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Published on 11/15/2010 in the Prospect News Investment Grade Daily.

New Issue: Procter & Gamble sells $1.5 billion senior notes in fixed-, floating-rate tranches

By Andrea Heisinger

New York, Nov. 15 - Procter & Gamble Co. sold $1.5 billion of senior notes (Aa3/AA-/) in two tranches on Monday, an informed source said.

The floating-rate tranche of notes was added to the sale before the launch, the source said.

A $500 million tranche of two-year floating-rate notes priced at par to yield three-month Libor plus 4 basis points. This was at the tight end of guidance in the Libor plus 5 bps area.

The floating-rate notes are non-callable.

The other tranche was $1 billion of 1.8% five-year notes priced at 99.182 to yield 1.973% with a spread of Treasuries plus 47 bps. The notes priced in line with guidance in the 47 bps area.

The tranche has a make-whole call at Treasuries plus 10 bps.

Goldman Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. were the bookrunners.

Senior co-managers were Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., Bank of America Merrill Lynch and RBS Securities Inc.

Barclays Capital Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Williams Capital Group LP, UBS Securities and U.S. Bancorp Investments were the co-managers.

Proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes.

The consumer products company is based in Cincinnati.

Issuer:Procter & Gamble Co.
Issue:Senior notes
Amount:$1.5 billion
Bookrunners:Goldman Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc.
Senior co-managers:Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., Bank of America Merrill Lynch, RBS Securities Inc.
Co-managers:Barclays Capital Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Williams Capital Group LP, UBS Securities, U.S. Bancorp Investments
Trade date:Nov. 15
Settlement date:Nov. 18
Ratings:Moody's: Aa3
Standard & Poor's: AA-
Two-year floaters
Amount:$500 million
Maturity:Nov. 14, 2012
Coupon:Three-month Libor plus 4 bps
Price:Par
Yield:Three-month Libor plus 4 bps
Call:Non-callable
Price talk:Three-month Libor plus 5 bps area
Five-year notes
Amount:$1 billion
Maturity:Nov. 15, 2015
Coupon:1.8%
Price:99.182
Yield:1.973%
Spread:Treasuries plus 47 bps
Call:Make-whole at Treasuries plus 10 bps
Price talk:47 bps area

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