Downland Fresh Foods Limited (04395955): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2014-01-07
- Administrators
- David Michael Clements, Paul Robert Boyle
- Administrators' firm
- Harrsons Business Recovery and Insolvency
- Formerly
- Gate Court Food Services Limited
- Incorporated
- 2002-03-15
- Location
- Reading
- Industry
- 56290 Other food services
Why it went into administration
- HMRC / tax arrears
- Competition / price pressure
- Over-expansion / investment not recovered
- Sustained trading losses
From the administrators' statement
Downland Fresh Foods Limited commenced trading in 2002 as Gate Court Food Services supplying dairy products to its customers operating under a franchise agreement with Dairy Crest Group Over the years its product range grew from solely being able to supply dairy products, to supplying ambient and frozen products together with a bigger chilled range
After trading successfully for several years it was decided to diversify into targeting catering
supplers outside of the franchise
Administrators' statement of proposals (2014-03-14) · Companies House register