Candy Club is in a post-confirmation posture after the bankruptcy court confirmed a Subchapter V reorganization plan on March 5, 2024, leaving the reorganized debtors to operate outside ordinary chapter 11 oversight under the confirmed plan framework. The case began with affiliated Subchapter V petitions filed on July 27, 2023, including the lead voluntary petitionDkt. 1, after the company’s shift from a direct-to-consumer subscription model to retail distribution left it with sustained losses, a smaller operating base, and liquidity pressure.
The first-day record framed the filing as an operating reorganization for a Culver City confectionery business with roughly 14 full-time employees, a retail-heavy revenue mix, inventory and customer commitments to preserve, and a prepetition secured capital structure anchored by Venture Lending & Leasing IX, Inc., with approximately $6 million outstanding on a secured term loan. Keith Cohn’s first-day declarationDkt. 11 tied the restructuring need to negative EBITDA, prior cost reductions, and the need for DIP financing and cash-collateral access to stabilize production and fulfill branded product commitments while pursuing balance-sheet relief.
The debtor then moved onto a plan track, filing a combined plan and disclosure statement in January 2024 that proposed a reorganization rather than a liquidation or sale process through the bankruptcy estate. The combined plan and disclosure statementDkt. 215 set the path for class treatment and post-emergence governance, and the court’s approved the plan after accepting votes from Classes 1, 2, and 3, with Classes 4 and 7 deemed to reject.
The confirmed plan leaves Candy Club on an operating-reorganization path: property vests in the reorganized debtors, a new board and governance documents are to govern the post-effective-date enterprise, remaining administrative and professional fee claims are handled through short post-effective-date bar dates, and executory contracts are rejected unless preserved by prior order or plan-supplement treatment. No near-term hearing timeline is reflected in the provided context; the live case posture is implementation of the confirmed plan, claims reconciliation, and post-confirmation operations.
