Staff at an award-winning brewery were let go in the middle of their shifts after the company ran into financial difficulties and was put into voluntary administration.
Golden West Brewing Co, located in Perth, collapsed on Wednesday with only the brew team kept on staff to finish processing beer already in the tanks so it could still be sold.
Golden West was founded in 2021 in Leederville, in Perth’s inner-west, by a group of five school mates.
Golden West Brewing Co, a brewery located in Perth has entered voluntary administration (pictured stock image of cans of beer)
The company’s website informed beer lovers their venue has been temporarily suspended but consumers could still purchase beverages by contacting them directly.
Daily Mail contacted Golden West Brewing Co for comment.
A source close to the company told Perth Now that cost of living pressures left the business with no other option but to close.
The company is also understood to have been unable to stay afloat due to the closure of several breweries in Sydney and Adelaide.
Mathieu Tribut from insolvency firm GTS Advisory has been appointed the administrator.
The company conducted a small business restructure in 2023 in order repay outstanding debts so that the business could continue to keep trading.
The company was forced to close due to cost of living pressures (pictured stock image of a pubgoer enjoy a glass of beer)
Despite a strong end to the trading period in the final quarter of 2023, sales plummeted in January and February.
‘The company had insufficient capital to continue trading,’ Mr Tribut said.
‘It’s a sad story. No one is to blame and the boys did their best.’
Despite the financial woes the company has encountered, Mr Tribut said it does not mean the business will close for good.
He said the company would go through a complete restructure of business operations and would begin trading in as soon as a month.
Despite the financial woes the company has encountered, the brewery is understood to be rebranded and could be back up and running again in as soon as a month
Mr Tribut said a company had already expressed interest in taking over the business.
Daniel Burt, who was the managing director of Golden West Brewing Co, initially founded the company as Modular Brewing on December 22, 2021.
Mr Burt confirmed that the company had entered administration.
More than a dozen independent breweries were left on the verge of being unable to pay off their debts in the last year alone.
Golden West was first established as a local soft drink business in Perth in the late 1800s.
The company later became the Gest in the 1960’s before the recipes of the brewery were bought by soft drink giant Coca-Cola.
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