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Friendly’s is Filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy And Closes 63 Stores
Restaurant chain, Friendly’s is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and already closed 63 stores.
The company says the slump in the economy with higher costs and high rents drove it file for bankruptcy protection.
Friendly Ice Cream Corp. announced that it has held $70 million in financing and that its 424 remaining restaurants will stay open as it restructures under bankruptcy protection.
It says the store closings and its reorganization efforts will better position it for the future.
Sun Capital Partners, its current owners will be the lead, or “stalking horse” bidders, in an auction process.
Friendlys is a 76-year-old company known for its ice cream and hamburgers.
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USPS BANKRUPT MASSIVE LAYOFFS BAILOUT
U.S. Postal Service Near Default – Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
The U.S. Postal Service does not have the money to meet an obligation to a retiree health care trust fund coming due at the end of the month, but if there’s a default, officials promise no interruption in the mail, the payroll, or payments to suppliers.
Commenting in response to a New York Times article Monday suggesting the Postal Service may have to shut down within months, spokeswoman Yvonne Yoerger told CNN there’s “nothing actually new in the Postal Service’s position.”
“We are required to make this $5.5 billion dollar payment into the future retiree health benefits fund, and probably won’t be able to make it when it comes due September 30th.”
The fund was mandated by a 2006 postal reform act that postal officials today believe does not match the reality of declining revenues and a smaller workforce. Tuesday, congressional lawmakers will address the matter in a hearing on postal operations.
Yoerger said at that hearing, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe will insist that the fund be re-scaled from the days when there were 900,000 people on the payroll. The mandated funding level has not changed in the years since then, although the Postal Service has trimmed 250,000 jobs.
She said “the fact is, no other government agency, and few corporations in the private sector are required to fund retiree health benefits 75 years out.”
The newspaper quoted U.S. Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, as saying the financial problems are so dire the Postal Service may close later this year.
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What is Chapter 11? – Bankruptcy Lawyer Long Island NY
Named after the U.S. bankruptcy code 11, Chapter 11 is a form of bankruptcy that involves a reorganization of a debtor’s business affairs and assets. It is generally filed by corporations which require time to restructure their debts. Chapter 11 gives the debtor a fresh start, subject to the debtor’s fulfillment of its obligations under its plan of reorganization.
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Named after the U.S. bankruptcy code 11, Chapter 11 is a form of bankruptcy that involves a reorganization of a debtor’s business affairs and assets. It is generally filed by corporations which require time to restructure their debts
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CONGRESS TO LET STATES DECLARE BANKRUPTCY 1-21-2011
Link From: http://www.newzzcafe.com/
Policy makers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.
Unlike cities, the states are barred from seeking protection in federal bankruptcy court. Any effort to change that status would have to clear high constitutional hurdles because the states are considered sovereign.
Nations do not go broke. Nations do not default. Nations have a blank check to write with no balance.
The currency collapses. States do go broke.
-Jim Sinclair
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