While successful company owners will never want to think about dissolving their business, sometimes winding up can be the only option available. Winding up and liquidation essentially refer to the same thing closing a company, making sure all of its affairs are dealt with legally, and removing it from the companies register with Companies House.…
Westfield shopping centre in Doncaster, Victoria. Source: AAP. Art supplies retailer Riot Art & Craft has closed its 56 stores, after being placed in liquidation last week. Employees were given little notice about the closures, receiving text messages last Monday informing them they were not required to attend work the following day, according to nine.com.au.…
Fashion house PAS Group will likely be acquired by private equity firm Queens Lane Capital by way of a deed of company arrangement. The deal will need to be voted through by the business shareholders, and will see brands such as Review, Black Pepper, Yarra Trial, Marco Polo and Breakaway continue. We are proud to…
PRESS RELEASE (Translation from the Italian original which remains the definitive version) Pininfarina S.p.A. announces the liquidation of the subsidiary Pininfarina Engineering S.r.l. Torino, 26 October 2020 – Pininfarina S.p.A. (the “Company“) announces that today the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting of Pininfarina Engineering S.r.l. (“Pininfarina Engineering“) – fully owned by the Company – approved the voluntary…
Dominion Diamond Mines could pursue a form of federal bailout after the sale of its Ekati mine collapsed this month. Brendan Bell, a director of the company, said Dominion had spoken with a Crown corporation among others as it tried to avoid liquidation, which Bell said was now a real possibility. Bell made the comments…
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Owners of retail chain Riot Art & Craft have closed down all of its 56 stores after the company went into liquidation last week. Angry staff members said they were given no notice the stores were shutting down and were told via text message that they had lost their jobs last Monday evening. “All stores…
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Virgin Australia’s new owners Bain Capital hope to reboot the airline’s inflight WiFi service as part of its new “customer service proposition”, although the shape of the WiFi packages and how they fit into the airline’s value-centric ‘hybrid’ model remains to be seen. Bain has severed Virgin’s contract with connectivity partner Gogo, which is in…
ONE of a string of failed companies which ran a group of cafes and restaurants is likely to be dissolved with no money for the creditors owed an estimated 665,000. Candy Experience Limited operated the Alcatraz cafe bars in Bournemouth, Poole and Camberley, as well as three New Forest pubs. Its director, Paul Podvoiskis, was…