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EXHIBIT 4(i).9
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SAFEWAY INC.,
ISSUER
AND
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
TRUSTEE
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SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 4, 1997
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Supplemental to the Indenture
dated as of September 1, 1992
with respect to the following series of Securities:
10.00% Senior Notes due 2002
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SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of September 4, 1997, between
SAFEWAY INC., a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the "Company"), as
issuer, and THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK (successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank
(National Association)) as trustee (hereinafter called the "Trustee"), under
the Indenture, dated as of September 1, 1992, between the Company and the
Trustee, as amended and supplemented to the date hereof (the "Indenture").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has implemented a refinancing plan designed to
reduce its interest expense, extend the maturities of the Company's outstanding
long-term debt and enhance its operating and financial flexibility.
As part of the refinancing plan, the Company is making cash
tender offers (each of the offers is referred to herein individually, as an
"Offer" and, collectively, as the "Offers") to purchase certain debt securities
of the Company (the "Debt Securities"), including the Company's 10.00% Senior
Notes due 2002 (the "Securities"), which were issued as a series of securities
under the Indenture.
The Company also is soliciting consents from Holders of the
Securities to amendments to the Indenture (the "Amendments") and to each
indenture under which each other series of Debt Securities was issued (all as
described in the Company's Offer to Purchase and Consent Solicitation Statement
dated August 4, 1997 (the "Statement")).
In accordance with Section 10.2 of the Indenture, the Holders
of not less than a majority of the principal amount of the outstanding
Securities of each series have consented to the Amendments.
The Board of Directors of the Company has duly authorized the
execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture. In addition, the
Company has delivered an Opinion of Counsel to the Trustee pursuant to Section
10.5 of the Indenture and has done all other things necessary to make this
Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement of the Company in accordance with the
terms hereof and of the Indenture.
This Supplemental Indenture is effective as of the date upon
which the conditions set forth in Section 1.9 hereof are satisfied and the
Amendments effected by this Supplemental Indenture will become operative on the
date the Securities are accepted for payment by the Company pursuant to the
Offer therefor.
WHEREFORE, each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the
other party and for the equal or ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Securities, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
1.1 DEFINITIONS.
For all purposes of the Indenture and this Supplemental
Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context
otherwise requires:
(a) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and
other words of similar import refer to the Indenture and this Supplemental
Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or subdivision;
and
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(b) capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall
have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
1.2 GOVERNING LAW.
This Supplemental Indenture shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
1.3 SUCCESSORS.
All agreements of the Company in this Supplemental Indenture
shall bind its successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this Supplemental
Indenture shall bind its successors.
1.4 DUPLICATE ORIGINALS.
The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental
Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together
represent the same agreement.
1.5 SEPARABILITY.
In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
1.6 HEADINGS, ETC.
The Article and Section headings of this Supplemental
Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be
considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the
terms and provisions hereof. Except as expressly provided herein and
notwithstanding the elimination of certain Sections of the Indenture as set
forth in Article Two hereof, all references to Sections in the Indenture shall
remain unchanged.
1.7 BENEFITS OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE.
Nothing in this Supplemental Indenture, express or implied,
shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors
hereunder, any Paying Agent and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or
equitable right, remedy or claim under this Supplemental Indenture.
1.8 TRUSTEE'S DISCLAIMER.
The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or
accuracy of this Supplemental Indenture.
1.9 EFFECTIVENESS.
This Supplemental Indenture shall take effect on the date (the
"Effective Date") that each of the following conditions shall have been
satisfied or waived:
(a) each of the parties hereto shall have executed and
delivered this Supplemental Indenture; and
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(b) the Trustee shall have received an opinion of Xxxxxx
& Xxxxxxx, Counsel to the Company, dated the Effective Date, pursuant to
Section 10.5 of the Indenture;
provided, however, that the Amendments set forth in Article Two hereof shall
take effect only upon and simultaneously with, and shall have no force and
effect prior to, the acceptance for purchase and payment of the Securities
tendered pursuant to the Offer therefor.
ARTICLE II
THE AMENDMENTS
2.1 AMENDMENTS.
The Indenture is hereby amended as follows:
(1) Section 3.9 of the Indenture is hereby eliminated in
its entirety and replaced with the words: "SECTION 3.9 [Intentionally
omitted]."
(2) Section 3.10 of the Indenture is hereby eliminated in
its entirety and replaced with the words: "SECTION 3.10 [Intentionally
omitted]."
(3) Section 3.11 of the Indenture is hereby eliminated in
its entirety and replaced with the words: "SECTION 3.11 [Intentionally
omitted]."
(4) Section 6.1 of the Indenture is hereby amended to
state, in its entirety, the following:
SECTION 6.1. Events of Default. The following events are
hereby defined for all purposes of this Indenture with respect to Securities of
any series (except where the term is otherwise defined for specific purposes)
as "defaults":
(a) Failure to pay the principal of and premium, if any,
on any of the Securities of that series, when and as the same shall become due
and payable, whether at Stated Maturity thereof, by call for redemption upon
surrender for repurchase or otherwise; or
(b) Failure to pay any installment of interest on any of
the Securities of that series, when and as the same shall become payable as
therein expressed, and such failure shall continue for a period of 30 days (it
being understood that if the entire amount of such payment of interest is
deposited by the Company with the Trustee, or with another paying agent duly
appointed hereunder, before the expiration of such period of 30 days, such
default shall no longer be considered to be continuing under this Indenture);
or
(c) Failure to perform or observe any other of the
covenants, conditions or agreements on the part of the Company in this
Indenture (other than a covenant, condition or agreement a default in whose
performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt
with or which, pursuant to Section 2.1, is not applicable to Securities of that
series or which has expressly been included in this Indenture solely for the
benefit of series of Securities other than that series) or in the Securities of
that series, and such failure shall continue for a period of 60 days after
written notice to the Company from the Trustee or to the Company and to the
Trustee from the Holders of not less than a majority of the principal amount of
the Securities of that series then outstanding under this Indenture; or
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(d) [Intentionally omitted].
(e) If the Company shall file a petition commencing a
voluntary case under any chapter of the Federal bankruptcy laws or any similar
state law for the relief of debtors; or the Company shall file a petition or
answer or consent seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, or
composition under any other similar applicable law, or shall consent to the
filing of any such petition, answer, or consent; or the Company shall appoint,
or consent to the appointment of, a custodian, receiver, liquidator, trustee,
assignee, sequestrator or other similar official in bankruptcy or insolvency of
it or of any substantial part of its property; or shall make an assignment for
the benefit of creditors, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its
debts generally as they become due; or
(f) If any order for relief against the Company shall
have been entered by a court having jurisdiction in the premises under any
chapter of the Federal bankruptcy laws or any similar state law for the relief
of debtors, and such order shall have continued undischarged or unstayed for a
period of 120 days; or a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the
premises shall have been entered approving as properly filed a petition seeking
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, or composition of the Company under
any other similar applicable law, and such decree or order shall have continued
undischarged or unstayed for a period of 120 days; or a decree or order of a
court having jurisdiction in the premises for the appointment of a custodian,
receiver, liquidator, trustee, assignee, sequestrator, or other similar
official in bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company or of any substantial part
of its property, or for the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, shall
have been entered, and such decree or order shall have remained in force
undischarged or unstayed for a period of 120 days; or
(g) Any other default provided with respect to Securities
of that series.
If one or more defaults with respect to Securities of any
series shall happen and be continuing, then, and in each and every such case,
either the Trustee, by notice in writing to the Company and to the agent under
the Bank Credit Agreement (the "Credit Agent"), or the Holders of not less than
a majority of the principal amount of the Securities of that series then
outstanding, by notice in writing to the Company, the Trustee and the Credit
Agent, may declare due and payable, if not already due and payable, the
principal (or, if any of the Securities of that series are Original Issue
Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount thereof as may be
specified in the terms of such Securities) of, premium, if any, plus any
accrued interest on all of the Securities of that series; and upon any such
declaration all such amounts upon such Securities of that series shall become
and be immediately due and payable upon the first to occur of an acceleration
under the Bank Credit Agreement or five Business Days after receipt by the
Company and the Credit Agent of such written notice given hereunder (if upon
such first occurrence such default or defaults shall be continuing), anything
in this Indenture or in any of such Securities contained to the contrary
notwithstanding. This provision, however, is subject to the condition that if,
at any time after the principal (or portion thereof) of, premium, if any, plus
any accrued interest on the Securities of that series shall have been declared
due and payable, and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due
has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, all
arrears of interest upon all such Securities (with interest so far as may be
lawful on any overdue installments of interest at the rate specified in such
Securities) and the expenses of the Trustee, its agents or attorneys shall be
paid by or for the account of the Company, and all defaults as aforesaid (other
than the payment of principal which has been so declared due and payable) shall
have been made good or cured to the satisfaction of the Trustee and provision
deemed by the Trustee to be adequate shall be made therefor, then and in every
such case the Trustee shall, upon the written request of the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Securities of that series then outstanding,
delivered to the Company and to the Trustee, waive such default and its
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consequences and rescind or annul such declaration; but no such waiver shall
extend to or affect any subsequent default, or impair any right consequent
thereon.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent the Company shall
have been relieved of any of its obligations under this Indenture with respect
to Securities of any series pursuant to Section 11.4 hereof, the failure of the
Company to perform any such obligations as to which it has been relieved shall
not constitute a default as contemplated by this Indenture.
(5) Section 8.1 of the Indenture is hereby amended to
state, in its entirety, the following:
SECTION 8.1. Company May Merge, Etc. Only on Certain
Terms. The Company may not consolidate with or merge with or into any other
Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as
an entirety to any Person, unless:
(1) in case the Company shall consolidate with
or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and
assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Person formed by such
consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires
by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the properties and assets of the
Company substantially as an entirety (the "Surviving Person") shall be a
corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of
America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly
assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the
Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of
the principal of and any premium and interest on all the Securities and the
performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be
performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such
transaction and treating any Indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the
Surviving Person, the Company or any Subsidiary as a result of such transaction
as having been incurred by the Surviving Person, the Company, or such Subsidiary
at the time of such transaction, no default or event which, with giving of
notice or lapse of time or both, would be a default shall have occurred and be
continuing;
(3) [Intentionally omitted].
(4) the Company has previously given the Trustee
not less than 10 days' prior written notice of such transaction and has
delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each
stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a
supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such
supplemental indenture shall comply with this Article and that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied
with.
ARTICLE III
ENDORSEMENT AND CHANGE OF FORM OF SECURITIES
3.1 NOTICE TO SECURITYHOLDERS.
After the Amendments become effective, the Company shall mail
to Holders a notice briefly describing such Amendments.
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3.2 NOTATION ON SECURITIES.
(a) Securities authenticated and delivered after the
effectiveness of this Supplemental Indenture shall bear the following notation:
"The Company and the Trustee have entered into a
Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 4, 1997, which
(i) eliminated certain restrictive covenants contained in
Article III of the Indenture; (ii) amended certain provisions
with respect to defaults and remedies contained in Article VI
of the Indenture and (iii) amended certain provisions
contained in Article VIII of the Indenture. Reference is
hereby made to such Supplemental Indenture, copies of which
are on file with The Chase Manhattan Bank, Trustee."
The Trustee may require holders of Securities authenticated
and delivered prior to the effectiveness of this Supplemental Indenture to
deliver such Securities to the Trustee so that the Trustee may place the
aforementioned notation on such Securities.
(b) If the Company or the Trustee so determines, the
Company, in exchange for the Securities, shall issue and the Trustee shall
authenticate new securities that reflect the changed terms.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the date first written
above.
SAFEWAY INC.,
Issuer
By:______________________________________________
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President - Finance and
Public Affairs
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,
Trustee
By:______________________________________________
Name:
Title:
