D & G Cars Limited (02982000): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2015-03-20
- Administrators
- Glyn Mummery, Jeremy Stuart French
- Administrators' firm
- FRP Advisory
- Formerly
- Castlecrown Estates Limited
- Incorporated
- 1994-10-21
- Location
- Brentwood
- Industry
- 45111 Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles
Why it went into administration
- Creditor pressure / legal action
- Parent or group failure
From the administrators' statement
The Company was incorporated on 21 October 1994 by its current director, Dennis Harding (“DH”) and Linda Harding, who resigned on 7 June 2009 Michael Jennings was appointed as director on 1 November 1998 and resigned on 31 May 2010 For all other statutory information please refer to Appendix A of this report.
D&GCL provided repair and recovery work for motor vehicles, primarily under contracts for Essex Police (EP”), the Metropolitan Police, and Kent Police (“KP”) to recover and store the vehicles at sites in both Essex and Kent.
Since inception, the Company had mostly operated on a satisfactory and profitable basis, although for the year ended 31 October 2013, financial accounts disclose a small net loss of c. £4k on turnover of c £5.3m. This compares to a net profit of c. £137k, on turnover of ¢ £6.5m for the financial year ended 31 October 2012
Administrators' statement of proposals (2015-05-19) · Companies House register