ALLIED BRANDS OFFICIALLY STRIPPED OF BASKIN ROBBINS FRANCHISE

Dunkin Brands has sent personnel to Brisbane to take over operations of Baskin Robbins Australia from Allied Brands.

Westpac Bank has appointed a receiver, McGrath Nicol.

Insiders indicate all Allied Brands-Baskin Robbins management has been sacked including Tony Cavanagh, general manager. Reports about this piece of news were prefaced with the word "huzzah!". Cavanagh was said to be one of the real "black hands" in this whole fiasco.

More soon. . . .