Wickes MILITARY

Research date: 3 November 2026. Evidence is dated where available.

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

Wickes Group plc is a UK home-improvement retailer that was demerged from Travis Perkins plc on 28 April 2021 and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. ^{1, 2}

The 2025 Annual Report and Accounts was published on 17 March 2026 for the period ended 27 December 2025. ³

No public evidence identified of any contract, tender award, framework agreement or memorandum of understanding between Wickes and the Israeli Ministry of Defence, the Israel Defence Forces, the Israel Prison Service, the Israel Border Police or other Israeli security bodies. The company’s encyclopedic profile, leadership page, responsible-sourcing page and the portions of the 2025 annual report that were read contain no such reference (2025-2026). ^{2, 4, 5, 6}

No public evidence identified of Wickes appearing in SIBAT or in any Israeli defence export directory, exhibition catalogue or procurement registry. The pages reviewed contain no reference to such listings. ^{2, 6, 7}

No public evidence identified of press releases or trade-press reports describing defence cooperation, joint ventures or partnerships between Wickes and Israeli defence entities. The March 2026 results coverage describes a store-expansion, trade-customer and technology strategy with no Israel or defence content. ⁷

Principal with a UK defence-adjacent role (not an Israeli act): Christopher Rogers, Chair of Wickes, has been Chairman of Mitie Group plc since 21 July 2025. ^{8, 6} Mitie holds UK Ministry of Defence facilities-management contracts in the UK and Gibraltar, described in the Logistical Sustainment section below. Mitie’s encyclopedic profile contains no reference to Israel, and Mitie’s own defence and aerospace page lists UK sites and six overseas countries or territories without naming Israel. ^{9, 10}

Corrections to earlier text (examiner-directed questions). Companies House records Christopher Rogers as a director of Wickes Group plc appointed on 23 March 2021, and the Wickes leadership page gives the same date for his appointment as Chair of the Board, so the earlier “22 March 2021” is corrected to 23 March 2021. ^{11, 6} The January 2020 announcement of Rogers as Wickes chairman-designate is unaffected; that report gives no start date for the chairmanship. ¹²

Senior Independent Director. Octavia Morley holds the role of Senior Independent Director of Wickes Group plc as at 3 November 2026, with effect from 1 June 2026, replacing Mark Clare; this corrects the earlier description of Clare as Senior Independent Director. ^{6, 13, 11} The Wickes announcement is dated 19 May 2026 in the regulatory-news copy and 20 May 2026 in one trade-press report, with the same effective date of 1 June 2026. ^{13, 14} Clare remains a non-executive director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee. ¹³

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

Wickes sells home-improvement products to consumers and tradespeople. Its TradePro scheme had 643,000 active members at the end of 2025. ⁷

Wickes states that it requires all suppliers of Wickes own-brand products to deliver an acceptable ethical audit, and it commits to the ETI Base Code. ⁴

No public evidence identified that Wickes manufactures or markets ruggedised, tactical, mil-spec or defence-grade product variants, or that any variant is sold to Israeli security forces. ^{4, 5, 7}

No public evidence identified distinguishing civilian sales from contract-modified supply to Israeli state bodies. ^{4, 5}

No public evidence identified of export-licence applications, end-user certificates or export-control reviews relating to Wickes sales to Israeli defence or security end-users. ^{2, 5}

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

Wickes operated 230 stores at the end of 2025 and targets 300 in the UK. ⁷ Its design-and-installation business and its trade offer are UK-focused according to its results coverage. ⁷

Group structure (note 17 of the 2025 accounts): the subsidiaries are Wickes Group Holdings Limited, Wickes Building Supplies Limited, Gas Fast Limited (solar installations, 51% held indirectly), and the dormant Wickes Finance Limited and Wickes Holdings Limited, all incorporated in the United Kingdom. ⁵ The parent is registered at Companies House as Wickes Group plc. ¹¹

No public evidence identified of Wickes equipment, vehicles or machinery being used in settlements, the separation barrier, military installations or occupied territory. ^{2, 5, 7}

Direct versus indirect supply: not applicable, because no equipment presence in occupied territory is documented. Wickes’ stated approach to supplier oversight is its Responsible Sourcing Policy, with membership of SEDEX and the ETI Base Code commitment; the page does not describe end-use monitoring. ⁴

No public evidence identified of Wickes contracts to build, maintain or expand checkpoints, detention facilities, military bases, the separation barrier or settlement infrastructure. ^{2, 5, 7}

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified of Wickes supplying components, sub-systems, raw materials or manufacturing services to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems or IMI/Elbit Land. The sourcing page and the annual-report portions read describe inventories as “goods for resale” and name no Israeli defence customers. ^{4, 5}

No specific component categories are documented. The retrieved Wickes pages do not name countries of origin. ^{4, 5}

No public evidence identified of joint development, co-production, technology transfer or licensed manufacturing between Wickes and Israeli defence firms. ^{2, 5, 6}

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

No public evidence identified of Wickes contracts to supply catering, transport, fuel, waste management, facilities maintenance, telecommunications or other services to IDF bases, training facilities, detention centres or security installations. ^{2, 5, 7}

Group-attribution check (principal’s other role, UK only): Mitie was awarded a seven-year Ministry of Defence contract worth £646m, published 14 June 2021, for building and maintenance services at 91 sites in Scotland and Northern Ireland, with a three-year extension option. ¹⁵ Mitie was separately selected by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation for a £155m Gibraltar defence-estate contract, published 6 May 2022. ¹⁶ Mitie’s own defence page, which references 2026 company documents, lists 11 defence contracts and 23 UK defence sites, with overseas operations in Ascension Island, Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, Germany, Gibraltar and Italy, and does not mention Israel. ¹⁰ The retrieved pages place these in the UK and overseas British or NATO-linked locations, not in the West Bank, Golan Heights, East Jerusalem or the Negev, and name Mitie rather than Wickes as contractor. Status at the research date is unknown from the retrieved pages beyond Mitie listing the contracts on its current defence page, which carries no contract dates. ^{15, 16, 10}

No public evidence identified of Wickes shipping, freight-forwarding or port-handling contracts servicing Israeli defence logistics or arms shipments. ^{2, 5, 7}

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified of Wickes acting as prime contractor or licensed manufacturer of small arms, artillery, armoured vehicles, drones, naval vessels or other lethal platforms for Israeli forces. ^{2, 5, 7}

No public evidence identified of Wickes supplying ammunition, explosives, propellants, warhead components or munitions precursors to Israeli defence end-users. ^{4, 5}

No public evidence identified of Wickes involvement in Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, fighter aircraft, main battle tanks, warships or ballistic missile systems. ^{2, 5}

No public evidence identified of Wickes supplying guidance electronics, fire-control, radar, propulsion or warhead-casing sub-systems. ^{4, 5}

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of any government decision to grant, deny, suspend or revoke an export licence for Wickes products to Israeli military or security end-users in any jurisdiction. ^{2, 5}

UK policy context (not Wickes-specific): on 8 September 2026 the UK Government announced that new export licences would be refused for weapons and other exports that “materially contribute to the occupation”, alongside an import ban on settlement goods and sanctions on businesses providing construction, infrastructure, financing or real estate for settlement expansion. The article names no retailer, does not state an effective date, and no public evidence was identified that Wickes is affected. ¹⁷

No public evidence identified of investigations, citations or enforcement actions against Wickes concerning arms embargoes, export controls or Israel-related sanctions. The controversies recorded in its encyclopedic profile concern 1996 accounting irregularities [pre-2020], a 2013 Irish franchise closure [pre-2020], a 2018 head-office reduction [pre-2020] and 2023 remarks by a former COO, none of which concern defence trade. ²

No public evidence identified of court proceedings or judicial reviews against Wickes, or against governments regarding Wickes, over a defence-supply relationship with Israel. ^{2, 5}

UN settlement-database context: the OHCHR database arises under Human Rights Council resolutions 31/36 and 53/25. OHCHR published an update of the database on 30 June 2023. ^{18, 19} OHCHR also issued a progress report on the database under document symbol A/HRC/57/21. ²⁰ A later update, reported on 26 September 2025, lists 158 business enterprises from 11 countries, most of them based in Israel, with 68 added and 7 removed since 2023 according to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre summary (a secondary source for an OHCHR release). ²¹ That summary page does not show Wickes or Travis Perkins, but it is not the full entity list. A mirror dataset page reports 212 entities with no names visible, and this count differs from the 158 reported for 2025 and has not been reconciled. ^{18, 21} Because the entity rows were not retrievable, Wickes’ listing status could not be verified, and no public evidence was identified that Wickes or Travis Perkins plc is listed. ^{18, 19, 21}

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

NGO, UN and academic reports. The Who Profits company database is the Israeli-occupation-focused corporate register consulted. Its first retrieved page (entries A to “Agrotop”, page 1 of 24) does not include Wickes, Travis Perkins or Tradepoint, and the remaining pages were not read. ²² A civil-society summary of the Special Rapporteur’s report A/HRC/59/23 (2 July 2025) lists sector categories (arms and military, security and surveillance, finance, construction) and names no company on that page. ²³ The Human Rights Voices entry carries the report’s metadata and a link only. ²⁴ The full paragraphs 28-47 and footnotes were not read, and no public evidence was identified that Wickes is named in those summaries. ^{23, 24}

Boycott and divestment campaigns. The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre’s tracker of Israel-linked boycott actions (Oct 2023 to Jan 2025 timeline) names AXA, Carrefour, Intel, KFC, McDonald’s, Puma, Starbucks, Samsung, Shake Shack, Pret A Manger and others, and does not name Wickes or any UK DIY retailer. ²⁵ no public evidence identified of a defence-related boycott, divestment or exclusion campaign against Wickes. ^{25, 2}

Corporate response and policy statements. No public evidence identified of Wickes statements, contract terminations or end-use monitoring commitments on a defence supply chain. Its stated sourcing commitments are the ETI Base Code, SEDEX membership and a whistleblowing helpline for suppliers. ⁴

Constructive notice (post-19 July 2024 and post-November 2024). No public evidence identified of any Wickes military-adjacent activity, or of shareholder resolutions, employee letters or NGO calls concerning Wickes in this domain, before or after those dates. ^{2, 25} The September 2025 OHCHR database update and the 8 September 2026 UK announcement post-date the ICJ Advisory Opinion, and the retrieved coverage of both names no Wickes link. ^{21, 17}

Settlement Nexus. No public evidence identified of military-adjacent supply, construction, demolition or logistics by Wickes, its subsidiaries or licensees in or to the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) or the Golan Heights. ^{2, 5, 6} The UK sanctions announced on 8 September 2026 target businesses providing construction, infrastructure, financing or real estate for settlement expansion, and the article names no retailer. ¹⁷

Named-entity record (each searched or reviewed by name for this domain).

• Wickes Group plc (target; listed parent of the group): searched with Elbit, IAI, Rafael, IDF, IMOD, settlement and boycott terms; none found in the pages reviewed. ^{2, 5, 7}
• Travis Perkins plc (former parent until the 28 April 2021 demerger; acquired Wickes in December 2004 [pre-2020]): searched with Israel, defence, settlements, Who Profits and Elbit; none found, and its encyclopedic profile mentions no Israel or defence links. ^{26, 1, 22}
• JPMorgan Asset Management Holdings Inc. (shareholder; 5.488408% on 5 March 2026, down from 5.534372%): reviewed as a holder only, with no military-channel act identified in the retrieved notice. ²⁷
• Other holders at or above 10%: no public evidence identified in the retrieved notice. The full register was not read. ²⁷
• Christopher Rogers (Chair, director since 23 March 2021; chair-designate announced January 2020; Mitie chairman since 21 July 2025; Senior Independent Director of Kerry Group plc; former Whitbread, Woolworths, Comet and Kingfisher roles): biography reviewed and searched with Israel, with no Israeli defence-board role, FIDF donation or equity stated. His Mitie role is UK defence-estate facilities only. ^{6, 11, 8, 12, 15, 28}
• Kerry Group plc (company where Rogers is Senior Independent Director since May 2024, on its board since May 2018): searched by name with Israel; none found, and its leadership page records only his committee history. ²⁸
• David Wood (CEO since 28 May 2019; announced 10 July 2019; previously Tesco, Unilever, Mondelez, Kmart, brief Mothercare tenure; external role Non-executive Chair of Green Sheep Group Ltd): searched by name with Israel, defence and FIDF; none found. ^{6, 29}
• Mark George (CFO; director since 29 July 2022; no external roles listed): biography reviewed on the leadership page, with no defence or Israel role stated. ^{6, 11}
• Mark Clare (independent non-executive director and Remuneration Committee Chair; Senior Independent Director until 31 May 2026; Chair of Hilton Food Group plc; Senior Independent Director of Drax Group plc; previously chair of Ricardo plc to October 2025): searched by name with defence and Israel; none found on the pages reviewed. ^{6, 13, 30}
• Octavia Morley (Senior Independent Director from 1 June 2026; Senior Independent Director of Currys plc and Marston’s PLC; Chair of Banner Group): biography and appointment notice reviewed, with no defence or Israel role stated. ^{6, 13}
• Sonita Alleyne (independent non-executive director; Master of Jesus College, Cambridge; non-executive director of Young & Co.’s Brewery PLC) and Mike Iddon (independent non-executive director; no external roles listed): biographies reviewed on the leadership page, with no defence or Israel role stated. ⁶
• Gas Fast Limited (51% subsidiary trading as Wickes Solar): searched with Israel; none found in the pages reviewed. ⁵
• Mitie Group plc (company chaired by Christopher Rogers): searched with Israel; none found, and neither its profile nor its defence page has an Israel reference. ^{9, 8, 10}

Act record.

• Act: demerger of Wickes Group plc from Travis Perkins plc. Acting entity: Travis Perkins plc. Beneficiaries: Travis Perkins shareholders (252,143,923 Wickes shares admitted). Channel: a regulatory announcement carried by MarketScreener. Dates: general meeting 27 April 2021, admission 28 April 2021. Status: completed. ¹
• Act: appointment of Christopher Rogers as director and Chair of Wickes Group plc. Acting entity: Wickes Group plc. Channel: Companies House register and the company’s leadership page on wickesplc.co.uk. Appointment date: 23 March 2021 (both pages). Status: continuing, as the officer record showed him active at the research date. ^{11, 6}
• Act: appointment of Octavia Morley as non-executive director and Senior Independent Director of Wickes Group plc, replacing Mark Clare in that role. Acting entity: Wickes Group plc. Channel: regulatory announcement of 19 May 2026 (a trade-press report says 20 May 2026), Companies House and the leadership page. Effective date: 1 June 2026. Status: continuing at the research date. ^{13, 14, 11, 6}
• Act: JPMorgan Asset Management Holdings Inc. major-holding notification on Wickes Group plc. Recipient: Wickes Group plc and the market. Channel: Investegate RNS. Observed change date: 5 March 2026. Status: unknown after that date, since only one notice was retrieved. ²⁷
• Act: public statement of responsible-sourcing standards by Wickes Group plc. Channel: the company’s own site, wickesplc.co.uk. Audience: public. Earliest and latest observation dates, and persistence, could not be established from the retrieved page; status is unknown. ⁴
• Act: Mitie (exact contracting legal entity not stated in the cited pages) maintenance contract with the Ministry of Defence via the Defence Infrastructure Organisation, published 14 June 2021, seven years with a three-year option, so term would run to 2028 if unextended. Channel: Mitie company news release. Status: continuing per its term, and Mitie’s current defence page still lists its defence work, but no later source confirms this specific contract. ^{15, 10}
• Act: Mitie Gibraltar defence-estate contract, published 6 May 2022, seven-year initial term. Channel: gov.uk press release. Status: continuing per term, unconfirmed by a later source. ¹⁶