By Jeff Whalley and Neil Wilson
Herald Sun
March 03, 2012
AUSTRALIA could run out of Anzac biscuits by Anzac Day.
The company that makes the historic snack collapsed into administration yesterday.
Production at its $44 million, two-year-old Broadmeadows plant, which can make 4.5 tonnes of biscuits an hour – and was nicknamed “Ruxton” by the workforce – was shut down yesterday as creditors pursued owner Unibic for debts.
The plant’s 170 workers last night were hoping for news of a saviour as administrators pointed the finger at the supermarket price war for the crumbling finances.
In a blow for Diggers, the 4 per cent from each sale that goes to the RSL will disappear in the run up to Anzac Day on April 25.
RSL state president Maj-Gen David McLachlan said national officials of the league would meet the company’s managing director, Michael Quinn, on Monday.
“From our point of view we wouldn’t get the bounty we have as a consequence of the sale of the biscuits, which goes to our national headquarters to distribute, and to smaller states – that would be a real loss.”
Unibic administrator Glenn Franklin, of Lawler Draper Dillon, said his priority was to find a prospective buyer.
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