D'Agostino Italy Ltd enters CVL less than two years after incorporation
D'Agostino Italy Ltd, trading as D'Agostino Roma, entered creditors' voluntary liquidation on 5 June 2026, weeks after DHL International filed a winding-up petition. Full notice and Companies House record.
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Joint liquidators Nicholas Stratten and Michelle Breslin of Greenfield Recovery Limited were appointed on 5 June 2026 to D'Agostino Italy Ltd, a Hornchurch-based fashion retailer that had been trading for less than two years.
The company traded under the name D'Agostino Roma from its registered office at 304 Abbs Cross Lane, Hornchurch, RM12 4YD, and was incorporated on 3 October 2024. The appointment was made by the members and creditors through the creditors' voluntary liquidation route, an insolvent winding-up resolved by the company's own members without a court order.
Stratten holds IP number 22170 and Breslin holds IP number 9579. Both practise from Greenfield Recovery Limited's Birmingham office at Trinity House, 28-30 Blucher Street, B1 1QH. Creditors or other interested parties can contact the firm through Yasmin Khanum on 0121 201 1720 or at yasmin.khanum@greenfieldrecovery.co.uk.
Background
The liquidation follows a winding-up petition filed by DHL International (UK) Limited in April 2026. A winding-up petition is a court filing by a creditor asking the court to place a company into compulsory liquidation. In this case, the directors resolved to wind the company up voluntarily before any court order was made, choosing the CVL route instead.
The directors
Oliver Edward Shipp was appointed as a director at incorporation on 3 October 2024 and remains in post. Muffadal Abbas and Edward Douglas Jefferson were also directors -- Abbas from incorporation and Jefferson from 20 February 2025 -- but both resigned on 20 May 2026, a fortnight before the liquidation appointment.
The company
D'Agostino Italy Ltd was registered under SIC code 47710, covering retail sale of clothing. Its principal trading address matched its registered office in Hornchurch. No secured charges are registered against the company at Companies House, and the company carried no prior names.
Common questions
Are you owed money by D'Agostino Italy Limited?
In a creditors' voluntary liquidation you are an unsecured creditor unless you hold a registered charge or retention of title. The liquidators will write to known creditors with a proof-of-debt form. A statement of affairs prepared by the directors and the chair of the creditors' decision procedure should be available on request. Read more about proof of debt and where you sit in the creditor hierarchy.
Did you work at D'Agostino Italy Limited?
In a CVL, employees are typically dismissed at or shortly after the liquidator's appointment. Wages owed up to a statutory cap, holiday pay, notice pay and redundancy may be claimable from the Redundancy Payments Service. The liquidators will normally provide RP1 case-reference numbers to the affected staff. See gov.uk: your rights if your employer is insolvent.
Do you hold a deposit, gift card or undelivered order from D'Agostino Italy Limited?
Customers with paid-but-undelivered orders, gift cards or deposits rank as unsecured creditors in the liquidation. Where you paid by credit card and the amount was over £100, Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 may let you claim from the card issuer for breach of contract or misrepresentation by the supplier; the rules apply per item, not per transaction, and the card must be a regulated credit card. Debit-card payments may be recoverable via chargeback.
Are you a director of a company connected to D'Agostino Italy Limited?
Section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 applies the moment the company enters liquidation. If you intend to be involved in another company using the same or a similar name within five years, you must rely on one of the three statutory exceptions and file the relevant notice. Acting in breach is a criminal offence and exposes you to personal liability for the successor's debts.
Sources
- The London Gazette notice (code Appointment of Liquidators)
- Companies House record 15996021
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