MKA Realisations Limited (04756556): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2022-12-07
- Administrators
- Philip Lewis Armstrong, Philip James Watkins
- Administrators' firm
- FRP Advisory
- Formerly
- Meika Ltd; Sport By Mail Limited
- Incorporated
- 2003-05-07
- Location
- London
- Industry
- 47910 Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
Why it went into administration
- HMRC / tax arrears
- Weak consumer demand
- Supply chain disruption
- COVID-19
- Parent or group failure
- Brexit
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
• The Company was incorporated on 7 May 2003 and commenced trade immediately under the trading name ‘Primrose’.
• The business operated from its registered office 44 Portman Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG30 1EA and a_ leasehold warehouse in Sharpness, Gloucestershire. The Company had 5 directors and employed 111 members of staff and 13 outsourced agency staff.
• Garden Retail Online Limited acquired 100% of the Company's shares via a share sale in November 2020. This was due to the administration of the Company's previous parent, Primrose Group Limited.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2022-12-19) · Companies House register