C H S Switchgear Limited (01096933): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2011-07-19
- Administrators
- Conrad Alan Beighton, Robert Derek Smailes
- Administrators' firm
- Leonard Curtis
- Incorporated
- 1973-02-19
- Location
- London
- Industry
- 3162
Why it went into administration
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Creditor pressure / legal action
- Sustained trading losses
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
On 17 June 2011, my firm met Garry Boost, a director of the Company to discuss the Company's affairs Following this, we obtained information regarding the business and undertook a review of the Company's financial affairs
It was established that the Company was incorporated in 1973 The Company specialised in the bespoke design, manufacture and installation of packaged substations, L V distribution switchboards, motor control centres and control panels for airports, banks, hospitals and a number of retail outlets The Company traded from teasehold premises at Unit 3, Batford Mill Industrial Estate, Lower Luton Road, Harpenden, Herts, ALS 5BZ The Company employed approximately 13 staff
The Company traded successfully from the outset and has been profit making during the majority of the Company's trading history
Administrators' statement of proposals (2011-09-13) · Companies House register