G.M. Jones and Sons, one of a handful of companies that sells Pukka Pies products in fresh, frozen and unbaked form, has been in operation since 1989 across parts of the UK
UK food distributor G.M. Jones and Sons has collapsed into liquidation following nearly four decades of trading. The Pukka Pies supplier has been operating since 1989, and on Thursday, April 23, an official government gazette announced that Timothy Frank Corfield of Griffin and King had been appointed as its liquidator.
Liquidation represents the formal procedure through which a company ceases operations. This typically involves disposing of the firm’s assets to raise funds for settling debts owed to creditors and shareholders.
“We are one of a handful of companies that sell Pukka Pies products, in fresh, frozen and unbaked form,” the firm states on its website. Its deliveries focus primarily on the Fast Food sector across the West Midlands, Staffordshire and Shropshire regions, reports the Mirror.
G.M. Jones and Sons had reported increasing turnover annually, according to its website, but becomes the most recent addition to a growing list of UK firms collapsing into liquidation.
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