GKN

British multinational automotive and aerospace company
Organization business Q597047
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GKN

Summary

GKN is a business[1]. GKN ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,684 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • GKN is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • GKN is in the country of GB[4].
  • GKN's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • GKN's instance of is recorded as enterprise[6].
  • GKN's instance of is recorded as public company[7].
  • GKN followed John Lysaght and Co.[8].
  • GKN's headquarters location is recorded as Redditch[9].
  • GKN's child organization or unit is recorded as GKN Automotive[10].
  • GKN's child organization or unit is recorded as GKN Aerospace[11].
  • GKN's child organization or unit is recorded as GKN Sinter Metals[12].
  • GKN's Commons category is recorded as GKN plc[13].
  • GKN's stock exchange is recorded as London Stock Exchange[14].
  • GKN's industry is recorded as aerospace industry[15].
  • GKN's industry is recorded as automotive industry[16].
  • July 9, 1900 marks the founding of GKN[17].
  • 1900-07-09 marks the founding of GKN[18].
  • GKN's location of formation is recorded as Dowlais[19].
  • GKN's parent organization or unit is recorded as Melrose Industries[20].
  • GKN's legal form is recorded as public limited company[21].
  • GKN's legal form is recorded as H0PO[22].
  • GKN's total revenue is recorded as {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+1410000000'}[23].

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): 213800QNZ22GS95OSW84[24]

  • Registered legal name: Gkn Limited[25]

  • Legal jurisdiction: GB[26]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[27]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): H0PO[28]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[29]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[30]

  • LEI first registered: 2016-06-27[31]

  • LEI last updated: 2019-06-29[32]

  • LEI next renewal: 2019-06-28[33]

  • Managing LOU: 213800WAVVOPS85N2205[34]

  • Registration authority: RA000585[35]

  • Authority entity ID: 04191106[36]

  • Other names: Gkn PLC[37]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[38]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include July 9, 1900[17] and 1900-07-09[18]. GKN's location of formation is recorded as Dowlais[19].

Identity

GKN followed John Lysaght and Co.[8].

Operations

GKN's headquarters location is recorded as Redditch[9]. GKN's parent organization or unit is recorded as Melrose Industries[20]. Subsidiaries include GKN Automotive[10], a business[39], in United Kingdom[40]; GKN Aerospace[11], a business[41], in United Kingdom[42], headquartered in Birmingham[43]; and GKN Sinter Metals[12], a business[44], in Germany[45], founded in 1938[46], headquartered in Radevormwald[47].

Industry

Industries include aerospace industry[15] and automotive industry[16].

Ownership

GKN's stock exchange is recorded as London Stock Exchange[14].

Why It Matters

GKN ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,684 views/month).[2] GKN has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] GKN is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . londonstockexchange.com. londonstockexchange.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . SIPRI Arms Industry Database. wikidata.org.

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

  1. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [38] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [48] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [49] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 806A-D21F-B159-C973-C41D
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  2. 17w ago · Chalmd · 2026-06-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bbc things id → 1c17b20d-d5e5-4e9b-bbc3-597c7c651a24
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1617]]: 1c17b20d-d5e5-4e9b-bbc3-597c7c651a24"
  3. 21w ago · Yirba · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Child organization or unit → GKN Automotive, GKN Aerospace, GKN Sinter Metals
    Companies house company id → 00066549
    Headquarters location → Redditch
    Instance of → business, enterprise, public company
    + 22 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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