S-8 1 plts8q3f5.htm PLANTRONICS INC., FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT Plantronics Inc. Form S-8
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM S-8
 
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
Plantronics, Inc.
 
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Delaware
77-0207692
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) 
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
 
345 Encinal Street
Santa Cruz, California 95060
(Address of Principal Executive Offices including Zip Code)
 
2003 STOCK PLAN
 
(Full title of the plan) S. Kenneth Kannappan
Chief Executive Officer and President
 
Plantronics, Inc.
345 Encinal Street
Santa Cruz, California 95060
(831) 426-5858
(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)
 
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
 Title of Securities to be Registered
 Amount to be Registered(1)
Proposed Maximum Offering Price per Share
Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price
 Amount of Registration Fee
Common Stock, $0.01 par value, to be issued under the 2003 Stock Plan(2)
1,000,000 shares
$43.71 (3)
$43,705,000
$5,538
 
(1) For the sole purpose of calculation of the registration fee, the number of shares to be registered under this Registration Statement is the number of additional shares authorized to be issued under the Registrant's 2003 Stock Plan.
 
(2) Each share of common stock includes a right to purchase one one-thousandth of a share of Series A Participating Preferred Stock.
 
(3) Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, solely for the purpose of calculating the total registration fee. Computation based on the average of the high and low reported prices of the Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange November 3, 2004, because the exercise prices for the options to be granted in the future and the prices at which the shares will be purchased in the future are not currently determinable.
 

 
     
 

PLANTRONICS, INC.
REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8
 
PART II
 
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT
 
ITEM 3. INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
 
The following documents and information heretofore filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission are hereby incorporated by reference:
 
ITEM 3(a)
 
The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2004, filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), on May 26, 2004.
 
ITEM 3(b)
 
The Registrant's Current Reports on Form 8-K, which were filed on July 20, 2004, October 14, 2004 and October 19, 2004.
 
The Registrant's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2004 and September 30, 2004, filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), on August 6, 2004 and November 5, 2004.
 
ITEM 3(c)
 
Item 1 of the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act, filed on December 20, 1993, as amended on January 14, 1994, and November 7, 1997 (which in turn incorporate by reference the description of the Registrant's Common Stock set forth in the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Reg. No. 33-70744), filed on October 20, 1993, as amended by Amendment No. 1, filed on November 30, 1993, Amendment No. 2, filed December 27, 1993, and Amendment No. 3, filed on January 18, 1994).
 
The description of the Registrant's preferred share purchase rights contained in its registration statement on Form 8-A, filed on March 29, 2002.
 
All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
 
ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.
 
Not applicable.
 
ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.
 
Not applicable.
 
ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
 
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law ("DGCL") authorizes a court to award, or a corporation's Board of Directors to grant, indemnity to directors and officers. This may under certain circumstances include indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act as well as for expenses incurred in that regard. Article Nine of the Registrant's Certificate of Incorporation and Article V of the Registrant's Bylaws provide for indemnification of its directors, officers, employees and other agents to the maximum extent permitted by the DGCL. The Registrant has also entered into Indemnification Agreements with its officers and directors.
 

 
     
 

ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.
 
Not applicable
 
ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.
 
4.1    Amended and Restated 2003 Stock Plan (incorporated herein by reference from the Registrant's Definitive Proxy Statement on Form 14-A (File No. 001-12696), filed on May 26, 2004).
 
5.1   Opinion of counsel as to the legality of securities being registered.
 
23.1   Consent of counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1).
 
23.2   Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
24.1   Power of Attorney (see signature page).
 
ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS.
 
(a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
 
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
 
(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act");
 
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement; and
 
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement.
 
Provided, however, that the undertakings set forth in clauses (i) and (ii) above shall not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by these clauses is contained in periodic reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this registration statement.
 
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof;
 
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
 
(b) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
 
(h) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.


 
     
 
 
SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant, Plantronics, Inc., a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Santa Cruz, State of California, on November 10, 2004.
 
PLANTRONICS, INC.

/s/ S. Kenneth Kannappan

By: S. Kenneth Kannappan, Chief Executive Officer and President
 
 
POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
 
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Barbara V. Scherer and Richard R. Pickard, jointly and severally, as his or her attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution in each, for him or her in any and all capacities to sign any amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact, or his substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 
SIGNATURES
 
Signature
Title
Date
 
/s/ Ken Kannappan
 
(Ken Kannappan)
 
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)
 
 
November 10, 2004
 
 
/s/ Barbara Scherer
 
(Barbara Scherer)
 
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
 
 
November 10, 2004
 
 
/s/ Marv Tseu
 
(Marv Tseu)
 
Chairman of the Board and Director
 
 
November 10, 2004
 
 
/s/ Patti Hart
 
(Patti Hart)
 
Director
 
 
November 10, 2004
 
 
/s/ Trude Taylor
 
(Trude Taylor)
 
Director
 
 
November 10, 2004
 
 
/s/ David Wegmann
 
(David Wegmann)
 
Director
 
 
November 10, 2004
 
 
/s/ Roger Wery
 
(Roger Wery)
 
Director
 
 
November 10, 2004
 
 
 

 
     
 
 
 
INDEX TO EXHIBITS
 
4.1   Amended and Restated 2003 Stock Plan (incorporated herein by reference from the Registrant's Definitive Proxy Statement on Form 14-A (File No. 001-12696), filed on May 26, 2004).
 
5.1   Opinion of counsel as to the legality of securities being registered.
 
23.1   Consent of counsel (contained in Exhibit 5.1).
 
23.2   Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
 
24.1   Power of Attorney (see signature page).