Fairchild Corporation

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The Fairchild Corporation is the successor corporation of Fairchild Industries, Inc. In March 2009, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. [1] Banner Aerospace was one of the company's major subsidiaries. [2]

The last major Fairchild asset sold was Fairchild Fasteners, a Sherman Fairchild company, which was sold to industrial corporation Alcoa for US$ 657,000,000 on December 3, 2002. It was subsequently renamed Alcoa Fasteners. In the summer of 2006, the corporation sold a shopping mall they had built on the Republic Airport property of Fairchild Hiller for US$ 95,000,000. [3]

Jeffrey Steiner was the company's CEO until his resignation in October 2008; he died a month later. [4] As of February 2009, the firm has been delisted from the New York Stock Exchange; a number of executives had recently left the company's senior management team, including Steiner's son, Eric; and the firm was being run by interim chief executive Phillip Sassower, the head of a New York private equity firm that is Fairchild's largest shareholder. [4]

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References

  1. "UPDATE 1-Fairchild files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy". U.S. Reuters Editorial. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
  2. Banner Aerospace, Inc. - Company History Archived 2006-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Fairchild - The History". Fairchild. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013.
  4. 1 2 Rosenwald, Michael S. (2009-02-09). "Steiner's Fairchild Struggles On Without Him". The Washington Post . ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2018-04-07.