One address in Ermington, New South Wales connects Ox Tools (Dean Hales), the Sante Group (Gareth and Charles Hales), the former Archway House Group (Bruce Hales) and Bruce Hales' personal accounting practice as registered with the Australian Tax Practitioners Board. In South East London, the UK Ox Tools address links the Hazell family, Selkent Fastenings and Bruce Hazell's Trimline Group — PPE contract winners sharing premises on opposite sides of the globe.
The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church operates a global network of businesses whose connections often run through shared addresses, shared directors and shared families. Few addresses illustrate this more clearly than 2a Hope Street, Ermington, New South Wales — the site that ties together the Hales family's business operations from Bruce himself to his sons.
The UK arm of Ox Tools is based in South East London (the Bromley area). Its CEO is Jim Hazell — the father of Anthony Hazell, the former director of Unispace Global and Sante Global. The Hazell family is one of the most senior PBCC families in the UK, with Anthony Hazell holding a 39% stake in Unispace Global by the time the pandemic began.
The Ox Tools brand thus acts as a connector between the Hales family (Australia) and the Hazell family (UK): two of the most commercially active PBCC families, whose members sit at the centre of the largest Covid contract flows — Unispace/Sante Global (£950 million) and Medco Solutions (£772 million). One brand, two countries, both families.