Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Debt

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Debt
12 Months Ended
Aug. 31, 2016
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Debt
Note 5.    Debt
The following is a summary of the Company’s long-term indebtedness (in thousands):
 
August 31,
 
2016
 
2015
Senior Credit Facility
 
 
 
Revolver ($600 million)
$

 
$

Term Loan
296,250

 
300,000

 
296,250

 
300,000

5.625% Senior Notes
288,059

 
288,059

Total Senior Indebtedness
584,309

 
588,059

Less: current maturities of long-term debt
(18,750
)
 
(3,750
)
Total long-term debt, less current maturities
$
565,559

 
$
584,309


The Company’s Senior Credit Facility matures on May 8, 2020, provides a $600 million revolver, a $300 million term loan and a $450 million expansion option, subject to certain conditions. Borrowings are subject to a pricing grid, which can result in increases or decreases to the borrowing spread, depending on the Company’s leverage ratio, ranging from a spread of 1.00% to 2.25% in the case of loans bearing interest at LIBOR and from 0.00% to 1.25% in the case of loans bearing interest at the base rate. As of August 31, 2016, the borrowing spread on LIBOR based borrowings was 2.00% (aggregating to a 2.50% variable rate borrowing cost). In addition, a non-use fee is payable quarterly on the average unused credit line under the revolver ranging from 0.15% to 0.35% per annum. As of August 31, 2016, the unused credit line under the revolver was $592.1 million, of which $180.0 million was available for borrowings. Quarterly term loan principal payments of $3.8 million began on June 30, 2016, increase to $7.5 million per quarter on June 30, 2017, with the remaining principal due at maturity. The Senior Credit Facility, which is secured by substantially all of the Company’s domestic personal property assets, also contains customary limits and restrictions concerning investments, sales of assets, liens on assets, dividends and other payments. The two financial covenants included in the Senior Credit Facility agreement are a maximum leverage ratio of 3.75:1 and a minimum interest coverage ratio of 3.50:1. The Company was in compliance with all financial covenants at August 31, 2016.
On April 16, 2012, the Company issued $300 million of 5.625% Senior Notes due 2022 (the “Senior Notes”). The Senior Notes require no principal installments prior to their June 15, 2022 maturity, require semiannual interest payments in December and June of each year and contain certain financial and non-financial covenants. The Senior Notes include a call feature that allows the Company to repurchase them anytime on or after June 15, 2017 at stated redemption prices (ranging from 100.0% to 102.8%), plus accrued and unpaid interest. As required under the indenture governing the Senior Notes, on June 19, 2015, the Company initiated an offer to repurchase, at par value, up to $165 million of Senior Notes representing the non-reinvested proceeds from the fiscal 2014 business divestitures. Prior to its expiration, the Company repurchased $11.9 million of Senior Notes pursuant to this tender offer in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015.
The Company made cash interest payments of $27.2 million, $24.8 million and $21.0 million in fiscal 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.