EXHIBIT 10.6
COLLECTIVE BRANDS, INC.
SUPPLEMENTARY RETIREMENT ACCOUNT PLAN
As
Amended and Restated January 1, 2008
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Section 1.
Definitions
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1.1 Account
Balance
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1.2 Actuarial
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1.3
Associate
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1.4 Basic
Credit
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1.5 Basic Credit
Account
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1.6 Cause
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1.7 CEO
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1.8 Change in
Control of the Company
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1.9 Code
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1.10
Committee
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1.11 Company
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1.12 Company
Service
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1.13
Compensation
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1.14 Competing
Business
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1.15 Discretionary
Credit
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1.16 Discretionary
Credit Account
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1.17 Effective
Date
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1.18
Employer
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1.19 Executive
Management Member
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1.20 Fiscal
Year
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1.21 Key
Employee
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1.22 Member
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1.23 Minimum
Benefit
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1.24 Payless
Profit Sharing Plan
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1.25 Payment
Date
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1.26 Performance
Credit
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1.27 Performance
Credit Account
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1.28 Performance
Goal
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1.29 Performance
Measures
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1.30 Plan
Year
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1.31 Termination
of Employment
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1.32 Transition
Credit
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1.33 Transition
Credit Account
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1.34 Trust
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Section 2.
Membership
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2.1 Prior
Members
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2.2 New
Members
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2.3 Reemployed
Members
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2.4 Eligibility
for Benefits
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Section 3.
Benefits
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3.1 Transition
Credit
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3.2 Basic
Credit
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3.3 Performance
Credit
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3.4 Discretionary
Credit
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3.5 Vesting
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3.6 Adjustment of
Account Balance
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3.7 Minimum
Benefit
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3.8 Distributions
to Members
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3.9 Death of
Member
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3.10
Noncompetition
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3.11 Indirect
Payment of Benefits
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3.12
Withholding
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Section 4.
Administration of the Plan
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4.1 The
Committee
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4.2 Delegation of
Duties
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4.3
Authority
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Section 5.
Claims Procedure
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5.1 Claim
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5.2 Claim
Decision
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5.3 Request for
Review
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5.4 Review of
Decision
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Section 6.
Certain Rights and Obligations
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6.1 Rights of
Members and Beneficiaries
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6.2
Employer-Associate Relationship
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6.3 Unfunded
Nature of Plan
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6.4 Trust
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Section 7.
Non-Alienation of Benefits
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7.1 Provisions
with Respect to Assignment and Levy
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7.2 Alternate
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Section 8.
Amendment and Termination
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8.1
Company’s Rights
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8.2 Rights to
Terminate
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Section 9.
Construction
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9.1 Governing
Law
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9.2 Terms and
Headings
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Collective Brands, Inc. Supplementary Retirement Account Plan
This
document constitutes and sets forth the terms of the Collective
Brands, Inc. Supplementary Retirement Account Plan, which is an
amendment and restatement of the Payless ShoeSource Supplementary
Retirement Plan effective as of January 1, 2008.
Section 1. Definitions.
1.1
Account Balance means, with respect to a Member, a credit on
the records of the Employer equal to the sum of (i) the
Transition Credit Account balance, (ii) the Basic Credit
Account balance, (iii) the Performance Credit Account balance,
and (iv) the Discretionary Credit Account balance. The Account
Balance, and each component thereof, shall be a bookkeeping entry
only and shall be utilized solely as a device for the measurement
and determination of the amounts to be paid to a Member, or his or
her designated beneficiary, pursuant to this Plan.
1.2
Actuarial Equivalent means a benefit of equivalent value
when computed on the basis of the actuarial principles and tables
adopted or otherwise approved by the Committee.
1.3
Associate means any associate of an Employer under the
Payless Profit Sharing Plan.
1.4
Basic Credit means, for any one Plan Year, the amount
determined in accordance with Section 3.2.
1.5
Basic Credit Account means (i) the sum of the
Member’s Basic Credits, plus (ii) amounts credited in
accordance with all the applicable crediting provisions of this
Plan that relate to the Member’s Basic Credit Account, less
(iii) all distributions made to the Member or his or her
beneficiary pursuant to this Plan that relate to the Member’s
Basic Credit Account.
1.6
Cause means:
(a) the willful and continued
failure by the Member to substantially perform his or her duties
with the Company or an Employer (other than any such failure
resulting from disability or, in the case of a Member with whom the
Company or an Employer has entered into a change in control
agreement providing for termination of employment for good reason
following a Change in Control of the Company, any such actual or
anticipated failure after the Member notifies the Company or an
Employer of circumstances constituting good reason which occur
after a Change in Control of the Company) after a written demand
for substantial performance is delivered to the Member by the
Company or Employer, which demand specifically identifies the
manner in which the Company or Employer believes the Member has not
substantially performed his or her duties, or
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(b) the willful engaging by the
Member in conduct that is demonstrably and materially injurious to
the Company or Employer, monetarily or otherwise;
provided, however, that a Termination of Employment shall
not be deemed for Cause if the Member’s employment agreement
with the Company provides a definition of “cause” under
which “cause” has not occurred. For the purposes of
this Section 1.6, “good reason” has the meaning
set forth in the change in control agreement between the Member and
the Company or an Employer, if any.
1.7
CEO means the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.
1.8
Change in Control of the Company means:
(a) Any individual, entity or
group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or 14(d)(2) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“Exchange Act”)) (a “Person”) acquires
beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3
promulgated under the Exchange Act) of 20% or more of either
(A) the then-outstanding shares of common stock of the Company
(the “Outstanding Company Common Stock”) or
(B) the combined voting power of the then-outstanding voting
securities of the Company entitled to vote generally in the
election of directors (the “Outstanding Company Voting
Securities”); provided , however , that, for
purposes of this Section 1.8(a), none of the following shall
constitute a Change of Control: (i) any acquisition directly
from the Company of 30% or less of Outstanding Company Common Stock
or Outstanding Company Voting Securities provided that at least a
majority of the members of the board of directors of the Company
following such acquisition were members of the Incumbent Board at
the time of the Board’s approval of such acquisition, (ii)
any acquisition by the Company, (iii) any acquisition by any
employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by
the Company or any affiliated company, or (iv) any acquisition
by the Company which, by reducing the number of shares of
Outstanding Company Common Stock or Outstanding Company Voting
Securities, increases the proportionate number of shares of
Outstanding Company Common Stock or Outstanding Company Voting
Securities beneficially owned by any Person to 20% or more of the
Outstanding Company Common Stock or Outstanding Company Voting
Securities; provided, however, that, if such Person shall
thereafter become the beneficial owner of any additional shares of
Outstanding Company Common Stock or Outstanding Company Voting
Securities and beneficially owns 20% or more of either the
Outstanding Company Common Stock or the Outstanding Company Voting
Securities, then such additional acquisition shall constitute a
Change of Control;
(b) Individuals who, as of the
date hereof, constitute the Board (the “Incumbent
Board”) cease for any reason to constitute at least a
majority of the Board; provided , however , that any
individual becoming a director subsequent to the date hereof whose
election, or nomination for election by the Company’s
stockholders, was approved by a vote of at least a majority of the
directors then comprising the Incumbent Board shall be considered
as though such individual were a member of the Incumbent Board, but
excluding,
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for this
purpose, any such individual whose initial assumption of office
occurs as a result of an actual or threatened election contest with
respect to the election or removal of directors or other actual or
threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by or on behalf of a
Person other than the Board;
(c) A reorganization, merger,
consolidation or sale or other disposition of all or substantially
all of the assets of the Company (a “Business
Combination”) is consummated, in each case, unless,
immediately following such Business Combination, (A), more than
50%, respectively, of the then-outstanding shares of common stock
and the combined voting power of the then-outstanding voting
securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors,
as the case may be, of (x) the corporation resulting from such
Business Combination or (y) a corporation that, as a result of
such transaction, owns the Company or all or substantially all of
the Company’s assets either directly or through one or more
subsidiaries, is represented by the Outstanding Company Common
Stock and the Outstanding Company Voting Securities (or, if
applicable, is represented by shares into which Outstanding Company
Common Stock or Outstanding Company Voting Securities were
converted pursuant to such Business Combination) in substantially
the same proportions as their ownership immediately prior to such
Business Combination of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and
the Outstanding Company Voting Securities, as the case may be,
(B) no Person (excluding any corporation resulting from such
Business Combination or any employee benefit plan (or related
trust) of the Company or such corporation resulting from such
Business Combination) beneficially owns, directly or indirectly,
20% or more of, respectively, the then-outstanding shares of common
stock of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination
or the combined voting power of the then-outstanding voting
securities of such corporation, except to the extent that such
ownership existed prior to the Business Combination, and
(C) at least a majority of the members of the board of
directors of the corporation resulting from such Business
Combination were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the
execution of the initial agreement or of the action of the Board
providing for such Business Combination; or
(d) The stockholders of the
Company approve of a complete liquidation or dissolution of the
Company.
1.9
Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
from time to time.
1.10
Committee means (i) for purposes of establishing and
determining the satisfaction of Performance Goals under
Sections 1.28 and 3.3, the Compensation, Nominating and
Governance Committee of the board of directors of the Company, and
(ii) for all other purposes under the Plan, the committee
established by Section 4 of this Plan.
1.11
Company means Collective Brands, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, and any other organization which may be a successor to
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1.12
Company Service means years of service during employment
with an Employer, any other subsidiary of the Company or any other
affiliated company, determined using the elapsed time method.
Members shall receive a year of Company Service on each anniversary
date of their commencement of employment with an Employer, subject
to any limitations or restrictions as may be imposed in connection
with such Employer’s adoption of the Plan; provided,
however, that Company Service shall also include service with
The May Department Stores Company for a Member who commenced
employment with Payless ShoeSource, Inc.:
(a) on or before May 4,
1996, or
(b) prior to January 1,
1999 and received credit for service with The May Department Stores
Company for benefits purposes at the time of the Member’s
initial employment with Payless ShoeSource, Inc.
In the event of a Member’s
Termination of Employment and subsequent reemployment by an
Employer, any other subsidiary of the Company or any other
affiliated company:
(c) within 31 days, Company
Service shall include the period between such Termination of
Employment and such reemployment and Company Service earned prior
to such Termination of Employment;
(d) after 31 days but
within one year, Company Service shall not include the period
between such Termination of Employment and such reemployment, but
shall include Company Service earned prior to such Termination of
Employment; or
(e) after one year, Company
Service shall not include the period between such Termination of
Employment and such reemployment, and Company Service earned prior
to such Termination of Employment shall be forfeited.
1.13
Compensation means base salary and any annual incentive
payment received by an Associate from any Employer during any Plan
Year, including amounts not otherwise includable in the
Member’s taxable income pursuant to Code Section 125 or
402(e)(3), and amounts subject to the Collective Brands, Inc.
Deferred Compensation Plan. Compensation shall not include any
discretionary or special cash awards, including, but not limited
to, retention, spot awards, home sale bonuses, CEO discretionary
cash awards and sign on bonuses.
1.14
Competing Business includes for purposes of this Plan, but
is not limited to, the following:
(a) any retail business with
gross sales or revenue in the prior fiscal year of more than $25
million (or which is a subsidiary, affiliate or joint venture
partner of a business with gross sales or revenue in the prior
fiscal year of more than $25 million) that sells
footwear
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and/or
accessories at retail to consumers at price points competitive, or
likely to be competitive, with the Company (e.g. including, without
limitation, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Sears Holdings Corporation,
Target Corporation, Shoe Zone Limited, Bata Limited, Aldo Shoes,
Inc., Genesco, Inc., Footlocker, Inc., Brown Shoe Company, Inc.,
Shoe Carnival, Inc., Kohl’s Corporation, Liz Claiborne Inc.,
Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation, and J.C. Penney Company, Inc.)
within 10 miles of any Company store or the store of any wholesale
customer of the Company in the United States or anywhere in any
foreign country in which the Company has retail stores, franchisees
or wholesale customers;
(b) any franchising or
wholesaling business with gross sales or revenue in the prior
fiscal year of more than $25 million (or which is a
subsidiary, affiliate or joint venture partner of a business with
gross sales or revenue in the prior fiscal year of more than
$25 million) which sells footwear at wholesale to franchisees,
retailers or other footwear distributors located within 10 miles of
any Company store or the store of any wholesale customer of the
Company in the United States, or anywhere in any foreign country in
which the Company has retail stores, franchisees or wholesale
customers;
(c) any footwear and/or
accessory manufacturing business with gross sales or revenue in the
prior fiscal year of more than $25 million (or which is a
subsidiary, affiliate or joint venture partner of a business with
gross sales or revenue in the prior fiscal year of more than $25
million) that sells footwear and/or accessories to retailers or
other footwear distributors located within 10 miles of any Company
store or the store of any wholesale customer of the Company in the
United States, or anywhere in any foreign country in which the
Company has retail stores, franchisees or wholesale customers (e.g.
including without limitation, Nine West Shoes, Dexter Shoe Company,
Liz Claiborne Inc., Wolverine World Wide, Inc., The Timberland
Company, Nike, Inc., Reebok International Ltd., K-Swiss Inc. and
Adidas Salomon AG); or
(d) any business that provides
buying office services to any store or group of stores or
businesses referred to in (a), (b) and (c) above.
1.15
Discretionary Credit means, for any one Plan Year, the
amount determined in accordance with Section 3.4.
1.16
Discretionary Credit Account means (i) the sum of the
Member’s Discretionary Credits, plus (ii) amounts
credited in accordance with all the applicable crediting provisions
of this Plan that relate to the Member’s Discretionary Credit
Account, less (iii) all distributions made to the Member or
his or her beneficiary pursuant to this Plan that relate to the
Member’s Discretionary Credit Account.
1.17
Effective Date means January 1, 2008. The Plan was
originally effective on May 4, 1996.
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1.18
Employer means the Company and, if authorized by the Company
to participate herein, any subsidiary of the Company or any other
affiliated company which elects to participate herein.
1.19
Executive Management Member means any Member who is employed
by an Employer in a position at the level of Vice President or
above.
1.20
Fiscal Year means the fiscal year of the Company.
1.21
Key Employee shall means any Member who is a “key
employee” (as defined in Code Section 416(i) without regard
to paragraph (5) thereof) based upon the 12-month period
ending on each December 31 st (such 12-month
period is referred to below as the “identification
period”). All Members who are determined to be key employees
under Code Section 416(i) (without regard to paragraph
(5) thereof) during the identification period shall be treated
as Key Employees for purposes of the Plan during the 12-month
period that begins on the first day of the 4 th month following
the close of such identification period. For purposes of
determining whether a Member is a Key Employee, the definition of
compensation set forth in Treasury Regulation Section
1.415(c)-2(a) shall be applied [without respect to any safe harbor
provided in Section 1.415(c)-2(d), without respect to the special
timing rules in Section 1.415(c)-2(e), and without respect to
any of the special rules in Section 1.415(c)-2(g)].
1.22
Member means any person included in the membership of the
Plan as provided in Section 2.
1.23
Minimum Benefit means the amount determined in accordance
with Section 3.7.
1.24
Payless Profit Sharing Plan means the Payless ShoeSource,
Inc. 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan, as amended from time to time, and
any other successor retirement plan which may be designated by the
Committee, including the Payless ShoeSource, Inc. Profit Sharing
Plan for Puerto Rico Associates.
1.25
Payment Date means January 1 or July 1 of any Plan Year;
provided, however, that payment on any subsequent day during
the same Plan Year shall constitute payment on the applicable
Payment Date.
1.26
Performance Credit means, for any one Plan Year, the amount
determined in accordance with Section 3.3.
1.27
Performance Credit Account means (i) the sum of the
Member’s Performance Credits, plus (ii) amounts credited in
accordance with all the applicable crediting provisions of this
Plan that relate to the Member’s Performance Credit Account,
less (iii) all distributions made to the Member or his or her
beneficiary pursuant to this Plan that relate to the Member’s
Performance Credit Account.
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1.28
Performance Goal means the goal or goals established with
respect to the Executive Management Members for a Plan Year by the
Committee pursuant to Section 3.3.
1.29
Performance Measures means any of the following performance
criteria, either alone or in any combination, and may be expressed
with respect to the Company or one or more operating units, groups,
or any Employer, as the Committee may determine: cash flow; cash
flow from operations; total earnings; earnings per share, diluted
or basic; earnings per share from continuing operations, diluted or
basic; earnings before interest and taxes; earnings before
interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization; earnings from
continuing operations; net asset turnover; inventory turnover; net
earnings; operating earnings; operating margin; return on equity;
return on net assets; return on total assets; return on capital;
return on investment; return on sales; revenues; sales; market
share; economic value added; expense reduction levels; stock price;
total shareholder return and operating income. For any Plan Year,
Performance Measures may be determined on an absolute basis or
relative to internal goals or relative to levels attained in a year
or years prior to such Plan Year or related to other companies or
indices or as ratios expressing relationships between two or more
Performance Measures. For any Plan Year, the Committee shall
provide how any Performance Measure shall be adjusted to the extent
necessary to exclude the effects of extraordinary, unusual, or
non-recurring items; changes in applicable laws, regulations, or
accounting principles; currency fluctuations; discontinued
operations; non-cash items, such as amortization, depreciation, or
reserves; or any recapitalization, restructuring, reorganization,
merger, acquisition, divestiture, consolidation, spin-off,
split-up, combination, liquidation, dissolution, sale of assets, or
other similar corporate transaction, or stock dividends, or stock
splits or combinations.
1.30
Plan Year means the period between January 1 st and
December 31 st of each
year.
1.31
Termination of Employment means a Member’s separation
from service with all Employers, other subsidiaries of the Company
and other affiliated companies, involuntarily or voluntarily, for
any reason other than death, as determined in accordance with Code
Section 409A.
1.32
Transition Credit means the amount determined in accordance
with Section 3.1.
1.33
Transition Credit Account means (i) the Member’s
Transition Credit, plus (ii) amounts credited in accordance
with all the applicable crediting provisions of this Plan that
relate to the Member’s Transition Credit Account, less
(iii) all distributions made to the Member or his or her
designated beneficiary pursuant to this Plan that relate to the
Member’s Transition Credit Account.
1.34
Trust means one or more trusts, commonly referred to as a
“rabbi trust,” established between the Company and the
trustee named therein, as amended from time to time.
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Section 2. Membership.
2.1
Prior Members . Each Associate who was a Member on
December 31, 2007, under the terms and conditions of the Plan
in effect on such date, shall continue to be a Member on the
Effective Date.
2.2
New Members. On or after the Effective Date, each Associate
not described in Section 2.1 shall become a Member hereunder
on January 1 of the first Plan Year (or such earlier date
determined by the Committee, in its sole discretion) on or after
the date that both of the following requirements are
satisfied:
(a) such Associate is employed
by an Employer in a position at the level of Director or above;
and
(b) such Associate’s base
salary in effect on December 31 of the immediately preceding
Plan Year (or such other date determined by the Committee, in its
sole discretion) equaled or exceeded 150% of the dollar amount in
effect under Code Section 414(q) for such Plan Year or such larger
amount that the Committee, in its sole discretion, determines for
such Plan Year;
provided, however, that any Associate who is employed by an
Employer that is organized under the laws of any country other than
the United States, or who participates in the retirement or pension
scheme of any such country, shall not be eligible to become a
Member; provided, however, that if an Associate is not
employed by an Employer on the date the requirements under this
Section 2.2 are satisfied, such Associate shall not become a
Member until the date he or she becomes employed by an Employer;
provided, however, the CEO as of the Effective Date shall
not be a Member; provided, however, that an Associate shall
not become a Member if an employment agreement between such
Associate and an Employer provides that such Associate shall not
become a Member; provided, however, that, on or before the
date an Associate would otherwise become a Member under this
Section 2.2, the Committee may, in its sole discretion,
exclude such Associate from membership in the Plan (and, in its
sole discretion, the Committee may designate any such Associate as
a Member as of any subsequent date that the Committee determine,
provided that such Associate satisfies the requirements under this
Section 2.2 on such date).
2.3
Reemployed Members. In the event of a Member’s
Termination of Employment and subsequent reemployment by an
Employer:
(a) if such reemployment occurs
within one year after the date of such Termination of Employment,
such former Member shall resume active membership in the Plan on
the date of such reemployment, provided that such former Member is
reemployed in a position at the level of Director or above and his
or her base salary in effect upon such reemployment equals or
exceeds the dollar amount determined under Section 2.2(b) for
the immediately preceding Plan Year;
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(b) if such reemployment occurs
more than one year after the date of such Termination of
Employment, or such former Member is reemployed in a position below
the level of Director or his or her base salary in e
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