This AMENDED
AND RESTATED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (this
“Agreement”), dated as of May 1, 2009, is entered
into by and between REVLON CONSUMER PRODUCTS CORPORATION, a
Delaware corporation (“RCPC” and, together with its
parent Revlon, Inc. (“Revlon”) and its subsidiaries,
the “Company”), and David Kennedy (the
“Executive”).
Whereas, RCPC
wishes to continue to employ the Executive and the Executive wishes
to accept continued employment with the Company on the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement.
Now, therefore,
RCPC and the Executive hereby agree as follows:
1.
Employment, Duties and Acceptance .
1.1
Employment, Duties . RCPC hereby employs the Executive for
the Term (as defined in Section 2.1) to render services to the
Company, in the capacity of Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
of Revlon and RCPC, reporting to the Board of Directors of each of
Revlon and RCPC, and to perform such other duties and
responsibilities consistent with such position (including
continuing to serve as a director of Revlon and RCPC and additional
service as a director or officer of any subsidiary of Revlon, if
elected), as may be assigned by the Board of Directors of Revlon.
The Executive’s title shall be Vice Chairman of the Board of
Directors of Revlon and RCPC. The Executive’s duties shall
include, without limitation, oversight of the formulation of the
Company’s strategy, including strategy related to brand
equity, new products and innovation processes and capabilities and
talent development and succession planning for the Company’s
key employees. RCPC agrees to use its best efforts to cause the
Executive to continue to be elected to the Board of Directors of
Revlon and of RCPC, so that the Executive may continue to serve as
a member of both Boards throughout the Term.
1.2
Acceptance . The Executive hereby accepts such employment
and agrees to render the services described above. During the Term,
the Executive agrees to serve the Company faithfully and to the
best of the Executive’s ability, and to use the
Executive’s best efforts, skill and ability to promote the
Company’s interests.
1.3
Location . The duties to be performed by the Executive
hereunder shall be performed primarily at the office of RCPC in the
New York City metropolitan area, subject to reasonable travel
requirements consistent with the nature of the Executive’s
duties from time to time on behalf of the Company.
1.4
Performance Warranty . As an inducement for the Company to
enter into this Agreement, the Executive hereby represents that he
is not a party to any contract, agreement or understanding which
prevents, prohibits or limits him in any way from entering into and
fully performing his obligations under this Agreement and any
duties and responsibilities that may be assigned to the Executive
hereunder.
2. Term
of Employment; Certain Post-Term Benefits .
2.1
The Term . The term of the Executive’s employment
under this Agreement (the “Term”) shall commence as of
the date first set forth above (the “Effective Date”)
and shall end twenty-four months after RCPC provides to the
Executive a notice of non-renewal, unless in either case sooner
terminated pursuant to Section 4. Non-extension of the Term
shall not be deemed to be a breach of this Agreement by RCPC for
purposes of Section 4.4. Additionally, the Executive may
terminate the Term at any time upon sixty (60) days’
prior written notice to the Company and such termination shall not
be deemed a breach of this Agreement. During any period that the
Executive’s employment shall continue following the end of
the Term, the Executive shall be deemed an employee at will,
provided, however, that the Executive shall be eligible for
severance on the terms and subject to the conditions of the Revlon
Executive Severance Pay Plan as in effect from time to time, or
such plan or plans, if any, as may succeed it (the “Executive
Severance Plan”), provided that the Severance Period for the
Executive under the Executive Severance Plan shall be
24 months, subject to the terms and conditions of such
plan.
2.2
Special Curtailment . The Term shall end earlier than the
date provided in Section 2.1, if sooner terminated pursuant to
Section 4.
3.
Compensation; Benefits .
3.1
Salary . As compensation for all services to be rendered
pursuant to this Agreement, RCPC agrees to pay the Executive during
the Term a base salary, payable in bi-weekly arrears, at the annual
rate of not less than $650,000 (the “Base Salary”). All
payments of Base Salary or other compensation hereunder shall be
less such deductions or withholdings as are required by applicable
law and regulations. The Base Salary shall be reviewed by
Revlon’s Board of Directors or Compensation Committee from
time to time. In the event that Revlon’s Board of Directors
or Compensation Committee, in its sole discretion, determines to
increase the Base Salary, such increased amount shall, from and
after the effective date of the increase, constitute “Base
Salary” for purposes of this Agreement.
3.2
Stock-Based Compensation . The Executive shall be eligible
for recommendation to the Compensation Committee or other committee
of the Board administering the Third Amended and Restated Revlon,
Inc. Stock Plan (the “Stock Plan”) or any plan that may
replace it, as from time to time in effect, to receive an award of
stock options, restricted shares or other awards during the Term,
at levels, on terms, and at such times as are generally applicable
to other senior executives of the Executive’s level, in
accordance with the Company’s long-term stock incentive
program as in effect from time to time, provided that the Executive
must be actively employed on the date of such grant.
3.3
Business Expenses . RCPC shall pay or reimburse the
Executive for all reasonable expenses actually incurred or paid by
the Executive during the Term in the performance of the
Executive’s services under this Agreement, subject to and in
accordance with the Revlon Travel and Entertainment Policy as in
effect from time to time, or such policy or policies, if any, as
may succeed it.
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3.4
Vacation . During each year of the Term, the Executive shall
be entitled to a vacation period or periods in accordance with the
vacation policy of the Company as in effect from time to time, but
not less than four weeks.
3.5
Fringe Benefits . During the Term, the Executive shall be
entitled to participate in those qualified and non-qualified
defined benefit, defined contribution, group life insurance,
medical, dental, disability and other benefit plans and programs of
the Company as from time to time in effect (or their successors)
generally made available to other executives of the
Executive’s level and in such other plans and programs and in
such perquisites as may be generally made available to senior
executives of the Company of the Executive’s level generally
(other than the Revlon Executive Bonus Plan). Further, during the
Term, the Executive will be eligible (a) to participate in
Revlon’s Executive Financial Counseling and Tax Preparation
Program, as from time to time in effect, or such program or
programs, if any, as may succeed it, and (b) to receive a car
allowance at the rate of $15,000 per annum, which is intended to
cover lease, insurance, operating and maintenance costs under the
car allowance program as in effect from time to time, or such
program or programs, if any, as may succeed it.
4.1
Death . If the Executive shall die during the Term, the Term
shall terminate and no further amounts or benefits shall be payable
hereunder, other than (i) for accrued, but unpaid, Base Salary
as of such date and (ii) pursuant to life insurance provided
under Section 3.5.
4.2
Disability . If during the Term the Executive shall become
physically or mentally disabled, whether totally or partially, such
that the Executive is unable to perform the Executive’s
services hereunder for (i) a period of six consecutive months
or (ii) shorter periods aggregating six months during any
twelve month period, RCPC may at any time after the last day of the
six consecutive months of disability or the day on which the
shorter periods of disability shall have equaled an aggregate of
six months, by written notice to the Executive (but before the
Executive has returned to active service following such
disability), terminate the Term and no further amounts or benefits
shall be payable hereunder.
4.3
Cause . RCPC may at any time by written notice to the
Executive terminate the Term for “Cause” and, upon such
termination, the Executive shall be entitled to receive no further
amounts or benefits hereunder, except for accrued, but unpaid,
salary as of such date and as required by law. As used herein the
term “Cause” shall mean gross neglect by the Executive
of the Executive’s duties hereunder, conviction of the
Executive of any felony, conviction of the Executive of any lesser
crime or offense involving the property of the Company or any of
its affiliates, misconduct by the Executive in connection with the
performance of the Executive’s duties hereunder or other
material breach by the Executive of this Agreement (specifically
including, without limitation, Section 1.4), any breach of the
Revlon Code of Business Conduct, or the Employee Agreement as to
Confidentiality and Non-Competition, or any other conduct on the
part of the Executive which would make the Executive’s
continued employment by the Company prejudicial in any material
respect to the best interests of the Company.
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4.4
Company Breach; Other Termination . The Executive shall be
entitled to terminate the Term and the Executive’s employment
upon 60 days’ prior written notice (if during such
period RCPC fails to cure any such breach) in the event that RCPC
materially breaches any of its obligations hereunder. In addition,
RCPC shall be entitled to terminate the Term and the
Executive’s employment at any time and without prior notice
(otherwise than pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.2 or
4.3). In consideration of the Executive’s covenant in
Section 5.2, upon termination under this Section 4.4 by
the Executive, or in the event RCPC so terminates the Term
otherwise than pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.2 or
4.3, RCPC agrees, and the Company’s sole obligation arising
from such termination shall be, for RCPC either
(i) to
make payments in lieu of Base Salary in the amounts prescribed by
Section 3.1 and to continue the Executive’s
participation in the medical, dental and group life insurance plans
and other perquisites of the Company in which the Executive was
entitled to participate pursuant to Section 3.5 (in each case
less amounts required by law to be withheld) through the date on
which the Term would have expired pursuant to Section 2.1, if
RCPC had given notice of non-renewal on the date of termination
(such period shall be referred to as the “Severance
Period”), provided that (1) such benefit continuation is
subject to the terms of such plans, (2) life insurance
continuation is subject to a limit of two years, (3) the
Executive shall cease to be covered by medical and/or dental plans
of the Company at such time as the Executive becomes covered by
like plans of another company, (4) the Executive shall, as a
condition, execute such release, confidentiality, non-competition
and other covenants as would be required in order for the Executive
to receive payments and benefits under the Executive Severance Plan
referred to in clause (ii) below, and (5) any cash
compensation paid or payable or any non-cash compensation paid or
payable in lieu of cash compensation earned by the Executive from
other employment or consultancy during such period (but not
including any pension or retirement benefits payable by The Coca
Cola Company or Coca Cola Amatil Limited) shall reduce the payments
provided for herein payable with respect to such other employment
or consultancy, or
(ii) to
make the payments and provide the benefits prescribed by the
Executive Severance Plan of the Company as in effect from time to
time, upon the Executive’s compliance with the terms and
conditions thereof, provided that the Severance Period for the
Executive shall be 24 months.
The Company
shall provide the greater of the payments and other benefits
described under clauses (i) and (ii) of this
Section 4.4; provided , however , if the
provision of any benefits described above would trigger a tax under
Section 409A, the Company shall instead promptly pay to the
Executive in a cash lump sum payment an amount equal to the value
(based on the then-current cost to the Company) of such benefits.
Any compensation earned by the Executive from other employment or a
consultancy (but not including any pension or retirement benefits
payable by The Coca Cola Company or Coca Cola Amatil Limited) shall
reduce the payments required pursuant to clause (i) above or
shall be governed by the terms of the Executive Severance Plan in
the case of clause (ii) above.
4.5
Litigation Expenses . If RCPC and the Executive become
involved in any action, suit or proceeding relating to the alleged
breach of this Agreement by RCPC or the Executive, or any dispute
as to whether a termination of the Executive’s employment is
with or
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without Cause,
then if and to the extent that a final judgment in such action,
suit or proceeding is rendered in favor of the Executive, RCPC
shall reimburse the Executive for all expenses (including
reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred by the Executive in
connection with such action, suit or proceeding or the portion
thereof adjudicated in favor of the Executive.
4.6
No Mitigation . In no event shall the Executive be obligated
to seek other employment.
4.7
Internal Revenue Code Section 409A . Section 409A
of the Code (as defined below) and/or its related rules and
regulations (“Section 409A”), imposes additional
taxes and interest on compensation or benefits deferred under
certain “nonqualified deferred compensation plans” (as
defined under the Code). These plans may include, among others,
nonqualified retirement plans, bonus plans, stock option plans,
employment agreements and severance agreements. The Company
reserves the right to provide compensation or benefits under any
such plan in amounts, at times and in a manner that minimizes
taxes, interest or penalties as a result of Section 409A,
including any required withholdings, and the Executive agrees to
cooperate with the Company in such actions. Specifically, and
without limitation of the previous sentence, if the Executive is a
“specified employee,” as such term is defined under
Section 409A (generally one of the Company’s top 50
highest paid officers), to the extent required under
Section 409A, the Company will not make any payments to the
Executive under this Agreement upon a “separation from
service,” as such term is defined under Section 409A,
until six months after the Executive’s date of separation
from service or, if earlier, the date of the Executive’s
death. Upon expiration of the six-month period, or, if earlier, the
date of the Executive’s death, the Company shall make a
payment to the Executive (or his beneficiary or estate, if
applicable) equal to the sum of all payments that would have been
paid to the Executive from the date of separation from service had
the Executive not been a “specified employee” through
the end of the six month period, and thereafter the Company will
make all the payments at the times specified in this Agreement or
applicable policy as the case may be. In addition, the Company and
the Executive agree that, for purposes of this Agreement,
termination of employment (or any variation thereof) will satisfy
all of the requirements of “separation from service” as
defined under Section 409A. For purposes of this Agreement,
the right to a series of installment payments, such as salary
continuation or severance payments, shall be treated as the right
to a series of separate payments and shall not be treated as a
right to a single payment. For purposes of this Agreement, the term
“Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended, including all final regulations promulgated thereunder,
and any reference to a particular section of the Code shall include
any provision that modifies, replaces or supersedes such
section.
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5.
Protection of Confidential Information; Non-Competition
.
5.1
The Executive acknowledges that the Executive’s services will
be unique, that they will involve the development of
Company-subsidized relationships with key customers, suppliers, and
service providers as well as with key Company employees and that
the Executive’s work for the Company will give the Executive
access to highly confidential information not available to the
public or competitors, including trade secrets and confidential
marketing, sales, product development and other data and plans
which it would be impracticable for the Company to effectively
protect and preserve in the absence of this Section 5 and the
disclosure or misappropriation of which could materially adversely
affect the Company. Accordingly, the Executive agrees:
5.1.1
except in the course of performing the Executive’s duties
provided for in Section 1.1, not at any time, whether during
or after the Executive’s employment with the Company, to
divulge to any other entity or person any confidential information
acquired by the Executive concerning the Company’s or its
affiliates’ financial affairs or business processes or
methods or their research, development or marketing programs or
plans, any other of its or their trade secrets, any information
regarding personal matters of any directors, officers, employees or
agents of the Company or its affiliates or their respective family
members, or any information concerning the circumstances of
the
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