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Note 7 - Financing Arrangements

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Note 7 - Financing Arrangements
3 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2024
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Note 7 Financing Arrangements

 

Factoring Agreements:         To reduce its exposure to credit losses, the Company assigns the majority of its trade accounts receivable to The CIT Group/Commercial Services, Inc. ("CIT"), a subsidiary of First Citizens Bank, pursuant to factoring agreements, which have expiration dates that are coterminous with that of the financing agreement described below. Under the terms of the factoring agreements, CIT remits customer payments to the Company as such payments are received by CIT. As such, the Company does not take advances on the factoring agreements. CIT bears credit losses with respect to assigned accounts receivable from approved shipments, while the Company bears the responsibility for adjustments from customers related to returns, allowances, claims and discounts. CIT may at any time terminate or limit its approval of shipments to a particular customer. If such a termination or limitation occurs, then the Company either assumes (and may seek to mitigate) the credit risk for shipments to the customer after the date of such termination or limitation or discontinues shipments to the customer. Factoring fees, which are included in marketing and administrative expenses in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations, amounted to $74,000 and $67,000 for the three-month period ended June 30, 2024 and July 2, 2023, respectively.

 

Credit Facility:         The Company’s credit facility as of June 30, 2024 consisted of a revolving line of credit under a financing agreement with CIT of up to $35.0 million, which includes a $1.5 million sub-limit for letters of credit, bearing interest at prime minus 0.5% or the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) plus 1.6%, and is secured by a first lien on all assets of the Company. At June 30, 2024, the Company had elected to pay interest on balances owed under the revolving line of credit under the SOFR option, which was 6.9%. The financing agreement also provides for the payment by CIT to the Company of interest at prime as of the beginning of the calendar month minus 2.0% on daily negative balances, if any, held at CIT.  The financing agreement was scheduled to mature on July 11, 2028, but was amended on July 19, 2024 to extend the maturity date to July 19, 2029 and to increase the borrowing capacity on revolving line of credit to $40.0 million.

 

At June 30, 2024 and March 31, 2024, the balances on the revolving line of credit were $1.5 million and $8.1 million, respectively, there was no letter of credit outstanding and $17.6 million and $19.2 million, respectively, was available under the revolving line of credit based on the Company’s eligible accounts receivable and inventory balances. The financing agreement contains usual and customary covenants for agreements of that type, including limitations on other indebtedness, liens, transfers of assets, investments and acquisitions, merger or consolidation transactions, transactions with affiliates, and changes in or amendments to the organizational documents for the Company and its subsidiaries. The Company believes it was in compliance with these covenants as of June 30, 2024.

 

Credit Concentration: The Company’s accounts receivable at June 30, 2024 amounted to $15.8 million, net of allowances of $1.6 million. Of this amount, $11.2 million was due from CIT under the factoring agreements, which represents the maximum loss that the Company could incur if CIT failed completely to perform its obligations under the factoring agreements. The Company’s accounts receivable at March 31, 2024 amounted to $22.4 million, net of allowances of $1.5 million. Of this amount, $18.6 million was due from CIT under the factoring agreements, which represented the maximum loss that the Company could have incurred if CIT had failed completely to perform its obligations under the factoring agreements.