Hechinger Company

Company

  • Pre-filing annual sales: $6,150 (millions of current dollars)
  • Pre-filing assets: $2,817 (millions of current dollars)
  • Pre-filing number of employees: 28,000
  • Sub-industry: 52 Building Materials, Hardware, Garden Supply, And Mobile Home Dealers
  • Place of incorporation: DE
  • Court for city of headquarters: MD Greenbelt
  • In business at filing? yes

Bankruptcy case

  • Chapter at filing: Chapter 11
  • Who filed case? debtors
  • Debtor's lead attorney: Willkie Farr
  • Date of filing: June 11, 1999
  • Judge at filing: data not available
  • Court district of filing: DE
  • Court city of filing: Wilmington
  • Case number: 99-02261
  • Cause of bankruptcy: Not tort
  • Forum shop? Forum Shop

  • Case transferred? no
  • Destination court of transfer: not applicable
  • Creditors committee appointed? yes
  • ยง363 sale: 363 sale
  • Dip loan final approval? yes
  • Plan type: free fall

  • Disposition status: confirmed
  • Date of disposition: October 5, 2001
  • Judge at disposition: Peter J. Walsh
  • Days from filing to disposition: 847

After the case

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


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American Bankruptcy Institute

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