Manufacturers buck insolvency fears trend

Posted on 14 Apr 2011 by The Manufacturer

The number of manufacturing companies deemed to be in financial distress dropped in the first quarter of 2011 – significantly in some areas – although the number across all business sectors went up.

Insolvency experts Begbies Traynor’s Red Flag Alert rates a company has having ‘significant’ financial problems if they are facing court action or ‘average, poor, very poor, insolvent or out of date’ accounts. Companies with County Court Judgements totalling £5,000 or more or those who have been issued with winding up orders are rated as ‘critical’.…

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