EXHIBIT 10.3
HENRY SCHEIN, INC.
SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT
PLAN
AMENDED AND RESTATED EFFECTIVE AS
OF JANUARY 1, 2008
This Plan was originally
established, effective as of January 1, 1994, and was amended and
restated effective as of February 9, 1998 and March 1, 2005, to
provide deferred compensation to a select group of management and
highly compensated employees of Henry Schein, Inc. and certain
Associated Companies (as defined herein). This Plan was previously
amended and restated effective as of January 1, 2008 is now being
amended and restated for the second time effective as of January 1,
2008 as set forth herein.
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Definitions . For
purposes of this Plan, the following definitions apply:
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(a)
“Account” means the sum of the Participant’s
Deferral Account and the Legacy Account.
(b)
“Associated Company” means such corporations and other entities
presently or in the future existing, which are (a) members of the
controlled group which includes the Company or are under common
control with the Company, as such terms are defined in Section 414
of the Code, but only during such period as such corporations or
entities are members of the controlled group which includes the
Company or are under common control with the Company; and (b) any
other entity required to be aggregated with the Company pursuant to
Section 414(m) or (o) of the Code, but only during the period the
entity is required to be so aggregated. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, with respect to the Legacy Account (formerly known as
the ESOP Supplemental Account), Associated Company means any entity
described above and any corporation which is a member of the same
controlled group of corporations with the Company, as defined in
Section 409(l)(4) of the Code.
(c)
“Base Compensation” means the salary paid during a Plan Year (or, if
shorter, that portion of this Plan Year during which an individual
is a Participant) by an Employer to a Participant for services
rendered, excluding commissions, bonuses, overtime, shift
differential payments, unused sick/personal days or vacation days
and gratuities; provided,
however , that Base
Compensation with respect to a Participant who is a “field
sales representative” shall mean the Participant’s draw
during a Plan Year (or, if shorter, that portion of this Plan Year
during which an individual is a Participant) by an Employer to a
Participant for services rendered. Base Compensation shall exclude
the profit realized on the exercise of stock options or on the sale
of stock acquired under stock options, gains from the exercise of
stock appreciation rights, payments under a nonqualified deferred
compensation plan, income imputed on below market loans, financial
or tax planning, housing allowances, schooling allowances, income
or excise tax equalization, and income from cashing out of stock
options or stock appreciation rights, imputed income from the use
of a company automobile, amounts received under an employee award
program (without regard to whether or not an amount is paid in
cash), moving expenses and relocation allowances. Base Compensation
shall not include any amounts paid or accrued to a Participant as
severance pay, or as a contribution to this Plan or any other
profit-sharing plan, pension plan, welfare plan, group insurance
plan, deferred compensation plan or any other
employee benefit plan maintained by
the Employer, except that Base Compensation shall include salary
reduction contributions to a plan established by the Employer under
Code Sections 401(k), 125 or 132.
(d)
“Beneficiary” means the person or persons (if any) specified
by the Participant in a written election filed with the Committee
to receive his or her Benefit under this Plan in the event of the
Participant’s death. If no such designation is made under
this Plan, “Beneficiary” means the person or persons
designated by a Participant under the Qualified Plan.
(e)
“Benefit” means the benefit payable under this Plan, which
shall be payable in a single lump sum cash payment.
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(f)
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“Board” means the Board of Directors of the
Company.
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(g)
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“Change of Control”
means a change of control as
provided in Exhibit A hereto.
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(h)
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“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.
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(i)
“Committee” means the committee, if any, appointed by the
Board to administer this Plan on its behalf. If no committee is
appointed, the Board shall be deemed to be the
Committee.
(j)
“Company” means Henry Schein, Inc. and any successor by
merger, consolidation, purchase or otherwise.
(k)
“Company Stock Fund” means a notional investment which is intended to
provide substantially similar results to the earnings and losses
that would be accrued by an investment in the common stock of the
Company, $.01 par value, subject to adjustments in such common
stock for changes in the Company’s capital structure as
determined by the Committee in its sole discretion.
(l)
“Deferral Account” means the Participant’s bookkeeping
account that is credited with contributions by the Employer
pursuant to the terms hereof, and is adjusted for any Deferral
Account Earnings thereon.
(m)
“Deferral Account Earnings” means, for any Plan Year, a book-entry amount to
be credited as earnings or losses to a Participant’s Deferral
Account equal to the earnings or losses that would accrue
if:
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(i)
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forty percent (40%) of the Participant’s
Deferral Account were invested in the Company Stock Fund;
and
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(ii)
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sixty percent (60%) of the Participant’s
Deferral Account were invested ratably in each of the Investment
Funds.
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(n)
“Disabled” means that a Participant is disabled within the
meaning of Code Section 409A(a)(2)(C) and the guidance issued
thereunder.
(o)
“Earnings” means, for any Plan Year, the sum of the
book-entry amounts reflecting: (i) Deferral Account Earnings, and
(ii) Legacy Account Earnings, provided that any Earnings credited
prior to the Restatement Date shall be determined in accordance
with the terms of this Plan then in effect.
(p)
“Eligible Employee” means a Top Hat Employee of an Employer whose
Base Compensation exceeds Recognized Compensation.
(q)
“Employee” means any common law employee of an Employer.
The term Employee excludes an agent and independent
contractor.
(r)
“Employer” means the Company and any Associated Company
which is approved as a participating employer hereunder by the
Board.
(s)
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974, as amended.
(t)
“ESOP Supplemental Account” means the portion of the Participant’s
account under this Plan prior to the Restatement Date with respect
to contributions of Company common stock by the Employer that were
specifically allocated to the ESOP Supplemental Account under this
Plan as in effect prior to April 1, 1998, plus any earnings and
losses on such contributions.
(u)
“Forfeiture” means in the event a Participant incurs a
Termination of Employment, any portion of the Participant’s
Account to which the Participant is not then vested pursuant to
Sections 4(a) or (b) hereof shall be forfeited.
(v)
“Investment Funds” means each of the investment funds available for
notional investments under this Plan other than the Company Stock
Fund, as determined by the Committee in its sole
discretion.
(w)
“Legacy Account” means, in the aggregate, each of the
Participant’s accounts formerly known as the ESOP
Supplemental Account, the Matching Contribution Supplemental
Account and the Profit Sharing Supplemental Account that were
credited with book-entry amounts reflecting contributions made to
this Plan prior to the Restatement Date, as adjusted for any Legacy
Account Earnings thereon.
(x)
“Legacy Account Earnings” means, for any Plan Year, a book-entry amount to
be credited as earnings or losses to a Participant’s Legacy
Account equal to the earnings and losses that would be accrued by
the Participant’s Legacy Account if the Participant’s
Legacy Account were invested as follows:
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(i)
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With respect to the ESOP Supplemental Account,
the earnings and losses that would accrue if the
Participant’s ESOP Supplemental Account were invested in the
Company Stock Fund.
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(ii)
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With respect to the Matching Contribution
Supplemental Account, the earnings or losses that would accrue if
(A) forty percent (40%) of the Participant’s Matching
Contribution Supplemental Account were invested
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in the Company Stock Fund; and (B)
sixty percent (60%) of the Participant’s Matching
Contribution Supplemental Account were invested ratably in each of
the Investment Funds.
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(iii)
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With respect to the Profit Sharing Supplemental
Account, the earnings or losses that would accrue if the
Participant’s Profit Sharing Supplemental Account were
invested ratably in each of the Investment Funds.
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(y)
“Matching Contribution Supplemental
Account” means the
portion of the Participant’s account under this Plan prior to
the Restatement Date with respect to matching contributions by the
Employer, plus any earnings and losses on such
contributions.
(z)
“Normal Retirement Date” means the day on which a Participant attains age
sixty-five (65) while employed by the Employer.
(aa)
“Participant” means any Eligible Employee who shall have
become a Participant in this Plan in accordance with the provisions
of Section 2 hereof, and whose participation shall not have ceased
or whose Account has not be distributed.
(bb)
“Plan” means the Henry Schein, Inc. Supplemental
Executive Retirement Plan, as amended from time to time.
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(cc)
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“Plan Year” means the calendar year.
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(dd)
“Profit Sharing Supplemental Account”
means the portion of the
Participant’s account under this Plan prior to the
Restatement Date with respect to profit sharing contributions by
the Employer, plus any earnings and losses on such
contributions.
(ee)
“Qualified Plan” means the Henry Schein, Inc. 401(k) Savings
Plan, as amended and restated effective as of January 1, 1997, as
amended from time to time.
(ff)
“Recognized Compensation” means the dollar limitation pursuant to Section
402(g) of the Code for this Plan Year divided by seven percent
(7%), or such other percentage determined by the Committee in its
sole discretion.
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(gg)
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“Restatement Date”
means January 1, 2008.
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(hh)
“Specified Employee” means a Participant who is a “specified
employee” within the meaning of such term under Section 409A
of the Code (and the guidance issued thereunder) and determined
using any identification methodology and procedure selected by the
Company from time to time, or, if none, the default methodology and
procedure specified under Section 409A of the Code.
(ii)
“Termination of Employment” means termination of employment as an Employee
of the Company and all Associated Companies for any reason
whatsoever, including, but not limited to, death, retirement,
resignation or firing (with or without cause), provided that such
termination of employment constitutes a “separation from
service” within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code (and
the guidance issued thereunder).
(jj)
“Top Hat Employee” means an Employee who is a member of a select
group of management or highly compensated employees of the Employer
who may participate in a plan within the meaning of Sections 201,
301(a)(3), and 401(a)(1) of ERISA.
(kk)
“Year of Service” means a period of twelve (12) consecutive
calendar months during which an Employee completes at least one
Hour of Service (as defined in the Qualified Plan) in each
consecutive calendar month.
To the extent not inconsistent with
the foregoing definitions and the terms hereof, any defined term
used in this Plan shall have the same meaning as in the Qualified
Plan.
(a) An
Eligible Employee shall become a Participant in this Plan on the
first day of the calendar quarter following the Participant’s
completion of a Year of Service, provided that he or she is an
Eligible Employee on such date.
(b) An
Employee shall cease to be an active Participant hereunder once he
ceases to be an Eligible Employee. A Participant who ceases to be
an Eligible Employee, but whose Account has not been distributed,
shall be treated as a “frozen Participant” and shall
not be eligible to receive further book-entry contributions to his
or her Deferral Account. A “frozen Participant’s”
Account shall continue to be adjusted for Earnings under
Section 3 until such Account is distributed in accordance with
Section 5.
(c) A
“frozen Participant” who is reemployed as an Eligible
Employee and whose reparticipation is approved by the Committee
shall become an active Participant as of the date of his or her
reemployment.
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3.
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Contributions and Earnings
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(a) The
Employer shall make a book-entry contribution to the Deferral
Account of each Participant, equal to (i) the amount by which the
Participant’s Base Compensation exceeds Recognized
Compensation multiplied by (ii) seven percent (7%), or such other
percentage determined by the Committee in its sole discretion;
provided that such other contribution percentage shall be
established prior to the first day of the applicable Plan Year. A
Participant’s Account shall be credited on September 30
th immediately following the Plan Year with respect to
which the contribution is earned (or at least annually as of any
date determined by the Committee in its sole discretion). No
contribution will be made for any Participant unless the
Participant is employed by the Employer on the date such amount is
to be credited. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a
Participant’s Deferral Account shall be credited with a
contribution with respect to the Plan Year of the
Participant’s retirement at or after the Normal Retirement
Date, death or Disability.
(b) A
Participant’s Account shall be adjusted for Earnings as of
December 31 of each calendar year or at least annually as of any
date determined by the Committee in its sole discretion; provided
that if the Participant’s death, Termination of Employment or
a Change in
Control has occurred in a calendar
year, the adjustment for such calendar year will occur as of the
date of death, Termination of Employment or Change in
Control.
(c) Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, the Employer shall account for the
portion of a Participant’s Benefit that was earned and vested
a