Connect UP Limited (04026160): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2012-03-29
- Administrators
- Joanne K Rolls, Colin David Wilson
- Administrators' firm
- RSM
- Incorporated
- 2000-07-04
- Location
- West Yorkshire
- Industry
- 7260
Why it went into administration
- Funding withdrawn / unable to refinance
- Creditor pressure / legal action
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
The Company was incorporated on 4 July 2000 Initially the Company had four directors, Mark Driver whose role was project management and Data Cabling sales, Sebastian Briggs who ran the systems side of the business and was responsible for developing the education market and Carl and Raymond Glendinning who ran the data division of the Company The director has provided the history as detailed below
The first initial years of trading were successful, in particular with installation of data networks and new computer systems for Leeds schools The Company also offered schools a managed service to look after their networks Sebastian Briggs resigned as a director of the Company on 30 May 2002
Since 2002 the systems side of the business grew with systems sales of over £800,000 and the managed services grew from a small number of schools receiving curriculum support to the Company supporting 60 of the 240 schools in Leeds
Administrators' statement of proposals (2012-05-14) · Companies House register