{"id":1657,"date":"2018-12-21T08:35:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T08:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2018-12-21T08:35:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T08:35:15","slug":"interserve-lenders-demand-control-of-rmd-kwikform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/interserve-lenders-demand-control-of-rmd-kwikform\/","title":{"rendered":"Interserve lenders demand control of RMD Kwikform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bankers thrashing out a debt reduction plan with Interserve are demanding control of the company&#8217;s profitable RMD Kwikform business.<\/p>\n<p>Interserve\u00a0 provided a progress report to the Stock Exchange this morning on its deleveraging plan.<\/p>\n<p>It stated: &#8220;Consideration is also being given to whether it would be in stakeholders&#8217; interests for the board to agree to lender requests for RMDK to be placed in a separate holding company owned by the lenders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"94603\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen-gb.viewpoint.com%2F%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Viewpoint-Ban-300x250-mag-v2.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>RMD Kwikform has been estimated to be worth \u00a3250m-\u00a3300m and could be later sold off in a managed way rather than risking a cut-price deal in a fire-sale.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half of this year, RMD delivered over \u00a318m profit from revenue of nearly \u00a3100m, accounting for just under half of pre-exceptional group operating profit.<\/p>\n<p>Interserve said it continues &#8220;construction discussions&#8221; with lenders to reduce its \u00a3650m debt pile.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"94603\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen-gb.viewpoint.com%2F%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Viewpoint-Ban-300x250-mag-v2.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It added that the banks are &#8220;<span class=\"dc\">fully supportive of Interserve&#8217;s business plan and management team.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A proposed debt for equity swap would see banks write-off loans for shares wiping-out value for existing stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>Final terns of the deal are expected to be announced early in the New Year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"124439\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hudsoncontract.co.uk%2Felimination%3Futm_source%3DConEnq%26utm_medium%3DBanner%26utm_campaign%3DAut18%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hudson ConstructionEnquirerAdOct18.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"db\"><span class=\"dc\">Debbie White, CEO of Interserve, said: <\/span><span class=\"dc\">&#8220;This progress on the Deleveraging Plan is excellent news for all our employees, customers and suppliers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"db\"><span class=\"dc\">&#8220;It will provide us with a strong balance sheet and enable us to move forward with confidence and the ability to improve our business and deliver our long term strategy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"94892\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcisrs.org.uk%2F%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CE_CISRS_CPD.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-mpu ad-mpu-inline\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\"><a data-ad-id=\"99972\" href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/constructionenquirer\/adclick.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peri.ltd.uk%2Fprojects%2Fcivil-engineering.html%3Futm_source%3Dconstruction-enquirer%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dconstructionenq-ads\" onclick=\"track_ad_click(this);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/35_PERI_AD_MPU_CE_Infrastructure_300x250px_JULY-18_AW2.gif\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>from Construction Enquirer http:\/\/bit.ly\/2EIVFhA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bankers thrashing out a debt reduction plan with Interserve are demanding control of the company&#8217;s profitable RMD Kwikform business. Interserve\u00a0 provided a progress report to the Stock Exchange this morning on its deleveraging plan. It stated: &#8220;Consideration is also being given to whether it would be in stakeholders&#8217; interests for the board to agree to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}