A major provider of the government’s troubled free school lunch programme owes more than $14 million to hundreds of creditors after going into liquidation last week.
Libelle Group was contracted by Compass to deliver 125,000 meals a day as part of the Ka Ora, Ka Ako programme, but after its liquidation, Compass agreed to buy the business.
The report by liquidators Robert Campbell and David Webb of Deloitte released on Tuesday evening revealed Libelle owed:
