Form 8-K

-----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, I6zM0XxlBKlh/OMwPvOREeeaqTgO/OWHURBV1qtAp40A4sqLDATkUW8rDig/NRil jTiS0ytThasjsCiFBpoKNg== 0000874016-02-000021.txt : 20020816 0000874016-02-000021.hdr.sgml : 20020816 20020816110823 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000874016-02-000021 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20020816 ITEM INFORMATION: Financial statements and exhibits ITEM INFORMATION: FILED AS OF DATE: 20020816 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: JONES APPAREL GROUP INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000874016 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: WOMEN'S, MISSES', AND JUNIORS OUTERWEAR [2330] IRS NUMBER: 060935166 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-10746 FILM NUMBER: 02740686 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 250 RITTENHOUSE CIRCLE STREET 2: KEYSTONE PK CITY: BRISTOL STATE: PA ZIP: 19007 BUSINESS PHONE: 2157854000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 250 RITTENHOUSE CIRCLE CITY: BRISTOL STATE: PA ZIP: 19007 8-K 1 aug16_2002.htm FORM 8-K Form 8-K

UNITED STATES 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):
August 16, 2002

JONES APPAREL GROUP, INC.
(Exact Name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Pennsylvania
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

1-10746
(Commission File Number)

06-0935166
(IRS Employer Identification No.)

250 Rittenhouse Circle
Bristol, PA 19007
(Address of principal executive offices)

(215) 785-4000
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

Item 7. Exhibits

99.1	Registrant's Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings
99.2	Registrant's Statement Under Oath of Principal Financial Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings

Item 9. Regulation FD Disclosure

Pursuant to Commission Order No. 4-460, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Jones Apparel Group, Inc. each delivered to the Commission on August 16, 2002 statements under oath regarding facts and circumstances relating to certain of Jones Apparel Group's Exchange Act filings. The statements are attached herein as Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2.

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.

JONES APPAREL GROUP, INC.
(Registrant)

By: /s/ Wesley R. Card
Wesley R. Card
Chief Operating and Financial Officer

Date: August 16, 2002

Exhibit Index

Exhibit No.	Description
99.1	Registrant's Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings
99.2	Registrant's Statement Under Oath of Principal Financial Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings

EX-99.1 3 exhibit99_1.htm EXHIBIT 99.1 Exhibit 99.1

EXHIBIT 99.1

OMB Number 3235-0569
Expires: January 31, 2003

Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to
Exchange Act Filings

I, Peter Boneparth, President and Chief Executive Officer, state and attest that:

(1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of Jones Apparel Group, Inc., and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:


no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and


no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

(2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's audit committee.


(3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":


Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001 of Jones Apparel Group, Inc.;

all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy materials of Jones Apparel Group, Inc. filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and

any amendments to any of the foregoing.

/s/ Peter Boneparth

Peter Boneparth
President and Chief Executive
Officer
August 13, 2002

Subscribed and sworn to
before me this 13th day of
August 2002.

/s/ Katherine Blaukopf
Notary Public

KATHERINE BLAUKOPF
NOTARY PUBLIC, State of New York
No. 01BL6024412
Qualified in New York County
Commission Expires May 10, 2003

EX-99.2 4 exhibit99_2.htm EXHIBIT 99.2 Exhibit 99.2

EXHIBIT 99.2

OMB Number 3235-0569
Expires: January 31, 2003

Statement Under Oath of Principal Financial Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to
Exchange Act Filings

I, Wesley R. Card, Chief Operating and Financial Officer, state and attest that:

/s/ Wesley R. Card

Wesley R. Card
Chief Operating and
Financial Officer
August 13, 2002

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(1)	To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of Jones Apparel Group, Inc., and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:
	no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).
(2)	I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's audit committee.
(3)	In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":
	Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001 of Jones Apparel Group, Inc.; all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy materials of Jones Apparel Group, Inc. filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and any amendments to any of the foregoing.