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Sugi Hadiwijaya
Partner, Partners
Sugi Hadiwijaya has more than 15 years of combined experience in financial services and turnaround management, assisting companies with tasks such as cash management, securing of financing, business plan assessment, M&A activities, and financial modeling in multiple industries.
Mike Juniper
Partner, Partners
Mike Juniper has 20 years of experience in financial and operational analysis and improvement, turnaround and restructuring consulting, and interim management. He has served as an advisor to numerous companies through Chapter 11 proceedings.
Winston Mar
Partner, Partners
Winston Mar is an experienced professional who provides advisory and interim management services to distressed companies.
William Snyder
Partner, Partners
With executive and entrepreneurial experience spanning close to 40 years, William Snyder has restructured, managed, and guided a multitude of companies in a wide variety of industries.
- EBITDAR improved
- DIP paid off
- Creditors were paid in full, equity holders ownership
The company was the largest integrated chicken producer in North America with 25% of the market share and over 45,000 employees. With over $2.5B in debt and after lost $300MM of EBITDAR, CR3 professionals served as CRO and assisted led the company through numerous operational efficiency initiatives. EBITDAR improved from $300MM to nearly $700MM, the $190MM DIP loan was paid off within five months, an exit-financing facility of $1.7B under one bank group was obtained, and a sponsor of the Plan of Reorganization injected $800MM for 64% of reorganized entity. The company generated an additional $250MM of cash by the time it emerged from bankruptcy - upon emergence, all pre-petition creditors were paid in full (par plus accrued interest) and old equity holders retained 36% of the reorganized entity.
The Situation
- Largest integrated chicken producer in North America with 25% of market share and over 45,000 employees
- Company had over $2.5B in debt and lost $300MM of EBITDAR
- Sought advisors to implement an operational-improvement plan to increase efficiencies and reduce costs during a court-supervised restructuring and to create and support a Plan of Reorganization upon emergence from bankruptcy
The Work
- Retained to serve as CRO, assisting new management team with numerous operational efficiency initiatives
- Changed the company’s culture and supply-chain focus from primarily production-driven to customer-focused and demand-driven
- Helped create more value-added prepared food products to offset the sales of less profitable commodity chicken meat
- Developed operational-turnaround plan consisting of lean manufacturing
- Closed seven complexes, reducing headcount by 14,000 FTEs and severed agreements with 1,000 contract growers
- Sold non-core assets, negotiated favorable union contracts, rejected unfavorable leases, and created alternative dispute-resolution process to estimate litigation claims
- Helped engineer a timely plan to emerge from Chapter 11
The Results
- EBITDAR improved from $300MM to nearly $700MM the following fiscal year
- $190MM DIP loan was paid off within five months
- Exit-financing facility of $1.7B under one bank group was obtained
- Sponsor of the Plan of Reorganization injected $800MM for 64% of reorganized entity
- Company generated additional $250MM of cash by the time it emerged from bankruptcy - upon emergence, all pre-petition creditors were paid in full (par plus accrued interest) and old equity holders retained 36% of the reorganized entity
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