American Rice, Inc.

Company

• Pre-filing annual sales: $937 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing assets: $541 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing number of employees: 1,500
• Sub-industry: 51 Wholesale Trade-non-durable Goods
• Place of incorporation: TX
• Court for city of headquarters: TX Houston
• In business at filing? yes

Bankruptcy case

• Chapter at filing: Chapter 11
• Who filed case? debtors
• Debtor's lead attorney: Pachulski Stang
• Date of filing: August 11, 1998
• Judge at filing: Richard S. Schmidt
• Court district of filing: TX SD
• Court city of filing: Corpus Christi
• Case number: 98-21254
• Cause of bankruptcy: Not tort
• Forum shop? Forum Shop


• Case transferred? no
• Destination court of transfer: not applicable
• Creditors committee appointed? yes
• §363 sale: no 363 sale
• Dip loan final approval? yes
• Plan type: free fall


• Disposition status: confirmed
• Date of disposition: July 6, 1999
• Judge at disposition: Richard S. Schmidt
• Days from filing to disposition: 329

After the case

• Did firm emerge? Company emerged
• Did firm refile? emerged 5 years, did not refile