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Whatman plc

British laboratory equipment making-company now part of GE Healthcare
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Whatman plc

Summary

Whatman plc is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (30 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Whatman plc is in the country of GB[3].
  • Whatman plc's instance of is recorded as business[4].
  • Whatman plc's founder is recorded as James Whatman[5].
  • Whatman plc's headquarters location is recorded as Little Chalfont[6].
  • Whatman plc's Commons category is recorded as Whatman[7].
  • 1740 marks the founding of Whatman plc[8].
  • Whatman plc's official website is recorded as http://www.whatman.com[9].
  • Whatman plc's described at URL is recorded as http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/whatman-plc-history/[10].
  • Whatman plc's legal form is recorded as 8888[11].

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): 549300QEKCCYTEWCEI55[12]

  • Registered legal name: Whatman Limited[13]

  • Legal jurisdiction: GB[14]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[15]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): 8888[16]

  • Other legal form: LIMITED[17]

  • Entity status: INACTIVE[18]

  • LEI registration status: RETIRED[19]

  • LEI first registered: 2012-12-06[20]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-03-31[21]

  • LEI next renewal: 2016-08-25[22]

  • Managing LOU: 213800WAVVOPS85N2205[23]

  • Registration authority: RA000585[24]

  • Authority entity ID: 00630958[25]

  • Other names: Whatman Public Limited Company[26]

  • Conformity flag: NOT_APPLICABLE[27]

Body

Founding

Whatman plc's founder is recorded as James Whatman[5]. 1740 marks the founding of it[8].

Operations

Whatman plc's headquarters location is recorded as Little Chalfont[6].

Why It Matters

Whatman plc ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (30 views/month).[2]

Related Entities

business

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . 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.

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

  1. [12] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [15] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [16] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [17] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [18] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [19] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [20] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [21] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [22] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [23] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [27] ↑ . 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.

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