Accounts and confirmation statements are missing

Raft of McMurray firms flagged for overdue filings

McMurray: no response to request for comment since last summer

A dozen ‘active’ businesses where PFI Group CEO Darren McMurray is listed as a director are now flagged as having overdue filings at Companies House.

The accounts for Rymack Sign Solutions Ltd, which trades as PFI Group, should have been lodged by 30 December 2023, but have not been filed according to Companies House.

The most recent Rymack Sign Solutions accounts, for 2021, were also filed late. At the end of that financial year the business had sales of £31.9m and made a loss of £1.96m due to impairment charges of more than £4m.

Steve Bramhall, who had been chief operating officer at PFI Group, ceased to be a director of Rymack Sign Solutions in December. He had been a director of the company for more than seven years.

The annual accounts and confirmation statement have not been filed on time for Benningstone Ltd, PFI Print Ltd, PFI Group Ltd, PFI Signs & Graphics Ltd, PFI Retail Ltd, and The Glendower Group.

The accounts are overdue for In2 Signs Graphic & Display Ltd, MMTL Capital Ltd and Phoenix Fire Inhibitor Ltd; with the confirmation statements flagged as overdue for PFI Print 2 Ltd and PFI Signs 2 Ltd.  

The fallout from McMurray’s disastrous signage acquisition spree has left a raft of his other businesses in some form of insolvency, most recently Works Manchester which went bust in December.

Creditors are owed millions of pounds.

McMurray has not responded to Printweek’s requests for comment since last August.

Attempts to contact him this week also proved unsuccessful.

Rymack Sign Solutions is owned by Touchwood Holdings Ltd, which is controlled by McMurray and his wife Nicola.