{"id":579291,"date":"2026-08-24T23:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/579291\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T23:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T23:54:10","slug":"speedy-firewood-hawkes-bay-firewood-company-owned-by-young-rapper-liquidated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/579291\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedy Firewood: Hawke\u2019s Bay firewood company owned by young rapper liquidated"},"content":{"rendered":"

A legal representative for Speedy Firewood told the court, in June, that the company was entering voluntary liquidation.<\/p>\n

That eventuated this month, and the first liquidators\u2019 report has since been released.<\/p>\n

\"Hawke'sHawke’s Bay rapper and owner of the firewood company, Tom Francis. Photo \/ File<\/p>\n

\u201cThe director has advised that the reason for insolvency was due to difficult trading conditions,\u201d the report read.<\/p>\n

The amount of money owed to creditors has yet to be determined by liquidators, including how much money is owed to IRD.<\/p>\n

The report stated the company stopped trading in March.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll assets owned by the company will be sold at public auction and any expressions of interest should be directed to this office [Rodgers Reidy],\u201d the liquidators\u2019 report read.<\/p>\n

Creditors can also make a claim through that insolvency firm.<\/p>\n

Attempts to contact Francis have been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Francis appeared on The Project about his music, and said he started making firewood sales to help fund his music career, which has included a collaboration with US hip hop legend Snoop Dogg.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Francis made headlines after a photo of his orange Lamborghini was shared online, parked in a disabled car park in Auckland.<\/p>\n

He then assaulted a social media user<\/a> who posted about the incident.<\/p>\n

He pleaded guilty to the assault but escaped conviction earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Speedy Firewood was once on a list of Winz-registered firewood suppliers. The last time a Winz client used the company (via a Winz loan) was August 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A legal representative for Speedy Firewood told the court, in June, that the company was entering voluntary liquidation.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1561,1558,138,3595,2046,1656,128673,295,1976,5838,12618,2739,157,111,139,69,7497,21940,693,109557,11555,15367,4741],"class_list":["post-579291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bay","tag-been","tag-business","tag-by","tag-career","tag-company","tag-firewood","tag-fund","tag-hawkes","tag-help","tag-liquidated","tag-liquidation","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-owned","tag-placed","tag-rapper","tag-speedy","tag-started","tag-troubled","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}