More firms call in administrators

摘要

The latest casualties of the economic downturn are the Longmead Group, which supplied ceramic bathroom fittings to the DIY sector, Spread Garden Supplies, the gardening and leisure products wholesaler, and Austin White, a supplier of DIY and housewares products. Longmead Group appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers as administrators only days after warning shareholders that it was suffering from "severe working-capital constraints".