NOTE 10—LONG-TERM DEBT

The Company’s long-term debt consisted of the following:



(in thousands)	Average Interest Rate at August 3, 2019	Calendar Maturity Year	August 3, 2019			July 28, 2018
Term Loan Facility	6.40%	2019-2025	$	1,864,900		$	—
ABL Credit Facility	3.58%	2023	1,080,000			—
Other secured loans	5.54%	2023-2024	57,649			—
Former ABL Credit Facility			—			210,000
Former Term Loan Facility			—			110,000
Debt issuance costs, net			(54,891		)	(1,164		)
Original issue discount on debt			(41,175		)	—
Long-term debt, including current portion			2,906,483			318,836
Less: current portion of long-term debt			(87,433		)	(10,000		)
Long-term debt			$	2,819,050		$	308,836

Future maturities of long-term debt, excluding debt issuance costs and original issue and purchase accounting discounts on debt, as of August 3, 2019, consist of the following:



Fiscal Year	(In thousands)
2020	$	102,713
2021	30,413
2022	31,091
2023	31,806
2024	1,105,526
2025 and thereafter	1,701,000
	$	3,002,549

ABL Credit Facility

On August 30, 2018, the Company entered into a loan agreement (as amended by that certain First Amendment to Loan Agreement, dated as of October 19, 2018, and as further amended by that certain Second Amendment to Loan Agreement, dated January 24, 2019, the “ABL Loan Agreement”), by and among the Company and United Natural Foods West, Inc. (together with the Company, the “U.S. Borrowers”) and UNFI Canada, Inc. (the “Canadian Borrower” and, together with the U.S. Borrowers, the “Borrowers”), the financial institutions that are parties thereto as lenders (collectively, the “ABL Lenders”), Bank of America, N.A. as administrative agent for the ABL Lenders (the “ABL Administrative Agent”), Bank of America, N.A. (acting through its Canada branch), as Canadian agent for the ABL Lenders (the “Canadian Agent”), and the other parties thereto.

The ABL Loan Agreement provides for a secured asset-based revolving credit facility (the “ABL Credit Facility” and the loans thereunder, the “ABL Loans”), of which up to (i) $2,050.0 million is available to the U.S. Borrowers and (ii) $50.0 million is available to the Canadian Borrower. The ABL Loan Agreement also provides for (i) a $125.0 million sublimit of availability for letters of credit of which there is a further $5.0 million sublimit for the Canadian Borrower, and (ii) a $100.0 million sublimit for short-term borrowings on a swingline basis of which there is a further $3.5 million sublimit for the Canadian Borrower. The ABL Credit Facility replaced the Company’s $900.0 million prior asset-based revolving credit facility (the “Former ABL Credit Facility”). In addition, $1,475.0 million of proceeds from the ABL Credit Facility were drawn to finance the Supervalu acquisition and related transaction costs on the Supervalu acquisition date (the “Closing Date”).

Under the ABL Loan Agreement, the Borrowers may, at their option, increase the aggregate amount of the ABL Credit Facility in an amount of up to $600.0 million without the consent of any ABL Lenders not participating in such increase, subject to certain customary conditions and applicable lenders committing to provide the increase in funding. There is no assurance that additional funding would be available.

The Borrowers’ obligations under the ABL Credit Facility are guaranteed by most of the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiaries who are not also Borrowers (collectively, the “ABL Guarantors”), subject to customary exceptions and limitations. The Borrowers’ obligations under the ABL Credit Facility and the ABL Guarantors’ obligations under the related guarantees are secured by (i) a first-priority lien on all of the Borrowers’ and ABL Guarantors’ accounts receivable, inventory and certain other assets arising therefrom or related thereto (including substantially all of their deposit accounts, collectively, the “ABL Assets”) and (ii) a second-priority lien on all of the Borrowers’ and ABL Guarantors’ assets that do not constitute ABL Assets, in each case, subject to customary exceptions and limitations.

Availability under the ABL Credit Facility is subject to a borrowing base (the “Borrowing Base”), which is based on 90% of eligible accounts receivable, plus 90% of eligible credit card receivables, plus 90% of the net orderly liquidation value of eligible inventory, plus 90% of eligible pharmacy receivables, plus certain pharmacy scripts availability of the Borrowers, after adjusting for customary reserves. The aggregate amount of the ABL Loans made and letters of credit issued under the ABL Credit Facility shall at no time exceed the lesser of the aggregate commitments under the ABL Credit Facility (currently $2,100.0 million or, if increased at the Borrowers’ option as described above, up to $2,700.0 million) or the Borrowing Base. To the extent that the Borrowers’ Borrowing Base declines, the availability under the ABL Credit Facility may decrease below $2,100.0 million.

As of August 3, 2019, the U.S. Borrowers’ Borrowing Base, net of $119.6 million of reserves, was $2,036.5 million, which is below the $2,050.0 million limit of availability to the U.S. Borrowers under the ABL Credit Facility. As of August 3, 2019, the Canadian Borrower’s Borrowing Base, net of $3.6 million of reserves, was $38.9 million, resulting in total Borrowing Base of $2,075.4 million supporting the ABL Loans. As of August 3, 2019, the U.S. Borrowers had $1,080.0 million of ABL Loans outstanding, which are presented net of debt issuance costs of $12.9 million and are included in Long-term debt in the Consolidated Balance Sheets, and the Canadian Borrower had no ABL Loans outstanding under the ABL Credit Facility. As of August 3, 2019, the U.S. Borrowers had $76.2 million in letters of credit and the Canadian Borrower had no letters of credit outstanding under the ABL Credit Facility. The Company’s resulting remaining availability under the ABL Credit Facility was $919.2 million as of August 3, 2019.

The ABL Loans of the U.S. Borrowers under the ABL Credit Facility bear interest at rates that, at the U.S. Borrowers’ option, can be either: (i) a base rate and an applicable margin, or (ii) a LIBOR rate and an applicable margin. As of August 3, 2019, the applicable margin for base rate loans was 0.25%, and the applicable margin for LIBOR loans was 1.25%. The ABL Loans of the Canadian Borrower under the ABL Credit Facility bear interest at rates that, at the Canadian Borrower’s option, can be either: (i) prime rate and an applicable margin, or (ii) a Canadian dollar bankers’ acceptance equivalent rate and an applicable margin. As of August 3, 2019, the applicable margin for prime rate loans was 0.25%, and the applicable margin for Canadian dollar bankers’ acceptance equivalent rate loans was 1.25%. Commencing on the first day of the calendar month following the ABL Administrative Agent’s receipt of the Company’s aggregate availability calculation for the fiscal quarter ending on August 3, 2019, and quarterly thereafter, the applicable margins for borrowings by the U.S. Borrowers and Canadian Borrower will be subject to adjustment based upon the aggregate availability under the ABL Credit Facility. Unutilized commitments under the ABL Credit Facility are subject to a per annum fee of (i) 0.375% if the average daily total outstandings were less than 25% of the aggregate commitments during the preceding fiscal quarter, or (ii) 0.25% if such average daily total outstandings were 25% or more of the aggregate commitments during the preceding fiscal quarter. As of August 3, 2019, the unutilized commitment fee was 0.25% per annum. The Borrowers are also required to pay a letter of credit fronting fee to each letter of credit issuer equal to 0.125% per annum of the amount available to be drawn under each such letter of credit (or such other amount as may be mutually agreed by the Borrowers and the applicable letter of credit issuer), as well as a fee to all lenders equal to the applicable margin for LIBOR or Canadian dollar bankers’ acceptance equivalent rate loans, as applicable, times the average daily amount available to be drawn under all outstanding letters of credit.

The ABL Loan Agreement subjects the Company to a fixed charge coverage ratio (as defined in the ABL Loan Agreement) of at least 1.0 to 1.0 calculated at the end of each of our fiscal quarters on a rolling four quarter basis when the adjusted aggregate availability (as defined in the ABL Loan Agreement) is less than the greater of (i) $235.0 million and (ii) 10% of the aggregate borrowing base. We were not subject to the fixed charge coverage ratio covenant under the ABL Loan Agreement during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019.

The assets included in the Consolidated Balance Sheets securing the outstanding borrowings under the ABL Credit Facility on a first-priority basis, and the unused available credit and fees under the ABL Credit Facility, were as follows:



Assets securing the ABL Credit Facility (in thousands)⁽¹⁾:	August 3, 2019
Certain inventory assets included in Inventories and Current assets of discontinued operations	$	2,172,662
Certain receivables included in Accounts receivable, net and Current assets of discontinued operations	$	916,543


(1)	The ABL Credit Facility is also secured by all of the Company’s pharmacy scripts, which are included in Long-term assets of discontinued operations in the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of August 3, 2019.



Unused available credit and fees under the ABL Credit Facility (in thousands, except percentages):	August 3, 2019
Outstanding letters of credit	$	76,199
Letter of credit fees	1.375		%
Unused available credit	$	919,154
Unused facility fees	0.25		%

The ABL Loan Agreement contains other customary affirmative and negative covenants and customary representations and warranties that must be accurate in order for the Borrowers to borrow under the ABL Credit Facility. The ABL Loan Agreement also contains customary events of default, including, but not limited to, payment defaults, breaches of representations and warranties, covenant defaults, events of bankruptcy and insolvency, failure of any guaranty or security document supporting the ABL Credit Facility to be in full force and effect, and a change of control. If an event of default occurs and is continuing, the Borrowers may be required immediately to repay all amounts outstanding under the ABL Loan Agreement.

Term Loan Facility

On August 14, 2014, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries entered into a real estate-backed term loan agreement (as amended by the First Amendment Agreement, dated April 29, 2016, and the Second Amendment Agreement, dated September 1, 2016, the “Former Term Loan Agreement”). The Former Term Loan Agreement provided for secured first lien term loans in an aggregate amount of $150.0 million (the “Former Term Loan Facility”). Proceeds from this Former Term Loan Facility were used to pay down borrowings under the Former ABL Credit Facility.

Borrowings under the Former Term Loan Facility bore interest at rates that, at the Company’s option, could have been either: (i) a base rate and a margin of 0.75%; or, (ii) a LIBOR rate and a margin of 1.75%. The borrowers’ obligations under the Former Term Loan Facility were secured by certain parcels of the Company’s real property.

The Former Term Loan Agreement included financial covenants that required (i) the ratio of the Company’s consolidated EBITDA (as defined in the Former Term Loan Agreement) minus the unfinanced portion of Capital Expenditures (as defined in the Former Term Loan Agreement) to the Company’s consolidated Fixed Charges (as defined in the Former Term Loan Agreement) to be at least 1.20 to 1.00 as of the end of any period of four fiscal quarters, (ii) the ratio of the Company’s Consolidated Funded Debt (as defined in the Former Term Loan Agreement) to the Company’s EBITDA for the four fiscal quarters most recently ended to be not more than 3.00 to 1.00 as of the end of any fiscal quarter and (iii) the ratio, expressed as a percentage, of the Company’s outstanding borrowings under the Former Term Loan Facility), divided by the Mortgaged Property Value (as defined in the Former Term Loan Agreement) to be not more than 75% at any time.

On August 22, 2018, the Company notified its lenders of its intention to prepay its borrowings outstanding under its Former Term Loan Facility on October 1, 2018. The Former Term Loan Facility was previously scheduled to terminate on the earlier of (a) August 14, 2022 and (b) the date that is ninety days prior to the termination date of the Former ABL Loan Agreement. On October 1, 2018, the Company prepaid the $110.0 million of borrowings outstanding under the Former Term Loan Agreement utilizing borrowings under its Former ABL Credit Facility and terminated the Former Term Loan Agreement. In connection with the prepayment, the Company incurred a loss on debt extinguishment related to unamortized debt issuance costs of $0.4 million, which was recorded as Other expense in the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the first quarter of fiscal 2019.

On the Closing Date, the Company entered into a new term loan agreement (the “Term Loan Agreement”), by and among the Company and Supervalu (collectively, the “Term Borrowers”), the financial institutions that are parties thereto as lenders (collectively, the “ Term Lenders”), Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as administrative agent for the Lenders (the “TLB Administrative Agent”), and the other parties thereto. The Term Loan Agreement provides for senior secured first lien term loans in an aggregate principal amount of $1,950.0 million, consisting of a $1,800.0 million seven-year tranche (the “Term B Tranche”) and a $150.0 million 364-day tranche (the “364-day Tranche” and, together with the Term B Tranche, collectively, the “Term Loan Facility”). The entire amount of the net proceeds from the Term Loan Facility were used to finance the Supervalu acquisition and related transaction costs.

The loans under the Term B Tranche will be payable in full on October 22, 2025; provided that if on or prior to December 31, 2024 that certain Agreement for Distribution of Products, dated as of October 30, 2015, by and between Whole Foods Market Distribution, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and the Company has not been extended until at least October 23, 2025 on terms not materially less favorable, taken as a whole, to the Company and its subsidiaries than those in effect on the date of the Acquisition, then the loans under the Term B Tranche will be payable in full on December 31, 2024. The loans under the 364-day Tranche will be payable in full on October 21, 2019.

Under the Term Loan Agreement, the Term Borrowers may, at their option, increase the amount of the Term B Tranche, add one or more additional tranches of term loans or add one or more additional tranches of revolving credit commitments, without the consent of any Term Lenders not participating in such additional borrowings, up to an aggregate amount of $656.25 million plus additional amounts based on satisfaction of certain leverage ratio tests, subject to certain customary conditions and applicable lenders committing to provide the additional funding. There can be no assurance that additional funding would be available.

The Term Borrowers’ obligations under the Term Loan Facility are guaranteed by most of the Company’s wholly-owned domestic subsidiaries who are not also Term Borrowers (collectively, the “Term Guarantors”), subject to customary exceptions and limitations, including an exception for immaterial subsidiaries designated by the Company from time to time. The Term Borrowers’ obligations under the Term Loan Facility and the Term Guarantors’ obligations under the related guarantees are secured by (i) a first-priority lien on substantially all of the Term Borrowers’ and the Term Guarantors’ assets other than the ABL Assets and (ii) a second-priority lien on substantially all of the Term Borrowers’ and the Term Guarantors’ ABL Assets, in each case, subject to customary exceptions and limitations, including an exception for owned real property with net book values of less than $10.0 million. As of August 3, 2019, there was $590.0 million of owned real property pledged as collateral that was included in Property and equipment, net in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

The loans under the Term Loan Facility may be voluntarily prepaid, subject to certain minimum payment thresholds and the payment of breakage or other similar costs. Under the Term Loan Facility, we are required to, subject to certain exceptions and customary reinvestment rights, apply 100 percent of Net Cash Proceeds (as defined in the Term Loan Agreement) from certain types of asset sales to prepay the loans outstanding under the Term Loan Facility. Commencing with the fiscal year ending August 1, 2020, we must also prepay loans outstanding under the Term Loan Facility no later than 130 days after the fiscal year end in an aggregate principal amount equal to a specified percentage (which percentage ranges from 0 to 75 percent depending on our Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio (as defined in the Term Loan Agreement) as of the last day of such fiscal year) of Excess Cash Flow (as defined in the Term Loan Agreement) in excess of $10 million for the fiscal year then ended, minus any voluntary prepayments of the loans under the Term Loan Facility, the ABL Credit Facility (to the extent they permanently reduce commitments under the ABL Facility) and certain other indebtedness made during such fiscal year.

The borrowings under the Term Loan Facility bear interest at rates that, at the Term Borrowers’ option, can be either: (i) a base rate and a margin of (A) with respect to the Term B Tranche, 3.25% and (B), with respect to the 364-day Tranche, 1.00%, or (ii) a LIBOR rate and a margin of (A) with respect to the Term B Tranche, 4.25% and (B), with respect to the 364-day Tranche, 2.00%; provided that the LIBOR rate shall never be less than 0.0%.

The Term Loan Agreement does not include any financial maintenance covenants but contains other customary affirmative and negative covenants and customary representations and warranties. The Term Loan Agreement also contains customary events of default, including, but not limited to, payment defaults, breaches of representations and warranties, covenant defaults, events of bankruptcy and insolvency, failure of any guaranty or security document supporting the Term Loan Facility to be in full force and effect, and a change of control. If an event of default occurs and is continuing, the Term Borrowers may be required immediately to repay all amounts outstanding under the Term Loan Agreement.

In the second quarter of fiscal 2019, the Company made mandatory prepayments of $47.0 million on the 364-day Tranche with asset sale proceeds. In connection with the prepayments, the Company incurred a loss on debt extinguishment related to unamortized debt issuance costs of $1.0 million, which was recorded as Other expense in the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the second quarter of fiscal 2019.

In the third quarter of fiscal 2019, the Company made mandatory prepayments of $8.7 million and $5.5 million on the 364-day Tranche and Term B Tranche, respectively, with asset sale proceeds. In connection with the prepayments, the Company incurred a loss on debt extinguishment related to unamortized debt issuance costs and a loss on unamortized original issue discount of $0.2 million and $0.1 million, respectively, which were recorded as Other expense in the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the third quarter of fiscal 2019.

In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019, the Company made mandatory prepayments of $20.4 million and $3.5 million on the 364-day Tranche and Term B Tranche, respectively, with asset sale proceeds. In connection with the prepayments, the Company incurred a loss on debt extinguishment related to unamortized debt issuance costs and a loss on unamortized original issue discount of $0.3 million and $0.1 million, respectively, which were recorded as Other expense in the Consolidated Statements of Income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019.

As of August 3, 2019, the Company had borrowings of $1,791.0 million and $73.9 million under the Term B Tranche and 364-day Tranche, respectively, which are presented net of debt issuance costs of $42.0 million and an original issue discount on debt of $40.7 million. As of August 3, 2019, $18.0 million and $73.9 million of the Term B Tranche and 364-day Tranche, respectively, was classified as current, excluding debt issuance costs and original issue discount on debt.

Supervalu Senior Notes

On October 22, 2018, the Company delivered an irrevocable redemption notice for the remaining $350.0 million of 7.75% Supervalu Senior Notes and the remaining $180.0 million of 6.75% Supervalu Senior Notes assumed in conjunction with the Supervalu acquisition. In connection with the redemption notice, the Company placed $566.4 million on account with the trustee of the Supervalu Senior Notes to satisfy and discharge its obligations under the indenture governing the Supervalu Senior Notes. On November 21, 2018, following the required 30-day notice period, the trustee used this $566.4 million to extinguish the remaining principal balances, to pay the required redemption premiums and to pay accrued and unpaid interest on the redeemed Supervalu Senior Notes. As a result of the satisfaction and discharge of the indenture governing the redemption of the Supervalu Senior Notes, the Company has fully satisfied and discharged its obligations under the Supervalu Senior Notes.