Are You Like The Titanic? Speeding Towards An Iceberg To Your Doom

Everyone have recognition cards. They assist do life a spot easier. Most people begin out using them as a safety net. But...there is danger in those small plastic life preservers.

I'm sure this volition sound familiar to you. You travel to the shop to purchase something. Let's say...the DVD of your favourite movie. When you acquire in the shop you detect sale marks everywhere.

Before you acquire the DVD you came in for, you begin to browsing through the sale racks. You come up across a few movies you were thinking about buying. "Well, they're on sale" you believe to yourself.

Before long you, have got got a stack of DVDs and you haven't even gotten the 1 you originally went to the shop to buy. You dart to the subdivision with your DVD, catch it and travel to the register. The clerk rings you up andto your surpriseyou have got got just spent more than than $217.

You weren't planning on purchasing so much and you don't have adequate hard cash so...instead of putting the DVDs back you flog out your recognition card and manus it to the clerk. It's only $217. No large deal, right?

But, it really is a large deal. Because, the DVD's are only the tip of the iceberg...it's not just DVDs you purchase with your recognition cards, it's everything you purchase with your recognition cards.

Paying With A Recognition Card Doesn't Feel Like

You Are Spending Your Money

When you pay with a recognition card, you experience like you got something without paying for it...almost like it was free. You probably don't even believe about it until...

Your recognition card measures arrive. Then it registers. When you have got to pay the bill. You acquire a sinking feeling. You recognize you can't pay the whole measure this month. And so gets your downward spiral...

Because, the followers calendar month you make the same thing. You travel to the shop to purchase something and out protrudes that small plastic card again.

Even though last month's recognition card measure surprised you and you couldn't pay it off in full, you believe to yourself "I've got it under control".

Until one day, you acquire to the registry and your recognition card is declined. You have got reached your disbursement limit...at least on that recognition card. Ah, but never fear, you have got other recognition cards.

So you maintain getting deeper and deeper into debt. Pretty soon you are so deep...you can barely maintain your caput above water. Your monthly payments are getting out of reach.

And now you necessitate to utilize your recognition card game just to pay your mundane bills. Things like groceries, heat energy and electric. But as you pay for these necessities, you acquire deeper still.

Now, you're level deeper than before. You necessitate to set even more than on the cards. Your payments go on to turn until, you can't even afford the lower limit monthly payments. Before you cognize it you can't purchase the things you necessitate and you are drowning in bills.

Ok, maybe it's not that bad...yet. But is this the way your heading? If you answered yes, you necessitate to make something about it, right NOW! Don't wait until your debt sinks you.

GE Antares Provides $118MM Senior Secured Credit Facility for Leading Manufacturer and Marketer of Branded Healthcare and Wellness Products

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Antares Capital and its sister business, GE Healthcare Financial
Services, today announced the closing as administrative agent of a $118
million senior secured credit facility to support the acquisition of The
Hygenic Corporation by Cortec Group Fund IV, L.P., a New York-based
private equity firm. GE Capital Markets served as sole lead arranger and
bookrunner.

The financing consisted of a $10 million senior secured revolving credit
facility, and a $108 million senior secured term loan. Proceeds were
used to provide financing for the acquisition of Hygenic, to refinance
existing indebtedness and for working capital needs.

The Akron, Ohio-based Hygenic Corporation is one of the leading
developers, manufacturers, and marketers of branded, consumable products
used for therapy, rehabilitation and professional wellness. Hygenic’s
products, which are manufactured in the U.S. and Malaysia, are marketed
under the brands Thera-Band®, Biofreeze®,
Dyna-Band®, Hygenic®
and Parabath®.

“Hygenic has strong brand recognition, a
unique portfolio of therapy and wellness products, and is led by an
outstanding management team,” said Ethan
Miller, Managing Director of GE Antares. “Cortec
Group is a long-term customer of GE Antares and we are pleased to be
able to lead this financing to support Cortec and Hygenic.”

David Schnadig, Partner at Cortec stated, “GE
Antares has showed us once again that they are flexible and creative
with their financing. Their responsiveness and reliability were
precisely what we needed for the acquisition of Hygenic. We hope to
continue to grow with both Hygenic and GE Antares in the years ahead.”

About Cortec Group

Cortec Group acquires high value-added, middle-market manufacturing,
distribution and service businesses that have leadership positions in
their market niches. Cortec Group manages approximately $750 million of
committed capital to acquire platform companies with enterprise values
of $30 million to $250 million and smaller follow-on acquisitions.
Additional information about Cortec Group can be found on the Internet
at .

About GE Antares Capital

GE Antares Capital is a unit of GE Commercial Finance - Global Sponsor
Finance. With over $8 billion in assets, and offices in Chicago,
London, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, GE Antares offers a “one-stop”
source for GE’s lending and other services
offered to middle market private equity sponsors. For more information,
visit the GE Antares website at .

About GE Commercial Finance

GE Commercial Finance, which offers businesses around the globe an array
of financial products and services, has assets of over $233 billion and
is headquartered in Norwalk Connecticut. GE (NYSE: GE) is Imagination at
Work – a diversified technology, media and
financial services company focused on solving some of the world’s
toughest problems. With products and services ranging from aircraft
engines, power generation, water processing and security technology to
medical imaging, business and consumer financing, media content and
advanced materials, GE serves customers in more than 100 countries and
employs more than 300,000 people worldwide. For more information, visit
the company’s website at .