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.
Non-Solicitation of Customers and Employees The Executive agrees that during the Term and for a period of two (2) years following the Termination of the Executive’s Employment, the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, individually or jointly, (i) solicit in any manner, seek to obtain or service, or accept the business of any Customer for any product or service of the type offered by the Employer or competitive with the Company’s Business, (ii) solicit in any manner, seek to obtain or service, or accept the business of any Prospective Customer for any product or service of the type offered by the Employer or otherwise competitive with the Company’s Business, (iii) request or advise any Customer, Prospective Customer, or supplier of the Employer to terminate, reduce, limit, or change its business or relationship with the Employer, or (iv) induce, request, or attempt to influence any employee of the Employer to terminate his employment with the Employer.
Non-Solicitation of Customers During the Restricted Period, the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit or induce, or attempt to solicit or induce, any customer, supplier, licensee, licensor or other business relation of the Company to terminate its relationship or contract with the Company, to cease doing business with the Company, or in any way interfere with the relationship between any such customer, supplier, licensee or business relation and the Company (including making any negative statements or communications concerning the Company or their employees).
Solicitation of Customers During the periods in which the provisions of Section 8(a) shall be in effect, the Executive, directly or indirectly, will not seek nor accept Prohibited Business from any Customer (as defined below) on behalf of any enterprise or business other than the Company, refer Prohibited Business from any Customer to any enterprise or business other than the Company or receive commissions based on sales or otherwise relating to the Prohibited Business from any Customer, or any enterprise or business other than the Company. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Customer” means any person, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association or other entity to which the Company or any of its affiliates sold or provided goods or services during the 24-month period prior to the time at which any determination is required to be made as to whether any such person, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association or other entity is a Customer, or who or which was approached by or who or which has approached an employee of the Company for the purpose of soliciting business from the Company or the third party, as the case may be. Provided, however, the goods or services must be competitive in some respect to the Company’s business during such time.
Non-Solicitation of Suppliers Executive agrees that during the Restricted Period, Executive will not, directly or indirectly, solicit or influence, or attempt to solicit or influence, the Company’s suppliers to provide goods or services then provided to the Employer to any other person or entity in Competition with the Employer.
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.
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.
Substantial Customers and Suppliers (a) Section 3.27(a) of the Disclosure Schedule lists the twenty (20) largest customers of the Company on the basis of revenues on the basis of invoiced amount for the twelve (12) month period ending on the Balance Sheet Date.
Significant Customers and Suppliers No customer or supplier which was significant to the Company during the period covered by the Financial Statements or which has been significant to the Company thereafter, has terminated or breached, materially reduced or threatened to terminate, breach or materially reduce its purchases from or provision of products or services to the Company, as the case may be.
Top Customers and Suppliers The Company has disclosed to the Purchaser the key customers of the Company (the “Top Customers”) and the key suppliers of goods or services to the Company (the “Top Suppliers”). The relationships of the Company with such suppliers and customers are good commercial working relationships and (i) no Top Supplier or Top Customer within the last twelve months has cancelled or otherwise terminated, or, to the Company’s Knowledge, intends to cancel or otherwise terminate, any relationships of such Person with the Company, (ii) no Top Supplier or Top Customer has during the last twelve months decreased materially or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened to stop, decrease or limit materially, or intends to modify materially its relationships with the Company or intends to stop, decrease or limit materially its products or services to the Company or its usage or purchase of the products or services of the Company, (iii) to the Company’s Knowledge, no Top Supplier or Top Customer intends to refuse to pay any amount due to the Company or seek to exercise any remedy against the Company, (iv) the Company has not since the Company Incorporation Date been engaged in any material dispute with any Top Supplier or Top Customer, and (v) to the Company’s Knowledge, the consummation of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement will not affect the relationship of the Company with any Top Supplier or Top Customer.
