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Huw Cushing | QUEUES at employment agencies in Portland are growing longer off the back of recent business closures. Both the Portland branches of Westvic Staffing Solutions (WSS) and Western District Employment Access (WDEA) have reported an increase in new clients in the past three months. Following closures or redundancies at Hotondo Homes, Sobey Engineering and the Holden and Ford dealerships, as well as the loss of jobs as a result of the fire at the IGA supermarket, more people are relying on … Continue reading 0 Comments
Bill Meldrum | CREDITORS of the failed Portland Hotondo Homes franchise are seething after being told it is unlikely they will receive any payments on what they are owed. The Portland franchise operated by Heywood couple Tony and Narelle Schultze (A.C. and N.J. … Continue reading 0 Comments
Bill Meldrum | THE Committee for Portland has backed Glenelg Shire’s planning and economic development group manager Syd Deam’s comments that regional development is essential to Portland’s economic growth prospects. Mr Deam made the comments last week in reference to an economic slump … Continue reading 0 Comments
Tiana Richardson | THE Portland Hotondo Homes franchise owes more than $1 million to a long list of creditors across the south-west and beyond, with little chance of anyone being repaid what they are owed. Keith Sutherland, from Bent & Cougle Insolvency Administrators, … Continue reading 0 Comments
Tiana Richardson | CONTRACTORS from Portland and surrounding areas have been hard hit by the demise of Portland Hotondo Homes. Business operators have come forward to say they are owed tens of thousands of dollars by the Portland Hotondo Homes franchise. One Portland … Continue reading
Kristy McDonald | FALLOUT from the collapse of the Hotondo Homes Portland franchise has extended to Hamilton, with bricklayer, Jack Goss, left holding a $14,000 bill, propped up by an empty, $10,000 promise from the now defunct company. The self-employed, 23-year-old brickie said … Continue reading
Tiana Richardson | A NUMBER of homes stand half completed around Portland, Warrnambool and Port Fairy and suppliers and tradesmen are thousands of dollars out of pocket after the Hotondo Homes Portland franchise ceased trading on Tuesday. Run by Heywood-based couple Tony and … Continue reading
Spectator-Observer Partnership | Originally written by JAN LEISHMAN THE increase in connection charges for water and sewerage in Hamilton, Tarrington and Dunkeld will push up costs for new homes, according to local builders. However it will be the larger developers who will have … Continue reading
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