White’s winding-up hearing adjourned
A Supreme Court hearing on a petition to wind up troubled White & Sons supermarket group has been adjourned.The adjournment until August was to allow for time for negotiations and due diligence on White’s.The petition for the winding up of White’s, which has been in the supermarket business here since 1924, was put forward by shipping and courier company IBC Ltd, which is owed money by the company.In addition, earlier this month wholesale companies Pitt & Company Ltd and BGA Ltd took out writs against White’s “carrying on business as White & Sons Supermarket, Southside Supermarket and Haywards Supermarket”.Attorney Deborah Correia of Wakefield Quin told The Royal Gazette: “The outcome of Friday’s hearing was that by consent of the parties the hearing was adjourned until 9.30am on August 10, 2012 in order to allow for negotiations and due diligence to be conducted on the company.”