Balfour Beatty

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Balfour Beatty

Summary

Balfour Beatty is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (785 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Balfour Beatty is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • Balfour Beatty is in the country of US[4].
  • Balfour Beatty's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • Balfour Beatty's instance of is recorded as enterprise[6].
  • Balfour Beatty's instance of is recorded as public company[7].
  • Balfour Beatty followed British Insulated Callender's Cables[8].
  • Balfour Beatty followed Rok plc[9].
  • Balfour Beatty's headquarters location is recorded as London[10].
  • Balfour Beatty's child organization or unit is recorded as Balfour Beatty Rail (Germany)[11].
  • Balfour Beatty's Commons category is recorded as Balfour Beatty[12].
  • Balfour Beatty's stock exchange is recorded as London Stock Exchange[13].
  • Balfour Beatty's industry is recorded as construction[14].
  • January 1, 1909 marks the founding of Balfour Beatty[15].
  • 1979-06-22 marks the founding of Balfour Beatty[16].
  • Balfour Beatty's official website is recorded as http://www.balfourbeatty.com[17].
  • Balfour Beatty's legal form is recorded as public limited company[18].
  • Balfour Beatty's legal form is recorded as HZEH[19].
  • Balfour Beatty's owner of is recorded as Wightlink[20].
  • Balfour Beatty's number of viewers/listeners is recorded as {'amount': '+865005'}[21].
  • Balfour Beatty's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+69084'}[22].
  • Balfour Beatty's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+68070'}[23].
  • Balfour Beatty's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+69867'}[24].
  • Balfour Beatty's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+70710'}[25].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 213800EIE1K5QTFOD892[26]

  • Registered legal name: Balfour Beatty LLC[27]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[28]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[29]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): HZEH[30]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[31]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[32]

  • Entity created: 1979-06-22[33]

  • LEI first registered: 2018-01-11[34]

  • LEI last updated: 2025-11-25[35]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-01-12[36]

  • Managing LOU: 213800WAVVOPS85N2205[37]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[38]

  • Authority entity ID: 874823[39]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[40]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include January 1, 1909[15] and 1979-06-22[16].

Identity

Predecessors include British Insulated Callender's Cables[8] and Rok plc[9].

Operations

Balfour Beatty's headquarters location is recorded as London[10]. Its child organization or unit is recorded as Balfour Beatty Rail (Germany)[11].

Industry

Balfour Beatty's industry is recorded as construction[14].

Ownership

Balfour Beatty's stock exchange is recorded as London Stock Exchange[13].

Why It Matters

Balfour Beatty ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (785 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . GRID Release 2017-05-22. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . GRID Release 2017-05-22. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [26] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [27] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [28] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [29] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [30] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [31] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [32] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [33] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [34] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [35] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [36] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [37] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [38] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [39] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [40] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 25d ago · Yirba · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Child organization or unit Balfour Beatty Rail (Germany), WSP USA
    Companies house company id 00395826
    Headquarters location London
    Instance of business, enterprise, public company
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/30163|batch #30163]]: OpenCorporates company ID to Companies House company ID"
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