Corby wholesale furniture firm Kettle Home goes bust for second time in 18 months

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A family-owned furniture company in Corby is set to enter administration.

Kettle Home, a phoenix company set up after the failure of Kettle Interiors, told staff at a meeting this morning (Wednesday, October 9) that it would not continue to trade. It is not yet known whether administrators have been formally appointed.

Today the website has been taken down and suppliers have told this newspaper that bills have not been paid.

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The previous company, based in Macadam Road, and founded in 2003 by John and Rhonda Kettle, went under in March last year owing £16m with the loss of at least 126 permanent jobs.

Kettle Home Limited in Corby is set to enter administration. Image: National WorldKettle Home Limited in Corby is set to enter administration. Image: National World
Kettle Home Limited in Corby is set to enter administration. Image: National World

Most unsecured creditors including dozens of local firms owed thousands have not yet received any repayment and are unlikely to ever see any money.

But some of the same directors, including two members of the Kettle family, immediately reopened on the same site and re-employed some of the same workers. Kettle Interiors’ stock – with an estimated worth of £6m - was sold to the new firm Kettle Home for £2.76m just before the old company went bust. As of this summer, public documents show only £352,000 of that bill had been paid by the new company.

It’s not known how many workers were most recently employed at the firm, which imports and supplies wholesale furniture to the trade and public.

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The company has been advertising furniture fire sales around Corby in recent weeks. It also supplies a separate furniture warehouse operating from the former Odeon building in Stephenson Way.

Some company vehicles were still on the site this morning when our reporter visited, and HGVs remained docked in bays at the warehouse. Phones at the firm went unanswered.

The warehouse occupied by the firm, which it sold and leased back in 2022, is up for sale for £7.15m.

  • Editor’s note: This story has been updated to remove reference to another company which has contacted us to say it has no link to Kettle Home
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