We are not a
highly leveraged company, we have low leverage.
There is going to be tremendous pressures on every site to cut costs and pressure on the company to find ways to pay off the debt on what is a very
highly leveraged company.
Smaller companies, in particular, could find the dramatic changes "crippling", he warned, adding: "If you're a
highly leveraged company, and Iceland is 40% of your business, then you're going to be worried.
They point out that if Express Scripts, whose annual revenue is less than half that of Caremark, were to make the acquisition, the result would be a
highly leveraged company bound to devoting considerable resources to paying off its debt for years to come.
The
highly leveraged company took a beating as it emerged from the dot-com disaster, losing tens of millions of dollars annually through 2004, according to the company's financial statements.
Because his employer is a
highly leveraged company owned by a Washington-based LBO firm, Stassen and the upper management deal regularly with banks and other lending institutions.
Kroger, another
highly leveraged company, also is doing well.
Mefford: With a
highly leveraged company such as mine, we scratch and dig for capital all the time, and often we have to delay a good idea because we just don't have the capital.
On a stand-alone basis Post will be a much smaller, less diverse and more
highly leveraged company that operates in a very competitive segment against significantly larger, more diversified companies.
Trammell notes that since Tenneco Automotive is a non-investment grade,
highly leveraged company, the required information had already been provided to investors.
and abroad, private equity enabled a
highly leveraged company to take advantage of a big growth opportunity, while helping the owner to cash out.
These actions follow Home Depot's announcements that it has entered into an agreement to sell its HD Supply business and will execute a recapitalization plan which will result in a more
highly leveraged company.
