Brand afterlives

A company can fail while its brand carries on, and a brand can vanish while its company survives. Each case here follows one brand through insolvency or restructuring, with the proposal, the court's authorisation and the completed transfer kept as separate steps.

• iRobot: prepackaged Chapter 11 and acquisition by Picea

  United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, voluntary petitions under chapter 11 to implement a prepackaged plan of reorganization

• Sleep Number: Chapter 11 and sale of substantially all assets

  United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, voluntary petitions for relief under chapter 11, jointly administered

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