{"id":913049,"date":"2026-04-23T10:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/913049\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:12:21","slug":"uk-supplier-of-pukka-pies-plunges-into-liquidation-after-almost-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/913049\/","title":{"rendered":"UK supplier of Pukka Pies plunges into liquidation after almost 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK food distributor G.M. Jones and Sons, which has operated since 1989, has entered into liquidation and Frank Corfield of Griffin & King had been appointed as its liquidator\"Pukka-Pies<\/p>\n

Pukka-Pies Takeaway sign outside chip shop, Wickham Market, Suffolk, England, UK (file image)(Image: Geography Photos\/UCG\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

UK food distributor G.M. Jones and Sons has entered into liquidation after almost four decades.<\/p>\n

The supplier of Pukka Pies has operated since 1989, and on Thursday, April 23, a government gazette was issued notifying the public that Timothy Frank Corfield of Griffin & King had been appointed as its liquidator<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Liquidation is the legal process<\/a> by which a business is shut down<\/a>. This often include selling the business’s assert as a means to generate cash which will be used to pay creditors and shareholders.<\/p>\n

“We are one of a handful of companies that sell Pukka Pies products, in fresh, frozen and unbaked form,” the company writes on its website.<\/p>\n

It delivers mainly to the Fast Food industry in the West Midlands, Staffordshire and Shropshire areas.<\/p>\n

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G.M. Jones and Sons has reported sales growth year on year, according to its website, but is the latest in a recent slew of UK companies to plunge into liquidation.<\/p>\n

The Mirror<\/a> reported just one day earlier that liquidators were appointed to a UK metal manufacturer that has operated for close to 70 years. Wragg Bros., a manufacturer of steel tubes, pipes, hollow profiles and related fittings, were appointed David Farmer and Lloyd Biscoe as liquidators. They were appointed on April 16.<\/p>\n

Delivery services firm Quiver Delivery LTD also had liquidators appointed following a torrent of furious reviews targeting its service. On Monday, 13 April, Quiver Delivery appointed Ian Michael Rose and Paul Mallatratt, both of Abbey Taylor Jones Limited, as liquidators, according to a government gazette.<\/p>\n

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Woman receives boxes parcel from courier in front house (file image)(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

A major UK gin distillery has also gone into liquidation after producing half-a-million bottles per year. Notice of the liquidation of Chase Distillery Limited was given in a government gazette on Friday, March 27. The company, a British spirits producer owned by the multinational beverage giant Diageo, has undergone a major restructuring. This restructuring has resulted in the closure of its original production site.<\/p>\n

Four travel companies have also collapsed in 2026, leaving scores of holidaymakers with cancelled bookings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK food distributor G.M. Jones and Sons, which has operated since 1989, has entered into liquidation and Frank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,160291,378,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-913049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-food-industry","10":"tag-in-the-news","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116453491954391257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}