Amazon to finance Whole Foods acquisition through monster unsecured loan note offering
Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) is to issue up to US$16bn in bonds to finance its acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc (NASDAQ:WFM).
The senior unsecured notes will be available via a private offering.
Debt rating agency Moody’s assigned a Baa1 rating to the proposed offering, and changes its rating outlook on Amazon to ‘positive’ from ‘stable’.
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“The change in outlook to positive reflects our view that despite the increase in debt, the Whole Foods acquisition is an immediate credit positive for the company on a variety of fronts,” said Moody’s vice president Charlie O’Shea.
“Whole Foods provides Amazon with greater scale and a crucial brick-and-mortar presence in a segment where it has been trying to grow, and the almost 500 existing Whole Foods locations can be utilized to expand food delivery, as well as provide pick-up points for online orders of any type,” O’Shea said.
Story by ProactiveInvestors
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