FSC™ 100% Trade Stiff 264mm Yard Broom

Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

• UK company

  Registered at Companies House as THE HILL BRUSH COMPANY LTD, number 03464746. Checked 2026-08-29.

  Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.

• UK operations

  Stated by the company: "Based at our manufacturing facility in Mere, Wiltshire, Hillbrush combines over 100 years of experience with a state-of-the-art plastic moulding operation." Source.

  Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.

• British-owned

  Not established. Many companies file a statement rather than naming a controlling shareholder.

  Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.

• Made in the UK

  The maker states: We are proud of our 100-year history of British manufacturing. ... Products are made at our Mere manufacturing facility. ... Brush making remains at the heart of Hillbrush. Our tea Source

  This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.