UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 


 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

 

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report:

May 31, 2006

Date of earliest event reported:

May 24, 2006

 


 

OFFICEMAX INCORPORATED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

 

1-5057

 

82-0100960

(State of Incorporation)

 

(Commission File Number)

 

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

150 Pierce Road

Itasca, Illinois 60143

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

 

(630) 438-7800

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

o    Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o    Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o    Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

o    Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 



 

Item 1.01               Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

Amendment No. 2 to Loan and Security Agreement

 

On May 24, 2006, OfficeMax Incorporated (the “Company”) entered into Amendment No. 2 to Loan Agreement (the “Amended Agreement”) by and among the Company, certain of its subsidiaries who are also borrowers under the Amended Agreement, certain of its subsidiaries who are guarantors of obligations under the Amended Agreement, certain lenders, and Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Central) (“Wachovia”), acting in its capacity as agent for the lenders. The Amended Agreement amends the terms of the Company’s Loan and Security Agreement (the “Loan Agreement”) among the same parties dated June 24, 2005.

 

The Company entered into the Amended Agreement to remove the special reserve referenced in Section 1.127 of the Loan Agreement. The special reserve reduced by $50,000,000 the amount of loans or letters of credit that would otherwise be available to the Company under the lending formula in the Loan Agreement. Removing the special reserve will allow the Company greater access to borrowing base availability under the Loan Agreement. This summary does not purport to be complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the text of the Amended Agreement, included as Exhibit 99.1 to this filing and incorporated herein by reference to this Item 1.01.

 

Certain of the lenders party to the Amended Agreement, and their respective affiliates, have performed, and may in the future perform for the Company and its subsidiaries, various commercial banking, investment banking, underwriting and other financial advisory services, for which they have received, and will receive, customary fees and expenses.

 

Item 9.01

 

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

 

 

(d)

 

Exhibits.

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.1

Amendment No. 2 to Loan Agreement

 

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SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Dated:  May 31, 2006

 

 

 

 

OFFICEMAX INCORPORATED

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Matthew R. Broad

 

 

 

Matthew R. Broad

 

 

Executive Vice President and
General Counsel

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Number

 

Description

99.1

 

Amendment No. 2 to Loan Agreement

 

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Exhibit 99.1

 

AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO LOAN AGREEMENT

 

AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO LOAN AGREEMENT (this “Amendment”), dated as of May 24, 2006, by and among OfficeMax Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), OfficeMax Contract, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Contract”), OfficeMax North America, Inc., an Ohio corporation (“North America”), BizMart, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“BizMart”) and BizMart (Texas), Inc., a Delaware corporation (“BizMart Texas”), Honolulu Paper Company Limited, a Hawaii corporation (“Honolulu”), and Reliable Express Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Reliable”, and together with Parent, Contract, North America, BizMart and Honolulu, each individually a “Borrower” and collectively, “Borrowers”), OfficeMax Corp., an Ohio corporation (“Ohio”), Picabo Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Picabo”), OfficeMax Nevada Company, a Nevada corporation (“Nevada”), and OfficeMax Southern Company, a Louisiana limited partnership (“Southern”, and together with Ohio, Picabo and Nevada, each individually a “Guarantor” and collectively, “Guarantors”), Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation (Central), an Illinois corporation, in its capacity as agent pursuant to the Loan Agreement (as hereinafter defined) for the parties thereto from time to time as lenders (in such capacity, together with its successors and assigns, “Agent”), and the parties thereto from time to time as lenders (collectively, “Lenders”).

 

W I T N E S S E T H:

 

WHEREAS, Agent, Lenders, Borrowers and Guarantors have entered into financing arrangements pursuant to which Lenders (or Agent on behalf of Lenders) have made and may make loans and advances and provide other financial accommodations to Borrowers as set forth in the Loan Agreement, dated June 24, 2005, by and among Agent, Lenders, Borrowers and Guarantors, as amended by Consent and Amendment No. 1 to Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of December 27, 2005, by and among Agent, Lenders, Borrowers and Guarantors, as further amended hereby (and as the same may hereafter be further amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced, the “Loan Agreement”), and the other agreements, documents and instruments referred to therein or at any time executed and/or delivered in connection therewith or related thereto (all of the foregoing, together with the Loan Agreement, as the same now exist or may hereafter be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced, being collectively referred to herein as the “Financing Agreements”);

 

WHEREAS, Borrowers and Guarantors have requested that Agent and Lenders amend the Loan Agreement to eliminate the Special Reserve and Agent and Lenders are willing to agree to such amendment, subject to the terms and conditions contained herein; and

 

WHEREAS, by this Amendment, Borrower, Guarantor, Agent and Lenders wish hereby to evidence such amendment;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, and the respective agreements and covenants contained herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:

 



 

1.             Interpretation.   For purposes of this Amendment, unless otherwise defined herein, all terms used herein, including, but not limited to, those terms used above, shall have the respective meanings given to them in the Loan Agreement.

 

2.             Special Reserve.  Section 1.127 of the Loan Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and the following substituted therefore:

 

““Special Reserve” shall mean a Reserve in the amount of Zero

($0) Dollars.”

 

3.             Representations, Warranties and Covenants.  Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby, jointly and severally, represents, warrants and covenants to Agent and Lenders the following (which shall survive the execution and delivery of this Amendment), the truth and accuracy of which are a continuing condition of the making of Loans and providing Letters of Credit to Borrowers:

 

(a)           This Amendment and each other agreement or instrument to be executed and delivered by Borrowers and Guarantors in connection herewith (collectively, together with this Amendment, the “Amendment Documents”) have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by all necessary action on the part of each Borrower and Guarantor which is a party hereto and thereto and, if necessary, their respective stockholders and is in full force and effect as of the date hereof, as the case may be, and the agreements and obligations of each Borrower and Guarantor, as the case may be, contained herein and therein constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of Borrowers and Guarantors, enforceable against them in accordance with their terms.

 

(b)           The execution, delivery and performance of each of the Amendment Documents (i) are all within each Borrower’s and Guarantor’s respective corporate powers and (ii) are not in contravention of law or the terms of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s certificate of incorporation, by-laws or other organizational documentation, or any indenture, agreement or undertaking to which any Borrower or Guarantor is party or by which any Borrower or Guarantor or its property is bound.

 

(c)           No Default or Event of Default exists or has occurred and is continuing.

 

(d)           All of the representations and warranties set forth in the Loan Agreement and the other Financing Agreements, each as amended hereby and after giving effect to this Amendment, are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date hereof, as if made on the date hereof, except to the extent any such representation or warranty is made as of a specified date, in which case such representation or warranty shall have been true and correct as of such date.

 

4.             Conditions Precedent.  The provisions contained herein shall only be effective upon the satisfaction of each of the following conditions precedent in a manner satisfactory to Agent:

 

(a)           Agent shall have received this Amendment, duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrowers, Guarantors and Lenders; and

 

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(b)           no Default or Event of Default shall exist or have occurred and be continuing.

 

5.             Effect of this Agreement.  Except as expressly amended pursuant hereto, no other changes or modifications to the Financing Agreements are intended or implied, and, in all other respects, the Financing Agreements are hereby specifically ratified, restated and confirmed by all parties hereto as of the effective date hereof.  To the extent that any provision of the Loan Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements are inconsistent with the provisions of this Amendment, the provisions of this Amendment shall control.

 

6.             Further Assurances.  Borrowers and Guarantors shall execute and deliver such additional documents and take such additional action as may be requested by Agent to effectuate the provisions and purposes of this Amendment.

 

7.             Governing Law.  The validity, interpretation and enforcement of this Amendment and the other Financing Agreements (except as otherwise provided therein) and any dispute arising out of the relationship between the parties hereto, whether in contract, tort, equity or otherwise, shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of Illinois but excluding any principles of conflicts of law or other rule of law that would cause the application of the law of any jurisdiction other than the laws of the State of Illinois.

 

8.             Binding Effect.  This Amendment shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of each of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.

 

9.             Headings.  The headings listed herein are for convenience only and do not constitute matters to be construed in interpreting this Amendment.

 

10.           Counterparts.  This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.  Delivery of an executed counterpart of this Amendment by telefacsimile or other method of electronic transmission shall have the same force and effect as the delivery of an original executed counterpart of this Amendment.  Any party delivering an executed counterpart of this Amendment by telefacsimile or other method of electronic transmission shall also deliver an original executed counterpart, but the failure to do so shall not affect the validity, enforceability or binding effect of such agreement.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed on the day and year first above written.

 

 

AGENT

 

 

 

WACHOVIA CAPITAL FINANCE CORPORATION

 

(CENTRAL), as Agent

 

 

 

By:

/s/Anthony Vizgirda

 

 

Title:  Director

 

 

 

 

 

LENDERS

 

 

 

WACHOVIA CAPITAL FINANCE CORPORATION

 

(CENTRAL)

 

 

 

By:

/s/Anthony Vizgirda

 

 

Title: Director

 

LENDERS

 

WACHOVIA CAPITAL FINANCE CORPORATION (CENTRAL)

 

By:

/s/Anthony Vizgirda

 

Title: Director

 

 

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.

 

By:

/s/Sally A. Sheehan

 

Title: Managing Director

 

GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION

 

By:

/s/Rebecca Ford

 

Title: Duly Authorized Signatory

 

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THE CIT GROUP/BUSINESS CREDIT, INC.

 

By:

/s/Matthew DeFranco

 

Title: Assistant Vice President

 

WELLS FARGO RETAIL FINANCE, LLC

 

By:

/s/Cory Loftus

 

Title: Vice President/ Account Executive

 

NATIONAL CITY BUSINESS CREDIT, INC.

 

By:

/s/Joseph Kwasny

 

Title: Director

 

PNC BANK, N.A.

 

By:

/s/Patrick McConnell

 

Title: Vice President

 

HARRIS N.A.

 

By:

/s/Jean R. Elie

 

Title: Vice President

 

UPS CAPITAL CORPORATION

 

By:

/s/John P. Holloway

 

Title: Director of Portfolio Management

 

KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

 

By:

/s/Robert F.  Pollis, Jr.

 

Title: Senior Vice President

 



 

NM ROTHSCHILD & SONS LIMITED

 

 

By:

/s/Christopher Coleman

 

By:

/s/Nicholas Wood

 

Title: Managing Director

Title: Assistant Director

 

ABN AMRO BANK N.V.

 

 

By:

/s/ Harold A Steben

 

By:

/s/Terrence J. Ward

 

Title: Senior Vice President

Title: Managing Director

 

LASALLE RETAIL FINANCE,

 

a Division of LaSalle Business Credit, LLC,

 

as agent for Standard Federal Bank, N.A.

 

 

 

By:

/s/Daniel O’Rourke

 

 

Title: First Vice President

 

 



 

 

BORROWER

 

 

 

OFFICEMAX INCORPORATED

 

 

 

By:

/s/John S. Jennings

 

 

Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

 

 

OFFICEMAX CONTRACT, INC.

 

 

 

By:

/s/John S. Jennings

 

 

Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

 

 

OFFICEMAX NORTH AMERICA, INC.

 

 

 

By:

/s/John S. Jennings

 

 

Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

 

 

BIZMART, INC.

 

 

 

By:

/s/John S. Jennings

 

 

Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

 

 

BIZMART (TEXAS), INC.

 

 

 

By:

/s/John S. Jennings

 

 

Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 



 

 

HONOLULU PAPER COMPANY LIMITED

 

 

 

By:

/s/John S. Jennings

 

 

Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

 

 

RELIABLE EXPRESS CORPORATION

 

 

 

By:

/s/John S. Jennings

 

 

Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

 

 

GUARANTORS

 

 

 

OFFICEMAX CORP.

 

 

 

By:

/s/John S. Jennings

 

 

Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

 

 

PICABO HOLDINGS, INC.

 

 

 

By:

/s/John S. Jennings

 

 

Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

 

 

OFFICEMAX NEVADA COMPANY

 

 

 

By:

/s/John S. Jennings

 

 

Title: Vice President and Treasurer

 

 

 

OFFICEMAX SOUTHERN COMPANY

 

 

 

By:

/s/John S. Jennings

 

 

Title: Vice President and Treasurer