‘You can’t make money from $8 chicken’: Cheap chooks, production woes blamed for Red Lea collapse – NEWS.com.au
HUNDREDS of employees at a 60-year-old takeaway chicken brand were informed they no longer had jobs in an email over the Easter long weekend. Red Lea Chickens, founded in western Sydneys Blacktown in 1957 by Croatian immigrant John Velcich, was placed into voluntary administration on March 29. Due to the financial position of the companies,…