Del Monte Chilled Fruit Snacks, LLC just hit the wall. On July 1, 2025, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the District of New Jersey, dragging 17 affiliated entities into the process. This isn’t a small hiccup. It’s a full-scale restructuring of one of the oldest names in American food manufacturing. Assets are listed between $500 million and $1 billion. Liabilities? Somewhere between $1 billion and $10 billion.
The filing includes Del Monte Foods Corporation II Inc., Del Monte Foods Holdings Limited, and Del Monte Foods, Inc. All of them are now under court supervision. The company says it has between 10,001 and 25,000 creditors. That’s a wide net. Seneca Foods is owed $19.9 million. Transplace Texas LP is short $9 million. These aren’t rounding errors. These are trade payables that never got paid.
Del Monte Chilled Fruit Snacks, LLC Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
🚨 BANKRUPTCY FILING ALERT 🚨
DEL MONTE CHILLED FRUIT SNACKS, LLC
Chapter 11 – District of New Jersey
Filed: July 1, 2025
Case No. 25-16990📊 Assets: $500M-$1B | Liabilities: $1B-$10B | Total Creditors:… pic.twitter.com/oXppBqjk6G
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Del Monte Chilled Fruit Snacks makes refrigerated fruit cups, parfaits, and other chilled products under the Del Monte brand. They operate out of Walnut Creek, California. The parent company, Del Monte Foods, has been around since 1886. But legacy doesn’t pay the bills. The company has been bleeding cash for years. Changing consumer habits, inflation, and tariff pressure have all piled on. Canned goods are losing ground to fresh and frozen alternatives. Retailers are pushing private labels. And Trump’s June order doubling steel tariffs to 50% just made packaging more expensive2.
Del Monte secured $912.5 million in debtor-in-possession financing to keep operations running during the sale process. That’s not a bailout. That’s a bridge to auction. The company says it will sell “all or substantially all” of its assets. The goal is to find a buyer who can salvage what’s left. But the numbers don’t look good. Annual interest expenses now exceed projected earnings. Liquidity is at historic lows. The company closed multiple production facilities in Q2 to cut costs. That didn’t stop the bleeding.
The bankruptcy filing is not just about fruit cups. It’s about a business model that couldn’t pivot fast enough. Del Monte’s private label business shrank. Promotional spending ballooned. Inventory piled up. And consumer demand didn’t follow. The restructuring officer said the company was stuck with “outsized production commitments” and “greater costs.” That’s corporate speak for overbuilt and underbought.
This is the fourth food and beverage company to file Chapter 11 in 2025. The sector is under pressure. Inflation is squeezing margins. Tariffs are raising input costs. And consumers are shifting toward cleaner labels and fresher options. Del Monte is the latest casualty. It won’t be the last.
Sources:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/del-monte-bankruptcy-chapter-11/