
Advisory firm delivers financial due diligence support on the acquisition trail towards 2030 target for Welsh water brand

St Andrews-based Eden Mill Distillery has been acquired from administration saving the jobs of all 42 staff after its owner, St Andrews Brewers Limited, was placed into the hands of administrators.

Manchester-based specialist insurance broker Principal Insurance Limited has acquired the business of Peart Performance Marque Limited, which ceased trading having entered administration on 30 October 2025.

Begbies Traynor has added 34 years of Scottish insolvency experience to its team in Glasgow with the appointment of George Lafferty as director.

National health and social care provider Agincare Holdings Ltd has acquired the majority of business operated by Ambient Support Ltd and its subsidiaries. The deal sees the continued operation of 80 homes and services across the UK, preserving more than 800 jobs and protecting around 700 peoples’ care and support provision.

Birmingham-based Salts Healthcare has acquired the ostomy peer-to-peer support mobile app, ‘Ostique Connect’. Preserving its vital supply to the ostomy community after the Company, Ostique Ltd, went into liquidation.

Begbies Traynor has overseen a £3.05m deal to rescue The George Hotel, a historic 24-room boutique Scottish hotel in Inveraray on the western shore of Loch Fyne, preserving 43 full and part-time jobs in the process.

Major national gardening brand Sarah Raven Kitchen & Garden Ltd (“the Company”) has been rescued with a Management Buy-out via a Prepack Administration, saving jobs at the company and enabling the business to grow again in the future.

Abercrave, near Swansea-located Ty Mawr Nursing Home (“the Care Home”) has been bought out of administration saving 43 jobs and ensuring more than 30 residents can stay in their homes.

Begbies Traynor Group has advised the management of ROXi, the interactive music video streaming service, on a management buy-out enabling the newly formed company FastStream Interactive Limited (“FSI”) to launch its Interactive TV Channels in the US.

Torquay United AFC [The Torquay United Association Football Club Limited] has fulfilled the terms of its Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), with all tax debts, football and trade creditors now paid in full giving the club significantly more financial freedom.

All jobs have been saved at Evesham bespoke furniture manufacturer, Joinery Classics, after the business was bought out of administration by Bespoke Joinery Limited.

A Wrexham-based IT services company has been sold out of administration, safeguarding 14 jobs. Advatek (UK) Limited’s business operations have been acquired by CAE Technology Services Limited in a pre-packaged sale overseen by administrators Craig Povey and Gareth Prince of Begbies Traynor.

On 9 October Andrew Mackenzie and Laura Baxter of Begbies Traynor were appointed joint administrators of Builders’ Merchant Company, a builders merchant retailer business with outlets in Rotherham, Hull, Goole and Scunthorpe.

On 9th October 2024, Kevin Mapstone and Yiannis Koumettou of Begbies Traynor were appointed as joint liquidators of Corby-based wholesale furniture company, Kettle Home Ltd.

Sixty-eight jobs in Lincolnshire have been saved following the pre-pack sale of the Burdens Group in a deal negotiated by joint administrators Gareth Rusling and Robert Dymond of Begbies Traynor in Sheffield which completed on 19th August 2024.
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