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Non-Qualified Stock Option Senior Management Grant Letter

Stock Option Agreement

Non-Qualified Stock Option 

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Title: Non-Qualified Stock Option Senior Management Grant Letter
Date: 3/13/2009
Industry: Retail (Grocery)     Sector: Services

Non-Qualified Stock Option 

Senior Management Grant Letter, Parties: core-mark holding company  inc.
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Exhibit 10.7

Non-Qualified Stock Option

Senior Management Grant Letter

CORE-MARK HOLDING COMPANY, INC.

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Re:

  

                Grant of Non-Qualified Stock Option

Dear                      :

Core-Mark Holding Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), is pleased to advise you that, pursuant to the Company’s 2004 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “ Plan ”), the Board of Directors of the Company has granted to you an option (the “ Option ”) to acquire shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “ Common Stock ”), effective as of the “ Date of Grant ” set forth below (as defined herein, the “ Option Shares ”), subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein:

 

 

Number of Option Shares

  

  

 

Date of Grant

  

                        , 200   

  

 

Exercise Price per Option Share

  

$      .     

  

 

Vesting Dates of Option Shares

  

One-third (1/3) of the Option Shares shall vest on                         , 200    (the “ First Vesting Date ”) with the remaining two-thirds (2/3) of the Option Shares vesting in equal monthly installments at the end of each month over the following two years.

  

 

Expiration Date of the Option

  

The seventh anniversary of the Date of Grant.

  

Your Option is not intended to be an “incentive stock option” within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code.

Certain capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 9 below. Any capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Plan.


1.          Option .

(a)         Term .  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Company hereby grants to you (or such other persons as permitted by Section 5 below) an Option to purchase the Option Shares at the exercise price per Option Share set forth above in the introductory paragraph of this Grant Agreement (the “ Exercise Price ”), payable upon exercise as set forth in Section 1(b) below. The Option shall expire at the close of business on the date set forth above in the introductory paragraph of this Grant Agreement (the “ Expiration Date ”), which is the seventh anniversary of the Date of Grant, subject to earlier expiration as provided in Section 2(c) below. The Exercise Price and the number and kind of shares of Common Stock or other property for which the Option may be exercised shall be subject to adjustment as provided in the Plan.

(b)         Payment of Option Price .  Subject to Section 2 below, the Option may be exercised in whole or in part upon payment of an amount (the “ Option Price ”) equal to the product of (i) the Exercise Price and (ii) the number of Option Shares to be acquired. Payment of the Option Price shall be made by one or more of the following means:

     (i)         in cash (including check, bank draft, money order or wire transfer of immediately available funds);

     (ii)        by delivery of outstanding shares of Common Stock owned by you (and not subject to any substantial risk of forfeiture) for at least six months or such longer period as determined from time to time by the Committee with a Fair Market Value on the date of exercise equal to the Option Price;

     (iii)        by means of any cashless exercise procedures approved by the Committee and as may be in effect on the date of exercise; or

     (iv)        by any combination of the foregoing.

2.          Exercisability/Vesting and Expiration .

(a)         Normal Vesting .  The Option granted hereunder may be exercised only to the extent it has become vested, as indicated by the Vesting Dates of Option Shares set forth in the introductory paragraph of this Grant Agreement.

(b)         Normal Expiration .  In no event shall any part of the Option be exercisable after the Expiration Date.

(c)         Effect on Vesting and Expiration of Employment; Termination; Change in Control .  Except as otherwise provided in this Section 2(c) and notwithstanding Sections 2(a) and (b)  above or any other provision hereof to the contrary, the provisions set forth in Section 6(e) (Vesting; Termination; Forfeiture) of the Plan shall govern the vesting of your Option Shares in the event that, prior to all of your Option Shares becoming fully vested and/or prior to the Expiration Date: (i) your employment with, or performance of service for, the Company or any Subsidiary terminates, or (ii) there is a Non-Public Change in Control; provided , however , notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6(e)(iv) set forth in the Plan, if your employment with

 

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the Company is terminated by the Company without Cause or you resign from your employment with the Company for Good Reason before all of your Option Shares have otherwise vested, all of your unvested Option Shares shall become fully vested and exercisable on the date of such termination of employment or resignation and shall remain exercisable for, and shall otherwise terminate and thereafter be forfeited at the end of, a period of 90 days after the date of such cessation of employment and, further , provided , however , that, if, prior to the First Vesting Date you cease to be a director, officer or employee of, or to perform other services for, the Company or any Subsidiary due to your death or Disability or Retirement, your Option Shares shall thereupon vest on a pro rata basis based on the ratio of (A) the number of complete months beginning on the Date of Grant and ending on the date of your cessation of employment to (B) thirty six (36).

3.          Procedure for Exercise .  You may exercise all or any portion of the Option, to the extent it has vested and is outstanding, at any time and from time to time prior to the Expiration Date,


 
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