Firkins Bakery in West Bromwich wound up after closure

A bakery that closed with the loss of 40 jobs has now been fully liquidated for £33,024.

Firkins announced the closure of the bakery in Black Lake, West Bromwich, last May, shedding 40 jobs but the firm's 33 shops survived.

The stores which span Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall, Oldbury and West Bromwich are still trading with a new supplier, Oliver Adams Bakery of Northampton, and have some 189 staff.

The bakery itself on Black Lake, which was built in 1954, had ran under a separate company name to the stores, called Newbridge Bakery (Production) Ltd, and it is that company that has now been liquidated. MB Insolvency, based in Birmingham, has filed its liquidator's final report with Companies House.

Its assets, including plant and machinery, have been sold for £33,024, and that money has been paid to liquidators. The bakery building was leased from a private company so its sale could not raise more funds.

Bosses at the time of its closure said they have been unable to sustain profit levels to maintain and develop the bakery in line with modern standards.

Firkins director Ian Bolderston declined to comment.