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Line of Credit
9 Months Ended
Jul. 31, 2017
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Line of Credit

NOTE 9 - LINE OF CREDIT:

 

On March 10, 2015, the Company entered into a loan modification agreement (the “Modification Agreement”) with its lender Sterling National Bank (“Sterling”) which modified the terms of the financing agreement with Sterling previously entered into on February 17, 2009 (the “Original Financing Agreement”). Prior to the Modification Agreement, the Original Financing Agreement, as amended, provided for a credit facility in which the Company had a revolving line of credit for a maximum of $7,000,000 (the “Company Loan Facility”). On February 3, 2011, the Company amended the Original Financing Agreement to create a sublimit within the revolving line of credit in the form of a $300,000 term loan for the benefit of GCC. The Original Financing Agreement was set to expire on March 31, 2015. Pursuant to the Modification Agreement, the Original Financing Agreement was modified to, among other things, (i) extend the term of the Original Financing Agreement until February 28, 2017; (ii) increase the maximum amount of the Company Loan Facility from $7,000,000 to $9,000,000; (iii) reduce the interest rate on the average unpaid balance of the line of credit from an interest rate equal to a per annum reference rate of 3.75% to an interest rate per annum equal to the Wall Street Journal Prime Rate; and (iv) require the Company to pay, upon the occurrence of certain termination events, a prepayment premium of 0.50% of the maximum amount of the credit facility in effect as of the date of the termination event. The line was extended through March 31, 2017 and again through April 30, 2017.

 

Also on March 10, 2015, the Company, as guarantor, and OPTCO, as borrower, entered into a new loan facility agreement with Sterling. The OPTCO loan facility is a revolving line of credit for a maximum of $3,000,000 (the “OPTCO Financing Agreement”). The OPTCO Financing Agreement was set to expire on February 28, 2017 but was extended through March 31, 2017 and again through April 30, 2017.

 

On April 25, 2017 the Company and OPTCO (together with the Company, collectively referred to herein as the “Borrowers”) entered into an Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement (the “A&R Loan Agreement”) with Sterling, which consolidated the Company Financing Agreement and the OPTCO Financing Agreement.

 

Pursuant to the A&R Loan Agreement, the terms of each of the Company Financing Agreement and the OPTCO Financing Agreement were amended and restated to, among other things: (i) provide for a new Maturity Date of February 28, 2018; (ii) consolidate the principal amounts of the Company Financing Agreement and the OPTCO Financing Agreement to provide for a maximum principal amount limit of $12,000,000 for the Borrowers, collectively, provided that OPTCO is limited to a $3,000,000 maximum principal amount sublimit; (iii) expand the borrowing base to include, along with 85% of eligible accounts receivable, up to the lesser of $2,000,000 as to the Company and $1,500,000 as to OPTCO; (iv) effective March 1, 2017, converted the interest rate on the average unpaid balance of the A&R Loan Facility from an interest rate per annum equal to the Wall Street Journal Prime Rate to an interest rate per annum equal to the sum of the LIBOR rate plus 2.4%; (v) require the Company and OPTCO to pay, collectively, upon the occurrence of certain termination events, a prepayment premium of 1.0% (as opposed to the 0.5% under the OPTCO Financing Agreement) of the maximum amount of the A&R Loan Facility in effect as of the date of the termination event; (vi) eliminate the overadvance fee; and (vii) establish a Letter of Credit Facility (as defined in the A&R Loan Agreement) with a maximum obligation amount of $1,000,000, and subject to other terms and conditions described therein.

 

Also on April 25, 2017, SONO and CFT (collectively referred to herein as the “Guarantors”), entered into a Guaranty Agreement (the “Guaranty Agreement”) in connection with the Loan Agreement. The Guaranty Agreement was provided as an inducement to Sterling to extend credit to Borrowers in exchange for the Guarantors’ unconditional guarantee of the payment and performance obligations of the Borrowers under the Loan Agreement, as further defined in the Guaranty Agreement.

 

Each of the Company Loan Facility and A&R Loan Agreement contains covenants, subject to certain exceptions, that place annual restrictions on the Borrowers’ operations, including covenants relating to debt restrictions, capital expenditures, indebtedness, minimum deposit restrictions, tangible net worth, net profit, leverage, employee loan restrictions, dividend and repurchase restrictions (common stock and preferred stock), and restrictions on intercompany transactions. The Loan Facility also requires that we maintain a minimum working capital at all times, and the A&R Loan Agreement requires that the Borrowers, on a consolidated basis, maintain a minimum working capital at all times and achieve a minimum net profit amount as of fiscal year end during the term of the A&R Loan Agreement. The Company and OPTCO, as applicable were in compliance with all required financial covenants at July 31, 2017 and October 31, 2016.

  

Each of the Company Loan Facility and the A&R Loan Agreement is secured by all tangible and intangible assets of the Company. Other than as amended and restated by the A&R Loan Agreement, the Company Financing Agreement and the OPTCO Financing Agreement remains in full force and effect.

 

As of July 31, 2017 and October 31, 2016, the outstanding balance under the bank line of credit was $7,406,325 and $6,958,375, respectively.