EX-3.33 28 dex333.htm SCHULTZ COMPANY AMENDED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION Schultz Company Amended Articles of Incorporation

EXHIBIT 3.33

 

 

AMENDED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

 

OF

 

SCHULTZ COMPANY

 

The amended Articles of Incorporation are as follows:

 

ARTICLE I

 

The name of the Corporation is Schultz Company.

 

ARTICLE II

 

The address, including street and number, if any, of the Corporation’s initial registered office in this State is 13260 Corporate Exchange Drive, Bridgeton, Missouri 63044, and the name of its initial registered agent at such address is James J. Scheetz.

 

ARTICLE III

 

The aggregate number, class and par value, if any, of shares which the Corporation shall have authority to issue shall be Thirty Thousand (30,000) shares of Common Stock having a par value of One Dollar ($1.00) per share.

 

ARTICLE IV

 

No shareholder of the Corporation shall have any preemptive right to acquire any shares of any class of stock of this Corporation, whether now or hereafter authorized, or any securities or obligations (including, but not limited to, securities or obligations convertible into any class of stock issued by this Corporation), whether issued or sold for cash, property, services or otherwise.

 

ARTICLE V

 

The name and address of the original incorporators are Jacob Schultz, 6909 Washington Avenue, University City, Missouri, Abraham Y. Schultz, 2329 S. Kingshighway, St. Louis, Missouri, Harry Schultz, 530 Purdue Avenue, University City, Missouri and Marvin Saks, 6909 Washington Avenue, University City, Missouri.

 

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ARTICLE VI

 

The number of directors to constitute the first Board of Directors shall be Three (3), who need not be a shareholders. Thereafter, the number of directors to constitute the Board of Directors shall be fixed by, or in the manner provided in, the By-Laws of the Corporation, and any change in the number will be reported to the Missouri Secretary of State within thirty (30) calendar days of such change.

 

ARTICLE VII

 

In all elections of directors, each shareholder entitled to vote shall have the right to cast only as many votes as shall equal the number of shares held by the shareholder in the Corporation. There shall be no right to cumulative voting in election of directors.

 

ARTICLE VIII

 

The duration of the Corporation is perpetual.

 

ARTICLE IX

 

The Corporation is formed to engage in any lawful business.

 

ARTICLE X

 

The Corporation undertakes to provide indemnity pursuant to the provisions of this Article X:

 

(1) Nature of Indemnity. Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he, or a person of whom he is the legal representative, is or was a director or officer, of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee, fiduciary, or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or

 

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other enterprise, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent which it is empowered to do so unless prohibited from doing so by the General and Business Corporation Law of Missouri, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than said law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment) against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys’ fees actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such proceeding) and such indemnification shall inure to the benefit of his heirs, executors and administrators; provided, however, that, except as provided in subsection 2 hereof, the Corporation shall indemnify any such person seeking indemnification in connection with a proceeding initiated by such person only if such proceeding was authorized by the board of directors of the Corporation. The right to indemnification conferred in this Article X shall be a contract right and, subject to subsections 2 and 5 hereof, shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition. The Corporation may, by action of its board of directors, provide indemnification to employees and agents of the Corporation with the same scope and effect as the foregoing indemnification of directors and officers.

 

(2) Procedure for Indemnification of Directors and Officers. Any indemnification of a director or officer of the Corporation under subsection 1 of this Article X or advance of expenses under subsection 5 of this Article X shall be made promptly, and in any event within thirty (30) days, upon the written request of the director or officer. If a determination by the Corporation that the director or officer is entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Article X is required, and the Corporation fails to respond within sixty (60) days

 

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to a written request for indemnity, the Corporation shall be deemed to have approved the request. If the Corporation denies a written request for indemnification or advancing of expenses, in whole or in part, or if payment in full pursuant to such request is not made within thirty (30) days, the right to indemnification or advances as granted by this Article X shall be enforceable by the director or officer in any court of competent jurisdiction. Such person’s costs and expenses incurred in connection with successfully establishing his right to indemnification, in whole or in part, in any such action shall also be indemnified by the Corporation. It shall be a defense to any such action (other than an action brought to enforce a claim for expenses incurred in defending any proceeding in advance of its final disposition where the required undertaking, if any, has been tendered to the Corporation) that the claimant has not met the standards of conduct which make it permissible under the General and Business Corporation Law of Missouri for the Corporation to indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed, but the burden of such defense shall be on the Corporation. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its board of directors, independent legal counsel, or its shareholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such action that indemnification of the claimant is proper in the circumstances because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the General and Business Corporation Law of Missouri, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its board of directors, independent legal counsel, or its shareholders) that the claimant has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that the claimant has not met the applicable standard of conduct.

 

(3) Article Not Exclusive. The rights to indemnification and the payment of expenses incurred in defending a proceeding in advance of its final disposition conferred in this Article X shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the articles of incorporation, by-law, agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

 

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(4) Insurance. The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on its own behalf and on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee, fiduciary, or agent of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him or her and incurred by him or her in any such capacity, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under this Article X.

 

(5) Expenses. Expenses incurred by any person described in subsection 1 of this Article X in defending a proceeding shall be paid by the Corporation in advance of such proceeding’s final disposition unless otherwise determined by the board of directors in the specific case upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he or she is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation. Such expenses incurred by other employees and agents may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the board of directors deems appropriate.

 

(6) Employees and Agents. Persons who are not covered by the foregoing provisions of this Article X and who are or were employees or agents of the Corporation, or who are or were serving at the request of the Corporation as employees or agents of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, may be indemnified to the extent authorized at any time or from time to time by the board of directors.

 

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(7) Contract Rights. The provisions of this Article X shall be deemed to be a contract right between the Corporation and each director or officer who serves in any such capacity at any time while this Article X and the relevant provisions of the General and Business Corporation Law of Missouri or other applicable law are in effect, and any repeal or modification of this Article X or any such law shall not affect any rights or obligations then existing with respect to any state of facts or proceeding then existing.

 

(8) Merger or Consolidation. For purposes of this Article X, references to the “Corporation” shall include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, and employees or agents, so that any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under this Article X with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as he or she would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued.

 

ARTICLE XI

 

At any time or times before the Corporation has received any payment for any of its shares, the Board of Directors may adopt amendments to the Articles of Incorporation by executing and verifying a certificate of amendment as provided by The General and Business Corporation Law of Missouri. After the Corporation has received payment for any of its shares, amendments to the Articles of Incorporation shall be made in the manner prescribed by The General and Business Corporation Law of Missouri. The power to make, alter, amend, or repeal the By-Laws of the Corporation shall be vested in the Board of Directors.

 

The Board of Directors shall have and exercise such further powers as are provided it under present or future laws of the State of Missouri.

 

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SUMMARY ARTICLES OF MERGER

 

The Honorable Matt Blunt

Secretary of State

State of Missouri

P.O. Box 778

Jefferson City, Missouri 65102

 

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 351.430.2 of The General and Business Corporation Law of Missouri (the “Corporation Law”), the undersigned corporations certify to the following:

 

1. That CD Acquisition Corp., a Missouri corporation (“CD”), and Schultz Company, a Missouri corporation (“Schultz”), hereby are merged, and that Schultz is the surviving corporation (the “Merger”).

 

2. That the terms and conditions of the Merger and the mode of carrying the same into effect are as set forth in that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, which was approved, adopted, certified, executed and acknowledged by both CD and Schultz in accordance with, and pursuant to the provisions of, the Corporation Law.

 

3. That the Articles of Incorporation of CD shall be the Articles of Incorporation of the corporation surviving the Merger and that the Articles of Incorporation of CD shall be amended to read in their entirety as set forth on Exhibit A attached hereto.

 

4. That the executed Agreement and Plan of Merger is on file at the principal place of business of Schultz, and the address of such principal place of business is 13620 Corporate Exchange Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63044.

 

5. That a copy of the Agreement and Plan of Merger shall be furnished by Schultz, on request and at no cost, to any shareholder of Schultz or CD. Address in Article 4 above.

 

6. That the Merger shall be effective as of the date of filing of the Summary Articles of Merger with the Secretary of State of the State of Missouri.

 

 

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IN AFFIRMATION OF THE ABOVE STATED FACTS, these Summary Articles of Merger have been executed in duplicate by the aforementioned corporations as of the 9th day of May, 2002.

 

        CD ACQUISITION CORP.
        (A Missouri Corporation)
        By  

/s/ Robert L. Caulk


            Robert L. Caulk, President
(NO SEAL)        
ATTEST:        
By  

/s/ Louis N. Laderman


       
        SCHULTZ COMPANY
        (A Missouri Corporation)
        By  

/s/ Steven D. Schultz


            Steven D. Schultz, President
(NO SEAL)        
ATTEST:        
By  

/s/ Daniel J. Schultz


       

 

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