# G.A.Wedderburn & Co.Limited (00272418)

> Why UK company 00272418 went into administration, from the administrators' statement filed at Companies House, by companydig. Interactive version: https://companydig.co.uk/company/00272418

- **Status:** Administration ended
- **Administration began:** 2015-11-05
- **Administrators' firm:** Quantuma
- **Incorporated:** 1933-01-24
- **Location:** Southampton
- **Industry:** 47190 Other retail sale in non-specialised stores

## Why it went into administration

- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- HMRC / tax arrears
- Creditor pressure / legal action

## From the administrators' statement

The history of the business goes as far back as 1840 with various members of the Wedderburn family apprenticed into the scale-making trade The Company was incorporated in 1933

Post war diversity introduced many new areas of business including the introduction of the first cash register

Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, it became possible to network cash registers together for combined sales reporting This was followed by the introduction of back office software and the Company was among the first resellers to be selling and installing these packages written by the cash register manufacturers

Statement of proposals: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00272418/filing-history/MzEzODUxMjY5NmFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
Companies House register: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00272418

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