C.Dugard Limited (00355588): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2025-05-23
- Administrators' firm
- Begbies Traynor
- Incorporated
- 1939-08-02
- Location
- Brighton
- Industry
- 46140 Agents involved in the sale of machinery, industrial equipment, ships and aircraft
Why it went into administration
- COVID-19
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Creditor pressure / legal action
- Property / lease costs
- Sustained trading losses
- Rising interest rates
- Brexit
From the administrators' statement
Director’s Statement of Company History Mr C Dugard started the company in 1936 as a sub-contact engineering provider. In 1939 he registered C Dugard Ltd and was involved in munitions manufacturing during WW2.
After the war there was a huge slump in the demand for sub-contract machining and the Company became involved in trading of used machine tools.
This continued until the early 1960’s when the Company also added new machines to the sales which proved to be very successful.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2025-07-23) · Companies House register