PrintWeek understands that Lick Group will be placed in liquidation with The P&A Partnership, the Sheffield-based insolvency practitioner which handled the liquidation of Lick Group subsidiaries Lick Digital and Top Copy.

The P&A Partnership confirmed that a meeting of creditors had been set for 13 July, at which the company would be liquidated.

Earlier this month Lick Group's staff were reportedly sent home, while former managing director Linden Kitson resigned as a director on Companies House. Lick Group's telephone number has since been disconnected.

Lick Digital and Top Copy went into liquidation on 29 March; at the time the company claimed that it was "business as usual" for Lick Group. Lick Group was formed by Kitson to buy the assets of Lick UK, which went into administration in April 2010.