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Term Financing Solution

Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)

Last Verified: 2006-03-21

BDC offers flexible term financing solutions for a variety of commercially viable projects, including expansion projects, plant overhauls, the purchase of existing businesses and the acquisition of fixed assets. In some cases, the financing may be used to reconstitute working capital depleted by capital expenditures or to finance sales growth.

Eligibility Criteria

To be accepted, entrepreneurs need to have a commercially viable projects. The BDC considers each request case by case.

Eligible Area

All Canadian provinces and territories.

Eligible Activities

Activities can be:

  • expansion;
  • plant overhauls;
  • purchase of existing businesses;
  • acquisition of fixed assets; and
  • in some cases, the reconstitution of working capital depleted by capital expenditures or to finance sales growth.

Summary

Possible Uses

  • acquiring fixed assets;
  • upgrading or expanding facilities;
  • acquiring an existing business;
  • replenishing working capital.

Features

  • flexible repayment methods (equal, graduated monthly or seasonal payments) to accommodate cash flow fluctuations;
  • unlike a demand loan it has a guaranteed term and cannot be recalled without due cause;
  • floating or fixed interest rates for up to twenty years;
  • annual repayment privileges.

Ontario Contact(s):
See National Contact.


National Contact(s):
Head Office
Business Development Bank of Canada
Suite 400
5 Place Ville Marie
Montréal, Quebec  H3B 5E7
Telephone: 1-888-463-6232
Fax: 1-877-329-9232
Toll-free (information): 1-877-BDC BANX (1-877-232-2269)
E-mail: info@bdc.ca
Web site: http://www.bdc.ca/en/home.htm



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