At the beginning of this year Dick Smith went into voluntary administration. Today its receivers have announced that all 363 stores across Australia and New Zealand will be closed over the next eight weeks.
2890 staff members will be affected by the closures.
According to the receiver James Stewart, offers received simply werent high enough.
While we received a significant number of expressions of interest from local and overseas parties, unfortunately the sale process has not resulted in any acceptable offers for the group as a whole or for Australia or New Zealand as standalone businesses,he said. The offers were either significantly below li…
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