JANE, SAUNDERS & MANNING LIMITED
Jane, Saunders & Manning Limited, a Thornton Heath textiles company incorporated on 20 Dec 1973, entered creditors’ voluntary liquidation under the Insolvency Act 1986, s.100 and s.109. The Gazette records the process as a members’ and creditors’ appointment, with Notice 5143090 marking the insolvency status.
What the data was telling us
Readings from The Gazette and Companies House, in the firm's final two years.
Lessons behind the liquidation
Incorporated on 20 Dec 1973, the company had been on the register for decades before entering creditors’ voluntary liquidation on 2026-05-28. Age alone does not protect a business from insolvency, and long trading histories can still end in a formal winding-up process.
The record shows an average director tenure of 2.1 years, with 6 appointments since 2022 and 1 resignation in the final 12 months. That level of churn does not tell the whole story on its own, but it is the kind of governance pattern that often merits close attention when a company later enters liquidation.
The company’s last accounts were filed to 31 Oct 2025 and the confirmation statement was filed, which shows the public record remained current close to the insolvency date. It also had 4 registered charges with Barclays Bank PLC, all shown as fully satisfied, which provides context for how the balance sheet and financing history were documented over time.
This looks like a classic late-life insolvency pattern, where a long-established company with continuing filings and a settled charge history still moved into creditors’ voluntary liquidation after signs of management churn.
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 JANE, SAUNDERS & MANNING LIMITED.