Source Evidence

Primary records and attributed reporting used to build the research archive. Every item states what the source can establish, what it cannot establish and whether a preserved copy is available.

Collection statusFive source records

Primary documentsOne unchanged ASIC notice

Editorial ruleAllegations are not findings

Verified primary factREG-ASIC-001

Australian Securities and Investments Commission / 2 March 2026

Infringement Notice M01700495

ASIC issued the notice to Mecca Brands Pty Ltd under section 1317DAM of the Corporations Act 2001. The notice states ASIC's belief concerning an alleged failure to lodge the FY24 annual report by the due date and specifies $198,000 payable.

Media reportMEDIA-PED-001

Pedestrian.TV / 19 November 2019

Mecca Is Investigating Claims Of Widespread Internal Bullying Made By Ex-Employees

Pedestrian reported anonymous allegations from current and former workers, information attributed to the Young Workers Centre, and MECCA's response that it had hired an independent consultant to review workplace culture.

Media reportMEDIA-SMH-001

The Sydney Morning Herald / 17 November 2019

'It's all fake': Beauty giant Mecca facing bullying claims

The linked report concerns workplace bullying claims and the public controversy reported in November 2019.

Media reportMEDIA-SMH-002

The Sydney Morning Herald / 10 October 2017

How selfie culture helped Jo Horgan build a multimillion-dollar business

A business profile supplied as historical context for MECCA's growth, leadership and public employer messaging.

Media reportMEDIA-APA-001

Australian Payroll Association / 26 March 2023

Beauty retailer Mecca discovers it owes staff $560,000

The article reports that approximately 1,600 current and former employees were contacted after a historical payroll review identified roughly $560,000 in back-payments for work between 2016 and 2022.

Document integrity

The ASIC PDF is preserved unchanged.

The public copy is byte-for-byte identical to the supplied file. It has not been rewritten, compressed, redacted, rotated or annotated. The notice identifies Mecca Brands Pty Ltd, ACN 077 859 931, and unique identification code M01700495.

The preserved PDF is a scanned official record. Its inclusion does not add conclusions beyond the document. The related ASIC media release states that payment is not an admission of guilt or liability and that the companies are not regarded as convicted of the alleged offence.

Collection method

Links are evidence leads, not automatic proof.

The repeated Pedestrian URL supplied to the project has been logged once. The outdated Australian Payroll Association URL was corrected to the publisher's current article path. Where a paywall or retrieval restriction prevented a complete review, the record says so.

Evidence methodology Workforce and financial data