Cheshire M&E specialist Gilks files administration notice

Established over 60 years in the past, the agency employs round 60 employees and final yr delivered income of round £11m, down from £15m within the prior yr.

Workers have been first informed the enterprise was heading for administration on Monday however by Wednesday the stated they have been knowledgeable that the corporate could be liquidated and they might not have jobs.

One insider stated: “The primary we knew was on Monday once we had a groups name with the MD who knowledgeable us the corporate was making use of to go in to administration and to hold on working as regular as nothing has modified.

“Then at the moment (Wednesday) all of us had one other Groups name to tell us the corporate was being liquidated and we not had a job and wouldn’t be getting paid this was very upsetting.”

He stated at the moment he had been on account of be paid seven weeks wages,  5 weeks for final month and two weeks for this month.

Gilks is owned by the Ethikos Group, a Deeside-based acquirer of engineering companies, which purchased {the electrical} and mechanical engineering contractor in 2020.

Gilks was unavailable for remark.