# Business Express Network Limited

## Details

- **Company number:** [00358625](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00358625)
- **Status:** Liquidation
- **Type:** Private Limited Company
- **Incorporated:** 11 Jan 1940
- **Registered office:** PEARL ASSURANCE HOUSE 319 BALLARDS LANE, FINCHLEY, LONDON, N12 8LY
- **Nature of business:** [74990](/sic/74990) Non-trading company
- **Corporate group:** [Bird Bidco Limited](/group/92) (26 companies)


## Previous names

- Home Shopping Network (UK) Limited (until 18 Nov 2002)
- Liverpool Contractors Limited (until 9 Dec 1991)



## Officers

| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUNTLEY, William | director | - | 15 May 1995 |
| HOGARTH, Mark Julian Burnett | secretary | - | 5 Apr 1996 |
| REW, Paul William | secretary | 5 Apr 1996 | 1 May 1996 |
| HURST, Terence James | director | - | 15 Jan 1998 |
| MAYOH, Bryan, Doctor | director | 15 May 1995 | 23 Jun 1998 |
| MARTIN, Jeffrey Stephen | director | 22 Dec 1993 | 29 Apr 1999 |
| MCGEORGE, Alistair Kenneth | director | 15 Jan 1998 | 8 Dec 1999 |
| KELLY, William | director | - | 28 Jan 2000 |
| WYNNE, Michael Patrick | director | 28 Jan 2000 | 19 Oct 2000 |
| WHITE, Alan | director | 8 Dec 1999 | 10 Jul 2002 |
| IMRIE, Euan | director | 22 Oct 2002 | 25 Nov 2002 |
| MCGEORGE, Alistair Kenneth | director | 1 May 2002 | 25 Nov 2002 |
| OGILVIE, John Neil | director | 19 Oct 2000 | 25 Nov 2002 |
| MAKIN, Steve Richard | director | 15 Sep 2008 | 20 Jan 2012 |
| SHOP DIRECT COMPANY DIRECTOR LIMITED | corporate-director | 25 Nov 2002 | 29 Feb 2016 |
| SHOP DIRECT SECRETARIAL SERVICES LTD | corporate-secretary | 1 May 1996 | 29 Feb 2016 |
| PATERAS, Gregory Vincent | director | 29 Feb 2016 | 23 Mar 2017 |
| KERSHAW, David Wallace | director | 20 Jan 2012 |  |



## Control

| Name | Nature of control | Notified | Ceased |
|---|---|---|---|
| Littlewoods Limited | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors | 6 Apr 2016 |  |




## Owned by

Business Express Network Limited → [Littlewoods Limited](/company/00262152) → [The Very Group Limited](/company/04730752) → [VGL Finco Limited](/company/13500305) → [VGL Midco Limited](/company/13500306) → [Bird Bidco Limited](/company/15538470)




## Directors' other companies

- [KERSHAW, David Wallace](/person/5740347) - director at [Littlewoods Retail Limited](/company/00421258)
- [KERSHAW, David Wallace](/person/5740347) - director at [Littlewoods Direct Recoveries Limited](/company/03983164)
- [KERSHAW, David Wallace](/person/5740347) - director at [Littlewoods Clearance Limited](/company/00232346)



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