Ernst Home Center, Inc.

Company

• Pre-filing annual sales: $1,082 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing assets: $584 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing number of employees: 5,150
• Sub-industry: 52 Building Materials, Hardware, Garden Supply, And Mobile Home Dealers
• Place of incorporation: DE
• Court for city of headquarters: WA Seattle
• In business at filing? yes

Bankruptcy case

• Chapter at filing: Chapter 11
• Who filed case? debtors
• Debtor's lead attorney: Jones Day
• Date of filing: July 12, 1996
• Judge at filing: Peter J. Walsh
• Court district of filing: DE
• Court city of filing: Wilmington
• Case number: 96-01088
• Cause of bankruptcy: Not tort
• Forum shop? Forum Shop


• Case transferred? yes
• Destination court of transfer: Seattle
• Creditors committee appointed? yes
• §363 sale: 363 sale
• Dip loan final approval? yes
• Plan type: free fall


• Disposition status: confirmed
• Date of disposition: July 9, 1999
• Judge at disposition: Karen A. Overstreet
• Days from filing to disposition: 1092

After the case

• Did firm emerge? company did not emerge
• Did firm refile? not emerged 5 years