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Administration · 7 September 2022

Avonside Roofing

Specialist trade · Heywood · North West England · Part of Avonside

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What happened

AVONSIDE ROOFING LIMITED (company number 02330586), incorporated in 1988, entered administration on 7 September 2022. Its status at Companies House is now: administration.

Why it failed

Acquisition integration problems and a failed finance system rollout caused billing errors and cash strain; bank and shareholder funding could not be secured, so the roofing companies entered administration.

  • Main reason: Cash flow
  • Funding withdrawn

Our summary of the reasons given in the administrators' proposals. These record the administrators' and directors' account of what happened.

An administrator, a licensed insolvency practitioner, takes control of the company to try to rescue it, sell the business or get a better result for creditors than a liquidation.

Previously known as: LEE ROOFING SERVICES LIMITED, LEE ROOFING SERVICES (NORTH WEST) LIMITED.

Timeline

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

  1. 31 December 2020

    Last accounts filed were made up to this date

    21 months later

  2. 7 September 2022

    Administration started

AccountsPayment reportInsolvency

Before it failed

Key figures

Turnover in its last accounts, year to Dec 2020
£47.8m
Accounts at Companies House
Loss before tax, year to Dec 2020
£1.7m
Accounts at Companies House
Staff, year to Dec 2020
184
Accounts at Companies House
Net assets, year to Dec 2020
£24.2m
Accounts at Companies House
Owed to unsecured creditors (estimated), as at 7 September 2022
£10.8m
HMRC owed £3.5m. Expected return to unsecured creditors: prescribed part only
Administrators' proposals

The last accounts filed were full accounts made up to 31 December 2020, 20 months before it went into administration.

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

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