Phones Realisations 2026 Limited (03154198): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2014-09-15
- Administrators
- David James Kelly, Catherine Atkinson
- Administrators' firm
- PwC
- Formerly
- Phones 4U Limited; Phones (4U) Limited; 4U (Retail) Limited; Trylaser Limited
- Incorporated
- 1996-02-02
- Location
- Leeds
- Industry
- 47421 Retail sale of mobile telephones
Why it went into administration
- Loss of a key customer, supplier or contract
From the administrators' statement
The Companies are part of the Phones 4U Group formed tn 1996 with the incorporation of Phones 4U Limited The remaining Group companies were incorporated between 2003 and 2011
Phones 4U was one of the UK’s leading dependent mobile phone retailers and insurance providers, owned by private equity firm, BC Partners The Group operated online (including the previously acquired Dialaphone business) and on the ngh-street At the time of our appointment the Group had 563 stores plus 161 concessions in Dixon Carphone stores, and 5,592 employees in total
The Group had network agreements with Vodafone and EE and, until January 2014, 1t also had a contract with O2 The three main trading businesses are summarised below
Administrators' statement of proposals (2014-11-13) · Companies House register