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SPORTS CAFE: Administrators Selling Business as Going Concern
Bruce Mackay and Alan Lovett of Baker Tilly, the joint administrators of Sports Care Holdings plc, have put the business up for sale as a going concern, published reports say.
According to Accountancy Age, the administrators are currently working with Edward Symmons Hospitality & Leisure to sell the company, whose shares on AIM were earlier suspended.
On Jan. 11, 2008, the company said in a press release that it called in administrators after its bankers confirmed they could not provide further facilities after it experienced poor trading conditions during the 2007 Christmas period and uncertainty over future 2008 trading in the light of general consumer market forecasts.
Craig Manchester Business discloses the administrators resolved to shut down the company's Manchester and Liverpool branches immediately, leaving 30 people jobless. Meanwhile, its other six venues in Birmingham, Bristol Glasgow, Leeds, Newcastle and London continue to trade.
However, Mr. Mackay, one the administrators, is optimistic that they can generate significant interest in the business as "Sports Cafe is something of an institution," Birmingham Mail relates.
Colin White, Edward Symmons Hospitality & Leisure partner, on the other hand, told Accountancy Age he expects "strong interest from a range of companies including nightclub, pub and restaurant operators."
Sports Cafe had a turnover of GBP18.2 million in 2006 while its losses stood at GBP533,000, Birmingham Mail reveals.
Headquartered in London, England, Sports Cafe Holdings plc -- http://www.sportscafeholdings.com/ -- is a sports entertainment bar and sports hospitality group. As at June 2006, it operated 8 U.K. sites under the Sports Cafe brand with a further site in Cardiff under development.
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