-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, E3FMyecpizZDo+uB4ylPyPXqltUyRWc7Bi7p1k8+ErFlpnwYEXz159sIJWMLxDhj GGZllTN96wdow+UGWPGURA== 0001193125-10-254211.txt : 20101109 0001193125-10-254211.hdr.sgml : 20101109 20101109162946 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-10-254211 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 424B3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20101109 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20101109 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: GPC CAPITAL CORP I CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001061505 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MISCELLANEOUS PLASTIC PRODUCTS [3080] IRS NUMBER: 232952403 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-28 FILM NUMBER: 101176643 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: GRAHAM PACKAGING COMPANY, L.P. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001061506 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MISCELLANEOUS PLASTIC PRODUCTS [3080] IRS NUMBER: 232786688 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095 FILM NUMBER: 101176618 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: GRAHAM PACKAGING CO DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19980511 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001061507 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MISCELLANEOUS PLASTIC PRODUCTS [3080] IRS NUMBER: 222553000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-27 FILM NUMBER: 101176642 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY RD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17403 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY RD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: GPC Sub GP, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001327812 IRS NUMBER: 232952400 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-25 FILM NUMBER: 101176641 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: GPC Sub GP, L.L.C. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20050519 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging Latin America, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001327813 IRS NUMBER: 232946827 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-16 FILM NUMBER: 101176617 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging Latin America, L.L.C. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20050519 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging Poland, L.P. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001327814 IRS NUMBER: 232855283 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-15 FILM NUMBER: 101176616 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Recycling Company, L.P. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001327815 IRS NUMBER: 232636186 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-14 FILM NUMBER: 101176615 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging France Partners CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001327817 IRS NUMBER: 232850220 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-13 FILM NUMBER: 101176640 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging France Partners, L.P. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20050519 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging West Jordan LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001327818 IRS NUMBER: 043642518 STATE OF INCORPORATION: UT FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-12 FILM NUMBER: 101176639 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging West Jordan L.L.C. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20050519 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging Acquisition Corp. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001327819 IRS NUMBER: 753168236 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-11 FILM NUMBER: 101176638 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging Plastic Products Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001327821 IRS NUMBER: 952097550 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-10 FILM NUMBER: 101176637 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging PET Technologies Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001327822 IRS NUMBER: 061088896 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-09 FILM NUMBER: 101176636 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging Regioplast STS Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001327823 IRS NUMBER: 341743397 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-08 FILM NUMBER: 101176635 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging International Plastic Products Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001327825 IRS NUMBER: 341880159 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-07 FILM NUMBER: 101176634 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging International Plastic Products, Inc. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20050519 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging Technological Specialties LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001327832 IRS NUMBER: 611216686 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-03 FILM NUMBER: 101176630 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging Technological Specialties Inc. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20050519 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging Leasing USA LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001327833 IRS NUMBER: 611216682 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-06 FILM NUMBER: 101176633 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging Leasing USA Inc. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20050519 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging Comerc USA LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001327834 IRS NUMBER: 611216688 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-05 FILM NUMBER: 101176632 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging Comerc USA Inc. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20050519 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging Controllers USA LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001327835 IRS NUMBER: 611216684 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-04 FILM NUMBER: 101176631 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging Controllers USA Inc. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20050519 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging Minster LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001492700 IRS NUMBER: 562595198 STATE OF INCORPORATION: OH FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-26 FILM NUMBER: 101176629 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 255 SOUTHGATE DRIVE CITY: MINSTER STATE: OH ZIP: 45865 BUSINESS PHONE: 419-628-1070 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 255 SOUTHGATE DRIVE CITY: MINSTER STATE: OH ZIP: 45865 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: GPACSUB LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001495672 IRS NUMBER: 261127569 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-02 FILM NUMBER: 101176628 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 7178498500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging PX Co CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001502591 IRS NUMBER: 953571918 STATE OF INCORPORATION: CA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-18 FILM NUMBER: 101176620 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1760 HAWTHORNE LANE CITY: WEST CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60185 BUSINESS PHONE: 717-849-8500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging PX Holding Corp CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001502592 IRS NUMBER: 591748223 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-20 FILM NUMBER: 101176622 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1760 HAWTHORNE LANE CITY: WEST CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60185 BUSINESS PHONE: 717-849-8500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging LC, L.P. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001502593 IRS NUMBER: 363735725 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-21 FILM NUMBER: 101176623 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1760 HAWTHORNE LANE CITY: WEST CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60185 BUSINESS PHONE: 717-849-8500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CPG-L Holdings, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001502594 IRS NUMBER: 363735726 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-23 FILM NUMBER: 101176625 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1760 HAWTHORNE LANE CITY: WEST CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60185 BUSINESS PHONE: 717-849-8500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Liquid Container Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001502595 IRS NUMBER: 363735721 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-22 FILM NUMBER: 101176624 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1760 HAWTHORNE LANE CITY: WEST CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60185 BUSINESS PHONE: 717-849-8500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: WCK-L Holdings, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001502596 IRS NUMBER: 363735728 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-17 FILM NUMBER: 101176619 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1760 HAWTHORNE LANE CITY: WEST CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60185 BUSINESS PHONE: 717-849-8500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging LP Acquisition LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001502597 IRS NUMBER: 273420362 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-24 FILM NUMBER: 101176626 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 717-849-8500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging GP Acquisition LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001502598 IRS NUMBER: 273420526 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-01 FILM NUMBER: 101176627 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 BUSINESS PHONE: 717-849-8500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Graham Packaging PX, LLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001502601 IRS NUMBER: 953585385 STATE OF INCORPORATION: CA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 424B3 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-170095-19 FILM NUMBER: 101176621 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1760 HAWTHORNE LANE CITY: WEST CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60185 BUSINESS PHONE: 717-849-8500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2401 PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 424B3 1 d424b3.htm SUPPLEMENT NO. 1 TO PROSPECTUS DATED NOVEMBER 1, 2010 Supplement No. 1 to Prospectus dated November 1, 2010
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FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 424(B)(3)

File Number 333-170095

GRAHAM PACKAGING COMPANY, L.P.

GPC CAPITAL CORP. I

SUPPLEMENT NO. 1 TO

PROSPECTUS DATED NOVEMBER 1, 2010

THE DATE OF THIS SUPPLEMENT IS NOVEMBER 9, 2010

ON NOVEMBER 9, 2010, GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY FILED THE ATTACHED

FORM 10-Q FOR THE QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2010


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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 10-Q

 

 

(Mark One)

 

x QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2010

OR

 

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from                      to                     

Commission file number: 333-53603-03

 

 

GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Pennsylvania   23-2553000

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

2401 Pleasant Valley Road  
York, Pennsylvania   17402
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

(717) 849-8500

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  ¨    No  x

The registrant has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).    Yes  ¨    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer   ¨    Accelerated filer   ¨
Non-accelerated filer   x  (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)    Smaller reporting company   ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes  ¨    No  x

 

 

 


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GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY

INDEX

 

          Page
Number
 

PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

  

Item 1:

   Financial Statements:   
   CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (Unaudited) – At September 30, 2010 and December 31, 2009      3   
   CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (Unaudited) – For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009      4   
   CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (Unaudited) – For the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009      5   
   NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Unaudited)      6   
   Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-looking Statements      37   

Item 2:

   Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations      37   

Item 3:

   Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk      51   

Item 4:

   Controls and Procedures      53   

PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

  

Item 1:

   Legal Proceedings      54   

Item 1A:

   Risk Factors      54   

Item 2:

   Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds      55   

Item 6:

   Exhibits      55   

Signature

     56   

 

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Item 1. Financial Statements

GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(Unaudited)

 

     September 30,
2010
    December 31,
2009
(Adjusted for
push-down
accounting)
 
     (In thousands)  

ASSETS

    

Current assets:

    

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 169,955      $ 147,808   

Accounts receivable, net

     276,146        191,685   

Inventories

     231,183        194,702   

Deferred income taxes

     4,402        3,446   

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     48,022        59,091   
                

Total current assets

     729,708        596,732   

Property, plant and equipment, net

     1,217,770        1,017,778   

Intangible assets, net

     201,163        43,012   

Goodwill

     641,030        437,058   

Other non-current assets

     50,597        32,506   
                

Total assets

   $ 2,840,268      $ 2,127,086   
                

LIABILITIES AND PARTNERS’ CAPITAL (DEFICIT)

    

Current liabilities:

    

Current portion of long-term debt

   $ 46,282      $ 100,657   

Accounts payable

     175,292        111,013   

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

     220,436        186,103   

Deferred revenue

     27,273        30,245   
                

Total current liabilities

     469,283        428,018   

Long-term debt

     2,813,643        2,336,206   

Deferred income taxes

     27,020        17,646   

Other non-current liabilities

     83,334        99,854   

Commitments and contingent liabilities (see Notes 16 and 17)

    

Partners’ capital (deficit):

    

General partners

     (27,150     (36,603

Limited partners

     (514,762     (691,776

Notes and interest receivable for ownership interests

     (1,444     (1,795

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

     (9,656     (24,464
                

Total partners’ capital (deficit)

     (553,012     (754,638
                

Total liabilities and partners’ capital (deficit)

   $ 2,840,268      $ 2,127,086   
                

See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

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GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(Unaudited)

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
    Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
     2010     2009
(Adjusted for
push-down
accounting)
    2010     2009
(Adjusted for
push-down
accounting)
 
     (In thousands)  

Net sales

   $ 630,439      $ 588,803      $ 1,868,847      $ 1,736,368   

Cost of goods sold

     518,396        477,005        1,533,888        1,418,300   
                                

Gross profit

     112,043        111,798        334,959        318,068   

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     44,128        32,005        139,523        89,410   

Asset impairment charges

     925        6,136        3,716        14,171   

Net loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment

     1,078        2,110        2,132        4,408   
                                

Operating income

     65,912        71,547        189,588        210,079   

Interest expense

     43,729        50,138        131,005        127,019   

Interest income

     (181     (360     (479     (832

Net loss (gain) on debt extinguishment

     28,468        —          31,132        (756

Write-off of amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income related to interest rate swaps

     6,988        —          6,988        —     

Other (income) expense, net

     (644     (520     2,567        (2,065
                                

(Loss) income before income taxes

     (12,448     22,289        18,375        86,713   

Income tax (benefit) provision

     (10,065     7,430        (4,967     16,497   
                                

(Loss) income from continuing operations

     (2,383     14,859        23,342        70,216   

Loss from discontinued operations

     —          (2,117     —          (3,924
                                

Net (loss) income

   $ (2,383   $ 12,742      $ 23,342      $ 66,292   
                                

Net (loss) income allocated to general partners

   $ (72   $ 637      $ 792      $ 3,315   

Net (loss) income allocated to limited partners

   $ (2,311   $ 12,105      $ 22,550      $ 62,977   

See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

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CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(Unaudited)

 

     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
     2010     2009
(Adjusted for
push-down
accounting)
 
     (In thousands)  

Operating activities:

    

Net income

   $ 23,342      $ 66,292   

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:

    

Depreciation and amortization

     117,913        118,790   

Amortization of debt issuance fees

     4,771        6,392   

Accretion of senior unsecured notes

     356        —     

Net loss (gain) on debt extinguishment

     31,132        (756

Write-off of amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income related to interest rate swaps

     6,988        —     

Net loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment

     2,132        4,408   

Pension expense

     2,366        3,845   

Asset impairment charges

     3,716        18,308   

Unrealized loss on termination of cash flow hedge accounting

     242        4,896   

Stock compensation expense

     937        658   

Equity income from unconsolidated subsidiaries

     (46     —     

Deferred tax (benefit) provision

     (15,979     1,538   

Foreign currency transaction gain

     (59     (143

Interest receivable on loans to owners

     (269     (94

Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions of businesses:

    

Accounts receivable

     (45,231     12,967   

Inventories

     1,891        32,730   

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     9,089        17,835   

Other non-current assets

     (5,391     (4,527

Accounts payable and accrued expenses

     58,266        40,162   

Pension contributions

     (6,099     (15,288

Other non-current liabilities

     (6,128     233   
                

Net cash provided by operating activities

     183,939        308,246   
                

Investing activities:

    

Cash paid for property, plant and equipment

     (111,226     (104,497

Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment

     544        879   

Acquisitions of/investments in businesses, net of cash acquired

     (578,900     (1,385

Increase in restricted cash

     (7,300     —     
                

Net cash used in investing activities

     (696,882     (105,003
                

Financing activities:

    

Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt

     667,584        38,983   

Payment of long-term debt

     (264,690     (76,984

Debt issuance fees

     (33,457     (14,977

Net proceeds from sale of additional units to GPC (as defined herein)

     165,386        —     

Fees paid on behalf of GPC

     (1,225     —     

Repayment of notes and interest for ownership interests

     432        —     

Proceeds from issuance of ownership interests

     1,355        —     

Purchase of ownership interests

     —          (89
                

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

     535,385        (53,067
                

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents

     (295     2,768   
                

Increase in cash and cash equivalents

     22,147        152,944   

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

     147,808        43,879   
                

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

   $ 169,955      $ 196,823   
                

Supplemental disclosures:

    

Cash paid for interest, net of amounts capitalized

   $ 104,701      $ 111,411   

Cash paid for income taxes (net of refunds)

     15,464        12,080   

Non-cash investing and financing activities:

    

Capital leases

     —          1,551   

Accruals for purchases of property, plant and equipment

     9,323        15,388   

Accruals related to acquisitions

     1,256        —     

Accruals for debt issuance fees

     1,618        153   

See accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

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GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Unaudited)

 

1. Basis of Presentation

The accompanying Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) of Graham Packaging Holdings Company (“Holdings”), a Pennsylvania limited partnership, have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“generally accepted accounting principles” or “GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X and therefore do not include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete annual financial statements. All entities and assets owned by Holdings are referred to collectively with Holdings as the “Company.” Graham Packaging Company, L.P., Holdings’ wholly-owned subsidiary, is referred to as the “Operating Company.” In the opinion of the management of the Company, all adjustments (consisting only of usual recurring adjustments considered necessary for a fair presentation) are reflected in the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited). The Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet (Unaudited) as of December 31, 2009, is derived from audited financial statements. The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) and notes included in this report should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes for the year ended December 31, 2009. The results of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year ending December 31, 2010.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In June 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued guidance under FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 860, “Transfers and Servicing” (formerly Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) 166, “Accounting for Transfers of Financial Assets, an amendment of SFAS 140”). This guidance enhances the relevance, representational faithfulness and comparability of the information that a reporting entity provides in its financial reports about a transfer of financial assets, the effects a transfer will have on its financial performance and cash flows and any transferor’s continuing involvement in transferred financial assets. The Company adopted this guidance effective January 1, 2010, and the adoption had no impact on its financial statements.

In October 2009, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2009-13, “Multiple Deliverable Revenue Arrangements, a consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force.” This update provides amendments to the guidance provided under ASC 605, “Revenue Recognition,” for separating consideration in multiple-deliverable arrangements and establishes a hierarchy for determining the selling price of a deliverable. ASU 2009-13 is effective prospectively for financial statements issued for years beginning on or after June 15, 2010. The Company is evaluating the impact that the adoption of ASU 2009-13 will have on its financial statements, but does not expect that the adoption will have a material impact.

Management has determined that all other recently issued accounting pronouncements will not have a material impact on the Company’s financial statements, or do not apply to the Company’s operations.

Push-Down Accounting

In connection with the initial public offering of Graham Packaging Company Inc. (“GPC”), the Company’s majority owner, (“IPO”) GPC entered into an Exchange Agreement with the Graham Family (defined as Graham Capital Company, GPC Investments LLC and Graham Alternative Investment Partners I or affiliates thereof or other entities controlled by Donald C. Graham and his family) and certain permitted transferees allowing for the exchange of limited partnership units in Holdings for shares of GPC’s common stock. Under this exchange agreement all of the general partnership interests of the Graham Family have been converted into limited partnership interests on an equivalent basis. As a result of these transactions, all general partnership interests of Holdings are now controlled by GPC, and Holdings is now considered substantially wholly-owned by GPC under the guidance provided by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Regulation S-X, Rule 1-02(aa) as all voting interests are now controlled by GPC. Additionally, under the guidance provided by SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5J, “New Basis of Accounting Required in Certain Circumstances,” push-down accounting is required when such transactions result in an entity becoming substantially wholly-owned. Under the push-down basis of accounting certain transactions incurred by the parent company, which would otherwise be accounted for in the accounts of the parent, are “pushed down” and recorded on the financial statements of the subsidiary.

 

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Unaudited)—(continued)

 

 

Accordingly, items resulting from the accounting for GPC’s purchase of Holdings, such as property, plant and equipment, goodwill and related partners’ capital (deficit), have been retrospectively reflected in the financial statements and accompanying notes to the financial statements of Holdings for the prior periods presented. The accounts affected and related amounts are as follows:

 

     December 31,
2009
 

Increase to:

     (In thousands)   

Property, plant and equipment, net

   $ 1,362   

Goodwill

   $ 141,285   

Partners’ capital (deficit)

   $ 142,647   

In addition, depreciation expense was increased by $0.1 million and $0.2 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, respectively.

Subsequent Events

The Company has evaluated subsequent events that have occurred after the balance sheet date but before the financial statements were available to be issued, which the Company considers to be the date of filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Reclassification

A reclassification has been made to the 2009 Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows to reflect the deferred tax provision as a separate component of cash provided by operating activities. Amounts for this line item were previously included in changes in prepaid expenses and other current assets, changes in other non-current assets, changes in accounts payable and accrued expenses and changes in other non-current liabilities.

 

2. Discontinued Operations

On November 12, 2009, the Company sold its wholly-owned subsidiary Graham Emballages Plastiques S.A.S., located in Meaux, France, to an independent third party. The Company determined that the results of operations for this location, which had previously been reported in the Europe segment, would be reported as discontinued operations, in accordance with the guidance under ASC 205-20, “Discontinued Operations.” The following table summarizes the operating results for this location for the periods presented:

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30, 2009
    Nine Months Ended
September 30, 2009
 
     (In thousands)  

Net sales

   $ 5,988      $ 14,379   

Cost of goods sold

     3,950        14,126   

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     13        4   

Asset impairment charges

     4,138        4,138   

Interest expense

     4        35   
                

Loss from discontinued operations

   $ (2,117   $ (3,924
                

 

3. Acquisitions

Purchase of Liquid Entities

On September 23, 2010, the Company acquired the Liquid Entities (as defined below) from each of the limited partners (the “Liquid Limited Partners”) of Liquid Container L.P. (currently known as “Graham Packaging LC, L.P.”) (“Liquid L.P.”) and each of the stockholders (the “Stockholders”) of (i) Liquid Container Inc. (“Liquid”), a Delaware corporation, (ii) CPG-L Holdings, Inc. (“CPG”), a Delaware corporation, and (iii) WCK-L Holdings, Inc. (“WCK” and, together with Liquid and CPG, the “Liquid General Partners”), a Delaware corporation. Liquid L.P.

 

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and the Liquid General Partners are collectively referred to as the “Liquid Entities.” The Company purchased all the shares from the Stockholders and all of the limited partnership units from the Liquid Limited Partners (collectively, the “Liquid Acquisition”) for approximately $564.3 million, subject to a potential working capital adjustment.

Under the acquisition method of accounting, the results of the acquired operation are included in the financial statements of the Company beginning on September 23, 2010. The Liquid Entities, which employ approximately 1,000 employees, have operations in 14 plants located across the United States. Annual net sales totaled $356 million for 2009.

The Liquid Entities are a custom blow molded plastic container manufacturer based in West Chicago, Illinois, that primarily services food and household product categories. In the food product category, the Liquid Entities produce packaging for peanut butter, mayonnaise, coffee, cooking oil, nuts, instant drink mixes and other food items. The household product category consists of containers for bleach, laundry detergent, spray cleaners, automotive cleaning products, drain cleaners and other consumer-based household products. The Liquid Entities utilize high density polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate and polypropylene resins to manufacture their containers.

The Liquid Acquisition represents a strategically important acquisition for the Company as it expands the Company’s customer reach within its existing food and consumer products end markets while providing it with additional technological capabilities and an expansion of its geographical reach. The Liquid Acquisition will significantly increase the size and scope of the Company’s operations, particularly in the food product category, and provide the Company with considerable opportunities to convert new products to plastic containers. The Liquid Entities have been a leader in custom blow molded plastic containers used in cold-fill applications and have new hot-fill technologies, which complement the Company’s technologies, and which management believes can help drive new conversions. The Liquid Entities have a similar financial profile to that of the Company, as they use technology to serve their customer base with innovative and cost effective packaging solutions. Management believes the combined purchasing power can yield savings in freight, energy, outside services, leased equipment and miscellaneous raw materials such as packaging, pallets, shrink wrap and spare parts. Additionally, management believes it can eliminate overlapping corporate functions and expenses.

The initial purchase price has been allocated to assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on estimated fair values. The purchase price allocation is preliminary pending a final determination of the purchase price and a final valuation of the assets and liabilities, including a final valuation of property, plant and equipment, intangible assets and the impact on taxes of any adjustments to such valuations, all necessary to account for the acquisition in accordance with ASC 805, “Business Combinations.” For purposes of allocating the total purchase price, assets acquired and liabilities assumed are recorded at their estimated fair values. The initial allocated fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed is summarized as follows (in thousands):

 

     September 23,
2010
 

Cash

   $ 1,184   

Accounts receivable

     36,858   

Inventories

     35,029   

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     1,247   
        

Total current assets

     74,318   

Property, plant and equipment

     193,186   

Intangible assets

     156,500   

Goodwill

     201,437   
        

Total

     625,441   

Less liabilities assumed

     61,140   
        

Net cost of acquisition

   $ 564,301   
        

 

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The allocation set forth above is based on management’s estimate of the fair values using valuation techniques including the income, cost and market approaches. The amount allocated to intangible assets represents the estimated fair values of technologies of $58.3 million, customer relationships of $89.9 million, trade names of $5.3 million and non-compete agreement of $3.0 million. These intangible assets will be amortized on a straight-line basis over estimated remaining lives of ten years, 14 years, three years and two years for technologies, customer relationships, trade names and non-compete agreement, respectively, reflecting the expected future values of these intangible assets. Goodwill of $230.8 million is expected to be deductible for tax purposes. Acquired property, plant and equipment are being depreciated on a straight-line basis with estimated remaining lives up to 20 years. The initial purchase price allocations set forth above are based on all information available to the Company at the present time and are subject to change, and such changes could be material.

The purchase agreement related to the Liquid Entities contains a stated purchase price of $568.0 million, plus cash on hand, minus certain indebtedness and subject to a potential working capital adjustment, resulting in a payment by the Company of $564.3 million on September 23, 2010. Included in this amount was a payment of $208.2 million to satisfy existing indebtedness of the Liquid Entities, including accrued interest, then outstanding. As of September 30, 2010, additional indebtedness of approximately $7.1 million remains outstanding and will be repaid in the fourth quarter of 2010. The Company and the sellers are in the process of finalizing the working capital adjustment and this adjustment could be material.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2010, the Company incurred legal, professional and advisory costs directly related to the acquisition totaling $7.8 million. All such costs are included in selling, general and administrative expenses on the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations (Unaudited) for the nine months ended September 30, 2010. Deferred financing fees incurred in connection with issuing debt related to the acquisition totaled $12.4 million through September 30, 2010, and are reflected in other non-current assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet (Unaudited) as of September 30, 2010.

The results of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, include the results for the Liquid Entities since the acquisition date. Net sales and operating income of the Liquid Entities included in the Company’s consolidated results of operations totaled $7.7 million and $(0.0) million, respectively, for each of the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, respectively.

Pro Forma Information

The following table sets forth unaudited pro forma results of operations, assuming that the above acquisition had taken place at the beginning of each period presented:

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
     2010     2009      2010      2009  
     (In millions)  

Net sales

   $ 730      $ 681       $ 2,159       $ 2,004   

Net (loss) income

     (12     11         17         76   

These unaudited pro forma results of operations have been prepared for comparative purposes only and include certain adjustments, such as additional depreciation and amortization expense as a result of a step-up in the basis of fixed assets and intangible assets, increased interest expense on acquisition debt and related tax effects. They do not purport to be indicative of the results of operations which actually would have resulted had the combination been in effect at the beginning of each period presented, or of future results of operations of the entities.

On July 1, 2010, the Company acquired China Roots Packaging PTE Ltd. (“China Roots”), a plastic container manufacturing company located in Guangzhou, China, for approximately $15 million, subject to certain adjustments. China Roots manufactures plastic containers and closures for food, health care, personal care and petrochemical products. Its customers include several global consumer product marketers. In 2009, China Roots’ net sales were approximately $16.3 million.

 

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4. Accounts Receivable, Net

Accounts receivable, net are presented net of an allowance for doubtful accounts of $2.0 million and $2.4 million at September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, respectively. Management performs ongoing credit evaluations of its customers and generally does not require collateral.

 

5. Concentration of Credit Risk

For the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, 71.8% and 69.7% of the Company’s net sales, respectively, were generated by its top twenty customers. The Company’s sales to PepsiCo, Inc., the Company’s largest customer, were 10.4% and 11.3% of total sales for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively. All of these sales were made in North America.

The Company had $147.6 million and $113.7 million of accounts receivable from its top twenty customers as of September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, respectively. The Company had $26.9 million and $17.5 million of accounts receivable from PepsiCo, Inc. as of September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, respectively.

 

6. Inventories

Inventories, stated at the lower of cost or market, consisted of the following:

 

     September 30,
2010
     December 31,
2009
 
     (In thousands)  

Finished goods

   $ 153,615       $ 130,989   

Raw materials

     77,568         63,713   
                 

Total

   $ 231,183       $ 194,702   
                 

 

7. Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

A summary of property, plant and equipment, net is presented in the following table:

 

     Expected
Useful
Lives
     September 30,
2010
     December 31,
2009
 
     (in years)      (In thousands)  

Land

      $ 45,388       $ 39,063   

Buildings and improvements

     7-31.5         277,487         236,446   

Machinery and equipment (1)

     2-15         1,466,627         1,303,241   

Molds and tooling

     3-5         306,932         282,243   

Furniture and fixtures

     7         7,005         5,359   

Computer hardware and software

     3-7         42,273         40,930   

Construction in progress

        80,362         66,870   
                    

Property, plant and equipment

        2,226,074         1,974,152   

Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization

        1,008,304         956,374   
                    

Property, plant and equipment, net

      $ 1,217,770       $ 1,017,778   
                    

 

  (1) Includes longer-lived machinery and equipment of approximately $1,402.0 million and $1,230.5 million as of September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, respectively, having estimated useful lives, when purchased new, ranging from 8 to 15 years; and shorter-lived machinery and equipment of approximately $64.6 million and $72.7 million as of September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, respectively, having estimated useful lives, when purchased new, ranging from 2 to 8 years.

Depreciation expense, including depreciation expense on assets recorded under capital leases, for the three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, was $38.2 million and $37.5 million, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, was $112.0 million and $112.8 million, respectively.

 

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The Company capitalizes interest on borrowings during the active construction period of major capital projects. Capitalized interest is added to the cost of the underlying assets and is amortized over the useful lives of these assets. Interest capitalized for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, was $3.2 million and $2.5 million, respectively.

The Company closed its plant located in Edison, New Jersey in 2008. The land and building at this location, having a carrying value of $6.6 million, are deemed to be held for sale, and as such are reflected in prepaid expenses and other current assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited) as of September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009.

 

8. Intangible Assets, Net

The gross carrying amount and accumulated amortization of the Company’s intangible assets subject to amortization as of September 30, 2010, were as follows:

 

     Gross
Carrying
Amount
     Accumulated
Amortization
    Net      Weighted
Average
Amortization
Period
 
     (In thousands)  

Patented technology

   $ 86,374       $ (10,418   $ 75,956         10 years   

Customer relationships

     125,174         (8,761     116,413         14 years   

Trade names

     5,300         —          5,300         3 years   

Non-compete agreements

     3,511         (17     3,494         2 years   
                            

Total

   $ 220,359       $ (19,196   $ 201,163      
                            

The gross carrying amount and accumulated amortization of the Company’s intangible assets subject to amortization as of December 31, 2009, were as follows:

 

     Gross
Carrying
Amount
     Accumulated
Amortization
    Net      Weighted
Average
Amortization
Period
 
     (In thousands)  

Patented technology

   $ 24,545       $ (8,399   $ 16,146         10 years   

Customer relationships

     33,863         (6,997     26,866         16 years   
                            

Total

   $ 58,408       $ (15,396   $ 43,012      
                            

Amortization expense for each of the three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, was $1.3 million, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, was $3.7 million and $3.8 million, respectively. Remaining estimated aggregate amortization expense for 2010 is $5.2 million. The estimated aggregate amortization expense for each of the next five years ending December 31 is as follows (in thousands):

 

2011

   $ 20,900   

2012

     20,500   

2013

     18,800   

2014

     17,100   

2015

     16,800   

 

9. Goodwill

The changes in the carrying amount of goodwill were as follows:

 

     North
America
Segment
     Europe
Segment
    South
America
Segment
     Asia
Segment
     Total  
     (In thousands)  

Balance at January 1, 2010

   $ 420,765       $ 16,286      $ 7       $ —         $ 437,058   

Goodwill acquired during the period (see Note 3)

     201,437         —          —           1,395         202,832   

Foreign currency translation adjustments

     1,545         (428     —           23         1,140   
                                           

Balance at September 30, 2010

   $ 623,747       $ 15,858      $ 7       $ 1,418       $ 641,030   
                                           

 

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10. Asset Impairment Charges

The Company identified an indicator of possible impairment of certain assets in Argentina, Brazil, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, and in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Poland and the United States for the nine months ended September 30, 2009. As a result, the Company evaluated the recoverability of these assets and determined that the undiscounted future cash flows were below the carrying value of these long-lived assets. Additionally, management had no plans to redeploy the majority of these assets. Accordingly, the Company adjusted the carrying value of these long-lived assets to their estimated fair value in accordance with the guidance under ASC 360-10-35-15, “Subsequent Measurement—Impairment or Disposal of Long-lived Assets,” resulting in impairment charges being recorded in continuing operations of $0.9 million and $3.7 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, respectively, and $6.1 million and $14.2 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, respectively.

 

11. Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following:

 

     September 30,
2010
     December 31,
2009
 
     (In thousands)  

Accrued employee compensation and benefits

   $ 72,426       $ 64,536   

Accrued interest

     41,329         20,395   

Accrued sales allowance

     24,534         22,917   

Other

     82,147         78,255   
                 
   $ 220,436       $ 186,103   
                 

 

12. Debt Arrangements

Long-term debt consisted of the following:

 

     September 30,
2010
     December 31,
2009
 
     (In thousands)  

Term loans (net of $9.7 million and $19.9 million unamortized net discount as of September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, respectively)

   $ 1,938,772       $ 1,781,108   

Revolver

     —           —     

Foreign and other revolving credit facilities

     6,126         3,381   

Senior notes due 2017 (net of $3.0 million and $3.3 million unamortized discount as of September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, respectively)

     250,402         250,047   

Senior notes due 2018

     250,000         —     

Senior subordinated notes

     375,000         375,000   

Capital leases

     12,468         17,039   

Other

     27,157         10,288   
                 
     2,859,925         2,436,863   

Less amounts classified as current (net of $3.8 million and $5.8 million unamortized net discount as of September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, respectively)

     46,282         100,657   
                 

Total

   $ 2,813,643       $ 2,336,206   
                 

 

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On September 23, 2010, the Company entered into the Sixth Amendment to the Credit Agreement (the “Amendment”), amending the Company’s credit agreement dated as of October 7, 2004. Pursuant to the Amendment, and in connection with the acquisition of the Liquid Entities, the Company entered into a new senior secured term loan facility in an aggregate principal amount of $913.0 million (“Term Loan D”) and extinguished the amount outstanding under the existing senior secured term loan due October 7, 2011 (“Term Loan B”) in the amount of $563.7 million, including accrued interest. The remaining proceeds were used to finance the Liquid Acquisition and pay related costs and expenses. The Term Loan D will mature on the earliest of (i) September 23, 2016, (ii) the date that is 91 days prior to the maturity of the Company’s 8.25% senior notes due January 2017 if such senior notes have not been repaid or refinanced in full by such date or (iii) the date that is 91 days prior to the maturity of the Company’s 9.875% senior subordinated notes due October 2014 if such senior notes have not been repaid or refinanced in full by such date.

After giving effect to the Amendment, as of September 30, 2010, the credit agreement, as amended, consisted of a senior secured term loan of $1,021.2 million ($1,035.5 million aggregate outstanding principal amount less $14.3 million unamortized discount) due April 5, 2014 (“Term Loan C”) and Term Loan D in the amount of $917.6 million ($913.0 million aggregate outstanding principal amount plus $4.6 million unamortized premium) (collectively, the “Term Loans”), to the Operating Company and a $260.0 million senior secured revolving credit facility (the “Revolver” and, together with the Term Loans, the “Credit Agreement”) with availability of $246.7 million (as reduced by $13.3 million of outstanding letters of credit.) The obligations of the Operating Company and GPC Capital Corp. I (“CapCo I”) under the Credit Agreement are guaranteed by Holdings and certain domestic subsidiaries of the Operating Company. The Term Loans are payable in quarterly installments and require payments of $4.9 million in the remainder of 2010, $19.6 million in 2011, $19.6 million in 2012, $19.7 million in 2013, $1,010.5 million in 2014 and $874.2 million thereafter (disregarding any further mandatory or voluntary prepayments that may reduce such scheduled amortization payments). The payments of $4.9 million in the remainder of 2010 exclude the paydowns of debt in the first three quarters of 2010 of $114.2 million with the contributions received from GPC in exchange for limited partnership units in connection with the IPO and of $14.7 million with the contributions received from GPC in exchange for limited partnership units in connection with the sale of additional shares following the IPO and from an excess cash flow payment of $62.5 million due for the year ended December 31, 2009, paid in March 2010.

On May 28, 2009, certain of the Revolver lenders agreed to extend their commitments, with respect to $112.8 million of the total commitment (“Extending Revolver”), conditioned on the refinancing in full of the senior notes due 2012, which occurred in November 2009. In conjunction with the extension of these revolving commitments, the Company also voluntarily reduced the amount of total revolving commitments available to it under the Credit Agreement from $250.0 million to $248.0 million. Subsequent to the IPO, the Company received a $12.0 million increase to its Extending Revolver. As of September 30, 2010, the Company had $124.8 million of commitments that will expire on October 1, 2013, and $135.2 million of commitments that expired on October 7, 2010 (“Non-Extending Revolver”).

Interest under the Term Loan B and the Non-Extending Revolver was payable at (a) the “Alternate Base Rate” (“ABR”) (the higher of the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Rate plus 0.50%) plus a margin ranging from 1.00% to 1.75%; or (b) the “Eurodollar Rate” (the applicable interest rate offered to banks in the London interbank eurocurrency market) plus a margin ranging from 2.00% to 2.75%. Interest under the Term Loan C, Term Loan D and the Extending Revolver is payable at (a) the “Adjusted Alternate Base Rate” (the higher of (x) the Prime Rate plus a margin of 3.25%; (y) the Federal Funds Rate plus a margin of 3.75%; or (z) the one-month Eurodollar Rate, subject to a floor of 2.50% for the Term Loan C and Extending Revolver and 1.75% for the Term Loan D, plus a margin of 4.25%); or (b) the Eurodollar Rate, subject to a floor of 2.50% for the Term Loan C and Extending Revolver and 1.75% for the Term Loan D, plus a margin of 4.25%. A commitment fee of 0.50% was due on the

 

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unused portion of the Non-Extending Revolver. A commitment fee of 0.75% is due on the unused portion of the Extending Revolver.

The Credit Agreement contains certain affirmative and negative covenants as to the operations and financial condition of the Company, as well as certain restrictions on the payment of dividends and other distributions by the Operating Company to Holdings. As of September 30, 2010, the Company was in compliance with all covenants.

Substantially all domestic tangible and intangible assets of the Company are pledged as collateral pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement.

As required by the guidance under ASC 470-50-40, “Modifications and Extinguishments,” the Company performed an analysis to determine whether the Amendment would be recorded as an extinguishment of debt or a modification of debt. Based on the Company’s analysis, it was determined that the Amendment qualified as a debt extinguishment under this guidance and, as a result, the Company recorded a loss of $28.5 million. The loss is comprised of the following items (in millions):

 

Principal amount of Term Loan D

   $ 913.0   

Fair value (see Note 13 for further discussion)

     917.6   
        

Subtotal

     (4.6

Write-off of deferred financing fees on extinguished debt

     (2.4

Issuance costs and amendment fees

     (21.5
        

Loss on debt extinguishment

   $ (28.5
        

Write-off of remaining amount in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) related to interest rate swaps

   $ (7.0
        

In conjunction with the Amendment, the Company recorded $0.4 million in deferred financing fees, which are included in other non-current assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet (Unaudited) and are being amortized to interest expense over the term of the respective debt using the effective interest method.

On September 23, 2010, in conjunction with the Liquid Acquisition, the Operating Company and CapCo I co-issued $250.0 million aggregate principal amount of 8.25% senior unsecured notes due 2018 (“Senior Notes due 2018”). In conjunction with the issuance of the Senior Notes due 2018, the Company recorded $12.0 million in deferred financing fees, which are included in other non-current assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet (Unaudited) and are being amortized on a straight-line basis over the term of the notes. Besides these notes, as of September 30, 2010, the Company also had outstanding $253.4 million aggregate principal amount of 8.25% senior unsecured notes due 2017 (“Senior Notes due 2017”) and $375.0 million in senior subordinated notes due 2014 (“Senior Subordinated Notes”) co-issued by the Operating Company and CapCo I (collectively with the Senior Notes due 2018 and the Senior Notes due 2017, the “Notes”). The Notes are unconditionally guaranteed, jointly and severally, by Holdings and certain domestic subsidiaries of the Operating Company and mature on October 7, 2014 (Senior Subordinated Notes), January 1, 2017 (Senior Notes due 2017) and October 1, 2018 (Senior Notes due 2018). Interest on the Senior Subordinated Notes is payable semi-annually at 9.875% per annum and interest on the Senior Notes due 2017 and the Senior Notes due 2018 is payable semi-annually at 8.25% per annum.

As part of the Liquid Acquisition, the Company acquired debt consisting of industrial revenue bonds in an aggregate principal amount of $7.1 million. To collateralize this debt, the Company purchased certificates of deposit in the amount of $7.3 million. This investment is considered restricted cash and is reflected in non-current assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet (Unaudited) as of September 30, 2010, and is reflected within investing activities on the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows (Unaudited) for the nine months ended September 30, 2010.

 

13. Fair Value Measurement

 

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The following methods and assumptions were used to estimate the fair values of each class of financial instruments:

Cash and Cash Equivalents, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable

The fair values of these financial instruments approximate their carrying amounts.

Long-Term Debt

The Company’s long-term debt consists of both variable-rate and fixed-rate debt. The fair values of the Company’s long-term debt were based on market price information. The Company’s variable-rate debt, including the Company’s Credit Agreement, totaled $1,966.0 million (net of $9.7 million unamortized net discount) and $1,790.1 million (net of $19.9 million unamortized discount) at September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, respectively. The fair value of this long-term debt, including the current portion, was approximately $1,993.8 million and $1,809.8 million at September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, respectively. The Company’s fixed-rate debt, including $253.4 million of Senior Notes due 2017, $250.0 million of Senior Notes due 2018 and $375.0 million of Senior Subordinated Notes, totaled $893.9 million (net of $3.0 million unamortized discount) and $646.8 million (net of $3.3 million unamortized discount) at September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, respectively. The fair value of this long-term debt, including the current portion, was approximately $913.8 million and $652.8 million at September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, respectively.

Derivatives

The Company established the following fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs used to measure fair value, in accordance with the guidance under ASC 820-10, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures”:

 

  Level 1: Inputs are quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities as of the reporting date. Active markets are those in which transactions for the asset or liability occur with sufficient frequency and volume to provide pricing information on an ongoing basis.

 

  Level 2: Inputs include the following:
  a) Quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities.
  b) Quoted prices in markets that are not active for identical or similar assets or liabilities.
  c) Inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability.
  d) Inputs that are derived primarily from or corroborated by observable market data by correlation or other means.

 

  Level 3: Inputs are unobservable inputs for the asset or liability.

Recurring Fair Value Measurements

The following table presents the Company’s financial assets and liabilities that were accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis as of September 30, 2010, by level within the fair value hierarchy:

 

     Fair Value Measurements Using  
     Level 1      Level 2      Level 3  
     (In thousands)  

Assets:

        

Foreign currency exchange contract

   $ —         $ 5       $ —     

Liabilities:

        

Interest rate swap agreements

   $ —         $ 11,028       $ —     

 

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The following table presents the Company’s financial assets and liabilities that were accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis as of December 31, 2009, by level within the fair value hierarchy:

 

     Fair Value Measurements Using  
     Level 1      Level 2      Level 3  
     (In thousands)  

Liabilities:

        

Interest rate collar agreements

   $ —         $ 68       $ —     

Interest rate swap agreements

     —           16,688         —     

Foreign currency exchange contract

     —           27         —     

The fair values of the Company’s derivative financial instruments are observable at commonly quoted intervals for the full term of the derivatives and therefore considered level 2 inputs.

Non-recurring Fair Value Measurements

The Company has real estate located in Edison, New Jersey that is held for sale. The aggregate carrying value of these assets at September 30, 2010, was $6.6 million, which is less than the fair value of these assets and therefore resulted in no impairment charge for these assets. The determination of fair value included certain unobservable inputs, which reflect the Company’s assumptions regarding how market participants would price these assets in the marketplace, and therefore are considered level 3 inputs. The fair value of this real estate was based on offers received from potential buyers.

The Company recorded impairment charges of $0.9 million and $3.7 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, respectively, for long-lived assets in Argentina, Brazil, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States whose carrying values exceeded fair values. The Company recorded impairment charges in continuing operations of $6.1 million and $14.2 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, respectively, for long-lived assets in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Poland and the United States whose carrying values exceeded fair values. Fair values for these assets were based on projected future cash flows, discounted using either a risk-free rate or a risk-adjusted rate, which the Company considers level 3 inputs.

As previously discussed, on September 23, 2010, the Company entered into the Sixth Amendment to the Credit Agreement. In accordance with the guidance under ASC 470-50-40, “Modifications and Extinguishments,” this transaction was treated as a debt extinguishment and the new debt was initially recorded at its fair value of $917.6 million, which was based on the average trading price on the first trade date and is considered a level 2 input. The initial fair value premium of $4.6 million is being amortized as a reduction to interest expense over the term of the Term Loan D using the effective interest method.

 

14. Derivative Financial Instruments

The Company’s business and activities expose it to a variety of market risks, including risks related to changes in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates and commodity prices. These financial exposures are monitored and managed by the Company as an integral part of its market risk management program. This program recognizes the unpredictability of financial markets and seeks to reduce the potentially adverse effects that market volatility could have on operating results. As part of its market risk management strategy, the Company uses derivative instruments to protect cash flows from fluctuations caused by volatility in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates and commodity prices.

Cash Flow Hedges

For derivative instruments that are designated and qualify as cash flow hedges, the effective portion of the gain or loss on the derivative is reported as a component of other comprehensive income and reclassified into earnings in the same period or periods during which the hedged transaction affects earnings. Gains and losses on derivatives representing hedge ineffectiveness, if any, are recognized in current earnings.

During 2009, the Company entered into a $1.2 million foreign currency exchange contract to hedge the exchange rate exposure on a transaction that is denominated in pound sterling. The contract has been renewed several times, most recently in the third quarter of 2010 for another six months for a contract value of $1.5 million. This foreign currency exchange contract is accounted for as a cash flow hedge and is highly effective as defined by ASC 815, “Derivatives and Hedging.”

 

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The maximum term over which the Company is hedging exposures to the variability of cash flows (for all forecasted transactions, excluding interest payments on variable-rate debt) is 12 months.

Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments

During the first quarter of 2009, the Company elected to roll over its senior secured term loan in one-month increments to reduce its cash interest, as opposed to continuing to roll over its senior secured term loan in three-month increments to match the terms of its interest rate collar agreements. The Company had therefore discontinued hedge accounting for its interest rate collar and swap agreements. As a result, no change in fair value was recorded in other comprehensive income for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009. As a result of the extinguishment of the Term Loan B in conjunction with the refinancing of the Credit Agreement that enabled the Company to purchase the Liquid Entities on September 23, 2010, the Company wrote off the remaining unamortized amount in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss).

In 2009, the Company entered into foreign currency exchange contracts to hedge the effects of fluctuations in exchange rates on an anticipated euro-denominated purchase of equipment. The gains or losses on the derivatives were recognized in current earnings.

Financial instruments are not held by the Company for trading purposes.

The notional amounts of the Company’s derivative instruments outstanding were as follows:

 

     September 30,
2010
     December 31,
2009
 
     (In thousands)  

Derivatives designated as hedges:

     

Foreign currency exchange contract

   $ 1,472       $ 1,544   

Total derivatives designated as hedges

   $ 1,472       $ 1,544   
                 

Derivatives not designated as hedges:

     

Interest rate collar agreements

   $ —         $ 385,000   

Interest rate swap agreements

     350,000         350,000   
                 

Total derivatives not designated as hedges

   $ 350,000       $ 735,000   
                 

The fair values of the Company’s derivative instruments outstanding were as follows:

 

    

Balance Sheet Location

   September 30,
2010
     December 31,
2009
 
          (In thousands)  

Asset derivatives:

        

Derivatives designated as hedges:

        

Foreign currency exchange contract

   Prepaid expenses and other current assets    $ 5       $ —     
                    

Total derivatives designated as hedges

        5         —     
                    

Total asset derivatives

      $ 5       $ —     
                    

Liability derivatives:

        

Derivatives designated as hedges:

        

Foreign currency exchange contract

   Accrued expenses and other current liabilities    $ —         $ 27   
                    

Total derivatives designated as hedges

        —           27   
                    

Derivatives not designated as hedges:

        

Interest rate collar agreements

   Accrued expenses and other current liabilities      —           68   

Interest rate swap agreements

   Accrued expenses and other current liabilities      11,028         10,466   

Interest rate swap agreements

   Other non-current liabilities      —           6,222   
                    

Total derivatives not designated as hedges

        11,028         16,756   
                    

Total liability derivatives

      $ 11,028       $ 16,783   
                    

 

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The gains and losses on the Company’s derivative instruments during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, were as follows:

 

     Amount of Gain or
(Loss) Recognized
in AOCI (a)
(Effective Portion)
for the
Period Ended
September 30,
2010
   

Income Statement Classification

   Amount of Gain or
(Loss) Reclassified from
AOCI into Income
(Effective Portion)
for the
Period Ended
September 30, 2010
 
     Three
Months
     Nine
Months
         Three
Months
    Nine
Months
 
     (In thousands)          (In thousands)  

Derivatives designated as hedges:

            

Cash flow hedges:

            

Foreign currency exchange contract

   $ 71       $ (39   Other (income) expense, net    $ 71      $ (39
                                    

Total derivatives designated as hedges

   $ 71       $ (39      $ 71      $ (39
                                    
                       Amount of Gain or
(Loss) Recognized in
Income for the
Period Ended
September 30, 2010
 
                       Three
Months
    Nine
Months
 
                       (In thousands)  

Derivatives not designated as hedges:

            

Interest rate collar agreements

        Interest expense    $ —        $ (86

Interest rate swap agreements

        Interest expense      (3,170     (10,197

Interest rate swap agreements

       

Write-off of amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income related to interest rate swaps

     (6,988     (6,988
                        

Total derivatives not designated as hedges

           $ (10,158   $ (17,271
                        

 

(a) Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (“AOCI”).

The gains and losses on the Company’s derivative instruments during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, were as follows:

 

     Amount of Gain or
(Loss) Recognized
in AOCI
(Effective Portion)
for the
Period Ended
September 30, 2009
   

Income Statement
Classification

   Amount of Gain or
(Loss) Reclassified from
AOCI into Income
(Effective Portion)
for the
Period Ended
September 30, 2009
 
     Three
Months
    Nine
Months
         Three
Months
    Nine
Months
 
     (In thousands)          (In thousands)  

Derivatives designated as hedges:

           

Cash flow hedges:

           

Foreign currency exchange contract

   $ (44   $ 107      Other (income) expense, net    $ (44   $ 107   

Natural gas swap agreements

     (12     (173   Cost of goods sold      (94     (367
                                   

Total derivatives designated as hedges

   $ (56   $ (66      $ (138   $ (260
                                   

 

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          Amount of Gain or
(Loss) Recognized in
Income for the
Period Ended
September 30, 2009
 
          Three
Months
    Nine
Months
 
          (In thousands)  

Derivatives not designated as hedges:

       

Interest rate collar agreements

   Interest expense    $ (2,079   $ (6,282

Interest rate swap agreements

   Interest expense      (4,791     (5,860

Foreign currency exchange contracts

   Other (income) expense, net      11        95   
                   

Total derivatives not designated as hedges

      $ (6,859   $ (12,047
                   

 

15. Income Taxes

The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with ASC 740, “Accounting for Income Taxes.” Holdings and the Operating Company, as limited partnerships, do not pay U.S. federal income taxes under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code as the applicable income or loss is included in the tax returns of the partners. However, certain U.S. subsidiaries are corporations and are subject to U.S. federal and state income taxes. The Company’s foreign operations are subject to tax in their local jurisdictions. In recording the income tax provision for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, the Company separately considered one-time contract termination fees paid to affiliates, bonuses paid and other costs incurred in connection with the IPO, acquisition costs associated with the Liquid Acquisition, and a foreign exchange loss related to the application of hyper-inflationary accounting for the Company’s Venezuelan subsidiary and the devaluation of the Venezuelan bolivar.

Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to temporary differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and are measured using enacted tax rates. The Company previously established a valuation allowance with respect to certain deferred income tax assets. During the nine months ended September 30, 2010, the valuation allowance decreased by $38.5 million, primarily as a result of changes in deferred income tax assets associated with current year utilization of net operating losses and realization of additional income tax benefits as a result of the recognition of additional deferred tax liabilities related to the Liquid Acquisition. Pursuant to the requirements of ASC 740-10-30, “Establishment of a Valuation Allowance for Deferred Tax Assets,” the Company assesses the realizability of deferred tax assets based on an evaluation of positive and negative evidence of future taxable income. In making this determination, the Company considers all available positive and negative evidence and makes certain assumptions. The Company considers, among other things, the nature and amount of deferred tax liabilities, historical earnings and losses, expected taxable income and current and future tax planning strategies. It is reasonably possible that future assessments will result in a release of the valuation allowance against net deferred tax assets within certain of Holdings’ subsidiaries.

The Company had $21.0 million of Unrecognized Tax Benefits (“UTB”), exclusive of interest and penalties, as of September 30, 2010. For the nine months ended September 30, 2010, the Company recorded a net increase in UTB of $2.6 million, exclusive of interest and penalties. At September 30, 2010, the Company had long-term deferred income tax assets of $9.9 million which offset the UTB. As of September 30, 2010, the Company had recorded additional UTB of $5.0 million related to interest and penalties. The Company does not expect a significant change in the UTB balance in the next twelve months. Approximately $7.2 million of UTB at September 30, 2010, if recognized, would impact the Company’s effective tax rate.

 

16. Commitments

The Company is a party to various capital and operating leases involving real property and equipment. Total rent expense for operating leases was $11.8 million and $36.7 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, respectively, and $12.8 million and $37.8 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, respectively.

 

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Under the Fifth Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement and the Amended and Restated Monitoring Agreement (the “Monitoring Agreement”), the Company was obligated to make annual payments of $2.0 million and $3.0 million to affiliates of the Graham Family and Blackstone (defined as Blackstone Capital Partners III Merchant Banking Fund L.P., Blackstone Offshore Capital Partners III L.P. and Blackstone Family Investment Partnership III L.P. or affiliates thereof), respectively. The Company has terminated the Monitoring Agreement and is no longer obligated to make payments under the Monitoring Agreement. As a result, as of February 10, 2010, the Company is only obligated to make annual payments of $1.0 million to affiliates of the Graham Family for ongoing management and advisory services under the Sixth Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement. See Note 22 for further discussion of the Company’s obligations under these agreements.

 

17. Contingencies and Legal Proceedings

On November 3, 2006, the Company filed a complaint with the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, against Owens-Illinois, Inc. and OI Plastic Products FTS, Inc. (collectively, “OI”). The complaint alleges certain misrepresentations by OI in connection with the Company’s 2004 purchase of the blow molded plastic container business of Owens-Illinois, Inc. and seeks damages in excess of $30 million. In December 2006, OI filed an Answer and Counterclaim, seeking to rescind a Settlement Agreement entered into between OI and the Company in April 2005, and disgorgement of more than $39 million paid by OI to the Company in compliance with that Settlement Agreement. The Company filed a Motion to Dismiss the Counterclaim in July 2007, which was granted by the Court in October 2007. On August 1, 2007, the Company filed an Amended Complaint to add additional claims seeking indemnification from OI for claims made against the Company by former OI employees pertaining to their pension benefits. These claims arise from an arbitration between the Company and Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastic & Allied Workers, Local #171 (the “Union”) that resulted in an award on April 23, 2007, in favor of the Union. The Arbitrator ruled that the Company had failed to honor certain pension obligations for past years of service to former employees of OI, whose seven Union-represented plants were acquired by the Company in October 2004. In the Amended Complaint, the Company maintains that under Section 8.2 of the Stock Purchase Agreement between the Company and OI, OI is obligated to indemnify the Company for any losses associated with differences in the two companies’ pension plans including any losses incurred in connection with the Arbitration award. The litigation is proceeding.

On April 10, 2009, OnTech Operations, Inc. (“OnTech”) initiated an arbitration proceeding against the Company, in which OnTech alleged that the Company breached a bottle purchase agreement dated April 28, 2008, and an equipment lease dated June 1, 2008. In its statement of claims, OnTech alleged, among other things, that the Company’s failure to produce bottles as required by the bottle purchase agreement resulted in the failure of OnTech’s business. As a result, OnTech sought to recover the value of its business, which it alleged was between $80 million and $150 million. The arbitration was heard by a three arbitrator panel from August 2, 2010, to August 16, 2010. On October 5, 2010, the Company received the decision from the arbitrators awarding OnTech $8.1 million which was accrued in the third quarter of 2010. The Company is currently considering its response to the decision.

The Company is a party to various other litigation matters arising in the ordinary course of business. The ultimate legal and financial liability of the Company with respect to such litigation cannot be estimated with certainty, but management believes, based on its examination of these matters, experience to date and discussions with counsel, that ultimate liability from the Company’s various litigation matters will not be material to the business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows of the Company.

 

18. Condensed Guarantor Data

As of September 30, 2010, the Operating Company and CapCo I had outstanding $253.4 million aggregate principal amount of 8.25% Senior Notes due 2017, $250.0 million aggregate principal amount of 8.25% Senior Notes due 2018 and $375.0 million aggregate principal amount of 9.875% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014. Holdings and the domestic subsidiaries of the Operating Company have fully and unconditionally guaranteed these notes. These guarantees are both joint and several. The Operating Company, the guarantor subsidiaries and CapCo I are 100%-owned subsidiaries of Holdings.

 

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Unaudited)—(continued)

 

 

The following unaudited condensed consolidating information presents, in separate columns, the condensed consolidating balance sheets as of September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, and the related condensed consolidating statements of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, and condensed consolidating statements of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, for (i) Holdings on a parent only basis with its investments in the Operating Company and CapCo I recorded under the equity method, (ii) the Operating Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Holdings, on a parent only basis with its investments in subsidiaries recorded under the equity method, (iii) the guarantor domestic subsidiaries of the Operating Company, (iv) the non-guarantor subsidiaries of the Company, (v) CapCo I, a co-issuer of the Notes, and (vi) the Company on a consolidated basis.

 

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GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATING BALANCE SHEET

AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

(In thousands)

 

     Graham
Packaging
Holdings
Company
    Graham
Packaging
Company,
L.P.
    Guarantors      Non-
Guarantors
     CapCo I      Eliminations     Consolidated  

ASSETS

                 

Current assets:

                 

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ —        $ 129,906      $ 702       $ 39,347       $ —         $ —        $ 169,955   

Accounts receivable, net

     —          79,738        113,707         82,701         —           —          276,146   

Inventories

     —          74,153        112,332         44,698         —           —          231,183   

Deferred income taxes

     —          —          —           4,402         —           —          4,402   

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     —          7,104        24,703         16,215         —           —          48,022   
                                                           

Total current assets

     —          290,901        251,444         187,363         —           —          729,708   

Property, plant and equipment, net

     —          397,421        531,740         288,609         —           —          1,217,770   

Intangible assets, net

     —          7,843        186,330         6,990         —           —          201,163   

Goodwill

     —          150,106        437,361         53,563         —           —          641,030   

Net intercompany

     —          1,584,521        —           —           —           (1,584,521     —     

Investment in subsidiaries

     —          226,948        237,869         —           —           (464,817     —     

Other non-current assets

     —          40,857        576         9,164         —           —          50,597   
                                                           

Total assets

   $ —        $ 2,698,597      $ 1,645,320       $ 545,689       $ —         $ (2,049,338   $ 2,840,268   
                                                           

LIABILITIES AND PARTNERS’ CAPITAL (DEFICIT)

                 

Current liabilities:

                 

Current portion of long-term debt

   $ —        $ 24,273      $ 660       $ 21,349       $ —         $ —        $ 46,282   

Accounts payable

     —          65,334        70,004         39,954         —           —          175,292   

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

     —          119,816        47,810         52,810         —           —          220,436   

Deferred revenue

     —          12,360        9,317         5,596         —           —          27,273   
                                                           

Total current liabilities

     —          221,783        127,791         119,709         —           —          469,283   

Long-term debt

     —          2,801,007        7,710         4,926         —           —          2,813,643   

Deferred income taxes

     —          436        13,215         13,369         —           —          27,020   

Other non-current liabilities

     —          41,294        19,253         22,787         —           —          83,334   

Investment in subsidiaries

     365,923        —          —           —           —           (365,923     —     

Net intercompany

     187,089        —          1,319,730         77,702         —           (1,584,521     —     

Commitments and contingent liabilities

                 

Partners’ capital (deficit)

     (553,012     (365,923     157,621         307,196         —           (98,894     (553,012
                                                           

Total liabilities and partners’ capital (deficit)

   $ —        $ 2,698,597      $ 1,645,320       $ 545,689       $ —         $ (2,049,338   $ 2,840,268   
                                                           

 

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Unaudited)—(continued)

 

GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATING BALANCE SHEET

AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2009

(In thousands)

 

     Graham
Packaging
Holdings
Company
    Graham
Packaging
Company,
L.P.
    Guarantors      Non-
Guarantors
     CapCo I      Eliminations     Consolidated  

ASSETS

                 

Current assets:

                 

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ —        $ 124,262      $ 3       $ 23,543       $ —         $ —        $ 147,808   

Accounts receivable, net

     —          58,877        66,929         65,879         —           —          191,685   

Inventories

     —          72,257        76,017         46,428         —           —          194,702   

Deferred income taxes

     —          —          —           3,446         —           —          3,446   

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     —          12,105        28,772         18,214         —           —          59,091   
                                                           

Total current assets

     —          267,501        171,721         157,510         —           —          596,732   

Property, plant and equipment, net

     —          416,471        353,011         248,296         —           —          1,017,778   

Intangible assets, net

     —          7,298        31,198         4,516         —           —          43,012   

Goodwill

     —          150,106        235,924         51,028         —           —          437,058   

Net intercompany

     —          1,050,696        —           —           —           (1,050,696     —     

Investment in subsidiaries

     —          149,868        221,054         —           —           (370,922     —     

Other non-current assets

     —          28,291        142         4,073         —           —          32,506   
                                                           

Total assets

   $ —        $ 2,070,231      $ 1,013,050       $ 465,423       $ —         $ (1,421,618   $ 2,127,086   
                                                           
LIABILITIES AND PARTNERS’ CAPITAL (DEFICIT)                  

Current liabilities:

                 

Current portion of long-term debt

   $ —        $ 87,142      $ 728       $ 12,787       $ —         $ —        $ 100,657   

Accounts payable

     —          47,281        31,454         32,278         —           —          111,013   

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

     —          97,411        41,543         47,149         —           —          186,103   

Deferred revenue

     —          16,558        8,877         4,810         —           —          30,245   
                                                           

Total current liabilities

     —          248,392        82,602         97,024         —           —          428,018   

Long-term debt

     —          2,334,119        1,129         958         —           —          2,336,206   

Deferred income taxes

     —          168        5,284         12,194         —           —          17,646   

Other non-current liabilities

     —          55,101        18,542         26,211         —           —          99,854   

Investment in subsidiaries

     567,549        —          —           —           —           (567,549     —     

Net intercompany

     187,089        —          809,933         53,674         —           (1,050,696     —     

Commitments and contingent liabilities

                 

Partners’ capital (deficit)

     (754,638     (567,549     95,560         275,362         —           196,627        (754,638
                                                           

Total liabilities and partners’ capital (deficit)

   $ —        $ 2,070,231      $ 1,013,050       $ 465,423       $ —         $ (1,421,618   $ 2,127,086   
                                                           

 

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GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATING STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

(In thousands)

 

     Graham
Packaging
Holdings
Company
    Graham
Packaging
Company,
L.P.
    Guarantors     Non-
Guarantors
    CapCo I      Eliminations     Consolidated  

Net sales

   $ —        $ 276,027      $ 244,568      $ 135,516      $ —         $ (25,672   $ 630,439   

Cost of goods sold

     —          223,457        205,319        115,292        —           (25,672     518,396   
                                                         

Gross profit

     —          52,570        39,249        20,224        —           —          112,043   

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     —          18,657        18,005        7,466        —           —          44,128   

Asset impairment charges

     —          314        135        476        —           —          925   

Net loss (gain) on disposal of property, plant and equipment

     —          716        522        (160     —           —          1,078   
                                                         

Operating income

     —          32,883        20,587        12,442        —           —          65,912   

Interest expense, net

     —          31,038        10,751        1,759        —           —          43,548   

Net loss on debt extinguishment

     —          28,468        —          —          —           —          28,468   

Write-off of amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income related to interest rate swaps

     —          6,988        —          —          —           —          6,988   

Other (income) expense, net

     —          (3,081     (7     2,444        —           —          (644

Equity in loss (earnings) of subsidiaries

     2,383        (28,375     (4,153     —          —           30,145        —     
                                                         

(Loss) income before income taxes

     (2,383     (2,155     13,996        8,239        —           (30,145     (12,448

Income tax provision (benefit)

     —          228        (15,090     4,797        —           —          (10,065
                                                         

Net (loss) income

   $ (2,383   $ (2,383   $ 29,086      $ 3,442      $ —         $ (30,145   $ (2,383
                                                         

 

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GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATING STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

(In thousands)

 

     Graham
Packaging
Holdings
Company
    Graham
Packaging
Company,
L.P.
    Guarantors     Non-
Guarantors
     CapCo I      Eliminations     Consolidated  

Net sales

   $ —        $ 840,429      $ 714,975      $ 393,711       $ —         $ (80,268   $ 1,868,847   

Cost of goods sold

     —          680,988        599,167        334,001         —           (80,268     1,533,888   
                                                          

Gross profit

     —          159,441        115,808        59,710         —           —          334,959   

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     —          63,964        54,857        20,702         —           —          139,523   

Asset impairment charges

     —          2,000        566        1,150         —           —          3,716   

Net loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment

     —          1,321        621        190         —           —          2,132   
                                                          

Operating income

     —          92,156        59,764        37,668         —           —          189,588   

Interest expense, net

     —          97,442        28,717        4,367         —           —          130,526   

Net loss on debt extinguishment

     —          31,132        —          —           —           —          31,132   

Write-off of amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income related to interest rate swaps

     —          6,988        —          —           —           —          6,988   

Other (income) expense, net

     —          (6,787     (292     9,646         —           —          2,567   

Equity in earnings of subsidiaries

     (23,342     (59,647     (13,302     —           —           96,291        —     
                                                          

Income (loss) before income taxes

     23,342        23,028        44,641        23,655         —           (96,291     18,375   

Income tax (benefit) provision

     —          (314     (14,551     9,898         —           —          (4,967
                                                          

Net income (loss)

   $ 23,342      $ 23,342      $ 59,192      $ 13,757       $ —         $ (96,291   $ 23,342   
                                                          

 

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GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATING STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

(In thousands)

 

     Graham
Packaging
Holdings
Company
    Graham
Packaging
Company,
L.P.
    Guarantors     Non-
Guarantors
    CapCo I      Eliminations     Consolidated  

Net sales

   $ —        $ 256,535      $ 220,463      $ 134,206      $ —         $ (22,401   $ 588,803   

Cost of goods sold

     —          208,044        185,599        105,763        —           (22,401     477,005   
                                                         

Gross profit

     —          48,491        34,864        28,443        —           —          111,798   

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     —          13,075        12,066        6,864        —           —          32,005   

Asset impairment charges

     —          1,484        541        4,111        —           —          6,136   

Net loss (gain) on disposal of property, plant and equipment

     —          1,482        743        (115     —           —          2,110   
                                                         

Operating income

     —          32,450        21,514        17,583        —           —          71,547   

Interest expense, net

     —          36,649        11,808        1,321        —           —          49,778   

Other expense (income), net

     —          83        (9,130     (433     —           8,960        (520

Equity in earnings of subsidiaries

     (12,742     (17,416     (3,856     —          —           34,014        —     
                                                         

Income (loss) before income taxes

     12,742        13,134        22,692        16,695        —           (42,974     22,289   

Income tax provision (benefit)

     —          392        (846     7,884        —           —          7,430   
                                                         

Income (loss) from continuing operations

     12,742        12,742        23,538        8,811        —           (42,974     14,859   

Loss from discontinued operations

     —          —          —          (2,117     —           —          (2,117
                                                         

Net income (loss)

   $ 12,742      $ 12,742      $ 23,538      $ 6,694      $ —         $ (42,974   $ 12,742   
                                                         

 

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GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATING STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

(In thousands)

 

     Graham
Packaging
Holdings
Company
    Graham
Packaging
Company,
L.P.
    Guarantors     Non-
Guarantors
    CapCo I      Eliminations     Consolidated  

Net sales

   $ —        $ 762,529      $ 672,494      $ 360,734      $ —         $ (59,389   $ 1,736,368   

Cost of goods sold

     —          628,004        558,947        290,738        —           (59,389     1,418,300   
                                                         

Gross profit

     —          134,525        113,547        69,996        —           —          318,068   

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     —          36,766        33,381        19,263        —           —          89,410   

Asset impairment charges

     —          7,760        2,210        4,201        —           —          14,171   

Net loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment

     —          2,533        1,393        482        —           —          4,408   
                                                         

Operating income

     —          87,466        76,563        46,050        —           —          210,079   

Interest expense, net

     —          88,590        34,331        3,266        —           —          126,187   

Net gain on debt extinguishment

     —          (756     —          —          —           —          (756

Other (income) expense, net

     —          (12,954     (15,075     (850     —           26,814        (2,065

Equity in earnings of subsidiaries

     (66,292     (55,018     (14,355     —          —           135,665        —     
                                                         

Income (loss) before income taxes

     66,292        67,604        71,662        43,634        —           (162,479     86,713   

Income tax provision

     —          1,312        561        14,624        —           —          16,497   
                                                         

Income (loss) from continuing operations

     66,292        66,292        71,101        29,010        —           (162,479     70,216   

Loss from discontinued operations

     —          —          —          (3,924     —           —          (3,924
                                                         

Net income (loss)

   $ 66,292      $ 66,292      $ 71,101      $ 25,086      $ —         $ (162,479   $ 66,292   
                                                         

 

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GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATING STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

(In thousands)

 

     Graham
Packaging
Holdings
Company
     Graham
Packaging
Company,
L.P.
    Guarantors     Non-
Guarantors
    CapCo I      Eliminations     Consolidated  

Operating activities:

                

Net cash provided by operating activities

   $ —         $ 55,434      $ 82,134      $ 46,371      $ —         $ —        $ 183,939   
                                                          

Investing activities:

                

Net cash paid for property, plant and equipment

     —           (34,696     (25,660     (50,326     —           —          (110,682

Acquisitions of/investments in businesses, net of cash acquired

     —           (15,427     (564,516     1,043        —           —          (578,900

Intercompany investing activities

     —           (534,319     (25,011     —          —           559,330        —     

Increase in restricted cash

     —           (7,300     —          —          —           —          (7,300
                                                          

Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities

     —           (591,742     (615,187     (49,283     —           559,330        (696,882
                                                          

Financing activities:

                

Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt

     —           600,118        —          67,466        —           —          667,584   

Payment of long-term debt

     —           (203,384     (567     (60,739     —           —          (264,690

Intercompany financing activities

     —           12,727        534,319        12,284        —           (559,330     —     

Debt issuance fees

     —           (33,457     —          —          —           —          (33,457

Net proceeds from sale of additional units to GPC

     —           165,386        —          —          —           —          165,386   

Fees paid on behalf of GPC

     —           (1,225     —          —          —           —          (1,225

Repayment of notes and interest for ownership interests

     —           432        —          —          —           —          432   

Proceeds from issuance of ownership interests

     —           1,355        —          —          —           —          1,355   
                                                          

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

     —           541,952        533,752        19,011        —           (559,330     535,385   
                                                          

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents

     —           —          —          (295     —           —          (295
                                                          

Increase in cash and cash equivalents

     —           5,644        699        15,804        —           —          22,147   

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

     —           124,262        3        23,543        —           —          147,808   
                                                          

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

   $ —         $ 129,906      $ 702      $ 39,347      $ —         $ —        $ 169,955   
                                                          

 

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GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATING STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

(In thousands)

 

     Graham
Packaging
Holdings
Company
     Graham
Packaging
Company,
L.P.
    Guarantors     Non-
Guarantors
    CapCo I      Eliminations     Consolidated  

Operating activities:

                

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

   $ —         $ 94,058      $ 161,867      $ 80,605      $ —         $ (28,284   $ 308,246   
                                                          

Investing activities:

                

Net cash paid for property, plant and equipment

     —           (48,470     (33,746     (21,402     —           —          (103,618

Acquisition of/investment in a business

     —           (1,750     (345     (27,117     —           27,827        (1,385

Intercompany investing activities

     —           (34,852     (162,376     —          —           197,228        —     
                                                          

Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities

     —           (85,072     (196,467     (48,519     —           225,055        (105,003
                                                          

Financing activities:

                

Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt

     —           7,397        —          31,586        —           —          38,983   

Payment of long-term debt

     —           (46,693     (252     (30,039     —           —          (76,984

Intercompany financing activities

     —           154,927        34,852        7,449        —           (197,228     —     

Debt issuance fees

     —           (14,977     —          —          —           —          (14,977

Purchase of ownership interests

     —           (89     —          —          —           —          (89
                                                          

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

     —           100,565        34,600        8,996        —           (197,228     (53,067
                                                          

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents

     —           —          —          2,311        —           457        2,768   
                                                          

Increase in cash and cash equivalents

     —           109,551        —          43,393        —           —          152,944   

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

     —           35,297        1        8,581        —           —          43,879   
                                                          

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

   $ —         $ 144,848      $ 1      $ 51,974      $ —         $ —        $ 196,823   
                                                          

 

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19. Comprehensive Income

Comprehensive income for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, was as follows:

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
    Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
     2010     2009     2010      2009  
     (In thousands)  

Net (loss) income

   $ (2,383   $ 12,742      $ 23,342       $ 66,292   

Changes in fair value of derivatives designated and accounted for as cash flow hedges (net of tax of $0 for all periods presented)

     —          87        —           434   

Amortization of amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) as of the date the Company discontinued hedge accounting for its interest rate collar and swap agreements (net of tax of $0 for all periods presented) (1)

     8,851        2,848        12,958         6,065   

Amortization of prior service costs and unrealized actuarial losses included in net periodic benefit costs for pension and post-retirement plans (net of a tax provision of $9 and $28 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, respectively, and a tax benefit of $230 and $210 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, respectively)

     287        (230     1,146         1,071   

Foreign currency translation adjustments (net of a tax benefit of $109 and $32 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, respectively, and $23 and $29 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009, respectively)

     25,242        10,291        704         15,151   
                                 

Comprehensive income

   $ 31,997      $ 25,738      $ 38,150       $ 89,013   
                                 

 

  (1) Amounts for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, include the write-off of the remaining amount of $7.0 million as a result of the extinguishment of the Term Loan B on September 23, 2010.

 

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20. Segment Information

The Company is organized and managed on a geographical basis in four operating segments: North America, Europe, South America and Asia. The Company began accounting for its Asian operations as a new operating segment as of July 1, 2010, with the acquisition of China Roots. Segment information for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, and as of September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, representing the reportable segments currently utilized by the chief operating decision makers, was as follows:

 

         North
America
    Europe     South
America
    Asia     Eliminations
(a)
    Total  
         (In thousands)  

Net sales (b) (c)

   Three months ended September 30, 2010   $ 542,706      $ 55,690      $ 27,773      $ 4,543      $ (273   $ 630,439   
   Three months ended September 30, 2009     500,074        61,257        27,530        —          (58     588,803   
   Nine months ended September 30, 2010     1,621,996        168,481        74,634        4,543        (807     1,868,847   
   Nine months ended September 30, 2009     1,497,834        171,622        67,162        —          (250     1,736,368   

Operating income (loss)

   Three months ended September 30, 2010   $ 62,109      $ 3,701      $ 254      $ (152   $ —        $ 65,912   
   Three months ended September 30, 2009     62,485        9,201        (139     —          —          71,547   
   Nine months ended September 30, 2010     169,162        16,744        3,834        (152     —          189,588   
   Nine months ended September 30, 2009     188,101        24,947        (2,969     —          —          210,079   

Depreciation and

   Three months ended September 30, 2010   $ 31,552      $ 6,256      $ 2,124      $ 336      $ —        $ 40,268   

amortization

   Three months ended September 30, 2009     34,508        3,722        1,142        —          —          39,372   
   Nine months ended September 30, 2010     98,221        14,696        4,660        336        —          117,913   
   Nine months ended September 30, 2009     102,020        13,163        3,275        —          —          118,458   

Asset impairment charges

   Three months ended September 30, 2010   $ 475      $ 228      $ 222      $ —        $ —        $ 925   
   Three months ended September 30, 2009     3,414        1,428        1,294        —          —          6,136   
   Nine months ended September 30, 2010     2,888        549        279        —          —          3,716   
   Nine months ended September 30, 2009     11,449        1,428        1,294        —          —          14,171   

Interest expense, net

   Three months ended September 30, 2010   $ 42,371      $ 271      $ 860      $ 46      $ —        $ 43,548   
   Three months ended September 30, 2009     48,542        322        914        —          —          49,778   
   Nine months ended September 30, 2010     127,494        910        2,076        46        —          130,526   
   Nine months ended September 30, 2009     123,119        879        2,189        —          —          126,187   

Other (income) expense, net

   Three months ended September 30, 2010   $ (2,159   $ 1,801      $ (286 )(d)    $ —        $ —        $ (644
   Three months ended September 30, 2009     1,085        (33     (102     —          (1,470     (520
   Nine months ended September 30, 2010     (4,811     5,153        2,225 (d)      —          —          2,567   
   Nine months ended September 30, 2009     (867     753        (3,361     —          1,410        (2,065

Income tax (benefit) provision

   Three months ended September 30, 2010   $ (11,848   $ 1,673      $ 156      $ (46   $ —        $ (10,065
   Three months ended September 30, 2009     3,135        4,273        22        —          —          7,430   
   Nine months ended September 30, 2010     (10,054     4,771        362        (46     —          (4,967
   Nine months ended September 30, 2009     6,677        8,673        1,147        —          —          16,497   

Identifiable assets (b) (c) (e)

   As of September 30, 2010   $ 1,001,265      $ 131,907      $ 70,117      $ 14,481      $ —        $ 1,217,770   
   As of December 31, 2009     830,897        138,053        48,828        —          —          1,017,778   

Goodwill

   As of September 30, 2010   $ 623,747      $ 15,858      $ 7      $ 1,418      $ —        $ 641,030   
   As of December 31, 2009     420,765        16,286        7        —          —          437,058   

Cash paid for property,

   Nine months ended September 30, 2010   $ 73,134      $ 14,467      $ 23,511      $ 114      $ —        $ 111,226   

plant and equipment

   Nine months ended September 30, 2009     86,629        8,192        9,676        —          —          104,497   

 

(a) To eliminate intercompany transactions.
(b) The Company’s net sales for Europe include countries having significant sales as follows:

 

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     Three Months
Ended
September 30,
     Nine Months
Ended
September 30,
 
     2010      2009      2010      2009  
     (In millions)  

Poland

   $ 13.9       $ 12.8       $ 40.4       $ 35.5   

Belgium

     11.4         13.2         38.2         39.8   

Spain

     7.6         12.3         21.8         29.8   

France

     7.3         6.0         22.0         17.0   

The Company’s identifiable assets for Europe include countries having significant identifiable assets as follows:

 

     September 30,
2010
     December 31,
2009
 
     (In millions)  

Poland

   $ 35.3       $ 36.6   

Belgium

     28.6         31.9   

Spain

     21.4         23.6   

France

     19.9         15.1   

 

(c) The Company’s net sales for North America include sales in Mexico which totaled $44.0 million and $41.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively, and $130.6 million and $110.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively. Identifiable assets in Mexico totaled $65.5 million and $58.8 million as of September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, respectively. Substantially all of the North America reportable segment’s remaining net sales and identifiable assets are in the United States.
(d) Beginning January 1, 2010, Venezuela’s economy is considered to be highly inflationary for accounting purposes. Accordingly, the Company has adopted the U.S. dollar as the functional currency for its Venezuelan operations. All bolivar-denominated transactions, as well as monetary assets and liabilities, are remeasured into U.S. dollars. As a result of the application of hyper-inflationary accounting requiring the revaluation of monetary assets and liabilities, the Company recorded a $0.2 million gain and a $2.3 million loss in other expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, respectively. Net sales for Venezuela were $1.5 million and $4.5 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, respectively, and net assets for Venezuela were less than 1.0% of the Company’s total net assets as of September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009. As the Venezuelan operations are not significant to the overall operations of the Company, future rate changes in the bolivar would not have a significant impact on the Company’s financial statements.
(e) Represents property, plant and equipment, net.

Product Net Sales Information

The following is supplemental information on net sales by product category:

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
     2010      2009      2010      2009  
     (In thousands)  

Food and Beverage

   $ 394,608       $ 354,053       $ 1,164,360       $ 1,067,635   

Household

     114,418         112,335         332,426         319,488   

Personal Care/Specialty

     42,648         43,804         125,153         129,622   

Automotive Lubricants

     78,765         78,611         246,908         219,623   
                                   

Total Net Sales

   $ 630,439       $ 588,803       $ 1,868,847       $ 1,736,368   
                                   

 

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21. Pension Plans

The components of net periodic pension cost for the Company’s defined benefit pension plans consisted of the following:

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
    Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
     2010     2009     2010     2009  
     (In thousands)  

Components of net periodic pension cost:

        

Service cost

   $ 548      $ 579      $ 1,642      $ 1,715   

Interest cost

     1,589        1,520        4,767        4,516   

Expected return on plan assets

     (1,743     (1,444     (5,227     (4,296

Net amortization and deferral of prior service costs

     396        588        1,184        1,761   

Curtailment/special charges

     —          103        —          207   

Employee contributions

     —          (21     —          (58
                                

Net periodic pension cost

   $ 790      $ 1,325      $ 2,366      $ 3,845   
                                

The Company previously disclosed in its financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2009, that it expected to contribute $7.3 million to its pension plans in 2010. As of September 30, 2010, $6.1 million of required contributions to its pension plans has been made and the Company expects to make an additional $1.2 million of contributions in the remainder of 2010.

The Company closed its plants located in Bristol, PA and Vicksburg, MS during the fourth quarter of 2009. As a result of these closings, in January 2010, the Company made an additional $0.5 million contribution to the Bristol, PA plan, and in June 2010, an additional $0.1 million contribution to the Vicksburg, MS plan, to fully fund both plans.

The Company recognized $1.9 million of expense for its 401(k) plans in each of the third quarters of 2010 and 2009, and $5.6 million and $5.5 million of expense for its 401(k) plans in the first nine months of 2010 and 2009, respectively.

 

22. Transactions with Related Parties

The Company had transactions with entities affiliated through common ownership. The Company made payments to Graham Engineering Company for equipment and related services of $0.4 million and $0.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively, and $1.9 million and $1.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

Affiliates of both of the Graham Family and Blackstone have supplied management and advisory services to the Company since 1998. The Company has recorded $0.2 million and $1.3 million of expense for these services for the three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively, and $1.2 million and $3.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively. Under the Fifth Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement and the Monitoring Agreement, the Company was obligated to make annual payments of $2.0 million and $3.0 million to affiliates of the Graham Family and Blackstone, respectively. In exchange for a one-time payment of $26.3 million to Blackstone Management Partners III L.L.C. and $8.8 million to Graham Alternative Investment Partners I, the parties of the Monitoring Agreement agreed to terminate such agreement. These amounts paid to terminate the Monitoring Agreement are reflected in selling, general and administrative expenses on the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations (Unaudited) for the nine months ended September 30, 2010. As a result of the termination, Blackstone, the Graham Family and their affiliates have no further obligation to provide monitoring services to the Company, and the Company has no further obligation to make annual payments of $4.0 million, under the Monitoring Agreement. As a result, as of February 10, 2010, the Company is only obligated to make annual payments of $1.0 million to affiliates of the Graham Family for ongoing management and advisory services under the Sixth Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement, until such time that the Graham Family sells more than two thirds of its original investment, and such services would then cease.

 

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The Company paid Blackstone Advisory Partners L.P. a $4.5 million fee in September 2010 for advisory and other services rendered in connection with the Liquid Acquisition. This fee was negotiated on an arm’s-length basis for services performed and the prevailing fees being charged by third parties for comparable services. The Company paid Blackstone Management Partners III L.L.C. a $5.0 million fee in July 2009 in connection with the Fourth Amendment to the Credit Agreement.

At September 30, 2010, the Company had loans outstanding to certain former management employees of the Company for the purchase of shares of GPC, which owns, directly and indirectly, approximately 91% of the Company as of September 30, 2010. These loans were made in connection with the capital call payments made on September 29, 2000, and March 29, 2001, pursuant to a capital call agreement dated as of August 13, 1998. The proceeds from the loans were used to fund management’s share of the capital call payments. The loans mature on September 28, 2012, and March 30, 2013, respectively, and accrue interest at a rate of 6.22%. The loans are secured by a pledge of the stock purchased by the loans. The loans and related interest, totaling $1.4 million and $1.8 million as of September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, respectively, are reflected in partners’ capital (deficit) on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited).

On behalf of Blackstone, the Company made payments to a former Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Operating Company on January 5, 2007, for its repurchase of all of their outstanding shares of GPC, pursuant to separation agreements dated as of December 3, 2006. Additionally, on behalf of Blackstone, the Company made a payment to a former Senior Vice President of the Operating Company on April 10, 2009, for its repurchase of all of his outstanding shares of GPC. As a result of these payments, Blackstone became the owner of these shares and owes the Company $4.7 million and $4.6 million as of September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, respectively, including accrued interest. This receivable is reflected in partners’ capital (deficit) on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited).

The Company has provided funding to GPC to cover its expenses, primarily in connection with the IPO, resulting in a receivable from GPC of $2.1 million, which is reflected in partners capital (deficit) on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet (Unaudited) as of September 30, 2010.

In connection with the IPO, on February 10, 2010, GPC entered into separate Income Tax Receivable Agreements (“ITRs”) with its pre-IPO stockholders (e.g. Blackstone, management and other stockholders) and with GPC Holdings, L.P., an affiliate of the Graham Family. The agreements provide for the payment by GPC of 85% of the amount of cash savings, if any, in U.S. federal, state and local income tax that GPC actually realizes (or is deemed to realize in the case of an early termination or change in control as further described in the ITRs) as a result of the utilization of net operating losses attributable to periods prior to the IPO, and any increase to the tax basis of the assets of the Company related to (1) GPC’s 1998 acquisition of the Company and (2) current and future exchanges by the Graham Family of their limited partnership units for common stock of GPC pursuant to the Exchange Agreement, and of certain tax benefits related to GPC’s entering into the ITRs, including tax benefits attributable to payments under the ITRs. Payments under the ITRs are not conditioned upon these parties’ continued ownership of the Company or GPC.

GPC expects that future payments under the ITRs will aggregate to between $200.0 million and $235.0 million with potential additional payments for tax basis step-ups relating to future exchanges by the Graham Family of their limited partnership units in the Company for GPC common stock depending on the timing and value of such exchanges. This range is based on GPC’s assumptions using various items, including valuation analysis and historical tax basis amounts. This range also includes step-ups related to the Graham Family’s exchange of 1,324,900 limited partnership units through September 30, 2010. GPC will recognize obligations based on the amount of recorded net deferred income tax assets recognized, and subject to the ITRs. Changes in the recorded net deferred income tax assets that are subject to the ITRs obligations will result in changes in the ITRs obligations, and such changes will be recorded as other income or expense. As of September 30, 2010, the value of the ITRs obligations was $8.2 million. Because GPC is a holding company with no operations of its own, its ability to make payments under the ITRs is dependent on the Company’s ability to make distributions. Upon the effective date of the respective ITRs, GPC recorded an initial obligation of $6.5 million, which was recognized as a reduction of additional paid-in capital. Additionally, GPC recorded $3.2 million in income and $1.7 million in expense related to the change in the ITRs obligations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, respectively. For the nine months ended September 30, 2010, no payments have been made under the ITRs.

 

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23. Environmental Matters

As a result of the Company closing its plant located in Edison, New Jersey, the Company is subject to New Jersey’s Industrial Site Recovery Act (“ISRA”). The Company acquired this facility from Owens-Illinois, Inc. in 2004. ISRA is an environmental law that specifies a process of reporting to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“NJDEP”) and, in some situations, investigating, cleaning up and/or taking other measures with respect to environmental conditions that may exist at an industrial establishment that has been shut down or is being transferred. The Company is in the process of evaluating and implementing its obligations under ISRA regarding this facility. The Company has recorded a preliminary reserve of $0.4 million for this obligation. This amount may change based on results of additional investigation expected to be undertaken for NJDEP.

 

24. Partners’ Capital (Deficit)

On February 10, 2010, the Company’s majority owner, GPC, completed its IPO. In connection with the IPO, the Company effected a 3,781.4427-for-one unit split and its limited partnership agreement has been amended and restated as the Sixth Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement (the “Partnership Agreement”). Accordingly, any unit/share information reflects such splits. Pursuant to the Partnership Agreement, the Company’s partnership interests have been denominated as limited partnership units and general partnership units with no change in relative economic ownership percentages prior to the IPO. Additionally, general partnership interests of the Graham Family have been converted into limited partnership interests on an equivalent basis.

On February 17, 2010, and in connection with the IPO, GPC purchased 16,666,667 newly-issued, unregistered limited partnership units of the Company for net proceeds of $165.4 million. On February 17, 2010, $114.2 million of these net proceeds were used to pay a portion of the Term Loan B and Term Loan C. Additionally, as part of the IPO, the Graham Family entered into an Exchange Agreement. Under the Exchange Agreement, the Graham Family and certain permitted transferees may, subject to specific terms, exchange their limited partnership units in the Company for shares of GPC’s common stock at any time and from time to time on a one-for-one basis, subject to customary conversion rate adjustments for splits, stock dividends and reclassifications. Under this Exchange Agreement, entities controlled by the Graham Family and certain of their permitted transferees exercised their rights to exchange 1,324,900 limited partnership units of the Company for 1,324,900 shares of GPC’s common stock. In addition, a member of former management exchanged nine partnership units of the Company for nine shares of GPC’s common stock. The Company has also entered into Management Exchange Agreements which provide for similar rights to management to exchange limited partnership units of the Company obtained on exercise of outstanding options for shares of GPC’s common stock.

On March 11, 2010, the underwriters of the IPO partially exercised their option to purchase additional shares of GPC’s common stock, par value $0.01, from GPC and purchased 1,565,600 additional shares at the initial public offering price of $10.00 per share (the “Underwriters’ Allotment”). The Underwriters’ Allotment closed on March 16, 2010. GPC received net proceeds of $14.7 million (after underwriting discount and before expenses) (the “Net Proceeds”) and contributed the Net Proceeds to the Company in exchange for 1,565,600 newly-issued limited partnership units of the Company. The Company used the Net Proceeds and cash on hand to repay a portion of the Term Loans under the Credit Agreement.

As of September 30, 2010:

 

   

GPC owns 60,855,664 limited partnership units, representing an 88.0% limited partnership interest, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, BCP/Graham Holdings L.L.C., is the sole general partner and owns 2,023,472 general partnership units, representing a 2.9% ownership in the Company;

 

   

the Graham Family owns an aggregate of 6,263,121 limited partnership units, representing a 9.1% ownership in the Company; and

 

   

a former employee owns 35,158 limited partnership units.

 

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GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Unaudited)—(continued)

 

 

The Partnership Agreement also provides that for so long as the Graham Family retains at least one-third of their partnership interests held as of February 2, 1998 (or equivalent common stock of GPC for which such partnership interests have been or are eligible to be exchanged), they are entitled to an advisory fee of $1.0 million annually for ongoing management and advisory services.

 

25. Stock-based Compensation

The Company, from time to time, has granted options to purchase partnership units of Holdings, which may be exchanged for shares of GPC’s common stock, and options to purchase shares of GPC’s common stock. On February 4, 2010, GPC effected a 1,465.4874-for-one stock split and Holdings effected a 3,781.4427-for-one unit split. Accordingly, any unit/share information reflects such splits. As a result of these splits, each share of GPC’s common stock corresponds to one unit of Holdings’ partnership interest.

A summary of the changes in the unit options outstanding under the option plans for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, is as follows:

 

     Units Under
Options
    Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price/
Option
     Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term
     Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
 
                  (in years)      (in millions)  

Outstanding at January 1, 2010

     4,813,115      $ 8.35         

Granted

     —          —           

Exercised (1)

     (1,053,530     9.88         

Forfeited

     (224,534     7.67         
                

Outstanding at September 30, 2010

     3,535,051      $ 7.94         6.5       $ 13.0   
                

Vested or expected to vest

     2,758,111      $ 8.12         6.3       $ 9.7   

Exercisable at September 30, 2010

     2,198,069      $ 8.07         6.1       $ 7.8   

A summary of the changes in the stock options outstanding under the option plans for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, is as follows:

 

     Common
Stock
Under
Options
    Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price/
Option
     Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term
     Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
 
                  (in years)      (in millions)  

Outstanding at January 1, 2010

     —        $ —           

Granted (2)

     913,797        10.17         

Exercised

     —          —           

Forfeited

     (78,275     10.00         
                

Outstanding at September 30, 2010

     835,522      $ 10.18         9.4       $ 1.2   
                

Vested or expected to vest

     835,522      $ 10.18         9.4       $ 1.2   

Exercisable at September 30, 2010

     —        $ —           —         $ —     

 

(1) Under the terms of the option plans, the Compensation Committee granted Warren Knowlton, the Operating Company’s former Chief Executive Officer, the right to net settle his 894,538 options in exchange for 164,182 units of Holdings, which were then exchanged for shares of GPC’s common stock. The 894,538 options are included in the “Exercised” line in the table above.
(2) In conjunction with the IPO, the Company granted options to certain management members to purchase 841,363 shares of GPC’s common stock. Subsequently, the Company granted additional options to purchase 72,434 shares of GPC’s common stock. As a result, the Company will incur incremental compensation expense of approximately $2.3 million over the four-year vesting period of the options. The incremental expense recorded during the nine months ended September 30, 2010, was $0.3 million.

 

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this Report on Form 10-Q, including statements regarding our future financial position, economic performance and results of operations, as well as our business strategy, budgets and projected costs and plans and objectives of management for future operations, and the information referred to under “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk” (Part I, Item 3), are forward-looking statements. In addition, forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “intend,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “believe” or “continue” or similar terminology. These forward-looking statements are not historical facts, and are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about our industry, management’s beliefs and certain assumptions made by management, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and beyond our control. Accordingly, readers are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date made, expectations may prove to have been materially different from the results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Unless otherwise required by law, we also disclaim any obligation to update our view of any such risks or uncertainties or to announce publicly the result of any revisions to the forward-looking statements made in this report. Readers should carefully review the risks and uncertainties under “Risk Factors” (Part I, Item 1A) in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Graham Packaging Holdings Company (“Holdings”) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009. All written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us, or persons acting on our behalf, are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements. You should evaluate all forward-looking statements made in this Report on Form 10-Q in the context of these risks and uncertainties.

 

Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Overview

Unless the context otherwise requires, all references herein to the “Company,” “we,” “our” or “us” refer to Holdings and its subsidiaries.

We are a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and sale of value-added, custom blow molded plastic containers for branded consumer products. We operate in product categories where customers and end users value the technology and innovation that our custom plastic containers offer as an alternative to traditional packaging materials such as glass, metal and paperboard. We selectively pursue opportunities where we can leverage our technology portfolio to continue to drive the trend of conversion to plastic containers from other packaging materials. Our customers include leading multi-national and regional blue-chip consumer product companies that seek customized, sustainable plastic container solutions in diverse and stable end markets, such as the food and beverage and the household consumer products markets. We believe we are well-positioned to meet the evolving needs of our customers who often use our technology to differentiate their products with value-added design and performance characteristics such as smooth-wall panel-less bottles, unique pouring and dispensing features, multilayer bottles incorporating barrier technologies to extend shelf life, and ultra lightweight bottles with “hot-fill” capabilities that allow containers to be filled at high temperatures.

As of September 30, 2010, we operated a network of 97 manufacturing facilities throughout North America, Europe, South America and Asia. We are organized and managed on a geographical basis in four operating segments: North America, Europe, South America and Asia. Each operating segment includes four major categories: Food and Beverage, Household, Personal Care/Specialty and Automotive Lubricants. Our primary strategies are to manage our business for stable growth and strong cash flow from operations, leverage our technology portfolio to meet the needs of our customers, target organic growth in attractive markets utilizing our proven business model, continue to focus on operational excellence, and supplement our organic growth with opportunistic strategic investments.

We believe that the critical success factors to our business are our ability to:

 

   

maintain relationships with, and serve the complex packaging demands of, our customers, which include some of the world’s largest branded consumer products companies;

 

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participate in growth opportunities associated with the conversion of packaging products from glass, metal and paper to plastic;

 

   

develop proprietary technologies that provide a meaningful competitive advantage in product design, product performance, process technology and sustainability features;

 

   

focus on operational excellence, cost reductions and overall efficiencies;

 

   

make investments in plant and technology necessary to satisfy the factors mentioned above; and

 

   

reduce our financial leverage.

We intend to capitalize on our leadership positions in value-added custom plastic containers to increase our EBITDA (as defined herein) and cash flow in order to reduce our financial leverage and increase stockholder return.

We believe that the area with the greatest opportunity for growth continues to be in producing containers for the food and beverage product category because of the industry’s continued conversion to plastic packaging, including the demand for containers for juices and juice drinks, nutritional beverages, beer, yogurt drinks, liquor, teas, sports drinks/isotonics, vitamin enhanced waters, snacks, sauces, jellies and jams. Much of the growth in this area in recent years has been in the sale of smaller sized containers. We believe we are a leader in providing value-added hot-fill polyethylene terephthalate (“PET”) juice containers. We also believe we are a leading participant in the growing markets for yogurt drinks and nutritional beverages where we manufacture containers using polyolefin resins.

Growth in our household container product category was fueled in prior years by conversions from powders to liquids for such products as detergents, household cleaners and automatic dishwashing detergent. Our strongest position is in fabric care, where management believes we are a leader in plastic container design and manufacture. It should be noted the fabric care industry now offers most of its brands in a concentrated formula which has reduced sales in this product category.

Our personal care/specialty product category is driven by new product launch and re-launch cycles of our customers. Based on the volume of our sales to many major suppliers of personal care/specialty products, management believes we are among the leading suppliers in this product category, which includes products for the hair care, skin care, oral care and specialty markets. Management believes that our supply position results from our commitment to, and reputation in, new product development and flexible manufacturing processes and operations.

Our North American one-quart/liter motor oil container product category is in a mature industry. Unit volume in the one-quart/liter motor oil industry decreased approximately 10% per year from 2006 through 2009 as the product category migrated towards the quick-lube market and larger multi-quart/liter packages. Even though we believe we have the largest market share of multi-quart/liter containers, these sales only partially offset the loss in sales of one-quart/liter containers.

As of September 30, 2010, we operated 30 manufacturing facilities outside of the United States in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Venezuela. Over the past few years, we have expanded our international operations with the addition of three new plants in Brazil, one new plant in Mexico and one new plant in China.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, 71.8% and 69.7% of our net sales, respectively, were generated by our top twenty customers. All of the top twenty customers were under long-term contracts with terms up to ten years and have been doing business with us for over 20 years on average. Prices under these arrangements are typically tied to plastic resin market standards and, therefore, vary with market conditions. In general, the contracts have annually set minimum purchase requirements but do not obligate the customer to purchase any given amount of product from us beyond one year. Our sales to PepsiCo, Inc., our largest customer, were 10.4% and 11.3% of total sales for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively. All of these sales were made in North America.

The largest component of our cost of goods sold is resin costs. Based on certain resin industry indices, the following table summarizes average market prices per pound of PET and high-density polyethylene (“HDPE”) resins in the United States during the periods indicated:

 

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     Three Months Ended
September 30,
       Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
     2010      2009        2010      2009  

PET

   $ 0.77       $ 0.77         $ 0.79       $ 0.72   

HDPE

   $ 0.78       $ 0.69         $ 0.82       $ 0.65   

Resin and colorants make up a significant part of our cost of goods sold. Colorants are pigments added to the resin to formulate different colors of blow molded plastic bottles. Changes in the cost of colorants are typically passed through to customers, similarly to resin. On a percentage basis, resin and colorant costs generally make up between 40% and 50% of cost of goods sold, depending on the price of resin and colorants and bottle features. As a percentage of net sales, resin and colorant costs make up between 35% and 40%, in general. The percentage depends not only on the price of the resin and colorants, but also the physical characteristics of the bottle, such as size, weight, design features, labels and decorations, color and the technology platform and equipment used to make the bottle.

Changes in the cost of resin are passed through to customers by means of corresponding changes in product pricing, in accordance with our agreements with these customers and industry practice. A sustained increase in resin prices relative to other packaging materials, to the extent that those costs are not passed on to the end-consumer, would make plastic containers less economical for our customers and could result in a slower pace of conversions to, or reductions in the use of, plastic containers.

Holdings and Graham Packaging Company, L.P., Holdings’ wholly-owned subsidiary (the “Operating Company”), as limited partnerships, do not pay U.S. federal income taxes under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, as the applicable income or loss is included in the tax returns of the partners. However, certain U.S. subsidiaries are corporations and are subject to U.S. federal and state income taxes. Our foreign operations are subject to tax in their local jurisdictions.

Acquisitions

On September 23, 2010, we acquired the Liquid Entities (as defined below) from each of the limited partners (the “Liquid Limited Partners”) of Liquid Container L.P. (currently known as “Graham Packaging LC, L.P.”) (“Liquid L.P.”) and each of the stockholders (the “Stockholders”) of (i) Liquid Container Inc. (“Liquid”), a Delaware corporation, (ii) CPG-L Holdings, Inc. (“CPG”), a Delaware corporation, and (iii) WCK-L Holdings, Inc. (“WCK” and, together with Liquid and CPG, the “Liquid General Partners”), a Delaware corporation. Liquid L.P. and the Liquid General Partners are collectively referred to as the “Liquid Entities.” We purchased all the shares from the Stockholders and all of the limited partnership units from the Liquid Limited Partners (collectively, the “Liquid Acquisition”) for approximately $564.3 million, subject to a potential working capital adjustment.

In connection with the Liquid Acquisition, we paid existing indebtedness of the Liquid Entities, including accrued interest, then outstanding, in the amount of approximately $208.2 million. As of September 30, 2010, additional indebtedness of approximately $7.1 million remains outstanding and will be repaid in the fourth quarter of 2010.

The Liquid Acquisition represents a strategically important acquisition for us as it expands our customer reach within our existing food and consumer products end markets while providing us with additional technological capabilities and an expansion of our geographical reach. The Liquid Acquisition will significantly increase the size and scope of our operations, particularly in the food product category, and provide us with considerable opportunities to convert new products to plastic containers. The Liquid Entities have been a leader in custom blow molded plastic containers used in cold-fill applications and have new hot-fill technologies, which complement our technologies, and which we believe can help drive new conversions. The Liquid Entities have a similar financial profile to ours, as they use technology to serve their customer base with innovative and cost effective packaging solutions. We believe the combined purchasing power can yield savings in freight, energy, outside services, leased equipment and miscellaneous raw materials such as packaging, pallets, shrink wrap and spare parts. Additionally, we believe we can eliminate overlapping corporate functions and expenses.

On July 1, 2010, we acquired China Roots Packaging PTE Ltd. (“China Roots”), a plastic container manufacturing company located in Guangzhou, China, for approximately $15 million, subject to certain

 

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adjustments. China Roots manufactures plastic containers and closures for food, health care, personal care and petrochemical products. Its customers include several global consumer product marketers. In 2009, China Roots’ net sales were approximately $16.3 million.

The results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, include the results of operations of the Liquid Entities since September 23, 2010, and China Roots since July 1, 2010. As a result, the results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, are not fully comparable to the results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2009.

Results of Operations

The following tables set forth the major components of our net sales and such net sales expressed as a percentage of total net sales:

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
    Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
     2010     2009     2010     2009  
     (Dollars in millions)  

North America

   $ 542.7         86.1   $ 500.0         84.9   $ 1,621.5         86.8   $ 1,497.6         86.2

Europe

     55.4         8.8        61.3         10.4        168.2         9.0        171.6         9.9   

South America

     27.8         4.4        27.5         4.7        74.6         4.0        67.2         3.9   

Asia

     4.5         0.7        —           —          4.5         0.2        —           —     
                                                                    

Total Net Sales

   $ 630.4         100.0   $ 588.8         100.0   $ 1,868.8         100.0   $ 1,736.4         100.0
                                                                    

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
    Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
     2010     2009     2010     2009  
     (Dollars in millions)  

Food and Beverage

   $ 394.6         62.6   $ 354.1         60.1   $ 1,164.4         62.3   $ 1,067.7         61.5

Household

     114.4         18.1        112.3         19.1        332.4         17.8        319.5         18.4   

Personal Care/Specialty

     42.6         6.8        43.8         7.4        125.1         6.7        129.6         7.5   

Automotive Lubricants

     78.8         12.5        78.6         13.4        246.9         13.2        219.6         12.6   
                                                                    

Total Net Sales

   $ 630.4         100.0   $ 588.8         100.0   $ 1,868.8         100.0   $ 1,736.4         100.0
                                                                    

Three Months Ended September 30, 2010, Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2009

The following table sets forth the summary of the condensed consolidated statements of income and related percentage changes for the periods indicated:

 

     Three Months
Ended
September 30,
    Increase/
(Decrease)
    %
Increase/
(Decrease)
 
     2010     2009      
     (Dollars in millions)  

Net sales

   $ 630.4      $ 588.8      $ 41.6        7.1

Cost of goods sold

     518.4        477.0        41.4        8.7   
                          

Gross profit (1)

     112.0        111.8        0.2        0.2   

% of net sales (2)

     17.8     19.0    

Selling, general and administrative expenses (1)

     44.1        32.0        12.1        37.8   

% of net sales (2)

     7.0     5.4    

Asset impairment charges

     0.9        6.1        (5.2     (85.2

Net loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment

     1.1        2.2        (1.1     (50.0
                          

Operating income

     65.9        71.5        (5.6     (7.8

% of net sales (2)

     10.5     12.1    

Interest expense

     43.7        50.2        (6.5     (12.9

Interest income

     (0.2     (0.4     0.2        50.0   

Net loss on debt extinguishment

     28.5        —          28.5        >100.0   

Write-off of amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income related to interest rate swaps

     7.0        —          7.0        >100.0   

Other income, net

     (0.7     (0.5     (0.2     (40.0

Income tax (benefit) provision

     (10.0     7.4        (17.4     >(100.0
                          

(Loss) income from continuing operations

     (2.4     14.8        (17.2     >(100.0

Loss from discontinued operations

     —          (2.1     2.1        100.0   
                          

Net (loss) income

   $ (2.4   $ 12.7      $ (15.1     >(100.0 )% 
                          

 

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(1) Amounts for gross profit and selling, general and administrative expenses may not be comparable to those of other companies, as the costs that we include in these line items may differ from the costs that other companies include. For a discussion of the types of costs included in each line item, see Note 1, “Significant Accounting Policies,” of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009.
(2) As resin prices can fluctuate significantly, we believe that our gross profit, as well as certain expense items, should not be analyzed solely on a percentage of net sales basis. Fluctuations in crude oil and natural gas prices can cause significant fluctuations in resin prices, as can refining capacity and the demand for other petroleum-based products.

Net Sales. The increase in net sales was partially due to an increase in resin costs, which are passed through to customers. The average market price per pound of PET in the U.S. remained constant at $0.77 and the average market price per pound of HDPE in the U.S. increased from $0.69 to $0.78.

Higher unit volume increased net sales by approximately $6.7 million and the unfavorable impact of exchange rates decreased net sales by $5.3 million. The remaining $40.2 million increase was driven primarily by higher resin costs as described above, partially offset by net price reductions both from operational cost savings shared with our customers and in response to competitive pressure. Net sales from the Liquid Entities and China Roots acquisitions also contributed to the increase. Container units sold increased 3.0%.

On an operating segment basis, net sales for the three months ended September 30, 2010, in North America increased $42.7 million, or 8.5%, from the three months ended September 30, 2009. Higher unit volume increased net sales by approximately $7.6 million and the favorable impact of exchange rates increased net sales by $1.7 million. The remaining $33.4 million increase was largely driven by higher resin costs along with the net sales for the Liquid Entities, partially offset by net price reductions. North American net sales in the food and beverage product category contributed $44.4 million to the increase, while the household, personal care/specialty and automotive lubricants product categories decreased net sales by $0.2 million, $0.4 million and $1.1 million, respectively. Container units sold in North America increased in the food and beverage and household product categories by 7.4% and 2.1%, respectively, and decreased in the personal care/specialty and automotive lubricants product categories by 2.3% and 7.5%, respectively.

Net sales for the three months ended September 30, 2010, in Europe decreased $5.9 million, or 9.6%, from the three months ended September 30, 2009. The decrease in net sales was primarily due to the unfavorable impact of exchange rates of $5.0 million.

Net sales for the three months ended September 30, 2010, in South America increased $0.3 million, or 1.1%, from the three months ended September 30, 2009. The increase in net sales was primarily due to price increases, partially offset by the unfavorable impact of exchange rates of $2.0 million.

Net sales for the three months ended September 30, 2010, in our Asian operations were $4.5 million. We began accounting for our Asian operations as a new operating segment as of July 1, 2010.

 

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Gross Profit. Gross profit for the three months ended September 30, 2010, increased in North America by $7.0 million, decreased in Europe by $6.6 million, decreased in South America by $0.5 million and increased in Asia by $0.3 million, when compared to the three months ended September 30, 2009. The increase was primarily due to productivity initiatives, partially offset by the unfavorable impact of exchange rates of $2.0 million and net price reductions referred to above. Inventory step-up resulting from the purchase price allocation of the Liquid Entities and China Roots acquisitions decreased gross profit by $2.1 million.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses. The increase was primarily due to charges recorded in response to an arbitrator’s decision to award OnTech Operations, Inc. approximately $8.1 million for claims made against the Company (see Note 17 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) for further discussion of this lawsuit) and expenses related to the acquisition and integration of the Liquid Entities and China Roots of $8.3 million, partially offset by a decrease in advisory service fees of $1.0 million and ongoing expense reduction efforts.

Asset Impairment Charges. We identified an indicator of possible impairment of certain assets in Argentina, Brazil, France, Mexico and the United States for the three months ended September 30, 2010, and in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Poland and the United States for the three months ended September 30, 2009. As a result, we evaluated the recoverability of these assets and determined that the undiscounted future cash flows were below the carrying value of these long-lived assets. Additionally, management had no plans to redeploy the majority of these assets. Accordingly, we adjusted the carrying value of these long-lived assets to their estimated fair value in accordance with the guidance under Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 360-10-35-15, “Subsequent Measurement—Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets,” resulting in impairment charges of $0.9 million and $6.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

Interest Expense. The decrease was primarily due to lower average debt levels in 2010 and the discontinuance of hedge accounting for our interest rate collar and swap agreements of $2.8 million. This was partially offset by incremental interest expense from the Liquid Entities financings and the rollover of Term Loan B (as herein defined) to Term Loan D (as herein defined) at higher interest rates.

Net Loss on Debt Extinguishment. On September 23, 2010, we amended our senior secured credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) and determined the amendment should be recorded as an extinguishment of debt in accordance with ASC 470-50-40, “Modifications and Extinguishments.” As a result, we recorded a net loss on debt extinguishment of $28.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2010.

Other Income, Net. Other income, net predominantly included net foreign exchange gains and losses for the three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009.

Income Tax (Benefit) Provision. The change primarily resulted from decreased profitability in several of our foreign taxpaying subsidiaries and realization of additional income tax benefits as a result of our recognition of additional deferred tax liabilities related to the Liquid Acquisition, partially offset by changes in unrecognized tax benefits of foreign subsidiaries.

 

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Nine Months Ended September 30, 2010, Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2009

The following table sets forth the summary of the condensed consolidated statements of income and related percentage changes for the periods indicated:

 

     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    Increase/
(Decrease)
    %
Increase/
(Decrease)
 
     2010     2009      
     (Dollars in millions)  

Net sales

   $ 1,868.8      $ 1,736.4      $ 132.4        7.6

Cost of goods sold

     1,533.8        1,418.3        115.5        8.1   
                          

Gross profit (1)

     335.0        318.1        16.9        5.3   

% of net sales (2)

     17.9     18.3    

Selling, general and administrative expenses (1)

     139.5        89.4        50.1        56.0   

% of net sales (2)

     7.5     5.1    

Asset impairment charges

     3.7        14.2        (10.5     (73.9

Net loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment

     2.2        4.4        (2.2     (50.0
                          

Operating income

     189.6        210.1        (20.5     (9.8

% of net sales (2)

     10.1     12.1    

Interest expense

     131.0        127.0        4.0        3.1   

Interest income

     (0.5     (0.8     0.3        37.5   

Net loss (gain) on debt extinguishment

     31.1        (0.8     31.9        >100.0   

Write-off of amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income related to interest rate swaps

     7.0        —          7.0        >100.0   

Other expense (income), net

     2.6        (2.0     4.6        >100.0   

Income tax (benefit) provision

     (4.9     16.5        (21.4     >(100.0)   
                          

Income from continuing operations

     23.3        70.2        (46.9     (66.8

Loss from discontinued operations

     —          (3.9     3.9        100.0   
                          

Net income

   $ 23.3      $ 66.3      $ (43.0     (64.9 )% 
                          

 

(1) Amounts for gross profit and selling, general and administrative expenses may not be comparable to those of other companies, as the costs that we include in these line items may differ from the costs that other companies include. For a discussion of the types of costs included in each line item, see Note 1, “Significant Accounting Policies,” of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009.
(2) As resin prices can fluctuate significantly, we believe that our gross profit, as well as certain expense items, should not be analyzed solely on a percentage of net sales basis. Fluctuations in crude oil and natural gas prices can cause significant fluctuations in resin prices, as can refining capacity and the demand for other petroleum-based products.

Net Sales. The increase in net sales was partially due to an increase in resin costs, which are passed through to customers. The average market price per pound of PET in the U.S. increased from $0.72 to $0.79 and the average market price per pound of HDPE in the U.S. increased from $0.65 to $0.82.

Higher unit volume increased net sales by approximately $50.6 million and the favorable impact of exchange rates increased net sales by $5.5 million. The remaining $76.3 million increase was driven primarily by higher resin costs as described above, partially offset by net price reductions both from operational cost savings shared with our customers and in response to competitive pressure. Net sales from the Liquid Entities and China Roots acquisitions also contributed to a minor extent. Container units sold increased 4.9%.

On an operating segment basis, net sales for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, in North America increased $123.9 million, or 8.3%, from the nine months ended September 30, 2009. Higher unit volume increased net sales by approximately $46.2 million and the favorable impact of exchange rates increased net sales by $10.0 million. The remaining $67.7 million increase was largely driven by higher resin costs along with the net sales for the Liquid Entities, partially offset by net price reductions. North American net sales in the food and beverage, household and automotive lubricants product categories contributed $96.7 million, $8.5 million and $20.3 million, respectively, to the increase, while the personal care/specialty product category decreased by $1.6 million. Container units sold in North America increased in the food and beverage, household and personal care/specialty product categories by 9.6%, 3.7% and 0.1%, respectively, and decreased in the automotive lubricants product category by 4.3%.

Net sales for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, in Europe decreased $3.4 million, or 2.0%, from the nine months ended September 30, 2009. The decrease in net sales was primarily due to the unfavorable impact of exchange rates of $2.1 million and net price reductions, partially offset by higher resin costs.

Net sales for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, in South America increased $7.4 million, or 11.0%, from the nine months ended September 30, 2009. The increase in net sales was primarily due to an increase in unit volume of approximately $3.7 million and price increases, partially offset by the unfavorable impact of exchange rates of $2.4 million.

 

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Net sales for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, in our Asian operations were $4.5 million. We began accounting for our Asian operations as a new operating segment as of July 1, 2010.

Gross Profit. Gross profit for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, increased in North America by $19.2 million, decreased in Europe by $9.3 million, increased in South America by $6.7 million and increased in Asia by $0.3 million, when compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2009. An increase in unit volume in the legacy business contributed $13.1 million to the increase. The remaining increase of $3.8 million resulted from ongoing productivity initiatives, slightly offset by net price reductions referred to above. Inventory step-up resulting from the purchase price allocation of the Liquid Entities and China Roots decreased gross profit by $2.1 million.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses. The increase was primarily due to a one-time fee of $35.0 million to affiliates of the Graham Family (defined as Graham Capital Company, GPC Investments LLC and Graham Alternative Investment Partners I or affiliates thereof or other entities controlled by Donald C. Graham and his family) and Blackstone (defined as Blackstone Capital Partners III Merchant Banking Fund L.P., Blackstone Offshore Capital Partners III L.P. and Blackstone Family Investment Partnership III L.P. or affiliates thereof) to terminate the Amended and Restated Monitoring Agreement (the “Monitoring Agreement”), charges recorded in response to an arbitrator’s decision to award OnTech Operations, Inc. approximately $8.1 million for claims made against the Company (see Note 17 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) for further discussion of this lawsuit), expenses related to the acquisition and integration of the Liquid Entities and China Roots of $9.2 million, bonuses paid in connection with the initial public offering of Graham Packaging Company Inc. (“GPC”), the Company’s majority owner, (“IPO”) of $3.5 million and other costs incurred in connection with the IPO of $1.0 million, partially offset by a decrease in advisory service fees of $2.6 million, a decrease in compensation-related expenses of $2.2 million and ongoing expense reduction efforts.

Asset Impairment Charges. We identified an indicator of possible impairment of certain assets in Argentina, Brazil, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, and in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Poland and the United States for the nine months ended September 30, 2009. As a result, we evaluated the recoverability of these assets and determined that the undiscounted future cash flows were below the carrying value of these long-lived assets. Additionally, management had no plans to redeploy the majority of these assets. Accordingly, we adjusted the carrying value of these long-lived assets to their estimated fair value in accordance with the guidance under ASC 360-10-35-15, “Subsequent Measurement—Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets,” resulting in impairment charges of $3.7 million and $14.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

Interest Expense. The increase was primarily due to the extension, in May 2009, of $1,200.0 million of our term loan at a minimum LIBOR and increased LIBOR margin, partially offset by lower average debt levels in 2010 and the discontinuance of hedge accounting for our interest rate collar and swap agreements of $4.7 million. See “—Liquidity and Capital Resources” for a more detailed description of our term loan extension.

Net Loss (Gain) on Debt Extinguishment. We made principal payments against the Credit Agreement of $114.2 million in February 2010 using the contributions we received from GPC in exchange for limited partnership units in connection with the IPO and of $14.7 million in March 2010 using the contributions we received from GPC in exchange for limited partnership units in connection with the sale of additional shares following the IPO and for an excess cash flow payment of $62.5 million due for the year ended December 31, 2009, paid in March 2010. These principal payments resulted in a write-off of unamortized debt issuance fees and unamortized discount in the amount of $2.6 million. Additionally, on September 23, 2010, we amended our Credit Agreement and determined the amendment should be recorded as an extinguishment of debt in accordance with ASC 470-50-40, “Modifications and Extinguishments,” resulting in a loss on debt extinguishment of $28.5 million. The total loss on debt extinguishment for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, was $31.1 million. On May 28, 2009, we amended the Credit Agreement and determined the amendment should be recorded as an extinguishment of debt in accordance with ASC 470-50-40. As a result, we recorded a net gain on debt extinguishment of $0.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2009.

Other Expense (Income), Net. Other expense (income), net predominantly included net foreign exchange gains and losses for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009. Other expense, net for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, included a loss of $2.3 million related to the application of hyper-inflationary accounting for our Venezuelan subsidiary and the devaluation of the Venezuelan bolivar.

 

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Income Tax (Benefit) Provision.The change primarily resulted from decreased profitability in several of our foreign taxpaying subsidiaries, establishing a valuation allowance in our Brazilian subsidiary in fiscal year 2009, changes in income taxes withheld on foreign dividends, and realization of additional income tax benefits as a result of our recognition of additional deferred tax liabilities related to the Liquid Acquisition, partially offset by changes in unrecognized tax benefits of foreign subsidiaries.

Effect of Changes in Exchange Rates

We generally conduct business in our foreign operations in local currencies. Accordingly, our results of operations are affected by changes in foreign exchange rates. Income and expense accounts and cash flow items are translated at average monthly exchange rates during the period. As a result, a decline in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the local currencies of profitable foreign subsidiaries can have a favorable effect on our profitability, and an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to the local currencies of profitable foreign subsidiaries can have a negative effect on our profitability.

We manage foreign currency exposures (primarily to the euro, Canadian dollar, Polish zloty, Brazilian real, pound sterling and certain non-U.S. subsidiaries’ purchases of raw materials and/or sales of products in U.S. dollars) at the operating unit level. Exposures that cannot be naturally offset within an operating unit are hedged with derivative financial instruments where possible and cost effective in our judgment. Foreign currency exchange contracts which hedge defined exposures generally mature within twelve months. We do not generally hedge our exposure to translation gains or losses on our non-U.S. net assets. There were foreign currency exchange contracts of $1.5 million outstanding as of each of September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009. Included in other (income) expense, net were foreign exchange gains of $0.2 million and $0.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively, and foreign exchange losses of $3.0 million, including a loss of $2.3 million related to the application of hyper-inflationary accounting for our Venezuelan subsidiary and the devaluation of the Venezuelan bolivar, and foreign exchange gains of $2.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively. Net sales for our Venezuelan subsidiary were $4.5 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2010.

Assets and liabilities are translated at exchange rates in effect at the balance sheet date. Net exchange gains or losses resulting from the translation of foreign financial statements are recorded as a separate component of partners’ capital (deficit) under the caption “accumulated other comprehensive income.” Exchange rate fluctuations increased comprehensive income by $25.2 million and $10.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively, and increased comprehensive income by $0.7 million and $15.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

Derivatives

During the first quarter of 2009, we elected to roll over our senior secured term loan in one-month increments to reduce our cash interest, as opposed to continuing to roll over our senior secured term loan in three-month increments to match the terms of our interest rate collar agreements. We had therefore discontinued hedge accounting for our interest rate collar and swap agreements. As a result, no change in fair value was recorded in other comprehensive income for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 and 2009. As a result of the extinguishment of the senior secured term loan due October 7, 2011 (“Term Loan B”), in conjunction with the refinancing of the Credit Agreement that enabled us to purchase the Liquid Entities on September 23, 2010, we wrote off the remaining unamortized amount in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss).

During 2009, we entered into a $1.2 million foreign currency exchange contract to hedge the exchange rate exposure on a transaction that is denominated in pound sterling. The contract has been renewed several times, most recently in the third quarter of 2010 for another six months for a contract value of $1.5 million. This foreign currency exchange contract is accounted for as a cash flow hedge and is highly effective as defined by ASC 815, “Derivatives and Hedging.”

Liquidity and Capital Resources

In the nine months ended September 30, 2010, we generated $183.9 million of cash flow from operations, $165.4 million of net proceeds from the IPO and $370.0 million of other financing activities, and funded $696.9

 

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million of investing activities, resulting in a net source of cash of $22.1 million. The cash generated from operating activities came primarily from our net income adjusted for non-cash items and a decrease in working capital.

The decrease in working capital, which excludes the acquired assets and assumed liabilities of the acquired companies, was primarily due to an increase in accounts payable resulting from higher resin costs and an increase in accrued interest, partially offset by an increase in accounts receivable resulting from higher resin costs and higher sales in September 2010 compared to December 2009.

Cash paid for property, plant and equipment for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, was $111.2 million. Our largest capital spending in the first nine months of 2010 included machinery and tooling equipment purchases to supply a large beverage customer in South America, the installation of a new bottle line for a large beverage customer at our new on-site facility in Mexico, and increasing production capacity through plant infrastructure improvements and machine upgrades in South America to better service a large automotive customer.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2010, we acquired the following: the Liquid Entities for a net cost of approximately $563.1 million, net of cash acquired of $1.2 million; China Roots for a net cost of approximately $14.4 million, net of cash acquired of $1.0 million; and certain miscellaneous blow molding fixed assets for approximately $1.4 million.

Financing activities included the paydown of the Term Loans (as defined herein) using the net proceeds from the sale of additional units to GPC of $165.4 million. In addition, $62.5 million was repaid on the Term Loans as an excess cash flow payment required by the Credit Agreement and $11.0 million was repaid on the Term Loans for regular amortization. Additionally, we refinanced the Credit Agreement and issued additional senior notes on September 23, 2010, that enabled us to purchase the Liquid Entities, as more fully discussed below.

As of September 30, 2010, our Credit Agreement, as amended, consisted of a senior secured term loan of $1,021.2 million ($1,035.5 million aggregate outstanding principal amount less $14.3 million unamortized discount) due April 5, 2014 (“Term Loan C”) and a senior secured term loan of $917.6 million ($913.0 million aggregate outstanding principal amount plus $4.6 million unamortized premium) (“Term Loan D” and, together with the Term Loan C, the “Term Loans”), to the Operating Company, and a $260.0 million senior secured revolving credit facility (the “Revolver”) with availability of $246.7 million (as reduced by $13.3 million of outstanding letters of credit). The Term Loan D will mature on the earliest of (i) September 23, 2016, (ii) the date that is 91 days prior to the maturity of our 8.25% senior notes due January 2017 if such senior notes have not been repaid or refinanced in full by such date or (iii) the date that is 91 days prior to the maturity of our 9.875% senior subordinated notes due October 2014 if such senior notes have not been repaid or refinanced in full by such date. The obligations of the Operating Company and GPC Capital Corp. I (“CapCo I”) under the Credit Agreement are guaranteed by Holdings and certain domestic subsidiaries of the Operating Company. The Term Loans are payable in quarterly installments and require payments of $4.9 million in the remainder of 2010, $19.6 million in 2011, $19.6 million in 2012, $19.7 million in 2013, $1,010.5 million in 2014 and $874.2 million thereafter (disregarding any further mandatory or voluntary prepayments that may reduce such scheduled amortization payments). The payments of $4.9 million in the remainder of 2010 exclude the paydowns of debt in the first three quarters of 2010 of $114.2 million with the contributions received from GPC in exchange for limited partnership units in connection with the IPO and of $14.7 million with the contributions received from GPC in exchange for limited partnership units in connection with the sale of additional shares following the IPO and from an excess cash flow payment of $62.5 million due for the year ended December 31, 2009, paid in March 2010.

On May 28, 2009, certain of our Revolver lenders agreed to extend their commitments, with respect to $112.8 million of the total commitment, conditioned on the refinancing in full of our senior notes due 2012, which occurred in November 2009. In conjunction with the extension of these revolving commitments, we also voluntarily reduced the amount of total revolving commitments available to us under the Credit Agreement from $250.0 million to $248.0 million. Subsequent to the IPO, we received a $12.0 million increase to our revolving commitments. As of September 30, 2010, we had $124.8 million of commitments that will expire on October 1, 2013, and $135.2 million of commitments that expired on October 7, 2010.

On May 28, 2009, the Credit Agreement was also amended such that we may not permit our senior secured net debt to covenant compliance EBITDA (as defined below) ratio to exceed (a) 5.50x on the last day of any fiscal quarter ending on or before December 31, 2011; (b) 5.25x on the last day of any fiscal quarter ending on or after

 

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January 1, 2012, and ending on or before December 31, 2012; and (c) 5.00x on the last day of any fiscal quarter thereafter. As of September 30, 2010, we were in compliance with all covenants in the Credit Agreement.

We expect to fund scheduled debt repayments in 2010 with cash flow from operations. Substantially all unused lines of credit have no major restrictions and are provided under notes between us and the respective lending institutions.

On September 23, 2010, in conjunction with the Liquid Acquisition, the Operating Company and CapCo I co-issued $250.0 million aggregate principal amount of 8.25% senior unsecured notes due 2018 (“Senior Notes due 2018”). Besides these notes, as of September 30, 2010, we also had outstanding $253.4 million aggregate principal amount of 8.25% senior unsecured notes due 2017 (“Senior Notes due 2017”) and $375.0 million in senior subordinated notes due 2014 (“Senior Subordinated Notes”) co-issued by the Operating Company and CapCo I (collectively with the Senior Notes due 2018 and the Senior Notes due 2017, the “Notes”). The Notes are unconditionally guaranteed, jointly and severally, by Holdings and certain domestic subsidiaries of the Operating Company and mature on October 7, 2014 (Senior Subordinated Notes), January 1, 2017 (Senior Notes due 2017) and October 1, 2018 (Senior Notes due 2018). Interest on the Senior Subordinated Notes is payable semi-annually at 9.875% per annum and interest on the Senior Notes due 2017 and the Senior Notes due 2018 is payable semi-annually at 8.25% per annum. On November 1, 2010, the Operating Company and CapCo I completed an Exchange Offer whereby the Senior Notes due 2017 and Senior Notes due 2018 were exchanged for Notes registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

As of September 30, 2010, our total indebtedness was $2,859.9 million, net of $12.7 million unamortized net discount, and our indebtedness net of cash was $2,690.0 million.

The Credit Agreement and the indentures governing the Notes contain a number of significant covenants. We believe that these covenants are material terms of these agreements and that information about the covenants is material to an investor’s understanding of our financial condition and liquidity. Covenant compliance EBITDA (as defined below) is used to determine our compliance with certain of these covenants. Any breach of covenants in the Credit Agreement (including those that are tied to financial ratios based on covenant compliance EBITDA) could result in a default under the Credit Agreement and the lenders could elect to declare all amounts borrowed to be immediately due and payable. Any such acceleration would also result in a default under the indentures. Additionally, these covenants restrict our and our subsidiaries’ ability to dispose of assets, repay other indebtedness, incur additional indebtedness, pay dividends, prepay subordinated indebtedness, incur liens, make capital expenditures, investments or acquisitions, engage in mergers or consolidations, engage in transactions with affiliates and otherwise restrict our activities. Under the Credit Agreement, we are required to satisfy specified financial ratios and tests. The Credit Agreement also requires that up to 50% of excess cash flow (as defined in the Credit Agreement) be applied on an annual basis to pay down the Term Loans. As of September 30, 2010, we were in compliance with the financial ratios and tests specified in the Credit Agreement.

We define covenant compliance EBITDA as EBITDA (i.e., earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) further adjusted to exclude non-recurring items, non-cash items and other adjustments required in calculating covenant compliance under the Credit Agreement and the indentures, as shown in the table below. Covenant compliance EBITDA is not intended to represent cash flow from operations as defined by generally accepted accounting principles and should not be used as an alternative to net income as an indicator of operating performance or to cash flow as a measure of liquidity. We believe that the inclusion of covenant compliance EBITDA in this quarterly report on Form 10-Q is appropriate to provide additional information to investors about the calculation of certain financial covenants in the Credit Agreement and the indentures. Because not all companies use identical calculations, these presentations of covenant compliance EBITDA may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies. A reconciliation of (loss) income from continuing operations to covenant compliance EBITDA is as follows:

Reconciliation of (loss) income from continuing operations to EBITDA

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
    Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    Four
Quarters
Ended
September 30,
2010
 
     2010     2009     2010     2009    
     (In millions)  

(Loss) income from continuing operations

   $ (2.4   $ 14.9      $ 23.3      $ 70.2      $ (16.6

Interest income

     (0.2     (0.4     (0.5     (0.8     (0.8

Interest expense

     43.7        50.1        131.0        127.0        180.8   

Income tax (benefit) provision

     (10.0     7.4        (4.9     16.5        (0.1

Depreciation and amortization

     40.3        39.4        117.9        118.5        158.1   
                                        

EBITDA

   $ 71.4      $ 111.4      $ 266.8      $ 331.4      $ 321.4   
                                        

 

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Reconciliation of EBITDA to covenant compliance EBITDA

 

     Three Months Ended
September 30,
     Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    Four
Quarters
Ended
September 30,
2010
 
     2010     2009      2010      2009    
     (In millions)  

EBITDA

   $ 71.4      $ 111.4       $ 266.8       $ 331.4      $ 321.4   

Asset impairment charges

     0.9        6.1         3.7         14.2        31.4   

Other non-cash charges (a)

     1.3        2.4         3.0         5.1        5.3   

Fees related to monitoring agreements (b)

     0.2        1.3         1.2         3.7        2.4   

Net loss (gain) on debt extinguishment

     28.5        —           31.1         (0.8     40.6   

Write-off of amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income related to interest rate swaps

     7.0        —           7.0         —          7.0   

Contract termination fee and IPO-related expenses (c)

     0.2        —           39.6         —          39.8   

Acquisition and integration expenses (d)

     10.4        —           11.2         —          11.2   

Venezuelan hyper-inflationary accounting

     (0.2     —           2.3         —          2.3   

Reorganization and other costs (e)

     10.6        3.6         13.9         9.0        19.1   

Project startup costs (f)

     2.7        2.3         8.5         9.2        11.3   
                                          

Covenant compliance EBITDA

   $ 133.0      $ 127.1       $ 388.3       $ 371.8      $ 491.8   
                                          

 

(a) Represents the net loss on disposal of fixed assets, stock-based compensation expense and equity income from unconsolidated subsidiaries.
(b) Represents annual fees paid to Blackstone Management Partners III L.L.C. and a limited partner of Holdings pursuant to the Fifth Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement, the Monitoring Agreement and the Sixth Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement.
(c) Represents costs related to the termination of the Monitoring Agreement, IPO bonus payments and other IPO-related costs.
(d) Represents costs related to the acquisition and integration of the Liquid Entities and China Roots.
(e) Represents costs related to an arbitrator’s decision to award OnTech Operations, Inc. a settlement for its claims against us (see Note 17 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) for further discussion of this lawsuit), plant closures, employee severance and other costs defined in the Credit Agreement.
(f) Represents costs associated with startups of manufacturing lines to produce new products.

Under applicable debt agreements, our ability to engage in activities such as incurring additional indebtedness, making investments and paying dividends is also tied to ratios based on covenant compliance EBITDA. The Credit Agreement requires that we maintain a senior secured net debt to covenant compliance EBITDA ratio at a maximum of 5.5x for the most recent four-quarter period. For the four quarters ended September 30, 2010, the Operating Company’s covenant compliance EBITDA was $491.8 million and the senior secured net debt to covenant compliance EBITDA ratio was 3.7x, excluding any adjustment to include pro forma EBITDA of the acquired companies as permitted by the Credit Agreement. Given the level of senior secured debt as of September 30, 2010, the Operating Company’s covenant compliance EBITDA could have fallen by $160.1 million to $331.7 million for the four quarters ended September 30, 2010, and we still would have been in compliance with the covenants in the Credit

 

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Agreement. The ability of the Operating Company to incur additional debt and make certain restricted payments under its Notes is tied to a minimum covenant compliance EBITDA to fixed charges (primarily cash interest expense) ratio of 2.0x, except that the Operating Company may incur certain debt and make certain restricted payments without regard to the ratio, including, but not limited to, exceptions permitting $2.2 billion under the Credit Agreement and investments equal to 7.5% of the Operating Company’s total assets. The covenant compliance EBITDA to fixed charges ratio was 2.8x for the four quarters ended September 30, 2010.

Substantially all of the tangible and intangible assets of our domestic subsidiaries that are guarantors under the Credit Agreement are pledged as collateral pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement.

Under the Credit Agreement, as amended, the Operating Company is subject to restrictions on the payment of dividends or other distributions to Holdings; provided that, subject to certain limitations, the Operating Company may pay dividends or other distributions to Holdings:

 

   

with respect to overhead, tax and tax-related liabilities, legal, accounting and other professional fees and expenses; and

 

   

to fund purchases and redemptions of equity interests of Holdings or GPC held by then present or former officers or employees of Holdings, the Operating Company or their Subsidiaries (as defined therein) or by any employee stock ownership plan upon that person’s death, disability, retirement or termination of employment or other circumstances with annual dollar limitations.

We and our subsidiaries, affiliates or significant stockholders (including Blackstone) may, from time to time, subject to limitations in our debt agreements and in our or their sole discretion, purchase, repay, redeem or retire any of our outstanding debt or equity securities (including any publicly issued debt or equity securities), in privately negotiated or open market transactions, by tender offer or otherwise.

We believe that capital expenditures to maintain and upgrade property, plant and equipment are important to remain competitive. We estimate that on average the maintenance capital expenditures are approximately $30 million to $40 million per year. Additional capital expenditures beyond this amount will be required to expand capacity or improve our cost structure.

For the year 2010, we expect to incur capital expenditures ranging from $140 million to $160 million, and for the year 2011, we expect to incur capital expenditures ranging from $160 million to $180 million. We also expect to incur some capital expenditures associated with the integration of the Liquid Entities into our operating network. We expect this number to be between $10 million and $20 million over the next two years. However, total capital expenditures will depend on the size and timing of growth related opportunities. Our principal source of cash to fund ongoing operations and capital requirements has been and is expected to continue to be cash flow from operations. We believe that cash flow from operations will be sufficient to fund our ongoing operations and foreseeable capital requirements.

Contractual Obligations and Commitments

The following table sets forth, as of September 30, 2010, our significant contractual obligations and commitments which have experienced significant changes since December 31, 2009. This table reflects changes directly related to the refinancing of the Credit Agreement and issuance of new senior notes on September 23, 2010, that enabled us to purchase the Liquid Entities.

 

     Payments Due by Period  

Contractual Obligations

   Total      2010      2011 and
2012
     2013 and
2014
     2015 and
beyond
 
     (In thousands)  

Long-term debt, excluding capital leases (a)

   $ 2,860,184       $ 15,951       $ 54,128       $ 1,405,450       $ 1,384,655   

Interest payments (b)

     1,019,722         55,117         413,517         340,861         210,227   

 

(a) Amounts exclude the unamortized net discounts related to the Credit Agreement and the Senior Notes due 2017 of $12.7 million as of September 30, 2010.
(b) Interest payments are calculated based upon our actual interest rates as of September 30, 2010.

 

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Income Tax Receivable Agreements

In connection with the IPO, GPC entered into Income Tax Receivable Agreements (“ITRs”) which will obligate it to make payments to its pre-IPO stockholders (including Blackstone) and the Graham Family in an amount equal to 85% of the amount of cash savings, if any, in U.S. federal, state and local income tax that GPC actually realizes (or is deemed to realize in the case of an early termination or change in control as further described in the ITRs) as a result of (i) the utilization of GPC’s net operating losses attributable to periods prior to the IPO, (ii) any increase to the tax basis of the assets of Holdings relating to GPC’s 1998 acquisition of 85% of Holdings and current and future exchanges of limited partnership units by the Graham Family pursuant to the Exchange Agreement, and (iii) other tax benefits related to GPC’s entering into the ITRs, including tax benefits attributable to payments under the ITRs. As of September 30, 2010, the value of the ITRs obligations was $8.2 million. Because GPC is a holding company with no operations of its own, its ability to make payments under the ITRs is dependent on our ability to make future distributions. For the nine months ended September 30, 2010, no payments have been made under these ITRs.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

As of September 30, 2010, we did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of SEC Regulation S-K.

We have entered into agreements with an unrelated third-party for the financing of specific accounts receivable of certain foreign subsidiaries. The financing of accounts receivable under these agreements is accounted for as a sale of receivables in accordance with the guidance under ASC 860-20, “Sale of Financial Assets.” Under the terms of the financing agreements, we transfer ownership of eligible accounts receivable without recourse to the third-party purchaser in exchange for cash. Proceeds on the transfer reflect the face value of the accounts receivable less a discount. The discount is recorded against net sales on the consolidated statement of operations in the period of the sale. The eligible receivables financed pursuant to this factoring agreement are excluded from accounts receivable on the consolidated balance sheet and are reflected as cash provided by operating activities on the consolidated statement of cash flows, while non-eligible receivables remain on the balance sheet with a corresponding liability established when those receivables are financed. We do not continue to service, administer and collect the eligible receivables under this program. The third-party purchaser has no recourse to us for failure of debtors constituting eligible receivables to pay when due. We maintain insurance on behalf of the third-party purchaser to cover any losses due to the failure of debtors constituting eligible receivables to pay when due. At September 30, 2010, and December 31, 2009, we had sold $9.9 million and $15.7 million of eligible accounts receivable, respectively, which represent the face amounts of total outstanding receivables at those dates.

Environmental Matters

We are subject to potential loss contingencies resulting from regulation by various federal, state, local and foreign governmental authorities with respect to the environmental impact of our operating facilities. In the event a known environmental issue is identified, we may incur substantial costs to comply with environmental laws and regulations. See Note 23 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) for further discussion.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

See Note 1 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) for information regarding new accounting pronouncements.

 

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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

The quantitative and qualitative disclosures about market risk are discussed in Part II, Item 7A in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009. Other than as set forth below, there have been no material changes in information reported since the year ended December 31, 2009.

Interest Rate Risk

The following table sets forth our long- and short-term debt commitments outstanding as of September 30, 2010. For variable-rate debt obligations, the table presents principal cash flows and related actual weighted average interest rates as of September 30, 2010. For fixed-rate debt obligations, the table presents principal cash flows and related weighted average interest rates by maturity dates. This table has been updated to reflect changes directly related to the refinancing of the Credit Agreement and issuance of new senior notes on September 23, 2010, that enabled us to purchase the Liquid Entities.

 

     Expected Maturity Date of Long-Term Debt (Including Current Portion)
at September 30, 2010
    Fair Value at
September 30,

2010
 
     2010     2011     2012     2013     2014     Thereafter     Total    
     (Dollars in thousands)  

Interest rate sensitive liabilities:

                

Variable-rate borrowings, including short-term amounts

   $ 13,895      $ 28,803      $ 21,329      $ 19,956      $ 1,010,487      $ 881,278      $ 1,975,748 (a)    $ 1,993,786   

Average interest rate

     8.54     9.49     7.05     6.59     6.74     5.95     6.45  

Fixed-rate borrowings

   $ 7,907      $ 9,148      $ 1,463      $ 9      $ 375,000      $ 503,377      $ 896,904 (b)    $ 913,804   

Average interest rate

     9.58     10.06     11.32     3.99     9.88     8.25     8.96  

Total interest rate sensitive liabilities

   $ 21,802      $ 37,951      $ 22,792      $ 19,965      $ 1,385,487      $ 1,384,655      $ 2,872,652      $ 2,907,590   
                                                                

 

(a) Excludes $9.7 million of unamortized net discount.
(b) Excludes $3.0 million of unamortized discount.

Based on the outstanding amount of our variable-rate indebtedness at September 30, 2010, a one percentage point change in the interest rates for our variable-rate indebtedness would impact interest expense by an aggregate of approximately $0.3 million, excluding the impact of our interest rate swap agreements at September 30, 2010.

Derivatives

The following table presents information for our interest rate collar agreements, interest rate swap agreements and foreign currency exchange contract. The notional amounts do not necessarily represent amounts exchanged by the parties, and therefore are not direct measures of our exposure to credit risk. The fair values approximate the costs to settle the outstanding contracts.

 

     September 30,
2010
    December 31,
2009
 
     (In thousands)  

Interest rate collar agreements:

    

Notional amount

   $ —        $ 385,000   

Fair value – liability

     —          (68

Interest rate swap agreements:

    

Notional amount

     350,000        350,000   

Fair value – liability

     (11,028     (16,688

Foreign currency exchange contract:

    

Notional amount

     1,472        1,544   

Fair value – asset (liability)

     5        (27

 

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See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Liquidity and Capital Resources” (Part I, Item 2) for further discussion of our debt commitments.

 

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Item 4. Controls and Procedures

 

(a) Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

As of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, management, with the participation of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, performed an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act. Our disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. Any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives. Based on this evaluation and subject to the foregoing, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of September 30, 2010, the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to accomplish their objectives at the reasonable assurance level.

 

(b) Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

On September 23, 2010, we completed the acquisition of the Liquid Entities. We are in the process of incorporating the Liquid Entities’ internal controls into our control structure. We consider the ongoing integration of the Liquid Entities a material change in our internal control over financial reporting. There were no other changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as that term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that occurred during the quarter ended September 30, 2010, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

 

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

For a description of our legal proceedings, see Note 17 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) which is incorporated by reference in response to this item.

 

Item 1A. Risk Factors

In addition to the other information set forth in this report, you should carefully consider the factors discussed in Part I, “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009 (the “Form 10-K”), which could materially affect our business, financial condition or future results. The risk factors in our Form 10-K have not materially changed, except as set forth below.

The following supplements the risk factors related to our business set forth in our Form 10-K:

We may not be able to successfully integrate the Liquid Entities, or other businesses we may acquire in the future, and we may not be able to realize anticipated cost savings, revenue enhancements or other synergies from such acquisitions.

Our ability to successfully implement our business plan and achieve targeted financial results depends on our ability to successfully integrate the Liquid Entities or other businesses we may acquire in the future. The process of integrating the Liquid Entities, or any other acquired businesses, involves risks. These risks include, but are not limited to:

 

   

demands on management related to the significant increase in the size of our business;

 

   

diversion of management’s attention from the management of daily operations;

 

   

difficulties in conforming the acquired business’ accounting principles to ours;

 

   

retaining the loyalty and business of the customers of the acquired businesses;

 

   

retaining employees that may be vital to the integration of departments, information technology systems, including accounting systems, technologies, books and records, and procedures, and maintaining uniform standards, such as internal accounting controls and procedures, and policies; and

 

   

costs and expenses associated with any undisclosed or potential liabilities.

Failure to successfully integrate the Liquid Entities, or any other acquired businesses, may result in reduced levels of revenue, earnings or operating efficiency that might have been achieved if we had not acquired such businesses.

In addition, the Liquid Acquisition has resulted, and any future acquisitions could result, in the incurrence of additional debt and related interest expense and amortization expenses related to intangible assets, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, operating results and cash flows.

We may not be able to achieve the estimated future cost savings expected to be realized as a result of the Liquid Acquisition or other future acquisitions. Failure to achieve such estimated future cost savings could have an adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

 

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We may not be able to realize anticipated cost savings, revenue enhancements or other synergies from the Liquid Acquisition or other future acquisitions, either in the amount or within the time frame that we expect. In addition, the costs of achieving these benefits may be higher than, and the timing may differ from, what we expect. Our ability to realize anticipated cost savings, synergies and revenue enhancements may be affected by a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the following:

 

   

the use of more cash or other financial resources on integration and implementation activities than we expect;

 

   

increases in other expenses unrelated to the acquisition, which may offset the cost savings and other synergies from the acquisition;

 

   

our ability to eliminate duplicative back office overhead and redundant selling, general and administrative functions, obtain procurement related savings, rationalize our distribution and warehousing networks, rationalize manufacturing capacity and shift production to more economical facilities; and

 

   

our ability to avoid labor disruptions in connection with any integration, particularly in connection with any headcount reduction.

Specifically, the significant anticipated cost savings and operating cost reductions in respect of the Liquid Acquisition reflect estimates and assumptions made by our management as to the benefits and associated expenses and capital spending with respect to our cost savings initiatives, and it is possible that these estimates and assumptions may not reflect actual results. In addition, these estimated cost savings may not actually be achieved in the timeframe anticipated or at all.

If we fail to realize anticipated cost savings, synergies or revenue enhancements, our financial results may be adversely affected, and we may not generate the cash flow from operations that we anticipate.

 

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

Our ability to pay dividends may be limited by covenants of any existing and future outstanding indebtedness we or our subsidiaries incur, including our senior secured credit agreement and indentures.

 

Item 6. Exhibits

The exhibit index attached hereto is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Dated: November 9, 2010

 

GRAHAM PACKAGING HOLDINGS COMPANY

(Registrant)

By:   /S/  DAVID W. BULLOCK        
 

David W. Bullock

Chief Financial Officer

By:   /S/  WILLIAM E. HENNESSEY        
 

William E. Hennessey

Vice President, Corporate Controller

and Treasurer

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

The agreements and other documents filed as exhibits to this quarterly report on Form 10-Q are not intended to provide factual information or other disclosure other than with respect to the terms of the agreements or other documents themselves, and you should not rely on them for that purpose. In particular, any representations and warranties made by the registrant in these agreements or other documents were made solely within the specific context of the relevant agreement or document and may not describe the actual state of affairs as of the date they were made or at any other time.

 

Exhibit

Number

 

Description of Exhibit

2.1**   Stock and Unit Purchase Agreement, dated as of August 9, 2010, by and among (i) Liquid Container L.P., (ii) each of the stockholders of (w) Liquid Container Inc., (x) CPG-L Holdings Inc., and (y) WCK-L Holdings Inc., (iii) each of the limited partners of Liquid Container L.P., (iv) Graham Packaging Acquisition Corp. and (v) Graham Packaging Acquisition Corp. (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Graham Packaging Holdings Company on August 13, 2010 (File No. 333-53603-03)).
3.1   Certificate of Limited Partnership of Graham Packaging Holdings Company (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.5 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4/A filed by the Company on July 13, 1998 (File No. 333-53603-03)).
3.2   Sixth Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Graham Packaging Holdings Company dated as of February 4, 2010 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.36 to Amendment No. 5 to the Registration Statement of Graham Packaging Company Inc. on Form S-1/A filed by Graham Packaging Company Inc. on February 5, 2010 (File No. 333-163956)).
4.1   Indenture, dated as of September 23, 2010, among Graham Packaging Company, L.P., GPC Capital Corp. I, the Guarantors named therein and the Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Graham Packaging Holdings Company on September 29, 2010 (File No. 333-53603-03)).
4.2   Form of 8.25% Senior Notes due 2018 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Graham Packaging Holdings Company on September 29, 2010 (File No. 333-53603-03)).
4.3   Registration Rights Agreement among Graham Packaging Company, L.P. and GPC Capital Corp. I, as issuers, and Graham Packaging Holdings Company and the guarantors listed on the signature pages thereto, as guarantors, dated as of September 23, 2010 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.10 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4/A filed by Graham Packaging Holdings Company on October 5, 2010 (File No. 333-167976-18)).
4.4   Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 30, 2010, among GPACSUB LLC, Graham Packaging Minster LLC, Graham Packaging Company, L.P., GPC Capital Corp. I, the guarantors party thereto, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee, relating to the 9 7/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.11 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4/A filed by Graham Packaging Holdings Company on October 5, 2010 (File No. 333-167976-18)).
4.5   Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 30, 2010, among GPACSUB LLC, Graham Packaging Minster LLC, Graham Packaging Company, L.P., GPC Capital Corp. I, the guarantors party thereto, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee, relating to the 8 1/4% Senior Notes due 2017 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.12 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4/A filed by Graham Packaging Holdings Company on October 5, 2010 (File No. 333-167976-18)).
4.6   Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 4, 2010, among Graham Packaging GP Acquisition LLC, Graham Packaging LP Acquisition LLC, CPG-L Holdings, Inc., Liquid Container Inc., Graham Packaging LC, L.P., Graham Packaging PX Holding Corporation, Graham Packaging PX, LLC, Graham Packaging PX Company, WCK-L Holdings, Inc., Graham Packaging Company, L.P., GPC Capital Corp. I, the guarantors party thereto, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee, relating to the 9 7/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.13 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4/A filed by Graham Packaging Holdings Company on October 5, 2010 (File No. 333-167976-18)).

 

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4.7    Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 4, 2010, among Graham Packaging GP Acquisition LLC, Graham Packaging LP Acquisition LLC, CPG-L Holdings, Inc., Liquid Container Inc., Graham Packaging LC, L.P., Graham Packaging PX Holding Corporation, Graham Packaging PX, LLC, Graham Packaging PX Company, WCK-L Holdings, Inc., Graham Packaging Company, L.P., GPC Capital Corp. I, the guarantors party thereto, and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee, relating to the 8 1/4% Senior Notes due 2018 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.14 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4/A filed by Graham Packaging Holdings Company on October 5, 2010 (File No. 333-167976-18)).
10.1    Sixth Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of September 23, 2010, among Graham Packaging Holdings Company, Graham Packaging Company, L.P., as the borrower, GPC Capital Corp. I, as the co-borrower, the lenders named therein and Deutsche Bank AG Cayman Islands Branch, as administrative agent for the lenders (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Graham Packaging Holdings Company on September 29, 2010 (File No. 333-53603-03)).
31.1*    Certification required by Rule 15d-14(a).
31.2*    Certification required by Rule 15d-14(a).
32.1*    Certification pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.2*    Certification pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

* — Filed herewith.
** —Schedules and similar attachments to the Stock and Unit Purchase Agreement have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. The registrant will furnish supplementally a copy of any committed schedules or similar attachment to the SEC upon request.

 

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