-----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, A8s5HlEr7GuoSFJL63pm1enw1do+w1cPaiCikFbr/tf3+cWro7w4nkAFSzcyXh49 9Z/JlS+qAlBGkuwaDFJKiQ== 0000067472-05-000016.txt : 20060317 0000067472-05-000016.hdr.sgml : 20060317 20050321061508 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000067472-05-000016 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20050321 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MOLEX INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000067472 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ELECTRONIC CONNECTORS [3678] IRS NUMBER: 362369491 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0630 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2222 WELLINGTON CT CITY: LISLE STATE: IL ZIP: 60532 BUSINESS PHONE: 6309694550 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2222 WELLINGTON COURT CITY: LISLE STATE: IL ZIP: 60532 CORRESP 1 filename1.txt March 21, 2005 VIA EDGAR Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporation Finance 450 Fifth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20549-0305 Attention: Mr. Daniel Gordon, Branch Chief Mail Stop 0306 Re: Molex Incorporated (File No. 0-07491) Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2004 Filed September 10, 2004 Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2004 Form 8-K's dated November 11 and December 1, 2004) Ladies and Gentlemen: On behalf of our client Molex Incorporated (the "Company"), this letter sets forth the Company's responses to comments on the above-referenced filings provided by the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission by letter dated March 17, 2005. The Staff's comments are restated below in bold, italicized type, and are followed by the Company's responses thereto. Response letter dated February 17, 2005 Representations --------------- 1. We note your response to comment 20, including your statement that you have provided the three acknowledgements in the form previously requested "based on [the] understanding" that the acknowledgement as to our comments "does not relate to the Company's responses to those comments." Please note that you may not qualify or condition the requested representations in this manner. Accordingly, please provide all three acknowledgements in the form previously requested and confirm to us in writing, if true, that those acknowledgements are not being provided based on the "understanding" reflected in your response to our prior comment. Form 10-Q for the Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2004 Response: --------- On behalf of the Company, the three referenced acknowledgements in the form previously requested by the Staff are included in this letter. The Company is not providing these acknowledgements based on the understanding reflected in its response to your prior comment. Item 4. Controls and Procedures - Page 13 ------------------------------------------ 2. We note your response to prior comment 14. We see the revised language proposed in Appendix A. We note your statement that "there are inherent limitations to the effectiveness of any system of disclosure controls and procedures, including the possibility of human error. Accordingly, even effective disclosure controls and procedures can only provide reasonable assurance of achieving their control objectives." Please revise to state clearly, if true, that your disclosure controls and procedures are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and that your principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded that your disclosure controls and procedures are effective at that reasonable assurance level. In the alternative, remove the reference to the level of assurance of your disclosure controls and procedures. Please refer to Section II.F.4 of Management's Reports on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting and Certification of Disclosure in Exchange Act Periodic Reports, SEC Release No. 33-8238, available on our website at . Response: --------- The Form 10-Q/A being filed concurrently with this response letter contains statements to clearly indicate that the Company's disclosure controls and procedures are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and that its principal executive officer and principal financial officer concluded that the disclosure controls and procedures are effective at that reasonable assurance level. * * * * In connection with this response, the Company acknowledges the following: * The Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filings; * Staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to Staff comments in the filings reviewed by the Staff do not foreclose the commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and * The Company may not assert Staff comments as a defense in any proceedings initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. We trust that you will find the foregoing responses and acknowledgements responsive to the comments set forth in the Staff's letter dated March 17, 2005. If you would like additional information or would like to discuss the Company's responses to your comments, please contact the undersigned at (312) 876-8222. Very truly yours, SONNENSCHEIN NATH & ROSENTHAL LLP By: /s/ Michael M. Froy cc Douglas A. Carnahan (Audit Committee): Michael J. Birck (Audit Committee) Robert J. Potter (Audit Committee) Frederick Krehbiel (Molex Incorporated) Robert Mahoney (Molex Incorporated) Louis Hecht (Molex Incorporated) James Doyle (Ernst & Young LLP) -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----