SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

On July 23, 2015, the Company’s deconsolidated Zimbabwe subsidiary experienced a fire at its warehouse located in Harare which stored a portion of the green tobacco from the most recent harvest in that country. In addition to destroying green tobacco, the fire severely damaged the building and other fixed assets. The Company maintains insurance which provides for the recovery of loss from fire, including lost profit. The timing, and the exact amount, of insurance recovery related to the Harare fire is uncertain and an extended delay in receiving the full anticipated insurance recovery could adversely affect liquidity.

On May 20, 2016, the Company entered into the Fourth Amendment to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the “Fourth Amendment"), which amended the Credit Agreement dated as of July 2, 2009, as amended and restated as of August 1, 2013, between the Company, certain of its subsidiaries, the lenders party thereto and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as administrative agent (as so amended and restated, the “Credit Agreement”).

The Fourth Amendment effected the following modifications to the Credit Agreement (capitalized terms are as defined in the Credit Agreement):


•	modified the threshold for the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio for the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2017 from 1.90 to 1.00 to 1.65 to 1.00;


•	modified the threshold for the Consolidated Leverage Ratio for the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2017 from 5.10 to 1.00 to 5.50 to 1.00; and


•	modified the definition of Consolidated EBIT to permit the add backs for the specified periods as set forth in the table below in connection with certain discrepancies discovered with respect to the Company’s Kenyan subsidiary:



For the Quarter Ended	Kenyan Discrepancies	Legal and Professional Costs in Respect of Kenyan Discrepancies
March 31, 2013	$(1,745,717)	0
June 30, 2013	$2,198,708	0
September 30, 2013	$(1,492,481)	0
December 31, 2013	$4,681,765	0
March 31, 2014	$7,869,112	0
June 30, 2014	$1,834,281	0
September 30, 2014	$6,606,350	0
December 31, 2014	$449,593	0
March 31, 2015	$3,577,392	0
June 30, 2015	$5,263,723	0
September 30, 2015	$5,821,224	0
December 31, 2015	0	$1,771,000
March 31, 2016	0	$6,129,000
June 30, 2016	0	$4,000,000
September 30, 2016	0	$3,500,000

Prior to the execution of the Fourth Amendment, the Company would have been in violation of one or more covenants in fiscal years 2014, 2015 and 2016 as a result of improper accounting for accounts receivable, inventory, sales and cost of goods sold in Kenya. In the Fourth Amendment, the lenders modified certain financial covenants and definitions as described above and, as a result, the Company was in compliance with all such amended covenants for fiscal years 2013, 2014 and 2015, and as of and for the three months ended June 30, 2015.

Note that in March 2016, Moody's Investors Service downgraded the Corporate Family Rating of the Company to Caa2 from Caa1. Moody's also downgraded the Probability of Default Rating to Caa2-PD from Caa1-PD, and the senior secured second lien note rating to Caa3 with a Loss Given Default (“LGD”) of 5 from Caa2 and a LGD of 5. At the same time Moody's affirmed the Company's senior secured bank credit facility rating at B1 with a LGD of 1 and the Speculative Grade Liquidity Rating at SGL-4. Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”) ratings are Corporate Credit Rating CCC+, senior secured second lien note rating CCC with a recovery rating (“RR”) of 5 and a senior secured debt rating of B with a RR of 1. Both Moody’s and S&P have outlook negative.

20. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS (continued)

However, the Company affirms its belief that the sources of capital it has access to are sufficient to fund its anticipated needs for fiscal years 2016 and 2017. As of March 31, 2016, available credit lines and cash were $604.5 million, comprised of $189.2 million in cash; $415.3 million of credit lines, of which $10.3 million was available under the U.S. revolving credit facility; and $405.0 million of foreign seasonal credit lines with $13.1 million exclusively for letters of credit. Notes payable to banks are typically for 180 to 270 days and are entered into each year in various locales around the world. The U.S revolver matures April 15, 2017 and the Company plans to either extend or refinance this facility during fiscal year 2017. The Company's access to capital meets its current expectations and outlook that is anticipated to provide sufficient liquidity to fulfill its future funding requirements. General deterioration of its business and the cash flow that it generates, failure to renew foreign lines or an inability to extend or refinance its U.S. revolver could impact its ability to meet its future liquidity requirements.