Brisbane Markets Limited - Panel Receives Application

The Panel has received an application from Brisbane Markets Limited in relation to its affairs. Brisbane Markets is an unlisted company with more than 50 shareholders. Brisbane Markets is currently the subject of an off-market takeover bid from Produce Markets Queensland Pty Ltd (PMQ), a wholly owned subsidiary of VGI Partners Pty Ltd (VGI).

Details of the application, as submitted by the applicant, are below.

Resource Generation Limited

Introduction

  1. The Panel, Stephanie Charles, David Friedlander and Nora Scheinkestel (sitting President), made a declaration of unacceptable circumstances in relation to the affairs of Resource Generation Limited. The application concerned, among other things, the failure to disclose an alleged association between 3 Resource Generation shareholders 2 of whom were members of a debt club seeking to provide new project financing to the company. One of the shareholders (Altius) had requisitioned a general meeting to change the composition of the Resource Generation board.