-----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, IRVYMbVQdh4akfjN3N0/v2X/ZLGUr1/im2n4i2jQ6rE2KlE2D3WYPZoL4AY0e5N/ 52hAi+mwyiycVnoCw7LlDQ== 0001193125-08-149783.txt : 20080711 0001193125-08-149783.hdr.sgml : 20080711 20080711141620 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-08-149783 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20080707 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement FILED AS OF DATE: 20080711 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20080711 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: WEIGHT WATCHERS INTERNATIONAL INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000105319 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-PERSONAL SERVICES [7200] IRS NUMBER: 116040273 STATE OF INCORPORATION: VA FISCAL YEAR END: 1230 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-16769 FILM NUMBER: 08948755 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 175 CROSSWAYS PARK WEST CITY: WOODBURY STATE: NY ZIP: 11797 BUSINESS PHONE: 5163901400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 175 CROSSWAYS PARK WEST CITY: WOODBURY STATE: NY ZIP: 11797 8-K 1 d8k.htm FORM 8-K Form 8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): July 11, 2008 (July 7, 2008)

WEIGHT WATCHERS INTERNATIONAL, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Virginia   001-16769   11-6040273

(State or other jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

  (Commission File Number)   (IRS Employer Identification No.)
11 Madison Avenue, New York, New York    10010
(Address of registrant’s principal executive offices)    (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (212) 589-2700

 

 

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

As previously disclosed on February 5, 2008, Weight Watchers International, Inc. (the “Company”) and Groupe DANONE S.A. (“Groupe DANONE”), a company organized and existing under the laws of France, announced that Weight Watchers Asia Holdings Ltd. (“Weight Watchers Asia”), a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and Danone Dairy Asia, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Groupe DANONE, had entered into a joint venture agreement to establish a weight management business in the People’s Republic of China. In accordance with the joint venture agreement, on July 7, 2008, the Company entered into an Intellectual Property License Agreement (the “License Agreement”) with Weight Watchers Danone China Limited, a company duly organized and existing under the laws of Hong Kong (the “Joint Venture”), granting the Joint Venture an exclusive license within the People’s Republic of China to certain Weight Watchers intellectual property rights for the purpose of engaging in the operation of weight management classes, the manufacture and sale of branded products in the meeting room, the publication of a weight management branded print magazine and the offer of weight management products and services over the Internet. In consideration for granting these rights, the Company will receive from the Joint Venture a royalty of ten percent on all of the Joint Venture’s and its subsidiaries’ revenues, net of taxes. Effective as of March 7, 2008, the License Agreement has an initial term of ten years and is automatically renewable for successive ten year terms thereafter.


SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

  WEIGHT WATCHERS INTERNATIONAL, INC.

DATED July 11, 2008

  By:   /s/ Jeffrey A. Fiarman
     
  Name:   Jeffrey A. Fiarman
  Title:  

Executive Vice President, General Counsel

and Secretary

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