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 PressAssociated 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 ITNITN 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 26/11/2008 Menzies Corporate Restructuring 111 1400 BBC NewsTimesOnline TimesOnline 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

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