Dawsons Bakers & Confectioners Ltd (04954686): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2018-04-24
- Administrators
- Michael Simister, Neil Henry
- Administrators' firm
- Begbies Traynor
- Incorporated
- 2003-11-05
- Location
- Altrincham
- Industry
- 10710 Manufacture of bread; manufacture of fresh pastry goods and cakes
Why it went into administration
- Weather / natural events
From the administrators' statement
The Company was incorporated as Dawsons Bakers & Confectioners Ltd (‘Dawsons’) on 5" November 2003 with Pamela Dickinson, June Rushby and Lee Dickinson being the directors and shareholders. The company’s share capital at the time of incorporation was 3 Ordinary £1 shares with each director holding 1 share.
The Company’s principal trading activity was that of a Bakery and retail shops. Dawsons was a well-known, family owned, local bakery established 100 years ago who supplied wholesale bread, cakes and pastry items to the Wigan, Chorley and Bolton areas. Dawsons also had four of their own retail premises based in Hindley, Atherton, Westhoughton and Tyidesley which were supplied by their own bakery operated from the Tyldesley site.
Dawsons traded successfully and weathered many financial crises over the years. The business suffered a downturn in its sales and profits around 5 years ago when Lee Dickinson was sent to prison and was no longer able to manage the bakery. He resigned as a director on 13 August 2013. Lee had been handling almost all aspects of the business with June and Pamela only having part-time roles.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2018-06-27) · Companies House register