A string of companies linked to a heating and cooling business have collapsed in recent months, leaving customers and staff in the lurch.
News.com.au can reveal that eight companies which made up Victorian-based business Pact Services Group collapsed into liquidation two months ago. Pact Services has been around as a whole for nearly 50 years, news.com.au understands.
The companies, headquartered in Dandenong in melbourne’s southeast, owe more than $2 million to over 100 creditors once all their debts are added up.
Steven Atkinson was the sole director of all the Pact companies, which specialised in offering solar, heating, and airconditioning to customers and had contracts in place with builders around Melbourne.
The list of collapsed businesses include Pact Heating and Cooling, Pact Commercial, Pact Home Solutions, Pact Solar, Pact Service and North East Heating, Cooling and Solar.
A former staff member, Hunter*, who did not want to use his real name, lost his job on the spot when the group went into liquidation.
He told news.com.au the company’s closure “has left everyone high and dry without wages, superannuation. Plus I know the company owed a lot with suppliers and lenders”.
Indeed, the appointed liquidators, Jason…