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Howco Group PLC

Howco manufactures and distributes high performance alloys and components for deployment in the world’s most challenging scenarios, conditions and locations. The company’s own description of itself, taken from its website.

Active 44 years old · 705th oldest of 4,506 · incorporated in the 1980s

Company numberSC079844
StatusActive
Incorporated23/08/1982
Accounts last made up to29/03/2025
Next accounts due30/09/2026
Accounts typeFULL
Legal Entity Identifier213800FJMZBMK2KNEA73

Registered office

FOUNTAIN HOUSE 2ND FLOOR, 1-3 WOODSIDE CRESCENT, GLASGOW, G3 7UL

Other PLCs registered in Glasgow

Online

Website www.howcogroup.com

News and announcements on their own site

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Group structure

It is the immediate parent of one entity:

  • هاوكو اويلفيلد سيرفس م م ح

Ownership as recorded by GLEIF, the body that issues Legal Entity Identifiers. Unlike a shared registered office, these relationships are filed and validated, so they are evidence of a real corporate link.

Filing history

This company has 223 documents on its Companies House record. The most recent accounts were filed on 10/12/2025. Its last confirmation statement or annual return was filed on 13/04/2026.

Filings: officer changes51
Filings: accounts20
Filings: confirmation statements10
Filings: annual returns9
Filings: charges5
Filings: address changes1

The most recent filings

Confirmation statement 13/04/2026
Accounts, full 10/12/2025
Director resigned 15/09/2025
Change to a person with significant control 06/06/2025
Change to a person with significant control 06/06/2025
Confirmation statement 31/03/2025
Accounts, full 30/10/2024
Confirmation statement 03/04/2024
Accounts, full 27/10/2023
Notification of a person with significant control 24/08/2023

This is the list of documents filed, not their contents. A line saying accounts were filed records that they were filed and when; it says nothing about turnover, profit or assets, which are inside the documents themselves and are not published here. Read the filings on the Companies House record.

Who runs it

The register lists 3 current officers and 31 who have resigned.

Kenneth Ness Secretaryappointed 28/05/2010
Kenneth Mackenzie Ness Directorappointed 31/05/2006
David Preston Directorappointed 01/10/2018

Who controls it

Companies must record the people or entities with significant control. The register shows 1 current entry.

Eryngium Limited
Owns 75% to 100% of the shares
since 15/08/2023

Charges

A charge is security a company gives a lender over its assets. This company has 12 registered charges, of which 0 are not yet recorded as satisfied.

Mortgage deed
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Fully satisfied, created 27/02/2007
Standard security
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Fully satisfied, created 13/12/2006
Floating charge
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Fully satisfied, created 01/12/2004
Floating charge
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Fully satisfied, created 01/12/2004
Floating charge
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Fully satisfied, created 01/12/2004
Standard security
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Fully satisfied, created 13/05/2004
Bond & floating charge
The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland
Fully satisfied, created 19/08/1997
Standard security
Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
Fully satisfied, created 10/05/1996

Showing the 8 most recent. The full list is on the Companies House record.

Officers, controllers and charges are as recorded on the Companies House register on 13/10/2026, and the register changes daily. Appearing here is not an allegation about anyone. Read the current record on the Companies House record.

What it does

  • 24200 - Manufacture of tubes, pipes, hollow profiles and related fittings, of steel

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Registered office

No other PLC on the register gives this postcode.

On the register

  • 705th oldest of 4,506 PLCs
  • One of the 1980s cohort
  • Not in liquidation or facing strike off

There are 4,506 PLCs in Britain, under a tenth of one per cent of the register. The whole count.

Register data as at 2026-09-01 Download the full register (CSV)