SEATTLE: Kekst and Company is aiding Eddie Bauer Holdings in the outdoor retailer's Chapter 11 proceedings, according to the press release announcing the bankruptcy protection filing. Kekst's Wendi Kopsick and Diana Postemsky are listed as media contacts on the release. Eddie Bauer emerged from a previous Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2003 after it was spun off from its previous owner, Spiegel Catalog.