Nearly 30,000 companies filed for bankruptcy protection in the first half of 2009, up 64% from the previous year. Chapter 11 filings were up 113%.<\/p>\n
This means opportunity for the astute buyer. You can buy competitive customers for pennies on the dollar, acquire a cherished brand name, intellectual property, and maybe a great employee or two.<\/p>\n
Follow the filings for your industry, and make your move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nearly 30,000 companies filed for bankruptcy protection in the first half of 2009, up 64% from the previous year. Chapter 11 filings were up 113%. This means opportunity for the astute buyer. You can buy competitive customers for pennies on the dollar, acquire a cherished brand name, intellectual property, and maybe a great employee or… Continue reading Bankruptcies Up! Opportunities Up Higher!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[792,2183,2251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}