A&B EXCESS BENEFITS PLAN
Amended and Restated Effective January 1,
2008
ARTICLE I
ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSE
1.01. Establishment of Plan .
Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. hereby establishes an
excess benefits/top hat plan for certain eligible
executives.
1.02. Purpose of Plan . It is the
purpose of this Plan to provide certain eligible executives with
benefits equal to the benefits they would receive under the A&B
Retirement Plan, the Matson Retirement Plan for Salaried Employees
and the A&B Profit Sharing Plan if certain changes had been
made to those plans. The Plan is intended to be exempt
from the participation, vesting, funding, and fiduciary
requirements of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), pursuant to Sections 201(2),
301(3) and 401(1) of ERISA.
ARTICLE II
DEFINITIONS
The following terms have the meanings
indicated:
2.00. “Actuarial Equivalent” means a form
of benefit differing in time period, or manner of payment from a
specified benefit provided in the Plan, but having the same present
value when determined in accordance with generally accepted
actuarial practice and the rules contained in Appendix C of this
Plan.
2.01. “A&B” means Alexander &
Baldwin, Inc., a Hawaii corporation.
2.02. “A&B Master Trust Agreement”
means the Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. Retirement and Pension
Trust Agreement, as amended from time to time.
2.03. “A&B Retirement Plan” means the
Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. Retirement Plan for Salaried
Employees or the Matson Retirement Plan for Salaried Employees, as
each may be amended from time to time.
2.04. “A&B Profit Sharing Plan” means
the Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. Profit Sharing Retirement Plan,
as amended from time to time.
2.05. “Administrator” means the person
specified in Section 5.01.
2.06. “Beneficiary” means the person or
persons designated by the Participant as such in accordance with
the provisions of Section 4.01(e) and to whom the benefit, if any,
provided for in Section 4.01(d) is payable.
2.07. “Board of Directors” means the Board
of A&B.
2.08. “Code” means the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended.
2.09 . “Committee” means the Compensation
Committee of the Board of Directors.
2.10. “Employer” means A&B or the
entity for whom services are performed and with respect to whom the
legally binding right to compensation arises, and all entities with
whom A&B would be considered a single employer under Section
414(b) of the Code; provided that in applying Section 1563(a)(1),
(2), and (3) of the Code for purposes of determining a controlled
group of corporations under Section 414(b) of the Code, the
language “at least 50 percent” is used instead of
“at least 80 percent” each place it appears in Section
1563(a)(1), (2), and (3) of the Code, and in applying Treasury
Regulation § 1.414(c)-2 for purposes of determining trades or
businesses (whether or not incorporated) that are under common
control for purposes of Section 414(c) of the Code, “at least
50 percent” is used instead of “at least 80
percent” each place it appears in Treasury Regulation §
1.414(c)-2; provided, however, “at least 20 percent”
shall replace “at least 50 percent” in the preceding
clause if there is a legitimate business criteria for using such
lower percentage.
2.11 . “Fair Market Value” means, with
respect to the per share valuation of A&B common stock on any
relevant date, the mean between the highest and lowest selling
prices per share of A&B common stock on such date, as quoted on
the Nasdaq National Market or the NYSE (or any successor system),
as applicable. Should A&B common stock become traded
on a national securities exchange, then the Fair Market Value per
share shall be the mean between the highest and lowest selling
prices on such exchange on the date in question, as such prices are
quoted on the composite tape of transactions on such
exchange. If there is no reported sale of A&B common
stock on the Nasdaq National Market or the NYSE (or any successor
system), as applicable, on the date in question, then the Fair
Market Value shall be the mean between the highest and lowest
selling prices on the Nasdaq National Market or the NYSE (or any
successor system), as applicable, on the last preceding date for
which such quotation exists.
2.12. “Identification Date” means each
December 31.
2.13 . “Key Employee” means a Participant
who, on an Identification Date, is:
(i)
An officer of A&B having annual compensation greater than the
compensation limit in section 416(i)(1)(A)(i) of the Code, provided
that no more than fifty officers of A&B shall be determined to
be Key Employees as of any Identification Date;
(ii) A
five percent owner of A&B; or
(iii)
A one percent owner of A&B having annual compensation from
A&B of more than $150,000.
If
a Participant is identified as a Key Employee on an Identification
Date, then such Participant shall be considered a Key Employee for
purposes of the Plan during the period beginning on the first April
1 following the Identification Date and ending on the next March
31. For purposes of this Section 2.13 only and for
determining whether a Participant is a Key Employee,
“A&B” shall mean A&B and its affiliates that
are treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the
Code, and for purposes of determining whether a Participant is a
Key Employee, Treasury Regulation § 1.415(c)-2(d)(4) shall be
used to calculate compensation.
2.14. “Participant” means an eligible
employee selected by the Administrator pursuant to Section
3.02.
2.15 . “Plan” means this A&B Excess
Benefits Plan, as amended from time to time.
2.16 . “Section 16 Insider” means any
Participant who is, at the time of the relevant determination or
was at any time within the immediately preceding six (6) months, an
officer or director of A&B subject to the short-swing profit
restrictions of Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended.
2.17. “Separation from Service” means
termination of employment with the Employer, other than due to
death. A Participant shall be deemed to have experienced
a Separation from Service if the Participant’s service with
the Employer is reduced to an annual rate that is less than fifty
percent of the services rendered, on average, during the
immediately preceding three full years of employment with the
Employer (or if employed by the Employer less than three years,
such lesser period).
ARTICLE III
ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION
3.01. Eligibility . Any employee of
A&B who is a participant in the A&B Retirement Plan or the
A&B Profit Sharing Plan and who is highly compensated or who is
one of a select group of management employees shall be eligible to
participate in this Plan. However, any Employee who
first became eligible to participate in the A&B Retirement Plan
on or after January 1, 2008 shall not be eligible for any benefits
described in the Plan, including, but not limited to those benefits
described in Section 4.01 of the Plan.
3.02. Participation . Participants
in this Plan shall be any eligible employees who have been assigned
at least three hundred and fifty (350) accountability points under
A&B’s job evaluation program. In addition, the
Administrator shall have the exclusive and unfettered discretion to
select additional Plan Participants from among eligible
employees. A Participant in this Plan shall remain as
such until the date he/she ceases to satisfy the participation
requirements in the first sentence of this Section 3.02, until the
date upon which the Participant experiences a Separation from
Service for any reason or until such earlier time as may be
specified by the Administrator.
ARTICLE IV
BENEFITS
(a)
Entitlement to Pension Benefits . Except
as provided in Section 4.01(d) below, a Participant’s pension
benefit under this Plan shall equal one hundred percent of the
difference between the benefit to which the Participant is entitled
under the A&B Retirement Plan determined without regard to
limitations imposed by the Code (and, with respect to Participants
listed in Appendix A to this Plan, without regard to amendments in
the benefit formula after December 31, 1988, unless such amendment
would produce a higher benefit) and the benefit to which the
Participant is entitled under such plan determined after giving
effect to those limitations. For the purpose of this
Plan, the benefit to which the Participant is entitled under the
A&B Retirement Plan shall be determined by including as part of
the Participant’s monthly compensation all deferred base
salary and all deferred incentive awards under the A&B One-Year
Performance Improvement Incentive Plan and the A&B Annual
Incentive Plan.
(b)
Payment of Pension Benefits Other Than Death Benefits
. A Participant’s vested pension
benefit under this Plan, other than the benefits described in
Sections 4.01(c) or (d) below, shall be a lump sum payment, payable
within 60 days following Participant’s Separation from
Service, which equals the greater of the amounts determined under
paragraph (1) and paragraph (2):
(1)
An amount which is the Actuarial Equivalent of the benefit
described in paragraph (a) above.
(2)
An amount which is the before-tax equivalent of the lower of two
quotations obtained by the Administrator from insurance companies
for the cost of an annuity that provides after-tax monthly benefits
equivalent to those that a Participant would receive under this
Plan if this Plan allowed monthly payments of the pension benefits
hereunder.
Notwithstanding
any other provision in this Article IV to the contrary, any
distribution scheduled to be made upon Separation from Service to a
Participant who is identified as a Key Employee as of the date he
or she experiences a Separation from Service shall be delayed for a
minimum of six months following the Participant’s Separation
from Service. Any payment to a Key Employee delayed
under this Section 4.01(b) shall be made on the first business
day after the six-month anniversary of the Participant’s
Separation from Service and such payment shall be credited with
interest at a rate computed using 120% of the short-term applicable
federal rate for a semi-annual compounding period under Code
Section 1274(d), applicable for the month in which the
Participant’s Separation from Service occurs, provided that
such interest rate shall not exceed 120% of the long-term
applicable federal interest rate under Code Section
1274(d). The identification of a Participant as a Key Employee
shall be made by A&B, in its sole discretion, in accordance
with Section 2.13 of the Plan and sections 416(i) and 409A of the
Code and the regulations promulgated
thereunder.
In
the event that a Participant, who is also a Key Employee, dies
prior to the expiration of the six-month delay period described in
this Section 4.01.(b), the benefit which would have been otherwise
distributed to the deceased Participant shall be distributed to the
Participant’s Beneficiary within 60 days following the
Participant’s death. A&B retains the sole
discretion to determine when during the 60-day period the payment
will be made.
(c)
Select Benefits Provided to Retired Former Employees of
California and Hawaiian Sugar Company .
(1)
Prior to the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Asset
Purchase Agreement by and among California and Hawaiian Sugar
Company, Inc., A&B-Hawaii, Inc., McBryde Sugar Company,
Limited, and Sugar Acquisition Corporation, and the Stock Sale
Agreement by and between California and Hawaiian Sugar Company,
Inc. and Citicorp Venture Capital, Ltd. (the “Closing
Date”), all other provisions of the Plan notwithstanding, the
retired former employees of California and Hawaiian Sugar Company
who are listed in Appendix B of this Plan shall be eligible to
receive the benefits shown in Appendix B, and no other benefits
shall be paid to such retired former employees under the provisions
of this Plan. Payment of these benefits shall be
according to the terms shown in Appendix B, and no other provisions
of this Plan shall affect the amount or the form of payment of
these benefits.
(2)
As of the Closing Date, all other provisions of this Plan
notwithstanding, the obligation of this Plan to pay any benefit
shown in Appendix B to the retired former employees of California
and Hawaiian Sugar Company, Inc. listed in Appendix B shall cease,
and the obligation to pay such benefits, with respect to any period
on and after such date, is assumed by Sugar Acquisition
Corporation.
(d)
Entitlement to Alternate Death Benefits .
In the event that a Participant dies prior to a
Separation from Service, such Participant’s Beneficiary shall
be entitled to a death benefit determined under this Section
4.01(d) in lieu of any other benefit provided by this
Plan.