Charles Bread Limited compulsory liquidation

The most recent insolvency notice for Charles Bread Limited is a Meetings of creditors (Court), published 06 November 2026 in The London Gazette. The office holder is Stuart Brindley, appointed 23/09/2026. The case is before the High Court of Justice (case No 006176 of 2026). Its last accounts filed at Companies House, to 30 April 2024, showed total assets of £241k and net assets of -£254k. On those figures the company was already balance-sheet insolvent — its liabilities exceeded its assets — at that date, 28 months before its first insolvency notice. A winding-up petition asks the court to close a company and place it into compulsory liquidation, most often because a debt has gone unpaid. If the court makes a winding-up order, control passes to the Official Receiver or an appointed liquidator, the company's bank accounts are frozen and its assets are sold to repay creditors.

What happens next

A winding-up petition asks the court to place a company into compulsory liquidation. Until an order is made the petition can still be dismissed or withdrawn — if the debt is paid, if it is genuinely disputed on substantial grounds, or if the court is persuaded to adjourn while a rescue is put in place. If an order is made, the company stops trading, its bank accounts are frozen, and a liquidator realises the assets and pays creditors in the order fixed by law; creditors prove their debts to the liquidator or the Official Receiver rather than to the company.

Quote case number No 006176 of 2026 and the High Court of Justice in any correspondence about the case, together with company number 10132374.