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COMFORCE Corporation Announces Final Redemption Of 12% Senior Notes
2008-07-28 08:45:00
COMFORCE Corporation Announces Final Redemption Of 12% Senior Notes
WOODBURY, N.Y., July 28 /EMWNews/ -- COMFORCE Corporation (Amex: CFS), a leading provider of outsourced staffing management services, specialty staffing and consulting services, today reported that it has requested Wilmington Trust to send a notice of redemption in order to redeem, on August 25, 2008, all of its outstanding 12% Senior Notes due December 1, 2010 at a redemption price equal to 102% of the outstanding principal amount of the Senior Notes ($5,216,000), plus accrued interest from June 1, 2008 to the scheduled redemption date. The total redemption price, including accrued interest and the 2% premium, will be $5,466,368. COMFORCE expects to utilize loan proceeds under its bank credit facility to effect this redemption of its Senior Notes on the scheduled redemption date. Upon completion of this redemption, none of our 12% Senior Notes will remain outstanding. COMMENTS FROM MANAGEMENT "We are pleased to be in a position to complete the redemption of all of our 12% Senior Notes," said John Fanning, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of COMFORCE. "Subject to satisfying all conditions under our bank credit facility, we will use proceeds under the facility to eliminate our remaining public debt, which stood at $138.8 million in June 2000. Our management team has been patient and diligent in seeking opportunities to reduce our higher interest rate public debt, and I commend our team in helping the Company to achieve significant interest savings and improve its capital structure."
About COMFORCE
COMFORCE Corporation is a leading provider of outsourced staffing
management services that enable Fortune 1000 companies and other large
employers to consolidate, automate and manage staffing, compliance and
oversight processes for their contingent workforces. We also provide
specialty staffing, consulting and other outsourcing services to Fortune
1000 companies and other large employers for their healthcare support,
technical and engineering, information technology, telecommunications and
other staffing needs. We operate in three segments -- Human Capital
Management Services, Staff Augmentation and Financial Outsourcing Services.
The Human Capital Management Services segment provides consulting services
for managing the contingent workforce through its PRO(R) Unlimited
subsidiary. The Staff Augmentation segment provides healthcare support
services, including RightSourcing(R) Vendor Management Services, Technical,
Information Technology and Other Staffing Services. The Financial
Outsourcing Services segment provides funding and back office support
services to independent consulting and staffing companies.
To view the Company's web page visit http://www.comforce.com
We have made statements in this release, including the comments from
management that are forward-looking statements such as projections of our
future financial performance, our anticipated growth strategies and
anticipated trends in our business and industry. These statements are only
predictions based on our current expectations and projections about future
events. Although we believe the expectations reflected in the
forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee our future
results, nor will we undertake any obligation to update any of these
statements. Factors which may cause our actual results to differ materially
from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements include
the following:
-- unfavorable global, national or local economic conditions that cause
our customers to defer hiring contingent workers or reduce spending on the
human capital management services and staffing that we provide;
-- significant increases in the effective rates of any payroll-related
costs that we are unable to pass on to our customers;
-- increases in the costs of complying with the complex federal, state
and foreign laws and regulations under which we operate, or our inability
to comply with these laws and regulations;
-- our inability to collect fees due to the bankruptcy of our
customers, including the amount of any wages we have paid to our employees
for work performed for these customers;
-- our inability to keep pace with rapid changes in technology in our
industry;
-- in that we place our employees in other workplaces, losses incurred
by reason of our employees' misuse of customer proprietary information,
misappropriation of funds, discrimination, harassment, theft of property,
accidents, torts or other claims;
-- increases in interest rates, which could significantly increase our
interest expense under our bank credit facility;
-- our inability to successfully develop new services or enhance our
existing services as the markets in which we compete grow more competitive;
-- unfavorable developments in our business may result in the necessity
of writing off goodwill in future periods;
-- as a result of covenants and restrictions in the documents governing
our Senior Notes and bank credit facility, or any future debt instruments,
our inability to use available cash in the manner management believes will
maximize shareholder value;
-- unfavorable press or analysts' reports concerning our industry or
our company could negatively affect the perception investors have of our
company and our prospects; or
-- any of the other factors described under "Risk Factors" in Item 1A
of the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 30,
2007 (a copy of which may be accessed through http://www.sec.gov or
http://www.comforce.com).
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