A Perth-founded online flower seller facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in payment claims from florists across Australia and overseas has been put into administration.
The Hegarty family’s Ready Flowers business has over the past decade also been a subject of customer claims of late deliveries or poor-quality products.
Ready Flowers takes orders online and relays them to local florists for delivery in exchange for a commission.
Directors Peter and Deborah Hegarty, of Manning, put the company — run by their son Thomas Hegarty — into voluntary administration last week through a Queensland accounting firm.
A creditors meeting will be held in Brisbane on May 4.
The move followed an unsuccessful attempt last month by a Brisbane florist to get a court to wind up the company.
The Federal Circuit Court in 2015 dismissed another Queensland florist’s claims of misleading or deceptive conduct against the retailer.
The Ready Flowers website yesterday was functioning and available to take online orders.
Florists claim to be owed thousands of dollars each by Ready Flowers. Kissane Harrison, owner of Kiss Kiss Bloom in Seville Grove, last year told The West Australian she had given up hope of recovering what she was allegedly owed.
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