Blackdown Hills Enterprises Limited (05247327): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2018-08-13
- Administrators' firm
- Mazars
- Incorporated
- 2004-10-01
- Location
- Bristol
- Industry
- 01470 Raising of poultry
Why it went into administration
- Sustained trading losses
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Loss of a key customer, supplier or contract
- Weather / natural events
From the administrators' statement
The Company was incorporated on 1 October 2004. The Company was primarily a supplier of eggs to the UK retail, food service and wholesale sectors and had previously kept of a flock of up to some 28,000 Bovan Brown laying hens, in free-range on-site facilities.
The Company’s premises is in Chard, Somerset, and comprised a state of the art egg grading, packing and distribution centre with offices, which was newly built and opened in 2013. The flock of hens were kept across three hen sheds.
A summary of the Company’s balance sheet position over the last 3 years is below:
Administrators' statement of proposals (2018-09-13) · Companies House register