Land Engineering (Scotland) Limited (SC070682): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2017-05-30
- Administrators
- Colin Peter Dempster, Fiona Livingstone Taylor
- Administrators' firm
- EY
- Incorporated
- 1980-02-20
- Location
- Edinburgh
- Industry
- 42990 Construction of other civil engineering projects n.e.c.
Why it went into administration
- Sustained trading losses
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
The Company had traded since 1980 and was a well-established contracting, civil engineering and landscaping business based in Glasgow and Fenwick with a number of site offices around Scotland and historic turnover of c£45m per annum. The Company's activities were mainly contractual in nature, with both public and private sector clients although primarily focused on the public sector.
The Company’s recent financial results can be summarised below. Management have advised that full monthly management accounts continued to be prepared up until March 2017 showing the Company to be loss making in the latest financial year.
Period
Administrators' statement of proposals (2017-06-12) · Companies House register