Article: Jamestown, N.Y., furniture maker's plan to exit bankruptcy saves 1,500 jobs.

By David Robinson, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 15--Bush Industries shareholders will receive a little more than 11 cents per share under a reorganization plan approved by a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge that allows the furniture maker to emerge from bankruptcy as a private company and slashes the compensation to its former chief executive by 45 percent.

The reorganization plan approved Wednesday night by Bankruptcy Court Judge Carl L. Bucki sets aside $1.6 million for the company's shareholders, who would have received nothing under a plan the court rejected last month.

It also cuts the value of the ...

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