T F Freight Limited (04590647): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2015-01-19
- Administrators
- Conrad Alan Beighton, Paul David Masters
- Administrators' firm
- Leonard Curtis
- Formerly
- E.S. Harrison Transport Limited
- Incorporated
- 2002-11-14
- Location
- Birmingham
- Industry
- 49410 Freight transport by road
Why it went into administration
- Supply chain disruption
- HMRC / tax arrears
- Loss of a key customer, supplier or contract
- Sustained trading losses
From the administrators' statement
The Company, onginally called E S Harrison Transport Limited, was incorporated on 14 November 2002 and commenced to trade immediately The principal activity of the Company was freight transport by road
At the time, the Company's sole customer was Target Express, a company which, in 2005, was bought out by Rentokil Initial (‘Rentokil’) and amalgamated with their parcel carrier City Link
Over the following two to three years, City Link suffered heavy losses but was supported financially by its parent company Dunng this time, Mr Tim Fowler {at this time - acting as transport manager) took steps to butld up the Company's customer base, following which the Company began to take on some additional work, outside of City Link
Administrators' statement of proposals (2015-03-16) · Companies House register