-----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, O5GpZ32W5amrJS4nTEtaHZxyjegsWFoDvyIq7Km/Lh2zqXIbmrvNLrTprHhGckcF SJavckIlenD7XCw4okIOng== 0001193125-09-233930.txt : 20100111 0001193125-09-233930.hdr.sgml : 20100111 20091113122836 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-09-233930 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 FILED AS OF DATE: 20091113 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FULLER H B CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000039368 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ADHESIVES & SEALANTS [2891] IRS NUMBER: 410268370 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MN FISCAL YEAR END: 1203 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1200 WILLOW LAKE BLVD CITY: ST PAUL STATE: MN ZIP: 55110-5132 BUSINESS PHONE: 6126453401 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm Correspondence

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H.B. Fuller Company    Correspondence to:   
1200 Willow Lake Boulevard    P.O. Box 64683   
St. Paul, Minnesota 55110-5101    St. Paul, MN 55164-0683   
Phone 651-236-5900      

November 13, 2009

VIA EDGAR

United States Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, DC 20549

 

Attention:    Mr. Terence O’Brien
   Accounting Branch Chief
Re:    H.B. Fuller Company
   Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended November 29, 2008
   Definitive Proxy Statement on Form 14A filed March 2, 2009
   File No. 001-09225

Dear Mr. O’Brien:

This letter contains the response of H.B. Fuller Company (the “Company” or “we”) to the comments regarding the report and proxy statement referenced above contained in your letter to the Company dated November 3, 2009. We have addressed your comment letter by reproducing the comment below and providing our response immediately thereafter. In addition, the Company has included the written acknowledgement requested by the Commission at the end of this letter.

Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended November 29, 2008

Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules, Page 92

 

1. We note your response to comment ten in our letter dated September 11, 2009. The credit agreement and loan agreement filed as exhibits to the Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended August 29, 2009 do not appear to contain all of the schedules to the agreements. Specifically, the filed credit agreement appears to be missing Schedules 2.03, 3.01, 3.06, 6.01, 6.02, 6.04 and 6.08 and the filed loan agreement appears to be missing schedules 3.01, 3.06, 6.01, 6.02, 6.04 and 6.08. As previously requested, please file all of the schedules to the agreements. Please note that even if a schedule is blank, you should still file it.

In the Company’s upcoming Form 10-K report filing, we will include any schedules that were inadvertently omitted.

United States Securities and Exchange Commission

November 13, 2009

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Written Acknowledgement

Pursuant to your request, the Company acknowledges that (i) it is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in this filing, (ii) Staff comments or changes to disclosures in response to Staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing, and (iii) the Company may not assert Staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

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If you have any questions or require any additional information, please call me at (651) 236-5710 or Tim Keenan, Vice President and General Counsel, at (651) 236-5867.

Very truly yours,

/s/ James R. Giertz

James R. Giertz

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

cc:    Melissa Rocha, Chambre Malone & Dieter King, Securities and Exchange Commission
   Mr. Michele Volpi, President and Chief Executive Officer
   Mr. Timothy J. Keenan, Vice Pres., General Counsel and Corp. Secretary
   Mr. James C. McCreary, Jr., Vice Pres., Corp. Controller
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