A South Yorkshire catering and mobile food delivery business has ceased trading after being declared insolvent. Acorn Fine Foods, trading as Peckish, who ran routes around the Doncaster area, has taken its vans off the road alongside ceasing food production at its catering facility in Carcroft. It employed ten people. The proposed Liquidator,…
Image copyright PA Image caption Stephen Coxen had denied the rape charges against him and the case was found not proven in a criminal court A man successfully sued for rape in a civil court in Scotland has declared himself bankrupt – meaning he cannot pay damages to his victim. Last October a sheriff ruled…
(Adds reaction, graphics) By Andy Bruce LONDON, April 30 (Reuters) – The number of companies falling into financial distress in England and Wales rose in early 2019, adding to signs that businesses struggled in the run-up to the original March Brexit deadline, official data showed on Tuesday. There were 4,187 company insolvencies in the first…
Distress signal: construction, admin and retail are all seeing greatest number of insolvencies Small business insolvency rose by 6.3pc in the first three months of 2019 compared with the previous quarter. There were 4,187 company insolvencies between January and March this year, according to The Insolvency Service. Construction, administration and retail sectors all struggling with…
The former One Nation senator Rodney Culleton and Huw Kingston, the independent challenging energy minister Angus Taylor in the New South Wales seat of Hume, have blasted the Australian Electoral Commission for failing to investigate the potential ineligibility of Clive Palmers United Australia party candidates. Kingston, whose UAP opponent in the seat south of Sydney…
Perth mining boss Michael Fotios has been declared bankrupt after a long-running battle with the Australian Taxation Office. The Federal Court ordered yesterday his estate be sequestrated under the Bankruptcy Act, after an application by the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation. Mr Fotios declined to comment. The bankruptcy will automatically disqualify him from being a director,…
According to The Insolvency Service, the fall was largely driven by a decrease in the number of individual voluntary arrangements (IVAs), though both debt relief orders (DROs) and bankruptcies fell slightly from Q4 2018. In all, there were 115,319 personal insolvencies in 2018. The quarter-on-quarter decrease in total individual insolvencies in the first quarter of…
LONDON (Reuters) – The number of companies falling into financial distress in England and Wales rose in early 2019, adding to signs that businesses struggled in the run-up to the original March Brexit deadline, official data showed on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past closing down posters in the window of a branch of…
FILE PHOTO: A man speaks on his mobile phone as he walks past a closed shop painted with an advertisement of Reliance Communications in Mumbai, India, February 4, 2019. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas MUMBAI (Reuters) – An Indian appellate tribunal has lifted a stay on insolvency proceedings against business tycoon Anil Ambanis debt-laden Reliance Communications, the Economic…
LONDON, April 30 (Reuters) – The number of English and Welsh companies falling into financial distress rose sharply in early 2019, according to official data published by the government on Tuesday. There were 4,187 underlying company insolvencies in the first quarter, up from 3,938 in the fourth quarter, the Insolvency Service said, citing seasonally-adjusted data…