Homebase

Key Findings

• Economic: Homebase continues to list Keter garden and storage products, establishing downstream retail availability, but not product origin, supplier identity, or payment flows.¹
• Political: The Homebase trading style is owned by CDS; no Israel/Palestine-related corporate advocacy, donations, lobbying, state partnership, or conflict-related logistics activity was verified in the bounded review.^{2, 3}
• Settlements: Historical reporting describes Keter’s former Barkan industrial-zone activity as ceased or of unknown status after a 2016 visit; no Homebase SKU, order, importer record, or label was tied to settlement production.⁴
• Not found: No public evidence identified of Homebase, CDS, or their reviewed principals having Israeli military, security, digital-surveillance, or occupied-territory operations.^{5, 6}

Target Profile

Key Facts:

• CDS acquired up to 70 UK Homebase stores, the Homebase brand, and associated intellectual property following the November 2024 administration of historical Homebase entities.¹¹
• HOMEBASE LIMITED was incorporated on 10 October 2025 and is recorded as dormant; the register does not itself establish that it contracts for every current Homebase activity.^{2, 8}
• Homebase’s stated online delivery offer is limited to the United Kingdom.³

Executive Summary

Homebase is presently a UK retail trading style owned by CDS (Superstores International) Limited. The current legal and trading arrangement follows the administration of HHGL Limited and Hampden Group Limited in November 2024, after which administrators sold up to 70 UK stores, the Homebase brand, and intellectual property to CDS. CDS stated that the brand would continue online while acquired stores would transfer and reopen as The Range stores.^{11, 12}

The principal documented Israel/Palestine nexus is downstream retail availability of Keter-branded garden and storage products. Homebase’s 2026 Keter catalogue and earlier 2022 brochure establish a visible consumer retail relationship. A product document hosted in Homebase’s directory states “Made in Israel by”; however, it does not establish that all current Keter goods sold by Homebase are Israeli-made, identify a factory, or connect an item to a settlement.^{1, 13, 14}

The evidence does not establish that Homebase directly procures from Keter, that Keter UK or an Israeli Keter entity supplies Homebase, that a listed product originated in Israel or the occupied Palestinian territory, or that Homebase retail proceeds reach an Israeli entity. Historical reporting on Keter’s Barkan industrial-zone facility records a 2016 field visit that strongly suggested Keter no longer operated there. It neither identifies Homebase as purchaser, importer, distributor, or seller nor verifies current settlement-linked production.^{1, 4}

No public evidence identified of Homebase, CDS, Norton Group Holdings Limited, or reviewed principals holding Israeli military or security contracts; supplying weapons, dual-use tactical products, surveillance systems, cloud services, AI, or cyber tools to Israeli state bodies; operating in Israel or the occupied Palestinian territory; or undertaking Israel/Palestine-related lobbying, donations, advocacy, or conflict logistics.^{3, 5, 6, 15}

On the fixed, human-vetted V6.5 assessment, Homebase receives a BRS score of 139, placing it in Tier E (Minimal/No Complicity). The non-zero Economic and Political domain values reflect the limited but documented Keter retail nexus and its public-facing continuity, while the record does not substantiate military or digital involvement.

Timeline of Relevant Events

Corporate Overview

Homebase’s current help materials describe the brand as a trading style owned by CDS (Superstores International) Limited. Its privacy notice identifies CDS Superstores International Ltd, trading as The Range, as owner of homebase.co.uk and controller of the personal data processed through that site.^{2, 3}

The historic operating entities should not be conflated with the present CDS-owned trading style. HHGL Limited, formerly named Homebase Limited between 1996 and 2016, entered administration in November 2024. The administration sale transferred assets and brand rights to CDS, but available records do not provide a complete current group chart or establish every entity contracting for present Homebase operations.^{11, 16}

HOMEBASE LIMITED, company number 16777483, is an active English private company at CDS’s Plymouth address, recorded as dormant. CDS controls it through more than 75% of its shares and voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors. CDS is in turn controlled through Norton Group Holdings Limited; Sarah Jane Dawson holds more than 75% of Norton’s shares, while Christopher Frederick Dawson is recorded as exercising significant influence or control.^{2, 8, 9, 10}

No public evidence identified of a Homebase-operated Israeli entity, franchise, branch, warehouse, office, employee base, tax registration, authorised reseller, or operating subsidiary in Israel or the occupied Palestinian territory.^{3, 7}

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of Homebase, CDS, Homebase Group, or reviewed principals holding a contract, framework agreement, tender award, joint venture, or procurement relationship with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, or another Israeli security body.^{5, 6}

Homebase’s documented Keter relationship concerns ordinary consumer garden and storage products. The 2022 catalogue does not describe tactical, ruggedised, military-specification, or security-force variants, and no public evidence identified of Homebase modifying or selling such products to an Israeli state-security end user.¹⁴

No public evidence identified of Homebase or its group entities supplying defence primes, weapons, munitions, strategic platforms, construction equipment, base services, logistics, export-controlled goods, or military infrastructure services connected to Israel or occupied territory.^{5, 6}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is that Homebase is a civilian UK home-and-garden retailer, and the available evidence identifies no military-facing product, contract, end user, procurement notice, export-control record, or defence-prime relationship. The historic Keter lead does not establish military supply-chain integration.^{4, 14}

These absence findings concern publicly searchable materials reviewed in the audits. They do not substitute for non-reviewed Israeli procurement records, export-licensing datasets, or other non-public primary records.^{5, 6}

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

Homebase’s privacy notice identifies Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising as website partners and describes collection of behavioural metrics, heatmaps, and session-replay information. The notice also lists in-store Wi-Fi MAC addresses, traffic data, location data, web logs, and other communications data among information processed.³

The disclosures identify website and retail data practices but do not identify cloud providers, hosting locations, data residency, Israeli processing, facial recognition, biometric identification, predictive-policing systems, or Israeli-origin retail analytics.³

No public evidence identified of Homebase licensing or integrating a verified Israeli-origin enterprise-technology vendor; operating Israeli data-centre infrastructure; participating in Project Nimbus; or providing technology to Israeli military, intelligence, law-enforcement, surveillance, offensive-cyber, or digital-weapons operations.^{3, 6}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is that the disclosed technology use is ordinary retail website analytics and customer-data processing. Microsoft Clarity’s presence does not establish Israeli infrastructure, Israeli legal access, data transfer to Israel, or security-sector deployment.³

The privacy notice names broad categories of third-party providers rather than a complete enterprise technology stack. Accordingly, the audit cannot treat non-disclosure of a supplier as proof of its absence; it records only that no public evidence was identified in the reviewed materials.³

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

Homebase currently lists Keter-branded garden-storage products for delivery and/or click-and-collect. This establishes downstream retail availability of finished Keter goods after the 2024 asset sale, but it does not identify Homebase’s contractual supplier, importer of record, country of manufacture, shipment route, direct procurement relationship, royalty arrangement, or payment flow.^{1, 3}

Keter’s reported Israeli footprint includes manufacturing sites, headquarters, R&D centres, and approximately 2,500 Israel-based employees. Keter materials and historical filings, however, do not identify the origin of a specific current Homebase SKU or establish that Homebase-listed goods were made in Israel, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, or a particular facility.^{17, 18}

Historical reporting stated that Keter operated a Barkan industrial-zone facility, but its November 2016 field visit found evidence strongly suggesting that the operation had ceased. The evidence therefore characterises former Barkan activity as ceased or of unknown status after 2016, not as verified current settlement-linked production.⁴

No public evidence identified of a Homebase or CDS purchase order, supply agreement, invoice, customs record, importer declaration, distribution agreement, trademark licence, shipment record, transfer-pricing record, or payment flow connecting Homebase listings to Keter UK, Keter Group Holding Limited, an Israeli Keter entity, or another intermediary.^{1, 3, 19}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is that Homebase’s Keter listings are ordinary downstream consumer retail listings. They do not prove a direct commercial relationship with an Israeli entity, settlement-origin production, an Israeli operational presence by Homebase, or an Israeli profit flow attributable to Homebase sales.^{1, 4}

A Homebase-hosted Keter document containing “Made in Israel by” supports the possibility that at least one documented product document represented Israeli manufacture. It does not establish that all current goods are Israeli-made, locate a factory, establish volume or value, or connect the item to a settlement.¹³

Conversely, the bounded evidence does not establish that Homebase proceeds do not reach an Israeli-integrated Keter entity. The appropriate finding is unresolved payment and sourcing attribution, not either confirmed complicity or confirmed absence of any indirect economic connection.^{1, 17, 19}

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

No Israel/Palestine-related corporate statement, public advocacy position, military-welfare donation, settlement-organisation donation, conflict-specific crisis communication, anti-BDS lobbying, political contribution, or advocacy act was verified in the bounded primary-record review for Homebase, CDS, Norton Group Holdings Limited, Christopher Dawson, or Sarah Dawson.^{3, 9, 10, 15}

Homebase states that it does not ship outside the United Kingdom. No public evidence identified of a Homebase or CDS branch, subsidiary, franchise, warehouse, dealership, service contract, government contract, or other operating presence in Israel, the occupied Palestinian territory, settlements, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights.^{3, 7}

The document-scoped review found no mention of Homebase in the specified UN and OHCHR settlement-business materials. This result is limited to those reviewed documents and does not establish database-wide absence or absence from every civil-society source.^{6, 20}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is that the audited public record shows a UK retail integration and brand transaction, not an Israel/Palestine political programme. The available CDS communications concern UK stores, online trading, and brand positioning rather than advocacy, relief, conflict scrutiny, or state partnerships.^{11, 12}

The absence of a verified statement, donation, or campaign in the bounded review cannot establish that no unreviewed political activity exists. It does establish that the audit found no reliable primary source supporting an attribution to Homebase, CDS, or the reviewed principals.^{3, 9, 10}

The Keter retail evidence is not, by itself, evidence of a political act, state partnership, settlement-municipality contract, or government procurement relationship.^{1, 4, 7}

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Complicity Index Score

Method: V6.5.

• V_MAX: 1.57 Avg_OTHERS: 0.49
• BRS Score: 139 Tier: E (Minimal/No Complicity)

V_MAX is driven by the limited Economic score: verified Keter retail availability, paired with unresolved product-origin, supplier, and payment-flow attribution. The Political score reflects the public-facing retail nexus but no verified qualifying political conduct. The method is scale-free, evidence-only, and human-vetted; it does not convert unverified, historical, divested, or wrong-entity claims into findings.

Methodology Note

• Evidence is limited to the four supplied domain audits and their cited documentary record.
• Impact measures the type of documented activity; M measures scale; P measures directness. Scores are not measures of moral culpability or undisclosed conduct.
• The assessment is scale-free and evidence-only: a retail listing may be recorded, but it does not demonstrate a direct supplier contract, country of origin, profit flow, or state relationship without supporting evidence.
• Divested, exited, ceased, or historical operations are mitigated. Keter’s reported former Barkan activity is not treated as verified current settlement production.⁴
• Entity attribution is direct: former HHGL operations, current CDS trading, HOMEBASE LIMITED, Keter entities, and other group entities are not treated as interchangeable without transaction-specific evidence.^{11, 16}
• Settlement operation, where verified, would be relevant to both Economic and Political; no such Homebase operation was verified. “No public evidence identified” is used where the documented checks found no supporting evidence.^{7, 15}