Express Beds Ltd director files Section 216 notice to carry on BedWorld business
Express Beds Ltd, trading as BedWorld, entered insolvent liquidation on 14 May 2026. Its director has now filed a Section 216 notice to continue trading. Full notice and Companies House record.
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Express Beds Ltd, the Huddersfield-based online bed retailer that traded as BedWorld, entered insolvent liquidation on 14 May 2026. Its sole active director has since filed a formal notice of his intention to continue running substantially the same business under a near-identical name.
The notice, published in the London Gazette on 22 May 2026, was given under rule 22.4 of the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016. It was filed by Mohammed Yusuf Zaman, who gives his address as Express House, Station Road, Bradley, Huddersfield, HD2 1UT, the same registered office and principal trading address used by Express Beds Ltd.
What the Section 216 notice means
Section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 prohibits a director of a company that has gone into insolvent liquidation from acting as a director of, or being involved in the management of, another company that uses the same or a similar name for five years after the liquidation, unless a court grants permission or a statutory exception applies. Breaching the rule is a criminal offence and can make the director personally liable for the debts of the new company.
Filing a notice under rule 22.4 is one of those statutory exceptions. It allows the director to continue involvement in the business without committing an offence, provided the notice is given to creditors of the insolvent company.
Zaman states in the notice that he intends to act in connection with carrying on the whole or substantially the whole of the business of Express Beds Ltd under the name Bed World UK Ltd, trading as BedWorld.
The company and its director
Express Beds Ltd was incorporated on 5 April 2013, originally under the name Beds for the Web Ltd, before changing its name on 8 April 2013. Zaman has been the active director since 31 January 2019. Companies House records show the company filed its last accounts to 31 March 2025 as total-exemption-full accounts, with next accounts due by 31 December 2026.
No secured charges are registered against Express Beds Ltd and no administrators have been appointed. The liquidation is an insolvent one, meaning the company's assets are insufficient to meet its liabilities in full. Creditors of Express Beds Ltd are the primary audience for the rule 22.4 notice.
The notice reference is Ag QK22157.
Common questions
Are you a director of the successor company?
A prohibited-name Gazette notice typically documents one of the three statutory exceptions to Section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (the rule against re-use of a similar name by a former director of a liquidated company). The exception is only valid if the notice meets the timing and content requirements in the relevant Rule. Read more on prohibited names.
Do you trade with the successor company?
A valid notice does not by itself revive the liabilities of the liquidated company. The successor company is a separate legal entity and the directors are personally exposed only if Section 216 is breached.
Sources
- The London Gazette notice (code Moratoria, Prohibited Names and Other: Re-use of a Prohibited Name)
- Companies House record 08476407
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