HBD EUROPE LIMITED
Company number 02664522 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
HBD Europe Limited is a 33-year-old company in apparent managed decline, having shed 93% of its asset base and 88.5% of its net assets over four years. While technically solvent with minimal liabilities, the business has contracted from a substantial group holding company to a thin shell with £201,358 in net assets and a single employee. The prognosis depends entirely on strategic intent: if this is a planned wind-down, it appears orderly; if not, the company requires urgent strategic intervention to arrest its deterioration and determine a viable path forward.
Shareholders' funds
£250,777
Balance sheet as at 2026-03-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1991-11-20
- Employees
- 1 (2026 accounts)
- Registered office
- Level One, 86 Queens Road, Buckhurst Hill, England, IG9 5BS
- Postcode
- IG9 5BS
- Capital
- 50,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Micro
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-12-30
- Financial year end
- 30 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-25
- Next due by
- 2027-04-08
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46900 Non-specialised wholesale trade
Officers 1 current · 10 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z8120219 (Tier 2), registered since 2003.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- hbdeurope.co.uk
- Phone
- 01449727070
Established in 1992, HBD Europe Limited is the parent company for SBC Gels and Pevonia UK. It has been an ever-growing and developing company ever since.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| HBD (EUROPE) LIMITED | 2006-10-23 |
| HAIR & BEAUTY DISTRIBUTION (EUROPE) LIMITED | 2006-09-06 |
| MARK 2176 LIMITED | 1991-12-30 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| ANNANDALE, WEST HEATH AVENUE, LONDON, NW11 7QU | 1997-09-03 |
| 140 TABERNACLE STREET, LONDON, EC2A 4SD | 1991-12-19 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 237 similar companies in IG
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1991.
Competitors Ilford
This company ranks 32 among non-specialised wholesale trade in Ilford.
The class of 1991
41%
of the 261 companies in this sector incorporated in 1991 are still active today; 55% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2015-07-22
- Where
- Suffolk
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK361525 | Suffolk | Leasehold | 2015-07-22 | — |
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