Road and Rally Discount Accessories Limited (01564152): administration
- Status
- In administration
- Administration began
- 2026-02-19
- Administrators
- Robert Neil Dymond, Joanne Louise Hammond
- Administrators' firm
- Begbies Traynor
- Incorporated
- 1981-05-27
- Location
- Northampton
- Industry
- 45320 Retail trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories
Why it went into administration
- HMRC / tax arrears
- Creditor pressure / legal action
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Rising costs / inflation
- Funding withdrawn / unable to refinance
- COVID-19
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
The Company was incorporated on 27 May 1981 and is a long-established motor factor and distribution company selling a large range of car parts and accessories to trade and retail customers. The Company sold and distributed business to business and directly to consumers, both via retail outlets and via various online selling platforms including Amazon, eBay and B&Q. The Company also traded directly with Amazon supplying via their own fulfilment centres and a Node warehouse.
The Company was originally founded by William lan Mitchell who ran the company as Managing Director until his retirement in 2021. The Company was initially retail trade only but it has grown and changed over the last 40 years through a variety of ways, initially adding more retail branches to the business, then in the late 1990s by servicing trade customers and closing a number of the small retail branches. In the mid-2000s, the Company started trading online. Louisa Mitchell took over the position of Managing Director after Mr Mitchell's retirement. The Company operated out of four trade/retait outlets in Chesterfield, Boythorpe, Shirebrook and Sheffield, three of which are leasehold premises, with the fourth being a freehoid premises owned by the Company, as well as a leasehold warehouse in Bolsover. Matthew Kelly was later appointed as a director on 1 June 2023.
The Company also employed 29 members of staff across various roles in its retail/trade outlets, in its warehouse and as drivers.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2026-04-09) · Companies House register