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6 Months Ended
Feb. 28, 2015
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
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The following is a summary of the Company’s long-term indebtedness (in thousands):
 
February 28, 2015
 
August 31, 2014
Senior Credit Facility
 
 
 
Revolver
$
199,000

 
$

Term Loan
87,750

 
90,000

Total Senior Credit Facility
286,750

 
90,000

5.625% Senior Notes
300,000

 
300,000

Total Senior Indebtedness
586,750

 
390,000

Less: current maturities of long-term debt
(6,750
)
 
(4,500
)
Total long-term debt, less current maturities
$
580,000

 
$
385,500


The Company’s Senior Credit Facility, which matures on July 18, 2018, includes a $600 million revolving credit facility, a $90 million term loan and a $350 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 above LIBOR, depending on the Company’s leverage ratio, ranging from 1.00% to 2.50% in the case of loans bearing interest at LIBOR and from 0.00% to 1.50% in the case of loans bearing interest at the base rate. At February 28, 2015, the borrowing spread on LIBOR based borrowings was 1.75% (aggregating to 1.94%). In addition, a non-use fee is payable quarterly on the average unused credit line under the revolver ranging from 0.15% to 0.40% per annum. At February 28, 2015, the unused credit line under the revolver was $389.3 million of which $328.0 million was available for borrowings. Quarterly principal payments of $1.1 million began on the term loan on September 30, 2014, increasing to $2.3 million per quarter beginning on September 30, 2015, 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 February 28, 2015.
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. The indenture governing the Senior Notes requires the Company to offer to purchase at par value an amount of Senior Notes in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015 equal to the net proceeds from the Electrical segment divestiture that exceed the amounts reinvested in capital expenditures and business acquisitions since the divestiture. Assuming no further capital deployment in the third quarter of fiscal 2015, the maximum repurchase offer would be $150.0 million. The Company has adequate capacity under its Senior Credit Facility to fund the repurchase offer, however the Senior Notes are trading in excess of par value (104.5% at February 28, 2015), and therefore it is highly unlikely that Senior Note holders will accept the par repurchase offer.