Wilko

British high-street chain selling homewares and household goods
Organization business Q8002536
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Wilko

Summary

Wilko is a business[1]. Wilko ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (487 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Wilko is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • Wilko is in the country of GB[4].
  • Wilko's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • Wilko's instance of is recorded as brick and mortar[6].
  • Wilko's founder is recorded as James Kemsey Wilkinson[7].
  • Wilko's headquarters location is recorded as Worksop[8].
  • Wilko's Commons category is recorded as Wilko (retailer)[9].
  • Wilko's industry is recorded as retail[10].
  • 1930 marks the founding of Wilko[11].
  • 1941-02-13 marks the founding of Wilko[12].
  • Wilko's official website is recorded as https://www.wilko.com/[13].
  • Wilko's legal form is recorded as H0PO[14].
  • Wilko's number of viewers/listeners is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+15656266'}[15].
  • Wilko's social media followers is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+144235'}[16].
  • Wilko's social media followers is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+141424'}[17].
  • Wilko's social media followers is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+146473'}[18].
  • Wilko's social media followers is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+148158'}[19].
  • Wilko's location information URL is recorded as https://stores.wilko.com/[20].

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): 213800M1K8F15RLFE987[21]

  • Registered legal name: Wilko Limited[22]

  • Legal jurisdiction: GB[23]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[24]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): H0PO[25]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[26]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[27]

  • Entity created: 1941-02-13[28]

  • LEI first registered: 2014-01-29[29]

  • LEI last updated: 2025-09-01[30]

  • LEI next renewal: 2024-03-13[31]

  • Managing LOU: 213800WAVVOPS85N2205[32]

  • Registration authority: RA000585[33]

  • Authority entity ID: 00365335[34]

  • Other names: Wilko, Wilko Retail Limited, Wilkinson Hardware Stores,Limited[35]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[36]

Body

Founding

Wilko's founder is recorded as James Kemsey Wilkinson[7]. Recorded inception include 1930[11] and 1941-02-13[12].

Operations

Wilko's headquarters location is recorded as Worksop[8].

Industry

Wilko's industry is recorded as retail[10].

Why It Matters

Wilko ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (487 views/month).[2]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [21] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [22] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [23] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [24] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [25] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [26] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [27] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [28] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [29] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [30] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [31] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [32] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [33] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [34] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [35] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [36] . 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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