{"id":80998,"date":"2025-10-15T23:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/80998\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T23:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:28:07","slug":"grabone-shuts-down-as-owner-global-marketplace-goes-into-liquidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/80998\/","title":{"rendered":"GrabOne shuts down as owner Global Marketplace goes into liquidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">The liquidators said the company was unable to provide refunds to customers who hold onto unredeemed vouchers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cConsumers will need to take steps themselves &#8211; including contacting individual merchants &#8211; to assess how unredeemed vouchers will be treated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME), publishers of the New Zealand Herald, sold GrabOne in 2021 to Global Marketplace New Zealand for $17.5 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">GrabOne was founded in 2010 as a 50\/50 venture between IdeaHQ &#8211; controlled by entrepreneur Shane Bradley &#8211; and then Herald publisher APN. APN progressively bought out Bradley\u2019s stake, taking full control in 2013 in a deal worth up to $12.2m.<\/p>\n<p>Listen and subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/1049-today-in-business-287718209\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Today in Business<\/a> podcast \u2013 the top headlines from the NZ Herald business team summarised and delivered by an AI voice as an easily digestible recap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The liquidators said the company was unable to provide refunds to customers who hold onto unredeemed vouchers. \u201cConsumers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,806,138,62260,3468,6097,26399,1437,5275,62259,296,2739,6214,111,139,69,2738,57343,1865,780,3114,2201],"class_list":["post-80998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-after","tag-as","tag-business","tag-ceased","tag-deal","tag-down","tag-ecommerce","tag-global","tag-goes","tag-grabone","tag-into","tag-liquidation","tag-marketplace","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-owner","tag-shuts","tag-today","tag-trading","tag-website","tag-went"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80998","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=80998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}