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Financing Obligations
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2011
Financing Obligations [Abstract] 
Financing Obligations

 

2.         FINANCING OBLIGATIONS

 

The Company has a revolving credit facility (the "Credit Facility") with Wells Fargo, N. A. (the "Bank"), which has a maximum borrowing limit of $15.0 million. The Credit Facility is used to fund the Company's capital expenditures, operational working capital and seasonal working capital needs. The Credit Facility was renewed on March 27, 2009 when the Company entered into a Fourth Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement (the "2009 Credit Agreement") with the Bank, setting forth the new terms of the Credit Facility. The Credit Agreement has been further amended by the First and Second Amendments on May 14, 2010 and March 30, 2011, respectively. The amended Credit Agreement includes a maturity date of June 30, 2013 and continues the Bank's security interest in all of the Company's assets. There was no outstanding balance as of September 30, 2011 under the Credit Facility.

 

Interest on borrowings pursuant to the 2009 Credit Agreement is payable monthly at specified rates of either, at the Company's option, the Base Rate (as defined in the 2009 Credit Agreement) plus between 2.00% and 2.50%, or the LIBOR Rate (as defined in the 2009 Credit Agreement) plus between 3.00% and 3.50%, in each case with the applicable margin depending on the Company's Average Excess Availability (as defined in the 2009 Credit Agreement). The Company pays a specified fee on undrawn amounts under the Credit Facility which fee was one-half of one percent, or 0.5% on and before March 30, 2011, the date of Second Amendment to the Credit Agreement, and is three quarters of one percent, or 0.75% thereafter. After an event of default, all loans will bear interest at the otherwise applicable rate plus 2.00% per annum.

 

The 2009 Credit Agreement contains financial, affirmative and negative covenants by the Company as are usual and customary for financings of this kind which can result in the acceleration of the maturity of amounts borrowed under the Credit Facility, including, without limitation, a restriction on cash dividends, a change in ownership control covenant, a subjective material adverse change covenant and financial covenants. The financial covenants include an annual capital expenditure limit, a minimum excess availability limit, monthly and cumulative loss limits for June 2010 through March 2012. The Second amendment provides for a determination in March 2012 of specific financial covenants based on the financial projections of the Company for the business period starting in April 2012 through the June 2013 termination date of the Credit Agreement. The provisions of the 2009 Credit Agreement require that the Company maintain a lockbox arrangement with the Bank, and allows the Bank to declare any outstanding borrowings to be immediately due and payable as a result of noncompliance with any of the covenants. Accordingly, in the event of noncompliance, the Company's payment obligations with respect to such borrowings could be accelerated. Therefore, when the Company has a balance on its line of credit, it is classified as a current liability. As of September 30, 2011, the Company was in compliance with all terms of the Credit Facility.

 

Although the maximum borrowing limit was $15.0 million at September 30, 2011, the Credit Facility limits borrowings to a specified percentage of eligible accounts receivable and inventory, which totaled $8.8 million at September 30, 2011. Additionally, the terms of the Credit Facility provide that the amount borrowed and outstanding at any time combined with certain reserves for rental payments, letters of credit outstanding and general reserves be subtracted from the Credit Facility limit or the value of the total collateral to arrive at an amount of unused availability to borrow. The total collateral under the Credit Facility at September 30, 2011 amounted to $8.8 million. There were no amounts borrowed under the Credit Facility at September 30, 2011; however the value of reserves and letters of credit at that date totaled $4.1 million. As a result, the Company had $4.7 million of borrowing availability under the Credit Facility at September 30, 2011.

 

The Company entered into a $758,000 capital lease which began in July 2009 and ends in June 2012 for the acquisition of computer equipment and related licensed computer security software. Additionally, from time to time, the Company enters into capital leases for warehouse equipment such as forklifts. The amortization of these assets is included in depreciation expense. The total amount of remaining lease payments to be paid on capital leases, including interest and taxes, was $297,000 and $486,000 at September 30, 2011 and 2010 respectively. For the three months ended September 30, 2011, the Company repaid $71,000 of principal outstanding and $3,000 of interest expense related to capital leases. For the nine months ended September 30, 2011, the Company repaid $212,000 of principal outstanding and $14,000 of interest expense related to capital leases.

 

For the three months ended September 30, 2011, we recorded no interest expense on the Credit Facility. The rate of interest being charged on the Credit Facility at September 30, 2011 was 3.24%. For the three months ended September 30, 2010, we recorded interest expense of $8,000 on the Credit Facility at a weighted average interest rate of 3.31%. The Company also incurred unused Credit Facility fees of approximately $27,000 and $17,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 respectively, which unused Credit Facility fees are included in the total interest expense of $44,000 and $51,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 respectively.

 

For the nine months ended September 30, 2011, we recorded interest expense of $7,000 on the revolving credit agreement at a weighted average interest rate of 3.14%. For the nine months ended September 30, 2010, we recorded interest expense of $11,000 at a weighted average rate of 3.27% on the revolving credit agreement. The Company also incurred unused revolving credit facility fees of approximately $69,000 and $51,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively, which unused Credit Facility fees are included in the total interest expense of $138,000 and $131,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 respectively.