Alexon International Limited (01867978): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2011-09-29
- Administrators
- William James Wright, Howard Smith, Colin Michael Trevethyn Haig
- Administrators' firm
- KPMG
- Formerly
- S G Holdings Limited; Jewelcharm Limited
- Incorporated
- 1984-12-03
- Location
- Birmingham
- Industry
- 1822
Why it went into administration
- Property / lease costs
- Weather / natural events
From the administrators' statement
Alexon International Limited was incorporated on 3 December 1984 and was the trading vehicle for the clothing brands Alexon, Eastex, Dash, Ann Harvey, Kaliko, Lazy Lu & Minuet In addition to the Company there are two holding companies, the listed entity Alexon Group Plc and Alexon Holdings Limited There are also a number of dormant subsidiaries All assets sold as part of this pre-packaged sale were held in the Alexon International Limited
The Company owned a freehold property in Cardnff, a leased head office in Luton and a leased distribution centre in Northampton As at 30 July 2011 the Group had 77 leasehold standalone retat! outlets in the UK and 901 UK concessions with a further 170 outlets / concesstons across Ireland, Belgium and Germany The Group had 2,865 employees including part-time retail staff In addition to this they also operated out of approximately 20 garden centres across the UK.
A large number of the concession agreements were in place with host stores, with the key hosts being Debenhams, Beales, House of Fraser, ARCs, Menarys, Mackays, GB Inno, Libra Textiles and Shaws
Administrators' statement of proposals (2011-11-24) · Companies House register