U.S.-based global provider of market opinions Survey Sampling International LLC (SSI) is putting in place $337 million senior secured credit facilities. We are assigning our preliminary 'B' corporate credit rating to the company. We are also assigning our preliminary 'B' issue-level and preliminary '3' recovery ratings to the company's $233 million senior secured first-lien credit facility, and our preliminary 'CCC+' issue-level and preliminary '6' recovery ratings to its $104 million second-lien credit facility. The stable outlook reflects our expectation that SSI will continue to grow its core revenue and EBITDA and improve its credit metrics while maintaining adequate liquidity. On Nov. 18, 2014, Standard&Poor's Ratings Services assigned its preliminary 'B' corporate credit rating to Connecticut-based data collection company
