**FLASH** ABQ TRADING HALTED, BREACH OF BASKIN ROBBINS AGREEMENT MAY MEAN LOSS OF BRAND **FLASH**

Early today, acting CEO of Allied Brands Sean Corbin met with Baskin Robbins senior management in Boston in order to receive the bad news about ABQ's continuing to represent the Baskin-Robbins brand in Australia.

In response, trading in ABQ shares has been halted by the ASX.

READ HALT ANNOUNCEMENT HERE

Corbin is said to be holed up in his luxury hotel suite in Quincy, Mass, refusing to take phone calls and lamenting his involvement again in another fucked up company.

Allied Brands has NO resources to fight an American company in American courts. So whatever has occurred, it's final. Done and dusted. Perhaps they can lodge a complaint with the ACCC like so many Allied Brands franchisees have done!

More soon. . . .