Property media company goes into administration

A BRISTOL publisher of business-tobusiness property and education magazines has fallen into administration.

Wildfire Media has appointed business recovery firm Leonard Curtis as administrators, according to public records site The Gazette.

Wildfire was based at the Paintworks trading estate on Bath Road and specialised in producing digital content and print publications, including University Business, Education Technology and Independent Education Today.

The company was also behind Bristol Property Live – a weekly paper and website delivering the latest news from Bristol’s property scene.

Andrew Beckingham and Siann Huntley of Leonard Curtis’s Bristol Queen’s Square office are overseeing the administration. The directors of Wildfire Media are named as John Kingston and Robert Tomblin on Companies House.

It is not yet clear why the business collapsed or how many jobs are at risk. There are 26 people listed on Linkedin as connected to the company.

The administrators and Wildfire Media have not responded to a request for comment.

Insolvency-related activity among South West firms has shot up in the last quarter, as the difficult economic climate continues to put pressure on businesses in the region, recent research has found.

The South West saw the biggest increase in liquidator and administrator appointments and creditors’ meetings across the whole of the country during the last financial quarter, according to restructuring trade body R3.