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Indebtedness
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Indebtedness

8. Substantially all of the Company’s assets are pledged as collateral with its banks.

The Company has a revolving line of credit and various notes payable that together constitute the short-term and long-term loan balances shown in the condensed consolidated balance sheets at March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013. These are summarized in the following table:

 

Indebtedness

   March 31, 2014      December 31, 2013  

$000’s

   Long-
term
     Short-
term
     Total      Long-
term
     Short-
term
     Total  

Revolving line of credit

   $ 99,000       $ —         $ 99,000       $ 51,550       $ —         $ 51,550   

Notes payable

     108         70         178         126         69         195   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Indebtedness

   $ 99,108       $ 70       $ 99,178       $ 51,676       $ 69       $ 51,745   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

On June 17, 2013, AMVAC Chemical Corporation (“AMVAC”), the Company’s principal operating subsidiary, as borrower, and affiliates (including the Company), as guarantors and/or borrowers, entered into a Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the “New Credit Agreement”) with a group of commercial lenders led by Bank of the West (AMVAC’s primary bank) as agent, swing line lender and L/C issuer. The new facility also includes both AMVAC C.V. and AMVAC Netherlands BV (both Dutch subsidiaries) as borrowers. The New Credit Agreement supersedes the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (“First Amendment”) dated as of January 10, 2011. The New Credit Agreement is a senior secured lending facility with a five year term and consists of a revolving line of credit up to $200 million and an accordion feature for up to $100 million. In connection with AMVAC’s entering into the New Credit Agreement, all outstanding indebtedness under the First Amendment was rolled over into the New Credit Agreement, including the conversion of term loans into revolving debt.

At March 31, 2014, the Company had in place one interest rate swap contract with a notional amount of $34,875 that is accounted for under FASB ASC 815 as a cash flow hedge. The effective portion of the gains or losses on the interest rate swap are reported as a component of other comprehensive income and reclassified into earnings in the same period or periods during which the hedged transactions affect earnings. Losses in other comprehensive income expected to be reclassified to earnings in the coming 12 months are $(204). Amounts recorded in earnings for hedge ineffectiveness for the period ending March 2014 were immaterial.

The Company uses a pay fixed, receive 1Month LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) interest rate swap to manage the interest expense generated by variable rate debt. At March 31, 2014 and 2013, the Company had in place an interest rate swap, the use of which results in a fixed interest rate of 3.39% for the portion of variable rate debt that is covered by the interest rate swap contract. The current interest rate swap contract was put in place on March 30, 2011 and terminates on December 31, 2014.

The following tables illustrate the impact of derivatives on the Company’s statement of operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2014.

The Effect of Derivative Instruments on the Statement of Financial Performance

For the Period Ended March 31

 

Derivatives in ASC 815 Cash Flow

Hedging Relationships

  Amount of Gain or
(Loss) Recognized in
OCI on Derivative
(Effective Portion)
    Location of Gain or
(Loss) Reclassified
from Accumulated
OCI into Income
(Effective Portion)
    Amount of Gain or (Loss)
Reclassified from Accumulated
OCI into Income (Effective
Portion)
    Location of Gain or
(Loss) Recognized in
Income on Derivative
(Ineffective Portion)
  Amount of Gain or
(Loss)

Recognized
in Income on
Derivative
(Ineffective Portion)
 
  2014     2013       2014     2013       2014     2013  

Interest rate contracts

  $ (23   $ (7     Interest Expense      $ (159   $ (185   Interest Expense   $ —       $ —     
 

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

  $ (23   $ (7     $ (159   $ (185     $ —       $ —    
 

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

The Company has three key covenants to its senior, secured credit facility with its banking syndicate. The covenants are as follows: (1) the Company must maintain its borrowings below a certain consolidated funded debt ratio, (2) the Company has a limitation on its annual spending on the acquisition of fixed asset capital additions, and (3) the Company must maintain a certain consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio. As of March 31, 2014 the Company met all covenants in that credit facility.

At March 31, 2014, based on its performance against the most restrictive covenants listed above, the Company had the capacity to increase its borrowings by up to $87,814 under the credit facility agreement.

 

The counterparty to the Company’s interest rate derivative financial instrument is Bank of the West, the Company’s primary bank. Pledged cash collateral is not required under the interest rate swap contract. At March 31, 2014, the Company

did not hold any other derivative financial instruments. As a result, there occurs no offsetting of derivative liabilities in the Company’s financial statements. The gross amount of derivative liabilities is equal to the net amount recognized in current installments of other liabilities in the condensed consolidated balance sheets, as shown in the below table:

 

                        Gross Amounts Not Offset in the
Statement of Financial Position
 

Description

   Gross
Amounts of
Recognized
Liabilities
    Gross
Amounts
Offset in the
Statement
of Financial
Position
     Net Amounts
of Liabilities
Presented in
the Statement
of Financial
Position
    Financial
Instruments
     Cash
Collateral
Pledged
     Net Amount  

Derivatives by counterparty:

               

Bank of the West

   $ (428   $ —        $ (428   $ —        $ —        $ (428
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ (428   $ —        $ (428   $ —        $ —        $ (428