Appletree Cottage Limited (02680366): administration
- Status
- In administration
- Administration began
- 2006-07-03
- Administrators
- Julian Pitts, David Frederick Wilson
- Administrators' firm
- Begbies Traynor
- Formerly
- Appleday Limited
- Incorporated
- 1992-01-23
- Location
- Hawthorn Park Coal Road
- Industry
- 2222
Why it went into administration
- Parent or group failure
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
Cottage Industries Limited (Cottage’), was incorporated on 29 August 1996 and its registered company number is 03243552. Cottages’ classification of trade was an ultimate holding company for four associated companies. Candy Cottage Limited (Candy) was incorporated on 29 April 1996 and its registered company number is 03192078. Candys’ classification of trade, was the management of franchise agreements for the confectionery industry, and distributors of confectionery items. Appletree Cottage Limited (Appletree’), was incorporated on 23 January 1992 and its registered company number is 02680366. Appletrees’ classification of trade was the management of franchise agreements within the greeting card industry, and distributor of greeting/novelty card items. The remaining two companies within the Group are known as Chocolate Greetings Limited and Apollo Promotions Limited, both of which are devoid of assets and ceased trading on 31 December 2005. Within this report these companies teferred to collectively will be known as Cthe Group).
The registered directors of the Group were Richard Darbishire and Paul Turner. Duties were split equally between each director, on a day to day basis.
The ultimate parent company of the Group, is a company known as Mudfish Limited (‘Mudfish’) as it holds 100% of the share capital within Cottage. The share capital and holdings within the Group can be analysed in the table below:-
Administrators' statement of proposals (2006-09-20) · Companies House register