Woosh Wireless' creditors, thought to be owed almost $13 million, have voted to put the troubled internet provider into liquidation, The New Zealand Herald reported. The business was founded in 1999 and has burned through more than $100 million since that time. Grappling with the challenge of its ageing technology, the company had been winding down some of its operations. It sold about 10,000 of its customers to Slingshot last year and still had about 2000 on its books. After trading unprofitably, two Woosh companies were put into voluntary administration in May.

Electronics retailer Dick Smith has been put into receivership after its banks refused to keep propping it up following poor sales. The company, which has nearly 400 stores in Australia and New Zealand, said in August it was carrying too much of the wrong type of goods and that, combined with soft consumer demand, meant it was being forced to cut its margins to keep afloat. Since then it has twice warned that it wouldn't make its earnings forecasts - it slashed prices and had big pre-Christmas bargain sales.

State owned miner Solid Energy faces a court action to cancel its scheme to repay creditors, Stuff.co.nz reported. Cargill International has filed in the High Court for termination of Solid's Energy's scheme to pay back trading creditors, banks and bondholders. Solid Energy was in partnership with Cargill at the Spring Creek mine on the West Coast from 2007 to 2012, when a crash in world coal prices started Solid Energy's slide into voluntary administration. Cargill said it lost US$42.4 million ($63.5m) in the mine and undelivered volumes of coal from the Spring Creek Mining Company.

State owned enterprise minister Todd McClay says Landcorp won't turn a profit for "the next few years" and is again foreshadowing land sales, Stuff.co.nz reported. Record low dairy prices saw profits plunge by $25m, Landcorp said Thursday. It's got debts of around $250 million and is locked into an expensive dairy conversion project of 26,000 hectares at Wairakei, near Taupo. McClay says there will be no taxpayer-funded bailout for the state-owner farmer. And he rejects Labour's comparisons with troubled coal company Solid Energy, which is in voluntary administration.

Genesis Energy will cancel its coal supply agreement with Solid Energy from October using a clause triggered by the coal mining company's voluntary administration, Stuff.co.nz reported. The move is a blow for the country's largest coal miner, Solid Energy, as it prepares for a meeting next month in which debtors will be asked to consider a two-and-a-half year repayment halt while the company is organised for sale. In March, Solid Energy was negotiating $320 million debt with banks, and was last week placed into voluntary administration in a last ditch attempt to save the company.

New Zealand's debt-laden state-owned coal mining company Solid Energy Ltd was put into administration on Thursday to ward off its creditors as it looks to organise a sale of assets. The government refused to pump in any more money to support the company, which has been crippled by a slump in prices and demand, amassing a mountain of debt. "It is no secret that Solid Energy has faced significant financial hurdles - both from the falling international coal price and its debt burden," Finance Minister Bill English said in a statement.

New Zealand's debt-laden state-owned coal mining company Solid Energy Ltd was put into administration on Thursday to ward off its creditors as it looks to organise a sale of assets. The government refused to pump in any more money to support the company, which has been crippled by a slump in prices and demand, amassing a mountain of debt. "It is no secret that Solid Energy has faced significant financial hurdles - both from the falling international coal price and its debt burden," Finance Minister Bill English said in a statement.

Solid Energy has confirmed it is going into voluntary administration, Stuff.co.nz reported. The state-owned coal company met staff at various sites including the West Coast, Southland and Waikato on Thursday morning, before confirming the news to media in Christchurch at midday. On Thursday, acting chairman Andy Coupe said the board had been considering options since last year due to the "significant" challenges the company was facing. He acknowledged the "very substantial effort" all employees had made over the past few years, but it had not been enough.

The number of people going bankrupt has ticked up for the first time since 2009 when fallout from the global financial crisis reached its peak, The New Zealand Herald reported. Figures from the Insolvency and Trustee Services show 1979 people went bankrupt in the year to June 30, up from 1921 the previous year. The increase is small but it is a change in direction from the past five years where numbers have steadily fallen from the 3054 people who went bankrupt in the year to June 30, 2010.

The receivers for Doug Somers-Edgar's Orange Finance have concluded their work with a shortfall of about $10 million in principal and interest owed to debenture holders of the failed company, Scoop.co.nz reported. Orange froze repayments to some 2,500 investors owed $25.6 million in late 2008 before convincing debenture holders to agree to a moratorium on redemptions and interest payments until the end of July 2011. That deadline was later pushed out another year with trustee Covenant Trustee's approval.