Orlando, FL 3/28/12 (StreetBeat) -- MusclePharm Corporation (OTCBB: MSLP), a nutritional supplement company focusing on all categories of an active lifestyle, today announced it has completed the retirement of all of its outstandingconvertible notes held by various financing companies. In January 2012, the company instituted a convertible debt retirement program under which it would retire all of its outstanding convertible notes. Under the program, the company has used cash flow from operations, as well as mezzanine financing, to retire the notes. MusclePharm has retired $5.5 million of derivative financing instruments with $3.0 million cash and 55 million shares of common stock.
"Our goal is to become a fully sustainable free cash flow business by the end of the 2012 first quarter," said Brad Pyatt, chief executive officer. "Retiring the convertible debt has helped reduce uncertainty in our equity structure and represents a major step in our plan to re-capitalize MusclePharm and strengthen its balance sheet. We are very excited to have completed this program and to continue our focus on growing our business, and adding value for our shareholders."
"We are pleased to have reduced our derivative liability exposure on the company's balance sheet," said John Bluher, chief operating officer. "A significant amount of the company's operating loss and dilution to shareholders was attributable to these convertible note instruments. While such debt served a purpose during a time when we were investing in marketing and branding with the objective of creating revenues, we are happy to be moving ahead without these toxic dilutive instruments."
ABOUT MUSCLEPHARM CORPORATION
MusclePharm is a healthy life-style company that develops and manufactures a full line of NSF International and Informed Choice approved nutritional supplements that are free of banned substances. Based on years of research at the MusclePharm Sports Science Center, the products are created through an advanced six-stage research protocol involving the expertise of top nutritional scientists and field tested by more than one hundred elite professional athletes from various professional sports leagues including the National Football League, Mixed Martial Arts and Major League Baseball. The company's products address all categories of an active lifestyle, including muscle building, weight loss and maintaining general fitness through a daily nutritional supplement regimen. MusclePharm is sold in more than 120 countries and available in over 10,000 U.S. retail outlets, including GNC and Vitamin Shoppe and Vitamin World. MusclePharm products also are sold through more than 100 online stores, including bodybuilding.com, Amazon.com and Vitacost.com.
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