# East Lancashire Warehousing Company Limited (01024475)

> Why UK company 01024475 went into administration, from the administrators' statement filed at Companies House, by companydig. Interactive version: https://companydig.co.uk/company/01024475

- **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

Statement of proposals: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01024475/filing-history/MzAzODg2OTUyN2FkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
Companies House register: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01024475

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