# Turpin Distribution Services Limited (01331778)

> Why UK company 01331778 went into administration, from the administrators' statement filed at Companies House, by companydig. Interactive version: https://companydig.co.uk/company/01331778

- **Status:** Administration ended
- **Administration began:** 2022-10-07
- **Administrators:** Cameron Gunn, Christopher James Farrington
- **Administrators' firm:** ReSolve
- **Formerly:** Turpin Transactions Limited
- **Incorporated:** 1977-09-28
- **Location:** London
- **Industry:** 52102 Operation of warehousing and storage facilities for air transport activities

## Why it went into administration

- Property / lease costs
- COVID-19
- Loss of a key customer, supplier or contract
- Rising costs / inflation
- Supply chain disruption
- Sustained trading losses

## From the administrators' statement

Background (provided by the Company’s director)

The Company was incorporated as Turpin Transactions Limited in September 1977. It subsequently changed its name to Turpin Distribution Services Limited in February 1992.

It was originally founded by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), a large publisher of scholarly and academic books and journals. The RSC saw an opportunity to form a company using its own expertise in journal and book distribution and offer those services to other similar publishers.

Statement of proposals: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01331778/filing-history/MzM2MDc3NjAyNGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
Companies House register: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01331778

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