GB Mail, the Griffin Lane mailing house that said it had put 500 million items into the postal network, appointed liquidators on 4 August. What happens next.

GB Mail Ltd, the mailing and fulfilment house based at Griffin House on Griffin Lane in Aylesbury, has gone into creditors’ voluntary liquidation. Shareholders passed a special resolution to wind the company up at a general meeting on 4 August 2026, and Lee Cotton and Richard Behagg of Robert Day and Company Limited, the insolvency firm at The Old Library in Winslow, were appointed joint liquidators the same day. Both notices were published in The London Gazette on 5 August. (The Gazette, resolutions for winding-up, notice 5186644; appointment of liquidators, notice 5186645)

What the notices record

The Gazette gives both the registered office and the principal trading address as Griffin House, Griffin Lane, Aylesbury, HP19 8BE, so this is a genuinely local closure rather than a brass-plate entry. The winding-up meeting was held at the liquidators’ Winslow office at noon on 4 August and the resolution was chaired by Joseph Ghadami, the company’s founding director. A creditors’ voluntary liquidation is the procedure directors use when a company cannot carry on because of its liabilities: the company stops trading, the liquidators take control of its assets, and whatever is realised is distributed to creditors in a set order. (The Gazette, notice 5186644)

A mailing house that claimed half a billion items

GB Mail was incorporated on 11 July 2017 and moved its registered office to Griffin House within a month of being formed. Joseph Ghadami has been a director throughout, with Gary Ian Leonard Pepin and Ben Taheri joining the board in August 2021. (Companies House, GB Mail Ltd, company 10860876)

The company’s own website, last captured by the Internet Archive in May 2026, described GB Mail as a “leading mailing house” specialising in paperwrapping, polywrapping, envelope enclosing, hand fulfilment, print personalisation and print management, wrapping magazines, letters and subscription boxes for clients. It said the firm had “wrapped, enclosed and injected over 500 million items of mail into the postal network since 2017”, producing “millions of polywrapped items for our clients every month”, and described Mr Ghadami as a managing director who was “often on the factory floor leading from the front”. (gb-mail.co.uk homepage, archived 20 May 2026) When we checked on 12 August the live website would not load at all.

Timeline of GB Mail Ltd on the public record: incorporated 11 July 2017, Satago charge registered 13 June 2023, DF Capital Bank charge registered 27 June 2025 with the Satago charge satisfied three days later, winding-up resolution and liquidators appointed 4 August 2026, Gazette notices published 5 August, and the DF Capital charge marked satisfied in full on 10 August 2026
Graphic by The Aylesbury Times.

What the register shows about its borrowing

Companies House records two charges against the company, both now cleared. The first, in favour of Satago Financial Solutions Limited, was created on 13 June 2023 and satisfied on 30 June 2025. The second, in favour of DF Capital Bank Limited, was created on 27 June 2025 and was marked satisfied in full on 10 August 2026, six days after the winding-up resolution was passed. The company’s last published accounts, unaudited and abridged, cover the year to 31 July 2024. The liquidation paperwork, including the statement of affairs that will set out what the company owes and to whom, had not yet reached the public register when we checked on 12 August; such filings normally appear within a few weeks, and we will report what it shows. (Companies House, GB Mail Ltd, filing history and charges)

What it means for you

If your business is owed money by GB Mail, or you have print or mailing work sitting with the company, the people to contact are the joint liquidators. The Gazette notices give their details directly: Robert Day and Company Limited on 01296 711 644 or mail@robertday.biz. Creditors will need to submit a claim to be considered in any distribution. (The Gazette, notice 5186645)

Employees of a company in liquidation can claim unpaid wages, holiday pay, notice pay and statutory redundancy from the government’s Redundancy Payments Service, using the case reference the liquidators provide, rather than waiting on the company’s own funds.

We will follow the statement of affairs when it is filed and report what the company owed and to whom. Our Aylesbury news section carries our continuing business and planning coverage.