0001209191-16-153697.txt : 20161206 0001209191-16-153697.hdr.sgml : 20161206 20161206172728 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001209191-16-153697 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20161202 FILED AS OF DATE: 20161206 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20161206 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CENTRAL GARDEN & PET CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000887733 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: WHOLESALE-MISCELLANEOUS NONDURABLE GOODS [5190] IRS NUMBER: 680275553 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0926 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1340 TREAT BOULEVARD STREET 2: SUITE 600 CITY: WALNUT CREEK STATE: CA ZIP: 94597 BUSINESS PHONE: 9259484000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1340 TREAT BOULEVARD STREET 2: SUITE 600 CITY: WALNUT CREEK STATE: CA ZIP: 94597 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CENTRAL GARDEN & PET COMPANY DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19941019 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PIERGALLINI ALFRED A CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001198779 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-33268 FILM NUMBER: 162037112 4 1 doc4.xml FORM 4 SUBMISSION X0306 4 2016-12-02 0 0000887733 CENTRAL GARDEN & PET CO CENT 0001198779 PIERGALLINI ALFRED A 1340 TREAT BLVD., STE. 600 WALNUT CREEK CA 94597 1 0 0 0 Class A Common Stock 2016-12-02 4 M 0 27740 7.21 A 95101 D Class A Common Stock 2016-12-02 4 F 0 6931 28.86 D 88170 D Common Stock 8979 D Director Stock Option (right to buy) 7.21 2016-12-02 4 M 0 27740 0.00 D 2017-08-10 Class A Common Stock 27740 0 D Shares withheld by the Issuer in payment of the aggregate option exercise price incurred upon the above-reported exercise of options. The amount of shares withheld is based on the respective average of the high and low sales prices on the date of exercise. Stock options granted under the Company's Nonemployee Director Equity Incentive Plan, as amended. One-third of the total options granted became exercisable at each of 6 months, 18 months and 30 months after February 10, 2014, the date of the grant. Exhibit 24.1: Power of Attorney /s/ Alfred A. Piergallini 2016-12-04 EX-24.4_687786 2 poa.txt POA DOCUMENT POWER OF ATTORNEY The undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints George Yuhas, Howard Machek, Zora Mohseni and JoAnn Jonte, and each of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact to: (1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer, director, and/or person who holds more than 10% of the stock of Central Garden & Pet Company (the "Company"), Forms 3, Forms 4 and Forms 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), 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 Forms 3, Forms 4 or Forms 5 and timely file any such forms with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any other 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 his or her discretion. The undersigned hereby grants to each 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 his or her substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done pursuant to this power of attorney. 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 Exchange Act. This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, Forms 4, and Forms 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 attorneys-in-fact. The undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 6th day of December, 2016. /s/ Alfred A. Piergallini Signature Alfred A. Piergallini Print Name