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Adidas, the German sportswear maker, issued its first bond for five years on Wednesday. The company’s rarity, high perceived credit quality of around the single-A level and very strong brand name should have made this a triumphant deal – but in the treacherous conditions of this week it was a mess.

A particularly poor third quarter has seen CEEMEA volumes down almost threefold from the same period last year. With Russia and Ukraine all but shut out of the capital markets, bankers have also been faced with choppy markets and poor performing new issues.

WMF, the German kitchenware producer, widened pricing on its €615m leveraged acquisition loan this week, becoming the latest in a run of borrowers to do so in September as lenders find more lucrative opportunities in the US.

Seven Energy made a successful comeback in testing conditions on Thursday. While it certainly paid for the privilege, having already secured strong anchor orders before proceeding, the trade signals that the miserable high yield market may be improving.

Bonds newly issued by Polish chemicals firm Synthos had traded down more than two cash points by early this week, with some bankers blaming the deal execution and warning that the trade might have hurt the chances of other Polish firms wanting to access the market. Bankers on the deal defended the sale, saying the issuer had set a very ambitious price target.

Seven Energy is about to make it second time lucky, as it readies to price a seven year non-call four offering on Thursday.

Adidas, the German sportswear maker, issued its first bond for five years today, with a €1bn seven and 12 year offering. Adidas is a high quality name, but 12 years is an unusually long maturity for an unrated issuer, and with financial markets jittery again today, the deal may not have whizzed off the books as much as it might have in a more bullish atmosphere. Bankers said it widened sharply in the aftermarket.

Enterprise Inns, the UK pub group, priced £249.521m of senior secured high yield bonds on Tuesday to yield 6%, as part of a liability management exercise.

Nigerian oil and gas firm, Seven Energy is out with guidance for its comeback bond. The leads have set a wider guidance than was offered in July, when the borrower had to abort a deal, and will be hoping that the poor performance of this week’s markets doesn’t blight its return.

Wesfarmers, the diversified Australian retail, chemicals, energy and insurance group, attracted a €1.2bn book for its seven year bond on Tuesday, allowing it to increase the size from an expected €500m to €600m while still paying a new issue premium of 5bp or less.

Enterprise Inns expects to price £200m of 2023 notes on Tuesday, even as market participants begin to question the strength of the sterling high yield bond market following the collapse of UK phone retailer Phones 4U, and the recent struggles of primary issuance in the currency.

Norma Group, the German engineering company specialising in pipe fixings and connectors, has agreed a €100m term loan and €50m revolving credit facility. It will use the money to pay back the rest of its bank loans signed in 2011, which were due in 2016.