NEARLY 130 jobs will go after receivers of Finesse Foods reveal plans to shut down the Bunbury chicken processing facility and the Dardanup abattoir.    

The development comes after the business was placed into administration in November last year, and an exhaustive national and international search was unable to produce any prospective buyers.

“Despite our best efforts, we have been unable to negotiate a successful sale of the business with a prospective buyer, and given the ongoing financial losses incurred, there is no alternative but to immediately scale back operations before closing the business,” said Dermott Mr McVeigh from Deloitte, the receivers of the business.

The chicken processing facility has been operating in Bunbury since 1988, producing raw and value-added chicken products for the domestic and Asian markets, with a workforce of approximately 128.



Deloitte said it was working closely with the State Minister for Agriculture and Food, Terry Redman, and other state and local government offices to minimise the impact of the plant closure on employees and other stakeholders.

Mr McVeigh confirmed the operations at the Bunbury processing facility run by Goldfin Enterprises will be scaled down before full closure in approximately two weeks time, and the abattoir operation run by Goldlevel Enterprises at nearby Dardanup will remain in operation for six to ten weeks, albeit on a scaled down basis, to close out processing of remaining poultry livestock in Finesse Foods’ process.



Comments on this story

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     Employee Posted at 5:27 PM Today

         Minimize the impact on employees..how the hell are they going to do that?!?

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     frank Posted at 5:13 PM Today

         All these local processors shutting down because coles and woolies get all their meat from over east.Thanks Barnett for supporting extended trading , you are killing these processors/producers.