-----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, F/j8D7GX4KXmw2EBPBrSzC4Kbnf1uxCFXdpbN4lSWiq/ONWGUjzZcDdQ6nGCaCeV cUe9wedfK/Ow2gl7yw9LkQ== 0001104659-06-011227.txt : 20060222 0001104659-06-011227.hdr.sgml : 20060222 20060222174256 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-06-011227 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20060217 FILED AS OF DATE: 20060222 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20060222 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ABBOTT LABORATORIES CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000001800 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834] IRS NUMBER: 360698440 STATE OF INCORPORATION: IL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 100 ABBOTT PARK ROAD STREET 2: D-322 AP6D CITY: ABBOTT PARK STATE: IL ZIP: 60064-3500 BUSINESS PHONE: 8479376100 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NEMMERS JOSEPH M CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001264007 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-02189 FILM NUMBER: 06637122 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 100 ABBOTT PK RD CITY: ABBOTT PARK STATE: IL ZIP: 60064 6049 BUSINESS PHONE: 847 937 6100 4 1 a4.xml 4 X0202 4 2006-02-17 0 0000001800 ABBOTT LABORATORIES ABT 0001264007 NEMMERS JOSEPH M 100 ABBOTT PARK ROAD ABBOTT PARK IL 60064-6400 0 1 0 0 Executive Vice President Common shares without par value 2006-02-18 4 F 0 913 44.15 D 66897 D Common shares without par value 2006-02-17 4 A 0 26500 44.16 A 93397 D Common shares without par value 10903 I Profit Sharing Trust Common shares without par value 348 I By self for son Common shares without par value 286 I By self for son Common shares without par value 292 I By self for son Option (right to buy) 44.16 2006-02-17 4 A 0 83000 0 A 2007-02-17 2016-02-16 common shares 83000 83000 D These shares represent performance vested restricted stock awards under the Abbott Laboratories 1996 Incentive Stock Program in a transaction exempt from Section 16(b) under Rule 16b-3. The awards have a 5-year term, with no more than 1/3 of the award vesting in any one year upon Abbott reaching a minimum return on equity target. The awards include the right to have stock withheld for tax purposes. Balance in the Abbott Laboratories Stock Retirement Trust as of February 16, 2006. Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership of all securities held by his sons. Includes shares acquired under the Abbott Laboratories Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan in transactions exempt from Section 16 under Rule 16(a)-11. Employee stock option granted pursuant to the Abbott Laboratories 1996 Incentive Stock Program in a transaction exempt from Section 16(b) Rule 16b-3. The option becomes exercisable in annual increments of 27,667 on 2/17/2007, 27,667 on 2/17/2008 and 27,666 on 2/17/2009. John A. Berry, Attorney-in-Fact for Joseph M. Nemmers 2006-02-22 EX-24 2 ex-24.htm EX-24

Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned constitutes and appoints LAURA J. SCHUMACHER, JOHN A. BERRY and DEBORAH K. KOENEN, and each of them individually, as the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the undersigned and in the undersigned’s name, place and stead, to prepare and sign any and all Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Notices of Proposed Sales of Securities pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933 on Form 144, all SEC statements on Forms 3, 4 and 5 as required under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and any amendments to such forms, and to file the same with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each act and thing requisite and necessary to be done under said Rule 144 and Section 16(a), as fully for all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

A copy of this power of attorney shall be filed with the SEC. The authorization set forth above shall continue in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 144, 3, 4, or 5 or if earlier, until the undersigned revokes such authorization by written instructions to the attorney-in-fact.

Date: February 20, 2006


	/s/ Joseph M. Nemmers, Jr.
	Signature of Reporting Person

	Joseph M. Nemmers, Jr.
	Name


	Abbott Laboratories
	100 Abbott Park Road
	Abbott Park, IL 60064-6400

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