0000908834-17-000145.txt : 20170720 0000908834-17-000145.hdr.sgml : 20170720 20170720092842 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000908834-17-000145 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20170713 FILED AS OF DATE: 20170720 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20170720 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Higgins David A. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001712123 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-20184 FILM NUMBER: 17973494 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3308 MITTHOEFFER ROAD CITY: INDIANAPOLIS STATE: IN ZIP: 46235 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FINISH LINE INC /IN/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000886137 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-SHOE STORES [5661] IRS NUMBER: 351537210 STATE OF INCORPORATION: IN FISCAL YEAR END: 0301 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3308 N MITTHOEFFER RD CITY: INDIANAPOLIS STATE: IN ZIP: 46235 BUSINESS PHONE: 3178991022 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3308 N MITTHOEFFER ROAD CITY: INDIANAPOLIS STATE: IN ZIP: 46235 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: FINISH LINE INC /DE/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19930328 3 1 edgar.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0206 3 2017-07-13 0 0000886137 FINISH LINE INC /IN/ FINL 0001712123 Higgins David A. 3308 N. MITTHOEFFER ROAD INDIANAPOLIS IN 46235 0 1 0 0 VP, Corporate Controller Class A Common Stock 8880 D Class A Common Stock 2386 I By Employee Stock Purchase Plan Stock Option (Right to Buy) 19.72 2022-06-12 Class A Common Stock 643 D Stock Option (Right to Buy) 19.40 2023-04-01 Class A Common Stock 1404 D Stock Option (Right to Buy) 24.83 2023-11-12 Class A Common Stock 1388 D Stock Option (Right to Buy) 27.255 2024-04-01 Class A Common Stock 2318 D Stock Option (Right to Buy) 24.44 2025-03-30 Class A Common Stock 3104 D Stock Option (Right to Buy) 20.475 2026-03-28 Class A Common Stock 6661 D Performance-Based Restricted Stock 2020-03-27 Class A Common Stock 1079 D Dividend Equivalent Rights Class A Common Stock 8 D The options vested over 4 years on the anniversary of the 6/12/2012 date of grant on a schedule of 10%, 20%, 30% and 40% on the respective succeeding anniversaries, with the total option grant vesting fully on 6/12/2016. The options vested over 4 years on the anniversary of the 4/1/2013 date of grant on a schedule of 10%, 20%, 30% and 40% on the respective succeeding anniversaries, with the total option grant vesting fully on 4/1/2017. The options vest over 4 years on the anniversary of the 11/12/2013 date of grant on a schedule of 10%, 20%, 30% and 40% on the respective succeeding anniversaries, with the total option grant vesting fully on 11/12/2017. The options vest over 4 years on the anniversary of the 4/1/2014 date of grant on a schedule of 10%, 20%, 30% and 40% on the respective succeeding anniversaries, with the total option grant vesting fully on 4/1/2018. The options vest over 4 years on the anniversary of the 3/30/2015 date of grant on a schedule of 10%, 20%, 30% and 40% on the respective succeeding anniversaries, with the total option grant vesting fully on 3/30/2019. The options vest over 4 years on the anniversary of the 3/28/2016 date of grant on a schedule of 10%, 20%, 30% and 40% on the respective succeeding anniversaries, with the total option grant vesting fully on 3/28/2020. Each share of performance-based restricted stock represents a contingent right to receive one share of Class A Common Stock. The shares of performance-based restricted stock vest upon achieving certain performance goals relating to (i) the compound annual growth rate of The Finish Line, Inc.'s earnings per share, and (ii) consolidated enterprise sales growth, measured over a performance period including fiscal years 2018, 2019 and 2020. Dividend equivalent rights accrue with respect to these shares of performance-based restricted stock when and as dividends are paid on Class A Common Stock. The reported dividend equivalent rights accrued on the reporting person's performance-based restricted stock and will become vested proportionately with the performance-based restricted stock to which they relate. Each dividend equivalent right is the economic equivalent of one share of Class A Common Stock. Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney /s/ Christopher C. Eck, as attorney-in-fact for David A. Higgins 2017-07-20 EX-24 2 poa_higgins.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY
Exhibit 24
 


DAVID A. HIGGINS
LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR
SECTION 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS
Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby makes, constitutes and appoints Christopher C. Eck as the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority as hereinafter described on behalf of and in the name, place, and stead of the undersigned to:
(1) Prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver, and file Forms 3, 4, and 5 (including any amendments thereto) with respect to the securities of The Finish Line, Inc., an Indiana corporation (the “Company”), with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), any state securities regulation agency, any national securities exchanges, and/or the Company, as considered necessary or advisable under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time (the “Exchange Act”);
(2) Seek or obtain, as the undersigned’s representative and on the undersigned’s behalf, information on transactions in the Company’s securities from any third party, including but not limited to, brokers, employee benefit plan administrators, and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes any such person to release any such information to the undersigned and approves and ratifies any such release of information; and
(3) Perform any and all other acts which in the discretion of such attorney-in-fact are necessary or desirable for and on behalf of the undersigned in connection with the foregoing.
The undersigned acknowledges that:
(1) This Limited Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not require, the attorney-in-fact appointed above to act in his discretion on information provided to such attorney-in-fact without independent verification of such information;
(2) Any documents prepared and/or executed by the attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Limited Power of Attorney will be in such form and will contain such information and disclosure as such attorney-in-fact, in his discretion, deems necessary or desirable;
(3) Neither the Company nor the attorney-in-fact assumes (i) any liability for the undersigned’s responsibility to comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act, (ii) any liability of the undersigned for any failure to comply with such requirements, or (iii) any obligation or liability of the undersigned for profit disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act; and
(4) This Limited Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned from responsibility for compliance with the undersigned’s obligations under the Exchange Act, including but not limited to, the reporting requirements under Section 16 of the Exchange Act.
The undersigned hereby gives and grants the attorney-in-fact appointed above full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or appropriate to be done in and about the foregoing matters as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if present, hereby ratifying all that such attorney-in-fact of, for, and on behalf of the undersigned, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Limited Power of Attorney.
This Limited Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to each such attorney-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Limited Power of Attorney as of the 14th day of July, 2017.
   
  /s/ David A. Higgins
 
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  David A. Higgins
 
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