Thorn Apple Valley, Inc.

Company

• Pre-filing annual sales: $935 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing assets: $475 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing number of employees: 3,100
• Sub-industry: 20 Food and Kindred Products
• Place of incorporation: MI
• Court for city of headquarters: MI Detroit
• In business at filing? yes

Bankruptcy case

• Chapter at filing: Chapter 11
• Who filed case? debtors
• Debtor's lead attorney: Honigman Miller
• Date of filing: March 5, 1999
• Judge at filing: Ray R. Graves
• Court district of filing: MI ED
• Court city of filing: Detroit
• Case number: 99-43645
• Cause of bankruptcy: Not tort
• Forum shop? Filed at headquarters


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


• Disposition status: converted
• Date of disposition: July 31, 2001
• Judge at disposition: Ray R. Graves
• Days from filing to disposition: 879

After the case

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