Sydney Based Online Booking Company Goes Bust – Karryon

Fly365, an Aussie online flight booking company, with links to collapsed budget airfare company Bestjet, has left travellers out of pocket after it entered voluntary administration on Friday. sydney-based Fly365 deactivated both its website and Facebook page last week, leaving customers who believed they had secured flight bookings with little information about how to recover…

Brisbane’s HX Food enters liquidation

brisbane-based company HX Food Groups (Aus) Pty Ltd has gone into liquidation, and Grain Trade Australia has advised its members via a notice issued today. Grain Central understands a number of traders and service providers in southern Queensland are owed money by the company in relation to containerised sorghum exports. The company’s registered address is…

Is illegal phoenix activity rife among construction companies?

As the Senate Economic References Committee (SERC) begins its public hearings into insolvency in the Australian construction industry, the vexed issue of phoenixing deserves to be highlighted. It is generally believed that illegal phoenix activity – where a company is liquidated and rises again in a way that avoids paying creditors – is widespread in…