Sunday, September 12, 2010

Enterprise Inns in 1bn loan deal

Matthew Goodman & ,}

THE beer hall hulk Enterprise Inns is close to similar a long-awaited refinancing of the 1 billion bank loan, staving off fears that shareholders competence be asked to have an puncture injection of cash.

Shares in Enterprise fell 11% on Friday among worries that it would not be means to set upon a understanding with the consortium of lenders. The shares sealed at 107.5p, giving it a marketplace worth of 544m.

The company, that owns 7,300 pubs, has been negotiating with the banks for more than 6 months. Insiders design the understanding could be voiced in the next couple of weeks, and presumably as early as this Tuesday when it publishes interim monetary results.

A understanding would be seen as a manoeuvre for the association and the arch executive, Ted Tuppen.

Analysts had been endangered that Enterprise Inns, that declined to comment, would have to refinance by raising uninformed equity.

The association has been means to revoke the distance of the bank trickery by offered off pubs to lift income and it is approaching that the contingent refinancing will be for in between 600m and 650m.

The new arrangements are expected to meant the companys borrowing costs will rise, but Enterprise will have larger faith over the finances, with a lending agreement for multiform years.

The rest of Enterprises 3.5 billion net debt is in long-term bonds.

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