-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, V7SV3WZApEiOGX5pUP8CEIHTet/OGzIf04Ua9l+0HQPxypTD5xS1kCk8JjlCqYHX B4aSWfyo5q3LyafLvj/oVQ== 0000950152-01-000856.txt : 20010213 0000950152-01-000856.hdr.sgml : 20010213 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950152-01-000856 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: SC 13D/A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20010212 SUBJECT COMPANY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BARRY R G CORP /OH/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000749872 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: FOOTWEAR, (NO RUBBER) [3140] IRS NUMBER: 314362899 STATE OF INCORPORATION: OH FISCAL YEAR END: 0102 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: SC 13D/A SEC ACT: SEC FILE NUMBER: 005-35378 FILM NUMBER: 1534693 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 13405 YARMOUTH RD NW CITY: PICKERINGTON STATE: OH ZIP: 43147 BUSINESS PHONE: 6148646400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 13405 YARMOUTH RD NW STREET 2: 13405 YARMOUTH RD NW CITY: PICKERINGTON STATE: OH ZIP: 43147 FILED BY: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ZACKS GORDON CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000904176 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: [] STATE OF INCORPORATION: OH FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: SC 13D/A BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 13405 YARMOUTH RD NW CITY: PICKERING STATE: OH ZIP: 43147 BUSINESS PHONE: 6148646400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 13405 YARMOUTH RD NW CITY: PICKERING STATE: OH ZIP: 43147 SC 13D/A 1 l86417bsc13da.txt R.G. BARRY CORPORATION/GORDON ZACKS FORM SC 13D/A 1 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 SCHEDULE 13D Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No. 20)* R. G. Barry Corporation - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Name of Issuer) Common Shares, par value $1.00 per share - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Title of Class of Securities) 068798-10-7 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (CUSIP Number) Daniel D. Viren R. G. Barry Corporation 13405 Yarmouth Road N.W. Pickerington, OH 43147 (614) 864-6400 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications) Not Applicable - Voluntary Filing - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Date of Event which Requires Filing of this Statement) If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of Sections 240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the following box. [ ] *The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person's initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter the disclosures provided in a prior cover page. The information required in the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed to be "filed" for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Act") or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see the Notes). 2 AMENDMENT NO. 20 TO SCHEDULE 13D CUSIP NO. 068798-10-7 1. NAMES OF REPORTING PERSONS I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY): Gordon Zacks 2. CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP (SEE INSTRUCTIONS): (a) [ ] (b) [ ] 3. SEC USE ONLY: 4. SOURCE OF FUNDS (SEE INSTRUCTIONS): PF 5. CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO ITEMS 2(d) or 2(e): [ ] 6. CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION: United States of America NUMBER OF SHARES BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON WITH: 7. SOLE VOTING POWER: 966,549 8. SHARED VOTING POWER: -0- 9. SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER: 519,423 10. SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER: -0- 11. AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON: 966,549 12. CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES (SEE INSTRUCTIONS): [X] 13. PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11): 10.1% 14. TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON (SEE INSTRUCTIONS): IN -2- 3 AMENDMENT NO. 20 TO SCHEDULE 13D ------------ Item 1. Security and Issuer. - ---------------------------- This Amendment No. 20 to the Schedule 13D (the "Schedule 13D") filed by the reporting person Gordon Zacks ("Zacks") on August 7, 1984, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), as amended, relates to common shares, $1.00 par value (the "Common Shares"), of R. G. Barry Corporation, an Ohio corporation (the "Company"), the principal executive offices of which are located at 13405 Yarmouth Road N.W., Pickerington, Ohio 43147. This Amendment No. 20 amends certain information set forth in the Schedule 13D, as previously amended. Item 3. Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration. - ---------------------------------------------------------- On December 27, 2000, Mr. Zacks purchased 7,221 Common Shares in a privately-negotiated transaction with a director of the Company. The purchase price was $2.00 per share, which purchase price Mr. Zacks paid using his own personal funds. Item 4. Purpose of Transaction. - ------------------------------- See Item 3 of this Amendment No. 20. Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer. - --------------------------------------------- (a) Amount beneficially owned: 966,549 (1)(2)(3)(4) ------------------------------ Percentage of class: 10.1% (5) ------------------- (b) Number of Common Shares as to which such person has: -------------------------------------------------------- (i) Sole power to vote or to direct the vote: ---------------------------------------- 966,549 (1)(2)(3)(4) (ii) Shared power to vote or direct the vote: --------------------------------------- None (iii) Sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of: ----------------------------------------------------- 519,423 (1)(2)(3)(4) -3- 4 (iv) Shared power to dispose or to direct the disposition of: ------------------------------------------------------- None - ------------------- (1) Gordon Zacks is the voting trustee of the Zacks-Streim Voting Trust (the "Voting Trust") and exercises sole voting power as to the 585,056 Common Shares deposited in the Voting Trust. The owners of the Common Shares deposited in the Voting Trust retain investment power with respect to such Common Shares (subject to certain limitations on the right to remove the Common Shares from the Voting Trust) and the right to receive dividends thereon. Mr. Zacks is the beneficial owner of, and retains investment power as to, 137,930 of the Common Shares deposited in the Voting Trust. Mr. Zacks' mother, Florence Zacks Melton, as trustee under a trust established by the will of Aaron Zacks, deceased, is the owner of the balance of the Common Shares deposited in the Voting Trust. Mr. Zacks is a remainder beneficiary of the trust created by the will of Aaron Zacks. (2) Includes 169,502 Common Shares which Mr. Zacks has the right to acquire upon the exercise of stock options exercisable within 60 days of the date of this Amendment No. 20. Excludes 14,967 Common Shares held of record and owned beneficially by the spouse of Mr. Zacks as to which Mr. Zacks has no voting or investment power and disclaims beneficial ownership. (3) Mr. Zacks holds 211,991 Common Shares of record, as to which he has sole voting and investment power. Of such Common Shares, 40,000 Common Shares remain subject to restrictions on transfer under the terms of a Restricted Stock Agreement, dated May 13, 1999, between Mr. Zacks and the Company. See Items 3, 6 and 7 of Mr. Zacks' Amendment No. 19 to Schedule 13D, filed with SEC on February 10, 2000 ("Amendment No. 19"). (4) Under an agreement dated September 27, 1989, as amended, the Company has agreed, upon the death of Mr. Zacks, to purchase from the estate of Mr. Zacks, at the estate's election, up to $4 million of the Common Shares held by Mr. Zacks at the time of his death. The Common Shares would be purchased at their fair market value at the time the estate exercises its put right. The estate's put right would expire after the second anniversary of the death of Mr. Zacks. The Company -4- 5 has agreed to fund its potential obligation to purchase the Common Shares by purchasing and maintaining during Mr. Zacks' lifetime one or more policies of life insurance on the life of Mr. Zacks. In addition, Mr. Zacks agreed that, for a period of 24 months following his death, the Company will have a right of first refusal to purchase any Common Shares owned by Mr. Zacks at his death if his estate elects to sell the Common Shares. The Company would have the right to purchase the Common Shares on the same terms and conditions as the estate proposes to sell the Common Shares. (5) Based upon the sum of (a) 9,371,657 Common Shares outstanding as of December 31, 2000 and (b) 169,502 Common Shares which Mr. Zacks has the right to acquire upon the exercise of stock options exercisable within 60 days of the date of this Amendment No. 20. (c) Transactions by reporting person: ------------------------------------ Other than the transaction reported in Item 3 of this Amendment No. 20, Mr. Zacks has not effected any transactions in the Common Shares of the Company during the sixty days immediately preceding the date of this Amendment No. 20. (d) Right to receive or to direct the receipt of dividends from, --------------------------------------------------------------------- or the proceeds from the sale of, Common Shares: ------------------------------------------------ See Item 5(b) of this Amendment No. 20. (e) Not Applicable. Item 6. Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships with Respect - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ to Securities of the Issuer --------------------------- See Item 3 of Amendment No. 19 and Item 5(b) of this Amendment No. 20. Item 7. Material to Be Filed as Exhibits - ----------------------------------------- Exhibit 1 - Restricted Stock Agreement, dated as of May 13, 1999, between Gordon Zacks and R. G. Barry Corporation (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended July 3, 1999 of R. G. Barry Corporation (File No. 1-8769)). Exhibit 2(a) - Zacks-Streim Voting Trust and amendments thereto (incorporated herein by reference to -5- 6 Exhibit 9 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 2, 1993 of R.G. Barry Corporation (File No. 1-8769)) Exhibit 2(b) - Documentation related to extension of term of the Voting Trust Agreement for the Zacks-Streim Voting Trust (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 9(b) to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 30, 1995 of R.G. Barry Corporation (File No. 1-8769)) Exhibit 3(a) - Agreement, dated September 27, 1989, between R.G. Barry Corporation and Gordon Zacks (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 28.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K, dated October 11, 1989, filed October 12, 1989, of R.G. Barry Corporation (File No. 0-12667)) Exhibit 3(b) - Amendment No. 1, dated as of October 12, 1994, between R.G. Barry Corporation and Gordon Zacks (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 5 to Amendment No. 14 to Schedule 13D, dated January 27, 1995, filed by Gordon Zacks on February 13, 1995) -6- 7 Signature. - --------- After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct. Dated: February 12, 2001 /s/ Gordon Zacks ---------------------------------- Gordon Zacks -7- -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----