Notes Payable and Capital Lease

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2018

NOTE 8 - NOTES PAYABLE AND CAPITAL LEASE

	March 31,
	2018		2017
Notes payable consist of the following:
Foreign revolving credit facilities (A)	$	126,148	$	-
Note payable - GCP note (B)		211,580		211,580
Credit facility (C)		18,505,897		13,033,075
5% Convertible notes (D)		50,000		1,675,000
11% Subordinated Note (E)		20,000,000		20,000,000

Total	$	38,893,625	$	34,919,655

The Company has arranged various credit facilities aggregating €310,324 or $382,279 (translated at the March 31, 2018 exchange rate) with an Irish bank, including overdraft coverage, creditors’ insurance, customs and excise guaranty, a revolving credit facility and Company credit cards. These credit facilities are payable on demand, continue until terminated by either party, are subject to annual review, and call for interest at the lender’s AA1 Rate minus 1.70%. At March 31, 2018, there was €102,404 or $126,148 (translated at the March 31, 2018 exchange rate) of principal due on the foreign revolving credit facilities include in current maturities of notes payable and no balance on the credit facilities included in notes payable at March 31, 2017.

B.	In December 2009, GCP issued a promissory note (the “GCP Note”) in the aggregate principal amount of $211,580 to Gosling’s Export (Bermuda) Limited in exchange for credits issued on certain inventory purchases. The GCP Note matures on April 1, 2020, is payable at maturity, subject to certain acceleration events, and calls for annual interest of 5%, to be accrued and paid at maturity. At each of March 31, 2018 and 2017, $10,579 of accrued interest was converted to amounts due to affiliates. At each of March 31, 2018 and 2017, $211,580 of principal due on the GCP Note was included in long-term liabilities.

C.	In August 2011, the Company and CB-USA entered into a loan and security agreement (as amended and restated, and further amended, the “Amended Agreement”) with Keltic Financial Partners II, LP (“Keltic, succeeded to be ACF FinCo I LP (“ACF”), which, as amended, through March 31, 2018, provided for availability (subject to certain terms and conditions) of a facility of up to $21.0 million (the “Credit Facility”) for the purpose of providing the Company with working capital., including a sublimit in the maximum principal amount of $7,000,000 to permit the Company to acquire aged whiskey inventory (the “Purchased Inventory Sublimit”) subject to certain conditions set forth in the Amended Agreement. The Company and CB-USA are referred to individually and collectively as the Borrower. Pursuant to the Loan Agreement Amendment, the Company and CB-USA may borrow up to the lesser of (x) $21,000,000 and (y) the sum of the borrowing base calculated in accordance with the Amended Agreement and the Purchased Inventory Sublimit.

The Credit Facility interest rate is the rate that, when annualized, is the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate plus 3.00%, (b) the LIBOR Rate plus 5.50% and (c) 6.00%. As of March 31, 2018, the Credit Facility interest rate was 7.00625%.

The Purchased Inventory Sublimit replaces the Bourbon Term Loan, which was paid in full in the normal course of business. The Purchased Inventory Sublimit interest rate is the rate that, when annualized, is the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate plus 4.25%, (b) the LIBOR Rate plus 6.75% and (c) 7.50%. As of March 31, 2018, the interest rate applicable to the Purchased Inventory Sublimit was 8.75625%. The monthly facility fee is 0.75% per annum of the maximum Credit Facility. Also, the Company must pay a monthly facility fee of $2,000 with respect to the Purchased Inventory Sublimit until all obligations with respect thereof are fully paid and performed.

The Amended Agreement contains EBITDA targets allowing for further interest rate reductions in the future. The Company and CB-USA are permitted to prepay the Credit Facility in whole or the Purchased Inventory Sublimit, in whole or in part, subject to certain prepayment penalties as set forth in the Loan Agreement Amendment. For the year ended March 31, 2018, the Company paid interest at 6.5% through June 14, 2018, then 6.75% through December 13, 2017, then 7.0% through February 28, 2018, and then 7.06250% through March 31, 2018 on the Amended Agreement. For the year ended March 31, 2017, the Company paid interest at 6% through December 14, 2016, then 6.25% through March 15, 2017, then 6.5% through March 31, 2017 on the Amended Agreement. For the year ended March 31, 2016, the Company paid interest at 6% through August 9, 2015, then 5.75% through December 15, 2015, then 6% through March 31, 2016 on the Amended Agreement. For the year ended March 31, 2018, the Company paid interest at 8.25% through June 14, 2018, then at 8.5% through December 13, 2017, then 8.75% through February 28, 2018, and then 8.75625% through March 31, 2018 on the Purchased Inventory Sublimit For the year ended March 31, 2017, the Company paid interest at 7.75% through December 14, 2016, and then at 8.0% through March 15, 2017, then 8.25% through March 31, 2017 on the Purchased Inventory Sublimit. For the year ended March 31, 2016, the Company paid interest at 7.5% through December 15, 2015, and then at 7.75% through March 31, 2016 on the Purchased Inventory Sublimit. Interest is payable monthly in arrears, on the first day of every month on the average daily unpaid principal amount of the Credit Facility. After the occurrence and during the continuance of any “Default” or “Event of Default” (as defined under the Amended Agreement), the Borrower is required to pay interest at a rate that is 3.25% per annum above the then applicable Credit Facility interest rate. There have been no Events of Default under the Credit Facility. ACF also receives a collateral management fee of $1,000 per month (increased to $2,000 after the occurrence of and during the continuance of an Event of Default) in addition to the facility fee with respect to the Purchased Inventory Sublimit. The Amended Agreement contains standard borrower representations and warranties for asset-based borrowing and a number of reporting obligations and affirmative and negative covenants. The Amended Agreement includes negative covenants that, among other things, restrict the Borrower’s ability to create additional indebtedness, dispose of properties, incur liens and make distributions or cash dividends. The obligations of the Borrower under the Amended Amendment are secured by the grant of a pledge and security interest in all of the assets of the Borrower. At March 31, 2018, the Company was in compliance, in all respects, with the covenants under the Amended Agreement. The Credit Facility matures on July 31, 2019.

ACF required as a condition to entering into an amendment to the Amended Agreement in August 2015 that ACF enter into a participation agreement with certain related parties of the Company, including Frost Gamma Investments Trust, an entity affiliated with Phillip Frost, M.D., a director and principal shareholder of the Company, Mark E. Andrews, III, a director of the Company and the Company’s Chairman, Richard J. Lampen, a director of the Company and the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Brian L. Heller, the Company’s General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, and Alfred J. Small, the Company’s Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary, to allow for the sale of participation interests in the Purchased Inventory Sublimit and the inventory purchased with the proceeds thereof. The participation agreement provides that ACF’s commitment to fund each advance of the Purchased Inventory Sublimit shall be limited to seventy percent (70%), up to an aggregate maximum principal amount for all advances equal to $4,900,000. Neither the Company nor CB-USA is a party to the participation agreement. However, the Company and CB-USA are party to a fee letter with the junior participants (including the related party junior participants) pursuant to which the Company and CB-USA were obligated to pay the junior participants a closing fee of $18,000 on the effective date of the Loan Agreement Amendment and are obligated to pay a commitment fee of $18,000 on each anniversary of the effective date until the junior participants’ obligations are terminated pursuant to the participation agreement.

In August 2015, the Company used $3,000,000 of the Purchased Inventory Sublimit to acquire aged bourbon inventory. Frost Gamma Investments Trust ($150,000), Mark E. Andrews, III ($50,000), Richard J. Lampen ($100,000), Brian L. Heller ($42,500) and Alfred J. Small ($15,000) each acquired participation interests in the Purchased Inventory Sublimit and the inventory purchased with the proceeds thereof. In January 2017, the Company acquired $1,030,000 in aged bulk bourbon under the Purchased Inventory Sublimit with additional borrowings from certain related parties of the Company, including Frost Gamma Investments Trust ($51,500), Richard J. Lampen ($34,333), Mark E. Andrews, III ($17,167), Brian L. Heller ($14,592), and Alfred J. Small ($5,150), as junior participants in the Purchased Inventory Sublimit with respect to such purchase. In October 2017, the Company acquired $1,308,125 in aged bulk bourbon under the Purchased Inventory Sublimit with additional borrowings from certain related parties of the Company, including Frost Gamma Investments Trust ($65,406), Richard J. Lampen ($43,604), Mark E. Andrews, III ($21,802), Brian L. Heller ($18,532), and Alfred J. Small ($6,541), as junior participants in the Purchased Inventory Sublimit with respect to such purchase. In December 2017, the Company acquired $900,425 in aged bulk bourbon under the Purchased Inventory Sublimit with additional borrowings from certain related parties of the Company, including Frost Gamma Investments Trust ($45,021), Richard J. Lampen ($30,014), Mark E. Andrews, III ($15,007), Brian L. Heller ($12,756), and Alfred J. Small ($4,502), as junior participants in the Purchased Inventory Sublimit with respect to such purchase. Under the terms of the participation agreement, the participants receive interest at the rate of 11% per annum.

In May 2018, the Company and CB-USA entered into a Fourth Amendment (the “Fourth Amendment”) to the Amended Agreement to amend certain terms of the Credit Facility. Among other changes, the Fourth Amendment increased the maximum amount of the Credit Facility from $21,000,000 to $23,000,000, and amended the definition of borrowing base to increase the amount of borrowing that can be collateralized by inventory.

At March 31, 2018 and 2017, $18,604,962 and $13,133,124, respectively, due on the Credit Facility was included in long-term liabilities. At March 31, 2018 and 2017, there was $2,395,038 and $5,866,876, respectively, in potential availability under the Credit Facility. In connection with the adoption of ASU 2015-03, the Company included $99,065 and $94,109 of debt issuance costs at March 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively, as direct deductions from the carrying amount of the related debt liability.

In October 2013, the Company entered into a 5% Convertible Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement (the “Note Purchase Agreement”) with the purchasers party thereto, under which the Company issued an aggregate initial principal amount of $2,125,000 of unsecured subordinated notes (the “Convertible Notes”). The Convertible Notes bear interest at a rate of 5% per annum, payable quarterly, until their maturity date of December 15, 2018. The Convertible Notes, and accrued but unpaid interest thereon, are convertible in whole or in part from time to time at the option of the holders thereof into shares of the Company’s common stock at a conversion price of $0.90 per share (the “Conversion Price”). The Convertible Notes may be prepaid in whole or in part at any time without penalty or premium, but with payment of accrued interest to the date of prepayment. The Convertible Notes contain customary events of default, which, if uncured, entitle each note holder to accelerate the due date of the unpaid principal amount of, and all accrued and unpaid interest on, the Convertible Notes.

The purchasers of the Convertible Notes included related parties of the Company, including an affiliate of Dr. Phillip Frost ($500,000), Mark E. Andrews, III ($50,000), an affiliate of Richard J. Lampen ($50,000), an affiliate of Glenn Halpryn ($200,000), Dennis Scholl ($100,000), and Vector Group Ltd., a more than 5% shareholder of ours, of which Richard Lampen is an executive officer, Henry Beinstein, a director of ours, is a director and Phillip Frost, M.D. is a principal shareholder ($200,000).

The Company may forcibly convert all or any part of the Convertible Notes and all accrued but unpaid interest thereon if (i) the average daily volume of the Company’s common stock (as reported on the principal market or exchange on which the common stock is listed or quoted for trading) exceeds $50,000 per trading day and (ii) the volume weighted average price of the common stock for at least twenty (20) trading days during any thirty (30) consecutive trading day period exceeds 250% of the then-current Conversion Price. Any forced conversion will be applied ratably to the holders of all Convertible Notes issued pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreement based on each holder’s then-current note holdings.

In connection with the Note Purchase Agreement, each purchaser of the Convertible Notes was required to execute a joinder to the subordination agreement, by and among ACF and certain other junior lenders to the Company; the Company is not a party to the subordination agreement.

During the year ended March 31, 2018, certain holders of the Convertible Notes converted an aggregate $1,632,000 of the outstanding principal and interest balances of their Convertible Notes into 1,813,334 shares of the Company’s common stock, pursuant to the terms of the Convertible Notes. The converting holders included an affiliate of Dr. Phillip Frost, Mark E. Andrews, III an affiliate of Richard J. Lampen, and Vector Group Ltd.

At March 31, 2018, $50,000 of principal due on the Convertible Notes was included in current maturities of notes payable, and at March 31, 2017, $1,675,000 of principal due on the Convertible Notes was included in long-term liabilities, respectively

In March 2017, the Company issued a promissory note to Frost Nevada Investments Trust (the “Holder”), an entity affiliated with Phillip Frost, M.D., in the aggregate principal amount of $20,000,000 (the “Subordinated Note”). The purpose of Company’s issuance of the Subordinated Note was to finance the GCP Share Acquisition. The Subordinated Note bears interest quarterly at the rate of 11% per annum. The principal and interest incurred thereon were due and payable in full on March 15, 2019. All claims of the Holder to principal, interest and any other amounts owed under the Subordinated Note are subordinated in right of payment to all indebtedness of the Company existing as of the date of the Subordinated Note. The Subordinated Note contains customary events of default and may be prepaid by the Company, in whole or in part, without penalty, at any time.

In April 2018, the Company entered into a First Amendment to the Subordinated Note to extend the maturity date on the Subordinated Note from March 15, 2019 until September 15, 2020. No other provisions of the Subordinated Note were amended.

Payments due on notes payable after giving effect to the extensions and modifications noted above are as follows:

Years ending March 31,	Amount
2019	$	176,148
2020		38,604,962
2021		211,580

Total	$	38,992,690