The Zoo Girl Companies
In the 1980s/90s a number
of companies were incorporated as shell
companies as vehicles to dispose of
property in order to mitigate the
imposition of Development Land Tax
although they were never used for this
purpose. Nevertheless they were officially
registered subsidiary companies. Some were
used as a way of disposing of parts of
larger subsidiary companies which were
broken up. Some were never used and all
are included here only for completeness.
Zoo Girl Ltd was first
registered in January 1938 as Meddocream
Ltd, an ice cream business operating in
the Birmingham area which Lyons acquired
in about 1957. In 1962 it became part of
the Lyons Maid Eldorado Neilson Ltd, after
the purchase of the Eldorado and Neilson
ice cream businesses and in 1963 became
part of Lyons Maid Ltd. After the disposal
of the ice cream business Lyons Maid Ltd
changed its name to Zoo Girl Ltd on 17
February 1992 and became a dormant
company, still owned by Lyons. The Zoo
Girl companies comprised:
Zoo Girl Ltd
Zoo Girl Bell Ltd
Zoo Girl Bertic Ltd
Zoo Girl Holdings Ltd
Zoo Girl MSL Ltd
Zoo Girl (Mobile) Ltd
Zoo Girl Overseas Ltd
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