HGL is an active investment company which invests in small to medium size businesses with a sustainable competitive advantage and strong growth prospects, providing them with specialist business management skills and equity capital to leverage these growth opportunities.

​Our core purpose is to create shareholder value through active long-term ownership in our portfolio businesses, driving sustainable growth through a strong focus on customers and employees.

​HGL Limited is proud of its longevity and uniquely Australian story.

​Our origins can be traced to pre-federation when Thomas Hancock, together with his sons Josias and Thomas Junior, migrated to Queensland from Cornwall in 1855 and established a sawmill in the Ipswich area in 1867.

The business grew steadily and by 1886 Hancock & Sons employed 274 people. Joseph Gore, who had arrived in Australia from Wiltshire England in 1885, joined Hancock & Sons in a management position in 1901.

The business flourished and Hancock & Gore Ltd was incorporated in 1904, and subsequently listed on the Brisbane Stock Exchange.

​Since that incorporation, Hancock & Gore Ltd has had several iterations, to bring it to its present day identity of HGL Limited. The key events of this story are listed on the following timeline.