Harpers Environmental Limited (01866895): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2022-08-31
- Administrators
- Lee Van Lockwood, Gareth Harris
- Administrators' firm
- RSM
- Formerly
- E. Harper (York) Limited
- Incorporated
- 1984-11-27
- Location
- 29 Wellington Street
- Industry
- 38320 Recovery of sorted materials
Why it went into administration
- COVID-19
- HMRC / tax arrears
- Loss-making contracts / project overruns
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Sustained trading losses
- Competition / price pressure
- Funding withdrawn / unable to refinance
- Loss of a key customer, supplier or contract
- Bad debts / customer insolvency
- Property / lease costs
From the administrators' statement
Relevant extracts from the company’s audited financial statements are summarised below;
£000
Period ending | 317 March 2019 31 March 2020 31 March 2021
Administrators' statement of proposals (2022-10-24) · Companies House register