Westmorland Laundry Services Ltd (07875030): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2014-02-17
- Administrators
- Jonathan Elman Avery Gee, Stephen Leonard Conn
- Administrators' firm
- CG&Co
- Incorporated
- 2011-12-08
- Location
- Manchester
- Industry
- 96010 Washing and (dry-)cleaning of textile and fur products
From the administrators' statement
CG&Co were approached by Mr S H Johnson, a director of Westmorland Laundry Services Limited, which operated a specialist laundry service primarily for hotels in the Lake District, on 8 December 2013 The business was capital intensive due to the significant linen costs and initial funding that Mr Johnson personally provided Turnover was good, but production problems plagued the Company causing cashfiow difficulties which resulted in Mr Johnson having to inject further capital into the Company
Mr Johnson resigned as a director on 31 December 2013
Mr Richard Peter Turner was appointed as a director on 31 December 2013 and again approached CG&Co on 30 January 2014 Mr Turner was the manager of the business since the Company commenced trading, and had previously been a director until 31 December 2012 It was apparent that the Company's financial difficulties had not improved since our inital meeting with Mr Johnson Mr Turner had been having discussions with a potential purchaser but these ‘ater proved to be unsuccessful
Administrators' statement of proposals (2014-04-25) · Companies House register