Non-US Tender final results

RNS Number : 2752N

Tesco PLC

28 January 2021

 

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT RELATES TO THE DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION THAT QUALIFIED OR MAY HAVE QUALIFIED AS INSIDE INFORMATION WITHIN THE MEANING OF ARTICLE 7(1) OF THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (EU) 596/2014 AS IT FORMS PART OF DOMESTIC LAW BY VIRTUE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (WITHDRAWAL) ACT 2018 (EUWA).

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO OR TO ANY PERSON LOCATED OR RESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES, ITS TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS (INCLUDING PUERTO RICO, THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS, GUAM, AMERICAN SAMOA, WAKE ISLAND AND THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS), ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (the United States) OR IN OR INTO ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE IT IS UNLAWFUL TO RELEASE, PUBLISH OR DISTRIBUTE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.

Tesco Corporate Treasury Services PLC announces final results of its Tender Offer for its €750,000,000 2.500 per cent. Notes due 2024 and guaranteed by Tesco PLC

and

Tesco PLC announces final results of its Tender Offers for its £900,000,000 6.125 per cent. Notes due 2022 , £515,000,000 5 per cent. Notes due 2023, £200,000,000 6 per cent. Notes due 2029, £200,000,000 5.50 per cent. Notes due 2033, £300,000,000 4.875 per cent. Notes due 2042, €600,000,000 5.125 per cent. Notes due 2047 and £500,000,000 5.20 per cent. Notes due 2057

28 January 2021.

On 19 January 2021, Tesco Corporate Treasury Services PLC (TCTS) announced an invitation to holders of its outstanding €750,000,000 2.500 per cent. Notes due 2024 and guaranteed by Tesco (as defined below) (ISIN: XS1082971588) (the 2024 Notes) and Tesco PLC (Tesco and, together with TCTS, the Offerors) announced separate invitations to holders of its outstanding (a) £900,000,000 6.125 per cent. Notes due 2022 (ISIN: XS0414345974) (the 2022Notes), (b) £515,000,000 5 per cent. Notes due 2023 (ISIN:   XS0248392812) (the 2023 Notes), (c) £200,000,000 6 per cent. Notes due 2029 (ISIN: XS0105244585) (the 2029 Notes), (d) £200,000,000 5.50 per cent. Notes due 2033 (ISIN: XS0159013142) (the 2033 Notes), (e) £300,000,000 4.875 per cent. Notes due 2042 (ISIN: XS0248395245) (the 2042 Notes), (f) €600,000,000 5.125 per cent. Notes due 2047 (ISIN: XS0295018070) (the 2047 Notes) and (g) £500,000,000 5.20 per cent. Notes due 2057 (ISIN: XS0289810318) (the 2057 Notes and, together with the 2022 Notes, the 2023 Notes, the 2024 Notes, the 2029 Notes, the 2033 Notes, the 2042 Notes and the 2047 Notes, the Notes and each a Series) to tender their Notes for purchase by TCTS or Tesco, as applicable, for cash (each such invitation an Offer and, together, the Offers).

The Offers expired at 4.00 p.m. (London time) on 27 January 2021 (the Expiration Deadline) and TCTS and Tesco now announce the final results of the Offers.

The Offers were made on the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the tender offer memorandum dated 19 January 2021 (the Tender Offer Memorandum) prepared by the Offerors. Capitalised terms used in this announcement but not defined have the meanings given to them in the Tender Offer Memorandum.

Satisfaction of New Financing Condition

TCTS and Tesco announced earlier today that, following the successful completion of the issue by TCTS of its €750,000,000 0.375 per cent. Sustainability-Linked Notes due 2029 guaranteed by Tesco (the New Notes) on 27 January 2021, the New Financing Condition has been satisfied.

Applicable Sterling/Euro Exchange Rate and Applicable USD/Euro Exchange Rate

As at the Expiration Deadline, the Applicable Sterling/Euro Exchange Rate was £1 = € 1.1334 and the Applicable USD/Euro Exchange Rate was US$1 = € 0.8270 .

Series Acceptance Amounts and Aggregate Consideration Amount

TCTS (in the case of the 2024 Notes) and Tesco (in the case of each Series other than the 2024 Notes) announce that they have decided to accept valid tenders of 2023 Notes, 2024 Notes, 2029 Notes, 2033 Notes, 2042 Notes, 2047 Notes and/or 2057 Notes pursuant to the relevant Offers on the basis set out in the table below, and each Series Acceptance Amount will be as set out in the table below.   Accordingly, the Offerors have decided to increase the Aggregate Consideration Amount, and as such the total amount payable across the US Tender Offer and the Offers is approximately €840 million.

Pricing and Settlement

Pricing for the Offers took place at or around 2.00 p.m. (London time) today.

A summary of the final pricing for, and results of, the Offers appears below:

Priority Level	Notes	Aggregate Nominal Amount Accepted for Purchase	Scaling Factor	Benchmark Security Rate	Interpolated Mid-Swap Rate	Purchase Spread	Purchase Yield	Purchase Price
1	2047 Notes	€ 120,994,000	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	0.097 per cent.	215 bps	2.247 per cent.	156.509 per cent.
2	2024 Notes	€ 276,894,000	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	-0.514 per cent.	30 bps	-0.214 per cent.	109.324 per cent.
2	2022 Notes	£0	0 per cent.	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	25 bps	Not Applicable	Not Applicable
2	2023 Notes	£ 21,693,000	Not Applicable	-0.071 per cent.	Not Applicable	40 bps	0.329 per cent.	109.980 per cent.
2	2029 Notes	£ 9,865,000	Not Applicable	0.214 per cent.	Not Applicable	135 bps	1.570 per cent.	136.428 per cent.
2	2033 Notes	£42,088,000	Not Applicable	0.371 per cent.	Not Applicable	150 bps	1.880 per cent.	138.442 per cent.
2	2042 Notes	£ 5,956,000	Not Applicable	0.756 per cent.	Not Applicable	175 bps	2.522 per cent.	138.202 per cent.
2	2057 Notes	£ 15,750,000	Not Applicable	0.765 per cent.	Not Applicable	190 bps	2.665 per cent.	158.538 per cent.

TCTS or Tesco, as applicable, will also pay an Accrued Interest Payment in respect of Notes accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offers.

The Settlement Date in respect of any Notes accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offers is expected to be 29 January 2021. Following settlement of the Offers, £416,993,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the 2022 Notes, £71,281,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the 2023 Notes, €473,106,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the 2024 Notes, £ 37,984,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the 2029 Notes, £66,533,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the 2033 Notes, £14,319,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the 2042 Notes, € 234,997,000  in aggregate nominal amount of the 2047 Notes and £14,350,000 in aggregate nominal amount of the 2057 Notes will remain outstanding.

BNP Paribas (Telephone: [phone]; Attention: Liability Management Group; Email:  [e-mail]), Citigroup Global Markets Limited (Telephone: [phone]; Attention: Liability Management Group; Email: [e-mail]), MUFG Securities EMEA plc (Tel: [phone]; Attention: Liability Management Group; Email: [e-mail]) and RBC Europe Limited (Telephone: [phone]; Attention: Liability Management; Email: [e-mail]) are acting as Dealer Managers for the Offers.

Lucid Issuer Services Limited (Telephone: + 44 20 7704 0880; Attention: Arlind Bytyqi ; Email: [e-mail]) is acting as Information and Tender Agent for the Offers.

This announcement is released by Tesco PLC and Tesco Corporate Treasury Services PLC and contains information that qualified or may have qualified as inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (UK MAR), encompassing information relating to the Offers described above. For the purposes of UK MAR and the Implementing Technical Standards, this announcement is made by Robert Welch , Group Company Secretary at Tesco PLC.

LEI Number: 2138002P5RNKC5W2JZ46

DISCLAIMER This announcement must be read in conjunction with the Tender Offer Memorandum. No offer or invitation to acquire any securities is being made pursuant to this announcement.  The distribution of this announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law.  Persons into whose possession this announcement and/or the Tender Offer Memorandum come(s) are required by each of the Offerors, the Dealer Managers and the Information and Tender Agent to inform themselves about, and to observe, any such restrictions.

Neither this announcement nor the Tender Offer Memorandum is an offer of securities for sale in the United States or to U.S. persons (as defined in Regulation S of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act)). Securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under, or an exemption from the registration requirements of, the Securities Act.  The New Notes and the guarantee thereof have not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States, and may not be offered, sold or delivered, directly or indirectly, in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons.

 

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