Complaint Review: Ambeck Corporation Limited

The Company was incorporated on 26 July 2011.

The Company traded as a printing agency between November 2011 and June 2012. The Company outsourced the actual printing to a supplier in Lithuania.

The Company ceased to trade after the supplier began to fail to produce the print jobs either on time or at all.

On 28 November 2012 the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, in accordance with powers conferred on him by Sections 447(3) and 453 of the Companies Act 1985, authorised officers of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to investigate the affairs of the Company. From information and documents obtained under Part XIV Companies Act 1985, it appeared to the Secretary of State that it was expedient in the public interest that the Company be wound up on the following grounds: -

1. Lack of commercial probity:  The Company appeared to be one of a number of similar companies associated with Kevan Charles Eveleigh and Neill Stuart Malcolm John that have traded briefly and then been dissolved despite, in some cases, having been insolvent. One such Company, Masterclass Associates Limited, was dissolved on 26 June 2012.  However, owing to information obtained in this investigation, the Secretary of State applied to the Court to restore Masterclass Associates Limited to the register and wind it up together with Ambeck Corporation Limited.  An insolvency practitioner was approached with a view to dissolving Ambeck Corporation Limited.  The Company has unsecured liabilities of at least £92,748.

2. Failure to deliver up adequate accounting books and records / Failure to maintain and/or preserve adequate company records.

3. Breach of provisions of the Companies Act 2006 in that the Company has not had a registered director since 02 October 2012 and the Company has not filed an annual return that was due on 23 August 2012.

The Secretary of State presented his petitions to wind up both Ambeck Corporation Limited and Masterclass Associates Limited to the Court on 26 June 2013.  The Court wound up both companies on 20 September 2013 and appointed the Official Receiver as liquidator.

If you have a claim against the Company please call 0161 234 8483 or e-mail piu.north@insolvency.gsi.gov.uk