Christina Pickwell

I know that we're stuffed.

We have no other choice but to either do it or go under, basically.

No, so Convoy is still running.

They are still operating as per they are just running through the liquidators, basically are still kind of managing it.

So they've still got a couple of people on the ground here in New Zealand and still just running business as normal.

But everything's just going through the liquidators while all of this discussion is happening.

That is my understanding of it.

It hasn't been too much of an interruption for us, apart from the fact when it first came out, people started hoarding kegs and keeping them at their breweries and stockpiling them in the fear of, you know, there may be a day, any day now, any day now where we might not be able to get any kegs.

And that has actually caused a problem for breweries across the country because the few people that are stockpiling it and hoarding them are hiding them.

And it means that the rest of us can't get enough kegs on the days that we need them.

Yeah, well, we are literally just having to operate as normal and we are hoping for the best outcome because there is no way that we can afford to purchase all of our own and I guess wait for a decision.

And then because we can't knee jerk and make any decisions, I can't afford to go and buy a whole bunch of kegs on the anticipation that it may or may not happen.

I also I'm wanting to keep the competition going in the industry.

between the two and then people can still choose.

And also, I don't think there's going to be enough kegs in the country if Convoy do go under with Kegstar.

I don't think they'll be able to provide enough kegs for every brewery in New Zealand.

So we're still going to be at a loss at some point somewhere.

Oh, my gosh.

It's an absolute killer.

Yeah, it's about 50% of the cost of our product and the production part of it and the sale.