-----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, MOjIHt8+gn2fh9nzaeN3Xfj6w0IvHUI4yaRMkTXee6QWpqkNBSK0SQtWMhDrNQuC J8BBFtxH+6WjpQ43sJLI/A== 0000893220-07-001959.txt : 20070518 0000893220-07-001959.hdr.sgml : 20070518 20070518115942 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000893220-07-001959 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: S-8 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 5 FILED AS OF DATE: 20070518 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070518 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20070518 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: V F CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000103379 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MEN'S & BOYS' FURNISHINGS, WORK CLOTHING, AND ALLIED GARMENTS [2320] IRS NUMBER: 231180120 STATE OF INCORPORATION: PA FISCAL YEAR END: 0101 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-8 SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-143077 FILM NUMBER: 07863669 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 105 CORPORATE CENTER BOULEVARD CITY: GREENSBORO STATE: NC ZIP: 27408 BUSINESS PHONE: (336)424-6000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: P. O. BOX 21488 CITY: GREENSBORO STATE: NC ZIP: 27420 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: VF CORPORATION DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19900621 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: VANITY FAIR MILLS INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19690520 S-8 1 w35249sv8.htm FORM S-8 sv8
 

 
 
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
V.F. CORPORATION
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
     
Pennsylvania
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation or Operation)
  23-1180120
(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
105 Corporate Center Blvd.
Greensboro, North Carolina 27408

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including Zip Code)
 
1996 STOCK COMPENSATION PLAN
(Full Title of the Plan)
 
Candace S. Cummings, Esq.
Vice President — Administration, General Counsel and Secretary
V.F. Corporation
P.O. Box 21488
Greensboro, North Carolina 27420
(336) 424-6000

(Name, Address And Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)
 
 
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
                                             
 
        Amount to be     Proposed maximum     Proposed maximum     Amount of  
  Title of shares to be registered     registered (2)     offering price per share     aggregate offering price     registration fee  
 
Common Stock (no par value; stated capital
$1.00 per share) (1)
      10,000,000       $ 88.64 (3)     $ 886,400,000       $ 27,213    
 
(1)   In addition, this registration statement registers an indeterminate number of rights (the “Rights”) to purchase Series A Participating Cumulative Preferred Stock pursuant to the terms of a certain Rights Agreement between the Company and First Chicago Trust Company of New York, as Rights Agent, as amended. No separate consideration will be received for the Rights, which initially will trade together with the Common Stock.
 
(2)   In addition, pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement also covers an indeterminate amount of: (a) interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the 1996 Stock Compensation Plan, and (b) additional shares which may be necessary to adjust the number of shares reserved for issuance pursuant to the 1996 Stock Compensation Plan for any future stock split, stock dividend or similar adjustment of the outstanding Common Stock of the registrant.
 
(3)   Estimated solely for the purposes of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act of 1933. The price and fee are computed based upon $88.64, the average of the high and low prices for the common stock reported on the New York Stock Exchange on May 16, 2007.
 
 

 


 

Explanatory Note
     Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this Registration Statement is being filed in order to register additional shares of Common Stock, no par value, stated capital $1.00 per share, of V.F. Corporation (the “Company”), with respect to four currently effective Registration Statements on Form S-8 of the Company relating to the Company’s 1996 Stock Compensation Plan.
     The contents of Registration Statement on Form S-8 as filed on August 4, 1997, Registration No. 333-32789, as amended, the contents of Registration Statement on Form S-8 as filed on July 30, 1999, Registration No. 333-84193, as amended, the contents of Registration Statement on Form S-8 as filed on August 14, 2001, Registration No. 333-67502, as amended, and the contents of the Registration Statement on form S-8 as filed on August 25, 2004, Registration No. 333-118547, as amended, are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 8. Exhibits.
  *4.1   1996 Stock Compensation Plan, as amended and restated February 6, 2007 (Appendix B to the Company’s 2007 proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 22, 2007).
 
  5.1   Opinion of Pepper Hamilton LLP
 
  23.1   Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
 
  23.2   Consent of Pepper Hamilton LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
 
  24.1   Power of Attorney
 
*   Incorporated by reference.

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SIGNATURES
     The Registrant. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant 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 Greensboro, North Carolina, on May 18, 2007.
         
  V.F. CORPORATION
 
 
  By:   /s/ Mackey J. McDonald    
    Mackey J. McDonald   
    Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer 
 
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
         
       
    SIGNATURE   DATE
   
 
   
   
/s/ Mackey J. McDonald
  May 18, 2007
   
 
   
   
Mackey J. McDonald
Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer
   
   
 
   
   
/s/ Robert K. Shearer
  May 18, 2007
   
 
   
   
Robert K. Shearer
Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
   
   
 
   
   
/s/ Bradley W. Batten
  May 18, 2007
   
 
   
   
Bradley W. Batten
Vice President — Controller and
Chief Accounting Officer
   

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DIRECTORS
             
Juan Ernesto de Bedout *
      George Fellows*   Mackey J. McDonald*
Edward E. Crutchfield*
      Daniel R. Hesse   Clarence Otis, Jr.*
Ursula O. Fairbairn*
      Robert J. Hurst*   M. Rust Sharp*
Barbara S. Feigin*
      W. Alan McCollough *   Raymond G. Viault *
Eric C. Wiseman*
           
 
  *By:     /s/ Candace S. Cummings   Date: May 18, 2007
 
      Candace S. Cummings,    
 
      Attorney-In-Fact    

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EXHIBIT INDEX
5.1   Opinion of Pepper Hamilton LLP
 
23.1   Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
 
23.2   Consent of Pepper Hamilton LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
 
24.1   Power of Attorney

 

EX-5.1 2 w35249exv5w1.htm OPINION OF PEPPER HAMILTON LLP exv5w1
 

Exhibit 5.1
(PEPPER HAMILTON LLP LETTERHEAD LOGO)
3000 Two Logan Square
Eighteenth and Arch Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2799
215.981.4000
Fax 215.981.4750
May 18, 2007
V.F. Corporation
105 Corporate Center Blvd
Greensboro, NC 27408
  Re:   Registration Statement on Form S-8
Ladies and Gentlemen:
     Reference is made to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) of V.F. Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation (the “Company”), to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”). The Registration Statement relates to the offering and sale by the Company of an additional 10,000,000 shares of common stock, without par value, stated capital $1.00 per share (the “Shares”) of the Company pursuant to the Company’s 1996 Stock Compensation Plan (the “Plan”).
     In connection with this offering, we have examined the Registration Statement, including the exhibits thereto, the originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of the Articles of Incorporation and the By-Laws of the Company as amended to date, and such other documents and corporate records relating to the Company as we have deemed appropriate for the purpose of rendering the opinion expressed herein. The opinion expressed herein is based exclusively on the applicable provisions of the Pennsylvania Business Corporation Law and federal securities laws as in effect on the date hereof.
     On the basis of the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares, when issued pursuant to and in accordance with the Plan, will be legally issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

 


 

     We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. By providing such consent, we do not admit that we come within the categories of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.
         
  Sincerely,

Pepper Hamilton LLP
 
 
     
     
     

 

EX-23.1 3 w35249exv23w1.htm CONSENT OF PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP exv23w1
 

         
Exhibit 23.1
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of our report dated February 27, 2007 relating to the financial statements, financial statement schedule, management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, which appears in V.F. Corporation’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 30, 2006.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Greensboro, North Carolina
May 18, 2007

 

EX-24.1 4 w35249exv24w1.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY exv24w1
 

Exhibit 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned V.F. Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (“VF”), and the undersigned directors and officers of VF hereby constitute and appoint M.J. McDonald and C.S. Cummings, and each of them, severally, his or her true and lawful attorneys and agents at any time and from time to time to do any and all acts and things and execute in his or her name (whether on behalf of VF, or by attesting the seal of VF or otherwise), any and all instruments and documents which said attorneys and agents, or any of them, may deem necessary or advisable and may be required to enable VF and the 1996 Stock Compensation Plan, as amended and restated February 6, 2007 (the “Plan”) to comply with the Securities Act of 1933 and any rules, regulations or requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) in respect thereof, in connection with the Plan and shares of Common Stock of VF offered pursuant to or in connection with the Plan, including specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, power of attorney to sign the name of VF and affix the corporate seal and to sign the names of the undersigned directors and officers to all registration statements, and all amendments and supplements thereto, on Form S-8 or S-8/S-3 or on any other appropriate Form, hereafter filed with the Commission and all instruments or documents filed as a part thereof or in connection therewith, and each of the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms all that said attorneys, agents, or any of them, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has subscribed to these presents as
of the 24th day of April, 2007.
         
ATTEST:   V.F. CORPORATION
 
       
/s/ Candace S. Cummings
  By:   /s/ Mackey J. McDonald
 
       
Candace S. Cummings
      Mackey J. McDonald
Vice President — Administration,
      Chairman and Chief
General Counsel and Secretary
      Executive Officer
 
       
Principal Executive Officer:
      Principal Financial Officer:
 
       
/s/ Mackey J. McDonald
      /s/ Robert K. Shearer
 
       
Mackey J. McDonald
      Robert K. Shearer
Chairman and Chief
      Senior Vice President and
Executive Officer
      Chief Financial Officer

 


 

         
Principal Accounting Officer:
       
 
       
/s/ Bradley W. Batten
       
 
       
Bradley W. Batten
       
Vice President — Controller and
       
Chief Accounting Officer
       
 
       
/s/ Juan Ernesto de Bedout
      /s/ Edward E. Crutchfield
 
       
Juan Ernesto de Bedout, Director
      Edward E. Crutchfield, Director
 
       
/s/ Barbara S. Feigin
      /s/ Ursula O. Fairbairn
 
       
Barbara S. Feigin, Director
      Ursula O. Fairbairn, Director
 
       
/s/ Daniel R. Hesse
      /s/ George Fellows
 
       
Daniel R. Hesse, Director
      George Fellows, Director
 
       
/s/ W. Alan McCollough
      /s/ Robert J. Hurst
 
       
W. Alan McCollough, Director
      Robert J. Hurst, Director
 
       
/s/ M. Rust Sharp
      /s/ Mackey J. McDonald
 
       
M. Rust Sharp, Director
      Mackey J. McDonald, Director
 
       
/s/ Clarence Otis, Jr.
      /s/ Raymond G. Viault
 
       
Clarence Otis, Jr., Director
      Raymond G. Viault, Director
 
       
/s/ Eric C. Wiseman
       
 
       
Eric C. Wiseman, Director
       

 

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