COX + COX Mail Order Limited (04284283): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2023-02-27
- Administrators
- Bai Cham, Jason Paul Maloney
- Administrators' firm
- Begbies Traynor
- Incorporated
- 2001-09-10
- Location
- London
- Industry
- 47910 Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
Why it went into administration
- COVID-19
- Weak consumer demand
- Rising costs / inflation
- Supply chain disruption
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
The Company was incorporated on 10 September 2001, founded by Fiona Cox, who was a central figure in British interior design and starred in the BBC’s hugely successful makeover series, Home Front. The Company was selling homeware to the general public. Initially, the Company was taking orders by phone and was operated from the residential home of Mrs Cox.
In 2007, the Company entered into a partnership with Roderick Taylor, who was appointed as a director of the Company and became a majority shareholder. The partnership continued until November 2014, when Mr Taylor took complete control of the Company. Mr Taylor has remained as sole director and ultimate shareholder of the Company to date.
The Company expanded its business by mailing out catalogues to the general public, and the clients’ orders were fulfilled from its warehouses based in Frome, Somerset. The Company expanded their selection from small homeware to high-quality furniture and other home decoration items.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2023-03-08) · Companies House register