Hugo's Language Books Limited
Company 00503652 Active
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Company details
| Number | 00503652 |
| Status | Active |
| Type | Private Limited Company |
| Incorporated | 22/01/1952 |
| Address | 20 VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON, SW1V 2SA |
| Accounts next due | 30/09/2026 |
| Accounts last made up | 31/12/2024 |
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Ownership - persons with significant control (1)
- Penguin Random House Limited
ownership of shares 75-100% voting rights 75-100% right to appoint and remove directors
Officers (31)
- Robert James Squire Gates Director · appointed 2022
- Paul Nicholas Kelly Director · appointed 2016
- Sinead Mary Martin Secretary · appointed 2016
- Shaun David Hodgkinson Director · appointed 2016
Show 27 former officers
- Rebecca Jane Smart Director · appointed 2019 · resigned 2023
- Alexandra Stephanie Allan Director · appointed 2016 · resigned 2018
- Daniel Peter Shepherd Director · appointed 2013 · resigned 2016
- Stephen Todd Twilliger Director · appointed 2011 · resigned 2016
- John William Duhigg Director · appointed 2010 · resigned 2016
- Sally Kate Miranda Johnson Director · appointed 2009 · resigned 2011
- Peter Field Director · appointed 2009 · resigned 2012
- Andrew John Phillips Director · appointed 2007 · resigned 2010
- Gary Lee June Director · appointed 2005 · resigned 2009
- John Crowther Makinson Director · appointed 2005 · resigned 2007
- Brian James Landers Director · appointed 2003 · resigned 2009
- Andrew Peter Welham Director · appointed 2002 · resigned 2005
- Anthony David Forbes Watson Director · appointed 2000 · resigned 2005
- Helena Caroline Peacock Secretary · appointed 2000 · resigned 2016
- Charles Richard Power Director · appointed 2000 · resigned 2003
- Alan James Fort Director · appointed 1999 · resigned 2000
- James Thomas Middlehurst Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 2000
- David Oliver Houston Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 1999
- Anita Therese Fulton Secretary · appointed 1998 · resigned 2000
- Peter David Kindersley Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 2000
- Rodney James Hare Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 1998
- Christopher John Davis Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 1999
- Peter Richard Gill Secretary · appointed 1996 · resigned 1997
- Robin Jeremy Batchelor-Smith Director · resigned 1996
- Jessie Bertha Lock Director · resigned 1996
- Madeleine Margareter Bolt Secretary · resigned 1996
- Peter Graham Lock Director · resigned 1998
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