Administration · 22 January 2026
E.J. Taylor & Sons
Main contractor · Chelmsford · East Anglia
What happened
E.J. TAYLOR & SONS LIMITED (company number 00751383), incorporated in 1963, entered administration on 22 January 2026. Its status at Companies House is now: administration.
Why it failed
Work from a blue-chip client fell sharply in 2024; cost cuts did not offset it, credit facilities could not be sourced, and the wider group was also failing.
- Main reason: Market downturn
- Cash flow
- Funding withdrawn
- Group company failed
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 2024
Last accounts filed were made up to this date
22 months later
22 January 2026
Administration started
AccountsPayment reportInsolvency
Before it failed
Key figures
- Owed to unsecured creditors (estimated), as at 22 January 2026
- £7.4m
- of which trade creditors £2.6m. HMRC owed £948k. a further £313k owed to its lenders. Expected return to unsecured creditors: none expected
- Administrators' proposals (includes £1.6m owed to connected companies and people)
The last accounts filed were full accounts made up to 31 March 2024, 22 months before it went into administration. Private companies have nine months after their year end to file, so a gap of more than 21 months usually means the next accounts were overdue, one of the warning signs worth checking for.
The full filing history, including any late filings, charges and director changes, is on Companies House.
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