Qintex

Qintex Ltd. was an Australian company that came to prominence during the 1980s, until its collapse in 1989. Its main shareholder and Managing Director was Christopher Skase. At its peak, Qintex owned interests in the Australian Television...

In this article: Qintex Ltd., Mirage Resorts, Hsv-7, Commonwealth Bank, Brisbane, and Channel 7

...rise and fall of famous Australian families and companies as wealth has waxed and waned and tastes have changed. In 1990, the entire Qintex collection -- 651 lots of art nouveau, art deco and antique furnishings from Christopher Skase's...

In this article: Melbourne, Sotheby's, Louis Vuitton, UN, Australia, Maharajah of Mysore, and Christopher Skase

...began his career as a financial journalist working for the Melbourne Sun and The Australian Financial Review. In 1977 he took over Qintex and moved to Brisbane, where he became a friend of Joh Bjelke-Petersen. His downfall came when in 1987 he...

In this article: Brenden James Abbott, Christopher Dale Flannery, Sydney, and Heroin

August - New cross-media ownership rules force the sale of the Seven Network. Fairfax sells its stations to Christopher Skase's Qintex company for $780 million. December 27 - Kerry Stokes' ownership of ADS-7 (while owning Network Ten...

In this article: Sas-10, Ads-7, Network Ten, Seven Network, Stw-9, Hsv-7, The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, Westfield, and Christopher Skase

...laws which forced Fairfax to choose between its print and broadcast operations. It chose print, and HSV-7 was sold to Christopher Skase's Qintex, which already owned Seven stations in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth . In 1990 Qintex was sent into...

In this article: HSV, Seven Network, Jennifer Keyte, Melbourne, Melbourne, Peter Mitchell, Fairfax, Christopher Skase, and Rob Gell

...Queensland bizoid called Christopher Skase, who later found infamy and misfortune as a fugitive on Majorca following the collapse of his Qintex group of companies. But the man selected back then as Entrepreneur of the Year, Ian Johns of...

In this article: Queensland, Revenue, Insider trading, Business Review Weekly, Scarface, Rolling Stone, Christopher Skase, and Kerry Packer

...ownership of the Sydney and Melbourne flagships through the disastrous privatisation by Warwick Fairfax Jr. The buyer was the Qintex group, controlled by colourful entrepreneur Christopher Skase, a former Australian Financial Review...

In this article: Seven Network, Seven Network Limited, Sydney, Melbourne, Seven Media Group, KKR, Nine Network, and Brisbane

...to be placed into the hands of receivers and the assets sold to repay debt. The infamous companies that fell into this basket, such as Qintex and Adsteam, were multilayered structures with a head stock having a controlling interest in...

In this article: Babcock & Brown, ASX, Centro, Cash flow, Tax, Titanic, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, and Gucci

...few weeks before the stock market crashed in October 1987, Christopher Skase issued a big profit upgrade. Earnings for his flagship company Qintex were shaping up to be stronger than ever in 1988. Fast forward 20 years. Skase's "blue sky''...

In this article: Christopher Skase, Gold Coast, Joint venture, Multiplex, and Babcock & Brown

...being worked out, refinanced or extended. In the wake of the 1987 crash and market fallout in 1989 which saw Bond Corp, Christopher Skase's Quintex, Adsteam and others crash into the warm embrace of the insolvency practitioners - and stay...

In this article: Suncorp, Recession, Westpac, Promina, Derivative, Citigroup, and Queensland