Exhibit 10.2
INDEMNIFICATION
AGREEMENT
INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT (the "Agreement")
made this 25th day of January, 2005, between ENERGIZER HOLDINGS,
INC., a Missouri corporation (the "Company") and ____________
("Director").
WHEREAS, Director is a member of the Board of
Directors of the Company, and in such capacity is performing a
valuable service for Company; and
WHEREAS, the Company's Articles of
Incorporation (the "Articles") permit the indemnification of
directors, officers, employees and certain agents of the Company,
and indemnification is also authorized by Section 351.355 of the
Missouri Revised Statutes 1978, as amended to date (the
"Indemnification Statute"); and
WHEREAS, the Articles and the Indemnification
Statute permit full indemnification of officers absent knowingly
fraudulent, deliberately dishonest or willful misconduct;
and
WHEREAS, in order to induce Director to
continue to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the
Company, Company has determined and agreed to enter into this
contract with Director;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of
Director’s continued service as a member of the Board of
Directors after the date hereof, the Company and Director agree as
follows
1.
Indemnity of Director
. Company hereby agrees to hold
harmless and indemnify Director to the full extent authorized or
permitted by the provisions of the Indemnification Statute, or by
any amendment thereof, or by any other statutory provision
authorizing or permitting such indemnification which is adopted
after the date hereof.
2.
Additional Indemnity
. Subject to the exclusions set
forth in Section 3 hereof, Company further agrees to hold harmless
and indemnify Director against any and all expenses (including
attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement,
actually and reasonably incurred by Director in connection with any
threatened, pending or completed action, claim, suit or proceeding,
whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (including
an action by or in the right of the Company) to which Director is,
was or at any time becomes a party, or is threatened to be made a
party, by reason of the fact that Director is, was or at any time
(whether before or after the date of this Agreement) becomes a
director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, or is or was
serving or at any time serves at the request of the Company as a
director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.
3.
Limitations on Additional
Indemnity . No indemnity
pursuant to Section 2 hereof shall be paid by Company:
(a)
Except to the extent the aggregate
of losses to be indemnified thereunder exceeds the amount of such
losses for which the Director is indemnified pursuant to Section 1
hereof or pursuant to any insurance policies or other comparable
policies purchased and maintained by the Company;
(b)
In respect to remuneration paid to
Director if it shall be finally judicially adjudged that such
remuneration was in violation of law;
(c)
On account of any suit in which a
judgment is rendered against Officer for an accounting of profits
made from the purchase or sale by Director of securities of the
Company pursuant to the provisions of Section 16(b) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended or similar provisions
of any state or local statutory law;
(d)
On account of Director’s
conduct which is finally judicially adjudged to have been knowingly
fraudulent, deliberately dishonest or willful
misconduct;
(e)
If it shall be finally judicially
adjudged that such indemnification is not lawful.
Reference in
this Agreement to a matter being “finally judicially
adjudged” shall mean that there shall have been a final
decision by a court having jurisdiction in the matter, all appeals
having been denied or not have been taken and the time therefore to
have expired.
4.
Continuation of
Indemnity . All
agreements and obligations of Company contained her