Long-Term Debt

Long-term debt consists of the following (in thousands):



	September 27, 2014		December 28, 2013
9.125% Senior Secured Notes due 2017	$	834,320	$	835,230
Borrowings under the ABL facilities	46,000		—
Total long-term debt	$	880,320	$	835,230

9.125% Senior Secured Notes due 2017

In October 2010, the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, AMH New Finance, Inc. (collectively, the “Issuers”) issued and sold $730.0 million of 9.125% Senior Secured Notes due November 1, 2017 (the “9.125% notes” or “notes”). The 9.125% notes bear interest at a rate of 9.125% per annum, payable on May 1 and November 1 of each year, and are unconditionally guaranteed, jointly and severally, by each of the Issuers’ direct and indirect domestic subsidiaries that guarantees the Company’s obligations under its senior secured asset-based revolving credit facilities (the “ABL facilities”).

On May 1, 2013, the Issuers issued and sold an additional $100.0 million in aggregate principal amount of 9.125% notes (the “new notes”) at an issue price of 106.00% of the principal amount of the new notes in a private placement. The Company used the net proceeds of the offering to repay the outstanding borrowings under its ABL facilities and for other general corporate purposes. The new notes were issued as additional notes under the same indenture, dated as of October 13, 2010, governing the $730.0 million aggregate principal amount of 9.125% notes (the “existing notes”) issued in October 2010 in a private placement and subsequently registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), as supplemented by a supplemental indenture (the “Indenture”). The new notes are consolidated with and form a single class with the existing notes and have the same terms as to status, redemption, collateral and otherwise (other than issue date, issue price and first interest payment date) as the existing notes. The debt premium related to the issuance of the new notes is being amortized into interest expense over the life of the new notes. The unamortized premium of $4.3 million is included in the long-term debt balance for the 9.125% notes. The effective interest rate of the new notes, including the premium, is 7.5% as of September 27, 2014.

On September 30, 2013, the Issuers offered to exchange up to $100.0 million aggregate principal amount of 9.125% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 and the related guarantees (the “exchange notes”), which have been registered under the Securities Act for any and all of the new notes. All of the new notes were exchanged for exchange notes on October 31, 2013.

The 9.125% notes have an estimated fair value, classified as a Level 1 measurement, of $816.5 million and $891.2 million based on quoted market prices as of September 27, 2014 and December 28, 2013, respectively.

The Company may from time to time, in its sole discretion, purchase, redeem or retire the 9.125% notes in privately negotiated or open market transactions, by tender offer or otherwise.

ABL Facilities

In October 2010, the Company entered into the ABL facilities in the amount of $225.0 million (comprised of a $150.0 million U.S. facility and a $75.0 million Canadian facility) pursuant to a revolving credit agreement dated October 13, 2010, which was subsequently amended and restated on April 18, 2013 (the “Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement”) to, among other things, extend the maturity date of the revolving credit agreement from October 13, 2015 to the earlier of (i) April 18, 2018 and (ii) 90 days prior to the maturity date of the existing notes. Subsequently, the Company terminated the tranche B revolving credit commitments of $12.0 million and wrote off $0.5 million of deferred financing fees related to the ABL facilities.

At the Company’s option, the U.S. and Canadian tranche A revolving credit loans under the Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement governing the ABL facilities bear interest at the rate equal to (1) the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) (for eurodollar loans under the U.S. facility) or the Canadian Dealer Offered Rate (“CDOR”) (for loans under the Canadian facility), plus an applicable margin of 2.00% as of September 27, 2014, or (2) the alternate base rate (for alternate base rate loans under the U.S. facility, which is the highest of a prime rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate plus 0.50% and a one-month LIBOR rate plus 1.0% per annum) or the alternate Canadian base rate (for loans under the Canadian facility, which is the higher of a Canadian prime rate and the 30-day CDOR plus 1.0%), plus an applicable margin of 1.00% as of September 27, 2014, in each case, which interest rate margin may vary in 25 basis point increments between three pricing levels determined by reference to the average excess availability in respect of the U.S. and Canadian tranche A revolving credit loans. In addition to paying interest on outstanding principal under the ABL facilities, the Company is required to pay a commitment fee in respect of the U.S. and Canadian tranche A revolving credit loans, payable quarterly in arrears, of 0.375%.

The Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement contains customary representations and warranties and customary affirmative and negative covenants, including, with respect to negative covenants, among other things, restrictions on indebtedness, liens, investments, fundamental changes, asset sales, dividends and other distributions, prepayments or redemption of junior debt, transactions with affiliates and negative pledge clauses. There are no financial covenants included in the Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement, other than a springing fixed charge coverage ratio of at least 1.00 to 1.00, which will be tested only when excess availability is less than the greater of (i) 10.0% of the sum of (x) the lesser of (A) the U.S. tranche A borrowing base and (B) the U.S. tranche A revolving credit commitments and (y) the lesser of (A) the Canadian tranche A borrowing base and (B) the Canadian tranche A revolving credit commitments and (ii) $20.0 million for a period of five consecutive business days until the 30th consecutive day when excess availability exceeds the above threshold. The fixed charge coverage ratio was 0.88:1.00 for the four consecutive fiscal quarter test period ended September 27, 2014. The Company has not triggered such fixed charge coverage ratio covenant for 2014 and does not expect to be required to test such covenant for the remainder of 2014.

As of September 27, 2014, there was $46.0 million drawn under the Company’s ABL facilities and $142.7 million available for additional borrowings. The weighted average per annum interest rate applicable to borrowings under the U.S. portion of the ABL facilities was 3.2% as of September 27, 2014. There were no borrowings under the Canadian portion of the ABL facilities as of September 27, 2014 . The Company had letters of credit outstanding of $12.9 million as of September 27, 2014 primarily securing insurance policy deductibles, certain lease facilities and the Company’s purchasing card program.