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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-23T17:35:55.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nA historic food distributor in the UK, famous for supplying Pukka Pies, is understood to have fallen into liquidation in another blow to the economy.\n\nG.M. Jones and Sons, a food wholesaler that has operated for nearly four decades, entered liquidation earlier this week.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe company, which began trading in 1989, has been distributing Pukka Pies alongside various other products to fast food establishments throughout the West Midlands, Staffordshire, and Shropshire.\n\nLiquidators were appointed to the business on Monday this week as it prepares to \"voluntarily wind up\", The Sun reports.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe collapse comes despite the wholesaler reporting year-on-year sales growth on its website, making it the latest British firm to cease operations through the liquidation process.\n\nCompanies House filings indicate that Timothy Frank Corfield from Griffin & King has been appointed to oversee the liquidation proceedings.\n\nThe legal process typically involves selling off company assets to generate funds for distribution among creditors and shareholders.\n\nAccording to its website, the wholesaler described itself as \"one of a handful of companies that sell Pukka Pies products, in fresh, frozen and unbaked form\".\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS\n\n\n\n\n  * UK records biggest tax rise on workers in developed world after Rachel Reeves's Budget raids\n  * Treasury losing £7bn a year to illegal UK tobacco black market as smoking ban approved\n  * Major high street retailer to close ALL stores next week - full list here\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nBeyond pies, the firm's product range encompassed catering sausages, sausage rolls, saveloys, fishcakes, beef burgers, chicken breasts, Island Delight curry patties, scampi, pasties, and vegetable spring rolls.\n\nIts customer base extended from fish and chip shops to sporting venues, cafes, farm shops, mobile snack bars, pubs, butchers, bakeries, and freezer shops.\n\nReacting to the liquidation news, a Pukka Pies spokesperson asserted that \"supply remains strong nationwide\" despite the wholesaler's financial woes.\n\nThey explained: \"“G.M. Jones [and Sons] are one of many suppliers of Pukka Pies.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n“We want to reassure customers that there is no impact on the availability of Pukka products.\n\n\"As one of our valued wholesale partners for many years, it’s sad to see them, particularly a fellow family-run company, face challenges in today’s competitive market.\n\n\"We’ve worked closely with customers to help them transition smoothly to alternative suppliers so people across the UK can continue to enjoy Pukka products as usual.\"\n\nGB News has contacted G.M. Jones and Sons for comment.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Historic food company that supplies Pukka Pies falls into liquidation after almost 40 years"
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