The Children’s Place Announces the Refinancing of its Revolving Credit Facility and Term Loan

SECAUCUS, N.J., Nov. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Children’s Place, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCE), the largest pure-play children’s specialty apparel retailer in North America, today announced the refinancing of its revolving credit facility and term loan by a new lending group led by an affiliate of Wells Fargo. The new debt consists of a revolving credit facility with $350 million of availability and a $50 million term loan, both with five year maturities, lower interest rates, reduced reporting requirements, and increased flexibility under the covenants.

Robert Helm, Chief Financial Officer, said, “Our strong results provided us with the opportunity to successfully complete this refinancing on attractive terms and to accomplish a number of other important objectives, including enhancing our strong liquidity position and solidifying our balance sheet with the reduction in the amount of the term loan.”

The new revolving credit facility is secured by a first-priority lien on substantially all of the Company’s U.S. and Canadian assets, and a second-priority lien on the Company’s intellectual property, and certain furniture, fixtures and equipment. Interest on borrowings is payable monthly at LIBOR plus 1.125% or 1.375%, based on the amount of the Company’s average excess availability under the facility. The facility has an unused line fee of 0.20%.

The new term loan is secured by a first-priority lien on the Company’s intellectual property, and certain furniture, fixtures and equipment, and a second-priority lien on the assets securing the new revolving credit facility. Interest is payable monthly at LIBOR plus 2.50%. The new term loan does not require amortization if certain conditions are met and is pre-payable at any time without penalty.

The Company was advised on the refinancing by EY, and the lending group consists of affiliates of Wells Fargo, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Truist, and HSBC.

Additional information about the new revolving credit facility and term loan is contained in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 18, 2021.

About The Children’s Place

The Children’s Place is the largest pure-play children’s specialty apparel retailer in North America. The Company designs, contracts to manufacture, sells at retail and wholesale, and licenses to sell fashionable, high-quality merchandise predominantly at value prices, primarily under the proprietary “The Children’s Place”, “Place”, “Baby Place”, “Gymboree” and “Sugar & Jade” brand names. The Company has online stores at www.childrensplace.com, www.gymboree.com and www.sugarandjade.com and, as of October 30, 2021, the Company had 703 stores in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico and the Company’s eight international franchise partners had 221 international points of distribution in 17 countries.

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