M.K. Leslie Limited (SC143749): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2013-07-30
- Administrators
- Blair Carnegie Nimmo
- Administrators' firm
- KPMG
- Formerly
- Adaptdelve Limited
- Incorporated
- 1993-04-06
- Location
- Aberdeen
- Industry
- 41100 Development of building projects
Why it went into administration
- Sustained trading losses
- HMRC / tax arrears
- Rising costs / inflation
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
The Company was incorporated on 6 April 1993 as Adaptdelve Limited, changing its name to MK Leslie Limited on 28 May 1993. It commenced trading in 1994. Throughout its trading history, the Company operated under the trading name MK Leslie Limited.
The Company’s main trading activities were plant hire (‘Plant Hire’) and civil engineering contracting (‘Contracting’), operating across Scotland, mainly in the North of Scotland and Shetland. It traded from leased premises located at Dalcross Industrial Estate, Inverness and Lower Scord, Scalloway, Shetland.
At the date of our appointment the Company had 59 employees. During the three financial years prior to our appointment turnover averaged approximately £7.9 million per annum.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2013-09-26) · Companies House register