{"id":462079,"date":"2026-03-07T06:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462079\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T06:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:15:08","slug":"frozen-food-business-founded-in-1994-collapses-into-administration-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462079\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen food business founded in 1994 collapses into administration | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 40 jobs have been lost after a UK food<\/a> company entered administration. King Foods, which was founded in 1994, had experienced \u201cadverse trading for a number of years\u201d, according to administrators appointed on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Foodstore Ltd traded as King Foods, supplying frozen foods, fresh fish products, dry goods, and fresh and frozen meat to hotel and retail catering businesses. The Aberdeen<\/a>-based company\u2019s customers were mainly across the north-east of Scotland<\/a>, Stirling<\/a> and Edinburgh<\/a>. Administrators Interpath said that with no prospect of trade resuming, the company\u2019s 41 members of staff had been made redundant.<\/p>\n

It said the company’s directors decided to cease trading in mid-February after losses and cash flow pressure.<\/p>\n

After this, steps were taken to file for the appointment of administrators, Interpath added in a statement.<\/p>\n

Geoff Jacobs, managing director at Interpath and joint administrators, said: \u201cSignificant headwinds continue to impact companies operating up and down the food and drink supply chain, including rising costs which place pressure on margins.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is resulting in many business owners seeking support and assessing options which we would encourage them to do proactively.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will now commence the process of marketing the Company\u2019s business and assets, including its fitted cold storage facility in Aberdeen, its vehicle fleet and other properties.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alistair McAlinden, head of Interpath in Scotland and joint administrator, added: \u201cAs a priority, we will be extending support to King Foods\u2019 employees who have sadly been impacted by redundancy.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to its website, King Foods was a family-run business.<\/p>\n

It said on its website: \u201cKing Foods was founded in February 1994. The aim of the company was simple, to provide a quality frozen product at a fair price in an express manner.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur service, quality and competitive pricing is something we pride ourselves on and as the company has grown over the years something our customers have come to expect.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a family run business, we have continued to evolve to meet our customer\u2019s needs. We now have a dry goods warehouse, fish house and most recently a butchery division.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 40 jobs have been lost after a UK food company entered administration. King Foods, which was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16294,84,107192,2169,43746,59,200,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-462079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-aberdeen","tag-business","tag-city-business-section","tag-edinburgh","tag-food-section","tag-gb","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}