Non-Interference with Customers During the Period of Employment and for a period of twelve (12) months after the Severance Date, the Executive will not, directly or indirectly through any other Person, use any of the Company’s trade secrets to influence or attempt to influence customers, vendors, suppliers, licensors, lessors, joint venturers, associates, consultants, agents, or partners of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company to divert their business away from the Company or such Affiliate, and the Executive will not otherwise use the Company’s trade secrets to interfere with, disrupt or attempt to disrupt the business relationships, contractual or otherwise, between the Company or any Affiliate of the Company, on the one hand, and any of its or their customers, suppliers, vendors, lessors, licensors, joint venturers, associates, officers, employees, consultants, managers, partners, members or investors, on the other hand.
Customers and Vendors In furtherance of and not in limitation of Section 6, Executive acknowledges that the lists of the Company’s and its Affiliates’ customers and vendors as they may exist from time to time constitute a valuable and unique asset of the Company, and Executive shall not, during or after the term of Executive’s employment, disclose such lists or any part thereof to any person or entity for any reason whatsoever, nor shall Executive use such customer or vendor lists for Executive’s own benefit or purposes or for the benefit or purposes of any business with whom Executive may become associated.
Interference with Relationships Other than in the performance ------------------------------- of his duties hereunder, during the Restrictive Period, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, as employee, agent, consultant, stockholder, director, partner or in any other individual or representative capacity, solicit or intentionally encourage any present or future customer, supplier or other third party to terminate or otherwise alter his, her or its relationship with the Company.
Customers and Suppliers Except as set forth in the Disclosure Memorandum with specific reference to this Section, as of the date hereof, no customer which individually accounted for more than 1% of the gross revenues of the Company and all its Subsidiaries during the 12 month period preceding the date hereof, and no supplier of the Company and all its Subsidiaries, has canceled or otherwise terminated, or made any written threat to the Company or any Subsidiary to cancel or otherwise terminate, its relationship with the Company or any Subsidiary, or has at any time on or after July 3, 1998 decreased materially its services or supplies to the Company and all its Subsidiaries in the case of any such supplier, or its usage of the services or products of the Company and all its Subsidiaries in the case of any such customer, and to the knowledge of the Company no such supplier or customer intends to cancel or otherwise terminate its relationship with the Company or any Subsidiary or to decrease materially its services or supplies to the Company and all its Subsidiaries or its usage of the services or products of the Company and all its Subsidiaries, as the case may be. From and after the date hereof, no customer which individually accounted for more than 5% of the gross revenues of the Company and all its Subsidiaries during the 12 month period preceding the Closing Date, has canceled or otherwise terminated, or made any written threat to the Company to cancel or otherwise terminate, for any reason, including without limitation the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, its relationship with the Company and all Subsidiaries, and no such customer intends to cancel or otherwise terminate its relationship with the Company and all its Subsidiaries or to decrease materially its usage of the services or products of the Company and all its Subsidiaries. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has breached, so as to provide a benefit to the Company or any Subsidiary that was not intended by the parties, any agreement with, or engaged in any fraudulent conduct with respect to, any customer or supplier of the Company or any Subsidiary. The Disclosure Memorandum with specific reference to this Section, sets forth the dates of each audit conducted since January 1, 1995 by each material supplier of the Company and its Subsidiaries and summaries of the results of such audits.
Contact with Customers and Suppliers Until the Closing Date, the Buyer shall not, and shall cause its Affiliates and direct its other Representatives not to, contact or communicate with the employees, customers, suppliers, distributors or licensors of the Acquired Entities, or any other Persons having a business relationship with the Acquired Entities, concerning the transactions contemplated hereby or any of the foregoing relationships without the prior written consent of the Seller.
Non-Interference with Business Relationships a. Employee acknowledges that, in the course of employment, Employee will learn about Company’s business, services, materials, programs and products and the manner in which they are developed, marketed, serviced and provided. Employee knows and acknowledges that the Company has invested considerable time and money in developing its product sales and real estate development programs and relationships, vendor and other service provider relationships and agreements, store layouts and fixtures, and marketing techniques and that those things are unique and original. Employee further acknowledges that the Company has a strong business reason to keep secret information relating to Company’s business concepts, ideas, programs, plans and processes, so as not to aid Company’s competitors. Accordingly, Employee acknowledges and agrees that the protection outlined in (b) below is necessary and reasonable.
Compliance with Laws and Material Contracts Each Borrower will comply, and cause each Subsidiary to comply, with the requirements of all applicable Laws and Material Contracts, except to the extent that failure to so comply could not reasonably be expected to (a) have a Material Adverse Effect, or (b) result in any Lien upon either (i) a material portion of the assets of any such Person in favor of any Governmental Authority, or (ii) any Collateral which is part of the Borrowing Base.
Compliance with Material Contracts Each Credit Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, perform and observe all the material terms and provisions of each Material Contract to be performed or observed by it, maintain each such Material Contract in full force and effect, enforce each such Material Contract in accordance with its terms, take all such action to such end as may be from time to time reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent and, upon the reasonable request of the Administrative Agent, make to each other party to each such Material Contract such demands and requests for information and reports or for action as any Credit Party is entitled to make under such Material Contract.
Non-Solicitation of Customers and Suppliers Each Subject Party agrees that, during the Restricted Period, such Subject Party will not, without the prior written consent of Parent (which may be withheld in its sole discretion), individually or on behalf of any other Person (other than, if applicable, a Covered Party in the performance of such Subject Party’s duties on behalf of the Covered Parties), directly or indirectly: (i) solicit, induce, encourage or otherwise cause (or attempt to do any of the foregoing) any Covered Customer (as defined below) to (A) cease being, or not become, a client or customer of any Covered Party with respect to the Business or (B) reduce the amount of business of such Covered Customer with any Covered Party, or otherwise alter such business relationship in a manner adverse to any Covered Party, in either case, with respect to or relating to the Business; (ii) interfere with or disrupt (or attempt to interfere with or disrupt) the contractual relationship between any Covered Party and any Covered Customer; (iii) divert any business with any Covered Customer relating to the Business from a Covered Party; (iv) solicit for business, provide services to, engage in or do business with, any Covered Customer for products or services that are part of the Business; or (v) interfere with or disrupt (or attempt to interfere with or disrupt), any Person that was a vendor, supplier, distributor, agent or other service provider of a Covered Party at the time of such interference or disruption, for a purpose competitive with a Covered Party as it relates to the Business. For purposes of this Agreement, a “Covered Customer” shall mean any Person who is or was an actual customer or client (or prospective customer or client with whom a Covered Party actively marketed or made or taken specific action to make a proposal) of a Covered Party, (A) if the relevant time of determination is before the Termination Date, as of such date of determination or during the one (1) year period preceding such date and, (B) if the relevant time of determination is after the Termination Date, as of the Termination Date or during the one (1) year period preceding the Termination Date.
Major Customers and Suppliers 3.18.(a) Major Customers. Schedule 3.18.(a) contains a list of the twenty (20) largest customers of Company for each of the two (2) most recent fiscal years (determined on the basis of the total dollar amount of net sales) showing the total dollar amount of net sales to each such customer during each such year. Neither Company nor any Shareholder has any knowledge or information of any facts indicating, nor any other reason to believe, that any of the customers listed on Schedule 3.18.(a) will not continue to be customers of the business of Company after the Closing at substantially the same level of purchases as heretofore.
