FILE: Packages of Del Monte Foods canned green beans are stacked at a Costco Wholesale store in San Diego on April 4, 2025.

Del Monte Foods, the nearly 140-year-old canned food giant based in Walnut Creek, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is seeking a buyer. 

Del Monte President and CEO Greg Longstreet said in a news release Tuesday that the California-based company had voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey and was pursuing a “court-supervised sale process” that would........

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