CAMPBELL SOUP COMPANY
SUPPLEMENTAL EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT PLAN
Amended and Restated
Effective January 1, 2009
This
is the Campbell Soup Company Supplemental Employees’
Retirement Plan (the “SERP” or the “Plan”)
originally adopted on the August 1, 1996 by the Campbell Soup
Company (the “Company”) on behalf of itself and its
subsidiaries to provide benefits, in addition to those provided
under the Campbell Soup Company Retirement and Pension Plan (the
“Pension Plan”) to certain eligible employees of the
Company and its subsidiaries. The SERP is a continuation of the
benefit that, prior to August 1, 1996, was set forth in
footnote 3 of the Pension Plan.
The
portion of the SERP that provides excess benefits ( i.e. ,
benefits that, pursuant to section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code
(the “Code”), may not be provided under a tax-qualified
retirement plan) is intended to be an excess benefit plan within
the meaning of section 3(36) of ERISA. The remainder of the SERP is
intended to be “a plan which is unfunded and is maintained by
an employer primarily for the purpose of providing deferred
compensation for a select group of management or highly compensated
employees” within the meaning of sections 201(2), 301(a)(3)
and 401(a)(1) of ERISA. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, the SERP, as amended and restated effective
January 1, 2009, is intended to comply with Code section 409A
and official guidance issued thereunder and shall be interpreted,
operated and administered in a manner consistent with the
intentions set forth above.
All
of the capitalized terms used in the SERP and not defined herein
shall have the same meaning as in the Deferred Compensation Plan
II. The following words and phrases as used in this Plan shall have
the following meanings unless a different meaning is plainly
required by the context:
(a) “Committee”
means the Administrative Committee of the Pension Plan.
(b) “Deferred
Compensation Plan II” means the Campbell Soup Company
Deferred Compensation Plan II, as amended from time to
time.
(c) “Present
Value” means the present value of an amount calculated using
the actuarial factors and assumptions specified in the Pension
Plan.
(d) “SERP
Benefit” means the monthly annuity benefit determined under
Section 5.
(e) “Subsidiary”
means a corporation, the majority of the voting stock of which is
owned directly or indirectly by the Company.
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(f) “Years
of Service” means the Participant’s Years of Vesting
Service, as that term is defined and determined in accordance with
the provisions of the Pension Plan, but for this SERP determined
using all employment with the Company and all of its
Subsidiaries.
An
employee of the Company or a subsidiary who participates in the
Pension Plan shall be a participant (a “Participant”)
in the SERP if the employee’s accrued benefit under the
Pension Plan (“Accrued Benefit”) is less than it would
be if: (a) the Pension Plan were not subject to: (i) the limit
imposed by section 401(a)(17) of the Code or any successor
provision of law on the amount of annual compensation of each
employee that may be taken into account, and (ii) the limit
imposed by section 415 of the Code or any successor provision of
law on the amount of annual benefits that may be accrued (The
limits described in (i) and (ii) shall be referred to
hereinafter, collectively, as the “Code Limits”); or
(b) the employee defers Compensation under the Deferred
Compensation Plan II, as amended from time to time, or the Campbell
Soup Company Deferred Compensation Plan.
All
benefits under the SERP represent an unsecured promise to pay by
the Company. The SERP shall be unfunded and the benefits hereunder
shall be paid only from the general assets of the Company resulting
in the Participant having no greater rights than the
Company’s other general creditors. Nothing herein shall
prevent or prohibit the Company from establishing a trust or other
arrangement for the purpose of providing for the payment of the
benefits payable under the SERP. The Company may from time to time,
pay to the trustee of the Trust Under Campbell Soup Company
Non-Qualified Retirement Plans (the “Trust”) such
amounts as it may, in its sole discretion, deem necessary or
desirable to meet its obligations to pay benefits under the SERP.
Amounts held under the Trust, which shall be a grantor trust, shall
be subject to the terms and conditions thereof. Benefits not paid
by the Trust shall be paid by the Company.
4.
Vesting and Service Credit :
(a)
Vesting . Any Participant, whose employment terminates for
any reason, other than due to death or Total Disability, prior to
the Participant’s completing three Years of Service shall
automatically forfeit all benefits under the SERP.
(b)
Service Credit . An employee’s credit for periods of
service under the SERP shall be co-extensive with his credit for
periods of service under the Pension Plan and any Affiliated Plan
unless the Chief Executive Officer has determined that additional
credit for periods of service with a prior employer should be
granted under the SERP.
(a)
Normal Retirement Date SERP Benefit . The monthly normal
retirement benefit calculated under the SERP shall be equal to the
excess, if any, of (i) over (ii) where:
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(i) is the amount
that would have been paid, as of the Participant’s attainment
of age 65, under the Pension Plan, if the amount of the monthly
benefit under the Pension Plan as in effect when the Participant
terminates employment, assuming payment in the form of a single
life annuity in accordance with the provisions of the Pension Plan,
was calculated without taking the Code Limits into account and with
all amounts that would otherwise be included as Earnings (as
defined under the Pension Plan), but for the fact that the
Participant elected to defer receipt of such amounts under the
Deferred Compensation Plan II or the Campbell Soup Company Deferred
Compensation Plan, as amended from time to time; and
(ii) is the amount
that would be payable, as of the Participant’s attainment of
age 65, under the Pension Plan, any other defined benefit pension
plan qualified under section 401(a) of the Code and maintained by
the Company or any other employer treated with the Company as a
single employer under sections 414(b) or 414(c) of the Code (an
“Affiliated Plan”), or any other plan qualified under
section 401(a) of the Code maintained by any prior employer if
credit is given under both the SERP and the plan of the prior
employer for the same period of service.
In calculating
the amount se
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