Earth Fare, Inc.
High confidence (93%)
Updated Oct 15, 2026, 12:04 AM
What is happening
Derived by rule set status-rules-2026.09.7
The bankruptcy is proceeding as a liquidation.
Latest material event: bankruptcy case closed (docket entry 6) (Jan 4, 2022)
The business
What a source says the company did. A classification is not a description of operations.
Earth Fare sold organic and locally sourced food through a grocery business focused on convenient, affordable products.
First-day declaration · page 4 · Epiq Bankruptcy Case Administration
Bankruptcy information
Court records associated with this company's legal entities.
- Court
- D. Delaware
- District
- Delaware
- Chapter
- Other
- Case status
- UNKNOWN
- Filed
- Feb 4, 2020
- Judge
- Karen B. Owens
- Trustee
- —
- Reported assets
- —
- Reported liabilities
- —
Affiliated debtors
1 affiliated entity filed with Earth Fare, Inc. and are administered under the same case. Each filed its own petition.
- EF Investment Holdings, Inc.20-10255
Timeline
Every material event, newest first. History is never overwritten.
bankruptcy case closed (docket entry 6)
Jan 4, 2022
Bankruptcy case closed
Final Decree and Order Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 105 and 350, Fed. R. Bankr. P. 3022 and Local Rule 3022-1 Closing Chapter 11 Cases and Terminating Claims and Noticing Services Signed on 12/30/2021. (LBr)
- Epiq — claims agent docket · case 20-10255, entry 6 — “Final Decree”
bankruptcy case closed (docket entry 704)
Dec 30, 2021
Bankruptcy case closed
Final Decree and Order Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 105 and 350, Fed. R. Bankr. P. 3022 and Local Rule 3022-1 Closing Chapter 11 Cases and Terminating Claims and Noticing Services
- Epiq — claims agent docket · case 20-10256, entry 704 — “Final Decree”
plan effective (docket entry 657)
Jun 30, 2021
Plan effective
Notice of Effective Date
- Epiq — claims agent docket · case 20-10256, entry 657 — “Notice of Effective Date”
chapter 11 liquidation (docket entry 655)
Jun 29, 2021
Chapter 11 liquidation
Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Order Confirming the Debtors' Combined Disclosure Statement and Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Liquidation
- Epiq — claims agent docket · case 20-10256, entry 655 — “Confirming the Debtors' Combined Disclosure Statement and Joint Chapter 11 Plan”
Creditors of Earth Fare, Inc. reached the deadline to file claims
Aug 24, 2020
Claims deadline
Earth Fare, Inc.: General Bar Date. Published by Epiq, the claims and noticing agent appointed in the case.
- Epiq — claims agent case · case 20-10256 — “Earth Fare, Inc. — case 20-10256 — Delaware — before Karen B. Owens — filed Feb 04 2020 — 2 affiliated debtors”
Earth Fare, Inc. had its first day hearing
Feb 6, 2020
First day hearing
Earth Fare, Inc.: First Day Hearing. Published by Epiq, the claims and noticing agent appointed in the case.
- Epiq — claims agent case · case 20-10256 — “Earth Fare, Inc. — case 20-10256 — Delaware — before Karen B. Owens — filed Feb 04 2020 — 2 affiliated debtors”
Earth Fare, Inc. filed for bankruptcy
Feb 4, 2020
Bankruptcy filed
Earth Fare, Inc. filed for bankruptcy in D. Delaware as case 20-10256 on Feb 04 2020.
- Epiq — claims agent case · case 20-10256 — “Earth Fare, Inc. — case 20-10256 — Delaware — before Karen B. Owens — filed Feb 04 2020 — 2 affiliated debtors”
Company information
- Founded
- —
- Employees (estimate)
- —
- Industry
- Retail
- Subindustry
- —
- Website
- earthfare.comSource verification pending
- —
- Headquarters
- —
- Also known as
- —
- Legal entities
- Earth Fare, Inc.
Sources
Every material source used to build this profile.
Epiq Bankruptcy Case Administration (TIER 1 · UNVERIFIED)
Final Decree
Epiq Bankruptcy Case Administration (TIER 1 · UNVERIFIED)
Earth Fare, Inc. — case 20-10256 — Delaware — before Karen B. Owens — filed Feb 04 2020 — 2 affiliated debtors
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Status history
Every derived status, with the rule that produced it.
- LIQUIDATION → LIQUIDATIONCHAPTER_7_LIQUIDATION · Sep 18, 2026, 01:32 AM
The bankruptcy is proceeding as a liquidation.
- LIQUIDATION → LIQUIDATIONCHAPTER_7_LIQUIDATION · Sep 18, 2026, 01:13 AM
The bankruptcy is proceeding as a liquidation.
- BANKRUPTCY_CONCLUDED → LIQUIDATIONCHAPTER_7_LIQUIDATION · Sep 15, 2026, 12:35 PM
The bankruptcy is proceeding as a liquidation.
- BANKRUPTCY → BANKRUPTCY_CONCLUDEDCASE_CONCLUDED_BY_FINAL_DECREE · Sep 15, 2026, 12:22 PM
The court entered a final decree, so the bankruptcy case is over. The decree does not say how it ended or what became of the business. This supersedes the earlier bankruptcy signal.
- BANKRUPTCY → BANKRUPTCYCHAPTER_11_BANKRUPTCY · Sep 14, 2026, 12:01 AM
A bankruptcy case is open. A filing is a legal proceeding, not a confirmation that the company is closed.
- UNKNOWN → BANKRUPTCYCHAPTER_11_BANKRUPTCY · Sep 9, 2026, 09:30 PM
A bankruptcy case is open. A filing is a legal proceeding, not a confirmation that the company is closed.