Court places DC Ross in liquidation – Otago Daily Times

Fletcher Steel was successful yesterday in its High Court application to have Dunedin niche engineering company DC Ross forced into liquidation, over a debt of more than $600,000. DC Ross was placed in receivership by its majority shareholders, Dunedin business family the McConnons, in mid-September, with debts totalling almost $19million. Liquidation proceedings will now overtake…

Fashion victims: What went wrong at Marcs and David Lawrence – NEWS.com.au

Marcs and David Lawrence are the latest Australian fashion brands to fall into administration. ITS BEEN a treacherous few months for the fashion industry. First Payless Shoes and Pumpkin Patch went under, and now two of Australias best-known clothing brands are facing an uncertain future. Marcs and David Lawrence have been placed into voluntary administration…

Retail rot speads to Australia’s high-profile fashion labels – The Sydney Morning Herald

The collapse of national fashion brands Marcs and David Lawrence has added another 1130 workers to the retail rout that claimed close to 2000 jobs in the sector before Christmas. And retail insiders claim the rot that took down Payless Shoes and Pumpkin Patch in December has spread to Australia’s upmarket, national fashion chains and there warn of…