HyLife Foods filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Thursday and released a press statement later that day stating that the filing, “helps us to move forward with our restructuring plan while we pursue a potential sale, so that the plant can continue under new ownership.”
City of Windom officials had met on Tuesday in a roundtable with many state officials and politicians, and on the weekend the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture, Thom Petersen, supplied HyLife with a list of possible resources, state and federal, to aid in the selling of the facility.
For more on this story, please see the May 3 edition of the Citizen.