Kalera, a leafy green vertical farming company, secured a 10-year, $30 million senior secured credit facility with Farm Credit of Central Florida to support capital expenditures and working capital needs of the company across the entire United States. The credit facility was entered into by Kalera, a United States based wholly owned subsidiary of Kalera AS.
“With access to capital provided by Farm Credit, the company has both strengthened its financial position and improved its capital structure, with $20 million in available funds for capital expenditures under a term loan, and $10 million to support general corporate and working capital purposes under a revolving loan. We consider Farm Credit to be an outstanding long-term financing partner for our U.S. growth plans,” Fernando Cornejo, CFO of Kalera, said. “We are now in an excellent position to execute on our objectives for the first half of 2022, whilst moving towards an expected June completion of our merger with Agrico that will deliver Kalera a U.S. Nasdaq listing, immediate additional financing and improved long-term funding opportunities”.
“With this financing, Kalera continues to advance the controlled environment agriculture industry toward a greater focus on enhancing local agriculture across the United States with a key focus on health and safety practices through its indoor agriculture technology,” Brock Overbaugh, vice president and sr. agribusiness relationship manager at Farm Credit of Central Florida, said.
The credit agreement has a term of 120 months and includes standard terms and conditions customary in secured financing transactions of this nature.
