesn't hit you twice.

Quick start

Paste this into the JSON tab and press Start:

{
  "companies": ["GB-CH-09263424", "Octopus Energy | GB", "923609016 | NO"],
  "include": ["parents", "ultimate", "subsidiaries"],
  "maxSubsidiaries": 200
}

Each line can be:

• a registry id: GB-CH-09263424, FR-SIREN-552100554, NO-ORG-923609016, SG-UEN-201912345K;
• an LEI, with or without the LEI- prefix;
• a company number with its country after a bar: 09263424 | GB, 552100554 | FR;
• a company name, best with a country: Octopus Energy | GB. We take the best match.

Default country fills in the country for lines that don't have one.

What you get (one row per company)

Field	What it holds
name, country, id, status	The company you asked about
ultimateParentName, ultimateParentCountry, ultimateParentId	The top of the group, or empty when the company is the top
familySize	How many companies we link into the same group (1 when we know of no parent or subsidiary)
directParentName	The strongest direct owner
subsidiaryCount	Direct subsidiaries in total, even when maxSubsidiaries lists fewer
parents	Each direct owner: id, name, country, relation, controlBand, source, confidence, evidence
parentChain	Parent, grandparent and so on, up to the ultimate parent
ultimateParent	The ultimate parent with the same fields as a parent
subsidiaries	Up to maxSubsidiaries direct subsidiaries, strongest links first
missingParentReason	Why there is no parent, when the company told GLEIF: for example "no parent company: controlled by individuals or a state, per GLEIF" or "no consolidating parent"
profileUrl	The company's page on the Open Company Graph

An owner company that isn't in our records comes back with its name and country and id: null.

include lets you leave out parts you don't need. The flat columns (ultimateParentName, ultimateParentCountry, familySize) are always filled.

Sources and confidence

Source	What it adds	Licence	Confidence
GLEIF relationship records (Level 2)	Direct and ultimate accounting parents of LEI holders, worldwide, with the stated percentage	CC0	0.99
GLEIF reporting exceptions	The reason a company gives for reporting no parent	CC0	0.99
Companies House PSC register	UK companies' owners that are companies themselves, with the control band (for example 75 to 100% of shares)	OGL v3.0	0.95 matched by registry number, 0.80 by exact name
SEC 10-K Exhibit 21	Subsidiaries that US listed companies name in their annual report	Public domain	0.85

The ultimate parent follows one parent per level: GLEIF first, then a PSC owner with majority control matched by number, then Exhibit 21, then a PSC owner matched by name. Where GLEIF states an ultimate parent, that one wins. Ownership loops in the source data are flagged with inCycle and the chain stops there.

Limits

• Organisations only. People who own or control a company are never returned. When GLEIF says a company is owned by individuals, the row says "no parent company: controlled by individuals or a state, per GLEIF" and nothing more.
• Coverage is strongest for LEI holders and UK companies. A company with no LEI and no corporate owner on a register we read comes back with familySize 1.
• PSC owners below majority control are listed in parents but don't count as the parent in the chain.
• Ended relationships are left out. You see the group as it stands in the latest files.

Price

You pay per company returned with its group structure. Not-found and invalid entries are free, and so is a company we hold no parent or subsidiary for.

Tier	Price per 1,000 companies
Starter (free plan and Starter)	$3.00
Scale	$2.25
Business and above	$1.65

Removal requests

If a record about your organisation is wrong, or you want it removed, email apify@locaihost.org with the company's registry id or name. Removed records stop appearing in every run. You don't need to give a reason. Use the data lawfully and in line with each source's licence.

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