James Packer sells the family silver as he exits most global casino business – The Australian Financial Review

Crown cashing out of Macau venture James Packer was about as far away from Macau as you can get this week as he wound up his 12-year partnership with Chinese gaming tsar Lawrence Ho. The globe-trotting Australian billionaire oversaw the latest shake-up of his Crown Resorts empire from the Ellerstina polo ranch outside of Buenos…

Negotiations hang in balance after ESM’s freeze of debt relief measures – Kathimerini

Greeces negotiations with international creditors took a turn for the worse Wednesday after the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) shelved a recently announced debt relief package in protest at the governments plan to give a one-off supplement to low-income pensioners and to keep in place a discount in valued-added tax, to eastern Aegean islands, it had…

Fire Security Services goes into liquidation | Stuff.co.nz – Stuff.co.nz

About 50 workers at Fire prevention equipment company Fire Security Services have lost their jobs. Fire security equipment and services company Fire Security Services has gone into liquidation with the loss of about 50 jobs.  The company, established in 1976, sold and serviced fire protection products such as sprinkler systems, fire alarms, portable fire equipment.…

Pioneering chemical company goes into liquidation just before Christmas – Stuff.co.nz

Robert Steven Pacific T & R’s plant at Miro St, Taupo. A large Taupo employer has gone into liquidation weeks before Christmas, with all employees losing their jobs. Pacific T&R opened its Miro St  plant in February 2015.  It employed 44 people. The privately-owned company was breaking new ground; extracting rosin from pine tree stumps, which are…

Medical Weightloss Institute enters voluntary administration after being named in the 2016 Shonky Awards – SmartCompany.com.au

A medical institute that was included in this years Shonky Awards has entered voluntary administration. However, the business is continuing to trade while administrators seek potential buyers. GTC Medical, trading as the Medical Weightloss Institute (MWI) is a Sydney-based medical business that has previously attracted complaints to both healthcare and consumer protection bodies. On Thursday,…