Receivership & administration

A probe by HSBC Invoice Finance precipitated events at BCQ Group that resulted in its pre-pack sale to Pollards in a £3m deal.

The director of a signage business has been banned for misuse of taxpayer-backed Covid loan support.

Health and beauty group THG paid £1.5m for City A.M. in last month’s pre-pack sale, and also had to pick up its July wages bill as the newspaper came close to running out of cash.

Image 2 Output has been ordered to wind up its affairs, and will shortly undergo liquidation.

A raft of “barely used” kit belonging to a bankrupt Dutch printer is currently up for auction.

A Middlesex-based printer whose business was severely hit by the pandemic has ceased trading.

A public notice on The Gazette has confirmed that Fisherprint is in liquidation, weeks after local news reports said the business had ceased trading.

BCQ Group has been acquired by one of the oldest printing companies in the UK.

PFI Group subsidiary Mardan Products has ceased trading as the acquisitive group restructures into three divisions.

A printer that is reported to be the third oldest in the country is seeking a buyer for its assets after entering administration.