On 23 September, David Hurst of Mackay Goodwin was appointed restructuring practitioner for Homemaker Furniture Wholesale Pty Ltd, ACN 666 169 991. ASIC published the notice on 24 September. It gives the company's trading names as Diamond Creek Furniture and Diamond Creek Furniture Collection.
There is also a company called Diamond Creek Furniture Pty Ltd, ACN 149 135 142. It is not the one restructuring. No insolvency notice has been published against it, and the Australian Business Register still shows its ABN and GST registration as active.
So anyone holding an invoice, order or contract that says "Diamond Creek Furniture" has one question to answer before any other: which company issued it?
Is Diamond Creek Furniture in administration or liquidation?
No. The business trading as Diamond Creek Furniture is in small business restructuring, which is a different process. The directors of Homemaker Furniture Wholesale stay in control of the company while a restructuring practitioner oversees a plan to deal with its debts. The process begins when the directors resolve that the company is insolvent or likely to become insolvent. To be eligible, the company's liabilities, as calculated under the restructuring rules, must not exceed $1 million when the practitioner is appointed. The company ordinarily has 20 business days to put a plan to creditors, who then vote on it.
A restructuring is not a liquidation, and the notice does not say the business has stopped trading. The latest weekly stock list is dated 24 September, the day after the practitioner was appointed.
The name is older than the company carrying it
Homemaker Furniture Wholesale was registered on 2 March 2023. The brand it trades under is not new. The brand's website describes Diamond Creek Furniture as a trusted name in Australian furniture "for decades", founded as a small family business in Victoria and grown into an importer and wholesaler of timber furniture sourced from Malaysia and China.
The public record supports the age of the name. It also ties the name to four companies, in different ways.
1999. A trade mark application for DIAMOND CREEK FURNITURE COLLECTION, covering furniture, was filed on 19 March 1999 in the name of JD Furniture Pty Ltd, of Melbourne postcode 3189. It lapsed in November 2000 without being registered.
2000 to 2006. Leisure Pine Furniture Pty Ltd, later renamed Morgan's Furniture Agencies Pty Ltd, recorded DIAMOND CREEK FURNITURE as a trading name from July 2000 to February 2006, alongside Chirnside Home Furniture. Its ABN was cancelled in August 2005.
2011 to 2023. Wholesale Homemaker Centre Pty Ltd, ACN 149 135 142, registered in February 2011 and renamed Diamond Creek Furniture Pty Ltd in 2012, held the DIAMOND CREEK FURNITURE business name from August 2011 to May 2023. It also held Home Origins and Furniture Origins, and traded as At Home Plus from 2012 to 2018.
2023 onward. Homemaker Furniture Wholesale registered Diamond Creek Furniture Collection on 3 April 2023 and DIAMOND CREEK FURNITURE on 30 April 2023.
No public record shows who owned any of these companies, whether they shared directors, or how the name passed from one to the next. Nothing fills the gap between 2006 and 2011. Three of the four are recorded using the name. The fourth, JD Furniture, applied to register a version of it as a trade mark, and nothing shows that it ever traded under it. The record does not show one continuous business.
Two outside sources put the brand inside the trade rather than on a register.
The Malaysian International Furniture Fair's website quotes a visitor identified with Diamond Creek Furniture, Australia, who says he has been visiting the fair "for over 25 years". That is one buyer's sourcing history. It says nothing about who has owned the business.
And in January 2017, Homemakers South Limited applied to the ACCC to keep bargaining collectively with suppliers on behalf of what it said were 76 member retailers. Its application listed 12 furniture suppliers. Diamond Creek Furniture was one of them. At that date the name was held by the 2011 company.
What changed hands in 2023, and what did not
The 2023 sequence is short.
Homemaker Furniture Wholesale was registered on 2 March. It registered Diamond Creek Furniture Collection on 3 April and DIAMOND CREEK FURNITURE on 30 April. The Australian Business Register shows the older company's registration of DIAMOND CREEK FURNITURE ending on 30 May. Those dates come from the register's history and do not by themselves show how the name passed between the two companies.
The older company did not go anywhere. Diamond Creek Furniture Pty Ltd remains registered, and it kept its last other business name, Home Origins, until April 2024. Its main business location on the Australian Business Register has been postcode 3173, Keysborough, since 2016, and its legal entity identifier record gives its address as 45–47 Keysborough Avenue.
That is still the address on the brand's website. The restructuring company's main business location on the Australian Business Register is postcode 3806. A different postcode establishes nothing on its own, and no register says who occupies the warehouse.
So the name moved to a new company in 2023, while the address customers are given is still the one the older company recorded. What else moved, if anything, is not on any public record: stock, customer accounts, contracts, staff, debts or the lease.
The website does not name the company. Its stock files carry its initials.
The brand's website names no company. Its footer reads "Diamond Creek", and neither the About page nor the Contact page gives an ACN or ABN.
Its customer stock lists are more specific. Each week the business uploads a report headed "Diamond Creek Furniture Inventory Report". Their file names begin with HFW, the initials of Homemaker Furniture Wholesale. Twenty of them were on the site on 25 September, running from April to September 2026.
The latest is dated 24 September 2026, the day after the appointment. It lists 412 product lines. For 149 of them, stock is shown as due to dock between October and January. Forty-seven lines show a negative balance, which the report defines as out of stock or on order.
Across the series the range stayed broad, but the forward stock shown to customers changed substantially. On 10 April, 180 of 392 product lines had stock due to dock, totalling 24,669 units in the report. By 24 September, 149 of 412 lines had stock due, totalling 11,638. Available stock rose from 17,127 units to 25,479 over the same period, while lines shown as out of stock or on order fell from 96 to 47.
Those are the company's own figures for its customers. They show what customers were told was in the warehouse and due to arrive, at each date. They do not show sales, margins, purchasing volumes or what the company owes, and they do not show why the company entered restructuring.
The buying group on the same day's notices
ASIC published a second furniture notice on 24 September. Homemakers South Limited, ACN 071 583 483, the group that made the 2017 application, has been in voluntary administration since 29 June 2026, with David Coyne of BRI Ferrier as administrator. The notice calls a resumed meeting of creditors for 5 October to consider the administrator's report dated 24 September, and to resolve whether the company should execute a deed of company arrangement, the administration should end, or the company should be wound up.
Homemakers South trades as Furniture House Group and Homemakers Furniture and Bedding Specialists. The ACCC authorisation that lets it bargain collectively for its members runs until May 2027.
That connection has three limits. The 2017 supplier list is nine years old and predates Homemaker Furniture Wholesale by six years. Whether Diamond Creek Furniture still supplied Homemakers retailers in 2026, and whether either company owes the other anything, is not on any public record. And the resemblance between the names Homemaker Furniture Wholesale, Wholesale Homemaker Centre and Homemakers South establishes no relationship between those companies.
A buying group and a brand it once listed as a supplier are now both in formal processes, three months apart. That is a sequence, not a cause.
Who needs to check which company
For anyone dealing with the brand, the answer is on the paperwork, not the website.
Retailers with orders on out-of-stock lines. Forty-seven lines showed a negative balance on 24 September. An order placed with Diamond Creek Furniture is an order with whichever company issued the invoice. The legal entity on that invoice decides where any claim sits; its ACN or ABN identifies it.
Suppliers and freight forwarders with shipments due between October and January. A restructuring plan generally deals with admissible debts and claims arising before the restructuring began.
Anyone whose dealings predate April 2023. That paperwork may have been issued by Diamond Creek Furniture Pty Ltd, the company that is not restructuring. Check the ACN or ABN rather than the brand.
What remains unresolved
who owns Homemaker Furniture Wholesale and Diamond Creek Furniture Pty Ltd, and whether they share directors
whether stock, customer accounts, contracts, staff or the lease passed from the older company to the new one in 2023, and on what terms
what liabilities, if any, the older company still carries
who the restructuring company's creditors are and what they are owed
whether Diamond Creek Furniture supplied Homemakers retailers in 2026
what the restructuring plan will propose
The brand is decades old. The company creditors will vote on was registered in 2023.
The name on the invoice is the brand. The number on it is the company.
If you are owed money by a company in an insolvency process and are unsure which entity you dealt with: They owe me money
We publish public-record information, not advice. The restructuring practitioner is the authoritative source on the restructuring, and nothing here is a statement about the solvency of Diamond Creek Furniture Pty Ltd or Homemakers South Limited, or about any party's claim.
Sources and records
ASIC published notice, 24 September 2026: the restructuring appointment and the trading names.
ASIC published notice, 24 September 2026: the Homemakers South resumed meeting, its date and its agenda.
ASIC guidance on small business restructuring: eligibility, control and the plan timetable.
Australian Business Register: entity names, ABN and GST status, business and trading names with their dates, and main business locations for the three companies in the chain that it records.
ASIC company register: registration dates, status and the 2011 company's former name.
IP Australia trade mark data: the 1999 application, its applicant and its lapse.
ACCC authorisations register: Homemakers South's 2017 application, its supplier list, its member count and the authorisation term.
Legal entity identifier register: the 2011 company's declared address.
The brand's own website and weekly inventory reports: the brand description, the Keysborough address and the stock figures.
Malaysian International Furniture Fair website: the visitor quotation.
