Publisher shut down after claiming charitable link

By Helen Warrell, Third Sector Online, 17 March 2008

A pair of Manchester publishing companies that falsely claimed to be producing school textbooks for charity have been closed down after a High Court hearing.

Garrett Tate Partnership and Archive Media used a misleading sales pitch to attract sponsorship for the anti-bullying textbooks. Tactics included telling advertisers that they were in partnership with a charity and that they had support from the local education authority. A spokeswoman for the Insolvency Service, which carries out investigations...

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