EXHIBIT 10.1.6
EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
This Employment Agreement, dated as of __________, 1998 (this
"Agreement"), is by and between Triarco Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation
having its principal executive offices at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx, Xxx
Xxxxxx 00000 (the "Company"), and Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx (the "Executive").
Whereas, the Company wishes to assure itself of the continued services
of the Executive, and the Executive is willing to continue in the employ of the
Company, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
Now, Therefore, the Company and the Executive hereby agree as follows:
1. Definitions. Unless defined elsewhere in this Agreement,
capitalized terms contained herein shall have the meanings set forth or
incorporated by reference in Section 18.
2. Employment. The Company agrees to continue to employ the
Executive, and the Executive agrees to continue to be employed by the Company
and/or any subsidiary of the Company, during the term set forth in Section 3 and
on the other terms and conditions of this Agreement.
3. Term.
(a) The term of this Agreement shall commence as of the date hereof,
and, subject to Section 3(b), shall terminate at the close of business on the
third anniversary of that date.
(b) The term of this Agreement set forth in Section 3(a) shall be
extended or further extended, as the case may be, without any action by the
Company or the Executive, on the third anniversary of the date hereof and on
each subsequent anniversary of the date hereof, for an additional period of one
year, until either party gives written notice to the other party in advance of
any anniversary of the date hereof, in the manner set forth in Section 15, that
the term in effect when such notice is given is not to be extended or further
extended, as the case may be, beyond the year following the next anniversary.
If the Executive shall continue in the full-time employment of the Company after
the term of this Agreement, such continued employment shall be at will, and
otherwise subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
4. Position, Duties and Responsibilities, Rights.
(a) During the term of this Agreement, the Executive shall serve as,
and be elected to and hold the office and title of Vice President--Corporate
Communication of the Company. As such, the Executive shall report only to the
Board of Directors, Chairman of the Board and President of the Company, and
shall have all of the powers and duties usually
incident to the office of Vice President--Corporate Communication, and shall
have powers to perform such other reasonable additional duties as may from time
to time be lawfully assigned to the Executive by the Board of Directors.
(b) During the term of this Agreement, the Board of Directors and the
stockholders of the Company may cause the Executive to be elected and re-elected
to the Board of Directors of the Company or its subsidiaries (and to be
appointed to any committees thereof), and the Executive agrees, if elected, to
serve on such Board(s) of Directors and committee(s) during the term of this
Agreement, without any additional compensation beyond that provided in this
Agreement.
(c) During the term of this Agreement, the Executive agrees to devote
substantially all the Executive's time, efforts and skills to the affairs of the
Company during the Company's normal business hours, except for vacations,
illness and incapacity, but nothing in this Agreement shall preclude the
Executive from devoting reasonable periods to (i) manage the Executive's
personal investments, (ii) participate in professional, educational, public
interest, charitable, civic or community activities, including activities
sponsored by trade organizations, and (iii) serve as a director or member of an
advisory committee of any corporation not in competition with the Company or any
of its subsidiaries, or as an officer, trustee or director of any charitable,
educational, philanthropic, civic, social or industry organizations, or as a
speaker or arbitrator, provided that the performance of the Executive's duties
or responsibilities in any of such capacities does not materially interfere with
the regular performance of the Executive's duties and responsibilities
hereunder.
5. Place of Performance. In connection with the Executive's
employment by the Company, the Executive shall be based at the Company's
principal executive offices, and shall not be required to be absent therefrom on
travel status or otherwise for more than a reasonable time each year as
necessary or appropriate for the performance of the Executive's duties
hereunder.
6. Compensation.
(a) During the term of this Agreement, the Company, shall pay the
Executive, and the Executive agrees to accept a base salary at the rate of not
less than $125,000.00 per year, with increases in such rate in accordance with
the Company's regular administrative practices of salary increases applicable to
senior officers from time to time during the term of this Agreement (the annual
base salary as increased from time to time during the term of this Agreement
being hereinafter referred to as the "Base Salary"). The Base Salary shall be
paid in installments no less frequently than monthly. Any increase in Base
Salary or other compensation shall not limit or reduce any other obligation of
the Company hereunder, and once established at an increased specified rate, the
Executive's Base Salary hereunder shall not thereafter be reduced.
(b) During the term of this Agreement, the Executive shall be a full
participant in any and all of the Company's short and long-term incentive plans
and equity
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compensation plans in which senior officers of the Company participate that are
in effect on the date hereof or that may hereafter be adopted, including,
without limitation, the Company's 1998 Omnibus Stock Incentive Plan (the "Stock
Incentive Plan"), with at least the same reward opportunities, if any, that are
provided to other senior officers of the Company from time to time during the
term of this Agreement, and with at least the same reward opportunities that
have heretofore been provided to the Executive under any such plans, provided
that in no event shall the Executive be granted stock options, restricted stock
awards or other stock-based long-term incentives after a Change in Control less
often than annually, nor on terms and conditions (including performance goals)
less favorable to the Executive than those which (a) are granted to officers or
employees of similar position and status in the Company, or (b) were granted to
the Executive during the term of this Agreement prior to such Change in Control
(or, if shorter, during the three years preceding the Change in Control), nor on
fewer than the following number of shares:
(i) the average annual number of shares awarded (in the case of
restricted stock awards), or underlying options granted, to the Executive
during the term of this Agreement prior to such Change in Control (or, if
shorter, during the two years preceding the Change in Control); or
(ii) if greater than the number described in clause (i) above,
the number of shares whose Fair Market Value on the date the shares are
optioned or awarded to the Executive equals the average annual Fair Market
Value (determined on the respective grant or award date) of the shares that
were optioned or awarded to the Executive during the term of this Agreement
prior to such Change in Control (or, if shorter, during the two years
preceding the Change in Control).
(c) During the term of this Agreement, the Executive shall be entitled
to (i) perquisites, including, without limitation, an office and secretarial and
clerical staff, and (ii) fringe benefits, including, without limitation, parking
and health insurance, in each case at least equal to, and on the same terms and
conditions as, those attached to the Executive's office on the date hereof, as
the same may be improved from time to time during the term of this Agreement, as
well as to reimbursement, upon proper accounting, of all reasonable expenses and
disbursements incurred by the Executive in the course of the Executive's duties.
(d) The Executive, the Executive's dependents and beneficiaries shall
be entitled to all benefits and service credit for benefits during the term of
this Agreement to which senior officers of the Company and their dependents and
beneficiaries are entitled as the result of the employment of such officers
during the term of this Agreement under the terms of employee plans and
practices of the Company and its subsidiaries, including, without limitation,
any pension plans, profit sharing plans, any non-qualified deferred compensation
plans and related "rabbi" trusts, the Company's life insurance plans, its
disability benefit plans, its vacation and holiday pay plans, its medical,
dental and welfare plans, and other present or successor plans and practices of
the company and its subsidiaries for which senior officers, their dependents and
beneficiaries are eligible, and to all payments and other benefits under any
such plan or practice subsequent to the term of this Agreement as a result of
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participation in such plan or practice during the term of this Agreement. In
addition, the Executive shall be entitled to take up to six consecutive months
of leave, or such longer period as may be required by applicable law,
("Maternity Leave") in connection with the birth of a child. During any
Maternity Leave, the Executive shall be entitled to all benefits; provided,
however, that the Executive shall only be entitled to receive the base salary
for the first three months of the Maternity Leave and no Base Salary shall be
paid or shall accrue during any period of the Maternity Leave in excess of three
months.
7. TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT.
(a) The term of this Agreement shall terminate upon the death of the
Executive.
(b) The Company may terminate the Executive's employment during the
term of this Agreement for Cause as provided in Section 7(b)(i) or in the event
of Disability as provided in Section 7(b)(ii).
(i) This Agreement shall be considered terminated for "Cause"
only:
(A) if the Executive willfully and repeatedly fails to
substantially perform the Executive's duties hereunder, other than by
reason of a Disability;
(B) if the Executive is grossly negligent or engages in
gross misconduct in the performance of the Executive's duties
hereunder;
(C) if the Executive knowingly engages in an act of
dishonesty intended to result in substantial personal enrichment at
the expense of the Company, an act of fraud or embezzlement, or any
conduct resulting in a felony conviction;
and, in the case of each of clauses (A), (B) and (C) above, the applicable
conditions set forth in Section 7(e) are satisfied.
Anything in this Section 7(b) to the contrary notwithstanding,
the Executive's employment shall in no event be considered terminated by
the Company for Cause if termination takes place (I) as the result of bad
judgment or negligence on the part of the Executive other than gross
negligence or willful or reckless misconduct, (II) for any act or omission
in respect of which a determination could properly be made that the
Executive met the applicable standard of conduct prescribed for
indemnification or reimbursement or payment of expenses of an officer or
director under the Bylaws or Certificate of Incorporation of the Company or
the laws of the State of Delaware or the directors' or officers' liability
insurance of the Company in each case as in effect at the time of such act
or omission, (III) as the result of an act or omission which occurred more
than three calendar months prior to the Executive's having been given
Notice of Termination for such act or such
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omission unless the commission of such act or such omission was not or
could not reasonably have been, at the time of such commission or omission,
known to a member of the Board of Directors (other than the Executive), in
which case more than three calendar months from the date the commission of
such act or such omission was or could reasonably have been so known, (IV)
as the result of a continuing course of action which commenced and was or
could reasonably have been known to a member of the Board of Directors
(other than the Executive) more than three calendar months prior to Notice
of Termination having been given to the Executive for such course of
action, or (V) because of an act or omission believed by the Executive in
good faith to have been in, or not opposed to, the interests of the
Company.
(ii) The term "Disability" as used in this Agreement means an
accident or physical or mental illness which prevents the Executive from
substantially performing the Executive's duties hereunder for six
consecutive months. The term of this Agreement shall end as of the close
of business on the last day of such six month period but without prejudice
to any payments due to the Executive in respect of disability under this
Agreement or any plan or practice of the Company. The amount of any
payments payable under Section 6(a) during such six month period shall be
reduced by any payments to which the Executive may be entitled for the same
period because of disability under any disability or pension plan or
arrangement of the Company or any subsidiary or affiliate thereof.
(c) The Executive may terminate the Executive's employment during the
term of this Agreement for Good Reason. For purposes of this Agreement, "Good
Reason" shall mean (i) any assignment to the Executive without the Executive's
express written consent of any duties, functions, authority or responsibilities
other than those contemplated by, or any material limitation or expansion
without the Executive's express written consent of the duties, functions,
authority or responsibilities of the Executive in any respect not contemplated
by, Section 4(a), including, without limitation, a change in reporting
relationships, any such assignment, limitation or expansion being deemed a
continuing breach of this Agreement, (ii) a reduction of the Executive's rate of
compensation or any other failure by the Company to comply with Section 6, (iii)
failure by the Company to comply with Section 5, (iv) failure by the Company to
obtain the assumption of, and the agreement to perform, this Agreement by any
successor as contemplated in Section 11(a), (v) such assignment, limitation or
expansion described in the foregoing clause (i), reduction described in the
foregoing clause (ii) or failure described in the foregoing clauses (ii), (iii)
or (iv), as the case may be, is not cured within 30 days after receipt by the
Company of written notice from the Executive describing such event or (vi) a
determination by the Executive made in good faith that, as a result of a
detrimental change in circumstances after a Change in Control significantly
affecting the Executive's position, the Executive is unable properly to carry
out all of the authorities, powers, functions, duties and responsibilities
attached to the Executive's position and contemplated by Section 4(a), and the
situation is not remedied within 30 days after receipt by the Company of written
notice from the Executive of such determination.
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(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, subject
to the Bylaws of the Company, the Board of Directors shall have the right by
majority vote of the entire membership of the Board of Directors to terminate
the Executive's employment for any reason other than Cause at any time, subject
to the consequences of such termination as set forth in Section 8.
(e) In no event shall the Company be entitled to terminate the
Executive's employment during the term of this Agreement for Cause pursuant to
Section 7(b), unless and until all of the following take place, provided that
Sections 7(e)(i) through (iii) shall not apply to any termination for Cause
pursuant to Section 7(b)(i)(C):
(i) the Secretary of the Company, pursuant to a resolution duly
adopted by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the entire
membership of the Board of Directors at a meeting called for that purpose,
gives written notice to the Executive (the "Warning Notice") setting forth
with particularity (A) the specific provision of this Agreement that the
Executive is alleged to have failed to satisfy, (B) the acts or omissions
alleged to constitute such failure, (C) the date on which the Executive
shall be given a reasonable opportunity to appear before and be heard by
the Board of Directors concerning the allegations, which date shall be not
less than 30 nor more than 90 days after the Executive's receipt of the
Warning Notice, and (D) the loss of rights under this Agreement that shall
occur unless the Executive diligently and in good faith takes reasonable
steps to remedy such failure within 30 days after the Executive's receipt
of the Warning Notice; and
(ii) the Executive does not diligently and in good faith take all
reasonable steps to remedy such failure within 30 days after the
Executive's receipt of the Warning Notice; and
(iii) the Executive is given a reasonable opportunity to appear
before and be heard by the Board of Directors concerning the allegations,
in accordance with the Warning Notice; and
(iv) the Secretary of the Company gives the Executive a certified
copy of a resolution duly adopted by the affirmative vote of not less than
a majority of the entire membership of the Board of Directors after any
opportunity to appear before the Board of Directors required by Section
7(e)(iii), at a meeting called for that purpose, that sets forth the Board
of Director's finding that the Executive both (A) failed to satisfy the
specific provision of this Agreement set forth in the Warning Notice
previously given, or if no such Warning Notice is required pursuant to this
Section 7(c), the specific provision of the Agreement set forth in such
resolution, and (B) if Sections 7(e)(i) through (iii) apply, did not
diligently and in good faith take all reasonable steps to remedy such
failure within 30 days after the Executive's receipt of the Warning Notice,
and that in all cases specifies the particulars thereof in detail.
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(f) Any termination by the Company pursuant to Section 7(b) or by the
Executive pursuant to Section 7(c) shall be communicated by a written Notice of
Termination to the other party hereto. For purposes of this Agreement, a
"Notice of Termination" shall mean a notice which indicates the specific
termination provision in this Agreement relied upon and sets forth in reasonable
detail the facts and circumstances claimed to provide a basis for termination of
the Executive's employment under the provisions so indicated.
(g) "Date of Termination" shall mean (i) if the Executive's employment
is terminated by the Executive's death, the date of the Executive's death, (ii)
if the Executive's employment is terminated pursuant to Section 7(b)(ii), 30
days after Notice of Termination is given (provided that the Executive shall not
have returned to the performance of the Executive's duties on a full-time basis
during such 30 day period), and (iii) if the Executive's employment is
terminated for any other reason, the date on which a Notice of Termination is
given.
8. Compensation on Termination. The parties recognize and agree
that, if the Company terminates the Executive's employment during the term of
this Agreement other than pursuant to Section 7(b) or if the Executive
terminates the Executive's employment during the term of this Agreement for Good
Reason pursuant to Section 7(c), the actual damages to the Executive would be
difficult if not impossible to ascertain and agree that the Executive's sole
remedy shall be a right to receive amounts determined and paid in accordance
with the provisions of this Section 8. The Executive shall not be required to
mitigate the amount of any payment provided for in this Section 8 by seeking
other employment or otherwise, nor shall any compensation earned by the
Executive in other employment or otherwise reduce the amount of any payment
provided for in this Section 8.
(a) If the Company shall terminate the Executive's employment during
the term of this Agreement other than pursuant to Section 7(b) or if the
Executive shall terminate the Executive's employment during the term of this
Agreement for Good Reason pursuant to Section 7(c), then, as severance pay or
liquidated damages or both:
(i) the Company shall pay the Executive the Executive's full Base
Salary through the Date of Termination at the rate in effect at the time
Notice of Termination is given, together with any other amounts payable to
the Executive under Section 6 for periods prior to the Date of Termination
and all outstanding stock options shall become immediately vested and
exercisable;
(ii) the Company shall pay the Executive a lump sum payment, on
the tenth day after the Date of Termination, equal to 299% of (A) the Base
Salary at the rate in effect as of the Date of Termination, plus (B) the
average annual incentive award awarded to the Executive by the Company or
any subsidiary of the Company for any of the five most recent fiscal years
for which annual incentive award determinations were made before the Date
of Termination, except as limited by applicable law; provided, however,
that notwithstanding the foregoing, under no circumstances shall the
Company pay the Executive a payment that would result in an
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"Excess Parachute Payment," as defined in Section 280G(b) of the Code;
provided, further, that in the event any payment under this clause (ii)
would constitute an Excess Parachute Payment, such payment shall be reduced
to the extent necessary so that the payment does not constitute an Excess
Parachute Payment; and
(iii) the Company shall pay any amounts payable under Section
17.
(b) If the Executive's employment terminates under any circumstance
that does not entitle the Executive to payments under Section 8(a) (including a
termination by reason of the death or Disability of the Executive, or by reason
of the Company or the Executive electing not to extend or further extend the
term of this Agreement pursuant to Section 3(b)), the Executive shall not be
entitled to receive any compensation under Section 6 accruing after the date of
such termination, or any payment under Section 8(a) (other than Section 9).
(c) Nothing in Section 8(a) or 8(b) shall deprive the Executive of any
rights, payments, benefits or service credit for benefits after termination of
employment which were earned pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any
plan or practice of the Company on or prior to such termination including,
without limitation, any pension or welfare benefits and any rights under the
Company's pension, deferred compensation or stock option or other benefit plans
and any legal fees and expenses payable pursuant to Section 17.
9. Indemnification. The Company shall indemnify the Executive to the
fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware, as amended from time to time, for all amounts (including, without
limitation, judgments, fines, settlement payments, expenses and attorneys' fees)
incurred or paid by the Executive in connection with any action, suit,
investigation or proceeding arising out of or relating to the performance by the
Executive of services for, or the acting by the Executive as a director, officer
or employee of, the Company, or any subsidiary of the Company or any other
Person at the Company's request. Nothing in this Section 9 or elsewhere in this
Agreement is intended to prevent the Company from indemnifying the Executive to
any greater extent than is required by this Section 9.
10. Non-competition; Non-solicitation.
(a) In consideration of this Agreement, the Executive agrees that, for
the period ending one year after the termination of the Executive's employment
with the Company by the Company for Cause or by the Executive without Good
Reason (the "Non-Competition Period"), the Executive will not, directly or
indirectly (whether as a sole proprietor, partner or venturer, stockholder,
director, officer, employee, consultant or in any other capacity as principal or
agent or through any Person, subsidiary or employee acting as nominee or agent):
(i) conduct or engage in or be interested in or associated with
any Person which conducts or engages in the Triarco Business within the
United States;
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(ii) take any action, directly or indirectly, to finance,
guarantee or provide any other material assistance to any Person engaged in
the Triarco Business;
(iii) solicit, contact or accept business of any client or
counterparty whom the Company served or conducted business with or whose
name became known to the Executive as a potential client or counterparty
while in the employ of the Company or during the Non-Competition Period; or
(iv) influence or attempt to influence any Person that is a
contracting party with the Company at any time during the Non-Competition
Period to terminate any written or oral agreement with the Company.
(b) The Executive shall neither, either on the Executive's own account
or in conjunction with or on behalf of any other Person, solicit or entice away
from the Company any officer, employee or customer of the Company during the
term hereof or the Non-Competition Period nor engage, hire, employ, or induce
the employment of any such Person whether or not such officer, employee or
customer would commit a breach of contract by reason of leaving service or
transferring business.
(c) The restrictive provisions hereof shall not prohibit the Executive
from (i) having an equity interest in the securities of any entity engaged in
the Triarco Business or any business with respect to which the Executive
obtained confidential or proprietary data or information, which entity's
securities are listed on a nationally-recognized securities exchange or
quotation system or traded in the over-the-counter market, to the extent that
such interest does not exceed 5% of the outstanding equity interests of such
entity, (ii) investing as a passive investor in an entity engaging in the
Triarco Business that is not so listed or traded, so long as such interest does
not exceed 5% of the outstanding equity interests of such entity or (iii) with
the prior written consent of the Company, serving as a director or other advisor
to any other Person.
(d) The Executive agrees that the covenants contained in this Section
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in the opinion of a court of competent jurisdiction, such restraint is not
reasonable in any respect, such court shall have the right, power and authority
to excise or modify such provision or provisions of these covenants which as to
such court shall appear not reasonable and to enforce the remainder thereof as
so amended.
11. Successors; Binding Agreement.
(a) The Company will require any successor (whether direct or
indirect, by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) to all or
substantially all of the business and/or assets of the Company to expressly
assume and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the extent
that the Company would be required to perform it if no such succession had taken
place; provided that no such agreement with a successor shall release the
Company without the Executive's express written consent. Failure of the Company
to obtain such agreement prior to the effectiveness of any such succession shall
be a breach of this
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Agreement and shall entitle the Executive to compensation from the Company in
the same amount and on the same terms as the Executive would be entitled to
hereunder if the Executive's employment were terminated by the Company other
than pursuant to Section 7(b), except that for purposes of implementing the
foregoing, the date on which any such succession becomes effective shall be
deemed the Date of Termination.
(b) If the Executive should die while any amounts are due and payable
to the Executive hereunder, all such amounts, unless otherwise provided herein,
shall be paid in accordance with the terms of the Agreement to the Executive's
devisees, legatee, or other designee or, if there be no such designee, to the
Executive's estate.
(c) Except as to withholding of any tax under the laws of the United
States or any state or locality, neither this Agreement nor any right or
interest hereunder nor any amount payable at any time hereunder shall be subject
in any manner to alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, attachment, or
other legal process, or encumbrance of any kind by the Executive or the
beneficiaries of the Executive or by legal representatives without the Company's
prior written consent, nor shall there be any right of set-off or counterclaim
in respect of any debts or liabilities of the Executive, the Executive's
beneficiaries or legal representatives against any right or interest hereunder
or any amount payable at any time hereunder to the Executive, the Executive's
beneficiaries or legal representatives; provided, however, that nothing in this
Section 11 shall preclude the Executive from designating a beneficiary to
receive any benefit payable on the Executive's death, or the legal
representatives of the Executive from assigning any rights hereunder to the
Person or Persons entitled thereto under the Executive's will or, in case of
intestacy, to the Person or Persons entitled thereto under the laws of intestacy
applicable to the Executive's estate.
12. Parties. This Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to
the benefit of the Company and the Executive, the Executive's heirs,
beneficiaries and legal representatives.
13. Entire Agreement; Amendment.
(a) This Agreement contains the entire understanding of the parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any and all other
agreements between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof.
(b) Any amendment of this Agreement shall not be binding unless in
writing and signed by both (i) an officer or director of the Company duly
authorized to do so and (ii) the Executive.
14. Enforceability. In the event that any provision of this
Agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining terms and
conditions of this Agreement shall be unaffected and shall remain in full force
and effect, and any such determination of invalidity or enforceability shall not
affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision of this Agreement.
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15. Notices. All notices which may be necessary or proper for either
the Company or the Executive to give to the other shall be in writing and shall
be sent by hand delivery, registered or certified mail, return receipt
requested, overnight courier or facsimile, if to the Executive, at 000 Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xx. 0000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000 or, if to the Company, at its
principal executive offices at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000,
Attention: Secretary, facsimile: (000) 000-0000, and shall be deemed given
when sent, provided that any Notice of Termination or other notice given
pursuant to Section 7 shall be deemed given only when received. Either party
may by like notice to the other party change the address at which the Executive
or it is to receive notices hereunder.
16. Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT IS EXECUTED IN THE STATE OF NEW
JERSEY AND SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND BE ENFORCEABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS
OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS
OF LAWS THEREOF.
17. Legal Fees and Expenses. To induce the Executive to execute this
Agreement and to provide the Executive with reasonable assurance that the
purposes of this Agreement will not be frustrated by the cost of its enforcement
should the Company fail to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the
Company shall pay and be solely responsible for any reasonable attorneys' fees
and expenses and court costs incurred by the Executive and any of the
Executive's beneficiaries, heirs or legal representatives as a result of the
Company's failure to perform this Agreement or any provision hereof to be
performed by the Company.
18. Definitions. The following terms, when capitalized in this
Agreement, shall have the meanings set forth or incorporated by reference in
this Section 18.
(a) "Base Salary" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(a).
(b) "Board of Directors" means the Board of Directors of the Company,
as constituted from time to time.
(c) "Cause" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(b)(i).
(d) "Change in Control" means a change in control of the Company of a
nature that would be required to be reported in response to Item 6(e) of
Schedule 14A of Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act, whether or not the
Company is subject to the Exchange Act at such time; provided, however, that
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such a Change in Control shall
in any event be deemed to occur if and when:
(i) any person (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and
14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act), other than the Xxxxx Family Members, the
Company, its subsidiaries and affiliates (as defined in Rule 12b-2 under
the Exchange Act), becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3
under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of the
Company representing (A) more than 15% of the combined voting power of the
Company's then outstanding securities, and (B) more than the percentage of
the combined voting power of the Company's then outstanding
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securities beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, at that time by the
Xxxxx Family Members;
(ii) stockholders approve a merger or consolidation as a result
of which securities representing less than 70% of the combined voting power
of the outstanding voting securities of the surviving or resulting
corporation will be beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, in the
aggregate by the former stockholders of the Company;
(iii) stockholders approve either (A) an agreement for the sale
or disposition of all or substantially all of the Company's assets to an
entity which is not a subsidiary of the Company, or (B) a plan of complete
liquidation; or
(iv) the Persons who were members of the Board of Directors
immediately before a tender offer by any Person other than the Company or a
subsidiary or affiliate of the Company, or before a merger, consolidation,
or contested election, or before any combination of such transactions,
cease to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors as a result of
such transaction or transactions.
(e) "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(f) "Company" means Triarco Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation,
and any successors to its business and/or assets, which executes and delivers an
agreement provided for in Section 11(a) or which otherwise becomes bound by all
the terms and conditions of this Agreement by operation of law.
(g) "Date of Termination" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
7(g).
(h) "Disability" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(b)(ii).
(i) "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
(j) "Fair Market Value" means Fair Market Value as defined in the
Stock Incentive Plan.
(k) "Good Reason" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(c).
(l) "Non-Competition Period" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 10(a).
(m) "Notice of Termination" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 7(f).
(n) "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, limited duration company, trust or other entity of any nature
whatsoever.
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(o) "Xxxxx Family Members" means, collectively, Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Xx.,
Xxxxx X. Xxxxx, Xx., Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx and the Xxxxx Trust.
(p) "Triarco Business" means a business involving the supply of goods
or services substantially the same as or capable of use in substitution for any
goods or services supplied or proposed to be supplied by the Company at the time
of the termination of the Executive's employment.
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In WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to
be duly executed as of the date first written above.
Triarco Industries, Inc.
By:
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Name:
Title:
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Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
