Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8

0001193125-12-271971.txt : 20120615 0001193125-12-271971.hdr.sgml : 20120615 20120615122024 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-12-271971 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: S-8 POS PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20120615 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120615 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20120615 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CHARMING SHOPPES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000019353 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-WOMEN'S CLOTHING STORES [5621] IRS NUMBER: 231721355 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FISCAL YEAR END: 0131 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-8 POS SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-111004 FILM NUMBER: 12909375 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 450 WINKS LANE CITY: BENSALEM STATE: PA ZIP: 19020 BUSINESS PHONE: 2152459100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 450 WINKS LANE CITY: BENSALEM STATE: PA ZIP: 19020 S-8 POS 1 d366985ds8pos.htm POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-8 Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-8

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 15, 2012

Registration No. 333-111004

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

CHARMING SHOPPES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

PENNSYLVANIA

23-1721355

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

3750 STATE ROAD

BENSALEM, PENNSYLVANIA 19020

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

CHARMING SHOPPES, INC.

1993 EMPLOYEES’ STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN

(Full title of the plan)

COLIN D. STERN, ESQ.

CHARMING SHOPPES, INC.

3750 STATE ROAD

BENSALEM, PENNSYLVANIA 19020

(Name and address of agent for service)

(215) 245-9100

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

DEREGISTRATION OF COMMON STOCK

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8, which was originally filed on December 8, 2003 (file no. 333-111004) (the “Registration Statement”) to register a total of 900,000 shares of the common stock, par value $0.10 per share (the “Shares”), of Charming Shoppes, Inc. (the “Company”), pursuant to the Company’s 1993 Employees’ Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), is being filed to deregister all of the Shares not yet issued in connection with the Plan.

The Company has entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of May 1, 2012, by and among Ascena Retail Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Ascena”), Colombia Acquisition Corp., a Pennsylvania corporation and direct wholly owned subsidiary of Ascena (the “Purchaser”), and the Company, pursuant to which the Purchaser merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”) with the Company surviving the Merger as a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Ascena. Accordingly, pursuant to the undertaking contained in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby amends the Registration Statement by deregistering all Shares that were registered but unsold under the Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Bensalem, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on June 15, 2012.


Charming Shoppes, Inc.

By:		/s/ Colin D. Stern
Colin D. Stern
General Counsel and Secretary