Caffe KIX Limited (03677396): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2023-06-21
- Administrators
- Hasib Howlader, Nimish Chandrakant Patel
- Administrators' firm
- Hudson Weir
- Formerly
- Prontocafe Limited
- Incorporated
- 1998-12-02
- Location
- London
- Industry
- 56102 Unlicenced restaurants and cafes
Why it went into administration
- HMRC / tax arrears
- COVID-19
- Loss of a key customer, supplier or contract
- Bad debts / customer insolvency
- Parent or group failure
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
We have been advised by the director of the Company on the below circumstances giving rise to the appointment of Joint Administrators. The conduct and affairs of the director and the Company will be reviewed as part of our statutory investigations.
The Company was incorporated on 2 December 1998 with £1,000 share capital and began trading in May 1999 as a coffee cart operation serving office workers inside Wallis House, Smith Kline Beecham, West London. Capital was personally funded by the Rupert Warburton the founding director (“the Director’).
The Company expanded over to 18 trading locations over 24 years, and the key trading brands under which the Company traded were Caffe Kix, Graze, Café 27, Ember & Seed and LAB Coffee Works. All of these brands were owned by the Company. 3.4.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2023-08-12) · Companies House register