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Father and son cleaning firm bosses disqualified for 18 years
An East Yorkshire father and son team have been disqualified as directors after their company went into administration owing creditors over £300,000. Colin Atkinson (58) and his son, Jack
Samuel Atkinson (29), both of North Ferriby, East Yorkshire acquired the business and assets of Premier Contract Cleaning Limited from its retiring directors in November 2015. They operated the business from trading
premises in Sheffield and offices in Hessle, East Yorkshire, providing cleaning services. Jack Atkinson was the registered director. Just a year later, however, after the
company changed its name to Premi-Clean Limited, it experienced financial difficulties and administrators were appointed in December 2016. While winding up the affairs of the company, the administrators reported several matters to the Insolvency Service for further investigation.
Investigators found between December
2015 and June 2016, when the company was failing to meet its liabilities when they were due, Premi-Clean had made payments worth £75,000 to another company of which Jack Atkinson was sole director. But the Atkinsons failed to provide
accounting records to the administrators, which meant the payments were deemed to be detrimental to the company’s creditors and the nature and purpose of the payments could not be verified. The company had also used a factoring
company since 2009 to obtain finance. Instead of passing on to factoring-company payments from their customers, however, father and son caused Premi-Clean to keep some monies in the company bank accounts. At the point of administration the factoring company was owed more than £110,000. Jack Atkinson’s father, Colin Atkinson, had also acted as a director of the film despite not
Lantern achieves gold customer award
Lantern Debt Recovery Services has achieved a ‘gold’ award from Investor in Customers (IIC). This is Lantern’s third IIC assessment – with scores increasing from Silver in 2017 and 2018 to Gold in 2019. Danny Pickering, managing director
from Smile Customer Experience, which facilitated the assessment, said: “To achieve an IIC Gold award is special and is just reward for a business that is committed to year on year improvement of the experience it gives to its customers. What is so pleasing is the number of customers that waived their anonymity and scored the business so highly. The directors and staff have all contributed to this result. Denise Crossley, CEO of Lantern, added:
“This remarkable achievement comes off the back of years’ of hard work by everyone
January 2020
being formally appointed. He was already subject to an eight-year disqualification in respect of his conduct as a director of three earlier failed companies and acted in breach of his ban. Jack, as the formally-appointed director, allowed this to happen. On 16 October 2019 the secretary of state
accepted disqualification undertakings from Colin Atkinson and Jack Atkinson for periods of 11 years and seven years respectively. Effective from 6 November 2019, the pair are prohibited from being involved, directly or indirectly, in the formation, promotion or management of a company, without the approval of the court. Rob Clarke, chief investigator for the
Insolvency Service, said: “The Atkinsons wilfully and with full knowledge abused the professional trust of a factoring company, causing Premi-Clean to withhold more than £100,000 from them. “To make matters worse, when Premi-
Clean was failing to pay its creditors, it transferred £75,000 to another of Jack Atkinson’s companies and by acting as a director of Premi-Clean, Colin Atkinson flagrantly abused the terms of his previous ban. These lengthy bans reflect the seriousness of the Atkinsons’ actions.” Meanwhile, a director of a Cambridge
here at Lantern, pushing ourselves to set the highest possible standards when it comes to caring for our customers. “In achieving the Gold standard for the
first time, we increased our net promoter score (NPS) by an incredible 35% compared to the previous Silver assessment: a testament to the favourable perception Lantern enjoys with our customers.”
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telecoms company has been banned for six years after his company permitted its lines to be used to make millions of nuisance marketing calls. Gregory Francis Rudd (53) was the sole director of Keurboom Communications Limited. The company was incorporated in May 2014 and supplied wholesale, self-managed telecom solutions to the call centre market.
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