Flowfood Limited, a northern England-based company that provides a meals-on-wheels service, has been placed into administration.
Its sister companies, Economy Kitchens (Morley) Limited and Laughton Bros, both based in Ashton-under-Lyne, have also been placed in administration, with MCR acting as the administrators for all three companies.
The business provided home-delivered meals to residents in East Riding, and to three of the local council's day centres, which currently have stock of about two weeks' worth of prepared meals. Flowfood also supplied several other councils across the country, including Oxford, Staffordshire and St Helens.
Production has ceased and all 130 employees have been rendered jobless, after a failure to secure a buyer.
Alternative arrangements are being discussed with individual customers or their families until a more permanent solution can be found.
Before Flowfood took over the contract in May 2005, the prepared meals service was provided by the Women's Royal Voluntary Service, who delivered freshly prepared hot meals to residents.
In a controversial move, Flowfood provided frozen meals that the residents had to heat up themselves. Economy Kitchens supplied chilled foods to Flowfood.
