One of Australia’s biggest chicken suppliers has been placed into voluntary administration with hundreds of jobs likely to be lost.
Red Lea Chickens was on March 29 placed into voluntary administration, with the company saying on its website its financial position means there’s “no alternative” but to wind-down operations.
A meeting was reportedly held by administrators at the Blacktown processing plant on Tuesday where hundreds of employees of the family-owned business – which has been operating since 1957 – learned of their fate.
Zagorca Ciolac says she has been working at the plant for the 33 years.
“It’s difficult … now we have to go lo…
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