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ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001179110-16-025928
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20160601
FILED AS OF DATE: 20160603
DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20160603
ISSUER:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: B&G Foods, Inc.
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001278027
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: FOOD & KINDRED PRODUCTS [2000]
IRS NUMBER: 133918742
STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE
FISCAL YEAR END: 1229
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: FOUR GATEHALL DRIVE
STREET 2: SUITE 110
CITY: PARSIPPANY
STATE: NJ
ZIP: 07054
BUSINESS PHONE: 9734016500
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: FOUR GATEHALL DRIVE
STREET 2: SUITE 110
CITY: PARSIPPANY
STATE: NJ
ZIP: 07054
FORMER COMPANY:
FORMER CONFORMED NAME: B&G FOODS HOLDINGS CORP
DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20040129
REPORTING-OWNER:
OWNER DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SHERRILL STEPHEN
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001083181
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: 4
SEC ACT: 1934 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-32316
FILM NUMBER: 161695233
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: CBR ACQUISITION LLC C/O BUCKMANN ROSSER
STREET 2: 126 E 56TH ST
CITY: NEW YORK
STATE: NY
ZIP: 10022
4
1
edgar.xml
FORM 4 -
X0306
4
2016-06-01
0
0001278027
B&G Foods, Inc.
BGS
0001083181
SHERRILL STEPHEN
C/O BRUCKMANN ROSSER SHERRILL & CO LLC
126 EAST 56TH STREET, 29TH FLOOR
NEW YORK
NY
10022
1
0
0
0
Common Stock
2016-06-01
4
A
0
2296
0
A
153192
D
Stock Option (Right to Buy)
43.54
2016-06-01
4
A
0
13753
0
A
2017-06-01
2026-06-01
Common Stock
13753
13753
D
Each non-employee director of B&G Foods receives an annual equity grant of approximately $100,000 of Common Stock as part of his or her non-employee director compensation.
Each non-employee director of B&G Foods at his or her option may choose to receive the cash portion of his or her annual board service fee (or any portion thereof) in an equivalent amount of options instead of cash, provided that such election is made by continuing directors not later than December 31st of the calendar year prior to the payment of such annual board service fee. Mr. Sherrill elected to receive $100,000 of such $155,000 annual board service fee in the form of options.
Exhibit List: Exhibit 24.1 Power of Attorney
/s/ Scott E. Lerner as attorney-in-fact for Stephen C. Sherrill
2016-06-03
EX-24.1
2
sherrillpower.txt
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Exhibit 24.1
Limited Power of Attorney for Section 16 Reporting Obligations
Know all by these presents, that the undersigned
hereby makes, constitutes and appoints Robert C. Cantwell,
Thomas P. Crimmins, Scott E. Lerner, Brian P. Spitser,
Gabrielle R. Scalise and Michele L. Misher, and each of them acting
individually without the other, as the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority as hereinafter
described on behalf of and in the name, place and stead of the
undersigned to:
(1) prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver and file
Forms 3, 4, and 5 (including any amendments thereto) with respect
to the securities issued by B&G Foods, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), with the United States Securities
and Exchange Commission, any national securities exchange and the
Company, as considered necessary or advisable under Section 16(a)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time
(the "Exchange Act");
(2) seek or obtain, as the undersigned's
representative and on the undersigned's behalf, information on
transactions in the Company's securities from any third party,
including brokers, employee benefit plan administrators and
trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes any such person
to release any such information to the undersigned and approves
and ratifies any such release of information; and
(3) perform any and all other acts which in
the discretion of such attorney(s)-in-fact are necessary or desirable
for and on behalf of the undersigned in connection with the foregoing,
including, without limitation, preparing, executing, acknowledging,
delivering and filing in the undersigned's name and on the
undersigned's behalf, and submitting to the SEC a Form ID, including
amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or
appropriate to obtain and renew codes and passwords enabling the
undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of
reports required by Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act.
The undersigned acknowledges that:
(1) this Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not
require, such attorneys-in-fact to act in their discretion on
information provided to such attorneys-in-fact without
independent verification of such information;
(2) any documents prepared and/or executed by such
attorneys-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this
Power of Attorney will be in such form and will contain such
information and disclosure as such attorneys-in-fact, in his, her
or their discretion, deem necessary or desirable;
(3) neither the Company nor such attorneys-in-fact
assume (i) any liability for the undersigned's responsibility to
comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act, (ii) any
liability of the undersigned for any failure to comply with such
requirements, or (iii) any obligation or liability of the
undersigned for profit disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the
Exchange Act; and
(4) this Power of Attorney does not relieve the
undersigned from responsibility for compliance with the
undersigned's obligations under the Exchange Act, including
without limitation the reporting requirements under Section 16 of
the Exchange Act.
The undersigned hereby gives and grants the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact, and each of them acting individually without
the other, full power and authority to do and perform all and
every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or
appropriate to be done in and about the foregoing matters as
fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if present, hereby ratifying all that such attorneys-in-
fact of, for and on behalf of the undersigned, shall lawfully do
or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and
effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms
3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and
transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier
revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this
Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 2nd day of June 2015.
/s/ Stephen C. Sherrill
______________________________
Stephen C. Sherrill