UK - Bridgepoint's Pets at Home in £288m refinancing

Pets at Home, the UK pet food and product retailer, has secured ТЃ288m of new debt facilities following its announcement last week of revenues of ТЃ276.9m and EBITDA of ТЃ40.7m for the year ended 31 March 2006. Following completion of the refinancing, a further ТЃ100m will be returned to shareholders in addition to the ТЃ70m that was returned in May 2005. BNP Paribas and RBS are joint mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners for the new facilities.