£170 MILLION DEBT REFINANCING UPDATE

Supermarket Income REIT PLC

26 July 2024

 

26 July 2024

SUPERMARKET INCOME REIT PLC

(the "Company")

£170 MILLION DEBT REFINANCING UPDATE

Supermarket Income REIT plc (LSE: SUPR), the real estate investment trust providing secure, inflation-linked, long income from grocery property, announces the completion of a £170 million[1] refinancing through its first private placement debt issuance and a new unsecured bank facility.

€83 million private placement debt issue

The Company has signed and completed an agreement with a group of institutional investors for a private placement of €83 million of new senior unsecured notes (the "Notes"). The Notes have a maturity of seven years and a fixed rate coupon of 4.44%.

The Notes were priced on 11 July 2024 and the note purchase agreement was signed on 25 July 2024. Proceeds were received on 25 July and will be used to refinance euro drawings under an existing secured revolving credit facility with HSBC, which had been used to fund the recent acquisition of a portfolio of 17 stores from Carrefour.

£100 million debt refinancing

The Company has also refinanced its existing £97 million secured debt facility with Deka through a new £100 million unsecured debt facility with ING Bank N.V., London Branch ("ING").

The new ING facility (the "Facility") comprises a £75 million term loan and a £25 million revolving credit facility. The interest-only Facility has a maturity of three years and has two one-year extension options at the lender's discretion. The Facility is priced at a margin of 1.55% over SONIA and benefits from forward starting hedges, which cap the interest rate at an all-in cost of 3.0% until January 2026.

Following the debt refinancing, the Company has a pro-forma LTV of 37%.

Ben Green, Director of Atrato Capital Limited, the Investment Adviser to Supermarket Income REIT, said: 

"We are very pleased at the support we have received from new institutional investors both for the Company's new unsecured private placement and for the refinancing of the secured facility.

The quality of our portfolio continues to appeal to new lenders and allows the Company to access debt financing on favourable terms."

The securities offered have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.

[1] Including €83 million Private Placement converted at €1.19 to £1

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Atrato Capital Limited	[phone]
Steve Noble / Rob Abraham / Mike Perkins / Chris McMahon	[e-mail]
Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited	[phone]
Mark Young / Rajpal Padam / Madison Kominski
Goldman Sachs International Tom Hartley / Hannah Mackey	[phone]
FTI Consulting	[phone]
Dido Laurimore / Eve Kirmatzis / Andrew Davis	[e-mail]

NOTES TO EDITORS:  

Supermarket Income REIT plc (LSE: SUPR) is a real estate investment trust dedicated to investing in grocery properties which are an essential part of the feed the nation infrastructure. The Company focuses on grocery stores which are omnichannel, fulfilling online and in-person sales. The Company's supermarkets are let to leading supermarket operators in the UK and Europe, diversified by both tenant and geography.  

The Company provides investors with attractive, long-dated, secure, inflation-linked, growing income with the potential for capital appreciation over the longer term.

The Company is listed on the premium segment of the Official List of the UK Financial Conduct Authority and its Ordinary Shares are traded on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, having listed initially on the Specialist Fund Segment of the Main Market on 21 July 2017.

Atrato Capital Limited is the Company's Investment Adviser.  

Further information is available on the Company's website www.supermarketincomereit.com  

LEI: 2138007FOINJKAM7L537  

Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority, is acting exclusively for Supermarket Income REIT plc and no one else in connection with this announcement and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to clients of Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited nor for providing advice in connection with the matters referred to in this announcement.

Goldman Sachs International, which is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority in the United Kingdom, is acting exclusively for Supermarket Income REIT plc and no one else in connection with this announcement and will not be responsible to anyone other than the Company for providing the protections afforded to clients of Goldman Sachs International nor for providing advice in connection with the matters referred to in this announcement.

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