PPL Realisations 2025 Limited (02648722): administration
- Status
- In administration
- Administration began
- 2025-10-01
- Administrators
- Howard Smith, Richard John Harrison
- Administrators' firm
- Interpath Advisory
- Formerly
- PFF Packaging Limited; Promotional Forming and Finishing Limited; Haddengrove Limited
- Incorporated
- 1991-09-25
- Location
- Leeds
- Industry
- 22220 Manufacture of plastic packing goods
Why it went into administration
- Energy costs
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Creditor pressure / legal action
- Weak consumer demand
- Rising costs / inflation
- Funding withdrawn / unable to refinance
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
PPL and PPNEL are the two trading companies situated in Keighley and Sedgefield and incorporated on 25 September 1991 and 27 November 2009 respectively.
Both entities are wholly owned subsidiaries of PFF Packaging Group Limited (‘PPGL’), which was incorporated on 7 August 2006. PPGL also owns the PFF brand and provided ad-hoc head office support services to the Group.
The Group is a family-owned independent manufacturer of plastic food packaging. The business was established in 1993 and was founded by Andy and Michelle Bairstow (‘the Bairstows’), who are also the major shareholders of the Group. The Bairstows are also the landlord to the Keighley and Sedgefield premises. The Group engages in the following production processes:
Administrators' statement of proposals (2025-10-20) · Companies House register