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FORM OF GENERAL RELEASE

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Title: FORM OF GENERAL RELEASE
Date: 6/13/2006

FORM OF GENERAL RELEASE, Parties: vitamin shoppe industries inc
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Exhibit 10.15

 

FORM OF GENERAL RELEASE

 

I, Jeffrey Horowitz, in consideration of and subject to the performance by Vitamin Shoppe Industries Inc. (the “ Company ”) of its material obligations under the Second Amended and Restated Employment and Non-Competition Agreement, dated as of October 8, 2002 (the “ Agreement ”), do hereby release and forever discharge as of the date hereof the Company, VS Holdings, Inc. (“ Holdings ”) and all present, future and former subsidiaries, parent corporations, affiliates, directors, officers, agents, representatives, employees, successors and assigns of the Company and Holdings and each of their direct or indirect owners (collectively, the “ Released Parties ”) to the extent provided below.

 

1.

I understand that any payments or benefits paid or granted to me under Section 5 of the Agreement represent, in part, consideration for signing this General Release and are not salary, wages or benefits to which I was already entitled. I understand and agree that I will not receive the payments and benefits specified in Section 5 of the Agreement unless I execute this General Release and do not revoke this General Release within the time period permitted hereafter or breach this General Release.

 

2.

Except as provided in Section 4 below, I knowingly and voluntarily release and forever discharge the Company and the other Released Parties from any and all claims, controversies, actions, causes of action, cross-claims, counter-claims, demands, debts, compensatory damages, liquidated damages, punitive or exemplary damages, other damages, claims for costs and attorneys’ fees, or liabilities of any nature whatsoever in law and in equity, both past and present (from the beginning of the world through the date of this General Release) and whether known or unknown, suspected, or claimed against the Company or any of the Released Parties which I, my spouse, or any of my heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, have or may have, which arise out of or are connected with my employment with, or my separation from, the Company and Holdings (including, but not limited to, any allegation, claim or violation, arising under: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; the Civil Rights Act of 1991; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended (including the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act); the Equal Pay Act of 1963, as amended; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993; the Civil Rights Act of 1866, as amended; the Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification Act; the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974; any applicable Executive Order Programs; the Fair Labor Standards Act; or their state or local counterparts; or under any other federal, state or local civil or human rights law, or under any other local, state, or federal law, regulation or ordinance; or under any public policy, contract or tort, or under common law; or arising under any policies, practices or procedures of the Company or Holdings; or any claim for wrongful discharge, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress, defamation; or any claim for costs, fees, or other expenses, including attorneys’ fees incurred in these matters) (an of the foregoing collectively referred to herein as the “ Claims ”).

 

3.

I represent that I have made no assignment or transfer of any of the Claims, or any other matter covered by Section 2 above.


4.

I agree that this General Release does not waive or release any rights or claims that I may have under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 which arise after the date I execute this General Release. I acknowledge and agree that my separation from employment with the Company and Holdings in compliance with the terms of the Agreement shall not serve as the basis for any claim or action (including, without limitation, any claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967).

 

5.

In signing this General Release, I acknowledge and intend that it shall be effective as a bar to each and every one of the Claims hereinabove mentioned or implied. I expressly consent that this General Release shall be given full force and effect according to each and all of its


 
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