Westrock Coffee Co
For the period ended Mar 31, 2024. Filed May 9, 2024.
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Mar 31, 2024 · Filed May 9, 2024
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Significant Developments
Select Milk Joint Venture
On February 15, 2024, the Company entered into a non-binding letter of intent with Select Milk Producers (“Select Milk”) to establish a joint venture that will construct and operate an extended shelf life and aseptic multi-serve bottle line facility to be co-located at Select Milk’s factory in Littlefield, Texas. Westrock will produce and provide the joint venture with coffee extract from itsextract and ready-to-drink facility in Conway, Arkansas and Select Milk will provide the joint venture with milk from its Littlefield facility. The Company and Select Milk expect to ship the first product from these lines in the first quarter of 2026.
Convertible Notes Offering
On February 15, 2024, the Company sold and issued in a private placement $72.0 million in aggregate principal amount of 5.00% convertible senior notes due 2029 (the “Convertible Notes”). The Convertible Notes will be unsecured and senior obligations of the Company and will accrue interest at a rate of 5.00% per annum.
The purchasers of the Convertible Notes are Westrock Group, LLC (a holder of more than 5% of the outstanding Common Shares and an affiliate of Scott Ford, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of the Company), Wooster Capital, LLC (an affiliate of Joe Ford, chairman of the board of directors), an affiliate of The Stephens Group, LLC (a holder of more than 5% of the outstanding Common Shares), an affiliate of Sowell Westrock, L.P. (a holder of more than 5% of the outstanding Common Shares), HF Direct Investments Pool, LLC (a holder of more than 10% of the outstanding Common Shares), an affiliate of the Herbert Hunt family and an individual investor. The offer and sale of the Convertible Notes was authorized and approved unanimously by the Audit & Finance Committee of the board of directors in accordance with the Company’s Related Party Transactions Policy. See Note 11 to our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for additional discussion related to the Convertible Notes offering.
Credit Agreement Amendment
On February 14, 2023, the Company entered into an Incremental Assumption Agreement and Amendment No. 1 (the “First Amendment”) to its Credit Agreement, which established a new class of incremental term loan commitments in the form of a senior secured delayed draw term loan facility (the “Delayed Draw Term Loan Facility”) in the aggregate principal amount of $50.0 million. In January 2024, the Company borrowed the $50.0 million available to it under the terms of the Delayed Draw Term Loan Facility.
On February 15, 2024, Westrock Beverage Solutions, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Borrower”), entered into Amendment No. 3 (the “Third Amendment”) to the Credit Agreement. The Third Amendment modified the existing covenant relief period (the “Covenant Relief Period”), which commenced on June 30, 2023 and will end on the earlier to occur of (i) April 1, 2026 and (ii) any date following June 30, 2024, on which the borrower elects to terminate the Covenant Relief Period subject to satisfaction of certain conditions. During the Covenant Relief Period, the Company’s ability to incur additional indebtedness and make investments, restricted payments and junior debt restricted payments will be more limited. The Third Amendment permits the Company to issue convertible notes, including the Convertible Notes.
During the Covenant Relief Period, the applicable margin for any term SOFR rate loan will range from 3.00% to 4.00% and for any ABR loan will range from 2.00% to 3.00%, in each case depending on the secured net leverage ratio. After the Covenant Relief Period, the applicable margin for any term SOFR rate loan will range from 2.00% to 3.00% and for any ABR loan will range from 1.00% to 2.00%, in each case depending on the secured net leverage ratio. The Credit Agreement, as amended, requires the Borrower to maintain compliance with (i) a secured net leverage ratio at levels ranging from 4.50:1.00 to 6.25:1.00 and stepping down to 4.50:1.00 by April 2026 and (ii) an interest coverage ratio of at least 1.50:1.00 on and prior to September 30, 2025 and at least 2.00:1.00 on December 31, 2025 and thereafter. The Credit Agreement, as amended, also includes (i) a minimum liquidity covenant requiring the Borrower not to permit its liquidity, measured as of the last business day of each calendar month commencing March 29, 2024, to be less than $15
million and (ii) an anti-cash hoarding covenant, which shall be effective only during the Covenant Relief Period, requiring the Borrower to have no more than $20 million of unrestricted cash on the last day of each calendar month when revolving loans or letters of credit are outstanding or on the date of borrowing of a revolving loan. See Note 11 to our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for additional discussion related to the Third Amendment.
Equity Distribution Agreement
On March 15, 2024, the Company entered into an Equity Distribution Agreement (the “Equity Distribution Agreement”) with Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and Truist Securities, Inc. (the “Agents”), pursuant to which the Company may from time to time offer and sell shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Shares”), not to exceed 5,000,000 Common Shares in the aggregate (the “Placement Securities”) through the Agents as part of an “at the market” offering program.
The offer and sale of the Placement Securities will be made pursuant to the Company’s shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-274827) that was declared effective by the SEC on November 17, 2023, and a related prospectus supplement, which the Company filed with the SEC on March 15, 2024.
The Company is not obligated to sell any Placement Securities pursuant to the Equity Distribution Agreement. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Equity Distribution Agreement, the Agents have agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts, consistent with their normal trading and sales practices, to sell Placement Securities from time to time in accordance with the Company’s placement notice, including any price, time or size limits or other customary parameters or conditions the Company may deem appropriate.
Under the Equity Distribution Agreement and subject to the terms of the placement notice delivered by the Company, an Agent may sell Placement Securities by (x) any method permitted by law and deemed to be an “at-the-market offering” as defined in Rule 415 of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, including, without limitation, sales made directly on the Nasdaq Global Select Market at market prices prevailing at the time of sale or at prices related to prevailing market prices, on any other existing trading market for the Common Shares or to or through a market maker, and (y) any other method permitted by law, including but not limited to in privately negotiated transactions. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Equity Distribution Agreement, the Company may also from time to time sell Placement Securities to an Agent as principal.
The Equity Distribution Agreement may be terminated for any reason, at any time by either the Company or any of the Agents upon ten days’ prior written notice to the other parties, or by the Agents at any time in certain circumstances, including the occurrence of a material adverse change in the Company. In addition, the Equity Distribution Agreement will automatically terminate upon the earlier of (1) two years from the date of the Equity Distribution Agreement and (2) the issuance and sale of all of the Placement Securities through the Agents.
The Company will pay each Agent a commission of 1.5% of the gross proceeds from the sales of Common Shares sold by such Agent pursuant to the Equity Distribution Agreement. The Company has agreed to provide the Agents with customary indemnification and contribution rights. The Company has agreed to pay certain specified expenses incurred by the Agents in connection with the offering. The Equity Distribution Agreement contains customary representations and warranties and conditions to the placements of the Placement Securities pursuant thereto.
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