Zaandam, The Netherlands, April 27, 2001- Royal Ahold, the international food retail and foodservice company, today successfully placed new notes for a total of Euro 1.2 billion with a coupon of 5.875% and yield of 5.98%. The notes, to mature in 2008, will be listed on the Luxembourg Exchange.
Ahold has placed the notes pursuant to its Euro Medium Term Note (EMTN) program initially announced May 17, 2000 and recently increased in size. The program now enables Ahold to issue various types of debt securities up to an aggregrate amount of
Euro 5.0 billion.
The entire proceeds of the new Eurobond will be used to refinance existing short-term debt.
Goldman Sachs acted as the bookrunner for the deal. UBS Warburg and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter acted as senior co-lead managers.