Historic Leather Company Thrives


After 2018 Customer Buyout


months on from being bought out by its biggest customer, Abbey England Ltd along with partners, Crawford and Kilger, thereby saving a core business within the equestrian industry supply.


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The company, which entered administration on 25th October 2018, was being wound up and staff were facing redundancy until the buyout along with a successful grant application and support from Walsall Council which allowed purchase of the building and business equipment enabled the


company to continue trading and keep on 19 employees.


Abbey England’s ties with J & E Sedgwick go back a long way and, with substantial assets in business in Walsall as well as their Cheshire base, it was important to find a way to keep the leather company in business and trading successfully.


Following the takeover by the new owners, the focus of J & E Sedgwick was on returning the plant to full production along with catching up on back orders and reassuring customers that the business was there to stay and that the supply of Sedgwicks leather would continue.


From January 2019 to March 2019 the business was able to re-employ four staff members that had been made redundant under the control of the administrators. Also in January, Sedgwicks was represented on


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& E Sedgwick Ltd, the historic leather company in Walsall, is thriving 16


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