01/15/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/15/2025 15:16
Item 1.01. | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On January 15, 2025, Westrock Coffee Company, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), entered into an Incremental Assumption Agreement and Amendment No. 4 (the "Amendment") among Westrock Beverage Solutions, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the "Borrower"), the Company, the other guarantors party thereto, the incremental revolving facility lender, the lenders and issuing banks party thereto and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as administrative agent and collateral agent, to the Credit Agreement dated as of August 29, 2022 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to the effectiveness of the Amendment, the "Existing Credit Agreement" and, as amended by the Amendment, the "Amended Credit Agreement"), among the Borrower, the Company, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, as collateral agent and as swingline lender, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as sustainability structuring agent, the issuing banks party thereto from time to time and the lenders party thereto from time to time.
The Amendment expanded the syndicate to include member banks from the Farm Credit System and increased the amount of revolving facility commitments (the "Existing Revolving Facility Commitments", and any loans thereunder, the "Existing Revolving Loans") available to the Borrower under the Existing Credit Agreement by $25,000,000 (the "Incremental Revolving Facility Commitments", and any loans thereunder, the "Incremental Revolving Loans"). The amount of revolving facility commitments available to the Borrower under the Amended Credit Agreement is $200,000,000. The Incremental Revolving Facility Commitments and the Incremental Revolving Loans are subject to the same interest rates, commitment fees, maturity dates and other terms as the Existing Revolving Facility Commitments and the Existing Revolving Loans.
The Amendment also modified the secured net leverage ratio that the Company must comply with during the covenant relief period to increase the maximum secured net leverage ratio to (a) 6.00x for the test period ending June 30, 2025, (b) 5.50x for the test period ending September 30, 2025, and (c) 5.25x for the test period ending December 31, 2025. In addition, the minimum liquidity covenant will not apply after the covenant relief period ends.
The proceeds from any Incremental Revolving Loans will be used by the Company to fund the previously announced installation of a second ready-to-drink (RTD) can line at the Company's Extract and RTD Facility in Conway, Arkansas, and for general corporate purposes.
The foregoing description of the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the terms of the Amendment, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.