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Home-Fix to be wound up as Covid-19 dashes plans of revival

Hardware firm unable to offer home repairs, training courses due to circuit breaker; online sales not enough to sustain it

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Tay Peck Gek

Tay Peck Gek

Published Fri, Jun 26, 2020 · 09:50 PM

    Singapore

    HARDWARE firm Home-Fix, which was forced to shutter all its retail stores in Singapore last December amid financial woes, will now be wound up for good, despite six months of debt restructuring and plans to revive itself in a different form.

    It had its application to wind up - filed by its judicial manager - approved in a hearing at the High Court on Friday.

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