Why Oracle Corporation UK Limited is 01782505

Oracle Corporation UK Limited is company number 01782505. That is the number on the register for that company. It is not a finding about a contract, a council, or a product. Any other company with Oracle in the name is a different company if it has a different number. Read the number before you treat two names as one supplier.

A company number printed on a filing, a notice, a minute, or a title is what attaches two records. The attachment cites the file that carried the number. A supplier name in a payment row is not a number. Trading names collide. We do not invent a number from a brand, and we do not fold Ltd into Limited and call it the same firm.

How a company number becomes a join is the rule in full. This note exists so 01782505 is written down next to the registered name, as text. It is not a link to a company record. The record needs an account. The digits in the sentence are the lesson.

Keep the leading zeros. The register uses eight digits. A shorter number on a page may be a charity number, a VAT number, or a supplier code. Those do not attach a company here. Copy what the file printed, then check you know which identifier it is.

A group can share a brand across several numbers. The subsidiary on the invoice is the one that was printed. Do not promote the best-known company in the group to stand for a different number. 01782505 belongs to Oracle Corporation UK Limited. It does not belong to every line that says Oracle.

The Sources catalogue is where papers live. If a paper prints 01782505, cite the paper and the number. If it prints only a brand, cite the brand as a brand. Do not upgrade the brand overnight in yesterday's note so the number appears to have been in the minute. The minute did not change.

Say the number in digits in the first sentence of any note that uses it, not only in a footnote. Footnotes get dropped when a paragraph is copied into a script or a post. The digits in the first sentence survive. Oracle Corporation UK Limited is 01782505. That pairing is the whole of this note's claim. It does not extend to a council, a contract value, or a product name. If a paper you hold prints a different number beside a similar name, you have a different company. Record that number too, on its own line, with its own file. Do not average them. Do not choose the famous one. The famous one is how readers get a crisp sentence and the wrong firm.

Eight digits with the leading zero are the habit. A spreadsheet will eat the zero if you are careless. Put the number in a column that keeps text, or write it in the sentence. 01782505 and a shortened form are how two notes diverge and how a different company is accused. The registered name and the number stay together. Neither is a link from this page to a company record.

When several Oracle companies exist, list the numbers you saw and no others. A group name in a headline is a headline. The filing is the filing. If you only saw the headline, you do not yet have 01782505. You have a word. Wait for the number. The wait is the whole point of this note. Speed is how the wrong company gets the invoice. If a colleague shortens the number in a headline, put the eight digits back in the first sentence of the piece they will actually publish. Headlines travel further than footnotes.