Holmesterne Foods enters administration, faces redundancies at North Yorkshire sites

A long-established North Yorkshire meat supplier has entered administration, appointing joint administrators to oversee a winddown of its two production sites and leaving most of its workforce facing redundancy. Holmesterne Farm Co. Limited, trading as Holmesterne Foods, appointed James Richard Clark and Howard Smith of Interpath Advisory as joint administrators on May 11, 2026, according to a notice published in the London Gazette.

Founded in 1986 as a catering butchery, the company later expanded into the manufacture of prepared meat and vegetable products, supplying retailers, food manufacturers and the food service sector. Its products include raw and cooked meat and vegetable lines in chilled, frozen and ambient formats, with manufacturing capabilities described as including extrusion, tumbling, mixing, blending, slicing and dicing. The business also used processes such as steam cooking, roasting, bratting and retort methods.

Holmesterne operated from two North Yorkshire facilities. The main site was based at Gatherley Road Industrial Estate in Brompton on Swale near Richmond, where in-house butchers handled red meat and poultry in raw, chilled and frozen form. That site...