Rickel Home Centers Inc.

Company

• Pre-filing annual sales: $275 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing assets: $510 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing number of employees: 5,500
• Sub-industry: 52 Building Materials, Hardware, Garden Supply, And Mobile Home Dealers
• Place of incorporation: DE
• Court for city of headquarters: NJ Trenton
• In business at filing? yes

Bankruptcy case

• Chapter at filing: Chapter 11
• Who filed case? debtors
• Debtor's lead attorney: Fried Frank
• Date of filing: January 10, 1996
• Judge at filing: Helen S. Balick
• Court district of filing: DE
• Court city of filing: Wilmington
• Case number: 96-26
• 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: prenegotiated


• Disposition status: converted
• Date of disposition: February 21, 2001
• Judge at disposition: Peter J. Walsh
• Days from filing to disposition: 1869

After the case

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