Political Audit: Greenkote
Corporate Communications & Public Stance
- No public evidence identified of an official Greenkote statement on the Israel-Palestine conflict, or of comparative corporate statements on other geopolitical crises, in the reviewed company website materials, investor materials, filing-history materials, and Companies House records.123456789
- Greenkote’s own public-facing materials describe the business as a global coatings technology company serving customers through plants, offices, joint ventures, licensees, and investor-facing corporate channels across multiple regions, and the reviewed materials remain commercial and operational rather than conflict-specific in framing.459
- The company-facing narrative in the reviewed materials emphasizes anti-corrosion technology, sector coverage, facilities, licensees, and international reach rather than political positioning.4579
- Amnesty International UK stated in 2020 that Greenkote was among the UK firms named in the UN settlement-company database and said it had written directly to Greenkote asking it to end settlement-related activity.1011
- No public company response to Amnesty’s 2020 intervention was identified in the reviewed materials used for this update.101145679
Operations in Occupied or Contested Territories
- OHCHR’s 30 June 2023 update of the database of business enterprises involved in certain activities relating to Israeli settlements lists
Greenkote P.L.C.as a UK business enterprise under activity code(g)as a licensor or franchisor.12 - OHCHR announced a further update on 26 September 2025, and the annexed UN document
A/HRC/60/19again listsGreenkote P.L.C.at no. 72 under activityg)with UK origin, indicating that the listing remained current in that update cycle and still appeared after the review points referenced in the 2025 update materials.131415 - A Greenkote-issued Safety Data Sheet dated 29 August 2019 identifies the supplier as
Greenkote Plc, Industrial Zone Barkan, 448200 Barkan, Israel, which is company-issued location evidence, although the document alone does not establish present operating status.16 - Companies House charges records provide primary documentary evidence of a pledge created on 6 June 2008 over all shares of
Greenkote (Israel) Limited, and the specific charge record shows that charge as satisfied on 14 July 2020.1718 - Greenkote PLC’s audited group accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024 list
Greenkote (Israel) Ltd.as 100% held by the parent company and describe the subsidiary’s business as diffusion-coating R&D and production; this current ownership record is distinct from the company’s founders, officers, licensees, customers, and products.19 - The Companies House charges page also records share-related charges involving
Greenkote USA, Inc.andGreenkote GmbH, supporting a historical multi-entity group structure alongside the Israel-linked entity record.17 - Patent-related records identify
Greenkote (Israel) Ltd.and related locations inBarkan Industrial Area,Barkan, IL, and inventor or proprietor links involvingAriel, ILandBarkan (IL), providing historical documentary evidence of an Israel-linked footprint, although those records alone do not establish current operational status.202122 - Greenkote’s current locations page lists sites or support coverage in the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, China or Hong Kong, and South Africa-linked licensed or support operations, but no Israel site is visibly listed on that current page; this is a present website-state observation only and does not negate the historical and UN records above.5
- Amnesty International UK stated in 2020 that Greenkote was among three UK firms involved in settlement-related activity after publication of the UN database and stated that it had written directly to Greenkote requesting an end to such activity.101211
- Limited public campaign evidence was identified in the reviewed accessible materials beyond the OHCHR listings and NGO scrutiny noted above, and no additional primary-source-backed campaign history specific to Greenkote was verified in this pass.1213141011
- No public company response to Amnesty’s 2020 intervention was identified in the reviewed materials.10114567
- No public evidence identified in this pass of court judgments, sanctions actions, or OECD National Contact Point proceedings against Greenkote tied to these operations or to settlement activity, based on the reviewed OHCHR, Amnesty, and OECD directory materials.121314101123
Internal Governance, Content & Retail Policies
- No public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of HR enforcement actions, employee-speech disputes, union litigation, content-moderation controversies, or retail labeling and sourcing actions by Greenkote related to Israel-Palestine.12345678
- The reviewed public-facing record remains sparse on internal policy architecture beyond standard corporate, investor, and product information, which limits visibility into escalation, compliance, and workforce-governance practices in this domain.123456789
Brand Heritage & State Partnerships
- Greenkote’s industries page lists
Militaryamong the sectors it serves, indicating that the company markets its coating technology to that sector at the level of industry coverage.7 - The same industries page names
IscarandMotorolaamong “major-name users,” but the cited company material does not specify programme names, customer geography, or any state contract associated with those users.7 - No public evidence identified in the reviewed sources of state honors, hosted Israeli officials, formal non-commercial partnerships with Israeli state institutions, or sponsorship of state-backed public-relations or “Brand Israel” campaigns.4567
- No public evidence identified of a publicly documented prime contractor role, named state procurement award, or published memorandum of understanding with an Israeli government ministry in the materials reviewed for this pass.4567
Lobbying, Advocacy, Financing & Logistics
- No public evidence identified in this pass of Greenkote PAC activity, FEC-filed political committee records, or U.S. House or Senate lobbying disclosure registrant records tied to Greenkote.2425
- No public evidence identified in the reviewed public materials of corporate donations, sponsorships, or crisis-era asset mobilization by Greenkote for Israeli state, settlement, or military-welfare bodies.4567269
- No supportable primary-source record was located in this pass linking Greenkote or named current directors to public donations to FIDF, JNF, AIPAC, or similar bodies.22425
- The accessible Who Profits page contains an older claim that the company provided products and services to the Israeli army, and the page continues to present Greenkote as having had a fully owned Israeli subsidiary, but the page states its information is valid only until 30 December 2011 and this update did not recover an independently verifiable primary-source chain sufficient to confirm those specific claims.26
- On the available record used for this audit, the evidence base for lobbying, advocacy financing, and logistics links remains materially weaker than the evidence base for the OHCHR settlement-database listings.121314262425
Corporate Structure & Primary Mission
- Companies House shows the UK entity as active and incorporated on 14 February 2005, and the same record states that the prior name
GREENKOTE PLCchanged toGREENKOTE LIMITEDon 27 October 2025.1 - Filing-history and overview records indicate that the company re-registered from public to private limited status on 27 October 2025, filed group accounts made up to 31 December 2024, and filed a confirmation statement dated 14 February 2026.81
- Companies House states that there is
no registrable person or registrable relevant legal entityrecorded as a person with significant control for the UK company.3 - Greenkote’s own company materials describe a coatings-technology business headquartered in Brook Park, Ohio, while also presenting the UK company as part of the corporate structure used for investor and shareholder purposes.459
- Greenkote’s investor page identifies Equiniti as registrar and Charles Street Securities Europe LLP as financial advisers to Greenkote.9
- The reviewed materials characterize Greenkote’s primary mission as commercial anti-corrosion coating technology across industrial sectors rather than a state-directed or public-mandate enterprise.4579
- No public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of a state-held golden share, a statutory public mission, or a founding mandate explicitly tied to advancing state geopolitical goals.13459
Executive & Leadership Footprint
- Greenkote’s management page identifies Mark J. Gore as CEO and Itzhak Rozentul as CTO and co-founder.6
- Companies House currently lists Mark John Gore, Robert Hayim, Robert Alan Richard, and Dion Andrew Jones Vaughan as active directors, and it records Victor Maurice Segal as having resigned on 30 September 2025 and James Rodger Thomson as having resigned on 29 January 2026.28
- Companies House records correspondence addresses for Mark Gore and Robert Alan Richard at
6435 Eastland Road, Brook Park, Ohio, and for Robert Hayim and Dion Vaughan at85 Great Portland Street, London.2 - Historical Companies House records show former director
Itzhac Rozentulwith a correspondence address inAriel, Israel, providing historical location data for a senior company figure.2 - Historical Companies House officer records also show former directors with Israeli-linked addresses including
Shay EtzioniinPetah Tikva,Hanan GeistinRamat-Hasharon, andZvi MendelsohninRamat-Gan; these are historical officer records only.2 - Patent records also list
ItzhakorItzhack Rosenthuland related technical-party records with locations inAriel, ILandBarkan (IL), reinforcing a historical documentary link to Ariel and Barkan in inventor, proprietor, and related-company records.202122 - Those historical records do not, on their own, establish a current leadership residence, current operating site, or current executive activity in Ariel or Barkan.2202122
- No public evidence identified in this pass of supportable executive social-media statements, op-eds, personal or family-foundation grants, or board and advisory roles in Israel-Palestine advocacy bodies attributable to Greenkote leadership.262425
Footnotes
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https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05363416/filing-history?page=1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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https://www.amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hub/all-resources/uk-call-jcb-and-other-british-firms-end-involvement-israeli-settlements/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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https://www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/un-exposes-companies-involved-israeli-settlements-and-why-it-matters/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session31/database-hrc3136/23-06-30-Update-israeli-settlement-opt-database-hrc3136.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4091616/files/A_HRC_60_19-FR.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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https://www.sztnh.gov.hu/sw/static/file/C_03_Ep_szoveg_ford_benyujt_14_1407.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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https://data.epo.org/publication-server/rest/v1.0/publication-dates/20190612/patents/EP3292230NWB1/document.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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https://www.oecd.org/en/networks/national-contact-points-for-responsible-business-conduct.html ↩
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