Business
Increased Banking Facilities
Increased Banking Facilities.
About this update from Plexus Holdings
[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 2012M Plexus Holdings Plc 26 January 2009 \n \nPlexus Holdings PLC / Index: AIM / Epic: POS / Sector: Oil equipment & services\n26 January 2009\n\nPlexus Holdings PLC ('Plexus' or 'the Company')\nRenewal, Increase, and Extension of Bank Facilities \n \nPlexus Holdings PLC, the AIM listed oil and gas engineering services business, is pleased to announce that it has secured a 25% increase in its banking facilities after completing annual renewal negotiations with the Bank of Scotland Corporate ('BoSC'). Plexus now has a £4 million credit facility on a three year revolving basis with an additional £1 million overdraft facility agreed on a yearly term. \n\nThe Directors believe this increased facility together with cashflow generated from trading will enable Plexus to deliver on its short to medium term plans focussed on boosting revenues through further substantial investment in its proprietary POS-GRIP® wellhead rental inventory, R&D, infrastructure and personnel at its Aberdeen facilities.\n\nPlexus' CEO Ben van Bilderbeek said, 'We are delighted that we have been able to secure a 25% increase in our banking facilities with BoSC under such excellent terms, especially given current challenging debt market conditions.\n\n 'We believe that the successful conclusion of these negotiations underlines the strength of Plexus' business model and the significant ongoing potential for POS-GRIP technology within the oil and gas wellhead market as well as other key product areas, which can benefit from our superior method of engineering. With this in mind, we look forward to the future with confidence and delivering interim results in March, in line with market expectations, at a time when we see the weakening of Sterling as a potential boost for our growing non UK activities.'\n\nThe terms of the facility are 2% over LIBOR for the three year revolving credit facility and 3% over BoSC base rate for the overdraft. The Directors consider the covenants attaching to these arrangements to be in line with typical covenants for such facilities and are satisfied that the Company is comfortably operating within the levels prescribed.\n\nPlexus would like to acknowledge and thank BoSC for its ongoing and increased level of support, and is pleased that it has been able to continue and build on...