Nestle and California Pizza Kitchen Spar Over Frozen Pie Rights

Nestle SAis fighting to hold onto its right to sell frozen California Pizza Kitchen Inc. pies as the chain reorganizes in bankruptcy court.

California Pizza Kitchen, best known for exotic pizzas like its Original BBQ Chicken and Jamaican Jerk Chicken pies, filed for bankruptcy in July and recently said in court papers that it wants to reject its trademark contract with Nestle as part of its reorganization plan.

“CPK must not be allowed to manipulate the bankruptcy process to unwind a decades-old licensing transaction which operated as an effective sale of its frozen pizza business to Nestle,” the American ...