HUNDREDS of employees at a 60-year-old takeaway chicken brand were informed they no longer had jobs in an email over the Easter long weekend.
Red Lea Chickens, founded in western Sydneys Blacktown in 1957 by Croatian immigrant John Velcich, was placed into voluntary administration on March 29.
Due to the financial position of the companies, we regret to advise that the administrators are unable to trade the business and have no alternative other than to undertake an orderly wind-down of operations, administrators McGrathNicol said in a notice on the Red Lea website. Further information will be provided to creditors and suppliers in the coming days.
More than 500 employees at the Blacktown processing plant, where a meeting was held by admini…
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