💬“I’ve been using Mortons Rolls for a number of years and paid £120 on Friday for produce, only to discover later that day they had stopped trading.' 🔗Full story:
Reece Carlyle says he was forced to close his Govan and Clydebank businesses for two days after being left without deliveries.In a letter to staff on Friday, the firm told employees that they would be"laid off with immediate effect".
“I’ve been using Mortons Rolls for a number of years and paid £120 on Friday for produce, only to discover later that day they had stopped trading. Companies House states on its website that there is an"active proposal to strike off" the firm, whose accounts for the year to March 31, 2022 were required to be filed by December 31 and are now overdue.
Mortons Rolls factory currently appears to have been mothballed, with a number of delivery vans sitting behind locked gates.He added: “As a small business owner, I just can’t carry a financial loss like this. Things are hard enough with the cost-of-living crisis, and the last thing I wanted to do was make the difficult decision to close down for two days with no takings.
Reece says that he has lost all confidence in Mortons Rolls but has now managed to find a new supplier. “Thankfully, I’ve been able to find a new supplier and reopen, but I know some other businesses are struggling to do the same.Mortons Rolls was originally founded by Bob Morton and Jim Clarke in 1965 at their Drumchapel bakery in the west of Glasgow.
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