When melbourne restaurant-to-retail company Calia went into voluntary administration in June, its co-founder Jason Chang laid bare his struggles as a small business owner in an open post on social media. Chang, who is also a City of Melbourne councillor, made the emotional revelation that he had “broken down in city council” while recounting the…
Seventy-seven melbourne apartment owners couldn’t have imagined that the innocuous ping of a new email landing in their inboxes would herald the disaster that would leave many of them on the brink of financial ruin. “IMPORTANT”, said the email – sent by their strata firm in March 2020 – which in hindsight was not an…
Yet another F45 gym has collapsed into liquidation, adding to a growing pile of failed franchises involved in the popular fitness chain in recent months. On Sunday, a melbourne company called Anthony Cselko Training Pty Ltd went into voluntary liquidation. The business was trading under the name F45 Training Bayswater North, as it was part…
melbourne-based Dome Building Projects, which did high-end home building and renovation work for customers in Melbourne’s leafy inner-eastern suburbs, went into liquidation on Friday after falling short on payment demands to a former director. Jason Stone and Paul Allen of PKF were appointed as liquidators to South Melbourne-based Dome on the same day that directors…
Work has halted on 21 building projects in Queensland and NSW after construction firm St Hilliers called in administrators over the weekend, a casualty of the flagging building sector where insolvencies last year hit an all-time high. Administrators WLP Restructuring partners Glenn Livingstone and Alan Walker said they have secured sites and paused work on…
Yesterday, Black Hops Brewing faced imminent death. Today, the acclaimed gold coast brewery is back on track after a group of investors – Black Hops Craft – swooped in to save the business at the 11th hour. “We are passionate supporters of craft beer and independent breweries,” Black Hops Craft’s Darren Hill said in a…
Scott Wilcox, the former director and shareholder of high-end residential builder Dome, says his former fellow directors chose to put the company into liquidation last week and turned down offers he made to keep the business going, including coming back to run it. In a LinkedIn post late on Monday, Mr Wilcox said he was…
A company linked to the builder of sydney’s troubled Opal Tower will be liquidated, with creditors seeking as much as $36 million for a series of buildings in the city plagued by faults. The company, formerly named Icon Construction Australia (NSW) Pty Ltd, was placed in voluntary administration in November after slugging it out with…
A branch of a melbourne hospitality chain that has ties to several popular food and drink venues has collapsed. Legacy Hospitality Group Pty Ltd went into liquidation on October 6, according to documents filed with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Andrew Knight and Sebastian Hams from insolvency group KordaMentha have been appointed as…
A homeowner left financially ruined from millions of dollars worth of building defects in her apartment block is disappointed that the government has rejected her plea for early access to her superannuation. Tamara Railton-Stewart, 48, believes she has now exhausted most of her options to scrape her way out of a lifetime of debt. The…