North East vegan ice cream firm Beau’s Ice Cream Parlour Ltd collapsed owing creditors more than £300,000, documents have revealed.
Beau’s Ice Cream Parlour Ltd, based in Peterlee, has been liquidated after falling into cash flow struggles following the pandemic. The collapse came less than two years after the businesses secured a £400,000 investment to fuel expansion. The business was launched in 2017 by Joseph Eyre and Amber Fox-Eyre in Peterlee, County Durham, producing plant-based ice cream they said tastes better than dairy-based alternatives.
The firm’s gelato, which received multiple Great Taste Awards, contained only natural, whole-food ingredients had flavours including raspberry, ice cream cup cake, pistachio and coffee crafted with no artificial flavours. In April 2021 the firm secured £400,000 in funding from a group of investors including the TRICAP Group and venture capital firms Dismatrix and Northstar Ventures Limited, with funding from the North East Innovation Fund.
