La Couronne du Compte declares Bankruptcy

[junglejim]

La Couronne du Compte has not been answering emails or phone calls for the past few weeks and an FPN user called a nearby business who said the store has been closed. Notice of Bankruptcy has now been posted.

Link: https://www.faillissementen.com/fail...ne-du-comte-bv

Google translate: On 21-09-2022, the court of Breda declared the company La Couronne Du Comte B.V., registered with the Chamber of Commerce under number 63724073, in a state of bankruptcy, appointing mr. H.L.J.M. van Grinsven as curator. The insolvency number is F.02/22/137. The legal form is a private limited company with an ordinary structure and the main activity of this company was 46499, GH ov. consumer art. (non-food) n.e.c..

If you have any outstanding paid orders with Couronne du Compte you may want to contact Paypal or your Credit Card Representative.

All the Best.

[Pterodactylus]

La Couronne du Compte has not been answering emails or phone calls for the past few weeks and an FPN user called a nearby business who said the store has been closed. Notice of Bankruptcy has now been posted.

Link: https://www.faillissementen.com/fail...ne-du-comte-bv

Google translate: On 21-09-2022, the court of Breda declared the company La Couronne Du Comte B.V., registered with the Chamber of Commerce under number 63724073, in a state of bankruptcy, appointing mr. H.L.J.M. van Grinsven as curator. The insolvency number is F.02/22/137. The legal form is a private limited company with an ordinary structure and the main activity of this company was 46499, GH ov. consumer art. (non-food) n.e.c..

If you have any outstanding paid orders with Couronne du Compte you may want to contact Paypal or your Credit Card Representative.

All the Best.

Thanks for the info their web page is still online.
Lucky me, I received a package with inks from them a few months ago, I waited I think 3-4 months from ordering until I received it.

Shops with a good selection of inks, reasonable prices within Europe getting less and less.
So this are bad news.

In former times I ordered things also from the writing desk in England but as the Brits decided to leave EU it make no sense anymore to order something from there, too much trouble and too expensive.

Ordering something from outside EU got less and less attractive (import taxes, customs, package handling fees,…)

[Yazeh]

So sad to hear that. And they just had a new series of inks out....

[Ron Z]

I think that these spammers are just botts.

[junglejim]

FPN member Geert Jan just posted this update over at FPN:


" A quick follow-up, based on a fresh report from the administrators

No restart of the business (talks fell through), and all stock has been sold
Apparently there are still items that were brought in for repair waiting for collection. The administrators claim they tried to contact the owners to no avail. If you had something in for repair and not yet received it back, it's worth a try.

I'm still sorry to see them gone, despite the shortcomings of their business "

[Doggy Daddy]

Thanks for the update. I've been wondering what their current status was. Sorry to see them go.

[Cyril]

It is a sad news and I was planning to get some ink that if not available in UK.
What a sad thing that so many are going miss their services.

[Froscortan]

Hey there, thanks for sharing this update. It's always sad to hear about a business closing down. I was curious about the term pre-pack administration that I came across while reading up on business insolvency. It seems to be a method where a company can sell its assets to a new owner as a part of a restructuring process, with the intention of continuing to operate under a new name. I found this article on Antony Batty & Company's website that explains it further. Have any of you had any experience with pre pack administration or knew of any businesses that have successfully used this method to restructure?