Dukes Limited

Dukes Bailiffs has enjoyed another successful show at IRRV's Collection & Enforcement conference at Keele University, Staffordshire.

Exhibiting for the third successive year the Dukes stand attracted plenty of delegates and a number of leads for the business.

As an added attraction, and in recognition of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year, Dukes ran a stand competition to win a set of Jubilee encrusted crystal champagne flutes and a bottle of bubbly. The lucky winner from the prize draw was Charlotte Smith from Wolverhampton Council. Charlotte received her prize from Managing Director Colin Naylor.

At this year's workshops Colin Naylor was invited to join the panel for the Workshop on Fees and Regulations. Following interesting debate with the audience, Colin commented "The workshop was an ideal opportunity to explain to Local Authorities and bailiff companies the implications of the new fees and regulations and this is our best chance to get better and fairer regulation ."

Dukes Bailiffs achieved an outstanding result on behalf of a Staffordshire Council recently, recovering a whopping £93k non-domestic rates debt within one hour in a single visit.

The reluctant retailer's store in question is a large premise based in Hanley, part of a national chain and the local debt had been mounting over a period of months.

Dukes' Managing Director Colin Naylor said "Councils take their responsibilities on this kind of debt very seriously and this collection by our bailiff is a significant success for both the Council and Dukes. Ratepayers are entitled to expect prompt effective action in recovering this sort of debt and we are pleased we played our part. Recouping this amount is an excellent example of the positive results Dukes achieves collecting many other types of business debts on a daily basis."