Tight belts and terrible leadership: The biggest retail collapses of the decade
After a disruptive decade for Australia's retail industry, SmartCompany has compiled a timeline of the most prominent retail collapses between 2010 and 2020.
By Dominic Powell and Emma Koehn
Allphones to close 34 stores, 50 to stay open
Some good news has arrived for mobile phone retailer Al…
Sixty-nine employees have been made redundant after independent mobile phone retailer Allphones collapsed into voluntary administration on M…
The nation’s second largest telco has now dropped yet another third-party deal from its ranks, with Optus abandoning a content deal with ret…
Canadian telecommunications company Glentel has paid $70 million for Australian telco retail business AMT Group, which controls the 170-loca…
Samsung has unveiled the opening date of its Australian flagship store in Sydney, to be operated by Allphones’ parent company AMT Group, w…
Mobile phone franchise Allphones is reportedly up for sale, 18 months after it was forced to pay $3 million in damages to franchisees for in…
Allphones, the 170-strong mobile phone and broadband chain which started with a single store in South Australia 12 years ago, is reportedly …
The long-running battle between the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and mobile phone franchise chain Allphones has finally be…
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has launched a class action against mobile phone retailer Allphones on behalf of the comp…
Mobile phone chain Allphones Retail has undertaken to the Federal Court to improve its franchisee dispute resolution process after the Austr…
A judge has slammed both the dishonest conduct of mobile phone franchise Allphones and the dodgy actions of a franchisee in a Federal Court …
