This situation with SMD is looking mighty familiar. Yesterday, they didn’t show up at all in a Companies House search, except as a dissolved company. Today, the paperwork has made its way through the Companies House bureaucracy and we have some new info.
It’s all beginning to look very familiar:
Date of incorporation
Brush Colour: 8th December 2005
SMD Publishing: 6th December 2005
Name changes
Brush Colour: Changed name to Encanta Media Ltd on 20th January 2006 (the same day it made its Highbury acquisition)
SMD Publishing: Changed name from Astroplan Ltd on 23rd January 2006 (the same day it made its Highbury acquisition)
Appointments
Brush Colour: Registered through companies (“YORK PLACE COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED”, “YORK PLACE COMPANY NOMINEES LIMITED”)
SMD Publishing: Registered through companies (“ACI SECRETARIES LIMITED”, “ACI DIRECTORS LIMITED”)
Looks like someone’s been passing around the company acquisition cheat notes.