{"id":54439,"date":"2014-03-17T15:17:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=54439"},"modified":"2014-03-17T15:17:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:17:26","slug":"altron-refinances-debt-from-altech-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/54439\/altron-refinances-debt-from-altech-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Altron refinances debt from Altech acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Altron Finance Proprietary Limited (Alfin), a wholly owned subsidiary of Allied Electronics (Altron), has concluded the refinancing of all of the Altron group&#8217;s term\u00a0indebtedness.<\/p>\n<p>Altron said it has\u00a0raised R3.6 billion of senior unsecured term facilities\u00a0from a consortium of South African lenders, comprising both banks and institutions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This exercise has, among others, refinanced the R1.6 billion of debt used to\u00a0support the acquisition of the Altech minorities during August 2013, as well as the group&#8217;s\u00a0other term facilities,&#8221; it said in a note on SENS.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the facilities, R3.1 billion comprises loans with a maturity of between three and<br \/>\nfive years. The remaining R500\u00a0million comprises revolving credit facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The maturity structures are aligned with the\u00a0board\u00b4s strategy of deleveraging the group over the short to medium term, Altron said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Altron<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Altron sees big earnings improvement\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/53407\/altron-sees-big-earnings-improvement\/\"><strong>Altron sees big earnings improvement<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Altron shows off new corporate identity\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/51694\/altron-shows-off-new-corporate-identity\/\"><strong>Altron shows off new corporate identity<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Altech delists from the JSE\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/44467\/altech-delists-from-the-jse\/\"><strong>Altech delists from the JSE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Altron trims dividend payout\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/37378\/altron-trims-dividend-payout\/\"><strong>Altron trims dividend payout<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Altron results marred by Altech impairments\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/23866\/altron-results-marred-by-altech-impairments\/\"><strong>Altron results marred by Altech impairments<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Altron has raised R3.6 billion of senior unsecured term facilities from a consortium of South African lenders, comprising both banks and institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,311,309],"class_list":["post-54439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-altech","tag-altron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54443,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54439\/revisions\/54443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}