Pilgrims Pride Corporation

Company

• Pre-filing annual sales: $12,037 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing assets: $4,658 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing number of employees: 49,750
• Sub-industry: 20 Food and Kindred Products
• Place of incorporation: DE
• Court for city of headquarters: TX Tyler
• In business at filing? yes

Bankruptcy case

• Chapter at filing: Chapter 11
• Who filed case? debtors
• Debtor's lead attorney: Weil Gotshal
• Date of filing: December 1, 2008
• Judge at filing: D. Michael Lynn
• Court district of filing: TX ND
• Court city of filing: Fort Worth
• Case number: 08-45664
• 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: December 10, 2009
• Judge at disposition: D. Michael Lynn
• Days from filing to disposition: 374

After the case

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