Winfruit Limited (05834473): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2013-12-11
- Administrators' firm
- Begbies Traynor
- Formerly
- Hummingbird International Limited
- Incorporated
- 2006-06-01
- Location
- Southend on Sea
- Industry
- 10390 Other processing and preserving of fruit and vegetables
Why it went into administration
- Funding withdrawn / unable to refinance
From the administrators' statement
The company was incorporated on 1 June 2006 In December 2009 the company changed its name from Hummingbird International Limited to Winfruit Limited The company has focussed on research and development activities on the production, marketing and distribution of a fruit dessert branded ‘Fruitful The Fruitful product 1s a dairy free, gluten free, low fat frozen fruit dessert with a minimum 75% fruit content
Three flavours have been developed with one further flavour in development A tral run of the product was produced and sale of around £1,000 were made to catering companies at regional trade shows
Gordon Paley, Felicity Jane Paley and Simon Poole initially developed the concept for the product They undertook product and process development work from around 2004 and filed a patent tn relation to the invented process In December 2008, related intellectual property owned by the individuals was assigned to the company Winfruit Limited The company had received funding from Winfresh (UK) Limited and in 2008, Winfresh (UK) Limited purchased 50% of the company’s shares for £350,000 and a further 25% for £200,000
Administrators' statement of proposals (2014-02-12) · Companies House register