Pitney Bowes Announces Significant Progress on Deleveraging Initiative with Paydown of $100M of Oaktree Notes
November 19 2024 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) (“Pitney Bowes” or the “Company”),
a technology-driven company that provides SaaS shipping solutions,
mailing innovation, and financial services to clients around the
world, today announced that it has repaid $100 million of the $275
million in senior secured notes (“2028 Notes”) issued by Oaktree
Capital Management, L.P. (“Oaktree”), the balance of which was $272
million as of September 30, 2024. The partial payment of the 2028
Notes is part of the Company’s previously announced strategic
initiative to deleverage its balance sheet. The repayment was
funded by cash on hand.
Lance Rosenzweig, Pitney Bowes’ Chief Executive Officer,
commented: “Our accelerated progress on our strategic initiatives
of exiting GEC, reducing costs and optimizing our cash position is
enabling us to take concrete steps to deleverage our balance sheet.
The partial payment of our Oaktree 2028 Notes is the first step
towards reducing interest payments and freeing up capital for other
value-enhancing initiatives. We will have an update in the
near-term on our plans to retire the remainder of the Oaktree 2028
Notes and continue to look for additional ways to deleverage as we
build a more efficient and profitable organization.”
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) is a technology-driven company that
provides SaaS shipping solutions, mailing innovation, and financial
services to clients around the world – including more than 90
percent of the Fortune 500. Small businesses to large enterprises,
and government entities rely on Pitney Bowes to reduce the
complexity of sending mail and parcels. For the latest news,
corporate announcements, and financial results, visit
www.pitneybowes.com/us/newsroom. For additional information, visit
Pitney Bowes at www.pitneybowes.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This document contains “forward-looking statements” about the
Company’s expected or potential future business and financial
performance. Forward-looking statements include, but are not
limited to, statements about the Company’s expectations related to
the DRF bankruptcy proceedings, future revenue and earnings
guidance, future events or conditions, and expected cost savings,
elimination of future losses, and anticipated deleveraging in
connection with Pitney Bowes’ announced strategic initiatives.
Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance
and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those projected. Factors which could
cause future financial performance to differ materially from
expectations include, without limitation, declining physical mail
volumes; changes in postal regulations or the operations and
financial health of posts in the U.S. or other major markets or
changes to the broader postal or shipping markets; the potential
adverse effects and risks and uncertainties associated with the GEC
exit and wind-down on the Company’s operations, management and
employees, and the ability to successfully implement the Company’s
2024 worldwide cost reduction and optimization initiatives and
realize the expected benefits therefrom, the loss of some of Pitney
Bowes’ larger clients in the Presort Services segments; the loss
of, or significant changes to, United States Postal Service (USPS)
commercial programs, or the Company’s contractual relationships
with the USPS or their performance under those contracts; and other
factors as more fully outlined in the Company's 2023 Form 10-K
Annual Report and other reports filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission during 2024. Pitney Bowes assumes no obligation
to update any forward-looking statements contained in this document
as a result of new information, events or developments.
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