Action to remove Happy Valley as registered entity to begin

The site of its planned factory in Otorohanga. (Image: Happy Valley Nutrition)

Wed, 06 Dec 2023

Action to remove wannabe milk processor Happy Valley Nutrition as a registered entity will begin after its chair quit as a director, leaving no one on the board.On Friday, its now-former chair, Kevin Bush, resigned as a director of the Australian securities exchange-listed (ASX) company, which has been in administration since July.Happy Valley was planning to build a dairy factory in the Waikato town of Ōtorohanga but essentially ran out of capital.McGarthNicol’s Andrew Grenfell and Kare Johnstone initially recommended tipping it into liq...

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