title: List of UK businesses entering administration during the 2008–2009 financial crisis
text: # List of UK businesses entering administration during the 2008–2009 financial crisis
  
  This is a list of UK businesses entering administration during the 2008–2009 financial crisis.
  
  ## UK insolvent businesses
  
  LSE listed companies that entered administration, by date, due to the impacts of the post-summer-2007 credit crunch and/or the late 2000s recession.
  
  | Company | Date | Administrators | Branch Closures | Job Losses | Further Information Source | Outcome |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Principles | 02/03/2009 | Deloitte | | | | BBC News |
  | Viyella | 07/01/2009 | Poppleton & Appleby | | | | BBC News |
  | Waterford Wedgwood | 05/01/2008 | Deloitte | | 367 | | BBC News |
  | Morgan | 31/12/2008 | KPMG | | | | |
  | USC | 29/12/2008 | PKF | | | Google Associated Press | |
  | Adams Childrenswear | 28/12/2008 | PricewaterhouseCoopers | | | BBC News | |
  | Zavvi | 24/12/2008 | Ernst & Young | 22 | 178 | BBC News The Business Desk | |
  | Whittard of Chelsea | 23/12/2008 | Ernst & Young | | | ITN | Sold to private equity company Epic |
  | The Officers Club | 23/12/2008 | PricewaterhouseCoopers | | | BBC News | 118 of the chain's 150 stores were sold, others closed |
  | The Pier | 04/12/2008 | Mazars | | | BBC News | |
  | MFI Group | 26/11/2008 | Menzies Corporate Restructuring | 111 | 1400 | BBC News | |
  | Woolworths | 26/11/2008 | Deloitte | 815 | 30,000 circa | Guardian | Stores all closed by 6 January 2009 |
  | Rosebys | 25/09/2008 | KPMG | | | Telegraph | |
  | XL Leisure | 12/09/2008 | Kroll | | | BBC News | |
  | Wrapit | 04/09/2008 | KPMG | 278 | 1256 | WalesOnline | |
  | Silverjet | 30/05/2008 | Begbies Traynor | | | BBC News | |
  