B&G Foods Announced Proposed Credit Agreement Refinancing
18 Giugno 2024 - 11:45PM
Business Wire
B&G Foods, Inc. (NYSE: BGS) announced today that it intends
to amend, extend the maturity date and upsize its existing tranche
B term facility under its senior secured credit facility. B&G
Foods plans to use the proceeds of the tranche B term loans to
refinance the existing tranche B term loans and repay a portion of
B&G Foods’ existing revolving loans. B&G Foods also plans
to decrease the size of the revolver capacity and extend the
maturity date of its existing revolving credit facility. The
consummation of the refinancing is subject to completion of
definitive agreements as well as customary closing conditions, and
is subject to market conditions. There can be no assurance that the
refinancing will occur, or, if it does, as to the terms of the
refinancing.
This press release is for informational purposes only and does
not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to
buy securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any
state or jurisdiction in which the offer, solicitation or sale
would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the
securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About B&G Foods, Inc.
Based in Parsippany, New Jersey, B&G Foods and its
subsidiaries manufacture, sell and distribute high-quality, branded
shelf-stable and frozen foods across the United States, Canada and
Puerto Rico. With B&G Foods’ diverse portfolio of more than 50
brands you know and love, including B&G, B&M, Bear Creek,
Cream of Wheat, Crisco, Dash, Green Giant, Las Palmas, Le Sueur,
Mama Mary’s, Maple Grove Farms, New York Style, Ortega, Polaner,
Spice Islands and Victoria, there’s a little something for
everyone. For more information about B&G Foods and its brands,
please visit www.bgfoods.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not statements of
historical or current fact constitute “forward-looking statements.”
The forward-looking statements contained in this press release
include, without limitation, statements related to the proposed
refinancing and B&G Foods’ plans with respect thereto,
including B&G Foods’ plans regarding the use of proceeds of the
refinancing. Such forward-looking statements involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other unknown factors that could
cause the actual results of B&G Foods to be materially
different from the historical results or from any future results
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In
addition to statements that explicitly describe such risks and
uncertainties, readers are urged to consider statements labeled
with the terms “believes,” “belief,” “expects,” “projects,”
“intends,” “anticipates,” “assumes,” “could,” “should,”
“estimates,” “potential,” “seek,” “predict,” “may,” “will” or
“plans” and similar references to future periods to be uncertain
and forward-looking. Factors that may affect actual results
include, without limitation: the Company’s substantial leverage;
the effects of rising costs for and/or decreases in supply of the
Company’s commodities, ingredients, packaging, other raw materials,
distribution and labor; crude oil prices and their impact on
distribution, packaging and energy costs; the Company’s ability to
successfully implement sales price increases and cost saving
measures to offset any cost increases; intense competition, changes
in consumer preferences, demand for the Company’s products and
local economic and market conditions; the Company’s continued
ability to promote brand equity successfully, to anticipate and
respond to new consumer trends, to develop new products and
markets, to broaden brand portfolios in order to compete
effectively with lower priced products and in markets that are
consolidating at the retail and manufacturing levels and to improve
productivity; the ability of the Company and its supply chain
partners to continue to operate manufacturing facilities,
distribution centers and other work locations without material
disruption, and to procure ingredients, packaging and other raw
materials when needed despite disruptions in the supply chain or
labor shortages; the impact pandemics or disease outbreaks, such as
the COVID-19 pandemic, may have on the Company’s business,
including among other things, the Company’s supply chain,
manufacturing operations or workforce and customer and consumer
demand for the Company’s products; the Company’s ability to recruit
and retain senior management and a highly skilled and diverse
workforce at the Company’s corporate offices, manufacturing
facilities and other locations despite a very tight labor market
and changing employee expectations as to fair compensation, an
inclusive and diverse workplace, flexible working and other
matters; the risks associated with the expansion of the Company’s
business; the Company’s possible inability to identify new
acquisitions or to integrate recent or future acquisitions or the
Company’s failure to realize anticipated revenue enhancements, cost
savings or other synergies from recent or future acquisitions; the
Company’s ability to successfully complete the integration of
recent or future acquisitions into the Company’s enterprise
resource planning (ERP) system; tax reform and legislation,
including the effects of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs
Act, U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the U.S. CARES Act, and future
tax reform or legislation; the Company’s ability to access the
credit markets and the Company’s borrowing costs and credit
ratings, which may be influenced by credit markets generally and
the credit ratings of the Company’s competitors; unanticipated
expenses, including, without limitation, litigation or legal
settlement expenses; the effects of currency movements of the
Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso as compared to the U.S.
dollar; the effects of international trade disputes, tariffs,
quotas, and other import or export restrictions on the Company’s
international procurement, sales and operations; future impairments
of the Company’s goodwill and intangible assets; the Company’s
ability to protect information systems against, or effectively
respond to, a cybersecurity incident, other disruption or data
leak; the Company’s ability to successfully implement the Company’s
sustainability initiatives and achieve the Company’s sustainability
goals, and changes to environmental laws and regulations; and other
factors that affect the food industry generally, including: recalls
if products become adulterated or misbranded, liability if product
consumption causes injury, ingredient disclosure and labeling laws
and regulations and the possibility that consumers could lose
confidence in the safety and quality of certain food products;
competitors’ pricing practices and promotional spending levels;
fluctuations in the level of the Company’s customers’ inventories
and credit and other business risks related to the Company’s
customers operating in a challenging economic and competitive
environment; and the risks associated with third-party suppliers
and co-packers, including the risk that any failure by one or more
of the Company’s third-party suppliers or co-packers to comply with
food safety or other laws and regulations may disrupt the Company’s
supply of raw materials or certain finished goods products or
injure the Company’s reputation. The forward-looking statements
contained herein are also subject generally to other risks and
uncertainties that are described from time to time in B&G
Foods’ filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including under Item 1A, “Risk Factors” in the Company’s most
recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and in its subsequent reports on
Forms 10-Q and 8-K. Investors are cautioned not to place undue
reliance on any such forward-looking statements, which speak only
as of the date they are made. B&G Foods undertakes no
obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking
statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise.
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