BlueLinx Holdings Inc 8-K, filed Jan 2, 2020
BlueLinx Holdings Inc. (BXC)
About this 8-K
BlueLinx Holdings Inc filed this 8-K on January 2, 2020, reporting on events of December 31, 2019.
Items reported
- Item 1.01: Entered into a material agreement
- Item 7.01: Regulation FD disclosure
- Item 8.01: Other events
- Item 9.01: Financial statements and exhibits
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): December 31, 2019
BlueLinx Holdings Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
| Delaware | 001-32383 | 77-062735 | ||
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(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | ||
| 1950 Spectrum Circle, Marietta, Georgia | 30067 | |||
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) | |||
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (770) 953-7000
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered |
| Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share | BXC | New York Stock Exchange |
| Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On December 31, 2019, BlueLinx Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) amended its existing term loan facility (the “Term Loan Facility”) by entering into that certain Fourth Amendment to Credit and Guaranty Agreement (the “Amendment”), by and among the Company, as borrower, certain of the Company’s subsidiaries, as guarantors, HPS Investment Partners, LLC, as administrative agent and collateral agent (the “Administrative Agent”), and the other financial institutions party thereto, as lenders (the “Lenders”).
Pursuant to the Amendment, the Company now has until March 27, 2020, to satisfy the designated outstanding principal balance level required to maintain its modified “Total Net Leverage Ratio” covenant levels for the 2019 fourth quarter and subsequent quarters. The designated principal balance level is approximately $95.3 million, and the repayment amount required to reach that level was reduced to approximately $23.7 million following the repayment made with net proceeds of the sale-leaseback transactions described in Item 8.01 below. The Amendment also made other conforming changes to the terms of the Term Loan Facility.
The foregoing description of the material terms of the Amendment is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Amendment, which will be filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ending March 28, 2020.
| Item 7.01 | Regulation FD Disclosure. |
On January 2, 2020, the Company issued a press release announcing the transactions described in Items 1.01 and 8.01 of this Current Report. A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report and is incorporated herein by reference.
| Item 8.01 | Other Events. |
On December 31, 2019, the Company, through certain of its subsidiaries, completed sale-leaseback transactions (the “Sale-Leaseback Transactions”) with affiliates of Brennan Investment Group (collectively, the “Buyer”) with respect to the Company’s warehouse facilities located in Richmond, Virginia; St. Louis (Bridgeton), Missouri; N. Kansas City, Missouri; and Nashville (Madison), Tennessee. The aggregate purchase price for the Sale-Leaseback Transactions was $33.2 million, and after security deposits, expenses, and other items, the Company received net proceeds of approximately $27.2 million. Net proceeds of the Sale-Leaseback Transactions were used to repay indebtedness under the Term Loan Facility.
The Sale-Leaseback Transactions were completed pursuant to Purchase and Sale Agreements, dated October 16, 2019, between certain subsidiaries of the Company and the Buyer (as subsequently amended, the “Purchase and Sale Agreements”). Upon completion of the Sale-Leaseback Transactions, a subsidiary of the Company entered into long-term leases on the properties for eighteen-year initial terms with multiple five-year renewal options. The leases provide for, among other things, customary security deposits in an aggregate amount of approximately $4.6 million, which will be reduced if the Company satisfies certain financial milestones.
The foregoing summary does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, reference to the full text of the Purchase and Sale Agreements, the form of which will be filed as an exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10- Q for the quarter ending March 28, 2020.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
| (d) | Exhibits: |
The following exhibits are attached with this Current Report on Form 8-K:
| Exhibit No. | Exhibit Description |
| 99.1 | Press Release of BlueLinx Holdings Inc., dated January 2, 2020. |
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| BlueLinx Holdings Inc. | |||
| Dated: January 2, 2020 | By: | /s/ Justin B. Heineman | |
| Justin B. Heineman | |||
| Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | |||
Exhibit 99.1
BlueLinx Announces Closing of Sale-Leaseback Transactions for $27.2 Million Net Proceeds; Transactions Result in Significant Progress in Ongoing Real Estate Monetization and Deleveraging Initiatives
MARIETTA, GA, Jan. 2, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BlueLinx Holdings Inc. (NYSE: BXC), a leading distributor of building and industrial products in the United States, today announced that it has completed sale-leaseback transactions for aggregate net cash proceeds of $27.2 million, which were used to repay indebtedness under the Company’s term loan. The transactions closed on December 31, 2019.
The four facilities included in these sale-leaseback transactions are located in Kansas City, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; Richmond, Virginia; and St. Louis, Missouri. As a part of the transactions, the Company entered into lease agreements for each of the properties for initial terms of 18 years, demonstrating its long-term commitment to each of these local markets.
Management Commentary
Mitch Lewis, President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, “I am very pleased to announce the closing of these latest sale-leaseback transactions, which generated $27.2 million in net cash proceeds for debt repayment. As we have consistently stated, deleveraging is a priority, and a key path to achieving this objective has been through the successful monetization of our owned real estate portfolio.
We remain in active and ongoing discussions with other sale-leaseback and outright sale opportunities, and believe these efforts should generate additional meaningful debt reduction in the first quarter.”
Term Loan Amendment
Concurrent with the sale-leaseback transactions, the Company entered into an amendment to its term loan facility that gives the Company until March 27, 2020, to satisfy the designated term loan principal balance of $95.3 million to maintain the leverage covenant levels established in the third amendment to the facility. The amount of additional principal repayment to reach that level was reduced to approximately $23.7 million following the term loan repayment described above, and can be satisfied with proceeds from real estate transactions and asset sales, as well as voluntary prepayments using cash on hand or funds from its revolving credit facility. Among other things, the amendment provides the Company additional flexibility and time to maximize sale proceeds and obtain better cap rates for the other sale-leaseback and outright sale opportunities that it is currently pursuing.
Supplemental Information
As the Company has noted previously, the calculation of the leverage ratio under its term loan facility for any period is generally determined by taking the Company’s “Consolidated Total Debt” and dividing it by the Company’s “Consolidated EBITDA,” as those terms are defined in the term loan agreement.
“Consolidated Total Debt” is generally determined by adding the balance of the Company’s term loan, the prior month’s average balance of its revolving credit facility, and its equipment finance lease liability, and reducing that amount by unrestricted cash up to $10.0 million. At September 28, 2019, the Company’s term loan balance was $147.2 million, the average balance of its revolving credit facility was $357.9 million, its equipment finance lease liability was $34.4 million, and its unrestricted cash was $10.0 million. Liabilities related to sale-leaseback transactions are excluded from the calculation. Following the term loan repayment described above, the Company’s term loan balance is approximately $119.0 million.
Consolidated EBITDA is generally determined by taking the Adjusted EBITDA that the Company reports, and adding additional adjustments and add-backs specified by the term loan agreement. The Company anticipates that the adjustments and add-backs to Adjusted EBITDA for calculating Consolidated EBITDA under the term loan will be approximately $5 million to $7 million at the Company’s 2019 fiscal year end.
About BlueLinx Holdings Inc.
BlueLinx (NYSE: BXC) is a leading wholesale distributor of building and industrial products in the United States with over 50,000 branded and private-label SKUs, and a broad distribution footprint servicing 40 states. BlueLinx has a differentiated distribution platform, value-driven business model and extensive cache of products across the building products industry. Headquartered in Marietta, Georgia, BlueLinx has over 2,200 associates and distributes its comprehensive range of structural and specialty products to approximately 15,000 national, regional, and local dealers, as well as specialty distributors, national home centers, industrial, and manufactured housing customers. BlueLinx encourages investors to visit its website, www.BlueLinxCo.com, which is updated regularly with financial and other important information about BlueLinx.
Contacts
Susan O’Farrell, SVP, CFO & Treasurer
BlueLinx Holdings Inc.
(770) 953-7000
Mary Moll, Investor Relations
(866) 671-5138
investor@bluelinxco.com
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that predicts, forecasts, indicates or implies future results, performance, liquidity levels or achievements, and may contain the words “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “estimate,” “intend,” “project,” “plan,” “will be,” “will likely continue,” “will likely result” or words or phrases of similar meaning. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about our commitment to local markets; the status of our discussions and efforts with respect to sale-leaseback and real estate sale transactions; our ability to consummate additional real estate monetization transactions on favorable terms, if at all, and their ability to generate debt reduction; and the amount of anticipated adjustments and add-backs for calculating Consolidated EBITDA under our term loan agreement at our 2019 fiscal year end.
Forward-looking statements in this press release are based on estimates and assumptions made by our management that, although believed by us to be reasonable, are inherently uncertain. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause our business, strategy, or actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include those listed under the heading “Risk Factors” in Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 29, 2018, and those discussed in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and in our periodic reports led with the SEC from time to time. We operate in a changing environment in which new risks can emerge from time to time. It is not possible for management to predict all of these risks, nor can it assess the extent to which any factor, or a combination of factors, may cause our business, strategy, or actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause these differences include, among other things: our ability to monetize real estate assets; our ability to integrate and realize anticipated synergies from acquisitions; loss of material customers, suppliers, or product lines in connection with acquisitions; operational disruption in connection with the integration of acquisitions; our indebtedness and its related limitations; sufficiency of cash flows and capital resources; changes in interest rates; fluctuations in commodity prices; adverse housing market conditions; disintermediation by customers and suppliers; changes in prices, supply and/or demand for our products; inventory management; competitive industry pressures; industry consolidation; product shortages; loss of and dependence on key suppliers and manufacturers; new tariffs; our ability to successfully implement our strategic initiatives; fluctuations in operating results; sale-leaseback transactions and their effects; real estate leases; exposure to product liability claims; our ability to complete offerings under our shelf registration statement on favorable terms, or at all; changes in our product mix; petroleum prices; information technology security and business interruption risks; litigation and legal proceedings; natural disasters and unexpected events; activities of activist stockholders; labor and union matters; limits on net operating loss carryovers; pension plan assumptions and liabilities; risks related to our internal controls; retention of associates and key personnel; federal, state, local and other regulations, including environmental laws and regulations; and changes in accounting principles. Given these risks and uncertainties, we caution you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. We expressly disclaim any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.