# Fabrique DU Metal Limited (01458209)

> Why UK company 01458209 went into administration, from the administrators' statement filed at Companies House, by companydig. Interactive version: https://companydig.co.uk/company/01458209

- **Status:** Administration ended
- **Administration began:** 2014-08-01
- **Administrators:** Andrew John Duncan, Alex David Cadwallader
- **Administrators' firm:** Leonard Curtis
- **Incorporated:** 1979-10-31
- **Location:** London
- **Industry:** 31010 Manufacture of office and shop furniture

## Why it went into administration

- Funding withdrawn / unable to refinance
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Property / lease costs
- Creditor pressure / legal action
- Sustained trading losses
- Competition / price pressure

## From the administrators' statement

314 The Company was incorporated on 31 October 1979 Its trading address ts Unit 42, The Metropolitan Centre, Halifax Road, Greenford, Middlesex UB6 8XU

32 The Company's pnncipal business activity was that of the design, manufacture and sale of ergonomic and orthopaedic office seating The Company also manufactured the UK's only motonsed office chairs, the eMove and eLift, for disabled users, based on the ergonomic Opera seating range

33 In 2009, the Company downsized and moved trading premises fo its current address This cost the Company some £70,000 Unfortunately the Company was unable to obtain a ong term loan to fund the relocation and at the same tme the Company's bankers, Barclays Bank Pic (“Barclays”), requested repayment of its overdraft facility of £80,000

Statement of proposals: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01458209/filing-history/MzEwNzk0NTAyN2FkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
Companies House register: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01458209

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