# Broad Oak Toiletries Limited (01971053)

> Why UK company 01971053 went into administration, from the administrators' statement filed at Companies House, by companydig. Interactive version: https://companydig.co.uk/company/01971053

- **Status:** Administration ended
- **Administration began:** 2016-02-05
- **Administrators:** Danny Dartnaill, Simon Edward Jex Girling
- **Administrators' firm:** BDO
- **Formerly:** Broak Oak Toiletries Limited; Broad Oak Soap Company Limited
- **Incorporated:** 1985-12-13
- **Location:** Bristol
- **Industry:** 20420 Manufacture of perfumes and toilet preparations

## Why it went into administration

- Competition / price pressure
- Sustained trading losses

## From the administrators' statement

The Company was incorporated on 13 December 1985 and operated as a contract manufacturer of perfumes and other toiletnes, initially serving the demand of its parent company Floris of London (together with the Flons group of compames, hereinafter referred to as “Floris”} but subsequently expanding to offer manufacturing capabilities to other third party customers.

The contract manufacturing business saw solid growth and soon had outgrown the Company’s location in West Sussex. A new factory was built at Tiverton by Floris and leased to the Company in 1989. The Company’s entire operation moved to Tiverton. The business continued to grow through contract manufactunng work which was plentiful, required low overheads but had thin profit margins. A further warehouse at

Broad Oak Toletries Limted

Statement of proposals: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01971053/filing-history/MzE0NTQyNzQ4MGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
Companies House register: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01971053

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