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Indebtedness and Credit Agreements
6 Months Ended
Aug. 27, 2011
Indebtedness and Credit Agreements  
Indebtedness and Credit Agreements

6. Indebtedness and Credit Agreements

        Following is a summary of indebtedness and lease financing obligations at August 27, 2011 and February 26, 2011:

 
  August 27,
2011
  February 26,
2011
 

Secured Debt:

             
 

Senior secured revolving credit facility due August 2015 (or April 2014, see Credit Facility below)

  $ 73,000   $ 28,000  
 

Senior secured credit facility term loan due June 2014

    1,044,433     1,074,613  
 

Senior secured credit facility term loan due June 2014 ($342,125 face value less unamortized discount of $19,718)

        322,407  
 

Senior secured credit facility term loan due March 2018 (or December 2014 or September 2015, see Credit Facility below) ($333,367 face value less unamortized discount of $1,611)

    331,756      
 

9.75% senior secured notes (senior lien) due June 2016 ($410,000 face value less unamortized discount of $5,107 and $5,635)

    404,893     404,365  
 

8.00% senior secured notes (senior lien) due August 2020

    650,000     650,000  
 

10.375% senior secured notes (second lien) due July 2016 ($470,000 face value less unamortized discount of $27,187 and $29,952)

    442,813     440,048  
 

7.5% senior secured notes (second lien) due March 2017

    500,000     500,000  
 

10.25% senior secured notes (second lien) due October 2019 ($270,000 face value less unamortized discount of $1,671 and $1,774)

    268,329     268,226  
 

Other secured

    5,357     5,408  
           

 

    3,720,581     3,693,067  

Guaranteed Unsecured Debt:

             
 

8.625% senior notes due March 2015

    459,000     500,000  
 

9.375% senior notes due December 2015 ($405,000 and $410,000 face value less unamortized discount of $2,993 and $3,345)

    402,007     406,655  
 

9.5% senior notes due June 2017 ($810,000 face value less unamortized discount of $7,480 and $8,130)

    802,520     801,870  
           

 

    1,663,527     1,708,525  

Unsecured Unguaranteed Debt:

             
 

9.25% senior notes due June 2013

    6,015     6,015  
 

6.875% senior debentures due August 2013

    180,277     184,773  
 

8.5% convertible notes due May 2015

    64,188     64,188  
 

7.7% notes due February 2027

    295,000     295,000  
 

6.875% fixed-rate senior notes due December 2028

    128,000     128,000  
           

 

    673,480     677,976  

Lease financing obligations

    134,241     140,297  
           

Total debt

    6,191,829     6,219,865  

Current maturities of long-term debt and lease financing obligations

    (22,987 )   (63,045 )
           

Long-term debt and lease financing obligations, less current maturities

  $ 6,168,842   $ 6,156,820  
           

Credit Facility

        The Company has a senior secured credit facility that consists of a $1,175,000 revolving credit facility and two term loans. Borrowings under the revolving credit facility bear interest at a rate per annum between LIBOR plus 3.25% and LIBOR plus 3.75% if the Company chooses to make LIBOR borrowings, or between Citibank's base rate plus 2.25% and Citibank's base rate plus 2.75%, in each case based upon the amount of revolver availability, as defined in the senior secured credit facility. The Company is required to pay fees between 0.50% and 0.75% per annum on the daily unused amount of the revolver depending on the amount of revolver availability. Amounts drawn under the revolver become due and payable on August 19, 2015, provided that such maturity date shall instead be April 18, 2014 in the event that on or prior to April 18, 2014 the Company does not repay, refinance or otherwise extend the maturity date of its Tranche 2 Term Loan (as defined below) to a date that is at least 90 days after August 19, 2015 and, in the case of a repayment or refinancing, the Company must have at least $500,000 of availability under the revolver.

        The Company's ability to borrow under the revolver is based upon a specified borrowing base consisting of accounts receivable, inventory and prescription files. At August 27, 2011, the Company had $73,000 of borrowings outstanding under the revolver and had letters of credit outstanding thereunder of $138,916 which gave the Company additional borrowing capacity of $963,084.

        The credit facility also includes a $1,044,433 senior secured term loan (the "Tranche 2 Term Loan"). The Tranche 2 Term Loan will mature on June 4, 2014 and currently bears interest at a rate per annum equal to LIBOR plus 1.75%, if the Company elects LIBOR borrowings, or at Citibank's base rate plus 0.75%. Mandatory prepayments are required to be made from proceeds of asset dispositions and casualty events (subject to certain limitations), a portion of excess cash flows (as defined in the senior secured credit facility) and proceeds from certain issuances of equity or debt (subject to certain exceptions). If at any time there is a shortfall in the borrowing base under the senior secured credit facility, prepayment of the Tranche 2 Term Loan may also be required.

        On March 3, 2011, the Company refinanced its Tranche 3 Term Loan with a $331,756 senior secured term loan (the "Tranche 5 Term Loan"). The Tranche 5 Term Loan matures on March 3, 2018, although the maturity will instead be December 1, 2014 in the event that the Company does not repay or refinance its outstanding 8.625% senior notes due 2015 prior to that time, or September 16, 2015, in the event that the Company does not repay or refinance its outstanding 9.375% senior notes due 2015 prior to that time. The Tranche 5 Term Loan bears interest at a rate per annum equal to LIBOR plus 3.25% with a 1.25% LIBOR floor, and is subject to a 1% prepayment fee in the event it is refinanced within the first year after issuance with the proceeds of a substantially concurrent issuance of new loans or other indebtedness incurred for the primary purpose of repaying, refinancing or replacing the Tranche 5 Term Loan. The Company must make mandatory prepayments of the Tranche 5 Term Loan with the proceeds of asset dispositions and casualty events (subject to certain limitations), with a portion of excess cash flow generated by the Company (as defined in the senior secured credit facility) and with the proceeds of certain issuances of equity and debt (subject to certain exceptions). If at any time there is a shortfall in its borrowing base under its senior secured credit facility, prepayment of the Tranche 5 Term Loan may also be required.

        The senior secured credit facility also restricts the Company and the subsidiary guarantors from accumulating cash on hand in excess of $200,000 at any time when revolving loans are outstanding (not including cash located in the Company's store deposit accounts, cash necessary to cover the Company's current liabilities and certain other exceptions) and from accumulating cash on hand with revolver borrowings in excess of $100,000 over three consecutive business days. The senior secured credit facility also states that if at any time (other than following the exercise of remedies or acceleration of any senior obligations or second priority debt and receipt of a triggering notice by the senior collateral agent from a representative of the senior obligations or the second priority debt) either (a) an event of default exists under the Company's senior secured credit facility or (b) the sum of revolver availability under the Company's senior secured credit facility and certain amounts held on deposit with the senior collateral agent in a concentration account is less than $100,000 for three consecutive business days (a "cash sweep period"), the funds in the Company's deposit accounts will be swept to a concentration account with the senior collateral agent and will be applied first to repay outstanding revolving loans under the senior secured credit facility, and then held as Collateral for the senior obligations until such cash sweep period is rescinded pursuant to the terms of the Company's senior secured credit facility.

        The senior secured credit facility allows the Company to have outstanding, at any time, up to $1,500,000 in secured second priority debt and unsecured debt in addition to borrowings under the senior secured credit facility and existing indebtedness, provided that not in excess of $750,000 of such secured second priority debt and unsecured debt shall mature or require scheduled payments of principal prior to three months after June 4, 2014. The senior secured credit facility allows the Company to incur an unlimited amount of unsecured debt with a maturity beyond three months after June 4, 2014; however, other debentures limit the amount of unsecured debt that can be incurred if certain interest coverage levels are not met at the time of incurrence of said debt. The senior secured facility also allows, so long as the senior secured credit facility is not in default, for the repurchase of any debt with a maturity on or before June 4, 2014, for the voluntary repurchase of debt with a maturity after June 4, 2014, and the mandatory repurchase of the Company's 8.5% convertible notes due 2015 if the Company maintains availability on the revolving credit facility of at least $100,000.

        The senior secured credit facility contains covenants which place restrictions on the incurrence of debt beyond the restrictions described above, the payments of dividends, sale of assets, mergers and acquisitions and the granting of liens. The credit facility has a financial covenant, which is the maintenance of a fixed charge coverage ratio. The covenant requires that, if availability on the revolving credit facility is less than $150,000, the Company must maintain a minimum fixed charge coverage ratio of 1.00 to 1.00 through November 26, 2011. This ratio increases to 1.05 to 1.00 in the last quarter of Fiscal 2012 and remains at that level for the remaining term of the facility. As of August 27, 2011, the Company was in compliance with this financial covenant.

        The senior secured credit facility provides for events of default including nonpayment, misrepresentation, breach of covenants and bankruptcy. It is also an event of default if the Company fails to make any required payment on debt having a principal amount in excess of $50,000 or any event occurs that enables, or which with the giving of notice or the lapse of time would enable, the holder of such debt to accelerate the maturity or require the repurchase of such debt. The August 2010 amendments to the senior secured credit facility exclude the mandatory repurchase of the 8.5% convertible notes due 2015 from this event of default.

        Substantially all of Rite Aid Corporation's wholly-owned subsidiaries guarantee the obligations under the senior secured credit facility. The subsidiary guarantees of the senior secured credit facility; the 9.75% senior secured notes due 2016 and the 8.00% senior secured notes due 2020 are secured by a senior lien on, among other things, accounts receivable, inventory and prescription files of the subsidiary guarantors. Rite Aid Corporation is a holding company with no direct operations and is dependent upon dividends, distributions and other payments from its subsidiaries to service payments due under the senior secured credit facility. The Company's 10.375% senior secured notes due 2016, the 7.5% senior secured notes due 2017 and the 10.25% senior secured notes due 2019 are secured on a second priority basis by the same collateral that secures the senior secured credit facility, the 9.75% senior secured notes due 2016 and the 8.00% senior secured notes due 2020. The 8.625% senior notes due 2015, the 9.375% senior notes due 2015 and the 9.5% senior notes due 2017 are guaranteed by substantially all of the Company's wholly-owned subsidiaries on an unsecured basis.

        The subsidiary guarantees related to the Company's senior secured credit facility and secured guaranteed notes and, on an unsecured basis, the unsecured guaranteed notes are full and unconditional and joint and several, and there are no restrictions on the ability of the Company to obtain funds from its subsidiaries. Also, the Company has no independent assets or operations, and subsidiaries not guaranteeing the credit facility and applicable notes are minor. Accordingly, condensed consolidating financial information for the Company and subsidiaries is not presented.

        The indentures that govern the Company's secured and guaranteed unsecured notes contain restrictions on the amount of additional secured and unsecured debt that can be incurred by the Company. As of August 27, 2011, the amount of additional secured and unsecured debt that could be incurred under these indentures was $1,069,200 (which does not include the ability to enter into certain sale and leaseback transactions.) However, the Company could not incur any additional secured debt assuming a fully drawn revolver and the outstanding letters of credit. The ability to issue additional unsecured debt under these indentures is governed by an interest coverage ratio test.

Other Indebtedness

Convertible Notes

        On March 1, 2011, the Company was notified by the NYSE that, as of March 1, 2011, it had regained compliance with the NYSE minimum share price listing requirement. The Company is now in compliance with all NYSE listing rules, and has actively been taking steps to maintain its listing and expects its efforts to maintain its NYSE listing will be successful. However, there can be no assurance that the Company will maintain compliance with the NYSE minimum share price rule or other continued listing requirements. In the event of a delisting, all holders of its $64,188 of outstanding 8.5% Convertible Notes due May 2015 ("Convertible Notes") would be entitled to require the Company to repurchase its Convertible Notes. The Company's senior secured credit facility permits the Company to make such a repurchase of the Convertible Notes; provided that, before and after such transaction, no default or event of default shall have occurred and be continuing under the senior secured credit facility and the Company has at least $100.0 million of availability under its revolving credit facility. The Company's ability to pay cash to holders of the Convertible Notes may be limited by its financial resources at the time of such repurchase. The Company cannot assure you that sufficient financing will be available on terms acceptable to it if necessary to make any required repurchase of the Convertible Notes.

Optional Debt Repurchases

        During August 2011, the Company repurchased $41,000 of its 8.625% senior notes due March 2015, $5,000 of its 9.375% senior notes due December 2015 and $4,496 of its 6.875% senior debentures due August 2013. These repurchases resulted in a gain for the period of $4,924.

Maturities

        The aggregate annual principal payments of long-term debt for the remainder of fiscal 2012 and thereafter are as follows: 2012—$5,179; 2013—$114; 2014—$189,326; 2015—$1,044,692; 2016—$1,004,618 and $3,859,708 thereafter.

Refinancing

        In August 2010, the Company repaid all borrowings outstanding under its revolving credit facility due September 2012 and cancelled all of its commitments thereunder and replaced such facility with a new $1,175,000 revolving credit facility (the "New Revolver") due 2015 (or such earlier date as noted below). The Company also repaid and retired all borrowings and accrued interest due under its $647,726 Tranche 4 Term Loan due June 2015. The Company financed these repayments with the net proceeds from an issuance of $650,000 of new 8.00% Senior Secured Notes due August 2020 (the "New Notes"; the New Revolver and the New Notes are hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Refinancing"), together with cash on hand. The prepayment of the Tranche 4 Term Loan occurred prior to the second anniversary of the borrowing thereof and therefore a 3.0% penalty of the principal amount outstanding was paid totaling $19,432, which was included in loss on debt modifications for the thirteen week period ended August 28, 2010. The loss on debt modifications and retirements for the thirteen week period ended August 28, 2010 also included the write-off of debt issue costs of $13,142 and net unamortized original issuance discounts of $11,429. Additionally, the Company incurred fees and expenses of $34,028 to consummate the Refinancing, which are being deferred and amortized over the terms of the related debt instruments.