{"id":202,"date":"2012-11-13T09:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T17:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.steltronicusa.com\/blog\/?p=202"},"modified":"2012-11-13T10:00:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T18:00:50","slug":"amf-files-for-bankruptcy-2x-within-11-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steltronicusa.com\/blog\/amf-files-for-bankruptcy-2x-within-11-years\/","title":{"rendered":"AMF files for bankruptcy 2X within 11 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esbinlaw.com\/images\/bankruptcy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"119\" \/>AMF Files chapter 11 bankruptcy, AGAIN!<\/h3>\n<p>AMF Bowling Worldwide Inc., the world\u2019s largest bowling-center operator, filed for bankruptcy for the second time in 11 years with a plan it says will \u201csignificantly\u201d cut debt and strengthen its balance sheet.<\/p>\n<p>The company listed both assets and debt of $100 million to $500 million in Chapter 11 documents filed today in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Richmond,\u00a0Virginia. The company, based in Mechanicsville, Virginia, runs about 300 bowling centers with more than 20 million visitors a year, according to its\u00a0<a title=\"Open Web Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amf.com\/\">website<\/a>. AMF filed for reorganization in July 2001 and exited with a confirmed Chapter 11 plan in February 2002 by giving unsecured creditors 7.5 percent of the new stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMF Files chapter 11 bankruptcy, AGAIN! AMF Bowling Worldwide Inc., the world\u2019s largest bowling-center operator, filed for bankruptcy for the second time in 11 years with a plan it says will \u201csignificantly\u201d cut debt and strengthen its balance sheet. The company listed both assets and debt of $100 million to $500 million in Chapter 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-amf-bankruptcy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.1 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AMF files for bankruptcy 2X within 11 years - https:\/\/www.steltronicusa.com\/blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.steltronicusa.com\/blog\/amf-files-for-bankruptcy-2x-within-11-years\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AMF files for bankruptcy 2X within 11 years\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AMF Files chapter 11 bankruptcy, AGAIN! 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