Issue of Debt

RNS Number : 7569G

Compagnie de Saint-Gobain

31 May 2017

 

PRESS RELEASE

Paris, May 31, 2017

Saint-Gobain successfully launches a bond offering                                        for EUR 750 million, 10 year maturity, 1.375% coupon

Compagnie de Saint-Gobain today set the terms of a 10 year bond issue (maturity June 2027) for an amount of EUR 750 million with an annual coupon of 1.375%.

Saint-Gobain took advantage of the favourable conditions on the bond market to lengthen the average maturity of its debt, optimising at the same time its average cost of funding.

The orderbook totalled close to EUR 1.6 billion from over 110 investors, which underlines bond investors' confidence in the credit quality of Saint-Gobain.

Saint-Gobain's long-term senior debt is rated BBB by Standard & Poor's and Baa2 by Moody's.

Barclays, BBVA, BofA Merrill Lynch, HSBC, Mizuho Securities and Natixis acted as lead managers for this bond issue.

ABOUT SAINT-GOBAIN

Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes materials and solutions which are key ingredients in the wellbeing of each of us and the future of all. They can be found everywhere in our living places and our daily life: in buildings, transportation, infrastructure and in many industrial applications. They provide comfort, performance and safety while addressing the challenges of sustainable construction, resource efficiency and climate change.

€39.1 billion in sales in 2016

Operates in 68 countries

More than 170,000 employees

www.saint-gobain.com
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