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REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY AND LONG-TERM DEBT
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2012
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY AND LONG-TERM DEBT
REVOLVING CREDIT FACILITY AND LONG-TERM DEBT

Long-term debt at December 31, 2012 and 2011, consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):
 
2012
 
2011
European credit facilities
$
202,097

 
$

7.875% senior secured notes due 2017
200,000

 
200,000

5.625% convertible senior subordinated notes due 2017
112,881

 
112,881

Other debt
69,151

 
16,723

Capital leases
3,110

 

 
587,239

 
329,604

Less amounts due within one year
145,801

 
11,723

 
$
441,438

 
$
317,881


 

Aggregate maturities of long-term debt are as follows (amounts in thousands):
2013
$
145,801

2014
52,187

2015
44,319

2016
28,567

2017
314,643

Thereafter
1,722

 
$
587,239



European credit facilities
European credit facilities consisted of various borrowings from Accordo Quadro, Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A and Unicredit Corporate Banking S.p.A, totaling $202.1 million at December 31, 2012. Maturity dates on this debt range from less than one year to twelve years and interest rates range from 5% to 6.9%. The European facilities are secured by the shares and assets of select European subsidiaries. The Company’s European credit facilities contain various covenants.  These covenants are tested on six month intervals and the Company would be noncompliant if the covenants were not met for two successive six month periods. The Company did not meet certain financial covenants at December 31, 2012. The Company was in compliance with these covenants as of December 31, 2012, as this was the first period for not meeting covenants.

7.875% senior secured notes due 2017
The Company’s 7.875% senior secured notes (senior secured notes) are due October 2017.  These notes are secured by the land and buildings of the following subsidiaries of the Company:  Titan Tire Corporation, Titan Tire Corporation of Bryan, Titan Tire Corporation of Freeport and Titan Wheel Corporation of Illinois.  The Company’s senior secured notes outstanding balance was $200.0 million at December 31, 2012.

5.625% convertible senior subordinated notes due 2017
The Company’s 5.625% convertible senior subordinated notes (convertible notes) are due January 2017.   The initial base conversion rate for the convertible notes is 93.0016 shares of Titan common stock per $1,000 principal amount of convertible notes, equivalent to an initial base conversion price of approximately $10.75 per share of Titan common stock.  If the price of Titan common stock at the time of determination exceeds the base conversion price, the base conversion rate will be increased by an additional number of shares (up to 9.3002 shares of Titan common stock per $1,000 principal amount of convertible notes) as determined pursuant to a formula described in the indenture.  The base conversion rate will be subject to adjustment in certain events.  The Company’s convertible notes balance was $112.9 million at December 31, 2012.

Revolving credit facility
The Company’s $150 million revolving credit facility (credit facility) with agent Bank of America, N.A. has a December 2017 termination date and is collateralized by the accounts receivable and inventory of Titan and certain of its domestic subsidiaries.  During 2012 and at December 31, 2012, there were no borrowings under the credit facility.  

In December 2012, Titan amended its credit facility with Bank of America, N.A. The amendment extended the credit facility termination date to December 2017 from the previous January 2014 date. The amendment also increased the revolving commitment to $150 million from $100 million, reallocated the lender commitments and made other changes to the terms of the agreement.

Other debt
Brazil Term Loan
In May 2011, the Company entered into a two-year, unsecured $10.0 million Term Loan with Bank of America, N.A. (BoA Term Loan) to provide working capital for the Sao Paulo, Brazil manufacturing facility. Borrowings under the BoA Term Loan bear interest at a rate equal to London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) plus 200 basis points. The BoA Term Loan shall be a minimum of $5.0 million with the option for an additional $5.0 million loan for a maximum of $10.0 million. The BoA Term Loan is due May 2013. The Company entered into an interest rate swap agreement and cross currency swap transaction with Bank of America Merrill Lynch Banco Multiplo S.A. that is designed to convert the outstanding $5.0 million US Dollar based LIBOR loan to a Brazilian Real based Certificate of Deposit Interbank (CDI) loan. See Note 14 for additional information. As of December 31, 2012, the Company had $5.0 million outstanding on this loan and the interest rate including the effect of the swap agreement was approximately 9%.

Brazil Revolving Line of Credit
The Company's wholly-owned Brazilian subsidiary, Titan Pneus Do Brasil Ltda ("Titan Brazil"), has a revolving line of credit (Brazil line of credit) established with Bank of America Merrill Lynch Banco Multiplo S.A. in May 2011. Titan Brazil could borrow up to 16.0 million Brazilian Reais, which equates to approximately $7.8 million dollars as of December 31, 2012, for working capital purposes. Under the terms of the Brazil line of credit, borrowings, if any, bear interest at a rate of LIBOR plus 247 basis points. At December 31, 2012 there were no borrowings outstanding on this line of credit.

Australia Other Debt
Titan National Australia Holdings has capital leases totaling $1.5 million at December 31, 2012.

Titan Europe Other Debt
Titan Europe has overdraft facilities totaling $62.7 million at December 31, 2012.

Titan Europe Capital Leases
Titan Europe has capital lease obligations totaling $3.1 million at December 31, 2012.