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Kodak files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
by Steven Musil | January 18, 2012 9:12 PM PST
Struggling photography company Eastman Kodak announced this evening that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The company, which hopes to emerge from bankruptcy in 2013, said it has secured $950 million in debtor-in-possession financing from Citigroup that will allow it to keep operating during restructuring. The company has also appointed Dominic DiNapoli, a vice chairman at FTI Consulting, as its chief restructuring officer. The firm has been advising Kodak on its finances since last year.
DiNapoli will have broad powers over the company's finances and operations as it looks for ways to raise funding to keep the company afloat during bankruptcy.
"Kodak is taking a significant step toward enabling our enterprise to complete its transformation," Antonio M. Perez, who will continue to serve as Kodak's CEO, said in a statement. "At the same time as we have created our digital business, we have also already effectively exited certain traditional operations, closing 13 manufacturing plants and 130 processing labs, and reducing our workforce by 47,000 since 2003. Now we must complete the transformation by further addressing our cost structure and effectively monetizing non-core IP assets."
More about that:
http://news.cnet.com...tcy-protection/
by Steven Musil | January 18, 2012 9:12 PM PST
Struggling photography company Eastman Kodak announced this evening that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The company, which hopes to emerge from bankruptcy in 2013, said it has secured $950 million in debtor-in-possession financing from Citigroup that will allow it to keep operating during restructuring. The company has also appointed Dominic DiNapoli, a vice chairman at FTI Consulting, as its chief restructuring officer. The firm has been advising Kodak on its finances since last year.
DiNapoli will have broad powers over the company's finances and operations as it looks for ways to raise funding to keep the company afloat during bankruptcy.
"Kodak is taking a significant step toward enabling our enterprise to complete its transformation," Antonio M. Perez, who will continue to serve as Kodak's CEO, said in a statement. "At the same time as we have created our digital business, we have also already effectively exited certain traditional operations, closing 13 manufacturing plants and 130 processing labs, and reducing our workforce by 47,000 since 2003. Now we must complete the transformation by further addressing our cost structure and effectively monetizing non-core IP assets."
More about that:
http://news.cnet.com...tcy-protection/
