November 21, 2023 Photo: depositphotos Amsterdam-based Qwic has become the second e-bike manufacturer to be declared bankrupt in four months. The company was listed in the insolvency register, a week after a court granted it extra time to pay its bills. Qwic did not respond to the news, but told customers in an e-mail last…
More companies in the UK went bust last year than during the 2008 financial crisis, according to the latest figures from the Insolvency Service, writes David Connett. A total of 25,551 business insolvencies were recorded, more than the 25,186 firms that collapsed in the year from August 2008 to July 2009. The number of companies…
The number of companies that became insolvent in July was 16% higher than during the same period last year, according to official data. In England and Wales, 2,191 businesses went bust, according to the Insolvency Service, compared with 1,890 in July 2023. The figures included 320 compulsory liquidations – when a company is forced to…
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Birmingham’s city center is thronged by empty lots with unfinished and unstarted building projects, like this one in the Deritend area. In 1890, an American journalist named Julian Ralph traveled from New York to Birmingham, an industrial powerhouse lying squarely in the center of England, and found it to be “the best-governed city in the…
Two unsecured claims total $58,000, but there might be other claims against Pool Spec, so the Waterstone liquidators want those parties to lodge documents if they are owed money. They don’t know yet if there will be enough realisable assets to pay Pool Spec’s creditors. Wellsford’s Richard Spearpoint and Ellen Spearpoint own the business. Richie…
EV startup Fisker files for bankruptcy, aims to sell assets Reuters Read the original article here
Birmingham city council declared itself effectively bankrupt in September last year, but only now are the facts about what really happened beginning to emerge. A series of monumental problems and errors, including the botched implementation of a new IT system, a likely overstated equal pay liability, and a disastrous financial package imposed on the council…
Company insolvency levels are higher than during the pandemic, according to the latest figures. The number of firms in England and Wales going out of business last month was up 16% year-on-year, as reported by Sky. There were 2,191 company insolvencies in July, according to the Insolvency Service, with the retail and hospitality sectors hit…
There was a significant increase in the number of firms that became insolvent in July when compare with the corresponding month last year, the latest figures show. According to the Insolvency Service, 2,191 businesses went bust in England and Wales last month, up 16% on the 1,890 recorded in July 2023. The figures included 320…