Hodge Group

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 floated

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