Audiogo Limited (01315795): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2013-10-31
- Administrators' firm
- BDO
- Formerly
- BBC Audiobooks Limited; Chivers Press Limited; Chivers Library Services Limited; Chivers Book Sales Limited; Slavtone Limited
- Incorporated
- 1977-06-01
- Location
- Liverpool
- Industry
- 59200 Sound recording and music publishing activities
Why it went into administration
- Funding withdrawn / unable to refinance
From the administrators' statement
AudioGO was a leading audiobook publisher and retailer, operating from three sites in the South West of England The Company produced content for digital and physical distnbution It also held licences to distribute a significant number of large pnnt book titles and a range of eBooks.
The Company formerly traded as BBC Audiobooks Limtted, a divsion of BBC Worldwide (*BBCW”) In July 2010 there was a buy-out of the Company, although BBCW retained a 15% shareholding
AudioGO has built up an extensive catalogue of some 8,500 audio titles and 3,500 large pnnt books
Administrators' statement of proposals (2014-01-03) · Companies House register