Thanks ASI Industires for the info

I have lost the best part of £5,000 as I was renovating my property and decided to buy a number of fireplaces & kitchen products from the Gas Superstore they gave me a date for delivery then told me some of the items were out of stock made me wait a further 4 weeks then went bust! I like so many others am out of pocket bigtime I also made the purchase through their store on debit card have now lodged a claim but it doesn't look promising I don't have the funds to go out right now to buy it all over again unless I can get my money back . I thought they were a reputable company family based they said trading for 49 years just shows you can't trust them no matter what they say. Absolutely gutted! Thanks for the info stu007

Apparently Gas superstore went bust owing over a million pounds to its suppliers so sounds like a pretty big deal no doubt the New villa has marble floors throughout, gold handle doors , taps etc all paid for by its victims! Sorry customers & suppliers money!

I agree more has to be done to stop Directors like the Gas Superstore in Leicester getting away with taking consumers and their suppliers money all because they couldn't run their business properly in the first place as they were living beyond their means. But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know when you are pulling loads of money out of the company to build yourself a fancy Villa in Marbella that funds will eventually run out and the money used was customers & suppliers money shocking to think this can be allowed to happen in this day and age. I am quite sure once this company is fully investigated and it is found money was being taken from the company to pay for building a private villa in Marbella for the owner/director of the company which brought undue financial pressure on the company that he will be taken to task by the relevant organisations. And worst still if the company has run out of cash then its no surprise as company money was being used for personal gain.

Not legal to carry on taking customers money knowing they were due to go bust hence why they formed another company in advance weeks before! They appear to have broke the law by continuing to trade insolvently taking customers money knowing they wouldn't be able to supply the goods they definitely need to be taken to the cleaners on this one! Directors of companies have responsibilities and liabilities to meet especially when they go bust owing in this case millions to suppliers and customers the law needs to ensure that they can't be allowed to do this again. This company claimed to be turning over 12 million with the vast majority of sales through their website where customers paid in full upfront for goods so for them to have cash flow problems says they had serious financial problems as they were using customers & suppliers money to keep them afloat and must have been making no profit at all. Apparently the MD and only Director Paul Fenn was setting up another business also and holiday home in Marbella no wonder there was no money left in the company! Definitely needs to be stuck off with such devious underhanded activities it's one thing going bust but shocking to think this Director knew he was going bust and set up a new company in advance and carried on taking customers money for goods he knew he would never be able to supply! And to to think they said they were a family business the public could trust what a joke! The Leicester Mercury NewsPaper questioned the Director on setting up his new company before he went bust and his answer is a corker by saying setting the New company up was an "unrelated idea" yeah right we believe you thousands wouldn't NOT! More like in his mind the "Right Idea" as he knew he was going bust and taking loads of people money with him! Disgusting! The Leicester Mercury article says "Mr Fenn said a new business he incorporated on March 21 – a month before Gas Superstore stopped trading – called The Fire Place (Leicester) Ltd was an "unrelated idea" and was not trading. According to Companies House, its registered address is the Gas Superstore shop in Hinckley Road.

GAS SUPERSTORE LEICESTER GOES BUST TAKING EVERYONE'S MONEY THEN THE SAME (MD) DIRECTOR THEN SETS UP NEW COMPANY! It would appear the Director of Gas Superstore knew the company was about to go bust so he set up a New Limited company on the 21st March 2017 called The Fireplace (Leicester) Limited registered number 10682373 which can be found on Companies House website to the same address as the Gas Superstore which then went bust on the 25th April 2017. it would appear that the company was trading insolvently taking peoples hard earned money knowing they were about to go bust leaving everyone out of pocket while the Director sets up a New company behind the scenes to carry on trading washing his hands of any responsibility of the old company. Surely he can't be allowed to get away with this?

GAS SUPERSTORE GOES BUST TAKING EVERYONE'S MONEY THEN THE SAME DIRECTOR (MD) SETS UP NEW COMPANY! It would appear the Director of Gas Superstore knew the company was about to go bust so he set up a New Limited company on the 21st March 2017 called The Fireplace (Leicester) Limited registered number 10682373 which can be found on Companies House website to the same address as the Gas Superstore which then went bust on the 25th April 2017. So it would appear that the company was trading insolvently taking peoples hard earned money knowing they were about to go bust leaving everyone out of pocket while the Director sets up a New company behind the scenes to carry on trading washing his hands of any responsibility of the old company. Surely he can't be allowed to get away with this?