date:Mar 19, 2014
peared all but certain that California-based Ready Roast Nut Companys $18.5-million offer would be accepted. Clarke Coll, the bankruptcy trustee, endorsed Ready Roast offer.
Then Hampton Farms, a North Carolina-based peanut roaster that makes peanut butter in North Carolina and Virginia, made a competing undisclosed bid to purchase Sunlands plant and property. The amount of that bid was not disclosed before the court decided to settle the issue at auction.
Attorneys for Hampton Farms said the