8 December 2017                                  

Coats Group plc

$225m US private placement and new bank facility

Coats Group plc ('Coats' or the 'Company'), the world's leading industrial thread manufacturer, today announces the successful completion of a $225m issue of US Private Placement (USPP) notes.

The notes, which represent Coats' debut issue in the USPP market, have a maturity of seven and ten years and have been issued on investment grade terms. Simultaneously, Coats has agreed a new $350m five-year bank facility with a syndicate mainly comprising its existing lenders.  The USPP notes and new bank facility replace Coats' $680m bank facility that was due to mature in March 2020.  The refinancing has achieved the Group's aims of diversifying the sources of debt financing and extending their maturity out to 2027. 

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About Coats Group plc

Coats is the world's leading industrial thread manufacturer and a major player in the Americas textile crafts market. At home in some 60 countries, Coats employs over 19,000 people across six continents. Revenues in 2016 were US$1.5bn. Coats' pioneering history and innovative culture ensure the company continues leading the way around the world, providing complementary and value added products and services to the apparel and footwear industries; applying innovative techniques to develop high technology Performance Material threads and yarns in areas such as automotive composites and fibre optics; and extending the crafts offer into new markets and online. Headquartered in the UK, Coats is a FTSE250 listed company on the London Stock Exchange. To find out more about Coats visit www.coats.com.