RS Group PLC appears in the UK Companies House register under company number 00647788. That record is useful for identifying one named legal entity; it does not establish that every quotation displaying the RS brand was issued by that company. Supplier evidence should connect the register record to the actual counterparty, rather than turn a group name into a blanket approval. The public record was checked on October 2, 2026.

What the record actually identifies

The Companies House overview for RS Group PLC lists an active public limited company and the previous name Electrocomponents Public Limited Company, used until May 3, 2022. It also lists head-office activities as its business classification.

The company number is an important matching field. A name can change; an identifying number helps a reviewer follow the same record. An old document bearing the earlier name therefore calls for a date-aware comparison, rather than an immediate assumption that the names refer to unrelated entities.

The quotation must supply its own entity

A procurement team can ask the issuer of a quotation to state its full legal name, jurisdiction and registration identifier. Compare that information with the correct jurisdiction’s register and with the entity named in the order terms. This is an evidence workflow, not a statement about which entity will issue a particular customer’s order.

A parent-company register entry cannot fill a missing counterparty field on a local sales document. Likewise, a familiar trading brand on the top of a page does not resolve a different legal name in the contractual text. Record the discrepancy and request an explanation before marking the entity match complete.

Separate identity from operational capability

Legal identity answers who the record describes. It does not answer whether that entity has the requested stock, can deliver to a destination by a required date or holds a manufacturer authorisation for a specific product. Each of those claims needs its own evidence, tied to the offered model and transaction.

Useful review columns include claim, issuer, document date, entity named and scope. A registration record may support identity; a product authorisation needs a corresponding manufacturer source; a delivery commitment needs an actual quotation or order document. None should be copied across the other columns simply because a brand is recognised.

Read the register’s own limitation

Companies House warns on the service that it does not check the accuracy of information filed. A register page is therefore a documented public record, not this website’s independent investigation of every statement in it. Active status also does not constitute a credit opinion or guarantee of future performance.

Save the access date and the entity identifier with a review. If a later quotation uses another name, return to the entity question instead of reusing an old approval automatically. The current public entry and the transaction evidence should remain distinguishable in the supplier file.

A bounded supplier conclusion

This review confirms what the linked public entry displays for RS Group PLC. It does not certify an offered product, audit a warehouse, verify banking instructions or rate the group as a universally trusted supplier. We have not obtained a supplier quote or performed a commercial assessment.

The editorial recommendation is to begin with an exact entity match, then assess each transaction claim separately. Unresolved sales-entity, authorisation or delivery evidence should remain unresolved in the file. A concise record with visible gaps is more useful than a confident label unsupported by the documents.