Multivision, a PC builder based in the West Midlands, has ceased trading. Customers who called the firm this afternoon were greeted with a recorded message saying the company had "regrettably ceased to trade for reasons beyond the control of the proprietors".

Customers with issues about outstanding orders, repairs or warranties are asked to submit their questions in writing to the company's base in Halesowen.

At time of writing, details of debts, job losses and administrators are unknown.

Set up in 1991, Multivision sells, or sold, PCs into the corporate and educational sectors, as well as the home market. It has a retail outlet in Halesowen and an online shop. ®