{"id":32506,"date":"2025-07-30T13:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32506\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T13:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:29:12","slug":"australian-furniture-chain-goes-bust-just-months-after-job-security-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32506\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian furniture chain goes bust just months after job security promise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian furniture empire Home Sweet Home has gone bust after an A Current Affair investigation exposing the company’s dirty tactics.<\/p>\n

Owner Daniele Maisano plotted the company’s collapse leaving staff and customers across the country out of pocket.<\/p>\n

“We’re not going anywhere. Our interest is to do the right thing by all our customers and our staff,” Maisano told A Current Affair earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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\"OwnerOwner Daniele Maisano plotted the company’s collapse leaving staff and customers across the country out of pocket. (Nine)<\/p>\n

“Are you going into liquidation?” A Current Affair asked.<\/p>\n

“No, we’re not,” Maisano assured.<\/p>\n

“You’re not going into liquidation?” A Current Affair again questioned.<\/p>\n

“No,” he replied.<\/p>\n

But the parent company for Home Sweet Home furniture stores is in liquidation.<\/p>\n

“We’ve lost our money, nobody’s responding to me, my files are locked, stores are closing,” customer Jan told A Current Affair last year.<\/p>\n

“Run. Do not buy from Home Sweet Home,” former employee Taylor said.<\/p>\n

“It’s time that people knew what sort of a person he is,” Maisano’s former HR and finance manager Marty said.<\/p>\n

A Current Affair aired explosive security footage from inside Maisano’s office exposing him.<\/p>\n

“You know that I’ve gone through administration twice in my life? And do you know that every time I got out of administration, I’ve got out of it heaps stronger and richer,” Maisano can be heard saying on the phone to someone in his office.<\/p>\n

“Who cares, just close them (stores) all up, sack all your staff and then we deal with it. If you liquidate all the companies, you write off landlord debt, you’ll write off the f—ing ATO debt.”<\/p>\n

A Current Affair confronted Maisano at his warehouse in Sydney in February.<\/p>\n

“So you’re not trying to dodge tax debt here?” A Current Affair asked.<\/p>\n

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\"AustralianAustralian furniture empire Home Sweet Home has gone bust after an A Current Affair investigation exposing the company’s dirty tactics. (Nine)<\/p>\n

“No. I don’t know where you’re getting this from,” Maisano replied.<\/p>\n

“They’re not my words,” A Current Affair answered.<\/p>\n

Maisano’s left customers across the country out of pocket.<\/p>\n

“It was the dream furniture for my dream house and yeah, obviously I don’t have that,” customer Melissa said.<\/p>\n

Melissa was so fed up she took matters into her own hands at one of the stores.<\/p>\n

“I drove up and I loaded my car with whatever I could. I think I broke their couch climbing it to take that painting but I don’t really care,” Melissa admitted.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately I was not able to get all my money’s worth.”<\/p>\n

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Maisano’s own staff lifted the lid on how they were treated too.<\/p>\n

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“I’m personally in debt up to my eyeballs because of Daniele Maisano,” a former employee revealed who didn’t want to be named. “He convinced me to put my name on documents.”<\/p>\n

“The people that he let go in Queensland right before Christmas, he sacked them all. They’re still waiting for money. What sort of person is this? He’s a monster,” former HR manager Marty told A Current Affair.<\/p>\n

“I’m doing my best, I’m a battler trying to do the right thing, trying to survive in the economic times but your story is going to hurt this company,” Maisano told A Current Affair.<\/p>\n

But Maisano is far from the battler he makes out to be.<\/p>\n

“And the reason why I’m good at administration is because I think about it. We plan it,” Maisano can be heard disclosing on his own surveillance footage. “And, I always say this, if you’re a billionaire, you play dirty. You don’t become a billionaire if you’re not dirty.”<\/p>\n

“He’s a disgrace, really. He’s a disgrace to business. He really is,” Marty said.<\/p>\n

“He’s only focused on money,” former worker Taylor added.<\/p>\n

“All the people that he has promised and taken their money, there’s nothing we can do now,” customer Jan told A Current Affair.<\/p>\n

“I’ve screwed him back so take that,” customer Melissa said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian furniture empire Home Sweet Home has gone bust after an A Current Affair investigation exposing the company’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-32506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}