DML 2020 Realisations Limited (00182088): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2020-05-07
- Administrators
- Neil David Gostelow, Richard John Harrison
- Administrators' firm
- KPMG
- Formerly
- Dawsons Music Limited; C.H. & J.A.Dawson Limited
- Incorporated
- 1922-05-27
- Location
- London
- Industry
- 47591 Retail sale of musical instruments and scores
Why it went into administration
- COVID-19
From the administrators' statement
2.1 © Background information
_ DML 2020 Realisations Limited (formerly Dawsons Music Limited) (the ‘Company’) was incorporated on 27 May 1922 and operated as a retailer of musical instruments and equipment. Its leasehold head office premises was located in. Warrington.
The Company traded from five leasehold retail stores (Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Chester and Reading) together with a quasi-franchise store in Belfast, which was operated by a third party. The Company also had an online sales channel, trading via its own website and Amazon. Online orders were satisfied through a combination of stock held in the retail stores, but also via a third-party fulfilment warehouse. In addition, the Company had an ‘Education Division’, which involved the supply of musical instruments and equipment into educational establishments in the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and overseas.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2020-07-15) · Companies House register