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Creditors' voluntary liquidation · 22 May 2024

4 Square Services

Developer · Slough · South East England

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What happened

4 SQUARE SERVICES LIMITED (company number 09049538), incorporated in 2014, entered creditors' voluntary liquidation on 22 May 2024. Its status at Companies House is now: liquidation.

The directors and shareholders decide to close an insolvent company. A liquidator sells its assets and shares the proceeds among creditors.

Previously known as: MACKENZIE (SOUTH WEST) HOMES LIMITED, MACKENZIE (FARNHAM ROAD) LIMITED.

Timeline

The last accounts and payment report before the failure, then what happened, with the time between each.

  1. 31 December 2022

    Last accounts filed were made up to this date

    17 months later

  2. 22 May 2024

    Creditors' voluntary liquidation started (shareholders resolved to wind up)

AccountsPayment reportInsolvency

Before it failed

Key figures

Turnover in its last accounts, year to Dec 2022
£22.0m
Accounts at Companies House
Loss before tax, year to Dec 2022
£2.1m
Accounts at Companies House
Staff, year to Dec 2022
17
Accounts at Companies House
Net assets, year to Dec 2022
£1.0m
Accounts at Companies House
Owed to unsecured creditors (estimated), as at 23 May 2024
£5.8m
of which trade creditors £333k. HMRC owed £148k. staff owed £6k. Expected return to unsecured creditors: nil
Statement of affairs (liquidation) (includes £4.3m owed to subcontractors)

The last accounts filed were full accounts made up to 31 December 2022, 17 months before it failed.

The full filing history, including any late filings, charges and director changes, is on Companies House.

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