Litetask Limited (01029566): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2022-12-06
- Administrators
- Lee Van Lockwood, Gareth Harris
- Administrators' firm
- RSM
- Formerly
- Design Lighting (Leeds) Limited
- Incorporated
- 1971-11-03
- Location
- Leeds
- Industry
- 46470 Wholesale of furniture, carpets and lighting equipment
Why it went into administration
- COVID-19
- Creditor pressure / legal action
From the administrators' statement
Litetask Limited (‘The Company’) was incorporated on 3 November 1971 and traded from leasehold premises at 1 The Courtyard, Victoria Road, Seacroft, Leeds, LS14 2LB. The Company is owned by Leeds Kindly Light Limited (‘LKL”) (CN: 03166950), which in turn is owned in its entirety by Mr Mark Andrew Pears (‘The Director’).
The Director had been an employee of the Company since 1998, and became a director in 2006. The Director purchased the shares in LKL in 2014. Other directors in recent years have been Amanda Clare Egglestone, who was appointed in May 2015 and resigned in September 2022, and Mark McDonnell, who was appointed in June 1998 and resigned in December 2020.
The Company was an independent lighting solutions provider that designed and supplied ighting for the retail, fast food and education sectors. Historically, the Company’s order book was healthy and there were continuous work streams and repeat business from customers. The Company was the nominated sole distributor for KFC in the UK, and also supplied some stores in Europe. In addition, the Company had a continuous revenue steam from major projects with Leeds University. The Company employed a design team of three people that was continually securing project work of in excess of £50k per contract. The Company was historically profitable until it incurred its first loss at the end of 2019.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2023-01-30) · Companies House register