2022年10月31日

加拿大艾伯塔省卡爾加裏，2022年10月31日(環球通訊社)——黑鑽集團有限公司(“黑鑽”或“公司”或“管理層”)(多倫多證券交易所代碼:BDI)是一家領先的空間租賃和員工住宿供應商，今天宣布結束其模塊化空間解決方案(“MSS”)部門的一項戰略收購(“收購”或“目標”)。Target是安大略省的一家模塊化建築租賃公司，擁有1851個單元，主要集中在教育和政府部門。Target的收購價為5,450萬美元，包括承擔債務。黑鑽還為已簽署長期合同的客戶提供了約400萬美元的Target剩餘2022年增長資本支出。Target過去12個月的調整息稅折舊攤銷前利潤約為780萬美元。根據最近增加的資產和相應的租賃合同，管理層預計2023年Target的調整後息稅折舊攤銷前利潤會增長。“這次戰略性收購進一步加快了我們MSS業務的增長和多元化，主要在教育部門為我們在加拿大中部的租賃車隊增加了大約1850個單元。這使我們的MSS租賃車隊在北美超過11000個單位(或約600萬平方英尺的可租賃空間)。此次收購還包括約3300萬美元的合同收入，其中大部分是租金收入。”黑鑽董事長兼首席執行官Trevor Haynes補充道:“我們將Target視為該市場的領導者，並相信有持續增長的誘人機會，同時繼續提供Target及其客戶習慣的卓越服務水平和卓越運營。” The Target’s rental assets will be qualified as eligible inventory for the Company’s Asset Based Lending (“ABL”) facility, which will be drawn upon to fund most of the purchase price. In conjunction with the acquisition, Black Diamond’s lenders are expected to increase the size of the Company’s ABL facility from $300 million to $325 million to accommodate the purchase, while allowing significant available liquidity for future growth. Pro-forma the acquisition, Black Diamond will remain at the mid-point of its targeted Net Debt to trailing twelve month (“TTM”) Adjusted Leveraged EBITDA range of 2 to 3 times. Over the last several years, Black Diamond has shown consistent growth in core, recurring rental revenue and believes the Acquisition aligns with the Company’s stated long-term vision of profitably growing its diversified MSS business. Alongside growth of MSS, the Company will look to continue to capitalize on operating leverage inherent in its Workforce Solutions segment, expand international operations in Australia, and focus on the continued and rapid scaling of its digital crew-travel platform in LodgeLink. About Black Diamond Black Diamond is a specialty rentals and industrial services Company with two operating business units - Modular Space Solutions (MSS) and Workforce Solutions (WFS). We operate in Canada, the United States, and Australia. MSS through its principal brands, BOXX Modular, Britco, MPA, and Schiavi, owns a large rental fleet of modular buildings of various types and sizes. Its network of local branches rent, sell, service, and provide ancillary products and services to a diverse customer base in the construction, industrial, education, financial, and government sectors. WFS owns a large rental fleet of modular accommodation assets of all types and sizes and a fleet of liquid and solid containment assets. Its regional operating terminals rent, sell, service, and provide ancillary products and services including turn-key operated camps to a wide array of customers in the resource, infrastructure, construction, disaster recovery, and education sectors. The WFS business unit also includes the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, LodgeLink, which operates a digital marketplace for business-to-business crew accommodation, travel, and logistics in North America. Learn more at www.blackdiamondgroup.com .