The first liquidator’s report on Libelle Group Limited suggests the company was hopelessly incapable of performing its role in providing the National-Act Government’s version of school lunches.
The report is one of the bleakest I have read.
Libelle was contracted to provide 120,000 school lunches each day. It also supplied school tuck shops. Strangely for a catering company it was also a recognised seasonal employer which allowed it to employ seasonal workers.
It had one central manufacturing kitchen where the lunches were made and ten central processing kitchens uses to reheat and distribute the lunches.
The reason for the liquidation is that the company ran out of money. After paying wages on 6…
