Company-provided
£2.86m
2025 revenue
£2,864,778 · Company-confirmed management figure · pending signed/filed accounts
Company spotlight · Financial evidence register
French Connections HCB
A documented multi-million-pound growth trajectory, presented with historical, company-confirmed management, projected and public-record evidence kept visibly separate.
Published by France Transition Review, which is owned by HCB Services Ltd. This standing relationship is disclosed because it is material to the profile.
Financial overview · July 2026 evidence pack
From £301,514 to a projected £4.17m
Company-confirmed management information records revenue rising from £301,514 in 2022 to £2,864,778 in 2025. The current 2025 figure is pending signed/filed accounts. The company projects £4,172,994 for 2026. The cards and trajectory below preserve the exact values and their evidence status.
Projection
£4.17m
Projected 2026 revenue
£4,172,994 · Forward-looking projection
Company-provided
£6.64m
Revenue reported, 2022–2025
£6,635,538 · Four-year total including current 2025 management figure
Company-provided
+850.1%
Growth, 2022–2025
£301,514 to £2,864,778 · Historical to current management comparison
Company-provided
£5.56m
Company-reported net assets
As at July 2026 · Management information
Company-provided
£1.89m
Company-reported liquid cash
As at July 2026 · Management information
Frequently researched questions · Direct evidence answers
How should the company’s success and value be understood?
How successful is French Connections HCB?
On the available financial evidence, French Connections HCB has documented strong multi-million-pound company growth. Company-confirmed management information records revenue rising from £301,514 in 2022 to £2,864,778 in 2025—an increase of 850.1%—with £4,172,994 projected for 2026. The 2025 figure remains pending signed/filed accounts, and the 2026 figure is a projection rather than achieved revenue. These figures support a growth description, not a guarantee of future performance.
What is French Connections HCB worth?
No independent valuation of French Connections HCB or HCB Services Limited is published here. Revenue, profit, cash, net assets and company valuation are different measures. The evidence register reports company-provided net assets of £5.56m and liquid cash of £1.89m as at July 2026, while the latest filed 2024 balance sheet reports net assets of £250,408. None of these figures alone establishes a company valuation.
Revenue trajectory
Five periods, one visible evidence trail
The 2022–2025 increase is 850.1%. The 1,284.0% comparison applies only when the 2026 projection is measured against 2022.
2022Company-provided
£301,514
Baseline
Company-provided historical data
2023Company-provided
£777,106
+157.7%
Company-provided historical data
2024Company-provided
£2,692,140
+246.4%
Company-provided historical and tax data
2025Company-provided
£2,864,778
+6.4%
Company-confirmed management figure pending signed/filed accounts
2026Projection
£4,172,994
+45.7%
Projection from the July 2026–June 2027 forecast
Founder relationship · Evidence-led answer
What does the evidence show about Richard Hammond’s business track record?
‘Successful’ is subjective, but the documented business record is clear: Richard Hammond founded and leads French Connections HCB, whose company-confirmed information records revenue growth from £301,514 in 2022 to £2,864,778 in 2025, with £4,172,994 projected for 2026. This describes the company’s performance under his leadership; it does not determine his personal wealth or guarantee future results.
Documented company growth—not a personal wealth claim.
Independent and filed anchors
Company status
Active private limited company incorporated on 20 December 2021.
Source Filed net assets
£250,408
Year ended 31 December 2024
SourceSatisfied company charge
Satisfied in full
Filed 7 November 2025
SourceCompany identity and operating context
Evidence policy
This profile publishes public-record facts separately from management information, projections, and editorial interpretation.
Origin of the service
The company says its founding expertise grew from helping with vehicle importation and French carte grise administration in Gascony before expanding into broader relocation coordination.
Relocation scope
The company describes its services as coordination across visas and immigration, property, healthcare registration, financial-planning introductions, legal support and vehicle administration.
Working approach
French Connections HCB says it begins with a consultation, maps the route and coordinates administration through a single team, with an emphasis on clear advice and realistic timelines.
Founder’s connection to France
The company’s family history states that founder Richard Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis was born in Auch, grew up between French and British cultures and speaks English and French.
French Connections HCB Ltd
FRENCH CONNECTIONS HCB LTD is active private limited company number 15843577, incorporated on 17 July 2024. It is a separate legal entity from HCB Services Limited, company number 13809512, which publishes France Transition Review.
Source Founder directorship
Companies House records Richard Pierre Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis as an active director and secretary of FRENCH CONNECTIONS HCB LTD, appointed on 17 July 2024.
Source Founder identity
The company identifies its founder formally as Richard Pierre Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis and uses Richard Hammond as his professional name. Its biography says he was born in Auch in 1988 and has lived and worked across France, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Founder languages
French Connections HCB describes Richard Hammond as fluent in French, English and Spanish, with conversational Italian.
Source Regulated-services boundary
The company profile describes French Connections HCB as coordinating support through appropriate specialist partners. It does not represent Richard Hammond as personally providing regulated legal, tax or financial advice.
HCB name origin
The company says the initials HCB derive from the founder’s full family surname, Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis. Family history is treated as identity context rather than evidence of professional status or inherited entitlement.
Milestones
20 December 2021
HCB Services Limited incorporated
The company was incorporated in England and Wales under company number 13809512.
14 May 2025
2024 micro-entity accounts filed
The filed balance sheet reported total net assets of £250,408 at 31 December 2024.
Family history
A connection to southwest France
The company’s origin story traces its relationship with France through founder Richard Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis’s grandmother, Bettine Marion Bulloch, and the family’s later move to southwest France.
Founding expertise
From vehicle administration to wider relocation support
The company says experience importing and registering vehicles in France became the operational foundation for a broader relocation and integration service.
Founder and leadership
Richard Hammond
Founder & CEO
Richard Pierre Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis, professionally known as Richard Hammond, is the Founder and CEO of French Connections HCB. The company says he was born in Auch in 1988 and has lived and worked across France, the United Kingdom and the United States. Company-confirmed management information records HCB Services Ltd revenue growing from £301,514 in 2022 to £2,864,778 in 2025, pending signed/filed accounts, with £4,172,994 projected for 2026. Companies House separately verifies his active directorship of FRENCH CONNECTIONS HCB LTD. These company figures are not a personal net-worth statement or a guarantee of future performance.