Robotics supplier collapses
July 21, 2010
AUSTRALIAN pharmacy
automation specialist Gollmann
Bouw has failed, with an external
administrator appointed to the
company last week.
Despite the collapse, Gollmann
Bouw is still listed on the Guild’s
Gold Cross website as an endorsed
supplier to the Australian industry.
The administrator is accounting
firm Ferrier Hodgson, with the
appointment coming just 18
months after the company was
formed as a joint venture between
Melbourne-based Mark Bouw and
German engineer Daniel Gollmann
who is the ceo of Gollmann
Kommissionersysteme.
Bouw has been associated with
pharmacy automation in Australia
for some years, with his previous
role seeing him head up the local
operations of rival pharmacy
robotics firm Willach and Heise,
before he switched to the new
Gollmann Bouw operation (PD 03
Oct 08) saying it offered a “second
generation” product.
The Pharmacy Guild officially
endorsed the Gollmann Bouw
system last year (PD 04 Jun 09), at
the time citing the company’s
“flexible approach to installation
and shop-fitting, as well as the
provision of ongoing training and
maintenance support services” and
claiming it was the best robotic
dispensing system available in
Australia.
The Gollmann Bouw website
doesn’t contain any details about
the appointment of the
administrators, and continues to
proudly tout the Guild endorsement.
It’s not clear at this stage what
has led to the appointment of the
administrator, and the collapse
follows the registrations of a
number of charges against the
company in April and June this year
held by the ANZ bank and Esanda
Finance Corporation.
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