Insolvency
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Investigation
Developer lauds rescue deal that could negate ‘slanderous’ ASIC misconduct probe
Embattled property developer Paul Chiodo’s collapsed Keystone Asset Management could be rebirthed via a deal that would steer it away from liquidation.
- by Sarah Danckert
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Opinion
Opinion
Tupperware’s gone broke and I’m trying to put a lid on my nostalgia
At a time when many women were homemakers with limited career opportunities, Tupperware let them earn money, build a small business and network.
- by Kate Halfpenny
‘Shocking statistic’: Only 10 per cent of liquidators are women. They’re getting impatient
Insolvency was known for an aggressive approach of “kicking down doors, banging tables”. That’s changed, and now there’s a push to boost women’s role in the sector.
- by Jessica Yun
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Opinion
The company that time forgot: Lifting the lid on Tupperware’s demise
The most shocking aspect to the end of the storage container maker is that it lasted this long.
- by Elizabeth Knight
‘A very sad day’: Dion Lee to wind up after failure to find saviour
After three months of searching for a buyer, the troubled business, once the pinnacle of Australian fashion, will close permanently.
- by Melissa Singer and Jessica Yun
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Australian cricket
Cricket tour company traded insolvent for three years before collapse, liquidator says
Dozens of young players and top coaches were left high and dry by the $3 million failure of Calypso Destinations and its director is under the microscope.
- by Chris Barrett
‘Sell the Navara’: How a $1b fintech founder wound up with $6000 in the bank
Phillip Kingston, who once rubbed shoulders with Silicon Valley billionaires, sold his last two assets – a ute and a membership to a golf club – before he was declared bankrupt.
- by Sarah Danckert
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Mergers & acquisitions
‘Sleeves are rolled up’: New Booktopia boss on revitalising the business
Booktopia has been rescued by the owner of online camera store digiDirect, Shant Kradjian, who is adding 100 jobs back to the collapsed bookseller.
- by Jessica Yun
‘A greater risk for employees’ in Sydney: Our economic challenge in three charts
NSW is an economic and business powerhouse. But higher interest rates and a disproportionately large share of insolvencies is putting that to the test.
- by Matt Wade
Directorship cloud over failed mining group involving financier Simon Raftery
An administrator’s report on the group that ran the Wilkie Creek coal mine details the possible involvement of shadow directors in the company’s operation.
- by Anne Hyland
‘We’ve lost a cylinder in a four-cylinder engine’: Insolvency help soars as economy struggles
There’s been an “astonishing” increase in the number of administrators appointed to struggling firms, in a further sign the overall economy is struggling.
- by Shane Wright
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