Regent Greeting Cards Limited (01513675): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2015-02-10
- Administrators
- Howard Smith, Jonathan Charles Marston
- Administrators' firm
- KPMG
- Formerly
- Apperley Cards Ltd.; Apperley Cards (1980) Limited; Wigtent Limited
- Incorporated
- 1980-08-21
- Location
- Leeds
- Industry
- 58190 Other publishing activities
Why it went into administration
- Funding withdrawn / unable to refinance
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Sustained trading losses
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
The nature of the Company's business was publishers of greeting cards and associated products, with the Company itself being incorporated on 21 August 1980 as Wigtent Limited Two subsequent changes of name have occurred In the period since the date of incorporation and the date that the Company changed its name to the current form on 12 January 1996
The Company traded from Regent House, Dockfield Road, Shipley BD17 7SF and employed 82 members of staff at the date of the Joint Administrators’ appointment
2.2 Funding and financial position of the Company
Administrators' statement of proposals (2015-04-14) · Companies House register