Direct Select (192) Limited (02595651): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2020-04-20
- Administrators' firm
- Leonard Curtis
- Formerly
- Bowdrop Limited
- Incorporated
- 1991-03-26
- Location
- Birmingham
- Industry
- 62012 Business and domestic software development
Why it went into administration
- Property / lease costs
- COVID-19
- Creditor pressure / legal action
- Sustained trading losses
- Brexit
From the administrators' statement
The Company was set up in June 1991 by Mike Fox and Steve Day initially as a software distribution company for the Phonelink telephone number appending software. Call centres were beginning to scale in the UK and there was a high demand for adding telephone numbers to companies’ databases so they could contact their customers, an initiative which was new to most consumer facing organisations at the time. It soon became clear that the main demand was to provide a bureau service rather than software, and the business switched focus.
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Administrators' statement of proposals (2020-05-30) · Companies House register