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Exhibit
10.5
C. H. ROBINSON WORLDWIDE,
INC.
and Subsidiaries
CONFIDENTIALITY AND
NONCOMPETITION AGREEMENT
, hereinafter referred to
as “employee,” or “I,” or
“me.”
(PRINT NAME)
I.
RECITALS
Employee wishes to be
employed by C.H Robinson Worldwide, Inc., or one of its subsidiary
or affiliated companies (“Company”) in a significant
position involving customer or vendor contact, and access to the
Company’s confidential and proprietary business information.
Employee wishes to enter into and continue such employment with the
potential of increased responsibility and knowledge about the
Company’s affairs.
II.
DEFINITIONS
In this Agreement:
A. The “Company”
means C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc., and all existing or future
affiliated corporations including all subsidiaries, divisions and
enterprises owned or controlled by those corporations.
B. “The Company
Businesses” shall mean freight brokerage and contracting,
contract logistics, freight forwarding, transportation logistics,
transportation-related payment and information systems, custom
house brokerage businesses, the purchase, sale and sourcing of
fresh fruits and vegetables, and other businesses the Company may
become involved in now or in the future during employee’s
employment with Company (collectively referred to as the
“Company Businesses”),
C. “Confidential
Information” shall mean,
1. Company’s strategic
and other business plans, designs, customer and carrier lists, and
Company’s marketing, accounting, merchandising, and
information-gathering techniques and methods, and all accumulated
data, listings, or similar recorded matter used or useful in
freight brokerage and contracting, contract logistics, freight
forwarding, transportation logistics, transportation-related
payment and information systems, custom house brokerage businesses,
and/or the purchase, sale and sourcing of fresh fruits and
vegetables including, but not limited to, the customer and carrier
lists, business forms, weekly loading lists, service contracts, all
pricing information, computer programs, tariff information and
marketing aids.
2. All information disclosed
to me, or to which I have access during the period of my
employment, for which there is any reasonable basis to be believed
is, or which appears to be treated by the Company as, Confidential
Information, shall be presumed to be Confidential Information
hereunder.
D. “Competing
Business” means any business, firm, undertaking, company or
organization, other than the Company, which:
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is engaged in, or is about to become engaged in a business or
businesses similar to the Company Businesses, or |
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regardless of the nature of its business, either competes
directly or indirectly with the Company in any of the Company
Businesses, or |
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any person, company or organization engaged in the produce or
transportation industries as a shipper, receiver or
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E. “Customer”
means any person, company or organization that has employed or
potentially could employ the Company’s services in any of the
Company Businesses.
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III.
NATURE OF
EMPLOYEE’S ACTIVITIES
A. I am aware and acknowledge
that the Company has developed a special competence in the Company
Businesses, and has accumulated as proprietary information (not
generally known to others) more and better information about
shippers, carriers, truckers, trucking equipment, railroads, ocean
carriers, foreign agents, customers, purchasing agents and similar
matters which are of unique value in the conduct and growth of the
Company’s Businesses. This proprietary pool of information
has enabled the Company to conduct the Company Businesses with
unusual success and has thus afforded unusual job opportunities and
potential to its employees.
B. In the course of my
employment, I wish to be employed in a position or positions with
the Company in which I may receive or contribute to Confidential
Information. It is my desire to continue progressing in the Company
in both sales, operations, management and customer-related
capacities, and I recognize that optimum progression and
specialization cannot take place unless Confidential Information
relating to technology, processes, plans, development, activity,
customers and the like is entrusted to me.
C. The Company may provide me
with Confidential Information to permit me to carry out, perform,
and fulfill my job responsibilities. I acknowledge that the Company
may provide me with such Confidential Information, and I further
acknowledge that in the course of carrying out, performing and
fulfilling my responsibilities for the Company, I have been given
Confidential Information relating to the Company’s Businesses
and customers, and I recognize that disclosure of any such
Confidential Information to competitors of the Company or to the
general public would be highly detrimental to the Company. I
further acknowledge that, in the course of performing my
obligations to the Company, I will be a representative of the
Company to many of the Company’s customers and, in some
instances, may be the Company’s sole and exclusive contact
with a customer. In this capacity, I will be given significant
responsibility for maintaining or enhancing the business
relationship and/or goodwill of the Company with such
customers.
IV.
PROTECTION OF
BUSINESS
Therefore, in consideration
of the Company’s entrusting me with Confidential Information,
in consideration of my employment
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