Wholesale trade: company insolvencies in Australia
In Wholesale trade, 250 companies entered external administration in 2025-26, 1.8% of the year's total.
That was down 4.6% on 2024-25.
Source: ASIC, Australian insolvency statistics, Series 1, retrieved 26 Oct 2026. Grouped by industry and summarised by onestepright. No company is named. Series 1 to 4 Oct 2026, released 19 Oct 2026. Series 3.1 to 2024-25. Both change as ASIC publishes.
ASIC's statistics are not exhaustive. They are based on the information available to ASIC at the time of publication.
In 2024-25, administrators' reports in Wholesale trade most often named poor strategic management of business (54.4%) and trading losses (54.4%).
- Poor strategic management of business: 54.4%
- Trading losses: 54.4%
- Inadequate cash flow or high cash use: 52.6%
- Other: 52.0%
- Poor financial control including lack of records: 39.8%
- Poor economic conditions: 29.2%
- Under capitalisation: 29.2%
- Poor management of accounts receivable: 18.1%
- Fraud: 3.5%
- Natural disaster: 3.5%
- Business restructuring: 2.9%
- Dispute among directors: 2.3%
- Industry restructuring: 2.3%
- DOCA failed: 0.0%
Source: ASIC, Australian insolvency statistics, Series 3.1, retrieved 26 Oct 2026. Grouped by industry and summarised by onestepright. No company is named. Series 1 to 4 Oct 2026, released 19 Oct 2026. Series 3.1 to 2024-25. Both change as ASIC publishes.
See business exits in Wholesale trade, every business that stopped trading, from ABS data.
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