Atlas Print Group Reviews

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Serial Company Defaults

Dec 26, 2016

1.0

AI Highlights

- Insolvency practitioner allegedly dumped serial liquidators; they now run a printing business formed Nov 2016, with over 20 failed companies.

Insolvency practioner ditches serial liquidators Neill Stuart Malcolm John and Clair Honeysett now own a new printing business incorporated November 2016 Even though http://www.printweek.com/print-week/news/115****/hiatus-over-houseprint-situation their liquidator ditched them The number of their failed companies is now more than 20 with name changes within many of these to avoid their legal responsibilities. The insolvency serice are well aware of the list of companies owned but do little to prevent another com-pany being opened by them They look around the world seeking out weaker subcontrac tors and leave these unpaud althuogh they have taken the money from the consumers.

Loss:

$7000

Reason of review:

Warranty issue

Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution

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Guest-2421099

Nov 03, 2023

Teflon coated chap. Wriggles out of everything Seems there is another court appearance on 6 Nov 2023 at Cardiff.

Anonymous

Guest-925668

London, England

The Printing House Ltd, HousePrint Ltd, Atlas Print Group..

Sep 26, 2016

1.0

AI Highlights

- Fraud allegations exist against Neill Stuart Malcom John and Clair Hunnisett.
- Clair Hunnisett is director; Neill Stuart is shadow director; £1200 deposit.

Mr Neill Stuart Malcom John, Kevan Charles Eveleigh and Clair Rosina Hunnisett, Michael Clifford are fraudsters!

The previous trading names related to these individuals are;

The Printing House Ltd, Houseprint Ltd, A Printing Company Ltd, Universal Printing Corporation Ltd, TPH Printing Ltd, Universal Printing Ltd, Tyson Media Ltd, Tyson Colour Ltd, Eutopia Press Ltd, Online Printing UK Ltd, Britannia Press Ltd, Swane Ltd, Ambeck Corporation Ltd, Masterclass Associates, Dragon Press Ltd... The list goes on!

Neill Stuart Malcom John runs as a shadow Director with Clair Hunnisett for The Printing House (Houseprint Ltd), they are known for dissolving companies and re-opening them with a brand new name leaving many of their previous creditors out of pocket.

We are a small family run business and had placed an order for 5000 catalogues. They had asked for full payment upfront, we fortunately declined this and instead, made a deposit of £1200 and agreed to make a second and third payment after we had seen the catalogues and once they were being delivered. At the time I was speaking to a "Stuart" who was a "Sales Rep", he never stated his full name. He told us that the Director of the company was a Mr Paul Cummins who met with us and promised us these catalogues. After doing some extended research ..Paul Cummins is NOT a Director of the company or even related to the company in any shape or form and I still have no idea why he met with us in person and made these promises on behalf of this fraudulent company.

Long story short... Clair Hunnisett is the actual Director, Neill STUART Malcom John is a shadow Director and together they lied to us and scammed us of £1200 and we still have no catalogues.

We have won two small claims cases against them, we were then told that the company is going into liquidation and will be dissolved... we are most likely not going to get our money back and within a few months.. they should open a brand new shiny company with a clean slate.

My advice to businesses is to do a thorough check on the company using Companies House and really do your research before making any sort of payment to anyone. Also get their full names so you can check online for any complaints, disputes on them and lastly get everything confirmed in writing.

Loss:

$1200

Reason of review:

Fraud

Preferred solution: Full refund

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2 comments

Guest-1221050

Oct 01, 2016

You can take out a County Court claim against Neill Stuart Malcolm John personally for breach of contract, as it was he whom you dealt with, while he was passing himself and Paul Cummings off as the company. Do not use a solicitor as this is a user-friendly enough operation to be done by yourself online.

NSMJ will use a solicitor @ £200/hr, which generates a legal bill for him. A point will come in the exercise where it will be more cost-effective for him to settle with you than continue to pay his solicitor, who will send you a 'get lost' letter at the start, but simply persist.

It runs up NSMJ's legal bill and the truth is on your side. A number of successful claims have been made against NSMJ this way, as he has been associated with dozens of past failed companies with a similar modus operandi:

Company Incorporation Date Status

Britannia Press Ltd

(0670****) 17/9/08 Dissolved voluntarily 12/10/10

Swane Limited

(0590****) 9/8/06 Struck off 9/3/10 Online Printing UK Limited (0534****) 25/1/05 Struck off 5/1/08 following CVL 27/4/06 Pure Printing Ltd (0530****) 2/12/04 Dissolved voluntarily 6/2/07 Genius Marketing International Limited (0470****) 19/3/03 Dissolved voluntarily 14/2/06 Training Solutions Ltd (0422****) 30/5/01 Dissolved voluntarily 1/7/03 Marketing Solutions Wales Ltd (0422****) 22/5/01 Dissolved voluntarily 1/7/03 Media Solutions Wales Ltd (0422****) 22/5/01 Dissolved voluntarily 1/7/03 Internet Solutions Wales Ltd (0422****) 22/5/01 Dissolved voluntarily 17/2/04 Mailing Solutions Wales Ltd (0421****) 17/5/01 Dissolved voluntarily 4/11/03 Dragon Print Ltd (0421****) 17/5/01 Struck off 29/9/10 following Compulsory Liquidation 22/2/05 Active Print Media Ltd (0396****) 7/4/00 Struck off 6/10/07 following CVL 23/3/05 Netresults UK Ltd (0352****) 17/3/98 Dissolved voluntarily 24/2/04 Swiftsure Consultants Ltd (0339****) 20/6/97 Dissolved voluntarily 23/9/03 1st Class printers Ltd (0246****) 12/2/90 Struck off 22/2/04 following CVL 5/12/02

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Mary Jsq

Atlas Print Group t/a Ambeck Corporation

Aug 02, 2012

AI Highlights

- We were defrauded of £1,500.
- Debt collectors seem unhelpful and profit-driven.
- Insolvency practitioners linked to many companies.

We're a small business and also appear to have been the victim of this fraudster, to the tune of Â£1,500.

The debt collecting agency we used have been pretty useless too.

This whole experiences just leaves me feeling completely disullisioned. You have

(1) Fraudsters deliberately taking your money, who can get away with it.

(2) Insolvency Practitioners deliberately aiding them to get away with it. Let's face it, IPs wind down a company knowing fully well the directors will do exactly the same thing next time found. I have since discovered that Neill John and his associates have a long list of companies.

(3) Debt Collecting Agencies who are also making a money out of these guys, with no guarantee of really helping you to get your money back

(4) Small Claims Court of no help at all because the company has been wound down.

What the *** is anyone supposed to do. We're decent folk trying to make a decent living.

Perhaps we should just give up, and become lieing, thieving, *** artists too?

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janecla

Atlas Print Group t/a Ambeck corporation ltd - fraudsters

May 08, 2012

AI Highlights

- Paid over £1000 upfront for 1,000 books and still hasn’t received them after 8 weeks; planning to take the matter to small claims court.

Updated by user Jun 08, 2012

If anyone is still chasing orders - please beware they are now changing their name to SPAUDA UK - same dodgy company - same company registration number and registered address etc etc - Keep hassling Neill John and his associates Vytenis Rumisa and Clar Hunnisett & Kevan Charles Eveleigh - it does work!

Updated by user Jun 08, 2012

I have been adding minimum weekly updates for those of you suffering with this nightmare company!

I have also been emailed directly from customers who prefer not to write on this site - my advice is to keep hassling Neill John and you may to be lucky like us and get your books.

Original review May 08, 2012

Please please please don't use this company. We are a small business and we have just been ripped off by over Â£1000.

Placed a book order for a 1000 books, paid the 50% up front fee (by bacs) (unfortunately) as required in the t&c's 8 weeks later still not book!!!

Started to do some digging around online the director a Mr Neil Stuart Malcolm John and his associate Mr Kevan Charles Eveleigh have been involved in 11 other companies in this line of industry all for 12 months at a time - funny old thing all dissolved - now am going to have to try to perusue this matter through the small claims court! In these tough economic climates we small business can ill afford such fraudulent behaviour!!!!

Loss:

$2000

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Guest-1523928

Jul 22, 2018

http://blogs.kipublishing.com/index.php/insolvency/action-fraud I have an idea that might work

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Guest-942012

Feb 06, 2015

Thank you to whoever sent me this ...

"The link from The Insolvency Service says that 19 (yes that is not a reprint) companies were formed by these directors. I have only ever found 14 so would assume that some must have been based abroad."

Britannia Press Ltd (0670****)

Swane Limited (0590****)

Online Printing UK Limited (0534****)

Pure Printing Ltd (0530****) Genius Marketing International Limited (0470****) Training Solutions Ltd (0422****) Marketing Solutions Wales Ltd (0422****) Media Solutions Wales Ltd (0422****) Internet Solutions Wales Ltd (0422****) Mailing Solutions Wales Ltd (0421****) Dragon Print Ltd (0421****) Active Print Media Ltd (0396****) Netresults UK Ltd (0352****) Swiftsure Consultants Ltd (0339****) *st Class printers Ltd (0246****) Ambeck Corporation Ltd (0771****) Masterclass Associates Ltd (0710****) Dragon Press Ltd (0694****) Trade Print Europe Ltd (0547****) ......

I did not know of 3 of these but I do know 3 companies associated with these directors that were set up and dissolved in the 1990s and were operating in the Florida Time Share Market.

There is a Ki Publishing blog entitled Cowboy Printers where you can follow this further ... Oh, by the way basic company details of companies registered in England and Wales can now be referred to on-line for free at Companies House.

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Guest-941502

Feb 05, 2015

This is not correct. NJ is still at 4 Pioden For, Barry Island.

He is the shadow director of the eponymously named A Printing Company Limited.

At one point he changed his company's name to pass himself off as a Canadian print house. In fact, many of his company names in the past have attempted passing off

I could not reply to the person above directly as I could not find a name or an e.mail address. This person might well be correct. But so am I.

My information, comment below, came via a publisher I know who did not initially receive his order from The Printing House. When he complained the publisher was sent a solicitors' letter telling him to stop making trouble!

The person who instructed the solicitor was definitely John Stuart Neill. He could well have 2 companies (not illegal) in operation at the same time

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Guest-941142

Feb 04, 2015

I really do need to spend 2 or 3 days updating all the printers (another from Croatia has contacted me recently) and companies that I know this group of swindlers have been involved with. By the end of February please look at the Cowboy Printer on Ki Publishing blogs.

These postings do not allow actual links to be posted.

However, the real point of this post is to let everyone know that Neill John is back in busines of not paying his subcontractors and sending out his work and the company he has set up in called The Printing House (TPH) London and it has a Facebook page.

While talking about Facebook I know that around 4-5 years ago Neill John posted a Facebook photo of himself and his (then) new Ferrari outside his house in Wales. I have written confirmation from swindled people who saw this. I did not see it myself as it was quickly taken down.

However, if anyone, by chance, still has the link to that picture we might be able to find it and post it up ourselves in some way! Yes, that is a longshot, but longshots do sometimes pay dividends.

The last thing I want to say at the moment is that Neill (who now uses his middle name of Stuart) now has a co uk company and the rest of the domain name is tph printing

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Guest-834374

Jul 01, 2014

Replying to comment of Guest-825368

Managed frank discussion with man from the Insolvency Service this morning. He promised that he would look into the situation and meet me again tomorrow.

He also said that the reason was actually wound up was the result of pressure from this site combined with pressure (eventually) from Trading Standards in Cardiff. He did mention this listing!

I told him that winding up one of a series of many companies was pointless if the directors were not disqualified! That is why he is going o meet me tomorrow! We know they are currently trading under yet another name.

Having a system that does not protect the vulnerable is absolutely pointless and business without trust is impossible.

I realize people need room to make mistakes - but this is just turning our backs on common sense backed up by facts and that is inviting anarchy to take over!

Look here tomorrow or Thursday for what the "Man fro the Ministry" says.

Hopefully they are considering disqualification as directors. Pretty toothless as such - BUT it would keep those who are determined to make a mockery of the law under control for a few months at least!

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Tolbert Mxb

Sep 23, 2013

The Company was incorporated on 26 July 2011.The Company traded as a printing agency as Atlas Print Group between November 2011 and June 2012. The trading premises were at Sophia House, Cathedral Road, Cardiff, CF10 9LJ.

The Company outsourced the actual printing to a supplier in Lithuania.The Company ceased to trade after the supplier began to fail to produce the print jobs either on time or at all.On 28 November 2012 the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, in accordance with powers conferred on him by Sections 447(3) and 453 of the Companies Act 1985, authorised officers of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to investigate the affairs of the Company. From information and documents obtained under Part XIV Companies Act 1985, it appeared to the Secretary of State that it was expedient in the public interest that the Company be wound up on the following grounds: -1. Lack of commercial probity: The Company appeared to be one of a number of similar companies associated with Kevan Charles Eveleigh and Neill Stuart Malcolm John that have traded briefly and then been dissolved despite, in some cases, having been insolvent. One such Company, Masterclass Associates Limited, was dissolved on 26 June 2012.

However, owing to information obtained in this investigation, the Secretary of State applied to the Court to restore Masterclass Associates Limited to the register and wind it up together with Ambeck Corporation Limited. An insolvency practitioner was approached with a view to dissolving Ambeck Corporation Limited. The Company has unsecured liabilities of at least £92,748.2. Failure to deliver up adequate accounting books and records / Failure to maintain and/or preserve adequate company records.3.

Breach of provisions of the Companies Act 2006 in that the Company has not had a registered director since 02 October 2012 and the Company has not filed an annual return that was due on 23 August 2012.The Secretary of State presented his petitions to wind up both Ambeck Corporation Limited and Masterclass Associates Limited to the Court on 26 June 2013. The Court wound up both companies on 20 September 2013 and appointed the Official Receiver as liquidator.If you have a claim against the Company or any information that may assist the Official Receiver please phone 0161 234 **** or e-mail piu.north@***.gsi.gov.uk.

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Guest-721051

Sep 24, 2013

Replying to comment of Tolbert Mxb

This is another of the scams perpetrated by a small group of people. All were bought "bought off the shelf" from the same company formation which was in St. Margaret's Street, just behind Regent's Street in London. All began with bank accounts just around the corner in Tottenham Court Road, and all were closed and wound up 3-4 weeks AFTER THE NEW PRINTING COMPANY had been set up so that monies could be transferred into the clutches of the new printing company. This implies to me that there was collusion from someone inside the bank and it leaves the money virtually untraceable. There was also a conspiracy with the initial company liquidation service. For at least 4 of the printing companies that were would up by this company the EXACT SAME WORDING explaining how the printing industry was in hard times were used. If that was the truth then why go into a new printing venture with the identical people who possess the same skills?

Neill John began his working life selling time shares in the Florida Time Share market honing his skills so that he knew the ropes for the printing ventures that were to come. His initial time share companies were UK registered and then he began registering abroad - thus staying ahead and out-of-sight of the UK authorities

If anyone would like more information then I have been collecting information and putting the jigsaw together for over 3 years and I am willing to share it with anyone who contacts me via my Facebook page or via Ki Publishing's facebook. It seems that as far as suppliers go anyone lucky enough to receive their printing got it care of the suppliers. There are at least 2 Lithuanian printers who have not been paid, and two UK printers in that position. One was owed almost £25,000.

An investigative journalist is now involved in this project. Anyone willing to talk to him and I can pass on his details. This man is a compulsive flouter of both the law and of morality. He needs to be stopped. I lost £4,000 and a lot of time and effort.

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