Spicers Limited (00425809): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2020-05-14
- Administrators' firm
- EY
- Formerly
- Spicer-Hallfield Limited
- Incorporated
- 1946-12-16
- Location
- Leeds
- Industry
- 46650 Wholesale of office furniture
Why it went into administration
- Competition / price pressure
- COVID-19
- Weak consumer demand
- Supply chain disruption
- Sustained trading losses
From the administrators' statement
The Company traded as a business to business supplier of office supplies and stationery products across the UK having originally been founded in 1796 as a paper mill and paper supplies business. The Company operated from eight locations across the UK and employed 320 people.
Along with OfficeTeam Limited (“OfficeTeam”), ZenOffice Limited (“Zen”) and Spicers (Ireland) Limited (“Spicers Ireland”), the Company was part of the Spicers Office Team Group (“the Group”) which was headquartered in Croydon, England.
OfficeTeam Limited (“OfficeTeam”) traded as a business to end customer supplier of office supplies and stationery products across the UK with its own storage and logistics capabilities through OfficeFleet. RH Kelly and CGJ King were also appointed Administrators to OfficeTeam on 14 May 2020.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2020-06-02) · Companies House register