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Arco | Experts in Safety and the UK and Ireland's leading supplier of safety equipment, workwear, safety boots and shoes, gloves and maintenance suppliesArco, Experts in Safety and the UK and Ireland's leading supplier of safety equipment, workwear, safety boots and shoes, gloves and maintenance supplies.

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Business details

Category
Safety equipment and PPE
Years in business
112 years
Places to visit
2 storesCambridge, Nottingham
Sells
Physical goods
Sells to
Businesses
Kind of seller
Sells its own goods or services
Licensed trade
No licence normally needed
Domain age
31 years
Email address
customer.services@support.arco.co.uk
Phone number
+44 330 390 2050
Contact page
arco.co.uk/contact
Website
arco.co.uk
Social media

Do the sources agree?

Address
1 Blackfriargate, Hull, East Yorkshire, HU1 1BH, England Its website agrees Companies House agrees OpenStreetMap not found Web Data Commons not found
Company name
ARCO LIMITED Its website agrees Companies House agrees

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

No reviews we could readWe looked on SmartCustomer, G2, Capterra, Reviews.io, Feefo, Trustindex, ComplaintsBoard and ConsumerAffairs

Also found onTrustpilot

Customer satisfactionNot enough reviews to sayFrom independent reviews, weighed by their number

Summary

Is arco.co.uk legit and trustworthy? Truth score 76 out of 100, high truth signals: 8 of 10 public checks clear, 1 not found, 1 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. Customer satisfaction: not enough reviews to say.

arco.co.uk is run by Arco Limited, an active UK company registered at Companies House 112 years ago. Its website address was registered 31 years ago. The postcode on its website matches its registered office. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find an archive history for its website or a customer rating.

Positives

  1. An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 112 years ago.
  2. Its website address was registered 31 years ago.
  3. The postcode on its website matches its registered office at Companies House.
  4. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Not found

  1. Web history and authority information was not found from our checks.
  2. Reviews information was not found from our checks.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

What they offer

EdinburghGlasgowBelfastManchesterBirminghamLondon
Arco, Experts in Safety and the UK and Ireland's leading supplier of safety equipment, workwear, safety boots and shoes, gloves and maintenance supplies.
— Arco, in their own words
Where to find them
Places
2 stores · 2 towns
  • Cambridge1
  • Nottingham1
About them
Best for
“Its mono-fibre construction and simplified trims are designed for processing through Project Re:claim's mechanical recycling system, while retaining the quality and durability associated with Regatta Professional garments.”
What makes them different
“We're also the only safety partner to deliver a strategic end-to-end approach across the hierarchy of control, helping you get the right equipment and training for your people.”
Customer results
“These reports can include survey results, areas of dissatisfaction and complaints insight, helping customers see where improvements are being made.”

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How to check if arco.co.uk is legit

To check if arco.co.uk is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about arco.co.uk; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsAn active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 112 years ago
  • Its registered office at Companies House is 1 Blackfriargate, Hull, East Yorkshire, HU1 1BH, England
  • Its latest accounts at Companies House run to 30 June 2025
  • It has filed at Companies House regularly for the last five years, with no gap longer than 15 months
  • Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to handle personal data
Country
Where the company is based
UK
Why we believe that
it is registered at Companies House, which is a registration for UK businesses, the site's structured data states its country, its phone number starts +44, its postcode is a UK postcode
Which countries the company serves
UK
Why we believe that
its address ends .uk, £ prices on its homepage, its delivery page says it ships to the UK
Registration
Companies House registration
Registered as ARCO LIMITED
Data protection registration (ICO)
Registered, number Z6056677
VAT number
GB166911546
Companies House register
Company found in official company register
Yes
Registered company name
ARCO LIMITED
Company status
active
Company age
112 years
Registered address
1 Blackfriargate, Hull, East Yorkshire, HU1 1BH, England
Accounts overdue
No
Confirmation statement overdue
No
Insolvency history
No
Registered office in dispute
No
Filing history consistent
Yes
ICO data-protection fee payer
Yes
Registered to do
46420 Wholesale of clothing and footwear
46760 Wholesale of other intermediate products
82990 Other business support service activities n.e.c.
Previous names
ASBESTOS & RUBBER CO. LIMITED (THE) (6 Feb 1914 to 31 Dec 1981)
Company type
Private limited company
Size and borrowing
Accounts filed
Group accountsAccounts for a parent company and the companies it owns.
Secured loans (charges)
0No secured loans outstanding at Companies House.
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 31 years ago
Domain age
31 years
Website detailsWe read 5 of its pages: contact, about, returns, terms and privacy
  • Company contact email is available
HTTPS enabled
Yes
Contact phone number found
+44 330 390 2050
Contact page found
Yes
Sources agreeing on postcode
2
Hosting company
Incapsula Inc
What its pages say
In their own words
“Wherever you live and wherever you work, our vision is to keep you, your people and your business safe. As the UK's only integrated services and safety products business, we're the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real-life industry knowledge. As experts in safety, we understand that each business faces its own unique and complex challenges.”
How long you have to return
“If you're not happy with your purchase or have changed your mind, you can arrange to return your goods up to 30 days after receiving/collecting them.”
Faulty or damaged items
“Whether you're simply unhappy with your purchase or the goods are faulty, our simple to follow returns process allows you to return items easily.”
Who you're buying from
“133804), whose registered office is at PO Box 21, 1 Blackfriargate, Hull, HU1 1BH ("Arco", "Our", "We") to the customer ("You", "Your", "Us").”
Search engines and AILets in every search engine and AI tool

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search
Allowed by defaultGooglebot
Bing
Allowed by defaultBingbot
AI training

All allowed

OpenAI
Allowed by defaultGPTBot
Anthropic
Allowed by defaultClaudeBot
Google AI
Allowed by defaultGoogle-Extended
Apple AI
Allowed by defaultApplebot-Extended
Common Crawl
Allowed by defaultCCBot
Meta
Allowed by defaultmeta-externalagent
ByteDance (TikTok)
Allowed by defaultBytespider
AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search
Allowed by defaultOAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT
Allowed by defaultChatGPT-User
Claude search
Allowed by defaultClaude-SearchBot
Claude
Allowed by defaultClaude-User
Perplexity
Allowed by defaultPerplexityBot
Sourcesrobots.txt

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaintsIt has a review page on Trustpilot
PlatformRatingReviews
TrustpilotUnknownUnknown
Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
  • Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
  • It is among the 100,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
Monthly visitor data
Popularity among Chrome users
top 500,000 sites
First known user traffic
Feb 2021 or earlier
Months with real traffic, of the last 24
24
Traffic pattern
sustained
Rank jump in the last 12 months
none
Rank drop in the last 12 months
none
Cloudflare Radar
Popularity across the internet
top 100,000 sites
Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up arco.co.uk, by country, over the last 2 days.

Austria 1.2%Bangladesh 1.2%Canada 3.5%Germany 2.3%Dominican Republic 1.2%France 3.5%United Kingdom 45.3%Georgia 1.2%India 1.2%Italy 1.2%Jordan 1.2%Japan 1.2%South Korea 1.2%Kazakhstan 1.2%Morocco 1.2%Namibia 1.2%Netherlands 1.2%Pakistan 1.2%United States 11.6%Singapore 17.4%
  • Over 50%
  • 5 to 50%
  • 1 to 5%
  • 0.2 to 1%
  • Under 0.2%
  • None seen
  1. 1United Kingdom45.3%
  2. 2Singapore17.4%
  3. 3United States11.6%
  4. 4Canada3.5%
  5. 5France3.5%
  6. 6Germany2.3%
  7. 7Austria1.2%
  8. 8Bangladesh1.2%
  9. 9Dominican Republic1.2%
  10. 10Georgia1.2%

Top 10 of 20 countries.

Web history and authorityWe have checked it once, on 11 November 2026
Social presenceIt is on 6 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X.com and YouTube); the largest audience is 11,000 followers on Instagram
FoundPlatformAudience
FacebookUnknown
Instagram11,000 followers
X.comUnknown
LinkedInUnknown
YouTube843 subscribers
TikTok79 followers
11,922 followers total
YouTube channel
389 videos, 843 subscribers, last upload 9 Oct 2026
YouTube Data17,860 views a video, 1,193 views a day and a new video every 15.0 days
Views per video6,947,528 views ÷ 389 videos
17,860
Views a day6,947,528 views ÷ 5,826 days
1,193
Views per subscriber6,947,528 views ÷ 843 subscribers
8,241
New subscribers a day843 subscribers ÷ 5,826 days
0
Subscribers per 1,000 views843 subscribers ÷ 6,947,528 views × 1,000
0.1
Subscribers per video843 subscribers ÷ 389 videos
2
Days between videos5,826 days ÷ 389 videos
15.0
Channel age29 November 2010 to 11 November 2026
15 years 11 months
Subscribers
843
Views
6,947,528
Videos
389
Started
29 November 2010
Country
United Kingdom
Language
Not stated
Topics
Not stated
Made for children
No
Website in its description
Not stated
Trailer
Yes

What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data
May send your data to other countries.
“This may involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).”
Says you can ask it to delete your data.
“In some circumstances, you can ask us to delete your data: see [Request erasure] below for further information.”
Has a data protection officer you can contact.
“We have appointed a data protection officer (DPO) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice.”gdpr@arco.co.uk
Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Tag Manager

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Tag Manager
Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.

Uses OneTrust to ask which cookies you allow.

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.
Malware or phishing threat status
None found
Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company
Known data breaches found
0
Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked
Email
MX records
Yes
SPF record
Yes
DKIM key
Yes
DMARC record
Yes
DMARC policy
reject
Certificate
Security certificate browsers warn about
No
Certificate issuer
DigiCert Inc
Certificate type
EV
Certificate expires
2 Dec 2026
Hosting
Nameservers
a1-94.akam.net
a12-65.akam.net
a13-66.akam.net
a18-67.akam.net
a4-64.akam.net
a9-65.akam.net
Address
45.60.52.45
45.60.46.45

Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible
What we check
A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
When we check
On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
Points
0 of 3 added
Sourcearco.co.uk's DNS records
Run arco.co.uk? Add the record and 3 points are added to its truth score.Prove you run this website
Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible
What we check
That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
When we check
When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
Points
0 of 1 added
SourceTruth Signal's own records
Run arco.co.uk? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score.Prove you run this website
Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible
What we check
That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
When we check
On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
Points
0 of 1 added
Sourcearco.co.uk/robots.txt
Run arco.co.uk? Let our checker read the whole website and 1 point is added to its truth score.Prove you run this website
Points added to its truth score0 of 5
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