-----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, LUDamvkz/PAQvr5LsHvUr8eUsKpKTZILv7c3+NygJGRvwbb5TV0qo0b54TEXVJNU h6mHkgOJcvObTPJLCoLqcA== 0000895345-05-000268.txt : 20050308 0000895345-05-000268.hdr.sgml : 20050308 20050308170551 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000895345-05-000268 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: S-8 POS PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20050308 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20050308 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20050308 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: GREY GLOBAL GROUP INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000043952 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-ADVERTISING AGENCIES [7311] IRS NUMBER: 130802840 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-8 POS SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 033-61233 FILM NUMBER: 05667350 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 777 THIRD AVE CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10017 BUSINESS PHONE: 2125462000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 777 THIRD AVE STREET 2: 777 THIRD AVE CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10017 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: GREY ADVERTISING INC /DE/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 S-8 POS 1 posam3.txt As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 8, 2005 Registration No. 033-61233 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 ----------------------------------- GREY GLOBAL GROUP INC. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) DELAWARE 13-0802840 (State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer incorporation or organization) Identification No.) 777 THIRD AVENUE NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10017 (Address of registrant's principal executive offices) GREY ADVERTISING INC. 1994 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN (Full title of the plans) JOHN A. GRUDZINA C/O GREY GLOBAL GROUP INC. 777 THIRD AVENUE NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10017 (Name and address of agent for service) 212-546-2000 (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) RECENT EVENTS: DEREGISTRATION This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (registration number 033-61233) (the "Registration Statement") filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 21, 1995, which registered 250,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "Common Stock") of Grey Global Group Inc. (the "Company"). On March 7, 2005, the Company completed a merger transaction (the "Merger") with WPP Group plc. The Merger was approved by the Company's stockholders at a special meeting of stockholders held on March 3, 2005. As a result of the Merger, shares of Common Stock have been converted into the right to receive $1,005 in cash or 21.746 WPP ADRs (or WPP ordinary shares underlying the ADRs), based on the election of the holder thereof and subject to proration procedures designed to ensure that 50% of the Company's shares were converted into the cash consideration and 50% of the Company's shares were converted into the share consideration in the Merger. In connection with the Merger, the Company has terminated its offering of its Common Stock pursuant to the Registration Statement. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities of the Company which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes from registration all Common Stock registered under the Registration Statement which remain unsold as of the date hereof. SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York, State of New York on this 8th day of March, 2005. GREY GLOBAL GROUP INC. /s/ Steven G. Felsher -------------------------------- By: Steven G. Felsher Title: Vice Chairman, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.
Signature Title Date --------- ----- ---- /s/ Edward H. Meyer Chairman, President, Chief Executive March 8, 2005 ------------------------- Officer and Director (Principal Edward H. Meyer Executive Officer) /s/ Steven G. Felsher Vice Chairman, Chief Financial Officer March 8, 2005 ------------------------- and Treasurer Steven G. Felsher (Principal Financial Officer) /s/ Lester M. Feintuck Senior Vice President and Chief March 8, 2005 ------------------------- Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Lester M. Feintuck Officer) /s/ Paul W. G. Richardson ------------------------- Director Paul W. G. Richardson March 8, 2005 /s/ Kevin Farewell ------------------------- Director March 8, 2005 Kevin Farewell /s/ Tom Lobene ------------------------- Director March 8, 2005 Tom Lobene /s/ Thomas O. Neuman ------------------------- Director March 8, 2005 Thomas O. Neuman
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