Hodge Group
Other Business Names:
- Hodge, Sir Julian
- Anglo Auto Finance Ltd
- Gwent & West of England Enterprises Ltd
- Standard Chartered Bank Ltd
- Commercial Bank of Wales
- Bank of Wales
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Cardiff, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales, Wales
Sectors:
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Professional services
Accountancy services
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Financial services
Credit, hire purchase, leasing, etc, services
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Financial services
Merchant & investment banking services
Notes:
Established by (Sir) Julian Hodge, 1904-2004, a chartered accountant who developed his accountancy business in 1930s which specialised in company formation. After 1945, diversified into car hire purchase and operated Anglo Auto Finance Ltd and Gwent & West of England Enterprises Ltd. 1975 sold most of his financing business to Standard Chartered Bank Ltd. From 1950s also developed merchant banking interests to serve Welsh customers These businesses included John S Hodge & Co and, in 1973, Commercial Bank of Wales which was renamed in 1984 as Bank of Wales Ltd and floated
Publications:
- Julian Hodge. A biography by O'Sullivan, Timothy
- Short History of Gwent and the Hodge Group by Unknown
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Hodge, Sir Julian
- Anglo Auto Finance Ltd
- Gwent & West of England Enterprises Ltd
- Standard Chartered Bank Ltd
- Commercial Bank of Wales
- Bank of Wales
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Cardiff, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales, Wales
Sectors:
- Professional services Accountancy services
- Financial services Credit, hire purchase, leasing, etc, services
- Financial services Merchant & investment banking services
Notes:
Established by (Sir) Julian Hodge, 1904-2004, a chartered accountant who developed his accountancy business in 1930s which specialised in company formation. After 1945, diversified into car hire purchase and operated Anglo Auto Finance Ltd and Gwent & West of England Enterprises Ltd. 1975 sold most of his financing business to Standard Chartered Bank Ltd. From 1950s also developed merchant banking interests to serve Welsh customers These businesses included John S Hodge & Co and, in 1973, Commercial Bank of Wales which was renamed in 1984 as Bank of Wales Ltd and floatedPublications:
- Julian Hodge. A biography by O'Sullivan, Timothy
- Short History of Gwent and the Hodge Group by Unknown