Protek Wood Stain & Protector 5L - Dark Oak

Mercia (Mercia Garden Products)

£39.99

This multipurpose wood stain will weatherproof and protect your garden building. Available in a number of different colours this stain is quick drying, long lasting and child safe. This high quality wood stain and protector can be used on all outdoor timber products and will maintain our anti-rot guarantee.

Mercia (Mercia Garden Products)'s own words, read from their page.

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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 MERCIA GARDEN PRODUCTS LIMITED, number 00382248. 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: "a team of dedicated and highly skilled craftspeople" 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.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
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.