EX-99.3 5 privshelf4amd.htm 4TH AMEND TO PRIVATE SHELF AGREE 8-K Bank Loan Addendums

FOURTH AMENDMENT TO PRIVATE SHELF AGREEMENT

        THIS FOURTH AMENDMENT dated as of July 28, 2006 (this “Fourth Amendment”) to the Multi-Currency Private Shelf Agreement dated as of August 26, 2003 (as amended to date, the “Private Shelf Facility”) is between Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), on the one hand, and Prudential Investment Management, Inc. and the holders of the Series A Senior Notes, Series B Senior Notes and Series C Senior Notes issued under the Private Shelf Facility that are signatories hereto (collectively, “Prudential”), on the other hand.

RECITALS

    A.        Pursuant to the request of the Company, the Company and Prudential now desire to amend the Private Shelf Facility in the respects, but only in the respects, hereinafter set forth.

    B.        Capitalized terms used herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the Private Shelf Facility unless herein defined or the context shall otherwise require.

    C.        All requirements of law have been fully complied with and all other acts and things necessary to make this Third Amendment a valid, legal and binding instrument according to its terms for the purposes herein expressed have been done or performed.

        NOW, THEREFORE, upon the full and complete satisfaction of the conditions precedent to the effectiveness of this Fourth Amendment set forth in Section 2 hereof, and in consideration of good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Company and Prudential do hereby agree as follows:

Section 1.       Amendment to Private Shelf Facility

        Solely for purposes of Sections 10.5(a) and 10.6 of the Private Shelf Facility, Consolidated Net Income (as such term is used in the terms “EBITDA” and “Consolidated Income Available for Fixed Charges”) for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2006, shall be increased by the aggregate amount of non-cash restructuring charges and inventory write-downs incurred during such quarter, so long as such aggregate amount does not exceed $32,000,000.

Section 2.       Conditions to Effectiveness of This Amendment.

        This Fourth Amendment shall become effective as of the date hereof upon the delivery to Prudential of (a) executed counterparts of this Fourth Amendment, duly executed by the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors named as signatories hereto and the Required Holders and (b) a fully executed and effective amendment to the Company’s principal bank credit agreement which provides for an amendment thereto which is substantially identical to that provided herein.

Section 3.       Miscellaneous.

        This Fourth Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, each executed counterpart constituting an original, but all together only one agreement.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Fourth Amendment to be duly executed and delivered by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the date first written above.

     PRUDENTIAL INVESTMENT
MANAGEMENT, INC.


    By: Iris Krause

    Its: Vice President

     THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE
COMPANY OF AMERICA


    By: Iris Krause

    Its: Vice President

     PRUCO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY


    By: Iris Krause

    Its: Vice President

     BAYSTATE INVESTMENTS, LLC.
Prudential Private Placement Investors, L.P.,
as Investment Advisor


    By: Prudential Private Placement Investors, Inc., General Partner

    By: Iris Krause

    Title: Vice President

     GOLDEN AMERICAN LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY

Prudential Priate Placement Investors, L.P., as Investment Advisor


    By: Prudential Private Placement Investors, Inc., General Partner

    By: Iris Krause

    Title: Vice President

     PRUDENTIAL RETIREMENT INSURANCE AND ANNUITY COMPANY


    By: Prudential Investment Management, Inc., Investment Manager

    By: Iris Krause

    Title: Vice President

     NU SKIN ENTERPRISES, INC.


    By: Ritch N. Wood

    Name: Ritch N. Wood

    Its: Chief Financial Officer

The undersigned Subsidiary Guarantors hereby consent and agree to the foregoing, and to each previous amendment to the Private Shelf Agreement.    

     NU SKIN ENTERPRISES HONG KONG, INC.,
a Delaware corporation
NU SKIN INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
a Utah corporation
NU SKIN TAIWAN, INC.,
a Utah corporation
NU SKIN UNITED STATES, INC.,
a Delaware corporation
BIG PLANET, INC.,
a Delaware corporation
NSE PRODUCTS, INC.,
a Delaware corporation
NU SKIN ASIA INVESTMENT, INC.,
a Delaware corporation


    By: D. Matthew Dorny

    Name: D. Matthew Dorny

    Title: Vice President

     NSE KOREA LTD.,
a Korean corporation


    By: Luke B. Yoo

    Name: Luke B. Yoo

    Title: President