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Title: NASH-FINCH COMPANY SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN
Governing Law: Minnesota     Date: 3/12/2009
Industry: Retail (Grocery)     Sector: Services

NASH-FINCH COMPANY SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN, Parties: nash-finch company
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Exhibit 10.22

NASH-FINCH COMPANY
SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN

As Amended and Restated Effective July 14, 2008

Table of Contents

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Page

 

ARTICLE 1 Description

 

 

1

 

1.1 Plan Name

 

 

1

 

1.2 Plan Purpose

 

 

1

 

1.3 Plan Type

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 2 Participation

 

 

1

 

2.1 Eligibility

 

 

1

 

2.2 Condition of Participation

 

 

2

 

2.3 Termination of Participation

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 3 Benefits

 

 

2

 

3.1 Participant Accounts

 

 

2

 

3.2 Compensation Credits

 

 

2

 

3.3 Executive Incentive Bonus and Deferred Compensation Plan Interest

 

 

2

 

3.4 Earnings Credits

 

 

3

 

3.5 Vesting

 

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 4 Distribution

 

 

4

 

4.1 Distribution to Participant

 

 

4

 

4.2 Distribution to Beneficiary

 

 

6

 

4.3 Payment in Event of Incapacity

 

 

8

 

4.4 Effect of Delay or Failure to Ascertain Amount Distributable or to Locate Distributee

 

 

8

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 5 Source of Payments; Nature of Interest

 

 

8

 

5.1 Establishment of Trust

 

 

8

 

5.2 Source of Payments

 

 

9

 

5.3 Status of Plan

 

 

9

 

5.4 Non-assignability of Benefits

 

 

9

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 6 Adoption, Amendment, Termination

 

 

9

 

6.1 Adoption

 

 

9

 

6.2 Amendment

 

 

10

 

6.3 Termination

 

 

11

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 7 Definitions, Construction and Interpretation

 

 

11

 

7.1 Account

 

 

11

 

7.2 Active Participant

 

 

11

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Page

 

7.3 Administrator

 

 

12

 

7.4 Affiliate

 

 

12

 

7.5 Base Salary

 

 

12

 

7.6 Beneficiary

 

 

12

 

7.7 Board

 

 

12

 

7.8 Change in Control

 

 

12

 

7.9 Code

 

 

13

 

7.10 Company

 

 

13

 

7.11 Cross Reference

 

 

13

 

7.12 Deferred Compensation Plan

 

 

13

 

7.13 Disabled

 

 

13

 

7.14 ERISA

 

 

13

 

7.15 Governing Law

 

 

13

 

7.16 Grandfathered Benefits

 

 

13

 

7.17 Headings

 

 

14

 

7.18 Number and Gender

 

 

14

 

7.19 Participant

 

 

14

 

7.20 Participating Employer

 

 

14

 

7.21 Plan

 

 

14

 

7.22 Plan Rules

 

 

14

 

7.23 Plan Year

 

 

14

 

7.24 Section 409A

 

 

14

 

7.25 Specified Employee

 

 

14

 

7.26 Termination of Employment

 

 

14

 

7.27 Trust

 

 

15

 

7.28 Trustee

 

 

15

 

7.29 Year of Participation

 

 

15

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 8 Administration

 

 

15

 

8.1 Administrator

 

 

15

 

8.2 Plan Rules

 

 

16

 

8.3 Administrator’s Discretion

 

 

16

 

8.4 Specialist’s Assistance

 

 

16

 

8.5 Indemnification

 

 

16

 

8.6 Benefit Claim Procedure

 

 

16

 

8.7 Limitations on Certain Actions

 

 

17

 

8.8 Claims Procedures for Disability Claims

 

 

17

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE 9 Miscellaneous

 

 

19

 

9.1 Withholding and Offsets

 

 

19

 

9.2 Other Benefits

 

 

19

 

9.3 No Warranties Regarding Tax Treatment

 

 

19

 

9.4 No Employment Rights Created

 

 

19

 

9.5 Successors

 

 

20

 

9.6 Section 409A

 

 

20

 

 


 

NASH - FINCH COMPANY
SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN

As Amended and Restated on July 14, 2008

ARTICLE 1
Description

1.1

 

Plan Name . The name of the Plan is the “Nash-Finch Company Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan.”

 

1.2

 

Plan Purpose . The purpose of the Plan is to provide retirement income to Participants to supplement amounts available from other sources.

 

1.3

 

Plan Type . The Plan is an unfunded plan maintained primarily for the purpose of providing deferred compensation for a select group of management or highly compensated employees and, as such, is intended to be exempt from the provisions of Parts 2, 3 and 4 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA by operation of ERISA Sections 201(2), 301(a)(3) and 401(a)(4), respectively. The Plan is also intended to be unfunded for tax purposes. The Plan will be construed and administered in a manner that is consistent with and gives effect to the foregoing.

 

 

 

The Plan is intended to comply with all applicable law, including, to the extent applicable, the requirements of Section 409A (as defined below) and will be operated and construed in accordance with this intention. The Plan has been operated in reasonable, good faith compliance with Section 409A of the Code (within the meaning of Internal Revenue Service Notices 2005-1, 2006-79 and 2007-86) during the period beginning on January 1, 2005 and ending on the effective date of this amendment and restatement.

ARTICLE 2
Participation

2.1

 

Eligibility .

 

(A)

 

To be eligible to have credits made to his or her Account pursuant to Section 3.2 for a Plan Year, an individual must

 

 

(1)

 

be a member of a “select group of management or highly compensated employees” within the meaning of ERISA Sections 201(2), 301(a)(3) and 401(a)(1), as determined by the Administrator and

 

 

(2)

 

be selected by the Administrator for the Plan Year as evidenced by a written notice from the Administrator to the individual.

 

(B)

 

The fact that an individual has been eligible to have credits made to his or her Account pursuant to Section 3.2 with respect to any particular Plan Year does not

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give the individual any right to have any credits made to his or her Account with respect to any other Plan Year.

2.2

 

Condition of Participation . As a condition of participation, each Participant is bound by all the terms and conditions of the Plan and the Plan Rules, and must furnish to the Administrator such pertinent information, and execute such forms and other instruments, as the Administrator or Plan Rules may require by such dates as the Administrator or Plan Rules may establish.

 

2.3

 

Termination of Participation . A Participant will cease to be a Participant as of the later of the date on which (a) he or she ceases to be an Active Participant or (b) his or her entire Account balance has been distributed or forfeited.

ARTICLE 3
Benefits

3.1

 

Participant Accounts .

 

(A)

 

The Administrator will establish and maintain an Account for each Participant to evidence amounts credited with respect to the Participant pursuant to Section 3.2 and related earnings credits pursuant to Section 3.4.

 

 

(B)

 

For each Participant for whom a credit is made pursuant to Section 3.3, the Administrator will establish and maintain a separate Account to evidence the amount credited pursuant to Section 3.3 and related earnings credits pursuant to Section 3.4.

 

3.2

 

Compensation Credits .

 

(A)

 

As of the close of the last day of each Plan Year, after receiving the earnings credit for the calendar quarter then ending pursuant to Section 3.4, the Account of an Active Participant who satisfies the conditions described in Subsection (B) for the Plan Year will be credited with an amount equal to 20 percent of his or her Base Salary for the Plan Year.

 

 

(B)

 

To be eligible to have a credit made on his or her behalf for a Plan Year, an Active Participant must be actively employed by, or on an approved leave of absence from, an Affiliate on the last day of the Plan Year. For this purpose, an Active Participant’s status as an employee of an Affiliate on the last day of the Plan Year will be based on the Affiliate’s classification on that day without regard to any subsequent retroactive reclassification.

 

3.3

 

Executive Incentive Bonus and Deferred Compensation Plan Interest .

 

(A)

 

An Active Participant on January 1, 2000 may elect to have the total share equivalents contingently credited to the Active Participant as of December 31, 1999 under the Nash-Finch Company Executive Incentive Bonus and Deferred Compensation Plan (the “ Deferred Compensation Plan ”) converted to a cash

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equivalent and credited to his or her Account as of January 1, 2000. The amount credited to the Active Participant’s Account pursuant to this section will be the greater of (1) the amount at which the Participant’s total share equivalents as of December 31, 1999 were contingently credited to the Participant under the Deferred Compensation Plan and (2) an amount equal to the product of (a) the total share equivalents contingently credited to the Participant under the Deferred Compensation Plan as of December 31, 1999 multiplied by (b) the average, rounded to the nearest one-tenth of a cent ($.001), of the closing sales price per share of common stock of the Company that was reported by the NASDAQ National Market System, for the calendar quarter ending on December 31, 1999. For purposes of applying clause (b) of the prior sentence, the closing sales price for any trading day for which there are no reported sales of common stock of the Company will be deemed to be the last previously reported closing sales price.

 

 

(B)

 

An Active Participant’s election pursuant to Subsection (A) must be (1) in writing on a form provided by the Administrator and (2) received by the Administrator not later than a due date specified by the Administrator. The election may be revoked on or before the due date specified by the Administrator but may not be revoked or modified after such due date.

 

 

(C)

 

An Active Participant whose Account is credited pursuant to this section will cease to have any interest arising under or in connection with the Deferred Compensation Plan effective as of January 1, 2000 and the Participant’s rights with respect to his or her Account will, on and after January 1, 2000, be determined solely in accordance with the terms of this Plan.

3.4

 

Earnings Credits . As of the last day of each calendar quarter, the Administrator will, in accordance with Plan Rules, credit a Participant’s Account, including the undistributed portion of an Account from which distributions are being made in the form of installment payments, with earnings in an amount equal to the “applicable percentage” of the average daily balance of the Account for the quarter. The applicable percentage for a given calendar quarter is the quarterly equivalent of the average of the annual yield set forth for each month during the quarter in the Moody’s Bond Record , published by Moody’s Investor’s Service, Inc. (or any successor thereto) under the heading of “Moody’s Corporate Bond Yield Averages -Av. Corp.” or, if such yield is no longer available, a substantially similar average selected by the Administrator.

 

3.5

 

Vesting .

 

 

(A)

 

Subject to Section 4.1(D)(3), (1) a Participant will acquire a fully vested, nonforfeitable interest in his or her Account established and maintained pursuant to Section 3.1(A) upon attaining age 65 while he or she is an employee of an Affiliate or upon becoming an Active Participant after he or she attains age 65 and (2) a Participant will acquire a fully vested, nonforfeitable interest in his or her Account established and maintained pursuant to Section 3.1(B) upon attaining age 60 while he or she is an employee of an Affiliate.

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(B)

 

A Participant will acquire a fully vested, nonforfeitable interest in his or her Account if he or she dies or becomes Disabled while he or she is an employee of an Affiliate.

 

 

(C)

 

Subject to Section 4.1(D)(3), a Participant whose employment terminates prior to his or her attainment of age 65 in the case of the Account established and maintained pursuant to Section 3.1(A), or prior to his or her attainment of age 60 in the case of the Account established and maintained pursuant to Section 3.1(B), other than by reason of his or her death or becoming Disabled will acquire a vested, nonforfeitable interest in his or her Account to the extent provided in the following schedule:

 

 

 

 

 

Years of Participation

 

Percentage Vested

Less Than Five Years

 

 

0

%

Five Years

 

 

50

%

Six Years

 

 

60

%

Seven Years

 

 

70

%

Eight Years

 

 

80

%

Nine Years

 

 

90

%

Ten or More Years

 

 

100

%

 

 

 

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection, but subject to Section 4.1(D)(3), in no case will a Participant’s vested, nonforfeitable interest in his or her Account established and maintained pursuant to Section 3.1(B) be less than 50 percent.

 

(D)

 

A Participant will acquire a fully vested nonforfeitable interest in his or her Account upon the occurrence of a Change in Control.

 

 

(E)

 

The Administrator may at any time accelerate the vesting of all or any part of the nonvested portion of a Participant’s Account.

 

 

(F)

 

The nonvested portion of a Participant’s Account will be permanently forfeited as of the beginning of the day on which he or she terminates employment.

 

 

(G)

 

For purposes of this section, a Participant’s status as an employee of an Affiliate on a given date will be based on the Affiliate’s classification on that date without regard to any subsequent retroactive reclassification.

ARTICLE 4
Distribution

4.1

 

Distribution to Participant .

 

(A)

 

Form . Distribution to a Participant will be made in the form of 120 monthly payments.

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(B)

 

Time . Subject to Subsection (D) and Section 6.3, distribution to a Participant will begin during the first month of the Plan Year next following the Plan Year during which occurs the Participant Termination of Employment (other than a Termination of Employment due to such Participant’s death).

 

 

(C)

 

Amount . The amount of each monthly installment payment will be determined by dividing the Participant’s vested Account balance as of the last day of the calendar quarter immediately preceding the payment date, reduced by the amount of any subsequent installment payments, by the total number of remaining payments (including the payment in question).

 

 

(D)

 

Special Rules . The provisions of this subsection apply notwithstanding Subsection (A), (B) or (C) to the contrary.

 

(1)

 

Acceleration. If at any time prior to the date a Participant’s distribution commences in accordance with Subsection (B), the Plan fails to meet the requirements of Section 409A, or regulations issued thereunder, the Administrator shall cause to be distributed a portion of the Account balance of any Participant who is required to include in income an amount as a result of such failure. The amount of such accelerated distribution shall not exceed the lesser of (a) the amount required to be included in such Participant’s gross income as a result of such failure and (b) the unpaid vested Account balance.

 

 

(2)

 

Divestitures .

 

 

(a)

 

If a Change in Control occurs due to some or all of the assets of a Participating Employer being sold or otherwise disposed of to an acquirer that is not an Affiliate, the Administrator shall cause to be distributed the vested Account balance of any Participant whose employment with all Affiliates is terminated in connection with the sale or disposition unless the acquirer adopts a successor plan which is substantially similar to the Plan in all material respects and expressly assumes the Participating Employer’s obligation to provide benefits to the Participant, in which case the Participating Employer will cease to have any obligation to provide benefits to the Participant pursuant to the Plan as of the effective date of the assumption. Any such distribution will be made in the form of a lump sum payment as soon as administratively practicable after the date of the Change in Control, and, in any event, within 60 days of the occurrence of such Change in Control The amount of the payment will be equal to the Participant’s vested Account balance as of the last day of the calendar quarter immediately preceding the payment.

 

 

(b)

 

If a Participating Employer ceases to be an Affiliate, unless otherwise provided in an agreement between an Affiliate and the

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Participating Employer or an Affiliate and an acquirer that is not an Affiliate,

 

(i)

 

a Participant who is employed with the Participating Employer, or

 

 

(ii)

 

a Participant who is not employed with the Participating Employer but has an Account balance attributable to the Participating Employer

 

 

 

 

will not become entitled to his or her Account balance attributable to the Participating Employer solely as a result of the cessation and the Participating Employer will, after the date on which it ceases to be an Affiliated Organization, continue to be solely responsible to provide benefits to the Participant at least equal to the balance of the Account as of the effective date of the cessation and as thereafter increased by credits pursuant to Section 3.2 relating to the period before the effective date and earnings credits pursuant to Section 3.4.

 

(3)

 

Certain Forfeitures . The entire balance of a Participant’s Account will be permanently forfeited if, without the prior written consent of the Company, the Participant, at any time prior to his or her termination of employment or during the period during which he or she is receiving distributions pursuant to the Plan, actively participates or engages in any business in competition with any Affiliate or fails to make himself or herself available for consultation, or if the Participant’s employment is terminated at any time prior to age 65 because of evidence of dishonesty or mistrust in his or her employment or because of his or her involvement in a crime or misdemeanor against any Affiliate or any employee of an Affiliate for which the Participant is convicted or which the Participant has confessed in writing to the Company or any law enforcement agency.

 

 

(E)

 

Reduction of Account Balance . The balance of the Account from which a distribution is made will be reduced by the amount of the distribution as of the beginning of the date of the distribution.

4.2

 

Distribution to Beneficiary .

 

 

(A)

 

Form . In the event of a Participant’s Termination of Employment due to his or her death, the balance of the Participant’s Account will be distributed to the Participant’s Beneficiary in a lump sum payment whether or not payments had commenced to the Participant in the form of installments prior to his or her Termination of Employment due to his or her death.

 

 

(B)

 

Time . Subject to Subsection 4.1(D) and Section 6.3, distribution to a Beneficiary will be made within 60 days after the end of the calendar quarter in which the Participant’s Termination of Employment due to his or her death occurs.

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(C)

 

Amount . The amount of the payment will be equal to the Participant’s vested Account balance as of the last day of the calendar quarter immediately preceding the payment.

 

 

(D)

 

Reduction of Account Balance . The balance of the Account from which a distribution is made will be reduced by the amount of the distribution as of the beginning of the date of the distribution.

 

 

(E)

 

Beneficiary Designation .

 

 

(1)

 

A Participant may designate, on a form furnished by the Administrator, one or more primary Beneficiaries or alternative Beneficiaries to receive all or a specified part of his or her Account after his or her death, and the Participant may change or revoke any such designation from time to time. No such designation, change or revocation is effective unless executed by the Participant and received by the Administrator during the Participant’s lifetime. No designation of a Beneficiary other than the Participant’s spouse is effective unless the spouse consents to the designation or the Administrator determines that spousal consent cannot be obtained because the spouse cannot reasonably be located or is legally incapable of consenting. The consent must be in writing, must acknowledge the effect of the election and must be witnessed by a notary public. The consent is effective only with respect to the Beneficiary or class of Beneficiaries so designated and only with respect to the spouse who so consented.

 

 

(2)

 

If a Participant

 

(a)

 

fails to designate a Beneficiary, or

 

 

(b)

 

revokes a Beneficiary designation without naming another Beneficiary, or

 

 

(c)

 

designates one or more Beneficiaries none of whom survives the Participant or exists at the time in question, for all or any portion of his or her Account,

 

 

 

 

such Account or portion will be paid to the Participant’s surviving spouse or, if the Participant is not survived by a spouse, to the representative of the Participant’s estate.

 

(3)

 

The automatic Beneficiaries specified above and, unless the designation otherwise specifies, the Beneficiaries designated by the Participant, become fixed as of the Participant’s death so that, if a Beneficiary survives the Participant but dies before the receipt of the payment due such Beneficiary, the payment will be made to the representative of such Beneficiary’s estate. Any designation of a Beneficiary by name that is accompanied by a description of relationship or only by statement of relationship to the Participant is effective only to designate the

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person or persons standing in such relationship to the Participant at the Participant’s death.

4.3

 

Payment in Event of Incapacity . If any individual entitled to receive any payment under the Plan is, in the judgment of the Administrator, physically, mentally or legally incapable of receiving or acknowledging receipt of the payment, and no legal representative has been appointed for the individual, the Administrator may (but is not required to) cause the payment to be made to any one or more of the following as may be chosen by the Administrator: the Beneficiary (in the case of the incapacity of a Participant); the institution maintaining the individual; a custodian for the individual under the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act of any state; or the individual’s spouse, children, parents, or other relatives by blood or marriage. The Administrator is not required to see to the proper application of any such payment and the payment completely discharges all claims under the Plan against the Participating Employer, the Plan and Trust to the extent of the payment.

 

4.4

 

Effect of Delay or Failure to Ascertain Amount Distributable or to Locate Distributee .

 

 

(A)

 

If an amount payable under Article 4 or Article 6 cannot be ascertained or the person to whom it is payable has not been ascertained or located within the stated time limits and reasonable efforts to do so have been made, then distribution shall be made not later than 30 days after such amount is determined or such person is ascertained or located, or as prescribed in Subsection (B).

 

 

(B)

 

If, by fifteenth day of the third month following the calendar year in which a Participant’s Termination of Employment occurs, the Administrator, in the exercise of due diligence, has failed to locate him (or if after a termination of employment by reason of death, has failed to locate the person entitled to his vested Account balance under Section 4.2), the Participant’s entire distributable interest in the Plan shall be forfeited; provided, however, that if the Participant (or in the case of his death, the person entitled thereto under Section 4.2) makes proper claim therefor pursuant to the Plan Rules, the amount so forfeited shall be paid to such Participant or such person in a lump sum not later than 30 days after such claim is made.

ARTICLE 5
Source of Payments; Nature of Interest

5.1

 

Establishment of Trust .

 

(A)

 

A Participating Employer may establish a Trust, or may be covered by a Trust established by another Participating Employer, with an independent corporate trustee. The Trust must (1) be a grantor trust with respect to which the Participating Employer is treated as the grantor for purposes of Code Section 677, (2) not cause the Plan to be funded for purposes of Title I of ERISA and (3) provide that the Trust assets will, upon the insolvency of a Participating

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Employer, be used to satisfy claims of the Participating Employer’s general creditors. The Participating Employers may from time to time transfer to the Trust cash, marketable securities or other property acceptable to the Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Trust.

 

 
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