Complete Campsite closes factory doors
Liquidator called in as NSW off-road camper manufacturer falls victim to COVID-19 shutdownAfter close to 20 years manufacturing a range of soft and hard floor camper trailers and hybrid campers, Complete Campsite appears to be the latest retail-related casualty of the coronavirus crisis, with liquidators set to wind up the Lisarow, NSW-based manufacturer following a meeting of company members earlier this week.
Sydney-based Shumit Banerjee from insolvency specialists SV Partners told Caravanning News that the combination of tough trading conditions, along with the closure of trade shows contributed to the downfall of the NSW manufacturer. It's believed the Australian Taxation Office is one of the major creditors.
Complete Campsite kicked off in 1991 as a small business on NSW's mid coast selling and renting on- and off-road soft floor campers, before the husband and wife team of Grant and Jodie Joyce took it over in 2004 and transformed it into a multi-award winning RV manufacturer.
During 10th anniversary celebrations in 2013, the company said it had grown from four employees producing 30 campers a year to 47 staff producing around 160 units annually at its modern NSW factory.
After pulling both its micro-hybrid camper and premium hard-floor tent camper from the market, Complete Campsite focused more recently on selling a niche, three-model range of hard-roof, hybrid off-road campers, some of which stretched into six figure price territory.
Like many local off-road camper manufacturers, Complete Campsite was forced to move its model range more upmarket in recent years, as an increasing number of cut-price, Chinese-built campers flooded the market.
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