UK Data Estates Bulletin: week of 12 Oct 2026.
Every week, hundreds of UK companies enter liquidation or administration. Their working records become an asset that the insolvency practitioner must realise for creditors. This bulletin lists, anonymised, the ones large and established enough to hold useful data.
Where this week's estates sit.
Data-rich estates per week over the last eight weeks, and this week's mix by sector and size. Hospitality and retail are common; software and professional services are rarer and worth moving on quickly.
Last 8 weeks
By sector
By staff
12 estates, anonymised.
Bands rather than figures, and no names. Records listed are what's typical for the sector, not what we've seen. Pick any that fit your spec and we'll take it to the practitioner.
Logistics and transport
Taxi operation
Likely records: Workflows, tickets, email, operational docs
Manufacturing
Cold rolling of narrow strip
Likely records: SOPs, workflows, documents
Recruitment and staffing
Temporary employment agency activities
Likely records: CRM and email (candidate data: heavy de-identification)
Retail and wholesale
Agents involved in the sale of timber and building materials
Likely records: Customer support, orders, CRM
Hospitality and leisure
Licensed restaurants
Likely records: Limited: bookings, rotas, email
Retail and wholesale
Other retail sale in non-specialised stores
Likely records: Customer support, orders, CRM
Manufacturing
Manufacture of other products of wood; manufacture of articles of cork
Likely records: SOPs, workflows, documents
Hospitality and leisure
Licensed restaurants
Likely records: Limited: bookings, rotas, email
Construction
Electrical installation
Likely records: Project documents, workflows, email
Manufacturing
Production of abrasive products
Likely records: SOPs, workflows, documents
Hospitality and leisure
Licensed restaurants
Likely records: Limited: bookings, rotas, email
Retail and wholesale
Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets
Likely records: Customer support, orders, CRM
Nothing here is for sale yet. Your interest is what starts it.
We don't hold rights to any of these records. The licensed insolvency practitioner appointed to each company decides whether its data can be realised for creditors.
- You register interest in an estate, or tell us the kind you want, by reference number.
- We take your spec to the practitioner. A named buyer with a real requirement is what makes realising the records worth their time.
- The practitioner decides, after a data protection assessment. Many estates won't proceed, and servers are often switched off within weeks, so speed matters.
- If it goes ahead, records are rights-checked and de-identified before anything moves, then offered on our standard licence terms. We act for the estate, not the buyer.
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Method
Source: The Gazette insolvency notices (Open Government Licence v3.0) and Companies House accounts. Covers creditors' voluntary liquidations and administrations gazetted 12 Oct 2026 to 18 Oct 2026; members' (solvent) liquidations are left out. An estate is listed if the company had 25+ average staff in its latest filed accounts and isn't in a sensitive sector. Staff, age and region are banded so the bulletin can't be used to single out a company.
All issues
- Issue 2: week of 19 Oct 2026 21 estates
- Issue 1: week of 12 Oct 2026 12 estates