East Lancashire Warehousing Company Limited (01024475): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2011-04-14
- Administrators' firm
- KPMG
- Incorporated
- 1971-09-17
- Location
- Manchester
- Industry
- 6024
Why it went into administration
- Loss of a key customer, supplier or contract
- Energy costs
- Creditor pressure / legal action
- Sustained trading losses
- Competition / price pressure
- Weather / natural events
From the administrators' statement
In 1930 George Maudsley established a family transport and logistics company which in 1971 was renamed East Lancashire Warehousing Company Limited By 2011 the Company had become a national provider of transport, logistics and warehousing The Company operated from freehold premises on the outskirts of Darwen near Blackburn, Lancashire
The latest audited accounts to February 2010 state that the Company incurred a loss of £498,000, with a profit of £52,000 generated 1n the prior year
At the date of appointment the Company employed 65 staff
Administrators' statement of proposals (2011-06-15) · Companies House register