-----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, Wfr9kxC9nz8PoSeJLKjf6or7TarLV5DWSNW+IHiM9jswKRX9lPP4OD1HbvsYWgg2 pDg8A7Xrim8LRLoScSWM/w== 0001209191-10-006679.txt : 20100203 0001209191-10-006679.hdr.sgml : 20100203 20100203181130 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001209191-10-006679 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20100201 FILED AS OF DATE: 20100203 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20100203 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: GRUMBACHER M THOMAS CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000938690 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-19517 FILM NUMBER: 10571876 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2801 EAST MARKET STREET CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BON TON STORES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000878079 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-DEPARTMENT STORES [5311] IRS NUMBER: 232835229 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FISCAL YEAR END: 0131 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2801 E MARKET ST CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17402-2406 BUSINESS PHONE: 7177577660 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: P O BOX 2821 CITY: YORK STATE: PA ZIP: 17405-2821 4 1 c95627_4x1.xml MAIN DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION X0303 4 2010-02-01 0000878079 BON TON STORES INC BONT 0000938690 GRUMBACHER M THOMAS 2801 EAST MARKET STREET YORK PA 17402 1 1 1 0 Chairman Common Stock 2010-02-01 4 F 0 148653 0 D 2403464 D Common Stock 337307.9 I By 401(k) Plan These shares of Common Stock were forfeited to pay for tax withholdings with respect to a restricted stock grant made pursuant to the Company's Amended and Restated 2000 Stock Incentive and Performance-Based Award Plan for which restrictions lapsed on February 1, 2010. Reflects a distribution of 75,803 shares of common stock to the reporting person by a grantor retained annuity trust of which the reporting person was the beneficial owner. These shares are held under The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. Profit Sharing/Retirement Savings Plan. /s/ Keith E. Plowman, attorney-in-fact 2010-02-03 EX-24 2 c95627_24.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY Power of Attorney

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know by all these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Keith E. Plowman and Robert E. Stern, signing singly, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

  (1)  
execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a director and officer of The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. (the “Company”), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

  (2)  
do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5 and timely file such form with the Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

  (3)  
take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact’s discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 21st day of October, 2009.

/s/ M. Thomas Grumbacher
M. Thomas Grumbacher

 

 

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