Manufacturer falls into administration with loss of 46 jobs

Administrators have been forced to make 46 staff redundant at a Staffordshire manufacturer.

Listers Trade Frames marked its 40th anniversary last year and was upbeat about the prospects for the window maker and its 120 staff.

Turnover had grown to around £11m, while its most recently-published accounts, for 2015, showed pre-tax profits of £260,000.

However Andy McGill of Smith and Williamson and Ian Gould of Baldwins Restructuring & Insolvency have now been appointed joint administrators of the Stoke-on-Trent company.

McGill said: “Listers Trade Frames has an excellent reputation in the market place and we are already engaged with a number of parties who have expressed interest in the business.

“We are optimistic that we will be able to find a solution and sell the business as a going concern.”