Commander Australia Limited

Commander Australia Limited

Commander Australia Limited (ASX: CDR) is an Australian telecommunications company formed from a spin-off of Telstra Corporation. At one point in its history, it boasted revenues of over AUD $1 billion. On Friday, August 8th, the company announced to its investors and 1300 staff that it was place under Administrative receivership, owing $360 million to the Westpac, Commonwealth and ANZ. [bank] s. [cite news |first=Tony |last=Boyd|title=Banks hang up on Commander|url=http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Banks-hang-up-on-Commander-HDRCB?OpenDocument |publisher=The Business Speculator |date=2008-08-11 |accessdate=2008-08-11]

Share Price

Since May 2007 where commanders share price was sitting at $2.45 on the ASX, it's share price has fallen to 8.2c at the time it went into administration. On the 1st October 2007 the company was put into suspension from official quotation by the ASX due to Commanders failure to lodge reports to the ASX by the deadline. This effectively froze the value at 53c per share. On the 18th of October 2007 the company reinstated official quotation, within hours the share price halved.

On the 30th of January commander made 600 staff redundant. [cite news title=Commander cuts 600 staff in business review
url=http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;617195624
publisher=ARN
date=2008-30-01
] This increased it's share price by 10%. However this share price was short lived, with the price back down to 19c within hours.

The share price did not recover and at time the company went into administration the share price was sitting at 8.2c [cite title=CDR Company Announcments
url=http://www.asx.com.au/asx/statistics/announcementSearch.do?method=searchByCode&issuerCode=cdr&timeFrameSearchType=Y&year=2008
publisher=ASX
]

External Links

* [http://www.commander.com/ Company Website]

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