Warrenville, Illinois - January 04, 2007
Navistar International Corporation (NYSE:NAV) reported today that it has received a commitment for a five-year senior unsecured term loan facility and synthetic revolving facility in an aggregate amount of $1.3 billion. The facilities will be provided by J.P. Morgan Chase Bank and a group of lenders that includes Credit Suisse, Banc of America Securities and Citigroup Global Markets.
The new loan facilities, which expire in January 2012, and will replace the company’s existing senior unsecured $1.5 billion Credit Agreement, which expires in March 2009. Navistar will use the proceeds of the new facilities to repay the remaining amount outstanding under the existing loan facility. On December 29, 2006, Navistar voluntarily repaid $200 million of the $1.5 billion Credit Agreement.
“We are very pleased with the ongoing support of our lenders and relationship banks,” said Bill Caton, Navistar executive vice president and chief financial officer. “This new lending commitment is a real vote of confidence in the company. The new loan facilities will enhance our liquidity and provide additional stability in our overall capital structure at a lower cost.”
Caton and Terry Endsley, senior vice president and treasurer, will make a presentation to investors at 10:00 a.m. EST on Friday, January 5, 2007, to review indicative terms and conditions of this commitment and discuss recent company and industry performance. The presentation can be accessed via listen-only telephone. The dial in number is 866-244-0365 (Int'l #: 850-429-1277) ID #: 8404. The presentation slides can be accessed at http://ir.navistar.com. Investors are advised to log on to the Web site at least 15 minutes prior to the presentation to allow sufficient time for downloading the presentation.
Forward Looking Statements
Information provided and statements contained in this news release that are not purely historical are forward -looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act, Section 21E of the Exchange Act, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements only speak as of the date of the news release and the company assumes no obligation to update the information included in the news release. Such forward-looking statements include information concerning our possible or assumed future results of operations, including descriptions of our business strategy. These statements often include words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "estimate" or similar expressions. These statements are not guarantees of performance or results and they involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions , including the risk of continued delay in the completion of our financial statements and the consequences thereof, the availability of funds, either through cash on hand or the company's other liquidity sources, to repay any amounts due should any of the company's debt become accelerated, and decisions by suppliers and other vendors to restrict or eliminate customary trade and other credit terms for the company's future orders and other services, which would require the company to pay cash and which could have a material adverse effect on the company's liquidity position and financial condition. Although we believe that these forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, there are many factors that could affect our actual financial results or results of operations and could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. For a further description of these factors, see Exhibit 99.1 to our Form 8-K filed on April 12, 2006. In addition, the financial information presented in this release is preliminary and unaudited and is subject to change based on the completion of our on-going review of accounting matters, the completion of our fiscal year 2005 and 2006 annual financial statements and the completion of the restatement of our financial results for the fiscal years 2002 through 2004 and for the first nine months of fiscal 2005. It is likely that the process of restating the prior year financial statements will require changes to the company's financial statements for 2005 and 2006 due to revised application of certain accounting principles and methodologies that, individually or in the aggregate, may be material.
Based in Lisle, Illinois, International Motors, LLC* creates solutions that deliver greater uptime and productivity to our customers throughout the full operation of our commercial vehicles. We build International® trucks and engines and IC Bus® school and commercial buses that are as tough and as smart as the people who drive them. We also develop Fleetrite®aftermarket parts. In everything we do, our vision is to accelerate the impact of sustainable mobility to create the cleaner, safer world we all deserve. As of 2021, we joined Scania, MAN and Volkswagen Truck & Bus in TRATON GROUP, a global champion of the truck and transport services industry. To learn more, visit www.International.com.
Media contact:
Nick Smith
nick.smith@navistar.com
480-398-6511
Investor contact:
Marvin Kalberlah
marvin.kalberlah@navistar.com
630-432-5179
*International Motors, LLC is d/b/a International Motors USA LLC in Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, and Utah.