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Exhibit 3.46
THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
GFSI HOLDINGS, INC.
     GFSI HOLDINGS, INC. (the “Corporation”), a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, hereby certifies as follows:
     1. The name of the Corporation is GFSI Holdings, Inc. The date of the filing of the original Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware was December 23, 1996.
     2. The Corporation filed an Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on February 24, 1997 (the “First Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation”).
     3. The Corporation filed a Certificate of Amendment to the First Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on September 17, 1997.
     4. The Corporation filed a Certificate of Designation to the First Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on September 17, 1997.
     5. The Corporation filed a Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on September 30, 2003 (the “Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation”).
     6. The Corporation filed a Certificate of Amendment to the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on December 30, 2005.
     7. The Corporation filed a Certificate of Amendment to the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on January 19, 2006.
     8. This Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation is being filed pursuant to Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (“DGCL”) in order to amend and restate the Certificate of Incorporation.
     9. The terms and provisions of this Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation were duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Section 242 of the DGCL and have been consented to in writing by the stockholders of the Corporation, in accordance with the provisions of Section 228 of the DGCL.

 


 

     10. This Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation will become effective on the date and at the time it is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware (the “Effective Time”).
     11. From and after the Effective Time, the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

 


 

1.
     The name of the corporation (which is hereinafter referred to as the “Corporation”) is GFSI Holdings, Inc.
2.
     The address of the Corporation’s registered agent in the State of Delaware is Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, Delaware 19808. The name of the Corporation’s registered agent at such address is the Corporation Service Company.
3.
     The purpose for which the Corporation is organized is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”), and the Corporation shall have all powers necessary to engage in such acts or activities, including, but not limited to, the powers enumerated in the DGCL or any amendment thereto.
4.
     The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 100, all of which shall be common stock $0.01 par value (“Common Stock”). Shares of Common Stock shall have identical power, preferences, qualifications, limitations and other rights.
5.
     The Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board”) shall consist of that number of members as may be determined from time to time by resolution of the Board.
6.
     In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by the laws of the State of Delaware, the Board is expressly authorized to make, alter and repeal the bylaws of the Corporation, subject to the power of the stockholders of the Corporation to alter or repeal any bylaw whether adopted by them or otherwise.
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     A director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the DGCL, or (iv) for any transaction from which the

 


 

director derived an improper personal benefit. If the DGCL is amended subsequent to the date hereof to authorize corporate action further limiting or eliminating the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the Corporation shall be limited or eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as so amended. Any repeal or modification of the foregoing paragraph by the stockholders of the Corporation shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.
     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 she, or a person of whom he or she 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 or agent of another corporation, a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, whether the basis of such Proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL, 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, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid or to be paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection therewith and such indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and administrators; provided, however, that, except as provided in the subsequent paragraph, the Corporation shall indemnify any such person seeking indemnification in connection with a Proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person only if such Proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of the Corporation. The right to indemnification conferred herein shall be a contract right and shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such Proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided, however, that, if the DGCL requires, the payment of such expenses incurred by a director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such person while a director or officer, including without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) in advance of the final disposition of a Proceeding, shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking, by or on behalf of such director or officer, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such director or officer is not entitled to be indemnified under this article or otherwise. The Corporation may, by action of its Board, provide indemnification to employees and agents of the Corporation with the same scope and effect as the foregoing indemnification of directors and officers.
     If a claim under the preceding paragraph is not paid in full by the Corporation within 30 days after a written claim has been received by the Corporation, the claimant may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim and, if successful in whole or in part, the claimant shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting such claim. 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 is required, has been tendered to the Corporation) that the claimant has not met the standards of conduct which make it permissible

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under the DGCL to indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed, but the burden of proving such defense shall be on the Corporation. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its Board, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such action that the indemnification of the claimant is proper in the circumstances because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the DGCL, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its Board, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) that the claimant has not met such applicable standard or conduct, shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that the claimant has not met the applicable standard of conduct.
     The right to indemnification and the payment of expenses incurred in defending a Proceeding in advance of its final disposition conferred herein shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.
     The Corporation may, at its option and expense, maintain insurance to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any such expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the DGCL.
8.
     The Corporation reserves the right at any time, and from time to time, to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, subject to the provisions of article 7, and other provisions authorized by the laws of the State of Delaware at the time in force may be added or inserted, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by law; and all rights, preferences and privileges of whatsoever nature conferred upon stockholders, directors or any other persons whomsoever by and pursuant to this Certificate of Incorporation in its present form or as hereafter amended are granted subject to the rights reserved in this article.
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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been executed by an authorized officer of this Corporation on this 8th day of November, 2010.
         
     
  /s/ Catherine A. Meeker    
  Name:   Catherine A. Meeker   
  Title:   Vice President and Assistant Secretary   
 
[Signature page to GFSI Holdings Certificate Amendment]