LOC HIRE LTD
Company number SC481475 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
LOC HIRE LTD has built a strong asset-backed position in the equipment hire market, achieving margin improvement and cost discipline that restored profitability. However, declining turnover and high leverage present near-term risks that must be managed through volume growth, eco-friendly expansion, and balance sheet deleveraging. The company’s agile ownership and related-party synergies provide a platform for strategic diversification, but addressing cyclical exposure and key-man dependency will be critical to sustaining long-term value creation.
Shareholders' funds
£3,626,330
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The address of the registered office and principal place of business is 155-175 Glasgow Road, Longcroft, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire, FK4 1QY. The principal activity of the company is plant hire, specifically the rental of mobile and static welfare cabins. LOC Hire Group additionally provide modular and site accommodation (hire and sale), storage units, temporary lighting, toilets, welfare vehicles for the construction industry along with a range of similar offerings for the film, TV and events sectors supported by satellite locations across the UK through its subsidiary LOC Hire Events Ltd. The company also offer sleep units for hire through its subsidiary Sleep Space Hire Ltd.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2014-07-04
- Employees
- 70 (2025 accounts · was 68 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 155-175 Glasgow Road, Longcroft, Bonnybridge, Scotland, FK4 1QY
- Postcode
- FK4 1QY
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Medium
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-04
- Next due by
- 2027-07-18
Nature of business (SIC)
- 77390 Renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods not elsewhere classified
Officers 2 current
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 1
£5,300,000 total awarded value where published.
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA553514 (Tier 2), registered since 2019.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- lochire.com
- Phone
- 08438550105
LOC Hire offers the nationwide delivery of welfare units, event equipment, storage, tower lights, and accommodation at affordable prices.
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 1-4 UNDERWOOD ROAD, LONGCROFT, BONNYBRIDGE, STIRLINGSHIRE, FK4 1ST, SCOTLAND | 2017-03-16 |
| 4 MUIR DRIVE KINNAIRD VILLAGE, LARBERT, STIRLING, FK5 4XG | 2015-11-19 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 17 similar companies in FK
The largest employer among its local peers (70 staff).
Trading since 2014.
Competitors Stirling
This company ranks 1 among renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods not elsewhere classified in Stirling.
The class of 2014
44%
of the 316 companies in this sector incorporated in 2014 are still active today; 51% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.