MIDDLETON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPB), a leading global branded consumer products and home essentials company focused on driving innovation and providing exceptional customer service, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Spectrum Brands, Inc. (“Spectrum Brands”), has commenced (i) a cash tender offer (the “Tender Offer”) of up to an aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 4.00% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “2026 Notes” or the “Euro Notes”), 5.00% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “2029 Notes”), 5.50% Senior Notes due 2030 (the “2030 Notes”) and 3.875% Senior Notes due 2031 (the “2031 Notes” and, together with the 2026 Notes, the 2029 Notes and the 2030 Notes, the “Notes,” and each, a “Series”) that may be purchased for a combined aggregate purchase price of up to $925.0 million (including accrued and unpaid interest, which also will be paid to, but excluding, the Early Tender Settlement Date or the Final Settlement Date (each as defined below), as the case may be, but excluding fees and expenses relating to the Tender Offer). Spectrum Brands has the discretion to upsize the Tender Offer.
Concurrently with the Tender Offer, Spectrum Brands is soliciting consents (the “Consent Solicitation”) (i) from Holders of the 2026 Notes to certain proposed amendments to the indenture governing the 2026 Notes, dated as of September 20, 2016, as supplemented (the “2026 Notes Indenture”), (ii) from Holders of the 2029 Notes to certain proposed amendments to the indenture governing the 2029 Notes, dated as of September 24, 2019, as supplemented (the “2029 Notes Indenture”), and (iii) from Holders of the 2030 Notes to certain proposed amendments to the indenture governing the 2030 Notes, dated as of June 30, 2020, as supplemented (the “2030 Notes Indenture”) (such proposed amendments are collectively referred to as the “Proposed Amendments” and such consents being solicited are each a “Consent” and collectively, the “Consents”). Spectrum Brands is not soliciting any Consents from Holders of the 2031 Notes. The Proposed Amendments, if consummated, would amend each of the 2026 Notes Indenture, the 2029 Notes Indenture and the 2030 Notes Indenture, as applicable, to shorten the notice periods for the redemption of such Notes and eliminate substantially all of the restrictive covenants and certain events of default.
Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement relating to the Notes (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Notes Statement”), Spectrum Brands will pay to each Holder who validly tenders (and does not validly withdraw) their Notes and, if applicable, thereby validly delivers (and does not validly revoke) Consents prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 3, 2024 (the “Early Tender Time”), an amount in cash equal to the “Total Consideration” (inclusive of the “Early Tender Payment”) specified in the table below. Tendered Notes may be withdrawn any time prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 3, 2024. Holders who validly tender (and do not validly withdraw) their Notes prior to the Early Tender Time will also be entitled to receive the Total Consideration (inclusive of the Early Tender Payment) specified in the table below on the Early Tender Settlement Date (as defined below) if such Notes are accepted for purchase. The “Early Tender Settlement Date” for the Tender Offer will follow the Early Tender Time and is expected to be June 18, 2024. Holders who validly tender (and do not validly withdraw) their Notes after the Early Tender Time but prior to the Expiration Time (as defined below) will be entitled to receive the “Tender Offer Consideration” specified in the table below on the Final Settlement Date (as defined below) if such Notes are accepted for purchase. The Tender Offer Consideration is the Total Consideration minus the Early Tender Payment. Holders will also be paid accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on their Notes from the last interest payment date up to, but not including, the Early Tender Settlement Date or the Final Settlement Date (as the case may be) for all of their Notes that Spectrum Brands accepts for purchase in the Tender Offer. The Total Consideration (inclusive of the Early Tender Payment) and the Tender Offer Consideration for each $1,000 principal amount of the 2031 Notes validly tendered and accepted for purchase will be determined in the manner described in the Notes Statement by reference to the Fixed Spread specified in the table below over the yield to maturity based on the bid-side price of the Reference Treasury Security specified in the table below, in accordance with standard market practice at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the business day following the Early Tender Time, expected to be June 4, 2024.
The Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation are scheduled to expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on June 18, 2024, unless extended, earlier terminated or (in the case of the Consent Solicitation) earlier expired by Spectrum Brands in its sole discretion (the “Expiration Time”). The “Final Settlement Date” for the Tender Offer will promptly follow the Expiration Time and is expected to be June 21, 2024. Other information relating to the Tender Offer is listed in the table below.
Title of Security |
Security Identifiers(1) |
Principal Amount of Notes Outstanding |
Acceptance Priority Level |
Reference Treasury Security |
Bloomberg Reference Page |
Fixed Spread (bps) |
Tender Offer Consideration(2) |
Early Tender Payment(3) |
Total Consideration(4)
|
4.00% Senior Notes due 2026 |
ISIN No. XS1493295874 / XS1493296500 Common Code 149329587/ 149329650 |
€425,000,000 |
1 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
€950.00 |
€50.00 |
€1,000.00 |
5.00% Senior Notes due 2029 |
CUSIP No. 84762L AV7 / U84569 AK5,
|
$289,089,000 |
2 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
$950.00 |
$50.00 |
$1,000.00 |
5.50% Senior Notes due 2030 |
CUSIP No. 84762L AW5 / U84569 AL3,
|
$155,719,000 |
3 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
$950.00 |
$50.00 |
$1,000.00 |
3.875% Senior Notes due 2031 |
CUSIP No. 84762L AX3 / U84569 AM1
|
$413,715,000 |
4 |
4.25% U.S. Treasury due February 28, 2031 |
FIT6 |
+0 |
N/A |
$50.00 |
N/A |
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(1) |
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No representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of the security identifiers listed in this table or printed on the Notes. They are provided solely for the convenience of Holders of the Notes. |
(2) |
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Per $1,000 or €1,000 principal amount of Notes (as applicable) validly tendered and accepted for purchase for each Series, and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Expiration Time. Excludes accrued and unpaid interest, which also will be paid to, but excluding, the Final Settlement Date. |
(3) |
|
Per $1,000 or €1,000 principal amount of Notes (as applicable) validly tendered and accepted for purchase for each Series, and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Early Tender Time. |
(4) |
|
Per $1,000 or €1,000 principal amount of Notes (as applicable) validly tendered and accepted for purchase for each Series, and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Early Tender Time. Includes the Early Tender Payment, but excludes accrued and unpaid interest, which also will be paid to, but excluding, the Early Tender Settlement Date. |
General Information
Spectrum Brands’ obligations to complete the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation are subject to and conditioned upon the satisfaction or waiver by Spectrum Brands of certain conditions, including the General Conditions, the Supplemental Indenture Conditions and the Total Consideration Condition (each as described in the Notes Statement), as applicable to a Series of Notes. There can be no assurance that either of the Tender Offer or Consent Solicitation will be consummated. Spectrum Brands may amend, extend or terminate the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation, in its sole discretion.
Subject to the Maximum Tender Offer Amount, the Notes accepted for purchase on the Early Tender Settlement Date or the Final Settlement Date, as applicable, will be accepted in accordance with their respective Acceptance Priority Levels (in numerical order with “1” being the highest Acceptance Priority Level) as set forth in the table above. Subject to the Maximum Tender Offer Amount, all Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Early Tender Time will be accepted for purchase in priority to Notes validly tendered after the Early Tender Time but at or prior to the Expiration Time, even if such Notes validly tendered after the Early Tender Time but at or prior to the Expiration Time have a higher Acceptance Priority Level than the Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Early Tender Time. Furthermore, if Spectrum Brands purchases the Maximum Tender Offer Amount of Notes on the Early Tender Settlement Date, Holders who validly tender Notes after the Early Tender Time but on or before the Expiration Time will not have any of their Notes accepted for purchase. The Tender Offer may be subject to proration if the aggregate purchase price (including principal and premium and accrued and unpaid interest) of the Notes that are validly tendered and not validly withdrawn is greater than the amount of Notes that may be purchased for the Maximum Tender Offer Amount.
Spectrum Brands intends to fund the Total Consideration (inclusive of the Early Tender Payment) and the Tender Offer Consideration (including, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest paid), plus all related fees and expenses, using cash on hand, including proceeds from asset sales, proceeds from the liquidation of short-term investments, and, if necessary, borrowings under its revolving facility under its Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated June 30, 2020, as amended through the date hereof. Notes that are tendered and accepted in the Tender Offer will cease to be outstanding and will be cancelled.
The terms and conditions of the Tender Offer are described in the Notes Statement.
If less than all of the 2026 Notes, the 2029 Notes and the 2030 Notes are validly tendered and accepted for purchase in the Tender Offer or Spectrum Brands does not receive sufficient consents to effect the proposed amendments to the indentures governing such Series, Spectrum Brands may be required to make subsequent offers (“Asset Sale Offers”) pursuant to the requirements of the “Limitation on Asset Sales” covenant in the respective indentures governing such Series at a purchase price of 100.0% of the principal amount of such Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest using the net proceeds of the divestiture of Spectrum Brands’ Hardware and Home Improvement segment, completed on June 20, 2023, that remain available for such Asset Sale Offers, if they are required to be made.
Depending on the outcome of the Tender Offer for the 2026 Notes, the 2029 Notes and the 2030 Notes, all or a significant amount of the 2031 Notes may remain outstanding following the completion of the Tender Offer. However, whether or not Spectrum Brands would be required to make an Asset Sale Offer for the 2031 Notes, or the 2026 Notes, the 2029 Notes or the 2030 Notes, depends on the amount of Notes tendered in the Tender Offer and any other actions that Spectrum Brands may take before an Asset Sale Offer is required to be made pursuant to the terms of the governing indenture, including defeasance of the covenants applicable to the 2031 Notes pursuant to the terms of the governing indenture, or the satisfaction and discharge of the indenture governing the 2031 Notes.
Spectrum Brands and its affiliates reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to redeem any of the Notes that remain outstanding after the completion of the Tender Offer in accordance with the terms of the respective indentures governing the Notes, to repurchase any such Notes in open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions or otherwise, upon such terms and at such prices as they may determine, which in each case may be more or less than the price to be paid pursuant to the Tender Offer, to defease the covenants of the Notes, including the covenant on the “Limitation on Asset Sales,” or to satisfy and discharge Spectrum Brands’ obligations pursuant to the indentures governing such Notes.
Spectrum Brands has retained RBC Capital Markets, LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (with respect to the 2029 Notes, the 2030 Notes and the 2031 Notes, collectively, the “USD Notes”), J.P. Morgan Securities plc (with respect to the Euro Notes) and UBS Securities LLC to serve as the Dealer Managers for the Tender Offer and Solicitation Agents for the Consent Solicitation. Requests for documents may be directed to D.F. King, the Information and Tender Agent at (800) 549-6864 (toll-free) or +44 (0) 20 7920 9700 (for the Euro Notes). Questions regarding the Tender Offer may be directed to RBC Capital Markets, LLC at (877) 381-2099 (toll-free) or (212) 618-7843 (collect) (for the USD Notes) and at +44 20 7029 7529 (for the Euro Notes), to J.P. Morgan Securities LLC at (866) 834-4666 (toll-free) or (212) 834-7489 (collect) (for the USD Notes), J.P. Morgan Securities plc (for the Euro Notes) at +44 20 7134 4353, or UBS Securities LLC at (833) 690-0971 (toll-free) or (212) 882-5723 (collect).
This press release is for informational purposes only. The Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation are being made solely by the Notes Statement. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which, or to any persons to whom, such offering, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. Any offers of concurrently offered securities will be made only by means of a private offering memorandum. The Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation are not being made to Holders of Notes in any jurisdiction in which the making or acceptance thereof would not be in compliance with the securities, blue sky or other laws of such jurisdiction. In any jurisdiction in which the securities laws or blue sky laws require the Tender Offer or Consent Solicitation to be made by a licensed broker or dealer, the Tender Offer and Consent Solicitation will be deemed to be made on behalf of Spectrum Brands by the Dealer Managers and Solicitation Agents, or one or more registered brokers or dealers that are licensed under the laws of such jurisdiction.
None of Spectrum Brands, the Information and Tender Agent, the Dealer Managers and Solicitation Agents or any of their respective affiliates makes any recommendation as to whether Holders should tender or refrain from tendering their Notes, and no person or entity has been authorized by any of them to make such a recommendation. Holders must make their own decision as to whether to tender Notes and, if so, the principal amount of the Notes to tender
About Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. and Spectrum Brands, Inc.
Spectrum Brands Holdings is a home-essentials company with a mission to make living better at home. We focus on delivering innovative products and solutions to consumers for use in and around the home through our trusted brands. We are a leading supplier of specialty pet supplies, lawn and garden and home pest control products, personal insect repellents, shaving and grooming products, personal care products, and small household appliances. Helping to meet the needs of consumers worldwide, Spectrum Brands offers a broad portfolio of market-leading, well-known and widely trusted brands including Tetra®, DreamBone®, SmartBones®, Nature’s Miracle®, 8-in-1®, FURminator®, Healthy-Hide®, Good Boy®, Meowee!®, OmegaOne®, Spectracide®, Cutter®, Repel®, Hot Shot®, Rejuvenate®, Black Flag®, Liquid Fence®, Remington®, George Foreman®, Russell Hobbs®, BLACK + DECKER®, PowerXL®, Emeril Lagasse®, and Copper Chef®. For more information, please visit www.spectrumbrands.com. Spectrum Brands – A Home Essentials Company™.
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(4) our increased reliance on third-party partners, suppliers and distributors to achieve our business objectives; (5) the impact of expenses resulting from the implementation of new business strategies, divestitures or current and proposed restructuring and optimization activities, including changes in inventory and distribution center changes which are complicated and involve coordination among a number of stakeholders, including our suppliers and transportation and logistics handlers; (6) the impact of our indebtedness and financial leverage position on our business, financial condition and results of operations; (7) the impact of restrictions in our debt instruments on our ability to operate our business, finance our capital needs or pursue or expand business strategies; (8) any failure to comply with financial covenants and other provisions and restrictions of our debt instruments; (9) the effects of general economic conditions, including the impact of, and changes to tariffs and trade policies, inflation, recession or fears of a recession, depression or fears of a depression, labor costs and stock market volatility or monetary or fiscal policies in the countries where we do business; (10) the impact of fluctuations in transportation and shipment costs, fuel costs, commodity prices, costs or availability of raw materials or terms and conditions available from suppliers, including suppliers’ willingness to advance credit; (11) interest rate fluctuations; (12) changes in foreign currency exchange rates that may impact our purchasing power, pricing and margin realization within international jurisdictions; (13) the loss of, significant reduction in or dependence upon, sales to any significant retail customer(s), including their changes in retail inventory levels and management thereof; (14) competitive promotional activity or spending by competitors, or price reductions by competitors; (15) the introduction of new product features or technological developments by competitors and/or the development of new competitors or competitive brands; (16) changes in consumer spending preferences and demand for our products, particularly in light of economic stress; (17) our ability to develop and successfully introduce new products, protect intellectual property and avoid infringing the intellectual property of third parties; (18) our ability to successfully identify, implement, achieve and sustain productivity improvements, cost efficiencies (including at our manufacturing and distribution operations) and cost savings; (19) the seasonal nature of sales of certain of our products; (20) the impact weather conditions may have on the sales of certain of our products; (21) the effects of climate change and unusual weather activity as well as our ability to respond to future natural disasters and pandemics and to meet our environmental, social and governance goals; (22) the cost and effect of unanticipated legal, tax or regulatory proceedings or new laws or regulations (including environmental, public health and consumer protection regulations); (23) public perception regarding the safety of products that we manufacture and sell, including the potential for environmental liabilities, product liability claims, litigation and other claims related to products manufactured by us and third parties; (24) the impact of existing, pending or threatened litigation, government regulation or other requirements or operating standards applicable to our business; (25) the impact of cybersecurity breaches or our actual or perceived failure to protect company and personal data, including our failure to comply with new and increasingly complex global data privacy regulations; (26) changes in accounting policies applicable to our business; (27) our discretion to adopt, conduct, suspend or discontinue any share repurchase program or conduct any debt repayments, redemptions, repurchases or refinancing transactions (including our discretion to conduct purchases or repurchases, if any, in a variety of manners including open-market purchases, privately negotiated transactions, tender offers, redemptions, or otherwise); (28) our ability to utilize net operating loss carry-forwards to offset tax liabilities; (29) our ability to separate the Company's Home and Personal Care (“HPC”) business and create an independent Global Appliances business on expected terms, and within the anticipated time period, or at all, and to realize the potential benefits of such business; (30) our ability to create a pure play consumer products company composed of our Global Pet Care ("GPC") and Home & Garden (“H&G”) business and to realize the expected benefits of such creation, and within the anticipated time period, or at all; (31) our ability to successfully implement, and realize the benefits of, acquisitions or dispositions and the impact of any such transactions on our financial performance; (32) the impact of actions taken by significant shareholders; (33) the unanticipated loss of key members of senior management and the transition of new members of our management teams to their new roles; and (34) the other risk factors set forth in the securities filings of Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. and SB/RH Holdings, LLC, including the 2023 Annual Report and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Some of the above-mentioned factors are described in further detail in the sections entitled Risk Factors in our annual and quarterly reports, as applicable. You should assume the information appearing in this document is accurate only as of the date hereof, or as otherwise specified, as our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since such date. Except as required by applicable law, including the securities laws of the U.S. and the rules and regulations of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission , we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, to reflect actual results or changes in factors or assumptions affecting such forward-looking statements.
