Have Moorhouse & Mohan management started a new company?

Yesterday we reported that British company Moorhouse & Mohan are under legal restraint. The company is awaiting bankruptcy. A source from the trade, who wishes to remain anonymous, says that Moorhouse & Mohan have significant unpaid bills with multiple companies. This source also understands that the management started a new company under a different name last month.

Additionally, more has become known about the current lawsuits, according to the press release. Bart’s Potato Company, from Belgium, is one of the parties involved in a legal battle with the British company. According to the Belgian company, however, it is not a question of a current lawsuit, the verdict has already been announced.

Besides the conflict, the companies cannot agree on the jurisprudence of various arbitration boards and courts of law.

Moorhouse & Mohan was sentenced to a fine of 530,000 euros and 20.200 British pounds by an arbitration board for the potato trade in Edinburgh on 5 August 2014, and in an appeal in Paris on 9 March 2016, to be paid to Bart’s Potato Company. The verdict of the arbitration board was confirmed by the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris in early May 2016. Bart’s Potato Company announced that the significant sums owed by Moorhouse & Mohan have not yet been paid.