Penton Publications Enters Liquidation on 3 July 2026

Penton Publications Limited entered Liquidation on 3 July 2026 after its directors passed a special resolution to wind up the company and appointed a liquidator the same day, Companies House filings show. The Belfast-registered publisher’s registered office was also redrawn that evening from Penton House in the city to 85B Main Street, Moira, BT67 0LH.

Four separate filings landed with the registry on the same date and within roughly an eight-minute stretch of each other, all signed off between 22:56 and 23:04. The records mark the end of a publishing company that had been continuously registered in Northern Ireland for more than thirty years.

What Was Filed on 3 July

Four documents lodged with Companies House on 3 July 2026 changed PENTON PUBLICATIONS LIMITED’s standing overnight. The headline filing is a Special resolution to wind up, recorded in the registry as form LRESC(NI), which the company’s directors used to authorise the company to be dissolved through liquidation. Two further forms followed, VL1 for the Appointment of a liquidator and 4.21(NI) for the Statement of affairs, setting out who would administer the wind-up and what the company owned and owed. The four filings submitted on 3 July 2026 are listed together on the company’s public registry page.

The LRESC(NI) form is the form type used for Northern Ireland winding-up proceedings, distinguishing it from the equivalent in England and Wales. The Statement of affairs, filed under 4.21(NI), is a regulator-supplied document listing assets and liabilities at the cut-off date of the resolution. A fourth form, AD01, was logged on the same day to change the company’s registered office.

Companies House now records company NI029000 with the status “Liquidation.” The next statutory dates on its file are no longer directors’ deliverables in the ordinary course: next accounts covering the period to 29 December 2025 are due by 29 September 2026, and the next confirmation statement is dated 16 November 2026. The accounts already on file cover the period to 30 December 2024 and were stamped by the registry on 23 December 2025. Whoever is appointed under VL1 to liquidate the company will inherit both of those obligations.

A Publisher Registered Since 1994

PENTON PUBLICATIONS LIMITED carries company number NI029000 on the Companies House register, where it was first recorded as incorporated on 30 November 1994. The company’s nature of business is listed under SIC code 18129, Printing not elsewhere classified, a generic printing bracket that catches general printing work not covered by more specific categories. The live NI029000 company record sits on the Companies House service under that number.

For most of the past year, the company’s registered office sat at Penton House, 9 Heron Avenue, in Belfast’s BT3 9LF postcode area. BT3 covers the Sydenham Business Park east of the city centre, a long-standing base for Belfast-based media, logistics, and light industrial tenants. The company is now in Liquidation, and the address the registry points to has moved; the next section traces the eight-minute filing cluster that signed off the wind-up.

Three Company Names in Sixty Days

The company carried three different names in the sixty days after incorporation. The records on file at Companies House list them in sequence with start and end dates for each.

1. 30 November 1994, company registered as CHETA LIMITED
2. 19 December 1994, renamed PENTON PUBLISHING LIMITED
3. 19 January 1995, renamed PENTON PUBLICATIONS LIMITED

The first name, CHETA LIMITED, lasted nineteen days before the company was renamed. PENTON PUBLISHING LIMITED then carried the business for thirty-one days, ending on 19 January 1995 when the board adopted the name PENTON PUBLICATIONS LIMITED. From that January 1995 date through to the 3 July 2026 filings, the company operated under its third and final registered name, the name on every Companies House document the registry now holds.

Companies House does not itself state why an early-stage company renames itself twice within sixty days. A three-name sequence inside a company’s first two months is the registry footprint of a shelf company, a pre-formed legal entity bought off the shelf by new owners who re-name it on transfer.

Whatever the underlying story, the practical effect is procedural. The name PENTON PUBLICATIONS LIMITED is the one the registry indexes for thirty-one years of subsequent filings, and it is the name that appears on every document the liquidator now inherits, from the original 1994 incorporation through to the 3 July 2026 LRESC(NI), VL1, and 4.21(NI) cluster. The next accounts and confirmation statement due after that date will be issued under the same name.

The Latest Accounts on File

The most recent set of accounts PENTON PUBLICATIONS LIMITED filed with Companies House covers the period from 31 December 2023 to 30 December 2024 and was stamped by the registry on 23 December 2025. They were filed as Total exemption full accounts, an accounts category open to small companies that meet two of three size thresholds covering turnover, balance sheet total, and employee headcount.

• Latest accounts period: 31 December 2023 to 30 December 2024
• Employees on record: 14
• Reported profit or loss: £11,342
• Turnover disclosure: Unknown
• Filing type: Total exemption full accounts

A third-party data profile of the company places the headcount on those accounts at 14 and reports the profit or loss over the same period as £11,342; the same profile lists turnover as Unknown. Both figures sit on the public filing. The company profile showing fourteen staff and a thin margin is drawn from the registry data and re-published on a third-party information service. The next accounts covering the period to 29 December 2025 are due by 29 September 2026, three months after the special resolution to wind up, and will now be prepared inside the liquidation rather than the company’s ordinary management cycle. A fourteen-headcount company whose last reported margin came in at £11,342 has now exited the active trading register.

Eight Minutes of Filings on a Single Evening

The cluster of filings on 3 July 2026 was logged inside a single evening. A third-party registry feed records the VL1 Appointment of liquidator as published at 22:56, the 4.21(NI) Statement of affairs at 22:57, and the RESOLUTIONS document holding the LRESC(NI) Special resolution at 23:04. Three statutory documents therefore hit Companies House inside an eight-minute window.

• VL1, Appointment of liquidator (published 22:56, 3 July 2026)
• 4.21(NI), Statement of affairs (published 22:57, 3 July 2026)
• RESOLUTIONS, Special resolution to wind up, LRESC(NI) (published 23:04, 3 July 2026)
• AD01, Registered office address changed to 85B Main Street, Moira, BT67 0LH (filed 3 July 2026)

The same day brought the AD01 form, swapping the company’s correspondence address. Before 3 July 2026 the registered office pointed to Penton House, 9 Heron Avenue in Belfast’s BT3 9LF; from that date on, it points to 85B Main Street, Moira, BT67 0LH, a different town, a different postcode, and a common address profile for insolvency practitioners serving Northern Ireland cases.

BT67 is the postcode that covers Moira and the surrounding Craigavon area, well outside the BT3 industrial trading-address band the company occupied up to that point. The relocation has the practical effect of putting the company’s official correspondence route inside the offices of the party appointed under VL1, and it closes out the original Penton House chapter. A confirmation statement was last made on 16 November 2025; the next one is due 16 November 2026 and the next set of accounts is due by 29 September 2026, both sitting on the registry’s calendar inside the wind-up.