What does going into administration mean and which UK companies have gone bust? From P&H to Monarch – The Sun

WHOLESALER P&H has become the latest company to go into administration leaving employees out of a job. The company, which provides tobacco to some of the UK’s largest supermarkets, has been crippled by debts and 2,500 jobs have been lost. PA:Press Association What does going into administration mean? When a company enters administration, all control…

Liquidator targets key figures in Walton collapse – The Sunshine Coast Daily

PROCEEDINGS have been launched against key figures in the 2013 collapse of Walton Construction which left Sunshine Coast subcontractors unpaid $3 million. Liquidator Grant Thornton has launched breach of directors’ duties actions including aiding and abetting against the company’s sole director Craig Walton and Pat McCurry and Phillip Spry of business advisor Mawson. The liquidator…

‘Unsustainable debt’ forces mortgage broker eChoice sale – The Australian Financial Review

by Duncan Hughes eChoice, an award-winning mortgage aggregator with more than 400 brokers, could be sold to a ‘major financial institution’ after being placed into voluntary liquidation because of unsustainable debt. Tony Wales, a director of eChoice and Welas, a private investment company, which is a secured creditor of eChoice, called in liquidators’ Rodgers Reidy…