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Wickes

Home & DIY 92 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-11-03 METHOD V6.6
Complicity Index score 250 /1000 D Tier D - Moderate
Military ↗ 0.00 Digital ↗ 0.00 Economic ↗ 3.00 Political ↗ 0.00
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Key Findings

  • Economic: Wickes Building Supplies Limited retails Keter-brand garden storage products. Five SKUs (286465, 225460, 352116, 352120, 352119) declare “Country of origin: Israel” on live Wickes pages dated 3 November 2026.1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  • Economic (caveat): Keter’s West Bank (Barkan) factory is documented only as pre-2020 and reported by Who Profits as stopped. The declared origin names the country only, not a factory or location, and no settlement-origin product at Wickes is evidenced.6, 3
  • Political: No public evidence identified of any Wickes statement, lobbying, donation or operation in Israel or the occupied territories. Its Annual Report states a policy of no political donations.7
  • Not found: No public evidence identified of any military, security or digital-technology relationship with Israeli state bodies or defence firms, or of Wickes appearing in the reviewed UN-database summaries, boycott trackers or Who Profits page.7, 8, 9, 10

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameWickes Group plc (principal trading entity: Wickes Building Supplies Limited)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom (England and Wales). Group subsidiaries are incorporated in the UK.7
HeadquartersWatford, England11, 7
SectorUK home-improvement retail and trade supplier
OwnershipListed on the London Stock Exchange (WIX) since the demerger from Travis Perkins plc on 28 April 2021. The largest recent notified holder is JPMorgan Asset Management Holdings Inc. at about 5%. No holder of 10% or more was identified.12, 13, 14
Key Executives / GovernanceChristopher Rogers (Chair, 23 March 2021); David Wood (CEO); Mark George (CFO, 29 July 2022); Octavia Morley (Senior Independent Director from 1 June 2026); Sonita Alleyne, Mark Clare, Mike Iddon (independent NEDs)15, 16
Israeli-Nexus SummaryUK retailer of Israeli-founded Keter products, with Israel declared as country of origin on five checked SKUs. No Israeli presence, ownership, military, digital or political nexus is documented.

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

Wickes is a UK home-improvement retailer. The audits document one Israel-related vector, which is economic: the sale of Keter products. Keter is an Israeli-founded plastics group headquartered in Herzliya. On 3 November 2026 the Wickes Extra “Keter” category listed 27 Keter products, and the Garden Storage Boxes and Plastic Sheds pages showed Keter brand filters of 19 and 47 respectively. These counts come from different pages and may overlap.19, 20, 21, 22 Five checked SKUs declare “Country of origin: Israel”.1, 2, 3, 4, 5 One checked SKU (119796) shows no origin field, and the remaining Keter SKUs were not individually checked.23

The audits leave several points open. The date Wickes first listed Keter is not identified, nor is how Wickes buys the goods (directly or through a distributor). Pages for two SKUs state delivery is from “our supplier” without naming it. No importer of record is identified.24, 25, 4, 5 The declared origin does not identify a factory.3 Keter’s historic West Bank factory in the Barkan industrial zone is documented only before 2020. Who Profits concluded in December 2016 that Keter had stopped operating there. No evidence of Keter settlement production after 2016 was found.6

Nothing is documented in the military, digital or political domains. The audits found no contract, tender, supply relationship, technology relationship, statement, lobbying, donation or operation connecting Wickes to Israeli state, defence or settlement entities. Absence from the reviewed UN-database summaries, boycott trackers and the first Who Profits page does not prove absence from the full lists, which were not opened.8, 9, 10

The resulting score is BRS 250, Tier D. It rests entirely on Economic (V = 3.00), driven by a documented, continuing retail trade in Israel-origin goods. Wickes has no Israeli presence, capital or ownership, and Keter’s Israeli founding is not transferred to Wickes.

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
1948Keter founded as a workshop in Jaffa (supplier background).22
2004-05Travis Perkins acquires Wickes [pre-2020].11
21 Mar 2014Who Profits records Keter trucks at a Barkan factory on an inactive weekend [pre-2020].6
2014Keter tells European NGOs it owns no facility in what the UN defines as occupied territories [pre-2020].6
Nov 2016Who Profits field visit finds the Barkan site with no activity and concludes Keter stopped operating there [pre-2020].6
2016BC Partners buys 80% of Keter [pre-2020].22, 6
28 Apr 2021Wickes demerged from Travis Perkins and listed on the LSE.12
30 May 2022Wickes launches an eBay storefront of 4,000+ products. Whether it included Keter items is unknown.26
6 Mar 2024Bloomberg Law reports Keter’s lenders will take 100% of the company.27
29 Apr 2024Milbank states the Keter recapitalisation completed.28
17 Apr 20259fin reports Keter repaid its 2029 term loan B using funds from Israeli banks.29
26 Sep 2025OHCHR updates its settlement-business database to 158 enterprises. Reviewed summaries name no Wickes entity.8
17 Mar 2026Wickes publishes its 2025 results and Annual Report.17
5 Mar to 2 Jul 2026JPMorgan TR-1 notices move around the 5% threshold.13, 14
1 Jun 2026Octavia Morley becomes Senior Independent Director.30
8 Sep 2026UK Government announces a settlement-goods import ban. The reporting names no retailer.31
3 Nov 2026Wickes Keter listings with Israel-declared origin confirmed live.19, 1, 2

Corporate Overview

Wickes Group plc is a UK-incorporated, LSE-listed parent. The Wickes name traces to a 1854 Michigan lumber business, and the first UK store opened in Whitefield, Manchester in 1972.32 After ownership by Travis Perkins from 2004-05, the demerger completed on 28 April 2021 with 252,143,923 shares admitted.11, 12 Companies House records Travis Perkins as a person with significant control until 27 April 2021, with no active PSC since. Wickes Group Holdings Limited has controlled Wickes Building Supplies Limited since that date.33, 34

The audits identify no Israeli subsidiary, store, warehouse, R&D centre, franchise or Israeli-domiciled owner, and no Israeli acquisitions or investments.7, 32 The Keter relationship runs through Wickes Building Supplies Limited as seller of record. Companies House records for Keter UK Limited and Keter Limited do not name Wickes as a customer, and no source links either company to supply to Wickes.35, 36

Keter itself (supplier, not the target) was recapitalised in April 2024, when senior lenders took 100% of Keter Group BV. In 2025 it refinanced using Israeli bank funds.28, 27, 29

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No mechanism is documented. There is no public evidence identified of any contract, framework, MoU, SIBAT listing or press-reported cooperation between Wickes and the Israeli MoD, the IDF, the Israel Prison Service, Border Police or defence firms (Elbit, IAI, Rafael).11, 7, 17 There is no public evidence identified of ruggedised or mil-spec variants, of equipment in settlements, the barrier or military installations, or of export-licence matters.18, 7

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Wickes sells civilian products to consumers and tradespeople, and its trade offer is UK-focused.17 Chair Christopher Rogers also chairs Mitie Group plc. Mitie holds UK Ministry of Defence facilities contracts: £646m for 91 sites in Scotland and Northern Ireland (published 14 June 2021), and £155m in Gibraltar (6 May 2022). Those contracts are Mitie’s, not Wickes’, are British, and neither Mitie’s profile nor its defence page mentions Israel.37, 38, 39, 40 The UK policy announcement of 8 September 2026 names no retailer, and no public evidence identified that Wickes is affected.31 The OHCHR database entity rows could not be retrieved, so Wickes’ listing status is unverified.8

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Wickes Group plc, Travis Perkins plc, JPMorgan, Rogers, David Wood, Mark George, Mark Clare, Octavia Morley, Sonita Alleyne, Mike Iddon, Gas Fast Limited and Mitie Group plc were each searched or reviewed, and no Israel or defence link was found.15, 16, 40, 39 The Who Profits check covered only page 1 of 24 (A to “Agrotop”), which does not include Wickes.10

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

No mechanism is documented. There is no public evidence identified of any licensing or integration relationship with Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, Nice, Verint, Claroty or similar Israeli-origin vendors, and none for biometric or facial-recognition tools (Trigo, BriefCam, Oosto/AnyVision, Trax).7, 41, 42, 43 There is no public evidence identified of Israeli data centres, Project Nimbus-type contracts, Israeli R&D, acquisitions or patents, or of AI or autonomous-systems provision to Israeli bodies.7

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The vendors named in readable form are Oracle Cloud ERP, Avature, OneView Commerce, Blue Yonder (on Microsoft Azure), Team ITG, Epsilon (retail media, launched 2 March 2026), Wincanton (logistics), RangeMe, InMoment, PowerReviews, SaleCycle, The Trade Desk and Google reCAPTCHA. None is described as Israeli-origin in the sources.41, 42, 44, 45, 43 The third-party stack profile is unverified and mostly paywalled, so its entries are leads only. Several vendors behind pre-2020 entries are hidden.41 Hosting locations are not publicly specified, which leaves data residency open rather than answered. The Wickes privacy page names India as an example of IT-provider location, not Israel.42 The Zebra handhelds and the till and order-management systems named in the annual report have unnamed vendors.7

Named Entities and Evidence Map

All board members, JPMorgan and the Wickes subsidiaries were searched or reviewed with no finding. Travis Perkins was not searched on technology topics, so no finding is made for it. Sonita Alleyne was not searched individually.15, 7

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

This is the sole scored vector. Wickes Building Supplies Limited lists Keter-brand sheds, storage boxes and gazebos on wickes.co.uk. Product pages for the following SKUs declare “Country of origin: Israel”:

Wickes continues this act as of 3 November 2026, which is after both the ICJ Advisory Opinion (19 July 2024) and the ICC warrants (November 2024). Duration is unknown.19, 1, 2

The scoring rationale characterises this as recurring import and resale by a foreign retailer with no Israeli presence, capital or ownership. This yields Impact 3.5 (Sustained Trade), Magnitude 6.0 and Proximity 7.5, reflecting Wickes performing the retail act directly as seller of record. Keter’s Israeli founding is not transferred to Wickes. The audit itself records that the purchase route (direct or via a distributor) and the importer of record are not identified.4, 5, 35, 36

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Wickes’ strongest defence is that this is ordinary UK retail of a branded consumer product, not investment in or operation within Israel. The audit found:

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

No mechanism is documented. There is no public evidence identified of any Wickes statement on Israel/Palestine, of lobbying, of donations to settlement or military-welfare bodies, of sponsorship of Israeli state-linked events, or of leadership statements or advocacy. There is also none for operations in Israel, the West Bank, East Jerusalem or the Golan, nor for branding built on military or state-security heritage.11, 7, 54 The Annual Report states a policy of no donations to political parties.7

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The Political Impact of 2.0 produces V = 0.00 because Magnitude and Proximity are both 0. The audited record contains no political act by Wickes beyond silence. Reported UN-database coverage (OHCHR 158 enterprises; UN Geneva newsroom, Dawn, The National) names no Wickes entity, and the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre boycott review does not name Wickes.8, 55, 9 These are summaries; the full OHCHR list and the Who Profits and AFSC databases were not opened, so absence from those lists is not independently confirmed.56, 10 The A/HRC/59/23 report text was not reviewed.8 Per-director searches on philanthropic topics (FIDF, JNF) were not completed, so that finding rests on stated affiliations only.15

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Governance: the former parent Travis Perkins ceased to control Wickes on 27 April 2021, and no 10%+ holder exists. A Companies House record for Wickes Group Trustees Limited listing a Travis Perkins entity is treated as a data anomaly, not current ownership.33, 57 Charity partners are The Brain Tumour Charity and CALM, with no Israel-related recipients named.7

Complicity Index Score

Method: V6.6

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military0.000.000.000.00
Digital0.000.000.000.00
Economic3.506.007.503.00
Political2.000.000.000.00

V_MAX is set entirely by Economic: V = 3.5 × min(6/7, 1) × min(7.5/7, 1) = 3.00. The three other domains score zero because no mechanically eligible evidence frame exists, and Political’s Impact of 2.0 is nullified by zero Magnitude and Proximity. BRS = (3.00 / 12) × 1000 = 250, which falls in Tier D (200-399). The method is scale-free, evidence-only and human-vetted. The scores are fixed and were not altered in this dossier.

Methodology Note

Footnotes

  1. https://wickes.co.uk/Keter-Store-It-Out-Midi-Storage-Box---Grey+Black/p/286465 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  2. https://www.wickes.co.uk/Keter-Darwin-Grey-Outdoor-Apex-Garden-Storage-Shed---6-x-4ft/p/225460 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  3. https://www.wickes.co.uk/Keter-Stronghold-Grey-Shed---8-x-6ft/p/352116 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  4. https://www.wickes.co.uk/Keter-Stronghold-Brown-Shed-10-x-15ft/p/352120 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  5. https://www.wickes.co.uk/Keter-Stronghold-Brown-Shed---10-x-11-5ft/p/352119 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  6. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/133 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  7. https://reports.ticker.app/213800IEX9ZXJRAOL133/2026-03-17/213800IEX9ZXJRAOL133-2025-12-27-T01_html.md ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15

  8. https://www.business-humanrights.org/de/neuste-meldungen/israelopt-un-updates-database-of-businesses-involved-in-illegal-israeli-settlements-listing-158-enterprises-from-11-countries ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  9. https://business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/israelopt-ongoing-attacks-on-gaza-see-escalating-calls-for-consumers-to-boycott-companies-linked-to-israel ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickes ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  12. https://uk.marketscreener.com/news/latest/WICKES-GROUP-PLC-Completion-of-demerger-and-admission-of-shares-in-Wickes-33088427/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  13. https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/wickes-group - wix/tri-notification-of-major-interest/9464354 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  14. https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/wickes-group - wix/tr1-notification-of-major-interest/9649531 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  15. https://wickesplc.co.uk/company/about-us/leadership ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  16. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12189061/officers ↩ ↩2

  17. https://www.wickesplc.co.uk/company/news/press-releases/2026/full-year-results-2025/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  18. https://wickesplc.co.uk/company/responsible-business/responsible-sourcing ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  19. https://www.wickes.co.uk/Products/Wickes-Extra/Wickes-Extra-Gardens/Wickes-Extra-Garden-Keter/c/1002154 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  20. http://www.wickes.co.uk/Products/Garden+Outdoor-Landscaping/Garden-Sheds-and-Buildings/Garden-Storage-Boxes/c/1000728 ↩

  21. https://www.wickes.co.uk/Products/Garden+Outdoor-Landscaping/Garden-Sheds-and-Buildings/Plastic-Sheds/c/1000723?Keter=Keter ↩

  22. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keter_Group ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  23. https://wickes.co.uk/Keter-Store-It-Out-Max-1200L-Outdoor-Storage-Box---Beige-Brown/p/119796 ↩

  24. https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/keter-store-it-out-midi-storage-box-grey-black-free-cc-4936795 ↩ ↩2

  25. https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/keter-darwin-6-x-4ft-shed-ps304-with-code-delivered-at-wickes-ebay-4103713 ↩ ↩2

  26. https://homeofdirectcommerce.com/?p=41937 ↩ ↩2

  27. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/keter-creditors-to-take-over-company-after-sale-process-failed ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  28. https://www.milbank.com/en/news/milbank-advises-senior-lenders-to-keter-group-on-transfer-of-ownership.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  29. https://9fin.com/insights/keter-tlb-bank-refi ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  30. https://www.ticker.app/lse/WIX/rns/2026-05-19/Directorate-change/9216E ↩

  31. https://aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/8/uk-bans-goods-from-israeli-west-bank-settlements-what-that-really-means ↩ ↩2

  32. https://wickes.co.uk/companyhistory ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  33. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12189061/persons-with-significant-control ↩ ↩2

  34. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01840419/persons-with-significant-control ↩

  35. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04992337 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  36. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02186562 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  37. https://www.mitie.com/insights-news/news/mitie-wins-seven-year-maintenance-contract-on-the-future-defence-infrastructure-services-programme/ ↩

  38. https://gov.uk/government/news/mod-awards-155m-contract-to-provide-crucial-services-to-uk-armed-forces-in-gibraltar ↩

  39. https://www.mitie.com/sector/defence-aerospace/ ↩ ↩2

  40. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitie ↩ ↩2

  41. https://www.appsruntheworld.com/customers-database/customers/view/wickes-building-supplies-limited-united-kingdom ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  42. https://www.wickes.co.uk/privacy ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  43. https://www.wickes.co.uk/cookies ↩ ↩2

  44. https://retailtechnology.co.uk/news/7910/wickes-expands-supply-chain-agreement/ ↩

  45. https://retailtechinnovationhub.com/home/2026/3/2/wickes-launches-home-improvement-focused-retail-media-platform-in-conjunction-with-epsilon ↩

  46. https://www2.wickes.co.uk/Keter-Store-It-Out-Midi-Storage-Box---Grey+Black/p/286465 ↩

  47. https://corporatewatch.org.uk/bid-402/ ↩ ↩2

  48. https://www.cjpme.org/fs_249 ↩ ↩2

  49. https://www.keter.com/uk_en/sustainability ↩

  50. https://keter.com/us_en/about ↩

  51. https://investegate.co.uk/company/WIX ↩

  52. https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/wickes-group - wix/tr1-notification-of-major-interest/9765440 ↩

  53. https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/wickes-group - wix/tr1-notification-of-major-interest/9511083 ↩

  54. https://www.wickesplc.co.uk/company/responsible-business/policies-and-reporting/ ↩

  55. https://www.unognewsroom.org/teleprompter/en/2845/hrc-60-report-on-opt-database-29-september-2025 ↩

  56. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/business-database-26sep25 ↩

  57. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01144794/persons-with-significant-control ↩