-----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, UIF+xjBqhzybeZ8fr5LjxIWYxyqTrg691+7atlD2UAP0SamTGechkuxa/qEl6pmB X8G1U+bX5f5QrOtMlQVYWg== 0001104659-11-008855.txt : 20110222 0001104659-11-008855.hdr.sgml : 20110221 20110222150758 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-11-008855 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 4 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20110215 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers ITEM INFORMATION: Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20110222 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20110222 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SUPREME INDUSTRIES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000350846 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: TRUCK & BUS BODIES [3713] IRS NUMBER: 751670945 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1225 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-08183 FILM NUMBER: 11628193 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: P O BOX 237 STREET 2: 2581 EAST KERCHER ROAD CITY: GOSHEN STATE: IN ZIP: 46528 BUSINESS PHONE: 5746423070 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: P O BOX 237 STREET 2: 2581 EAST KERCHER ROAD CITY: GOSHEN STATE: IN ZIP: 46528 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: EXPLORATION SURVEYS INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19850813 8-K 1 a11-6356_18k.htm CURRENT REPORT OF MATERIAL EVENTS OR CORPORATE CHANGES

 

 

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): February 15, 2011

 

SUPREME INDUSTRIES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware

 

1-8183

 

75-1670945

(State of incorporation)

 

(Commission File No.)

 

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

P.O. Box 237

2581 E. Kercher Road

Goshen, Indiana 46528

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (574) 642-3070

 

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 (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

o            Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o            Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o            Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

o            Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 



 

Item 5.02  Departure of Directors and Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

Employment Agreement

 

On February 16, 2011, Supreme Industries, Inc.  (“Supreme”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Supreme Indiana Operations, Inc. (collectively with Supreme, the “Companies”) entered into an employment agreement with their President and Chief Executive Officer, Kim Korth (the “Employment Agreement”).  The term of the Employment Agreement is from February 1, 2011 to August 1, 2011, with the  parties being able to extend the term upon mutual written agreement up to an aggregate term of one year.  Under the Employment Agreement, Ms. Korth received a signing bonus of $50,000, and will receive a monthly base salary of $50,000 and a monthly stock award equal to the number of whole shares that have a fair market value on the grant date equal to approximately $20,000.  If Ms. Korth is terminated by the Companies other than for “c ause” as defined in the Employment Agreement or Ms. Korth terminates her employment for “good reason” as defined in the Employment Agreement, she will receive her base salary and stock award for the remainder of the term of the Employment Agreement.  The foregoing description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Employment Agreement, a copy of which is being filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Indemnification Agreement

 

On February 16, 2011, Supreme entered into an indemnification agreement with its President and Chief Executive Officer, Kim Korth, who is also a director of Supreme (the “Indemnification Agreement”).  Under the Indemnification Agreement, in exchange for Ms. Korth’s service to Supreme and its affiliates, subject to certain exceptions, Supreme has agreed to indemnify Ms. Korth if she is involved or threatened to be involved in any threatened, pending or completed investigation, claim, action, suit or proceeding whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative as a result of her service as Supreme’s director and/or President and Chief Executive Officer, against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by her in connection with the action.  The foregoing description is qualifie d in its entirety by reference to the Indemnification Agreement, a copy of which is being filed as Exhibit 10.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.03.  Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

 

On February 15, 2011, the Board of Directors of Supreme approved amendments to Article IV. Officers of the Company’s Bylaws as well as other conforming changes to reflect the changes set forth in Article IV.

 

Sec. 4:1.  Number and Qualification was amended to add the position of Chief Executive Officer as a mandatory officer position.  Sec. 4:5. Chairman of the Board was amended to omit the reference that the Chairman of the Board was the Chief Executive Officer of the Company.  Sec. 4:6. Chief Executive Officer was added and the duties and authority of the Chief Executive Officer were defined.  Sec. 4:7. President was amended to re-define the duties and authority of the President due to the addition of the Chief Executive Officer position.  Sec. 4:10. Assistant Secretaries was added to provide for the office of one or more Assistant Secretaries.  Sec. 4:12. Assistant Treasurer was added to provide for the office of one or more Assistant Treasurers.

 

The foregoing description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Second Amended and Restated Bylaws, a copy of which is being filed as Exhibit 3.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Item 9.01.           Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)

 

Exhibits

 

 

 

 

 

3.1

 

Second Amended and Restated Bylaws.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.1

 

Employment Agreement by and among Supreme Industries, Inc., Supreme Indiana Operations, Inc., and Kim Korth dated to be effective February 1, 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.2.

 

Indemnification Agreement by and between Supreme Industries, Inc. and Kim Korth dated February 16, 2011.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

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.

 

 

SUPREME INDUSTRIES, INC.

 

 

 

 

Date: February 22, 2011

By:

/s/ Jeffery D. Mowery

 

 

Jeffery D. Mowery

 

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description

 

 

 

3.1

 

Second Amended and Restated Bylaws.

 

 

 

10.1.

 

Employment Agreement by and among Supreme Industries, Inc., Supreme Indiana Operations, Inc., and Kim Korth dated to be effective February 1, 2011.

 

 

 

10.2

 

Indemnification Agreement by and between Supreme Industries, Inc. and Kim Korth dated February 16, 2011.

 

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EX-3.1 2 a11-6356_1ex3d1.htm EX-3.1

Exhibit 3.1

 

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

 

of

 

SUPREME INDUSTRIES, INC.

 

a Delaware Corporation

 

[as amended February 15, 2011]

 



 

Table of Contents

 

 

 

Page

 

 

ARTICLE I OFFICES

1

Sec. 1:1.

Registered Office and Agent

1

Sec. 1:2.

Other Offices

1

 

 

 

ARTICLE II STOCKHOLDERS

1

Sec. 2:1.

Place of Meetings

1

Sec. 2:2.

Annual Meetings

1

Sec. 2:3.

Special Meetings

1

Sec. 2:4.

Notice

1

Sec. 2:5.

Order of Business at Meetings

2

Sec. 2:6.

Quorum

2

Sec. 2:7.

Majority Vote; Withdrawal of Quorum

3

Sec. 2:8.

Method of Voting

3

Sec. 2:9.

Election of Directors

3

Sec. 2:10.

Voting List

3

Sec. 2:11.

Record Date; Closing Transfer Books

3

Sec. 2:12.

Action Without Meeting

4

 

 

 

ARTICLE III DIRECTORS

4

Sec. 3:1.

Management

4

Sec. 3:2.

Place of Meetings

5

Sec. 3:3.

Regular Meetings; Notice

5

Sec. 3:4.

Special Meetings; Notice

5

Sec. 3:5.

Quorum; Majority Vote

5

Sec. 3:6.

Number; Qualification; Election; Term

5

Sec. 3:7.

Change in Number

5

Sec. 3:8.

Removal

6

Sec. 3:9.

Vacancies

6

Sec. 3:10.

Procedure

6

Sec. 3:11.

Compensation

6

Sec. 3:12.

Action Without Meeting

6

 

 

 

ARTICLE IV OFFICERS

6

Sec. 4:1.

Number and Qualification

6

Sec. 4:2.

Term and Compensation

7

Sec. 4:3.

Removal; Vacancies

7

Sec. 4:4.

Authority

7

Sec. 4:5.

Chairman of the Board

7

Sec. 4:6.

Chief Executive Officer

7

Sec. 4:7.

President

7

Sec. 4:8.

Vice President

8

Sec. 4:9.

Secretary

8

 

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Sec. 4:10.

Assistant Secretaries

8

Sec. 4:11.

Treasurer

8

Sec. 4:12.

Assistant Treasurers

9

 

 

 

ARTICLE V CERTIFICATES OF STOCK

9

Sec. 5:1.

Certificates

9

Sec. 5:2.

Issuance

9

Sec. 5:3.

Payment for Shares

9

Sec. 5:4.

No Pre-Emptive Rights

10

Sec. 5:5.

Lien

10

Sec. 5:6.

Lost, Stolen, or Destroyed Certificates

10

Sec. 5:7.

Registered Owner

10

Sec. 5:8.

Transfer of Shares

10

 

 

 

ARTICLE VI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

11

Sec. 6:1.

Designation; Authority; Responsibility

11

Sec. 6:2.

Procedure; Removal; Vacancies

11

Sec. 6:3.

Meetings; Quorum; Majority Vote

11

Sec. 6:4.

Action Without Meeting

12

 

 

 

ARTICLE VII MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

12

Sec. 7:1.

Notice

12

Sec. 7:2.

Fiscal Year and Seal

12

Sec. 7:3.

Checks and Notes; Books and Records

12

Sec. 7:4.

Resignation

13

Sec. 7:5.

Interested Directors, Officers, and Stockholders

13

Sec. 7:6.

Indemnification

13

Sec. 7:7.

Dividends and Reserves

14

Sec. 7:8.

Purchase Own Shares

14

Sec. 7:9.

Annual Statement

14

Sec. 7:10.

Construction

14

Sec. 7:11.

Amendment of Bylaws

14

Sec. 7:12.

Limitation of Liability

15

 

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SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

OF

SUPREME INDUSTRIES, INC.

 

[as amended February 15, 2011]

 

ARTICLE I

OFFICES

 

Sec. 1:1.                Registered Office and Agent. The registered office of the corporation in the State of Delaware shall be Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of the registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

 

Sec. 1:2.                Other Offices. The corporation may also have offices at such other places both within and without the State of Delaware, including the State of Indiana, the state of its principal business offices, as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine or the business of the corporation may require.

 

ARTICLE II

STOCKHOLDERS

 

Sec. 2:1.                Place of Meetings. All meetings of the stockholders for the election of directors shall be held at such time and place, within or without the State of Indiana, as shall be stated in the notice of the meeting or in a duly executed waiver of notice thereof.

 

Sec. 2:2.                Annual Meetings. An annual meeting of the stockholders shall be held on the second Thursday of May of each year (or such other date as may be set by resolution of the Board of Directors).  If such day is a legal holiday, then the meeting shall be on the next secular day following. At the meeting, the stockholders shall elect directors and transact such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.

 

Sec. 2:3.                Special Meetings. Special meetings of the stockholders for any purpose or purposes, unless otherwise prescribed by statute, by the Certificate of Incorporation, or by these Bylaws, may be called by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or the Board of Directors. Business transacted at a special meeting shall be confined to the objects stated in the notice of meeting.

 

Sec. 2:4.                Notice. Written or printed notice stating the place, day, and hour of the meeting, and in case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be delivered not less than ten nor more than sixty days before the date of the meeting, either personally or by mail, by or at the direction of the Chief

 

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Executive Officer, the President, the Secretary, or the officer or person calling the meeting, to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting. If mailed, such notice shall be deemed to be delivered when deposited in the United States mail addressed to the stockholder at his address as it appears on the stock transfer books of the corporation, with postage thereon prepaid.

 

Sec. 2:5.                Order of Business at Meetings . The order of business at annual meetings and so far as practicable at other meetings of stockholders shall be as follows unless changed by the Board of Directors:

 

(A)                              Call to order

 

(B)                                Proof of due notice of meeting

 

(C)                                Determination of quorum and examination of proxies

 

(D)                               Announcement of availability of voting list

 

(E)                                 Announcement of distribution of annual statement

 

(F)                                 Reading and disposing of minutes of last meeting of stockholders

 

(G)                                Reports of officers and committees

 

(H)                               Appointment of voting inspectors

 

(I)                                    Unfinished business

 

(J)                                   New business

 

(K)                               Nomination of directors

 

(L)                                 Opening of polls for voting

 

(M)                            Recess

 

(N)                               Reconvening; closing of polls

 

(0)                                  Report of voting inspectors

 

(O)                               Other business

 

(P)                                 Adjournment

 

Sec. 2:6.                Quorum. The holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote, represented in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of stockholders. If a quorum is not represented in person or by proxy at a meeting of the stockholders the stockholders entitled to vote thereat, represented in person or by proxy, may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than

 

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announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is represented in person or by proxy. At such adjourned meeting at which a quorum is represented in person or by proxy, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally notified.

 

Sec. 2:7.                Majority Vote; Withdrawal of Quorum. When a quorum is present at any meeting, the vote of the holders of a majority of the shares having voting power, present in person or represented by proxy, shall decide any question brought before such meeting; unless the question is one upon which, by express provisions of the statutes or of the Certificate of lncorporation or of these Bylaws, a different vote is required in which case such express provisions shall govern and control the decision of such question. The stockholders present at a duly organized meeting may continue to transact business until adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough stockholders to leave less than a quoru m.

 

Sec. 2:8.                Method of Voting. Each outstanding share, regardless of class, shall be entitled to one vote on each matter submitted to a vote at a meeting of stockholders, except to the extent that the voting rights of the shares of any class or classes are limited or denied by the Certificate of lncorporation and except as otherwise provided by Section 262 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. A stockholder may vote either in person or by proxy executed in writing by the stockholder or by his duly authorized attorney-in- fact. No proxy shall be valid after three years from the date of its execution unless otherwise provided in the proxy. A proxy shall be revocable unless expressly provided therein to be irrevocable and unless otherwise made irrevocable by law. Each proxy shall be filed with the Secretary of the corporation prior to or at the time of the meeting. Any vote may be taken orally or by show of hands unless someone entitled to vote objects in which case written ballots shall be used.

 

Sec. 2:9.                Election of Directors. Class A Directors shall be elected by majority vote. Class B Directors shall be elected by plurality vote. Cumulative voting shall not be permitted.

 

Sec. 2:10.              Voting List. The officer or agent having charge of the stock transfer books for shares of a corporation shall make, at least ten days before each meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at such meeting or any adjournment thereof, arranged in alphabetical order, with the address of each and the number of voting shares held by each, which list, for a period of ten days prior to such meeting, shall be kept on file at the registered office of the corporation and shall be subject to inspection by any stockholder at any time during usual business hours. Such list shall also be produced and kept open at the time and place of the meeting and shall be subject to the i nspection of any stockholder during the whole time of the meeting.

 

Sec. 2:11.              Record Date; Closing Transfer Books. For the purpose of determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend, or in order to make a determination of stockholders for any other proper purpose, the Board of

 

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Directors of the corporation may provide that the stock transfer books shall be closed for a stated period but not to exceed, in any case, sixty days. If the stock transfer books are closed for the purpose of determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders, such books shall be closed for at least ten days immediately preceding such meeting. In lieu of closing the stock transfer books, the Board of Directors may fix in advance a date as the record date for any such determination of stockholders, such date in any case to be not more than sixty days and, in case of a meeting of stockholders, not less than ten days prior to the date on which the particular action, requiring such determination of stockholders, is to be taken. If the stock transfer books are not closed and no record date is fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders, or stockholders entitled to receive payment of a dividend, the date on which notice of the meeting is mailed or the date on which the resolution of the Board of Directors declaring such dividend is adopted, as the case may be, shall be the record date for such determination of stockholders. When a determination of stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of stockholders has been made as provided herein, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof except when the determination has been made through the closing of stock transfer books, and the stated period of closing has expired.

 

Sec. 2:12.              Action Without Meeting. Any action required by the Delaware General Corporation Law to be taken at a meeting of the stockholders of the corporation, or any action which may be taken at a meeting of the stockholders, may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by a majority of the stockholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof unless the consent of a greater number of the stockholders is required by Section 228 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, and such consent shall have the same force and effect as a unanimous vote of the stockholders. Any such signed consent, or a signed copy thereof, shall be p laced in the minute book of the corporation. Further, but subject to the provisions required or permitted for notice of meetings, the stockholders may participate in and hold a meeting of such stockholders by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and participation in a meeting pursuant to this provision shall constitute presence in person at such meeting, except where a person participated in the meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

ARTICLE III

DIRECTORS

 

Sec. 3:1.                Management. The business and affairs of the corporation shall be managed by the Board of Directors who may exercise all such powers of the corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not (by statute or by the Certificate of Incorporation or by these Bylaws) directed or required to be exercised or done or reserved to, the stockholders.

 

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Sec. 3:2.                Place of Meetings. Meetings of the Board of Directors regular or special, may be held either within or without the State of Indiana.

 

Sec. 3:3.                Regular Meetings; Notice. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held without notice immediately following the annual meeting of stockholders and at the same place unless (by unanimous consent of the directors then elected and serving) such time or place shall be changed.

 

Sec. 3:4.                Special Meetings; Notice. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the Chief Executive Officer or the President on three days’ notice to each director, either personally or by mail or telegram. Special meetings shall be called by the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or Secretary in like manner and on like notice on the written request of two directors. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any special meeting of the Board of Directors need be specified in the notice or waiver of notice of such meeting unless required by these Bylaws. Attendance of a director at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except w here a director attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

Sec. 3:5.                Quorum; Majority Vote. A majority of the number of directors fixed by these Bylaws shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The act of the majority of the directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board of Directors, unless the act of a greater number is required by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws. If a quorum is not present at a meeting of the Board of Directors, the directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present.

 

Sec. 3:6.                Number; Qualification; Election; Term. The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than one nor more than fifteen directors (none of whom need be stockholders or residents of the States of Delaware or Indiana). The directors shall be elected at the annual meeting of stockholders, except as hereafter provided. Unless removed in accordance with the provisions of these Bylaws, each director shall hold office for the term for which such director is elected and until such director’s successor has been elected and qualified.

 

Sec. 3:7.                Change in Number. The number of directors may be increased or decreased (within the limits stated in Sec. 3:6 above) by resolution of the Board of Directors, but no decrease shall have the effect of shortening the term of any incumbent director. Whenever the holders of any class or classes of stock or series thereof are entitled to elect one or more directors by the Certificate of Incorporation, any directorship to be filled by reason of an increase in the number of directors shall be filled by a majority of the directors elected by such class or classes or series thereof then in office, or by a sole remaining director so elected.

 

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Sec. 3:8.                Removal. Any or all directors may be removed either with or without cause at any special or annual meeting of stockholders by the affirmative vote of a majority in number of shares of the stockholders present in person or by proxy at such meeting and entitled to vote for the election of such director if notice of intention to act upon such matter has been given in the notice calling such meeting.

 

Sec. 3:9.                Vacancies. Any vacancy occurring in the Board of Directors (death resignation, removal, or otherwise) may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors though less than a quorum of the Board of Directors. A director elected to fill a vacancy shall be elected for the unexpired term of such director’s predecessor in office.

 

Sec. 3:10.              Procedure. The Board of Directors shall keep regular minutes of its proceedings. The minutes shall be placed in the minute book of the corporation.

 

Sec. 3:11.              Compensation. By resolution of the Board of Directors, the directors may be paid their expenses, if any, of attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors and may be paid a fixed sum for attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors or a stated salary as director. No such payment shall preclude any director from serving the corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor. Members of the executive committee or of special or standing committees may, by resolution of the Board of Directors, be allowed like compensation for attending committee meetings.

 

Sec. 3:12.              Action Without Meeting. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, is signed by all the members of the Board of Directors or the committee. Such consent shall have the same force and effect as a unanimous vote at a meeting. Any such signed consent, or a signed copy thereof, shall be placed in the minute book of the corporation. Further, but subject to the provisions required or permitted for notice of meetings, the directors may participate in and hold a meeting of such directors by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and participation in a meeting pursuant to this provision shall constitute presence in person at such meeting, except where a person participates in the meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

ARTICLE IV

OFFICERS

 

Sec. 4:1.                Number and Qualification. The corporation shall have a Chief Executive Officer, a President, a Vice President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, each of whom shall be elected by the Board of Directors on the expiration of an officer’s term or whenever a vacancy exists. The corporation may also have such other officers (including a Chairman of the Board and additional Vice Presidents) and assistant

 

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officers and agents as the Board of Directors may deem necessary, each of whom may be elected by the Board at any meeting. Any two or more offices may be held by the same person, except that the President and Secretary shall not be the same person. No officer or agent need be a stockholder, a director, or a resident of the States of Delaware or Indiana.

 

Sec. 4:2.                Term and Compensation. Unless otherwise specified by the Board at the time of election or appointment or in an employment contract approved by the Board, each officer’s and agent’s term shall end at the first meeting of directors after the next annual meeting of the stockholders. Such officer or agent shall serve until the end of such person’s term, or if earlier, such person’s death, resignation, or removal. The compensation of officers and agents shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors.

 

Sec. 4:3.                Removal; Vacancies. Any officer or agent elected or appointed by the Board of Directors may be removed by the Board of Directors whenever in its judgment the best interests of the corporation will be served thereby, but such removal shall be without prejudice to the contract rights, if any, of the person so removed. Election or appointment of an officer or agent shall not of itself create contract rights. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the corporation (by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise) may be filled by the Board of Directors.

 

Sec. 4:4.                Authority. All officers and agents of the corporation, as between themselves and the corporation, shall have such authority and perform such duties in the management of the corporation as may be provided in these Bylaws, or as may be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors not inconsistent with these Bylaws.

 

Sec. 4:5.                Chairman of the Board. The Chairman of the Board shall set the overall direction and policy of the corporation and have the authority to bind the corporation by signing legal documents. The Chairman of the Board shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and at all meetings of the stockholders.

 

Sec. 4:6.                Chief Executive Officer.  The Chief Executive Officer shall have the general and active management of the day-to-day business and affairs of the corporation, and shall see that all orders and resolutions of the Board are carried into effect.  The Chief Executive Officer shall perform such other duties and have such other authority and powers as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe or as the Chairman of the Board may from time to time delegate.  In the absence or disability of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer shall perform the duties of the Chairman of the Board.

 

Sec. 4:7.                President. The President shall be the chief operating officer of the corporation and shall have the authority to bind the corporation by signing legal documents. The President shall perform such other duties and have such other authority and powers as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe or as the Chairman of the Board may from time to time delegate.

 

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Sec. 4:8.                Vice President. The Vice Presidents in the order of their seniority, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, shall, in the absence or disability of the President, perform the duties of the President. They shall perform such other duties and have such other authority and powers as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe or as the Chairman of the Board or the Chief Executive Officer may from time to time delegate.

 

Sec. 4:9.                Secretary. The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Board of Directors and all meetings of the stockholders and record all votes and the minutes of all proceedings in a book to be kept for that purpose and shall perform like duties for the executive committee when required. The Secretary shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of the stockholders and special meetings of the Board of Directors. The secretary shall keep in safe custody the seal of the corporation and, when authorized by the Board of Directors or the executive committee, affix the same to any instrument requiring it and, when so affixed, it shall be attested by the Secretary’s signature or the signature of the Treasurer or an assistant Secretary. The Secretary shall perform such other duties and have such other authority and power as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe or as the Chairman of the Board or the Chief Executive Officer may from time to time delegate.

 

Sec. 4:10.              Assistant Secretaries.  Each Assistant Secretary shall have such powers and duties as may be assigned to him by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board or the Chief Executive Officer.  The Assistant Secretaries (in the order of their seniority as determined by the Board of Directors or, in the absence of such a determination, as determined by the length of time they have held the office of Assistant Secretary) shall exercise the powers of the Secretary during that officer’s absence or disability.

 

Sec. 4:11.              Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have the custody of the corporate funds and securities and shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements of the corporation and shall deposit all moneys and other valuable effects in the name and to the credit of the corporation in such depositories as may be designated by the Board of Directors. The Treasurer shall disburse the funds of the corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, taking proper vouchers for such disbursements, and shall render to the Chief Executive Officer and directors at the regular meetings of the board, or whenever they may require it, an account of al l transactions as Treasurer and of the financial condition of the corporation. If required by the Board of Directors, the Treasurer shall give the corporation a bond in such form, in such sum, and with such surety or sureties as shall be satisfactory to the board for the faithful performance of the duties of the Treasurer’s office and for the restoration to the corporation, in case of the Treasurer’s death, resignation, retirement, or removal from office of all books, papers, vouchers, money and other property of whatever kind in such person’s possession or under such person’s control belonging to the corporation. The Treasurer shall perform such other duties and have such other authority and powers as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe or as the Chairman of the Board or the Chief Executive Officer may from time to time delegate.

 

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Sec. 4:12.              Assistant Treasurers. Each Assistant Treasurer shall have such powers and duties as may be assigned to him by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board or the Chief Executive Officer.  The Assistant Treasurers (in the order of their seniority as determined by the Board of Directors or, in the absence of such a determination, as determined by the length of time they have held the office of Assistant Treasurer) shall exercise the powers of the Treasurer during that officer’s absence or disability.

 

ARTICLE V
CERTIFICATES OF STOCK

 

Sec. 5:1.                Certificates. Every owner of shares of the corporation shall be entitled to have a certificate certifying the number of shares owned by such owner in the corporation and designating the class of shares to which such shares belong, which shall otherwise be in such form, in conformity to law, as the Board of Directors shall prescribe.  Each certificate representing shares shall state upon the face thereof:  (a) that the corporation is organized under the laws of the State of Delaware; (b) the name of the person to whom issued; (c) the number and class of shares and the designation of the series, if any, which such certificate represents; and (d) the par valu e of each share represented by such certificate or a statement that the shares are without par value.  Each certificate shall be signed by such officer or officers as the Board of Directors may prescribe, or, if not so prescribed, by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, or the President or a Vice President and the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer of the corporation.  Any or all of the signatures on the certificate may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar, either of which is other than the corporation itself or an employee of the corporation.  In case any officer who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon such certificate has ceased to be such officer before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if such person were such officer on the date of its issuance.  However, notwithstanding what is stated above, the Board of Dir ectors may authorize the issuance of some or all of any or all classes or series of shares of the corporation without certificates in conformity with the applicable requirements of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.  No authorization of uncertificated shares shall affect previously issued and outstanding shares represented by certificates until such certificates have been surrendered to the corporation.  Upon request, every holder of uncertificated shares shall be entitled to receive a certificate.

 

Sec. 5:2.                Issuance. Shares (both treasury and authorized but unissued) may be issued for such consideration (not less than par value) and to such person as the Board of Directors may determine from time to time. Shares may not be issued until the full amount of the consideration, fixed as provided by law, has been paid.

 

Sec. 5:3.                Payment for Shares. The consideration paid for the issuance of shares shall consist of money paid, labor done (including services actually performed for the corporation), or property (tangible or intangible) actually received. Neither promissory notes nor the promise of future services shall constitute payment or part

 

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payment for shares of the corporation. In the absence of fraud in the transaction the judgment of the Board of Directors as to the value of the consideration received for shares shall be conclusive. When such consideration has been paid to the corporation, the shares shall be deemed to have been issued, the stockholder entitled to receive such issue shall be a stockholder with respect to such shares, and the shares shall be considered fully paid and nonassessable. The consideration received for shares shall be allocated by the Board of Directors in accordance with law between stated capital and capital surplus accounts.

 

Sec. 5:4.                No Pre-Emptive Rights. No stockholder or other person may have any pre-emptive rights.

 

Sec. 5:5.                Lien. For any indebtedness of a stockholder to the corporation, the corporation shall have a first and prior lien on all shares of its stock owned by such stockholder and on all dividends or other distributions declared thereon.

 

Sec. 5:6.                Lost, Stolen, or Destroyed Certificates. The corporation shall issue a new certificate in place of any certificate for shares previously issued if the registered owner of the certificate: (a) makes proof in affidavit form that it has been lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken; (b) requests the issuance of a new certificate before the corporation has notice that the certificate has been acquired by a purchaser for value in good faith and without notice of an adverse claim; (c) gives a bond in such form, and with such surety or sureties, with fixed or open penalty, as the corporation may direct, to indemnify the corporation (and its transfer agent and registrar, if any) aga inst any claim that may be made on account of the alleged loss, destruction, or theft of the certificate; and (d) satisfies any other reasonable requirements imposed by the corporation. When a certificate has been lost, apparently destroyed, or wrongfully taken, and the holder of record fails to notify the corporation within a reasonable time after such holder has notice of it, and the corporation registers a transfer of the shares represented by the certificate before receiving such notification, the holder of record is precluded from making any claim against the corporation for the transfer or for a new certificate.

 

Sec. 5:7.                Registered Owner. Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of a certificate for shares, the corporation may treat the registered owner as the person exclusively entitled to vote, to receive notices, and otherwise to exercise all the rights and powers of a stockholder.

 

Sec. 5:8.                Transfer of Shares. Transfers of shares of the corporation shall be made only on the books of the corporation, if such shares are certificated, by the surrender to the corporation or its transfer agent of the certificate therefore properly endorsed or accompanied by a written assignment or power of attorney properly executed, with transfer stamps (if necessary) affixed, or upon proper instructions from the holder of uncertificated shares, in each case, with such proof of the authenticity of signature as the corporation or its transfer agent may reasonably require.

 

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ARTICLE VI
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

 

Sec. 6:1.                Designation; Authority; Responsibility. The Board of Directors, by resolution adopted by a majority of the full board of directors fixed by the Bylaws, may designate from among its members an executive committee and one or more other committees, each of which, to the extent provided in such resolution, shall have and may exercise all of the authority of the Board of Directors, except that no such committee shall have the authority of the Board of Directors in reference to amending the Certificate of Incorporation approving a plan of merger or consolidation, recommending to the stockholders the sale, lease, or exchange of all or substantially all of the property and assets of the corpor ation otherwise than in the usual and regular course of its business, recommending to the stockholders a voluntary dissolution of the corporation or a revocation thereof, amending, altering, or repealing the Bylaws of the corporation or adopting new Bylaws for the corporation, filling vacancies in or removing members of the Board of Directors of any such committee, fixing the compensation of any member of such committee, or altering or repealing any resolution of the Board of Directors which by its terms provides that it shall not be so amendable or repealable; and, unless such resolution expressly so provides, no such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend or to authorize the issuance of shares of the corporation. The designation of such committee and the delegation thereto of authority shall not operate to relieve the Board of Directors, or any member thereof, of any responsibility imposed by law.

 

Sec. 6:2.                Procedure; Removal; Vacancies. The executive committee shall keep regular minutes of its proceedings and report the same to the Board of Directors when required. The minutes of the proceedings of the executive committee shall be placed in the minute book of the corporation. Any member of the executive committee elected or appointed by the Board of Directors may be removed by the Board of Directors whenever in its judgment the best interest of the corporation will be served thereby. A vacancy occurring in the executive committee (by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise) may be filled by the Board of Directors in the manner provided above for original designation.

 

Sec. 6:3.                Meetings; Quorum; Majority Vote. The time, place, and notice (if any) of executive committee meetings shall be determined by the executive committee. At meetings of the executive committee, a majority of the number of members designated by the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The act of a majority of the members present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the executive committee, except as otherwise specifically provided by statute or by the Certificate of Incorporation or by these Bylaws. If a quorum is not present at a meeting of the executive committee, the members present thereat may adjourn the meeting from t ime to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present.

 

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Sec. 6:4.                Action Without Meeting. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting of the executive committee may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, is signed by all the members of the executive committee. Any such signed consent or a signed copy thereof, shall be placed in the minute book of the corporation. Further, but subject to the provisions required or permitted for notice of meetings, the members of the executive committee may participate in and hold a meeting of such members of the executive committee by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and participation in a meeting pursuant to this provision shall constitute presence in person at such meeting, except where a person participates in the meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

ARTICLE VII
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 

Sec. 7:1.                Notice. Whenever by statute, the Certificate of lncorporation or these Bylaws, notice is required to be given to a director or stockholder, and no provision is made as to how the notice shall be given, it shall not be construed to mean personal notice, but any notice may be given (a) in writing, by mail, sufficient postage prepaid, addressed to the director or stockholder at the address appearing on the books of the corporation, or (b) in any other method permitted by law. Any notice required or permitted to be given by mail shall be deemed given at the time when the same is deposited in the United States mails. Whenever any notice is required to be given to a stockholder or director of the corporation under the provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law or under the provisions of the Certificate of lncorporation or these Bylaws, a waiver thereof in writing signed by the person or persons entitled to such notice whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be equivalent to the giving of such notice.

 

Sec. 7:2.                Fiscal Year and Seal. The fiscal year of the corporation shall be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors. The corporate seal (of which there may be one or more exemplars) shall contain the name of the corporation and the name of the state of incorporation. The seal may be used by impressing it or reproducing a facsimile of it, or otherwise.

 

Sec. 7:3.                Checks and Notes; Books and Records. All checks or demands for money and notes of the corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers or such other person or persons as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate. The corporation shall keep correct and complete books and records of account and shall keep minutes of the proceedings of its stockholders and Board of Directors, and shall keep at its registered office or principal place of business or at the office of its transfer agent or registrar, a record of its stockholders giving the names and addresses of all stockholders and the number any class of the shares held by each. Any books, records, and minutes may be in written form or in any other form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable time.

 

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Sec. 7:4.                Resignation. Any director, officer, or agent may resign by giving written notice to the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or the Secretary. The resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein or immediately if no time is specified therein. Unless otherwise so specified, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.

 

Sec. 7:5.                Interested Directors, Officers, and Stockholders.

 

(A)          If paragraph (B) below is satisfied, no contract or other transaction between the corporation and any of its directors, officers, or stockholders (or any corporation or firm in which any of them is directly or indirectly interested) shall be invalid solely because of this relationship or because of the presence of such director, officer, or stockholder at the meeting authorizing such contract or transaction or such person’s participation in such meeting or authorization.

 

(B)           Paragraph (A) above shall apply only if:

 

(1)           The contract or transaction is fair to the corporation as of the time it is authorized or ratified by the Board of Directors a committee of the board, or the stockholders; or

 

(2)           The material facts of the relationship or interest of each such director, officer, or stockholder are known or disclosed: (a) to the stockholders and they nevertheless authorize or ratify the contract or transaction by a majority of the shares present, each such interested person to be counted for quorum and voting purposes; or (b) to the Board of Directors and it nevertheless authorizes or ratifies the contract or transaction by a majority of the directors present, each such interested director to be counted in determining whether a quorum is present but not in calculating the majority necessary to carry the vote.

 

(C)           The provisions contained in paragraphs (A) and (B) above shall not be construed to invalidate a contract or transaction which would be valid in the absence of such provisions.

 

Sec. 7:6.                Indemnification.

 

(A)          The corporation shall, to the maximum extent permitted from time to time under the law of the State of Delaware, indemnify and upon request shall advance expenses to any person who is or was a party to any threatened, pending, or completed action, suit, proceeding, or claim, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that he or she is or was or has agreed to be a trustee, director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a trustee, director, officer, employee, or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses), judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement incurred in connection with the investigation, preparation to defend o r defense of any such action, suit, proceeding or claim. Such indemnification

 

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shall not be exclusive of other indemnification rights arising under any bylaw, agreement vote of directors or stockholders or otherwise and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs and legal representatives of such person.

 

(B)           The corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on any person who is or was a trustee, director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a trustee, director, officer, employee, or agent of another corporation, partnership joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability incurred by him in any such position or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify him against such liability under paragraph (A) above.

 

Sec. 7:7.                Dividends and Reserves. Subject to statute and the Certificate of Incorporation, dividends may be declared by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting and may be paid in cash, in property, or in shares of the corporation. The declaration and payment shall be at the discretion of the Board of Directors. By resolution the Board of Directors may create, out of any of the funds of the corporation available for dividends, such reserve or reserves as the directors from time to time in their discretion think proper to provide for contingencies, to equalize dividends, to repair or maintain any property of the corporation, or for any other purpose they think beneficial to the co rporation. The directors may modify or abolish any such reserve in the manner in which it was created.

 

Sec. 7:8.                Purchase Own Shares. The corporation may, directly or indirectly, purchase its own shares to the extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

Sec. 7:9.                Annual Statement. The Board of Directors shall mail to each stockholder of record at least ten days before each annual meeting a full and clear statement of the business and condition of the corporation including a reasonably detailed balance sheet, income statement, and surplus statement, all prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis.

 

Sec. 7:10.              Construction. Whenever the context so requires, the masculine shall include the feminine and neuter, and the singular shall include the plural, and conversely. If any portion of these Bylaws shall be invalid or inoperative, then, so far as is reasonable and possible, the remainder of these Bylaws shall be considered valid and operative, and effect shall be given to the intent manifested by the portion held invalid or inoperative. The table of contents and headings used in these Bylaws have been inserted for convenience only and do not constitute matters to be construed in interpretation.

 

Sec. 7:11.              Amendment of Bylaws. These Bylaws may be altered, amended, or repealed at any meeting of the Board of Directors at which a quorum is present by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors present at such meeting, provided

 

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notice of the proposed alteration, amendment, or repeal is contained in the notice of such meeting.

 

Sec. 7:12.              Limitation of Liability. No director of the corporation shall be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director; provided, however, that the foregoing clause shall not apply to any liability of a director (a) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (b) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (c) under Section 174 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, or (d) for any transaction from which the director derives an improper personal benefit.

 

 

DATED to be effective February 15, 2011.

 

 

 

/s/ Herbert M. Gardner

 

Herbert M. Gardner,

 

Chairman of the Board

 

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EX-10.1 3 a11-6356_1ex10d1.htm EX-10.1

Exhibit 10.1

 

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

This Employment Agreement (the “Agreement”) is made as of February 1, 2011, effective as of February 1, 2011 (the “Effective Date”) by and among Supreme Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), Supreme Indiana Operations, Inc., its wholly-owned subsidiary (the “Subsidiary”) (jointly the “Companies”) and Kim Korth (the “Executive”).

 

Recitals

 

1.             The operations of the Companies require direction and leadership in a variety of areas.

 

2.             The Executive has significant management experience and expertise that qualify her to provide the interim direction and leadership required by the Companies.

 

3.               Subject to the terms and conditions set forth below, the Companies wish to employ the Executive as President and Chief Executive Officer of each of the Companies on an interim basis, and the Executive wishes to accept such employment.

 

Agreement

 

Now, therefore, the parties agree as follows:

 

1.             Employment.  Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Companies hereby offer, and the Executive hereby accepts, employment as President and Chief Executive Officer of each Company, effective as of February 1, 2011.

 

2.             Term.  Subject to earlier termination as hereafter provided, the Executive shall be employed hereunder for a six-month period commencing on the Effective Date and ending on August 1, 2011, which initial term may be extended on a month-to-month basis upon the mutual written consent of the Companies and the Executive, not to exceed an aggregate of one year.  The term of the Executive’s employment under this Agreement, including any extension made pursuant to this Section 2, is hereafter referred to as “the term of this Agreement” or “the term hereof.”

 

3.             Capacity and Performance.

 

3.1.          Offices.  During the term hereof, the Executive shall serve the Companies in the office of President and Chief Executive Officer of each Company.  In such capacities, the Executive shall be responsible for the operations and financial performance of each of the Companies and the coordination of their strategic direction.  In addition, for as long as the Executive is employed by the Companies and without further compensation, the Executive shall, if so elected or appointed from time to time, serve as a member of each of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”).  The Executive shall be subject to the direction of the Board of each

 



 

of the Companies and shall have such other powers, duties and responsibilities consistent with the Executive’s position as President and Chief Executive Officer as may from time to time be prescribed by each Board.

 

3.2.          Performance.  During the term hereof, the Executive shall perform and discharge, faithfully, diligently and to the best of her ability, her duties and responsibilities hereunder.  The Companies acknowledge and agree that during the term of this Agreement, subject to Section 7 of this Agreement, the Executive will also be providing certain services to and on behalf of IRN, Inc. and providing service as a director on a reasonable number of board of directors.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as set forth in Section 7 of this Agreement, nothing herein shall be deemed to restrict the Executive’s ability to provide such services; provided, however, that such other engagements shall not interfere with Korth’s performance of her obligations hereunder

 

4.             Compensation and Benefits.  As compensation for all services performed by the Executive under this Agreement and subject to performance of the Executive’s duties and obligations to the Companies, pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise, she shall receive the following compensation:

 

4.1.          Signing Bonus.  The Companies shall pay the Executive an aggregate signing bonus in the amount of $50,000, in the form of a cash, lump sum payment, on the date the Agreement is executed by the parties.

 

4.2.          Monthly Base Salary.  During the term hereof, the Companies shall pay the Executive an aggregate base salary of $50,000 per month (the “Base Salary”), payable in equal installments twice each month consistent with the Company’s normal payroll process with the Company making a catch up payment to the Executive for the period from February 1, 2011 until the date this Agreement is executed by the Company and the Executive.

 

4.3.          Monthly Stock Award.  On the last day of each calendar month, the Company shall grant the Executive a stock award of the Company’s Class A Common Stock (the “Stock Award”) under the Company’s Amended and Restated 2004 Stock Option Plan (the “Stock Option Plan”).  Each Stock Award shall equal the number of whole shares that have a fair market value on the grant date equal to approximately $20,000 (as determined in accordance with the terms of the Stock Option Plan).

 

4.4.          Vacation.  During the term hereof, the Executive shall be entitled to vacation commensurate with her position and for no less than four weeks annually, pro-rated for the term of the Agreement.  Vacation shall be taken at such times and intervals as shall be determined by the Executive, subject to the reasonable business needs of the Companies.

 

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4.5.          Other Benefits.

 

4.5.1.      During the term hereof and subject to any contribution therefor generally required of executives of the Companies, the Executive shall be entitled to participate in all employee benefit plans, including without limitation the Companies’ Retirement 401(k) Plan, health and dental plan, life insurance and disability plans as from time to time adopted by the Boards and in effect for executives of the Companies generally (except to the extent such plans are in a category of benefit otherwise provided to the Executive hereunder).  Such participation shall be subject to (i) the terms of the applicable plan documents, and (ii) generally applicable policies of the Companies.  The Companies may alter, modify, add to or delete the employee benefit plans at any time as the Boards, in their sole judgment, determine to be appropriate.< /font>

 

4.5.2.      During the term of this Agreement, if the Executive is eligible for coverage under the IRN, Inc. medical insurance plan, the Companies shall reimburse the Executive for the out-of-pocket insurance premiums of the Executive and IRN, Inc. for the medical insurance provided to the Executive by IRN, Inc. in the amount as of the date immediately prior to the Effective Date of this Agreement.  During the term of this Agreement, if the Executive is not eligible for coverage under the IRN, Inc. medical insurance plan, the Companies shall reimburse the Executive for the out-of-pocket insurance premiums of the Executive paid for medical insurance under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 or the state equivalent law.  On a monthly basis, the Executive shall provide the Companies with the out-of-pocket insuranc e premiums to be reimbursed for that month.  Subject to the cap set forth below, the Companies shall reimburse the Executive this amount within 30 days of submission.  The maximum amount the Companies shall reimburse the Executive for is $1,000 per month (after taxes and required withholding).

 

4.5.3.      The Companies shall provide the Executive a $850 per month car allowance during the term of this Agreement.

 

4.6.          Business Expenses.  The Company shall pay or reimburse the Executive for all reasonable business expenses, including those charged to one of the Companies’ credit cards, which shall include without limitation, ordinary and necessary business expenses incurred or paid by the Executive in the performance of her duties and responsibilities hereunder, subject to (i) any expense policies of the Companies as set by their respective Boards from time to time, and (ii) such reasonable substantiation and documentation requirements as may be specified by the Boards from time to time.  Prior to reimbursement, the appropriate documentation for the business expenses must be submitted to the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.  All business expenses approved by the Chief Financial Officer shall be reimburs ed to the Executive within 30 days after submission of appropriate

 

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documentation to the Chief Financial Officer.  On a periodic basis, the Chairman of the Audit Committee will review the Executive’s business expenses.

 

4.7.          Specific Resources.  During the term hereof, the Companies shall make available to the Executive, office supplies, a computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA) or equivalent device, administrative support, office and technical support and such other supplies and resources as are customarily supplied by each of the Companies to their President and Chief Executive Officer.  All such supplies or resources provided by the Companies for use by the Executive to fulfill her duties and obligations hereunder shall remain the property of the Companies.

 

4.8.          Miscellaneous.

 

4.8.1.      The Companies shall provide the Executive with directors and officers insurance and personal liability protection that is the same as other officers and directors of the Companies receive.

 

4.8.2.      The Executive and the Company shall enter into an Indemnification Agreement substantially similar to the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

4.8.3.      The Executive and the Company shall enter into a Disclosure and Invention Agreement substantially similar to the form attached hereto as Exhibit B.

 

4.8.4.      The Companies shall pay or reimburse the Executive for her reasonable legal fees and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation of this Agreement and other agreements referred to herein up to a maximum of $20,000.  Such payment or reimbursement shall occur within 30 days after her submission of appropriate documentation to the Company.

 

5.             Termination of Services.  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2 hereof, the Executive’s services hereunder shall terminate prior to the expiration of the term of this Agreement under the circumstances set forth below.  The Companies and the Executive shall take all steps necessary (including with regard to any post-termination services by the Executive) to ensure that any termination described in this Section 5 constitutes a “separation from service” within the meaning of Code Section 409A.

 

5.1.          Death.  In the event of the Executive’s death during the term hereof, the Executive’s employment hereunder shall immediately and automatically terminate, and the Companies shall pay to the Executive’s designated beneficiary (or, if no beneficiary has been designated by the Executive, to her estate) within 30 days following death, any Base Salary and Stock Awards earned but unpaid through her date of death.

 

5.2.          Disability.  In the event the Executive incurs a disability that prevents her from performing her duties as President and Chief Executive Officer of either or both of the Companies during the term hereof, this Agreement shall immediately and

 

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automatically terminate, and within 30 days after her separation from service, the Companies shall pay the Executive any Base Salary and Stock Awards earned but unpaid through her separation from service.

 

5.2.1.      If any question shall arise as to whether the Executive is disabled through any illness, injury, accident or condition of either a physical or psychological nature so as to be unable to perform her duties and responsibilities hereunder as President and Chief Executive Officer of either or both of the Companies with or without reasonable accommodation, the Executive may, and at the request of either of the Companies shall, submit to a medical examination by a physician selected by the Companies to whom the Executive has no reasonable objection to determine whether she is so disabled, and such determination shall for the purposes of this Agreement be conclusive of the issue.  If such question shall arise and the Executive shall fail to submit to such medical examination, either Board’s determination of the issue shall be binding on the Executi ve.

 

5.3.          By the Companies for Cause.  Either of the Companies may terminate the Executive’s employment hereunder for Cause at any time upon notice to the Executive setting forth in reasonable detail the nature of such Cause.  The following events or conditions shall constitute “Cause” for termination: (i) the Executive’s willful failure to perform (other than by reason of disability), or gross negligence in the performance of her duties hereunder, and the Executive does not cure such failure or negligence within the 30-day period immediately following her receipt of such written allegations from either Board, (ii) the commission of fraud, embezzlement or theft by the Executive with respect to either of the Companies, or (iii) the conviction of the Executive of, or plea by the Executive of nolo contendere to, any felony or other crime involving dishonesty or moral turpitude.  Upon the giving of notice of termination of the Executive’s employment hereunder for Cause, the Companies shall have no further obligation or liability to the Executive hereunder, other than for Base Salary and Stock Awards earned but unpaid through the date of termination.

 

5.4.          By the Companies other than for Cause.  Either of the Companies may terminate the Executive’s employment hereunder other than for Cause at any time upon notice to the Executive.  In the event of such termination, the Companies shall pay the Executive (i) Base Salary and Stock Awards earned but unpaid through the date of termination, plus (ii) “severance pay” equal to the Base Salary and Stock Awards that otherwise would have been paid during the remaining term of the Agreement, payable within 45 days after her separation from service.  As a condition to severance pay, the Executive shall execute (and not revoke) a release of claims in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Companies (which release shall be provided to the Executive within five (5) days following her separation from service and must be returned to the Companies (and not revoked) within 45 days following her separation from service.  If the Executive fails or otherwise refuses to execute and not revoke a release of claims within 45 days following her separation from service, and in all events prior to the date on which such severance pay is to the paid to her, the

 

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Executive shall not be entitled to any payments or benefits under Section 5.4 other than Base Salary and Stock Awards earned but unpaid through the date of termination.

 

5.5.          By the Executive for Good Reason.  The Executive may terminate her employment hereunder for Good Reason, upon notice to the Companies setting forth in reasonable detail the nature of such Good Reason.  The following shall constitute “Good Reason” for termination by the Executive: (i) failure of either Company to continue the Executive in the position of President and Chief Executive Officer; (ii) material diminution in the nature and scope of the Executive’s responsibilities, duties or authority; (iii) material failure of the Companies to provide the Executive with the Base Salary and Stock Awards, as well as the benefits (including fringe benefits sponsored by the Companies) in accordance with the terms hereof; or (iv) without the Executive’s written consent, relocation of t he Executive’s office to an area outside a 50 mile radius of the Companies’ current headquarters; provided that any event described in (i) through (iv) shall not constitute Good Reason unless the Executive delivers to the Companies a written notice of termination for Good Reason within 90 days after the Executive first learns of the existence of the circumstances giving rise to Good Reason, and within 30 days following delivery of such notice, the Company or Companies, as applicable, have failed to cure the circumstances giving rise to Good Reason.  In the event of termination in accordance with this Sub-Section 5.5, the Companies shall pay the Executive the amounts specified in Sub-Section 5.4. As a condition to severance pay, the Executive shall execute (and not revoke) a release of claims in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Companies (which release shall be provided to the Executive within five (5) days following her separation from service and must be returned to the Companies (and not revoked) within 45 days following her separation from service.  If the Executive fails or otherwise refuses to execute and not revoke a release of claims within 45 days following her separation from service, and in all events prior to the date on which such severance pay is to the paid to her, the Executive shall not be entitled to any payments under Section 5.5 other than Base Salary and Stock Awards earned but unpaid through the date of termination.

 

5.6.          By the Executive Other than for Good Reason.  The Executive may terminate her employment hereunder at any time upon 90 days’ notice to the Companies.  In the event of termination pursuant to this Sub-Section 5.6, either Board may elect to waive the period of notice, or any portion thereof, and have the actual date of termination of employment before the end of the 90 days’ notice period.  Within 30 days of the actual date of termination of employment, the Companies shall pay the Executive any earned but unpaid Base Salary and Stock Awards through the actual date of termination of employment.  Upon the giving of notice of termination by the Executive pursuant to this Sub-Section 5.6, the Companies shall have no further obligation or liability to the Executive, other than the payments de scribed in this Section 5.6.

 

6.             Effect of Termination.  The provisions of this Section 6 shall apply in the event of termination due to the expiration of the term, pursuant to Section 5 or otherwise.

 

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6.1.          Delayed Payments for Specified Employees.  Each payment under this Agreement is intended to be exempt from the requirements of Code Section 409A, and the provisions of this Agreement will be administered, interpreted and construed accordingly.  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5 above, if the Executive is a “specified employee” as defined in Code Section 409A, determined in accordance with the methodology established by the Companies as in effect on the Executive’s separation from service (a “Specified Employee”), amounts and benefits not exempted from Code Section 409A that otherwise would have been payable or provided under Section 5 during the six month period following the Executive’s separation from service shall instead be paid (or provide d, as applicable), with interest on any delayed payment, at the applicable federal rate specified in Code Section 7872(f)(2)(A) (“Interest”) on the first business day after the earlier of (i) the date of the Executive’s death or (ii) the date that is six months following the Executive’s “separation from service” within the meaning of Code Section 409A (the “Delayed Payment Date”).  Each payment under this Agreement that is subject to Code Section 409A shall be considered a separate payment for purposes thereof.

 

7.                                         Confidential Information; Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation.

 

7.1.          Confidentiality.  The Executive acknowledges that the Companies continually develop Confidential Information and that the Executive will receive such Confidential Information during the course her employment.  The Executive shall not, during the period of the Executive’s employment or at any time thereafter, disclose to anyone, or publish, use for any purpose, exploit, nor allow or assist another Person to use, disclose or exploit, except for the benefit of the Companies, without prior written authorization, any Confidential Information, except as required:  (1) in the ordinary course of the Companies’ business or the Executive’s work for the Companies; or (2) by law.

 

7.2.          Return of Documents.  All documents, records, tapes and other media relating to the business of the Companies (the “Documents”), whether or not prepared by the Executive, shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Companies.  The Executive shall safeguard all Documents and shall surrender to the Companies at the time her employment terminates, all Documents then in the Executive’s possession or control.

 

7.3.          Non-Competition.  During the Executive’s employment and director service and for a period of time not to exceed the actual term of the Executive’s employment under this Agreement (“Actual Term”) following the later of the date on which the Executive’s employment with each of the Companies terminates for any reason and the date that the Executive ceases to be a director of each of the Companies, the Executive, either individually or as a principal, partner, manager, consultant, contractor, employee, investor or as a director or officer of any Person, or in any other manner or capacity whatsoever, shall not, in the Restricted Area, whether directly or indirectly, without the express prior written consent of an officer of the Companies, become employed by, invest in, consult for, participate in, ma nage, establish, or otherwise engage in or render services for a Competing

 

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Business. It shall not be a breach of this provision for (a) the Executive to own, directly or indirectly, solely as an investment, securities of any Competing Business traded on any national securities exchange, provided that the Executive is not a controlling person of, or member of a group that controls such business, and provided further that the Executive does not, directly or indirectly, own three percent (3%) or more of any class of securities of such business or (b) the Executive, either individually or as a principal, partner, manager, consultant, contractor, employee, investor or as a director or officer of IRN, Inc. or any Person or in any other manner or capacity whatsoever to consult with, advise or provide any services to a company or entity engaged in the transportation industry other than for a Competing Business.  The Executive agrees that this restriction is reasonable given the level of the Executive’s involvement with and responsibility for the Companies’ products and services, the national nature of the Companies’ business and the limited duration of the restriction.

 

7.4.          Non-Solicitation.  During the Executive’s employment and director service and for a period of time not to exceed the Actual Term following the later of the date on which the Executive’s employment with each of the Companies terminates for any reason and the date that the Executive ceases to be a director of each of the Companies, the Executive, whether directly or indirectly, shall not on behalf of the Executive or any other Person hire, solicit for employment, induce or encourage to leave the employment of the Companies any employee, independent contractor or any former employee of the Companies whose employment ceased less than six (6) months earlier; provided however, that it shall not be a breach of this provision if any such employee, former employee or independent contractor responds to a blind, pub lished advertisement.

 

8.             Definitions.  Words or phrases that are initially capitalized or are within quotation marks shall have the meanings provided in this Section 8 and as provided elsewhere herein.  For purposes of this Agreement, the following definitions apply:

 

8.1.          Code.  “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

8.2.          Competing Business.  “Competing Business” means the following entities: Morgan Corp/JB Poindexter, Utilimaster/Spartan Motors, ABC/Reading Bodies, Knapheide, Kidron, Forest River, Thor Industries, Turtle Top, Cambli, Lenco, Streit and TAG (The Armored Group).

 

8.3.          Confidential Information.  “Confidential Information” means trade secrets, confidential or proprietary information and other technical and commercial information which has a unique value to the Companies and which confers or is intended to confer a competitive advantage to the Companies including, but not limited to, the following: formulas, know-how, processes and technology related to the Companies’ products, services or business; lists of suppliers, customers or prospective customers and related information; the identity, authority and responsibilities of key contacts at the Companies’ suppliers, customers and

 

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prospective customers; the composition and organization of the Companies’ suppliers’ and customers’ businesses; technical data; policies; strategies; designs; sales projections; developmental or experimental work, improvements, discoveries, or plans for research or future endeavors; users’ names or passwords; marketing and sales plans and marketing and promotional practices (including internet-related marketing); business plans; budgets; financial information; prices and costs; business records; audit processes; management methods and information; research, plans, reports, recommendations and conclusions, information regarding the skills and compensation of employees and contractors of the Companies, or other business information disclosed to the Executive by the Companies, either directly or indirectly, in writing, orally, or by drawings or observation; provided, however, Confidential Information does not include information that become generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by the Executive or her agent or other representative (unless such disclosure was made in the course of the Executive’s duties hereunder) or becomes available to the Executive on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Companies or any subsidiaries thereof.

 

8.4.          Person.  “Person” means an individual, a corporation, an association, a partnership, a limited liability company, an estate, a trust and any other entity or organization.

 

8.5.          Restricted Area.  “Restricted Area” means, because the Companies do business throughout the United States, and the Executive shall have responsibilities for the Companies throughout the United States, all states of the United States.

 

9.             Withholding.  All compensation payments made to the Executive by the Companies under this Agreement shall be reduced by any tax or other amounts required to be withheld by the Companies under applicable law.

 

10.           Miscellaneous.

 

10.1.        Assignment.  Neither the Companies nor the Executive may make any assignment of this Agreement or any interest herein, by operation of law or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the others.  This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon each of the Companies and the Executive, and their respective successors, executors, administrators, heirs and permitted assigns.

 

10.2.        Severability.  If any portion or provision of this Agreement shall to any extent be declared illegal or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, then the application of such provision in such circumstances shall be deemed modified to permit its enforcement to the maximum extent permitted by law, and both the application of such portion or provision in circumstances other than those as to which it is so declared illegal or unenforceable and the remainder of this Agreement shall not be affected thereby, and each portion and provision of this Agreement shall be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.

 

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10.3.        Waiver; Amendment.  No waiver of any provision hereof shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by the waiving party.  The failure of either party to require the performance of any term or obligation of this Agreement, or the waiver by either party of any breach of this Agreement, shall not prevent any subsequent enforcement of such term or obligation or be deemed a waiver of any subsequent breach.  This Agreement may be amended or modified only by a written instrument signed by the Executive and any expressly authorized representative of each of the Companies.

 

10.4.        Notices.  Any and all notices, requests, demands and other communications provided for by this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be effective when delivered in person or deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, registered or certified, and addressed (a) in the case of the Executive, to:

 

Ms. Kim Korth

17846 Dewberry

 

Grand Haven, MI 49417

 

with a copy to:

 

Ms. Aleksandra A. Miziolek

Dykema Gossett PLLC

400 Renaissance Center

Detroit, MI  48243

 

or, (b) in the case of each of the Companies, at its principal place of business and to the attention of the Chairman of the Board, with a copy to:

 

Rice M. Tilley, Jr.

Haynes and Boone, LLP

201 Main Street, Suite 2200

Fort Worth, TX 76102

 

10.5.        Entire Agreement.  This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes all prior communications, agreements and understandings, written or oral with the Companies with respect to the terms and conditions of the Executive’s employment.

 

10.6.        Headings.  The headings and captions in this Agreement are for convenience only and in no way define or describe the scope or content of any provision of the Agreement.

 

10.7.        Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

 

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10.8.        Joint and Several Liability.  The Companies, jointly and severally, shall be liable for all payment obligations of the Companies pursuant to this Agreement.

 

10.9.        Governing Law.  This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the domestic substantive laws of the State of Indiana without giving effect to any choice or conflict of laws provision or rule that would cause the application of the domestic substantive laws of any other jurisdiction.

 

10.10.      Consent to Jurisdiction.  Each of the Companies and the Executive by its or her execution hereof, (i) hereby irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of the state courts of the State of Indiana for the purpose of any claim or action arising out of or based upon this Agreement or relating to the subject matter hereof and (ii) hereby waives, to the extent not prohibited by applicable law, and agrees not to assert by way of motion, as a defense or otherwise, in any such claim or action, any claim that it or she is not subject personally to the jurisdiction of the above-named courts, that its or her property is exempt or immune from attachment or execution, that any such proceeding brought in the above-named courts is improper, or that this Agreement or the subject matter hereof may not be enforced in or by such court.  Each of the Companies and the Executive hereby consents to service of process in any such proceeding in any manner permitted by Indiana law, and agrees that service of process by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, at its address specified pursuant to Sub-Section 10.4 hereof is reasonably calculated to give actual notice.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been executed on behalf of the Companies by a duly authorized representative, and by the Executive, as of the date first above written.

 

 

THE COMPANY:

SUPREME INDUSTRIES, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Herbert M. Gardner

 

Name:

Herbert M. Gardner

 

Title:

Chairman of the Board

 

 

 

 

THE SUBSIDIARY:

SUPREME INDIANA OPERATIONS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Herbert M. Gardner

 

Name:

Herbert M. Gardner

 

Title:

Chairman of the Board

 

 

 

 

THE EXECUTIVE:

/s/ Kim Korth

 

Name: Kim Korth

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

D&O INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT

 

See attached.

 

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INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT

 

(Supreme Industries, Inc.)

 

THIS AGREEMENT is made this 16th day of February, 2011, between Supreme Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Kim Korth (“Indemnitee”).

 

Competent and experienced persons are becoming more reluctant to serve as directors and/or officers of corporations unless they are provided with adequate protection against claims and actions against them for their activities on behalf or at the request of such corporations, generally through insurance and/or indemnification.

 

Uncertainties in the interpretations of the statutes and regulations, laws, and public policies relating to indemnification of corporate directors and officers are such as to make adequate, reliable assessment of the risks to which directors and officers of such corporations may be exposed difficult, particularly in light of the proliferation of lawsuits against directors and officers generally.

 

The Board of Directors of the Company, based upon its business experience, has concluded that the continuation of present trends in litigation against corporate directors and officers will inevitably make it more difficult for the Company to attract and retain directors and officers of the highest degree of competence committed to the active and effective direction and supervision of the business and affairs of the Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates and the operation of its and their facilities. In fact, the Board deems such consequence to be so detrimental to the best interests of the Company that it has concluded that the Company should act to provide its directors and officers with enhanced protection against inordinate risks attendant on their positions in order to assure that the most capable persons otherwise available will be attracted to, or will remain in, such positions. In such connection, s uch directors have further concluded that it is not only reasonable and prudent but necessary for the Company to obligate itself contractually to indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, financial responsibility for expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by such individuals in connection with claims lodged against them for their decisions and actions in such capacities.

 

The General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, under which law the Company is organized, empowers a corporation organized in Delaware to indemnify persons who serve as directors and/or officers of the corporation, or persons who serve at the request of the corporation as directors and/or officers of an affiliated corporation, further specifies that the indemnification provided by law “shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise,” and further empowers a corporation to “purchase and maintain insurance” on behalf of such persons “against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such

 



 

person’s status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under this [provision].”

 

The Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Company permit indemnification to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

 

The Company desires to have the Indemnitee serve or continue to serve as a director and/or officer of the Company, and/or as a director, officer, employee, partner, trustee, agent, and/or fiduciary of such other corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, employee benefit plans, trusts, and/or other enterprises (herein referred to as “Company Affiliate”) of which he or she has been or is serving, or will serve on behalf of or at the request of or for the convenience of, or to represent the interests of the Company, free from undue concern for unpredictable, inappropriate, or unreasonable claims for damages by reason of his or her being, or having been, a director and/or officer of the Company, and/or a director, officer, employee, partner, trustee, agent, and/or fiduciary of a Company Affiliate, or by reason of his or her decisions or actions on their behalf.

 

The Indemnitee is willing to serve, or to continue to serve, or to take on additional service for, the Company and/or the Company Affiliate in such aforesaid capacities on the condition that he or she be indemnified as provided for herein.

 

Accordingly, in consideration of the premises and the covenants contained herein, the Company and the Indemnitee do hereby covenant and agree as follows:

 

1                                          Services to the Company: The Indemnitee shall serve or continue to serve as a director and/or officer of the Company (in the case of a Company officer at the will of the Company or under separate contract, if any such contract exists or shall hereafter exist), and/or as a director, and/or officer, or fiduciary of a Company Affiliate, faithfully and to the best of his or her ability so long as he or she is duly elected and qualified in accordance with the provisions of the B ylaws or other applicable constitutive documents thereof; provided. however that: (a) the Indemnitee may at any time and for any reason resign from such position (subject to any contractual obligations which the Indemnitee has assumed apart from this Agreement); and (b) neither the Company nor the Company Affiliate will have any obligation under this Agreement to continue the Indemnitee in any such position.

 

2                                          Right to Indemnification:

 

2.1                                 The Company shall, to the fullest extent authorized by the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) or other applicable law, 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 Company to provide broader indemnification rights than the DGCL or other applicable law permitted the Company to provide prior to such change), indemnify any Indemnitee who is or was involved in any manner

 

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(including, without limitation, as a party or witness), or is threatened to be made so involved, in any threatened, pending, or completed investigation, claim, action, suit, or proceeding whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative (including, without limitation, any action, suit, or proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor) (herein referred to as a “Proceeding”) by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Company, is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director or officer of any Company Affiliate, and/or or by reason of any action alleged to have been taken or omitted in any such capacity, against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such Proceeding; provided. h owever, that, except as provided in Paragraph 3.4, the foregoing shall not apply to a director or officer of the Company with respect to a Proceeding that was commenced by such director or officer unless such Proceeding was authorized or consented to by the Board of Directors of the Company.. Such indemnification shall include the right to receive payment in advance of any expenses incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with such Proceeding, consistent with the provisions of applicable law as then in effect.  For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing indemnification obligation includes, without limitation, claims for monetary damages against Indemnitee in respect of an alleged breach of fiduciary duties to the fullest extent permitted under Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL as in existence on the date hereof.

 

2.2                                 Notwithstanding the obligation of the Company to indemnify attorneys’ fees as above provided in Paragraph 2.1, as a condition to being so indemnified the following shall apply. With regard to any “Proceeding” (as above defined), there will be groups the members of which have totally common interests  —  i.e., their goals are identical and there are no conflicts-of-interest among them. At such time as the determination of these groups has been completed (such determination to be made by “Independent Counsel” [as hereafter defined] if the parties invo lved cannot make such determination among themselves), each group shall, by majority vote of those comprising such group, select a single attorney or law firm to serve as (exclusive) legal counsel for all of the members of such group. In the event that any member of any such group acts independently by retaining the legal services of any other attorney or law firm to additionally or separately represent him, her, or it, all legal fees and expenses of such independently retained attorney or law firm shall be the (sole) responsibility of such independently acting member of the group.

 

3                                          Advancement of Expenses; Procedures; Presumptions and Effect of Certain Proceedings: Remedies: In furtherance, but not in limitation, of the foregoing provisions, the following procedures, presumptions, and remedies shall apply with respect to advancement of expenses and the right to indemnification hereunder:

 

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3.1                                 Advancement of Expenses: All expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by or on behalf of the Indemnitee in connection with any Proceeding shall be advanced to the Indemnitee by the Company within twenty (20) calendar days after the receipt by the Company of a statement or statements from the Indemnitee requesting such advance or advances from time to time, whether prior to or after final disposition of such Proceeding. Such statement or statements shall reasonably evidence the expenses incurred by the Indemnitee (a nd, if required by law at the time of such advance, shall include or be accompanied by an undertaking by or on behalf of the Indemnitee to repay the amounts advanced only if, and to the extent that, it should ultimately be determined that the Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified against such expenses hereunder, which undertaking shall be accepted without reference to the financial ability of Indemnitee to make such repayment).  Advances shall be unsecured and interest-free.

 

3.2                                 Procurement for Determination of Entitlement to Indemnification:

 

3.2.1                        To obtain indemnification as herein provided, an Indemnitee shall submit to the President or Secretary of the Company a written request, including such documentation and information as is reasonably available to the Indemnitee and reasonably necessary to determine whether and to what extent the Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification (herein referred to as the “Supporting Documentation”). The determination of the Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification shall be made not later than 60 calendar days after receipt by the Company of the written request for Indemnification together with the Supporting Documentation. The Secretary or Pres ident of the Company shall, promptly upon receipt of such a request for indemnification, advise the Board of Directors in writing that the Indemnitee has requested indemnification.

 

3.2.2                        The Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification hereunder shall (except as provided in Subparagraph 3.2.3 below) be determined in one of the following ways (each of which shall give effect to the presumptions set forth in Paragraph 3.3): (a) by a majority vote of the Disinterested Directors (as hereinafter defined) if they constitute a quorum of the Board of Directors; (b) by a written opinion of Independent Counsel (as hereinafter defined) if a quorum of the Board of Directors consisting of Disinterested Directors is not obtainable or, even if obtainable, a majority of such Disinterested Directors so directs: (c) by the stockholders of the Company (but only if a majority of the Disinterested Directors, if they constitute a quorum of the Board of Directors, presents the issue of entitlement to indemnification to the stockholders for their determination); or (d) as provided in Paragraph 3.3. In the event

 

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that this Subparagraph 3.2.2 applies, stockholder approval will be deemed to have been received if the holders of a majority of the Company’s total common stock outstanding vote in favor of such approval.

 

3.2.3                        Notwithstanding what is stated above, in the event of a Change in Control (see definition contained in Exhibit “A” hereto) the Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification shall be determined by a written opinion of Independent Counsel in a written opinion to the Board of Directors, a copy of which shall be delivered to the Indemnitee. The Independent Counsel shall be selected by the Indemnitee. In the event the Company objects to the Independent Counsel so selected, within seven days after written notice of the selection has been given by the Indemnitee to the Company, the Company may object to such selection by written notifi cation given to the Indemnitee. Such objection may be asserted only on the ground that the Independent Counsel so selected does not meet the requirement of “Independent Counsel” as hereafter defined, and the objection shall set forth with particularity the factual basis of such assertion. If such written objection is made, the Independent Counsel so selected may not serve as Independent Counsel unless and until a court has determined that such objection is without merit. The Company shall pay any and all reasonable fees and expenses of Independent Counsel incurred by such Independent Counsel in connection with the performance of his or her responsibilities hereunder, and the Company shall pay all reasonable fees and expenses instant to the implementation of the procedures referred to above. Upon the due commencement of any judicial proceeding or arbitration pursuant to Subparagraph 3.4.1 hereof, the Independent Counsel shall be discharged and relieved of any further responsibility in such ca pacity (subject to the applicable standards of professional conduct then prevailing).

 

3.2.4                        In the event of a Potential Change in Control (as hereinafter defined), the Company, upon written request by the Indemnitee, shall create a trust (which shall be a “grantor trust” for federal income tax purposes) for the benefit of the Indemnitee and from time to time upon written request of the Indemnitee shall fund such trust in an amount sufficient to satisfy any and all expenses which at the time of each such request it is reasonably anticipated will be incurred in connection with a Proceeding for which the Indemnitee is entitled to rights of indemnification under Paragraph 2 hereof, and any and all judgments, fines, penalties, and settlem ent amounts of any and all proceedings for which the Indemnitee is entitled to rights of indemnification under Paragraph 2 from time to time actually paid or claimed, reasonably anticipated, or proposed to be paid. The amount or amounts to be deposited in the trust pursuant

 

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to the foregoing funding obligation shall be determined by the Independent Counsel referred to in Subparagraph 3.2.2 above. The terms of the trust shall provide that upon a Change in Control:  (i) the trust shall ‘not be revoked or the principal thereof invaded, without the written consent of the Indemnitee; (ii) the trustee shall advance, within two (2) business days of a request by the Indemnitee, any and all expenses to the Indemnitee; (iii) the trust shall continue to be funded by the Company in accordance with the funding obligations set forth above; (iv) the trustee shall promptly pay to the Indemnitee all amounts for which the Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise; and (v) all unexpended funds in such trust shall revert to the Company upon a final determination by such Independent Counsel that the Indemnitee has bee n fully indemnified under the terms of this Agreement. The trustee shall be an institutional trustee with a highly regarded reputation chosen by the Indemnitee. Nothing in this Subparagraph 3.2.4 shall relieve the Company of any of its obligations under this Agreement. Nothing contained in this Subparagraph 3.2.4. shall prevent the Board of Directors of the Company in its discretion at any time and from time to time, upon request of the Indemnitee, from providing security to the Indemnitee for the Company’s obligations hereunder through an irrevocable line of credit, funded trust as described above, or other collateral. Any such security, once provided to the Indemnitee, may not be revoked or released without the Indemnitee’s prior written consent.

 

3.3                                 Presumptions and Effect of Certain Proceedings: Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Indemnitee shall be presumed to be entitled to indemnification hereunder upon submission of a request for indemnification together with the Supporting Documentation in accordance with Subparagraph 3.2.1, and thereafter the Company shall have the burden of proof to overcome that presumption in reaching a contrary determination. In any event, if the person or persons empowered under Paragraph 3.2 to determine entitlement to indem nification have not been appointed or have not made a determination within 60 calendar days after receipt by the Company of the request therefor together with the Supporting Documentation, the Indemnitee shall be deemed to be entitled to indemnification, and the Indemnitee shall be entitled to such indemnification unless the Company establishes as provided in the final sentence of Paragraph 3.4.2 or by written opinion of Independent Counsel that: (a) the Indemnitee misrepresented or failed to disclose a material fact in making the request for indemnification or in the Supporting Documentation; or (b) such indemnification is prohibited by law. The termination of any Proceeding described in Paragraph 2, or of any claim, issue, or matter therein, by judgment, order, settlement, or conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself,

 

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adversely affect the right of the Indemnitee to indemnification or create a presumption that the Indemnitee did not act in good faith and in a manner which the Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the Company or, with respect to any criminal Proceeding, that the Indemnitee had reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful.

 

3.4                                 Remedies of Indemnitee:

 

3.4.1                        In the event that a determination is made pursuant to Paragraph 3.2 that the Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification hereunder: (a) the Indemnitee shall be entitled to seek an adjudication of his or her entitlement to such indemnification either, at the Indemnitee’s option, in (x) an appropriate court of the State of Delaware or any other court of competent jurisdiction, or (y) an arbitration to be conducted by a single arbitrator, selected by mutual agreement of the Company and the Indemnitee (or, failing such agreement by the then sitting Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the appropriate jurisdiction), pursu ant to the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association, and with respect to any such arbitration, a judgment thereon to be entered by any court of competent jurisdiction; (b) any such judicial proceeding or arbitration shall be de novo, and the Indemnitee shall not be prejudiced by reason of such adverse determination; and (c) in any such judicial proceeding or arbitration, the Company shall have the burden of proving that indemnification is prohibited by applicable law. If any such determination is made, the Indemnitee shall be entitled, on five days’ written notice to the Secretary of the Company, to receive the written report of the persons making such determination, which report shall include the reasons and factual findings, if any, upon which such determination was based.

 

3.4.2                        If a determination has been made, or is deemed to have been made, pursuant to Paragraph 3.2 or 3.3, that the Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification, the Company shall be obligated to pay the amounts constituting such indemnification within five days after such determination has been made or deemed to have been made and shall be conclusively bound by such determination unless the Company establishes as provided in the final sentence of this paragraph that: (a) the Indemnitee misrepresented or failed to disclose a material fact in making the request for indemnification or in the Supporting Documentation; or (b) such indemnification is prohibi ted by law. If either (x) advancement of expenses is not timely made pursuant to Paragraph 3.1, or (y) payment of indemnification is not made within five calendar days after a determination of entitlement to indemnification has been made or deemed to have been made pursuant to Paragraph 3.2 or 3.3, the

 

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Indemnitee shall be entitled to seek judicial enforcement of the Company’s obligation to pay to the Indemnitee such advancement of expenses or indemnification. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may bring an action, in an appropriate court in the State of Delaware or any other court of competent jurisdiction, contesting the right of the Indemnitee to receive indemnification hereunder due to the occurrence of an event described in subclause (a) or (b) of this Subparagraph 3.4.2 (herein referred to as a “Disqualifying Event”); provided, however, that in any such action the Company will have the burden of proving the occurrence of such Disqualifying Event.

 

3.4.3                        The Company shall be precluded from asserting in any judicial proceeding or arbitration commenced pursuant to this Paragraph 3.4 that the procedures and presumptions of this Paragraph 3 are not valid, binding, and enforceable, and shall stipulate in any such court or before any such arbitrator that the Company is bound by all of the provisions of this Agreement.

 

3.4.4                        If the Indemnitee, pursuant to this Paragraph 3.4, seeks a judicial adjudication of, or an award in arbitration to enforce, his or her rights under, or to recover damages for breach of, this Agreement, the Indemnitee shall be entitled to recover from the Company, and shall be indemnified by the Company against, those expenses (see definition contained in Paragraph 2 above) actually and reasonably incurred by the Indemnitee if the Indemnitee prevails in such judicial adjudication or arbitration. If it shall be determined in such judicial adjudication or arbitration that the Indemnitee is entitled to receive part but not all of the indemnification or adva ncement of expenses sought, the expenses incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with such judicial adjudication or arbitration shall be prorated accordingly.  Provided, however, notwithstanding what has just been stated:  (1) the amount of expenses for reimbursement during the Indemnitee’s taxable year may not affect the expenses eligible for reimbursement in any other taxable year; (2) the reimbursement of an eligible expense must be made on or before ninety (90) days after the date the Indemnitee prevailed in such adjudication or arbitration; (3) the right to reimbursement may not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit.  Further, the Indemnitee’s recovery from the Company of any such expenses must take place during the duration of this Agreement (see Paragraph 5.1 which follows).

 

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3.5                                 Definitions: For purposes of this Paragraph 3:

 

Disinterested Director” means a director of the Company who is not or was not a party to the Proceeding in respect of which indemnification is sought by the Indemnitee.

 

“Independent Counsel” means a law firm or a member of a law firm that neither presently is, nor in the past five years has been, retained to represent: (a) the Company or the Indemnitee in any matter material to either such party; or (b) any other party to the Proceeding giving rise to a claim for indemnification hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Independent Counsel” shall not include any person who, under the applicable standards of professional conduct then prevailing under the laws of the State of Delaware would have a conflict of interest in representing either the company or the Indemnitee in an action to determine the Indemnitee’s rights hereunder.

 

“Potential Change in Control” shall be deemed to have occurred if: (i) the Company enters into an agreement, the consummation of which would result in the occurrence of a Change in Control; (ii) a person (including the Company) publicly announces a legitimate intention to take or to consider taking actions which if consummated would constitute a Change in Control; (iii) any person, other than a trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company or a corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock  of the Company, who is or becomes the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 9.5 % or more of the combined votin g power of the Company’s then outstanding voting securities, increases his or her beneficial ownership of such securities by five percentage points or more over the percentage so owned by such person; or (iv) the Board of Directors adopts a resolution to the effect that, for purposes of this Agreement, a Potential Change in Control has occurred.

 

4                                          Other Rights to Indemnification: The indemnification and advancement of costs and expenses (including attorneys’ fees and disbursements) provided by this Agreement shall be in addition to, and shall not be deemed exclusive of, any other rights to which the Indemnitee may now or in the future be entitled under any provision of applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation, or any Bylaw of the Company or any other agreement, or any vote of directors or stockholders or otherwise, whether as to action in his or her official capacity or in another capacity while occupying any of the positions or having any of the relationships referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Agreement.

 

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5                                          Duration of Agreement:

 

5.1                                 This Agreement shall be effective from and after the date hereof, and shall continue until and terminate upon the later of: (i) the tenth (10th) anniversary after the Indemnitee has ceased to occupy any of the positions or have any of the relationships described in Paragraph 1 of this Agreement; or (ii) (a) the final termination or resolution of all proceedings with respect to the Indemnitee commenced during such ten (10) year period, and (b) either (x)&nb sp;receipt by the Indemnitee of the Indemnification to which he or she is entitled hereunder with respect thereto, or (y) a final adjudication or binding arbitration that the Indemnitee is not entitled to any further indemnification with respect thereto, as the case may be.

 

5.2                                 This Agreement shall be binding upon the Company and its successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the Indemnitee and his or her heirs, devisees, executors, administrators, or other legal representatives.

 

6.                                       Severability: If any provision or provisions of this Agreement are held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable under any particular circumstances or for any reason whatsoever: (a) the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement (including, without limitation, all other portions of any paragraph or clause of this Agreement that contains any provision that has been found to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that are not themselves invalid, illegal, or unenforceable) or the validity, legality, or enforceability under any other circumstances shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby; and (b) to the fullest extent possible consistent with applicable law, the provisions of this Agreement (including, without limitation, all other portions of any paragraph or clause of this Agreement that contains any such provision that has been found to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that are not themselves invalid, illegal, or unenforceable) shall be deemed revised and shall be construed so as to give effect to the intent manifested by this Agreement (including the provision held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable).

 

7.                                       Identical Counterparts: This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same Agreement. Only one such counterpart signed by the party against whom enforceability is sought needs to be produced to evidence the existence of this Agreement.

 

8.                                       Headings: The headings of the paragraphs of this Agreement are inserted for convenience and shall not be deemed to constitute part of this Agreement or to affect the construction thereof.

 

9.                                       Modification and Waiver: No supplement, modification, or amendment of this Agreement shall be binding unless executed in writing by both of the parties hereto. No waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed or

 

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shall constitute a waiver of any other provisions hereof (whether or not similar) nor shall such waiver constitute a continuing waiver.

 

10.                                 Notification and Defense of Claim: The Indemnitee agrees to notify the Company promptly in writing upon being served with any summons, citation, subpoena, complaint, indictment, information, or other document relating to any matter which may be subject to indemnification hereunder, whether civil, criminal, or investigative; provided. however, that the failure of the Indemnitee to give such notice to the Company shall not adversely affect the Indemnitee’s rights under this Agreement except to the extent the Company has b een materially prejudiced as a direct result of such failure. Nothing in this Agreement shall constitute a waiver of the Company’s right to seek participation at its own expense in any Proceeding which may give rise to indemnification hereunder.

 

 

11.                                 Notices: All notices, requests, demands, and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if: (i) delivered by hand and receipted for by the party to whom said notice or other communication shall have been directed; or (ii) mailed by certified or registered mail with postage prepaid, on the third business day after the date on which it is so mailed, in either case:

 

(a)           if to the Indemnitee, at the address indicated on the signature page hereof;

 

(b)           if to the Company:

 

Supreme Industries, Inc.

2581 E. Kercher Road

Goshen, IN 46528

 

or to such address as may have been furnished to either party by the other Party.

 

12                                    Governing Law: The parties hereto agree that this Agreement shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware.

 

13.                                 Subsequent Legislation: If there is a change in the DGCL or other applicable law (whether by statute or judicial decision) after adoption of this Agreement to expand further the indemnification permitted to directors or officers, then the Company shall indemnify Indemnitee to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL or other applicable law, as so amended.  Any amendment, alteration or repeal of the DGCL or other applicable law that adversely affects any right of Indemnitee shall be prospective only and shall not limit o r eliminate any such right with respect to any Proceeding involving any occurrence or alleged occurrence of any action or omission to act that took place before such amendment or repeal.

 

[Signatures on the following page]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written.

 

 

 

COMPANY:

 

 

 

 

Supreme Industries, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Herbert M. Gardner

 

 

 

 

Herbert M. Gardner,

 

 

 

 

Chairman of the Board

 

 

 

 

 

INDEMNITEE:

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/  Kim Korth

 

 

 

Kim Korth

 

 

 

 

 

 

Residence Address:

 

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Exhibit “A”

to

Indemnification Agreement

 

I.              Change in the ownership of a corporation

 

(A)  In general.  A change in the ownership of a corporation occurs on the date that any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, acquires ownership of stock of the corporation that, together with stock held by such person or group, constitutes more than 50 percent of the total fair market value or total voting power of the stock of such corporation.  However, if any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, is considered to own more than 50 percent of the total fair market value or total voting power of the stock of a corporation, the acquisition of additional stock by the same person or persons is not considered to cause a change in the ownership of the corporation (or to cause a change in the effective control of the corporation).    An increase in the percentage of stock owned by any one person, or persons acting as a group, as a res ult of a transaction in which the corporation acquires its stock in exchange for property will be treated as an acquisition of stock.  This applies only when there is a transfer of stock of a corporation (or issuance of stock of a corporation) and stock in such corporation remains outstanding after the transaction.

 

(B)           Persons acting as a group.  Persons will not be considered to be acting as a group solely because they purchase or own stock of the same corporation at the same time, or as a result of the same public offering.  However, persons will be considered to be acting as a group if they are owners of a corporation that enters into a merger, consolidation, purchase, or acquisition of stock, or similar business transaction with the corporation.  If a person, including an entity, owns stock in both corporations that enter into a merger, consolidation, purchase, or acquisition of stock, or similar transaction, such shareholder is considered to be acting as a group with other shareholders in a corporation prior to the transaction giving rise to the change and not with respect to the ownership interest in the other corporation.

 

II.            Change in the effective control of a corporation.

 

(A)          In general.  Notwithstanding that a corporation has not undergone a change in ownership, (see above), a change in the effective control of a corporation occurs only on the date that either —

 

(1)           Any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, acquires (or has acquired during the 12-month period ending on the date of the most recent acquisition by such person or persons) ownership of stock of the corporation possessing 35 percent or more of the total voting power of the stock of such corporation; or

 

(2)           A majority of members of the corporation’s board of directors is replaced during any 12-month period by directors whose appointment or election is not endorsed by a majority of the members of the corporation’s board of directors prior to the election, provided that for purposes of this paragraph  the term corporation refers solely to the relevant corporation

 

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for which no other corporation is a majority shareholder for purposes of that paragraph (for example, if Corporation A is a publicly held corporation with no majority shareholder, and Corporation A is the majority shareholder of Corporation B, which is the majority shareholder of Corporation C, the term corporation for purposes of this paragraph would refer solely to Corporation A).

 

(B)           Multiple change in control events.  A change in effective control also may occur in any transaction in which either of the two corporations involved in the transaction has a change in control event.  Thus, for example, assume Corporation P transfers more than 40 percent of the total gross fair market value of its assets to Corporation O in exchange for 35 percent of O’s stock.  P has undergone a change in ownership of a substantial portion of its asset, and O has a change in effective control.

 

(C)           Acquisition of additional control.  If any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, is considered to effectively control a corporation, the acquisition of additional control of the corporation by the same person or persons is not considered to cause a change in the effective control of the corporation (or to cause a change in the ownership of the corporation).

 

(D)          Persons acting as a group.  Persons will not be considered to be acting as a group solely because they purchase or own stock of the same corporation at the same time, or as a result of the same public offering.  However, persons will be considered to be acting as a group if they are owners of a corporation that enters into a merger, consolidation, purchase, or acquisition of stock, or similar business transaction with the corporation.  If a person, including an entity, owns stock in both corporations that enter into a merger, consolidation, purchase, or acquisition of stock, or similar transaction, such shareholder is considered to be acting as a group with other shareholders in a corporation only with respect to the ownership in that corporation prior to the transaction giving rise to the change and not with respect to th e ownership interest in the other corporation.

 

III.           Change in the ownership of a substantial portion of a corporation’s assets.

 

(A)          In general.  Change in the ownership of a substantial portion of a corporation’s assets.  A change in the ownership of a substantial portion of a corporation’s assets occurs on the date that any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, acquires (or has acquired during the 12-month period ending on the date of the most recent acquisition by such person or person) assets from the corporation that have a total gross fair market value equal to or more than 40 percent of the total gross fair market value of all of the assets of the corporation immediately prior to such acquisition or acquisitions.  For this purpose, gross fair market value means the value of the assets of the corporation, or the value of the assets being disposed of, determined without regard to any liabilities associated with such asse ts.

 

(B)           Transfers to a related person.

 

(1)           There is no change in control event when there is a transfer to an entity that is controlled by the shareholders of the transferring corporation immediately after the

 

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transfer.  A transfer of assets by a corporation is not treated as a change in the ownership of such assets if the assets are transferred to —

 

(i)  A shareholder of the corporation (immediately before the asset transfer) in exchange for or with respect to its stock;

 

(ii)  An entity, 50 percent or more of the total value or voting power of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the corporation;

 

(iii)  A person, or more than one person acting as a group, that owns, directly or indirectly, 50 percent or more of the total value or voting power of all the outstanding stock of the corporation; or

 

(iv)  An entity, at least 50 percent of the total value or voting power of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by a person described in “(iii)” immediately preceding.

 

(2)           A person’s status is determined immediately after the transfer of the assets.  For example, a transfer to a corporation in which the transferor corporation has no ownership interest before the transaction, but which is a majority-owned subsidiary of the transferor corporation after the transaction is not treated as a change in the ownership of the assets of the transferor corporation.

 

(C)           Persons acting as a group.  Persons will not be considered to be acting as a group solely because they purchase assets of the same corporation at the same time.  However, persons will be considered to be acting as a group if they are owners of a corporation that enters into a merger, consolidation, purchase, or acquisition of assets, or similar business transaction with the corporation.  If a person, including an entity shareholder, owns stock in both corporations that enter into a merger, consolidation, purchase, or acquisition of assets, or similar transaction, such shareholder is considered to be acting as a group with other shareholders in a corporation only to the extent of the ownership in that corporation prior to the transaction giving rise to the change and not with respect to the ownership interest in the other corporation.

 

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EXHIBIT B

 

DISCLOSURE AND INVENTION AGREEMENT

 

See attached.

 



 

Disclosure and Invention Agreement

 

Kim Korth (hereafter called “Executive”) has entered into an Employment Agreement with Supreme Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation (hereafter called “Company”), which is in the business (through a wholly-owned subsidiary, Supreme Indiana Operations, Inc.) of manufacturing and selling specialized truck bodies.  Whenever used herein the word “Company” shall be deemed to include Supreme Indiana Operations, Inc. and the other affiliates of Supreme Industries, Inc.

 

In consideration of TEN DOLLARS ($10.00) paid to Executive by Company, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, and Company’s agreement to employ her pursuant to an Employment Agreement between Company and Executive the provisions of which are herein fully incorporated by reference for all purposes, Executive agrees as follows:

 

1.             Executive shall communicate to Company promptly and fully all ideas and the expressions thereof, conceptions, improvements, discoveries, methods, techniques, processes, adaptations, creations, and inventions (whether patentable or copyrightable or not) conceived or made by Executive (whether solely by Executive or jointly with others) (“Ideas”) from the time of entering Company’s employment until one year after Executive’s employment is terminated for any reason, or Executive resigns or retires for any reason, (a) which involve or pertain to, directly or indirectly, the business, assets, activities, computers or computer programs, or investigations of Company as existed at or prior to the cessation of Executive’s employment by Company, or (b) which result from or are suggest ed by any work which Executive or other executives or independent contractors perform for or on behalf of Company, in whole or in part, as existed at or prior to the cessation of Executive’s employment by Company.

 

2.             Executive shall assist Company during and subsequent to Executive’s employment in every proper way (solely at Company’s expense) to obtain patents and/or copyrights for its own benefit in any or all countries of the world, and to sign all proper papers, patent applications, assignments, and other documents necessary for this purpose, it being understood that such Ideas will remain the sole and exclusive property of Company, and shall not be disclosed to any person, nor used by Executive, except as expressly permitted herein.

 

3.             Written records of Executive’s Ideas in the form of notebook records, sketches, drawings or reports, will remain the property of and be available to Company at all times.

 

4.             Executive represents that Executive has no agreements with or obligations to others in conflict with the foregoing.

 

5.             Executive understands that this Agreement may not be modified or released except in writing signed by all members of Company’s Board of Directors.

 

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6.             Executive understands and agrees that her violation of any of the provisions of this Agreement will constitute irreparable injury to Company immediately authorizing it to enjoin Executive or the business enterprise with which she may have become associated from further violations, in addition to all other rights and remedies which Company may have at law and equity, including recovery of damages from Executive and a right of offset.  Each party shall be entitled to recover from the other party reimbursement of attorney’s fees and related legal costs to the extent incurred in connection with the successful enforcement or defense, as the case may be, of the terms of conditions hereof.

 

7.             This Agreement shall be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective heirs, successors, executors, administrators, personal representatives, and assigns.  Executive may not assign her covenants, duties, or obligations hereunder to any other person.  The waiver by Company of Executive’s breach of any provision hereof shall not operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach by Executive.

 

8.             If any provision of this Agreement is held by a court of law to be illegal or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.  In lieu of such illegal or unenforceable provision, there shall be added automatically as a part of this Agreement a provision as similar in terms to such illegal or unenforceable provision as may be possible and be legal and enforceable.

 

9.             This Agreement has been made in, and its validity, interpretation, construction, and performance shall be governed by and be in accordance with, the laws of the State of Indiana, without reference to its laws governing conflicts of law.  Any dispute or controversy arising under or in connection with this Agreement, or the breach thereof, shall be settled in accordance with the arbitration provision in the Employment Agreement.

 

Signed to be effective February 16, 2011.

 

 

 

/s/ Kim Korth

 

Kim Korth

 

 

 

 

ACCEPTED:

 

 

 

 

SUPREME INDUSTRIES, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/  Herbert M. Gardner

 

 

 

Herbert M. Gardner

 

 

 

Chairman of the Board

 

 

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EX-10.2 4 a11-6356_1ex10d2.htm EX-10.2

Exhibit 10.2

 

INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT

 

(Supreme Industries, Inc.)

 

THIS AGREEMENT is made this 16th day of February, 2011, between Supreme Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Kim Korth (“Indemnitee”).

 

Competent and experienced persons are becoming more reluctant to serve as directors and/or officers of corporations unless they are provided with adequate protection against claims and actions against them for their activities on behalf or at the request of such corporations, generally through insurance and/or indemnification.

 

Uncertainties in the interpretations of the statutes and regulations, laws, and public policies relating to indemnification of corporate directors and officers are such as to make adequate, reliable assessment of the risks to which directors and officers of such corporations may be exposed difficult, particularly in light of the proliferation of lawsuits against directors and officers generally.

 

The Board of Directors of the Company, based upon its business experience, has concluded that the continuation of present trends in litigation against corporate directors and officers will inevitably make it more difficult for the Company to attract and retain directors and officers of the highest degree of competence committed to the active and effective direction and supervision of the business and affairs of the Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates and the operation of its and their facilities. In fact, the Board deems such consequence to be so detrimental to the best interests of the Company that it has concluded that the Company should act to provide its directors and officers with enhanced protection against inordinate risks attendant on their positions in order to assure that the most capable persons otherwise available will be attracted to, or will remain in, such positions. In such connection, s uch directors have further concluded that it is not only reasonable and prudent but necessary for the Company to obligate itself contractually to indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, financial responsibility for expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by such individuals in connection with claims lodged against them for their decisions and actions in such capacities.

 

The General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, under which law the Company is organized, empowers a corporation organized in Delaware to indemnify persons who serve as directors and/or officers of the corporation, or persons who serve at the request of the corporation as directors and/or officers of an affiliated corporation, further specifies that the indemnification provided by law “shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise,” and further empowers a corporation to “purchase and maintain insurance” on behalf of such persons “against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such

 



 

person’s status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under this [provision].”

 

The Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Company permit indemnification to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

 

The Company desires to have the Indemnitee serve or continue to serve as a director and/or officer of the Company, and/or as a director, officer, employee, partner, trustee, agent, and/or fiduciary of such other corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, employee benefit plans, trusts, and/or other enterprises (herein referred to as “Company Affiliate”) of which he or she has been or is serving, or will serve on behalf of or at the request of or for the convenience of, or to represent the interests of the Company, free from undue concern for unpredictable, inappropriate, or unreasonable claims for damages by reason of his or her being, or having been, a director and/or officer of the Company, and/or a director, officer, employee, partner, trustee, agent, and/or fiduciary of a Company Affiliate, or by reason of his or her decisions or actions on their behalf.

 

The Indemnitee is willing to serve, or to continue to serve, or to take on additional service for, the Company and/or the Company Affiliate in such aforesaid capacities on the condition that he or she be indemnified as provided for herein.

 

Accordingly, in consideration of the premises and the covenants contained herein, the Company and the Indemnitee do hereby covenant and agree as follows:

 

1                                          Services to the Company: The Indemnitee shall serve or continue to serve as a director and/or officer of the Company (in the case of a Company officer at the will of the Company or under separate contract, if any such contract exists or shall hereafter exist), and/or as a director, and/or officer, or fiduciary of a Company Affiliate, faithfully and to the best of his or her ability so long as he or she is duly elected and qualified in accordance with the provisions of the B ylaws or other applicable constitutive documents thereof; provided. however that: (a) the Indemnitee may at any time and for any reason resign from such position (subject to any contractual obligations which the Indemnitee has assumed apart from this Agreement); and (b) neither the Company nor the Company Affiliate will have any obligation under this Agreement to continue the Indemnitee in any such position.

 

2                                          Right to Indemnification:

 

2.1                                 The Company shall, to the fullest extent authorized by the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) or other applicable law, 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 Company to provide broader indemnification rights than the DGCL or other applicable law permitted the Company to provide prior to such change), indemnify any Indemnitee who is or was involved in any manner

 

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(including, without limitation, as a party or witness), or is threatened to be made so involved, in any threatened, pending, or completed investigation, claim, action, suit, or proceeding whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative (including, without limitation, any action, suit, or proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor) (herein referred to as a “Proceeding”) by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Company, is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director or officer of any Company Affiliate, and/or or by reason of any action alleged to have been taken or omitted in any such capacity, against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such Proceeding; provided. h owever, that, except as provided in Paragraph 3.4, the foregoing shall not apply to a director or officer of the Company with respect to a Proceeding that was commenced by such director or officer unless such Proceeding was authorized or consented to by the Board of Directors of the Company.. Such indemnification shall include the right to receive payment in advance of any expenses incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with such Proceeding, consistent with the provisions of applicable law as then in effect.  For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing indemnification obligation includes, without limitation, claims for monetary damages against Indemnitee in respect of an alleged breach of fiduciary duties to the fullest extent permitted under Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL as in existence on the date hereof.

 

2.2                                 Notwithstanding the obligation of the Company to indemnify attorneys’ fees as above provided in Paragraph 2.1, as a condition to being so indemnified the following shall apply. With regard to any “Proceeding” (as above defined), there will be groups the members of which have totally common interests  —  i.e., their goals are identical and there are no conflicts-of-interest among them. At such time as the determination of these groups has been completed (such determination to be made by “Independent Counsel” [as hereafter defined] if the parties invo lved cannot make such determination among themselves), each group shall, by majority vote of those comprising such group, select a single attorney or law firm to serve as (exclusive) legal counsel for all of the members of such group. In the event that any member of any such group acts independently by retaining the legal services of any other attorney or law firm to additionally or separately represent him, her, or it, all legal fees and expenses of such independently retained attorney or law firm shall be the (sole) responsibility of such independently acting member of the group.

 

3                                          Advancement of Expenses; Procedures; Presumptions and Effect of Certain Proceedings: Remedies: In furtherance, but not in limitation, of the foregoing provisions, the following procedures, presumptions, and remedies shall apply with respect to advancement of expenses and the right to indemnification hereunder:

 

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3.1                                 Advancement of Expenses: All expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by or on behalf of the Indemnitee in connection with any Proceeding shall be advanced to the Indemnitee by the Company within twenty (20) calendar days after the receipt by the Company of a statement or statements from the Indemnitee requesting such advance or advances from time to time, whether prior to or after final disposition of such Proceeding. Such statement or statements shall reasonably evidence the expenses incurred by the Indemnitee (a nd, if required by law at the time of such advance, shall include or be accompanied by an undertaking by or on behalf of the Indemnitee to repay the amounts advanced only if, and to the extent that, it should ultimately be determined that the Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified against such expenses hereunder, which undertaking shall be accepted without reference to the financial ability of Indemnitee to make such repayment).  Advances shall be unsecured and interest-free.

 

3.2                                 Procurement for Determination of Entitlement to Indemnification:

 

3.2.1                        To obtain indemnification as herein provided, an Indemnitee shall submit to the President or Secretary of the Company a written request, including such documentation and information as is reasonably available to the Indemnitee and reasonably necessary to determine whether and to what extent the Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification (herein referred to as the “Supporting Documentation”). The determination of the Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification shall be made not later than 60 calendar days after receipt by the Company of the written request for Indemnification together with the Supporting Documentation. The Secretary or Pres ident of the Company shall, promptly upon receipt of such a request for indemnification, advise the Board of Directors in writing that the Indemnitee has requested indemnification.

 

3.2.2                        The Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification hereunder shall (except as provided in Subparagraph 3.2.3 below) be determined in one of the following ways (each of which shall give effect to the presumptions set forth in Paragraph 3.3): (a) by a majority vote of the Disinterested Directors (as hereinafter defined) if they constitute a quorum of the Board of Directors; (b) by a written opinion of Independent Counsel (as hereinafter defined) if a quorum of the Board of Directors consisting of Disinterested Directors is not obtainable or, even if obtainable, a majority of such Disinterested Directors so directs: (c) by the stockholders of the Company (but only if a majority of the Disinterested Directors, if they constitute a quorum of the Board of Directors, presents the issue of entitlement to indemnification to the stockholders for their determination); or (d) as provided in Paragraph 3.3. In the event

 

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that this Subparagraph 3.2.2 applies, stockholder approval will be deemed to have been received if the holders of a majority of the Company’s total common stock outstanding vote in favor of such approval.

 

3.2.3                        Notwithstanding what is stated above, in the event of a Change in Control (see definition contained in Exhibit “A” hereto) the Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification shall be determined by a written opinion of Independent Counsel in a written opinion to the Board of Directors, a copy of which shall be delivered to the Indemnitee. The Independent Counsel shall be selected by the Indemnitee. In the event the Company objects to the Independent Counsel so selected, within seven days after written notice of the selection has been given by the Indemnitee to the Company, the Company may object to such selection by written notifi cation given to the Indemnitee. Such objection may be asserted only on the ground that the Independent Counsel so selected does not meet the requirement of “Independent Counsel” as hereafter defined, and the objection shall set forth with particularity the factual basis of such assertion. If such written objection is made, the Independent Counsel so selected may not serve as Independent Counsel unless and until a court has determined that such objection is without merit. The Company shall pay any and all reasonable fees and expenses of Independent Counsel incurred by such Independent Counsel in connection with the performance of his or her responsibilities hereunder, and the Company shall pay all reasonable fees and expenses instant to the implementation of the procedures referred to above. Upon the due commencement of any judicial proceeding or arbitration pursuant to Subparagraph 3.4.1 hereof, the Independent Counsel shall be discharged and relieved of any further responsibility in such ca pacity (subject to the applicable standards of professional conduct then prevailing).

 

3.2.4                        In the event of a Potential Change in Control (as hereinafter defined), the Company, upon written request by the Indemnitee, shall create a trust (which shall be a “grantor trust” for federal income tax purposes) for the benefit of the Indemnitee and from time to time upon written request of the Indemnitee shall fund such trust in an amount sufficient to satisfy any and all expenses which at the time of each such request it is reasonably anticipated will be incurred in connection with a Proceeding for which the Indemnitee is entitled to rights of indemnification under Paragraph 2 hereof, and any and all judgments, fines, penalties, and settlem ent amounts of any and all proceedings for which the Indemnitee is entitled to rights of indemnification under Paragraph 2 from time to time actually paid or claimed, reasonably anticipated, or proposed to be paid. The amount or amounts to be deposited in the trust pursuant

 

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to the foregoing funding obligation shall be determined by the Independent Counsel referred to in Subparagraph 3.2.2 above. The terms of the trust shall provide that upon a Change in Control:  (i) the trust shall ‘not be revoked or the principal thereof invaded, without the written consent of the Indemnitee; (ii) the trustee shall advance, within two (2) business days of a request by the Indemnitee, any and all expenses to the Indemnitee; (iii) the trust shall continue to be funded by the Company in accordance with the funding obligations set forth above; (iv) the trustee shall promptly pay to the Indemnitee all amounts for which the Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise; and (v) all unexpended funds in such trust shall revert to the Company upon a final determination by such Independent Counsel that the Indemnitee has bee n fully indemnified under the terms of this Agreement. The trustee shall be an institutional trustee with a highly regarded reputation chosen by the Indemnitee. Nothing in this Subparagraph 3.2.4 shall relieve the Company of any of its obligations under this Agreement. Nothing contained in this Subparagraph 3.2.4. shall prevent the Board of Directors of the Company in its discretion at any time and from time to time, upon request of the Indemnitee, from providing security to the Indemnitee for the Company’s obligations hereunder through an irrevocable line of credit, funded trust as described above, or other collateral. Any such security, once provided to the Indemnitee, may not be revoked or released without the Indemnitee’s prior written consent.

 

3.3                                 Presumptions and Effect of Certain Proceedings: Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Indemnitee shall be presumed to be entitled to indemnification hereunder upon submission of a request for indemnification together with the Supporting Documentation in accordance with Subparagraph 3.2.1, and thereafter the Company shall have the burden of proof to overcome that presumption in reaching a contrary determination. In any event, if the person or persons empowered under Paragraph 3.2 to determine entitlement to indem nification have not been appointed or have not made a determination within 60 calendar days after receipt by the Company of the request therefor together with the Supporting Documentation, the Indemnitee shall be deemed to be entitled to indemnification, and the Indemnitee shall be entitled to such indemnification unless the Company establishes as provided in the final sentence of Paragraph 3.4.2 or by written opinion of Independent Counsel that: (a) the Indemnitee misrepresented or failed to disclose a material fact in making the request for indemnification or in the Supporting Documentation; or (b) such indemnification is prohibited by law. The termination of any Proceeding described in Paragraph 2, or of any claim, issue, or matter therein, by judgment, order, settlement, or conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself,

 

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adversely affect the right of the Indemnitee to indemnification or create a presumption that the Indemnitee did not act in good faith and in a manner which the Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the Company or, with respect to any criminal Proceeding, that the Indemnitee had reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful.

 

3.4                                 Remedies of Indemnitee:

 

3.4.1                        In the event that a determination is made pursuant to Paragraph 3.2 that the Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification hereunder: (a) the Indemnitee shall be entitled to seek an adjudication of his or her entitlement to such indemnification either, at the Indemnitee’s option, in (x) an appropriate court of the State of Delaware or any other court of competent jurisdiction, or (y) an arbitration to be conducted by a single arbitrator, selected by mutual agreement of the Company and the Indemnitee (or, failing such agreement by the then sitting Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the appropriate jurisdiction), pursu ant to the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association, and with respect to any such arbitration, a judgment thereon to be entered by any court of competent jurisdiction; (b) any such judicial proceeding or arbitration shall be de novo, and the Indemnitee shall not be prejudiced by reason of such adverse determination; and (c) in any such judicial proceeding or arbitration, the Company shall have the burden of proving that indemnification is prohibited by applicable law. If any such determination is made, the Indemnitee shall be entitled, on five days’ written notice to the Secretary of the Company, to receive the written report of the persons making such determination, which report shall include the reasons and factual findings, if any, upon which such determination was based.

 

3.4.2                        If a determination has been made, or is deemed to have been made, pursuant to Paragraph 3.2 or 3.3, that the Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification, the Company shall be obligated to pay the amounts constituting such indemnification within five days after such determination has been made or deemed to have been made and shall be conclusively bound by such determination unless the Company establishes as provided in the final sentence of this paragraph that: (a) the Indemnitee misrepresented or failed to disclose a material fact in making the request for indemnification or in the Supporting Documentation; or (b) such indemnification is prohibi ted by law. If either (x) advancement of expenses is not timely made pursuant to Paragraph 3.1, or (y) payment of indemnification is not made within five calendar days after a determination of entitlement to indemnification has been made or deemed to have been made pursuant to Paragraph 3.2 or 3.3, the

 

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Indemnitee shall be entitled to seek judicial enforcement of the Company’s obligation to pay to the Indemnitee such advancement of expenses or indemnification. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may bring an action, in an appropriate court in the State of Delaware or any other court of competent jurisdiction, contesting the right of the Indemnitee to receive indemnification hereunder due to the occurrence of an event described in subclause (a) or (b) of this Subparagraph 3.4.2 (herein referred to as a “Disqualifying Event”); provided, however, that in any such action the Company will have the burden of proving the occurrence of such Disqualifying Event.

 

3.4.3                        The Company shall be precluded from asserting in any judicial proceeding or arbitration commenced pursuant to this Paragraph 3.4 that the procedures and presumptions of this Paragraph 3 are not valid, binding, and enforceable, and shall stipulate in any such court or before any such arbitrator that the Company is bound by all of the provisions of this Agreement.

 

3.4.4                        If the Indemnitee, pursuant to this Paragraph 3.4, seeks a judicial adjudication of, or an award in arbitration to enforce, his or her rights under, or to recover damages for breach of, this Agreement, the Indemnitee shall be entitled to recover from the Company, and shall be indemnified by the Company against, those expenses (see definition contained in Paragraph 2 above) actually and reasonably incurred by the Indemnitee if the Indemnitee prevails in such judicial adjudication or arbitration. If it shall be determined in such judicial adjudication or arbitration that the Indemnitee is entitled to receive part but not all of the indemnification or adva ncement of expenses sought, the expenses incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with such judicial adjudication or arbitration shall be prorated accordingly.  Provided, however, notwithstanding what has just been stated:  (1) the amount of expenses for reimbursement during the Indemnitee’s taxable year may not affect the expenses eligible for reimbursement in any other taxable year; (2) the reimbursement of an eligible expense must be made on or before ninety (90) days after the date the Indemnitee prevailed in such adjudication or arbitration; (3) the right to reimbursement may not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit.  Further, the Indemnitee’s recovery from the Company of any such expenses must take place during the duration of this Agreement (see Paragraph 5.1 which follows).

 

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3.5                                 Definitions: For purposes of this Paragraph 3:

 

Disinterested Director” means a director of the Company who is not or was not a party to the Proceeding in respect of which indemnification is sought by the Indemnitee.

 

“Independent Counsel” means a law firm or a member of a law firm that neither presently is, nor in the past five years has been, retained to represent: (a) the Company or the Indemnitee in any matter material to either such party; or (b) any other party to the Proceeding giving rise to a claim for indemnification hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Independent Counsel” shall not include any person who, under the applicable standards of professional conduct then prevailing under the laws of the State of Delaware would have a conflict of interest in representing either the company or the Indemnitee in an action to determine the Indemnitee’s rights hereunder.

 

“Potential Change in Control” shall be deemed to have occurred if: (i) the Company enters into an agreement, the consummation of which would result in the occurrence of a Change in Control; (ii) a person (including the Company) publicly announces a legitimate intention to take or to consider taking actions which if consummated would constitute a Change in Control; (iii) any person, other than a trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company or a corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock  of the Company, who is or becomes the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 9.5 % or more of the combined votin g power of the Company’s then outstanding voting securities, increases his or her beneficial ownership of such securities by five percentage points or more over the percentage so owned by such person; or (iv) the Board of Directors adopts a resolution to the effect that, for purposes of this Agreement, a Potential Change in Control has occurred.

 

4                                          Other Rights to Indemnification: The indemnification and advancement of costs and expenses (including attorneys’ fees and disbursements) provided by this Agreement shall be in addition to, and shall not be deemed exclusive of, any other rights to which the Indemnitee may now or in the future be entitled under any provision of applicable law, the Certificate of Incorporation, or any Bylaw of the Company or any other agreement, or any vote of directors or stockholders or otherwise, whether as to action in his or her official capacity or in another capacity while occupying any of the positions or having any of the relationships referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Agreement.

 

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5                                          Duration of Agreement:

 

5.1                                 This Agreement shall be effective from and after the date hereof, and shall continue until and terminate upon the later of: (i) the tenth (10th) anniversary after the Indemnitee has ceased to occupy any of the positions or have any of the relationships described in Paragraph 1 of this Agreement; or (ii) (a) the final termination or resolution of all proceedings with respect to the Indemnitee commenced during such ten (10) year period, and (b) either (x)&nb sp;receipt by the Indemnitee of the Indemnification to which he or she is entitled hereunder with respect thereto, or (y) a final adjudication or binding arbitration that the Indemnitee is not entitled to any further indemnification with respect thereto, as the case may be.

 

5.2                                 This Agreement shall be binding upon the Company and its successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the Indemnitee and his or her heirs, devisees, executors, administrators, or other legal representatives.

 

6.                                       Severability: If any provision or provisions of this Agreement are held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable under any particular circumstances or for any reason whatsoever: (a) the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement (including, without limitation, all other portions of any paragraph or clause of this Agreement that contains any provision that has been found to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that are not themselves invalid, illegal, or unenforceable) or the validity, legality, or enforceability under any other circumstances shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby; and (b) to the fullest extent possible consistent with applicable law, the provisions of this Agreement (including, without limitation, all other portions of any paragraph or clause of this Agreement that contains any such provision that has been found to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that are not themselves invalid, illegal, or unenforceable) shall be deemed revised and shall be construed so as to give effect to the intent manifested by this Agreement (including the provision held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable).

 

7.                                       Identical Counterparts: This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same Agreement. Only one such counterpart signed by the party against whom enforceability is sought needs to be produced to evidence the existence of this Agreement.

 

8.                                       Headings: The headings of the paragraphs of this Agreement are inserted for convenience and shall not be deemed to constitute part of this Agreement or to affect the construction thereof.

 

9.                                       Modification and Waiver: No supplement, modification, or amendment of this Agreement shall be binding unless executed in writing by both of the parties hereto. No waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed or

 

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shall constitute a waiver of any other provisions hereof (whether or not similar) nor shall such waiver constitute a continuing waiver.

 

10.                                 Notification and Defense of Claim: The Indemnitee agrees to notify the Company promptly in writing upon being served with any summons, citation, subpoena, complaint, indictment, information, or other document relating to any matter which may be subject to indemnification hereunder, whether civil, criminal, or investigative; provided. however, that the failure of the Indemnitee to give such notice to the Company shall not adversely affect the Indemnitee’s rights under this Agreement except to the extent the Company has b een materially prejudiced as a direct result of such failure. Nothing in this Agreement shall constitute a waiver of the Company’s right to seek participation at its own expense in any Proceeding which may give rise to indemnification hereunder.

 

11.                                 Notices: All notices, requests, demands, and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if: (i) delivered by hand and receipted for by the party to whom said notice or other communication shall have been directed; or (ii) mailed by certified or registered mail with postage prepaid, on the third business day after the date on which it is so mailed, in either case:

 

(a)           if to the Indemnitee, at the address indicated on the signature page hereof;

 

(b)           if to the Company:

 

Supreme Industries, Inc.

2581 E. Kercher Road

Goshen, IN 46528

 

or to such address as may have been furnished to either party by the other Party.

 

12                                    Governing Law: The parties hereto agree that this Agreement shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware.

 

13.                                 Subsequent Legislation: If there is a change in the DGCL or other applicable law (whether by statute or judicial decision) after adoption of this Agreement to expand further the indemnification permitted to directors or officers, then the Company shall indemnify Indemnitee to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL or other applicable law, as so amended.  Any amendment, alteration or repeal of the DGCL or other applicable law that adversely affects any right of Indemnitee shall be prospective only and shall not limit o r eliminate any such right with respect to any Proceeding involving any occurrence or alleged occurrence of any action or omission to act that took place before such amendment or repeal.

 

[Signatures on the following page]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written.

 

 

 

COMPANY:

 

 

 

 

Supreme Industries, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Herbert M. Gardner

 

 

 

Herbert M. Gardner,

 

 

 

Chairman of the Board

 

 

 

INDEMNITEE:

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Kim Korth

 

 

Kim Korth

 

 

 

 

 

 

Residence Address:

 

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Exhibit “A”

to

Indemnification Agreement

 

I.              Change in the ownership of a corporation

 

(A)  In general.  A change in the ownership of a corporation occurs on the date that any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, acquires ownership of stock of the corporation that, together with stock held by such person or group, constitutes more than 50 percent of the total fair market value or total voting power of the stock of such corporation.  However, if any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, is considered to own more than 50 percent of the total fair market value or total voting power of the stock of a corporation, the acquisition of additional stock by the same person or persons is not considered to cause a change in the ownership of the corporation (or to cause a change in the effective control of the corporation).    An increase in the percentage of stock owned by any one person, or persons acting as a group, as a res ult of a transaction in which the corporation acquires its stock in exchange for property will be treated as an acquisition of stock.  This applies only when there is a transfer of stock of a corporation (or issuance of stock of a corporation) and stock in such corporation remains outstanding after the transaction.

 

(B)           Persons acting as a group.  Persons will not be considered to be acting as a group solely because they purchase or own stock of the same corporation at the same time, or as a result of the same public offering.  However, persons will be considered to be acting as a group if they are owners of a corporation that enters into a merger, consolidation, purchase, or acquisition of stock, or similar business transaction with the corporation.  If a person, including an entity, owns stock in both corporations that enter into a merger, consolidation, purchase, or acquisition of stock, or similar transaction, such shareholder is considered to be acting as a group with other shareholders in a corporation prior to the transaction giving rise to the change and not with respect to the ownership interest in the other corporation.

 

II.            Change in the effective control of a corporation.

 

(A)          In general.  Notwithstanding that a corporation has not undergone a change in ownership, (see above), a change in the effective control of a corporation occurs only on the date that either —

 

(1)           Any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, acquires (or has acquired during the 12-month period ending on the date of the most recent acquisition by such person or persons) ownership of stock of the corporation possessing 35 percent or more of the total voting power of the stock of such corporation; or

 

(2)           A majority of members of the corporation’s board of directors is replaced during any 12-month period by directors whose appointment or election is not endorsed by a majority of the members of the corporation’s board of directors prior to the election, provided that for purposes of this paragraph  the term corporation refers solely to the relevant corporation

 

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for which no other corporation is a majority shareholder for purposes of that paragraph (for example, if Corporation A is a publicly held corporation with no majority shareholder, and Corporation A is the majority shareholder of Corporation B, which is the majority shareholder of Corporation C, the term corporation for purposes of this paragraph would refer solely to Corporation A).

 

(B)           Multiple change in control events.  A change in effective control also may occur in any transaction in which either of the two corporations involved in the transaction has a change in control event.  Thus, for example, assume Corporation P transfers more than 40 percent of the total gross fair market value of its assets to Corporation O in exchange for 35 percent of O’s stock.  P has undergone a change in ownership of a substantial portion of its asset, and O has a change in effective control.

 

(C)           Acquisition of additional control.  If any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, is considered to effectively control a corporation, the acquisition of additional control of the corporation by the same person or persons is not considered to cause a change in the effective control of the corporation (or to cause a change in the ownership of the corporation).

 

(D)          Persons acting as a group.  Persons will not be considered to be acting as a group solely because they purchase or own stock of the same corporation at the same time, or as a result of the same public offering.  However, persons will be considered to be acting as a group if they are owners of a corporation that enters into a merger, consolidation, purchase, or acquisition of stock, or similar business transaction with the corporation.  If a person, including an entity, owns stock in both corporations that enter into a merger, consolidation, purchase, or acquisition of stock, or similar transaction, such shareholder is considered to be acting as a group with other shareholders in a corporation only with respect to the ownership in that corporation prior to the transaction giving rise to the change and not with respect to th e ownership interest in the other corporation.

 

III.           Change in the ownership of a substantial portion of a corporation’s assets.

 

(A)          In general.  Change in the ownership of a substantial portion of a corporation’s assets.  A change in the ownership of a substantial portion of a corporation’s assets occurs on the date that any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, acquires (or has acquired during the 12-month period ending on the date of the most recent acquisition by such person or person) assets from the corporation that have a total gross fair market value equal to or more than 40 percent of the total gross fair market value of all of the assets of the corporation immediately prior to such acquisition or acquisitions.  For this purpose, gross fair market value means the value of the assets of the corporation, or the value of the assets being disposed of, determined without regard to any liabilities associated with such asse ts.

 

(B)           Transfers to a related person.

 

(1)           There is no change in control event when there is a transfer to an entity that is controlled by the shareholders of the transferring corporation immediately after the

 

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transfer.  A transfer of assets by a corporation is not treated as a change in the ownership of such assets if the assets are transferred to —

 

(i)  A shareholder of the corporation (immediately before the asset transfer) in exchange for or with respect to its stock;

 

(ii)  An entity, 50 percent or more of the total value or voting power of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the corporation;

 

(iii)  A person, or more than one person acting as a group, that owns, directly or indirectly, 50 percent or more of the total value or voting power of all the outstanding stock of the corporation; or

 

(iv)  An entity, at least 50 percent of the total value or voting power of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by a person described in “(iii)” immediately preceding.

 

(2)           A person’s status is determined immediately after the transfer of the assets.  For example, a transfer to a corporation in which the transferor corporation has no ownership interest before the transaction, but which is a majority-owned subsidiary of the transferor corporation after the transaction is not treated as a change in the ownership of the assets of the transferor corporation.

 

(C)           Persons acting as a group.  Persons will not be considered to be acting as a group solely because they purchase assets of the same corporation at the same time.  However, persons will be considered to be acting as a group if they are owners of a corporation that enters into a merger, consolidation, purchase, or acquisition of assets, or similar business transaction with the corporation.  If a person, including an entity shareholder, owns stock in both corporations that enter into a merger, consolidation, purchase, or acquisition of assets, or similar transaction, such shareholder is considered to be acting as a group with other shareholders in a corporation only to the extent of the ownership in that corporation prior to the transaction giving rise to the change and not with respect to the ownership interest in the other corporation.

 

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