Bankruptcy

Carestream, a global provider of medical imaging and X-ray systems, said Monday that it will close its Windsor manufacturing facility and transfer production operations elsewhere. The company said 210 of the 236 employees now employed at 2000 Howard Smith Ave. in Windsor will lose their jobs, with the remainder transferred to other locations. Layoffs are expected to start on April 26 with a group of 137 employees, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification letter filed with the Colorado Department of…

Ana Fanakra sat in her bakery on the 16th Street Mall on what turned out to be its last day in business, Feb. 3, waiting for customers. But not many came, and she decided to close up early. “We had really low sales that day,” she said. “We hadn’t even made $100 yet, which was a very accurate picture of what the last couple of months looked like for us.” The next day, she decided to call it quits, closing both the original location of Ana’s Norwegian Bakeri, which opened in Centennial in June 2021, and the downtown bakery,…

The transition from an unregulated to a regulated environment has caused a lot of pain for the online gaming industry in India, said Harsh Jain, cofounder and CEO of Dream Sports, which operates online fantasy gaming platform Dream11.He was speaking at a panel discussion at the Mumbai Tech Week on Monday.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Professional Certificate in Product ManagementVisitIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science &…

Tattered Cover’s current CEO can be paid a salary of $120,000 this year, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge ruled Monday, despite the objections of its former CEO. Kwame Spearman, who owns a minority stake in the company, led Tattered Cover between early 2021 and early 2023, when he stepped down following an aborted mayoral bid to focus on running for Denver school board, ultimately unsuccessfully. His successor is Brad Dempsey, a bankruptcy attorney who took over soon before the company filed for Chapter 11 in October and has…

A minority owner of Joyride Brewing in Edgewater says accusations that he misappropriated $1 million from the brewery are frivolous, so he is countersuing it for $170,000. Grant Babb, who was the general manager at Joyride until resigning in October, has been blamed by managing co-owner Dave Bergen of bankrupting the brewery through theft. “This has nothing to do with Joyride’s ability to run a successful or profitable business but rather has everything to do with the improper and unauthorized spending, as well as…

Nearly 16 months after announcing a $24.6 billion merger, grocery chains Kroger and Albertsons continue to sell their plan to federal and state regulators, workers and customers. Union members are pushing back against the transaction with the public and policymakers. And analysts don’t see the merger as a done deal. A consultant with the financial services company Solomon Partners told reporters during a call last week that the merger between Kroger, which owns and operates King Soopers and City Market stores in Colorado,…

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Electric motorcycle startup Cake filed for bankruptcy February 1, CEO Stefan Ytterborn has confirmed to TechCrunch. The Swedish company was in the middle of a funding round, just prior to the filing, but apparently the withdrawal of an investor was what tipped the company over the edge, according to Swedish media reports. Ytterborn declined to comment on what will happen next. While it’s unclear if Cake filed for bankruptcy protection or insolvency, Ytterborn did tell media outlet Dagens…

Byju’s has made a combative riposte to some investors’ demand for a change in its management and board, saying the latter have “no voting rights to change (its) chief executive.”It termed as “unfortunate” the call by these shareholders to vote out chief executive Byju Raveendran and his family — holding about 26% in the company — from the board.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in FinTech, Banking & Applied Risk ManagementVisitMITMIT…

CAKE, the Swedish electric motorcycle maker known for its eye-catching designs, is reportedly filing for bankruptcy after failing to raise enough funding to keep operations afloat. Swedish media has reported that CAKE’s board is submitting a bankruptcy application. There has been no announcement from the company itself, which as recently as last week was still making press announcements including about further European expansions. CAKE had also just begun delivering its newest electric…