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Checkmate - A Very Happy Birthday - Birthday Card

Rachel Ellen DesignsMade in the UK

£3

A colourful birthday card with simple, sophisticated patterns of checks. This striking card, suitable for male birthdays, is printed on textured board and finished with pops of gold foil. Supplied with a bespoke blue envelope Size: 170mm x 120 mm FINISH: Gold foil Printed in Nottingham, UK on sustainable board

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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 RACHEL ELLEN DESIGNS LIMITED, number 03858344. 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: "For over 28 years, we've remained proudly independent, creating designs from hand-painted artwork at our Nottingham studio." 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
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
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: espoke blue envelope Size: 170mm x 120 mm FINISH: Gold foil Printed in Nottingham, UK on sustainable board Source. Their words, not ours; we have not independently verified it.
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.