Receivership & administration

Transactions were to the detriment of the company and its creditors

Director barred over excess payments

One of the directors of a family-owned print business that went bust owing more than £2.5m has been disqualified.

Seriousness trumps silliness in August’s listicle

While it’s traditionally dubbed the silly season, when it comes to what dominated the August headlines in the mainstream media at least, there wasn’t an awful lot to laugh about in last month’s crop...

Awesome Merchandise: external factors materially changed the trading position

Pre-pack at Awesome Merchandise

Awesome Merchandise has gone into administration, with certain assets sold to a new company set up by co-founder Luke Hodson.

Inside the Printwize factory in happier days

Long-standing Essex firm shuttered

A fifty-year-old family printing business has gone into administration despite its owners selling their house in an attempt to keep the business going.

Warwick Printing Co's factory has a £1.75m price tag

Warwick Print Co owners confident over debts

Bosses at Warwick Printing Company are confident the firm will be able to pay off all its debts, and even leave a six-figure surplus – providing it achieves the expected price tag for its factory.

Warwick Printing Co: factory is up for sale for £1.75m. Image: EHB Reeves Commercial

Staff await payment after print firm shuttered

A longstanding family-owned print business has gone into members voluntary liquidation, with employees claiming they have been given mixed messages about how and when they will be paid their wages and...

Ivanhoe Caledonian: phone calls unanswered

Liquidators confirmed at Ivanhoe Caledonian

Liquidators have confirmed that Ivanhoe Caledonian has closed its doors with all staff made redundant, citing the pandemic and the resulting loss of work as the cause of its demise.

July headlines make a big deal of deals

While the passing of one of print's most polarising figures dominated July's list of most read articles, deals were undoubtedly the overarching trend. And while their successful conclusions, in terms...

YM Group, as was

Former YM director calls for investigation into group's affairs

A former director of YM Group has gone public with his concerns about the way the business was being run long before its web division collapsed and the group went into administration – and claims...

Peterson's firm failed to provide services that had been paid for

Rogue publisher banned

The director of a rogue magazine publisher has received a lengthy ban after the firm operated with “a lack of commercial probity”.