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DEBT
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
DEBT [Abstract]  
DEBT
5. Debt

On January 29, 2010, the Company signed a secured Loan Agreement (the “Loan Agreement”) with People’s United Bank (“People’s”) which included a $5,000,000 term portion and a $10,000,000 revolving credit portion.  The term portion of the loan requires quarterly principal payments of $178,571 for a period of seven (7) years, maturing on January 31, 2017.  The revolving credit portion had a quarterly commitment fee of one quarter of one percent (0.25%), and a maturity date of January 31, 2012.  The Loan Agreement is secured by all of the assets of the Company.

On January 25, 2012 the Company amended the Loan Agreement by taking an additional $5,000,000 term loan (the “2012 Term Loan”).  The 2012 Term Loan requires quarterly principal payments of $178,571 for a period of seven (7) years, maturing on January 31, 2019.  At the same time the maturity date of the revolving credit portion was extended to January 31, 2014 and continued to have a quarterly commitment fee of one quarter of one percent (0.25%).

Interest on the original term portion of the Loan Agreement is fixed at 4.98%.  Interest on the 2012 Term Loan is fixed at 3.90%.  For the period from January 25, 2012 to January 23, 2014, interest on the revolving credit portion of the Loan Agreement varied based on the LIBOR rate or People’s Prime rate plus 2.25%, with a floor of 3.25% with a maturity date of January 31, 2014.  On January 23, 2014, the Company amended the Loan Agreement with People’s.  The amendment renewed and extended the maturity date of the revolving credit portion of the Loan Agreement to July 1, 2016 and changed the interest rate to LIBOR plus 2.25%, and eliminated the 3.25% floor previously in place.  The interest rate at December 31, 2016 on the revolving credit portion of the Loan Agreement was 3.02%.  The quarterly commitment fee of one quarter of one percent (0.25%) remained unchanged.  On June 9, 2016, the Company signed a third amendment to its secured Loan Agreement which extended the maturity date of the $10,000,000 revolver portion of the Loan Agreement to July 1, 2018.  The Company did not utilize the revolving credit portion of the Loan Agreement at any time during 2015 or 2016.

Debt consists of:

  
2016
  
2015
 
Term loans
 
$
1,785,714
  
$
3,214,285
 
Revolving credit loan
  
   
 
   
1,785,714
   
3,214,285
 
Less current portion
  
892,857
   
1,428,571
 
   
$
892,857
  
$
1,785,714
 

The Company paid interest of $127,735 in 2016, $174,558 in 2015 and $272,993 in 2014.
The Company’s loan covenants under the Loan Agreement require the Company to maintain a fixed charge coverage ratio of at least 1.1 to 1, a leverage ratio of no more than 1.75 to 1, and minimum tangible net worth of $43 million increasing each year by
50% of consolidated net income.  This amount was approximately $52.8 million as of December 28, 2013.  As part of an amendment to the Loan Agreement signed on January 23, 2014, the leverage ratio was eliminated, and the minimum tangible net worth covenant was modified to a fixed minimum amount of $55 million, effective with the end of the Company’s first quarter of 2014.  In addition, the Company has restrictions on, among other things, new capital leases, purchases or redemptions of its capital stock, mergers and divestitures, and new borrowing.  The Company was in compliance with all covenants in 2015 and 2016.

As of December 31, 2016, scheduled annual principal maturities of long-term debt for each of the next five years follow:

2017
 
$
892,857
 
2018
  
714,286
 
2019
  
178,571
 
2020
  
 
2021
  
 
Thereafter
  
 
   
$
1,785,714