Baby Room puts all its stock up for auction
AN online retailer of baby and nursery equipment has put all its stock up for auction.
Huddersfield-based The Baby Room, which described itself as a seller of luxury children’s brands, is off-loading hundreds of prams, car seats and accessories to the highest bidder.
The auction, which even includes warehouse racking, is being hosted by West Yorkshire’s Walker Singleton.
The listing says the auction has been instructed by the directors of Sekhri Enterprises Ltd, trading as The Baby Room, “pending appointment of liquidators.”
A total of 454 lots are available for viewing at a location in Huddersfield, between 10am and 2pm on Wednesday, March 18.
Bids close at noon the following day.
The auction details say: “Lots are sold ‘as is; where lying.’” Winning buyers will have to collect them in person from the Huddersfield premises.
Companies House information shows Sekhri Enterprises was run by 44-year-old Bindey Mirza of Rose Hill Drive, Birkby, who previously ran Bambino Direct, which also went into liquidation back in 2011.
The Baby Room was based at Nile
Street in Folly Hall and employed 25 people, its Companies House report reveals.
Its last accounts for 2019 show it declined to file a report of its profit and losses.
But the accounts do show it had more than £1m in assets, of which £799,818 was stock, up from just £29,650 in stock the year before.
The Baby Room’s troubles come just a few months after Huddersfield’s
Mamas and Papas revealed its financial woes.
The Colne Bridge-based firm was saved from total closure by a prepack administration deal, which slashed some of its financial liabilities, but more than 70 staff lost their jobs and six stores closed.
That followed on the back from the failure of Mothercare, which last year announced it was closing all its UK stores.