Administration · 15 January 2026
Caldwell Construction
Main contractor · Stoke-on-Trent · West Midlands
What happened
CALDWELL CONSTRUCTION LIMITED (company number 06330663), incorporated in 2007, entered administration on 15 January 2026. Its status at Companies House is now: administration.
Why it failed
Accounts were restated to a loss after £5m of exceptional costs surfaced, some customers paid late, and in January 2026 the primary funder withdrew its facility, halting trading.
- Main reason: Funding withdrawn
- Cash flow
- Clients not paying or failing
- Accounting irregularities
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.
Timeline
The last accounts and payment report before the failure, then what happened, with the time between each.
31 March 2025
Last accounts filed were made up to this date
10 months later
15 January 2026
Administration started
AccountsPayment reportInsolvency
Before it failed
Key figures
- Owed to unsecured creditors (estimated), as at 15 January 2026
- £12.3m
- HMRC owed £272k. a further £7.8m owed to its lenders. Expected return to unsecured creditors: none expected
- Administrators' proposals
The last accounts filed were full accounts made up to 31 March 2025, 10 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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