# Hollybush Hotels Limited (03949132)

> Why UK company 03949132 went into administration, from the administrators' statement filed at Companies House, by companydig. Interactive version: https://companydig.co.uk/company/03949132

- **Status:** Administration ended
- **Administration began:** 2013-10-11
- **Administrators:** Charles Peter Holder, Anne Clare O'Keefe, Mark Nicholas Cropper
- **Administrators' firm:** AlixPartners
- **Formerly:** Ex-Cowboy Limited
- **Incorporated:** 2000-03-16
- **Location:** Manchester
- **Industry:** 55100 Hotels and similar accommodation

## Why it went into administration

- Weak consumer demand
- Funding withdrawn / unable to refinance

## From the administrators' statement

31 The Company was incorporated on 16 March 2000 and traded as Martyn Leisure Breaks, operating a leisure park and four independent hotel businesses (together the Hotels). It employs 312 people across the five sites and can be summarised as follows

• Sand Bay Leisure Resort, 67 Beach Road, Kewstoke BS22 9UR (Sand Bay) - a substantial coastal holiday complex operating as an event venue and holiday centre At approximately 20 acres, the former Pontins resort 1s the largest of the Company’s sites receiving approximately 60,000 guests per year The Company owns the freehold to the site and operates a head office function from there, providing sales and marketing, IT support, human resources, finance and legal services to the Hotels

• Hotel Prince Regent, 139-140 The Esplanade, Weymouth DT4 7NR (the Prince Regent) - a 66 bedroom, three star hotel targeting the private lersure market and located on the Weymouth sea front. The site is grade II listed and occupied on long-leasehold terms

Statement of proposals: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03949132/filing-history/MzA5MDM0NjE1N2FkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
Companies House register: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03949132

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