Usa Right now owner refinances $500M from merger

Gannett, owner of United states Nowadays and much more than 260 other day by day publications, announced Tuesday that it has refinanced about $500 million in credit card debt in a deal that will help save the enterprise cash on curiosity payments and lead to a quicker reduction of its liabilities.

The media enterprise refinanced nearly a single-3rd of the financial loan from personal equity agency Apollo World-wide Administration that financed the merger of GateHouse Media guardian New Media Expense Team and the enterprise formerly recognized as Gannett. The put together corporation took the title Gannett.

In the yr because the merger was finalized, Gannett has said a person of its leading fiscal targets was to reduce its personal debt as quickly as possible and sooner or later refinance to reduce its fascination obligations.

Gannett CEO and Chairman Michael Reed explained to traders in a Nov. 3 conference simply call that the company would use $100 million in proceeds from latest asset product sales to decrease its liabilities in the fourth quarter. Those proceeds involved the sale of company facts and marketing and advertising remedies company BridgeTower Media to Los Angeles-based non-public fairness organization Transom Cash Team.