If expresses devilray you have evan longoria signed baseball reasons any questions about voting your shares, pleasecall Innisfree toll-free at (888) 750-5834.Thank you for your support.Sincerely yours,/s/ Ezra DabahEzra Dabah, on behalf ofTHE COMMITTEE OF CONCERNED SHAREHOLDERS OF THE CHILDREN'S PLACEThe Committee urges shareholders to vote FOR its three director nominees onthe GOLD proxy card today - by telephone, Internet or by signing, dating andreturning the GOLD proxy card Innisfree M&A Inc. Information about each ofthe participants is available in the definitive proxy statement filed by theCommittee with the SEC on June 17, 2009 in connection with the solicitation ofproxies for the 2009 annual meeting of The Children's Place shareholders. Information about the participants' direct or indirect interests in thematters to be considered at the 2009 annual meeting of Shareholders of TheChildren's Place, including by security ownership or otherwise, is alsocontained in the definitive proxy statement.(1) Permission to use quotations was neither sought nor obtained.Contacts:Matthew Sherman / Jamie MoserJoele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher(212) 355-4449SOURCECommittee of Concerned Shareholders of The Children's PlaceMatthew Sherman or Jamie Moser, both of Joele Frank, Wilkinson BrimmerKatcher, +1-212-355-4449. SMITHFIELD, Va., June 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smithfield Foods, Inc.(NYSE: SFD) announced today that it has priced its previously announcedoffering of senior secured notes due July 2014. The notes will have aninterest rate of 10% per annum and will be issued at a price equal to 96.201%of their face value. The Company intends to use the proceeds from the notesoffering to repay borrowings and terminate commitments under its existing U.S.revolving credit facility, repay and/or refinance other indebtedness and forother general corporate purposes.The notes will be offered and sold to qualified institutional buyers in theUnited States pursuant to Rule 144A and outside the United States pursuant toRegulation S under the Securities Act of 1933.The notes will be guaranteed by substantially all of the U.S subsidiaries ofthe company. revolvingcredit facility and will include an option, subject to certain conditions, toincrease available commitments to $1.3 billion in the future.
Similar to thenotes, the new credit facility will be guaranteed by substantially all of theU.S subsidiaries of the company devilrays . The new credit facility will be secured byfirst-priority liens, subject to permitted liens and exceptions for excludedassets, in substantially all of the company's and its subsidiary guarantors'cash and cash equivalents, certain material intellectual property, the commonequity of substantially all of the U.S tamba bay rays . subsidiaries, inventory, accountsreceivable and other personal property relating to such inventory and accountsreceivable and certain other assets, and by second-priority liens, subject topermitted liens, in the assets in which the notes being offered will have afirst priority lien.The company also is negotiating a new $200 million term loan expected tomature in August 2013 to replace its existing $200 million term loan thatmatures in August 2011 tampa bay rays . The new term loan would be guaranteed and secured onthe same basis as the new senior secured notes.The notes have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or anystate securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United Statesabsent registration or an applicable exemption from the registrationrequirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and applicable state laws.This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation ofan offer to purchase the notes or any other securities, and shall notconstitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any state or jurisdiction inwhich such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful tropicana field concerts . This pressrelease is being issued pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 135c under theSecurities Act of 1933.Smithfield Foods is the world's largest pork processor and hog producer, withrevenues exceeding $12 billion in fiscal 2009. For more information, visit news release contains "forward-looking" statements within the meaning ofthe federal securities laws.
The forward-looking statements includesstatements concerning the Company's outlook for the future, as well as otherstatements of beliefs, future plans and strategies or anticipated events, andsimilar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts devilrays baseball . TheCompany's forward-looking information and statements are subject to risks anduncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from thoseexpressed in, or implied by, the statements evan longoria signed baseball . Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-lookingstatements because actual results may differ materially from those expressedin, or implied by, the statements tamba bay rays . Any forward-looking statement that theCompany makes speaks only as of the date of such statement, and the Companyundertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether asa result of new information, future events or otherwise . Comparisons ofresults for current and any prior periods are not intended to express anyfuture trends or indications of future performance, unless expressed as such,and should only be viewed as historical data. SOURCESmithfield Foods, Inc.Keira Ullrich of Smithfield Foods, Inc., +1-212-758-2100,.
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