A notice of intention to appoint administrators has been filed by directors of the Anlaby business
Summerbridge Doors, Anlaby
Jobs have been lost at an East Yorkshire furniture maker which has ceased trading after more than 30 years in business. Anlaby-based manufacturer Humber Doors Ltd – which traded as Summerbridge – has been a major supplier of kitchen, bedroom and bathroom furniture to a host of customers including developers, contractors and distributors in the leisure, housing and commercial sectors.
However, the business filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators on May 18. It is understood that directors are working with business advisors, and that the company has ceased trading ahead of an insolvency process.
The move comes eight years after Humber Doors Ltd swooped to save Summerbridge, when it collapsed into administration. The company had been created by its new owners when it bought the furniture firm from administrators at the time.
Now, however, letters have been given to staff members at the Springfield Way site confirming Humber Doors Ltd has ceased trading.
The letter, dated May 18, which have been seen by Hull Live, tells employees: “I write to inform you that a decision has been taken for the company to cease to trade and be placed into an Insolvency process. As a consequence, your contract of employment is terminated with immediate effect and today will be your last day worked. Dow Schofield Watts Business Recovery LLP has been instructed to assist the director with placing the company into administration.”
The letters include a Government factsheet, telling those who have been made redundant how to make claims for pay arrears, holiday pay or pay in lieu of notice will, subject to certain limits, be paid out by the Redundancy Payments Service. However, it says the RPS will not be able to process claims until after the date of administration “which is expected to be this week”.
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Latest company accounts, which cover up until the end of February 2025, show the business owed creditors around £1.8m, up from £1.4m the year before. The firm had 100 staff members during that year, according to the accounts.
Humber Doors was acquired by heating and bathroom supplier Kartell UK for an undisclosed amount back in 2022, and has operated as a standalone business within the Kartell UK group ever since.
That acquisition came three years after Humber Doors Ltd was created when Summerbridge collapsed into administration. As we previously reported, Humber Doors Ltd was formed in late October 2018 to acquire the Anlaby-based manufacturer, in a deal safeguarding around 100 jobs.
The firm’s website details how Summerbridge was founded in 1992, and how the firm’s Anlaby base has been focused on the production of kitchen, bedroom and bathroom furniture.
The site tells how “our 80,000 sq ft facility is packed with the very latest in production technology and machinery, allowing us to design and manufacture products in a wide choice of finishes. We supply the trade; whether that be house developers, student accommodation companies, merchants, retailers or the leisure market with quality UK made products for these key rooms in the home.”
Dow Schofield Watts Business Recovery LLP has declined to comment.
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