Headen & Quarmby Limited (03375522): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2014-01-15
- Administrators
- Kerry Bailey, Patrick Alexander Lannagan
- Administrators' firm
- BDO
- Formerly
- Pitchturn Limited
- Incorporated
- 1997-05-23
- Location
- Manchester
- Industry
- 14142 Manufacture of women's underwear
Why it went into administration
- Weather / natural events
- Weak consumer demand
- Property / lease costs
- Sustained trading losses
From the administrators' statement
The Company was incorporated on 23 May 1997 and its pmmary activity was the manufacture of women’s underwear.
Having moved all production offshore previously, in December 2011 the Company resurrected its production operations in the UK, supported by a filming and production agreement with Remarkable Television and Mary Portas to produce a Bntish-made design of underwear to be sold to UK retailers.
This agreement led to the Company being well publicised as the manufacturer of the Mary Portas’ Kinky Knickers product range that was featured on Channel 4’s documentary ‘Mary’s Bottom Line’.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2014-03-18) · Companies House register