Freedom Foods Group has extended its voluntary suspension from trading to 30 November. The company extended its suspension to 30 October on 9 July when the scale of its inventory write-downs and bad debts were being realised.
Since then Michael Perich - the Perich family own 54 per cent of the business - has been installed as interim CEO and lender support secured from HSBC, NAB and Arrovest as the board undertakes a recapitalisation plan.
It’s also now being sued for US$16 million by US almond growers’ group Blue Diamond Growers in the US.