The following companies have called a meeting of creditors to appoint a liquidator. AARON BOYD LIMITED ASSURED HIGHWAY SOLUTIONS LIMITED BEER ROCKS LTD CARLETON CARE LIMITED CLAM OPERATIONS LTD CONCEPT MARKETING DESIGN LIMITED CONTRACT PACKING SOLUTIONS LTD DIRECT CATERING SUPPLIES LIMITED EDGERTON DISTILLERS LIMITED F.E.PAGE (UK) LIMITED FF TRADING LIMITED FINEACRE LANDSCAPING LIMITED Read more »

ABSOLUTE CARE HOMES (SWINTON) LIMITED CENTREPRINT UK LIMITED DANIEL CONTRACTORS LIMITED PLAS GWILYM QUARRY LIMITED LAND AND MARINE PROJECT ENGINEERING LIMITED DESIMAN (NEW HOMES) LIMITED GR@ND LIMITED (t/a Spar) GS CAPITAL LIMITED INTERKEY SERVICES LIMITED LEACO LIMITED VISTA BUILDING LIMITED WHITE RABBIT RECORDS LIMITED YORKSHIRE AGGREGATES LIMITED For more information email jarnol…

BACK2PRINT LTD CLOSE HOSPITALITY LIMITED EBBSFLEET COMMUNITY SPORTS CENTRE LIMITED FOUR SEASONS GM LIMITED HERITAGE HAGOS LIMITED HOPSTONE COTTAGE LIMITED LGV SPECIALIST LIMITED PROGRESS TIMBER LIMITED SOUTHEND UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED (THE) TOTAL COMPLIANCE LIMITED For more information on these advertised winding up petitions please email jarnold@creditman.co.uk

SMEs in the construction sector have experienced their highest performing Q1 since 2008, according to the latest Business Factors Index (BFI) from Bibby Financial Services, the UK’s largest independent invoice provider. The BFI tracks the turnover of Bibby Financial Services’ 4,000 SME clients across construction, manufacturing, wholesale, transport and business services sectors. Performance is expressed as …

Commenting on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for April 2013, published today by the ONS, David Kern, Chief Economist at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said: “The drop in inflation to 2.4% in April is the first time that a slowdown has been recorded since September 2012. This is welcome news, and will ease pressures facing businesses and consumers. The largest downward contribution to inflation in April cam…

In the wake of the government extending the ‘Funding for Lending’ scheme until January 2014 and ongoing mixed views on the Business Bank, corporate finance brokerage Embark is warning businesses to remember that funding tailored to the needs of a business, and its owners, is at the heart of a workable finance solution. Midlands-based Embark Finance, which specialises in sourcing alternative finance through r…

The frauds identified by the cross sector Members of CIFAS – the UK's Fraud Prevention Service – during the first four months of 2013 reveal a marked return to the idea that some products are inherently more attractive to fraudsters. In spite of an overall decrease in total fraud levels (-16.5%) during the first four months of 2013 – when compared with the same period of 2012 – several changes h…

Claus Gramlich-Eicher of Allianz Investment Management SE has been named CFO and Dominique Charpentier CIOO of Atradius N.V. David Capdevila has left the Atradius Management Board to take a Management Board position with Grupo Catalana Occidente (GCO), the parent company of Atradius. Atradius provides its B2B customers with various products and services that support their credit and cash management activities including credit …

Experian®, the global information services company, has today announced the launch of Business Express, a new online credit risk and marketing portal putting a wealth of vital business information at the fingertips of UK SMEs helping them to guard against financial risk and grow their business through effective marketing. With late payment figures for Q1 of this year showing all but the smallest UK businesses (thos…

People running out of cash before pay day could be stacking up high interest by misjudging the way they use their credit cards and overdrafts as a backup, according to research from MoneySupermarket.com. The UK's number one comparison site asked consumers where they turn when they run out of money, and found nearly half (41 per cent) have used an authorised overdraft or extended their existing overdraft to make ends mee…