Blane Leisure Limited (SC109050): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2012-10-01
- Administrators
- Brian Green, Blair Carnegie Nimmo, David James Costley-Wood
- Administrators' firm
- KPMG
- Incorporated
- 1988-02-03
- Location
- Edinburgh
- Industry
- 47640 Retail sale of sports goods, fishing gear, camping goods, boats and bicycles
Why it went into administration
- Sustained trading losses
- Funding withdrawn / unable to refinance
- Property / lease costs
- Competition / price pressure
- Weather / natural events
From the administrators' statement
The Company was incorporated on 3 February 1988 in Scotland, and as part of the wider ‘JJB Group had grown to become one of the UK’s leading retailers of sports equipment and clothing. The Company historically traded under the JJB name.
The UK Group structure is set out below:
JUB Sports ple
Administrators' statement of proposals (2012-11-26) · Companies House register