In 2012, Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp launched the worlds first private and crowdsourced-effort to create a permanent outpost on Mars. Known as Mars One, this organization was the focus of a lot of press since its inception, some of it good, most of it bad. While there were many who called the organizations plan a…
Husband and wife, Dawn and Jacob Goulde, of Hatch End, North West London, were the directors of London and Berkshire Limited. Incorporated in August 2009, the company was concerned with property valuation and surveying. Just six years later, however, London and Berkshire was shut down by the courts in June 2015 following a petition by…
Husband and wife, Dawn and Jacob Goulde, of Hatch End, North West London, were the directors of London and Berkshire Limited. Incorporated in August 2009, the company was concerned with property valuation and surveying. Just six years later, however, London and Berkshire was shut down by the courts in June 2015 following a petition by…
Stuart McDonald (37), of Dyce, Aberdeen, was the solely appointed director of Northern Motors (Aberdeen) Limited from September 2013 having first been appointed a joint director in June 2007. Incorporated in 2006, Northern Motors traded as a car dealership in Dyce, Aberdeen while also offering repair and maintenance services. But 10 years later, Northern Motors…
Stuart McDonald (37), of Dyce, Aberdeen, was the solely appointed director of Northern Motors (Aberdeen) Limited from September 2013 having first been appointed a joint director in June 2007. Incorporated in 2006, Northern Motors traded as a car dealership in Dyce, Aberdeen while also offering repair and maintenance services. But 10 years later, Northern Motors…
ClusterVision, European HPC specialists that have built and installed over 20 Top500-ranked systems in their nearly 17-year history, appear to be in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings. According to Dutch news site Drimble, three companies doing business as ClusterVision have been declared insolvent in the Netherlands, where ClusterVision is headquartered. The notice reports that Clustervision…
New England Motor Freight, the 19th-largest less-than-truckload (LTL) trucking company in the US, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday. Several top freight analysts said one of NEMFs challenges was its contract with Amazon, which tends to provide a lot of packages that are of relatively low value. Amazon contracts are pretty demanding, one analyst told…
Brian Anderson Snr (61), from Irvine, was appointed a joint director of Anderson Builders Limited in August 2014 before becoming the sole appointed director in June 2015. Anderson Builders was involved in the construction of commercial buildings but the companys performance struggled before it had to cease trading in February 2017. Independent insolvency practitioners were…
What Happened In this case, Edelweiss ARC alleged that Kothari settled a dispute with Reliance Infrastructure for Rs 9.65 crore compared with the original claim of Rs 30 crore without informing the lenders. According to the petition, Abhijeet MADC Energy in 2007 agreed to build a 271-megawatt power plant in Nagpur for the Maharashtra Airport…
Bas Lansdorp is a Dutch entrepreneur who saw his dreams of colonizing Mars crumble into red dust after his company, Mars One, declared bankruptcy. The company was made up of a not-for-profit called the Mars One Foundation and a for-profit company called Mars One Ventures. The idea behind Mars One was to colonize the red…