Alexon Holdings Limited (03450434): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2011-09-29
- Administrators
- William James Wright, Howard Smith, Colin Michael Trevethyn Haig
- Administrators' firm
- KPMG
- Formerly
- Dolcis Holdings Limited; Goingbest Limited
- Incorporated
- 1997-10-15
- Location
- Birmingham
- Industry
- 7415
Why it went into administration
- Property / lease costs
From the administrators' statement
Alexon Holdings Limited was incorporated on 15 October 1997 and was the holding company of Alexon International Limited and a number of dormant subsidiaries No physical assets were held in Alexon Holdings Limited and all assets sold as part of this pre-packaged sale were held in Alexon International Limited Aiexon Group Pic 1s the ultimate group parent company
As at 30 July 2011 the Group had 77 leasehold standalone retail outlets in the UK and 901 UK concessions with a further 170 outlets / concessions across Ireland, Belgium and Germany The Group had 2,865 employees including part-time retail staff In addition to this they also operated out of approximately 20 Garden Centres across the UK
The business was funded by Barclays Bank through three facilities totalling £15 44m The facilities were across the Group and were subject to cross guarantee security
Administrators' statement of proposals (2011-11-25) · Companies House register