APPLIANCE DIRECT (MORECAMBE) LIMITED
APPLIANCE DIRECT (MORECAMBE) LIMITED, a retail company incorporated on 26 Sep 2002, entered creditors' voluntary liquidation under the Insolvency Act 1986, s.100 and s.109. The Gazette notice, Notice 5142218, records that the process was placed before members and creditors, with Opus Restructuring appointed as liquidator on 22 May 2026.
What the data was telling us
Readings from The Gazette and Companies House, in the firm's final two years.
Lessons behind the liquidation
The company was incorporated on 26 Sep 2002, which gives the record a long trading horizon before the insolvency event on 2026-05-28. For case studies like this, the key point is that maturity can coexist with formal insolvency, and the public record often captures the legal end point rather than the commercial story behind it.
The record shows 11 registered charges, held by National Westminster Bank PLC, with the charges marked fully-satisfied and a registered charge dated 29 Mar 2019. That tells readers the company had a secured lending history, and that some funding arrangements were already closed off before liquidation was entered.
The filing trail shows Full accounts, a confirmation statement filed, and director stability with an average tenure of 13.0 yrs, 5 appointments since 2002, and no resignations in the final 12 mths. In this kind of case, the pattern is one of a company with an established administrative footprint that still came to a creditor-led winding up once the formal insolvency process took over.
This resembles a conventional long-established retail insolvency pattern, where a mature company with settled filings and financing history ultimately moves into creditors' voluntary liquidation rather than an abrupt administrative collapse.
Every charge, every filing, every appointment, in one dossier.
Director histories across related entities, the full debenture instrument, creditor estimates, and the practitioner's record on comparable cases for APPLIANCE DIRECT (MORECAMBE) LIMITED.