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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 


FORM 10–K

 


 

x ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

FOR THE ANNUAL PERIOD ENDED DECEMBER 30, 2005

OR

 

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM              TO             

COMMISSION FILE NUMBER 333-97427

 


JOHNSONDIVERSEY, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 


 

Delaware   39-1877511

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

8310 16th Street

Sturtevant, Wisconsin 53177-0902

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, Including Zip Code)

(262) 631-4001

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

 


Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None.

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None.

 


Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.    Yes  ¨    No  x

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.    Yes  ¨    No  x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S–K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10–K or any amendment to this Form 10–K.  x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check One):

Large accelerated filer  ¨        Accelerated filer  ¨        Non-accelerated filer  x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).    Yes  ¨    No  x

There is no public trading market for the registrant’s common stock. As of March 3, 2006, there were 24,422 outstanding shares of the registrant’s common stock, $1.00 par value.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE: None.

 



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INDEX

 

Section

  

Topic

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   Forward-Looking Statements    i

PART I

  
Item 1    Business    1
Item 1A    Risk Factors    10
Item 1B    Unresolved Staff Comments    18
Item 2    Properties    19
Item 3    Legal Proceedings    20
Item 4    Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders    20

PART II

  
Item 5    Market for the Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities    21
Item 6    Selected Financial Data    21
Item 7    Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations    25
Item 7A    Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure About Market Risk    43
Item 8    Financial Statements and Supplementary Data    44
Item 9    Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure    44
Item 9A    Controls and Procedures    44

PART III

  
Item 10    Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant    46
Item 11    Executive Compensation    51
Item 12    Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters    60
Item 13    Certain Relationships and Related Transactions    65
Item 14    Principal Accountant Fees and Services    83

PART IV

  
Item 15    Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules    84


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Unless otherwise indicated, references to “JohnsonDiversey,” “the Company,” “we,” “our” and “us” in this annual report refer to JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

We make statements in this Form 10–K that are not historical facts. These “forward-looking statements” can be identified by the use of terms such as “may,” “intend,” “might,” will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “expect,” “believe,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “predict,” “project,” “potential,” or the negative of these terms, and similar expressions. You should be aware that these forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that are beyond our control. Further, any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which it is made or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events or circumstances. New factors emerge from time to time that may cause our business not to develop as we expect, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

  •   our ability to execute our business strategies;

 

  •   our ability to successfully complete integration, synergy and restructuring plans, and in particular, our current restructuring program, including the achievement of cost and tax savings and potential dispositions of assets;

 

  •   changes in general economic and political conditions, interest rates and currency movements, including, in particular, exposure to foreign currency risks;

 

  •   the vitality of the institutional and industrial cleaning and sanitation market, and the printing and packaging, coatings and plastics markets;

 

  •   restraints on pricing flexibility due to competitive conditions in the professional and polymer markets;

 

  •   the loss or insolvency of a significant supplier or customer;

 

  •   effectiveness in managing our manufacturing processes, including our inventory, fixed assets and system of internal control;

 

  •   changes in energy costs, the costs of raw materials and other operating expenses;

 

  •   our ability and the ability of our competitors to introduce new products and technical innovations;

 

  •   the costs and effects of complying with laws and regulations relating to the environment and to the manufacture, storage, distribution and labeling of our products;

 

  •   the occurrence of litigation or claims;

 

  •   changes in tax, fiscal, governmental and other regulatory policies;

 

  •   the effect of future acquisitions or divestitures or other corporate transactions;

 

  •   adverse or unfavorable publicity regarding us or our services;

 

  •   the loss of, or changes in, executive management or other key personnel;

 

  •   natural and manmade disasters, including acts of terrorism, hostilities or war that impact our markets;

 

  •   conditions affecting the food and lodging industry, including health-related, political and weather-related; and

 

  •   other factors listed from time to time in reports that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).

 

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ITEM 1. BUSINESS

General

We are a leading global marketer and manufacturer of cleaning, hygiene and appearance products, equipment and related services for the institutional and industrial cleaning and sanitation market. We are also a leading global supplier of environmentally compliant, water-based acrylic polymer resins for the industrial printing and packaging, coatings and plastics markets. We operate our cleaning, hygiene and appearance products, equipment and related services business, which we refer to as our professional business, under the names “JohnsonDiversey,” “Johnson Wax Professional,” “Butchers” and “DiverseyLever,” and our polymer business under the name “Johnson Polymer.”

We sell our products in more than 140 countries through our direct sales force, wholesalers and third-party distributors. Our sales are balanced geographically, with our principal markets being Europe, North America and Japan. For the year ended December 30, 2005, we had net sales of $3.3 billion, of which 48% were from Europe, 32% were from North America and 10% were from Japan. For a discussion of financial results by segment and by geographical location, see note 29 to our audited consolidated financial statements.

We are required to file annual reports on Form 10–K, quarterly reports on Form 10–Q, current reports on Form 8–K and other information with the SEC. The public can obtain copies of these materials by visiting the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, D.C. 20549, by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330, or by accessing the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. In addition, as soon as reasonably practicable after these materials are filed with or furnished to the SEC, we make copies available to the public free of charge on or through our website at http://www.johnsondiversey.com. The information on our website is not incorporated into, and is not part of, this annual report.

History

We are a privately held business that was incorporated in Delaware in February 1997, under the name S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc. From February 1997 until November 1999, we were a wholly owned subsidiary of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (“SCJ”), a leading provider of innovative consumer home cleaning, maintenance and storage products founded by Samuel Curtis Johnson in 1886. In November 1999, we were separated from SCJ in a tax-free spin-off. In connection with the spin-off, Commercial Markets Holdco, Inc. (“Holdco”), a Delaware corporation that is majority-owned by descendants of Samuel Curtis Johnson, obtained substantially all of our shares from SCJ and, in November 2001, contributed those shares to Johnson Professional Holdings, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Holdco.

In May 2002, we acquired DiverseyLever, an institutional and industrial cleaning and sanitation business, from Conopco, Inc., a subsidiary of Unilever PLC and Unilever N.V. (together “Unilever”). Following the acquisition, we changed our name to “JohnsonDiversey, Inc.” and Johnson Professional Holdings changed its name to “JohnsonDiversey Holdings, Inc.” In connection with the acquisition, Unilever acquired a one-third interest in JohnsonDiversey Holdings, Inc. (“Holdings”) and Holdco retained the remaining two-thirds interest. At the closing of the acquisition, we entered into a sales agency agreement with Unilever whereby we were appointed Unilever’s exclusive agent to sell its consumer branded products, a business we did not acquire, to institutional and industrial customers. The sales agency agreement expires in May 2007; however, we are currently in discussions with Unilever to replace this arrangement prior to the expiration of the sales agency agreement.

 

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Professional Business

General

Our professional business supplies cleaning, hygiene and appearance products, including food service, food processing, floor care, restroom/other housekeeping, laundry and industrial products, to institutional and industrial end-users such as food and lodging establishments, food processing facilities, building service contractors, educational institutions, retail outlets, healthcare facilities and industrial plants. In addition, we provide a wide range of value-added services, including safety and application training, safety and hygiene consulting and hygiene auditing. We sell our professional products and related services on a global basis to a broad range of customers in diverse industries. Excluding sales agency fee income of $94.1million, our professional business had net sales of $2.9 billion in fiscal year 2005.

Products

We are a worldwide supplier of cleaning, hygiene and appearance products, equipment and related services to the institutional and industrial cleaning and sanitation market. We offer a broad, diversified line of products and related services to customers in more than 140 countries. We currently offer a wide range of products in each of six different categories—food service, food processing, floor care, restroom/other housekeeping, laundry and industrial.

Food Service. Food service products remove soil and eliminate microbiological contamination from food contact surfaces. Our food service products include chemicals for washing dishes, glassware, flatware, utensils and kitchen equipment; dish machines; pre-rinse units; dish tables and racks; food handling and storage products; and safe floor systems and tools. We also manufacture and supply kitchen cleaning products, such as general purpose cleaners, lime scale removers, bactericides/disinfectants, detergents, oven and grill cleaners, general surface degreasers, floor cleaners and food surface disinfectants. In addition, we support all cleaning tasks with documented cleaning methods and hygiene plans.

Food Processing. We offer detergents, cleaners, sanitizers and lubricants, as well as cleaning systems, electronic dispensers and chemical injectors for the application of chemical products. We also offer gel and foam products for manual open plant cleaning, acid and alkaline cleaners and membrane cleaning products. In addition, we provide consulting services in the areas of food safety and quality management.

Floor Care. We manufacture a broad range of floor care products and systems, including finishes, buffable waxes, cleaners, polishes, sealers and strippers for all types of flooring surfaces, including vinyl, terrazzo, granite, concrete, marble, linoleum and wood. We also provide a full range of carpet cleaners, such as extraction cleaners and shampoos; carpet powders; treatments, such as pre-sprays and deodorizers; and a full line of carpet spotters. Our range of products also includes carpet cleaning and floor polishing machines.

Restroom/Other Housekeeping. We offer a fully integrated line of products and dispensing systems for hard surface cleaning, disinfecting and sanitizing, hand washing and air deodorizing and freshening. Our restroom care and other housekeeping products include bowl and hard surface cleaners, hand soaps, sanitizers, air care products, general purpose cleaners, disinfectants and specialty cleaning products.

Laundry. We offer detergents, stain removers, fabric conditioners, softeners and bleaches in liquid, powder and concentrated forms to clean items such as bed linen, clothing and table linen. Our range of products covers all of the requirements of fabric washing from domestic-sized machines in small hotels to continuous batch washers in commercial laundries. We also offer customized washing programs for different levels and types of soils, a comprehensive range of dispensing equipment and a selection of process control and management information systems.

Industrial. We offer industrial cleaners and degreasers and a line of specialty vehicle cleaners that remove traffic film, road soil, dirt and grime from the surfaces of vehicles, including automobiles, buses and trucks.

 

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End-Users and Customers

We offer our professional products directly or through third-party distributors to end-users in eight sectors—food and lodging, food processing, building service contractors, education, retail, healthcare, industrial and other. No end-user customer accounts for more than 3% of our professional net sales.

Food and Lodging. Food and lodging end-users include fast food and full service restaurants, first class, luxury and economy hotel chains, independent hotels and nursing/care homes.

Food and Beverage. Food processing end-users include dairy plants, dairy farms, breweries, soft-drink bottling plants and meat, poultry and other food processors.

Building Service Contractors. Building service contractors and contract caterers clean, maintain and manage facility and food service operations in office buildings, retail stores, healthcare facilities, educational institutions and factories.

Education. Educational end-users include primary and secondary schools, technical schools, colleges and universities.

Retail. Retail end-users include supermarkets, drug stores, discounters, hypermarkets and wholesale clubs.

Healthcare. Healthcare end-users include both private and public hospitals, long-term care facilities and other facilities where medical services are performed.

Industrial. Industrial end-users include factories, industrial plants, including paper and pulp plants and water treatment facilities, and offices.

Other. End-users in this sector include cash and carry establishments, government institutions and commercial laundries. Cash and carry customers are stores in which professional end-users purchase products for their own use. Commercial laundry customers include professional laundries operated for profit, as well as large hospital on-site laundries.

Sales and Distribution

We sell our products and systems in domestic and international markets through company-trained sales and service personnel, who also advise and assist customers in the proper and efficient use of products and systems in order to meet a full range of cleaning and sanitation needs. We sell our products in more than 140 countries either directly to end-users or through a network of distributors, wholesalers and third-party intermediaries. We employ a direct sales force to market and sell our products. We contract with local third-party distributors on an exclusive and non-exclusive basis. We estimate that direct sales to end-users by our sales force typically account for about half of our professional net sales, with indirect sales through third-party channels accounting for the other half.

In our larger customer sectors, such as food processing, the supply of cleaning, hygiene and appearance products involves more than the physical distribution of detergents. In these sectors, customers may contract for the provision of a complete hygiene system, which includes products as well as safety and application training, safety and hygiene consulting, hygiene auditing and after-sales services. We employ specialized sales people who are trained to provide these specific services and, through our tailored cleaning solutions approach, we are able to address the specific needs of these customers.

For additional financial information regarding key financial measures of our professional business, including net sales and long-lived assets by geographical location, see note 29 to our audited consolidated financial statements, included elsewhere in this report.

 

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Raw Materials

Suppliers for our cleaning, hygiene and appearance products provide raw materials, packaging components, equipment, accessories and contract manufactured goods. The key raw materials we use in our professional business are surfactants, polymers and resins, fragrances, solvents, caustic soda, waxes, chelates and phosphates. Packaging components include bag-in-the-box containers, bottles, corrugated boxes, drums, pails, totes, aerosol cans, caps, triggers and valves. Equipment and accessories include dilution control, warewashing and laundry equipment, floor machines, air care dispensers, mops, buckets, carts and other items used in the maintenance of a facility.

We believe that all raw materials required for the manufacture of our products and all components related to our equipment and accessories are available from multiple sources. Raw material costs for certain of our floor care products have also been unfavorably impacted by higher oil and natural gas prices. We have absorbed significantly higher raw material costs and have implemented selling price increases in all of our global markets. Although we purchase some raw materials under long-term supply arrangements with third parties, these arrangements are not material to our business.

Competition

The worldwide market for our professional products is highly competitive. Our principal competitor on a worldwide basis is Ecolab, Inc. (“Ecolab”), which is the largest supplier of cleaning and sanitizing products in the institutional and industrial cleaning and sanitation industry. Ecolab has significant capacity, technology, expertise and financial resources, which enables it to compete effectively with us. We also face significant competition from numerous national, regional and local companies within some or all of our product lines in each sector that we serve. Many of these companies have increased in strength as a result of recent consolidations in the industry. Barriers to entry and expansion in the institutional and industrial cleaning and sanitation industry are low. Other competitors in the market include The Procter & Gamble Company and The Clorox Company, which have expanded into the institutional sector from their bases in consumer products, and Kimberly-Clark Corporation, which has expanded from paper accessories into personal care and washroom products.

We seek to differentiate our company from our competitors in our strategic sectors by being the preferred partner to our customers, and providing safe and healthy high-performing facilities for them and their customers. We believe the quality and ease of use of our products are competitive strengths. In addition, we have long-standing relationships with many of our top customers. Price considerations and sales and marketing effectiveness are also important competitive factors. To achieve expected profitability levels, we must, among other things, maintain the service levels and competitive pricing necessary to retain existing customers and attract new customers.

Foreign Operations

We conduct professional business operations through subsidiaries in Europe, North America, Japan, Latin America and Asia Pacific. Because the professional business has significant manufacturing operations, sales offices and research and development activities in foreign locations, fluctuations in currency exchange rates may have a significant impact on our consolidated financial statements. To a large extent, we use currency netting and forward foreign currency contracts to offset these fluctuations.

In addition, our foreign professional business operations are potentially subject to a number of unique risks and limitations, including: exchange control regulations; wage and price controls; employment regulations; regulatory approvals; foreign investment laws; import and trade restrictions; and governmental instability. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors – We are subject to risks related to our operations outside the United States” and “Item 1A. Risk Factors – Fluctuations in exchange rates may materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.”

 

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Polymer Business

General

We supply environmentally compliant, water-based acrylic polymer resins to the industrial printing and packaging, coatings and plastics markets. Polymer resins work within inks, paints and floor coatings to disperse or carry colorants, provide adhesion to the material being coated, protect the surface of the material and provide a glossy finish. We sell these resins to our customers primarily in North America, Europe and Asia. In fiscal year 2005, our polymer business had net sales of $365.8 million, including intercompany sales to our professional business of $22.6 million.

Products

We manufacture styrene acrylic resins and styrene acrylic emulsion polymers for inks, over-print varnishes, powder coatings, pigment dispersions, high solids thermoset coatings, urethane coatings, water-based industrial and architectural coatings, and plastic additives. We sell these products to industrial customers in the printing and packaging, coatings, plastics and institutional and industrial cleaning and sanitation industries in North America, Europe and Asia.

Printing and Packaging (Ink and Over-print Varnish). We are a leading global supplier of polymer products to the printing and packaging industry and are committed to working with our graphic arts customers to customize their product offerings. Our emulsions and styrene acrylic resins are used in the manufacturing of liquid inks, over-print varnishes, pigment dispersions and wax emulsions for a wide range of applications in the printing and packaging industry. Our largest end-user sector is consumer packaging where applications include corrugated boxes, beverage cartons, cereal and packaged food boxes, packaging for health and beauty aids, toys and other non-durable consumer goods.

Coatings. In the industrial markets, our polymer products are used in wood, metal and plastic coatings and include one component water-based emulsions, two component emulsions, polyurethane high solid coatings and baking enamels. In the architectural market, our emulsions are used in interior and exterior paint sold through retail outlets.

Plastics. In the plastics industry, our resins are used as additives to improve the processing of the plastics or their physical or functional properties.

Institutional and Industrial Cleaning and Sanitation. We manufacture polymers used in the production of floor care products, which are primarily sold to our professional business.

End-Users and Customers

We principally supply acrylic polymers to industrial customers in the printing and packaging, coatings and plastics industries. The printing and packaging market, consisting of liquid ink, pigment dispersion and over-print varnish manufacturers, represents our polymer business’ largest customer sector. During fiscal year 2005, Sun Chemical Corporation, our largest polymer customer, accounted for about 10% of our net sales of polymer products. In addition, sales to our professional business accounted for about 6% of net sales during fiscal year 2005.

Sales and Distribution

We sell our polymer products to customers primarily through our own sales force located in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. As of March 3, 2006, our polymer sales force consisted of about 40 employees. For additional information regarding key financial measures of our polymer business, including net sales and long-lived assets by geographical location, see note 29 to our audited consolidated financial statements, included elsewhere in this report.

 

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Raw Materials

Materials required for production of our polymer products are provided by multiple sources, and we operate under contracts with all of our major raw material suppliers. Significant raw materials purchased by our polymer business include styrene, acrylic acid, alpha methyl styrene, 2-ethyl hexyl acrylate and methyl methacrylate. During the past year, the already tight market supply situation for a number of these materials was further aggravated by the Gulf coast hurricanes, resulting in a tight market supply situation and increased pricing. Raw material costs have also been unfavorably impacted by higher oil and natural gas prices. As a result of our raw material supply contracts, we have experienced only minimal supply disruptions; however, we have absorbed significantly higher raw material costs and have implemented selling price increases in all of our markets.

Competition

The polymer industry is highly competitive. Our principal global competitor in the market for water-based acrylic polymers for printing and packaging applications is Rohm and Haas Company. In the architectural and industrial coatings markets, our principal competitors are DSM (NeoResins), BASF AG, Dow Chemical Corporation and Rohm and Haas Company. In each of our markets, we also have strong local competitors. Other competitors in the specialty chemical industry include Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Eastman Chemical Company and Lubrizol, Inc. These global competitors are larger and have greater financial resources than we do. As a result, they may be better able to respond to price increases in raw materials and to compete on pricing than we are. By capitalizing upon our unique research and development expertise, and providing customers with new products and technologies, we believe that we are able to compete successfully in the polymer industry.

Proprietary Rights; Research and Development

We believe that the Johnson housemark and the Diversey trademark are important to our business. SCJ has granted us a license to use specified trade names, housemarks and trademarks that incorporate “Johnson,” including “Johnson Wax Professional,” and to use the “Johnson” name, with our owned trade name “Diversey,” in the commercial and industrial channels of trade. See “Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.” We own the Diversey trademark and have filed registrations of that trademark in various jurisdictions. These registrations are renewable, potentially indefinitely, as long as we continue to use the Diversey trademark. Other than the Johnson and Diversey marks, we do not believe that our overall business is materially dependent on any individual, trade name, trademark or patent.

In connection with our acquisition of the DiverseyLever business in May 2002, we entered into several license agreements with Unilever under which Unilever granted us a license of specified trademarks, patents, design rights, copyrights and know-how used in the DiverseyLever business, including the “Lever” name, that were retained by Unilever. In addition, under a transferred technology license agreement, we have granted a license to Unilever to use specified intellectual property rights and patents and registered designs that were transferred to us in the acquisition. The licenses granted under these agreements generally terminate with the expiration of the particular patent, design right, copyright or know-how, unless terminated earlier. With respect to the Lever mark, the license will terminate in most geographies in May 2006, with certain regional extentions through December 2007.

Manufacturing expertise and innovative technologies are important to our business. In particular, our ability to compete effectively is materially dependent upon the technology used in the manufacturing process. We conduct most of our research and development activities at our research facilities located in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, Santa Cruz, California, Sharonville, Ohio, Utrecht, the Netherlands and Muenchwilen, Switzerland. We also have local development and application support in our Asia Pacific region, Latin America region, Japan and other locations in Europe. Through our research, we aim to improve the production processes in our manufacturing facilities, as well as to develop new, more innovative and competitive products, applications and processes and to provide technical assistance to customers to help them improve their operations. In addition, we have entered into a technology disclosure and license agreement with SCJ, under which each party may disclose to the other new technologies that it develops internally, acquires or licenses from third parties.

 

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Substantially all of our principal products have been developed by our research and development and engineering personnel. Research and development expenses were $71.0 million, $75.3 million and $72.8 million, respectively, for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004.

Employees

As of March 3, 2006, we employed over 12,000 employees, of which about 3,000 were located in the United States.

About 3% of our employees in the United States are covered by a collective bargaining agreement, which expires in April 2007. In Europe, the majority of our employees are represented by labor unions and are covered by collective bargaining agreements. Collective bargaining agreements are generally renewable on an annual basis. In several European countries, local co-determination legislation or practice requires employees of companies that are over a specified size or that operate in more than one European country to be represented by a works council. Works councils typically meet between two and four times a year to discuss management plans or decisions that impact employment levels or conditions within the company, including closures of facilities. Certain employees in Australia, Japan, Latin America, New Zealand and South Africa also belong to labor unions and are covered by collective bargaining agreements. Local employment legislation may impose significant requirements in these and other jurisdictions, including consultation requirements.

We believe that we have a satisfactory working relationship with organized labor and employee works councils around the world and have not had any major work stoppages since incorporation in 1997.

Environmental Regulation

Our operations are regulated under a number of federal, state, local and foreign environmental and safety laws and regulations that govern, among other things, the discharge of hazardous materials into the air, soil and water as well as the use, handling, storage and disposal of these materials. These laws and regulations include the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), as well as analogous state, local and foreign laws. Compliance with these environmental laws is a major consideration for us because we use hazardous materials in some of our manufacturing processes. In addition, because we are a generator of hazardous wastes, we, along with any other person who disposes or arranges for the disposal of our wastes, may be subject to financial exposure for costs associated with an investigation and any remediation of sites at which we have disposed or arranged for the disposal of hazardous wastes if those sites become contaminated, even if we fully complied with applicable environmental laws at the time of disposal. Furthermore, process wastewater from our manufacturing operations is discharged to various types of wastewater management systems. We may incur significant costs relating to contamination that may have been, or is currently being, caused by this practice. We are also subject to numerous federal, state, local and foreign laws that regulate the manufacture, storage, distribution and labeling of many of our products, including some of our disinfecting, sanitizing and antimicrobial products. Some of these laws require us to have operating permits for our production facilities, warehouse facilities and operations, and we may not have some of these permits or some of the permits we have may not be current. In the event of a violation of these laws, we may be liable for damages and for the costs of remedial actions and may also be subject to revocation, non-renewal or modification of our operating and discharge permits. Any such revocation, non-renewal or modification may require us to cease or limit the manufacture and sale of products at one or more of our facilities and may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. Environmental laws may also become more stringent over time, imposing greater compliance costs and increasing risks and penalties associated with any violation, which also may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Environmental regulations most significant to us are summarized below:

Toxic Substances. We are subject to various federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations governing the production, transport and import of industrial chemicals. Notably, the Toxic Substances Control Act gives the

 

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, the authority to track, test and/or ban chemicals that may pose an environmental or human-health hazard. We are required to comply with certification, testing, labeling and transportation requirements associated with regulated chemicals. To date, compliance with these laws and regulations has not had a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

Pesticide Regulation. Some of our facilities are subject to various federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations governing the manufacture and/or use of pesticides. We manufacture and sell certain disinfecting and sanitizing products that kill microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses and fungi. These products are considered “pesticides” or “antimicrobial pesticides” and, in the United States, are governed primarily by the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996. To register these products, we must meet various efficacy, toxicity and labeling requirements and must pay initial and on going registration fees. In addition, some states or foreign jurisdictions may impose taxes on sales of pesticides. Although the cost of maintaining and delays associated with pesticide registration have increased in recent years, compliance with the various laws and regulations governing the manufacture and sale of pesticides has not had a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

Ingredient Regulation. Numerous federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations relate to the sale of products containing phosphorous or other ingredients that may impact human health and the environment. Specifically, the State of California has enacted Proposition 65, which requires us to disclose specified listed ingredient chemicals on the labels of our products. To date, compliance with these laws and regulations has not had a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

Other Environmental Regulation. Many of our facilities are subject to various federal, state, local or foreign laws and regulations governing the discharge, transportation, use, handling, storage and disposal of hazardous substances. In the United States, these statutes include the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. We are also subject to the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, including the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, which imposes reporting requirements when toxic substances are released into the environment. Each year we make various capital investments and expenditures necessary to comply with applicable laws and regulations and satisfy our environmental stewardship principles. To date, these investments and expenditures have not had a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows. Planned capital expenditures for environmental equipment are expected to be approximately $4.6 million for fiscal year 2006.

Environmental Remediation and Proceedings. We may be jointly and severally liable under CERCLA or its state, local or foreign equivalent for the costs of environmental contamination on or from our properties and at off-site locations where we disposed of or arranged for the disposal or treatment of hazardous wastes. Along with several other potentially responsible parties, or PRPs, we are currently involved in waste disposal site clean-up activities at eight sites in the United States. Generally, CERCLA imposes joint and several liability on each PRP that actually contributed hazardous waste to a site. Customarily, PRPs will work with the EPA to agree on and implement a plan for site investigation and remediation. Based on our experience with these environmental proceedings, our estimate of the contribution to be made by other PRPs with the financial ability to pay their shares, and our third party indemnification rights at certain sites (including indemnities provided by SCJ), we believe that our share of the costs at these eight sites will not have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

In addition to the liabilities imposed by CERCLA or its state, local or foreign equivalent, we may be liable for costs of investigation and remediation of environmental contamination on or from our current or former properties or at off-site locations under numerous other federal, state, local and foreign laws. Our operations involve the handling, transportation and use of numerous hazardous substances. We are aware that there is or may be soil or groundwater contamination at some of our facilities resulting from past operations and practices. We are currently in the process of cleaning up soil and/or groundwater contamination at one of our facilities in the United States and one facility in the Netherlands. In addition, we have identified the likelihood of soil and/or groundwater contamination at eight other sites. Based on available information and our indemnification rights, explained below, we believe that the costs to investigate and remediate known contamination at these sites will not have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows. In many of the foreign jurisdictions in which we operate, however, the laws that govern our operations are still undeveloped or evolving.

 

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Many of the environmental laws and regulations discussed above apply to properties and operations of the DiverseyLever business that we acquired from Unilever in May 2002. Under the acquisition agreement, Unilever has made representations and warranties to us with respect to the DiverseyLever business and has agreed to indemnify us for damages in respect of breaches of its warranties and for specified types of environmental liabilities if the aggregate amounts of damages meet various dollar thresholds. Unilever will not be liable for any damages resulting from environmental matters (1) in the case of known environmental matters or breaches, that are less than $250,000 in the aggregate, and (2) in the case of unknown environmental matters or breaches, that are less than $50,000 individually and $2 million in the aggregate.

In the case of clause (1) above, we will bear the first $250,000 in damages. In the case of clause (2) above, once the $2 million threshold is reached, Unilever will not be liable for any occurrence where the damages are less than $50,000 or for the first $1 million of damages that exceed the $50,000 per occurrence threshold. In no event will Unilever be liable for any damages arising out of or resulting from environmental claims that exceed $250 million in the aggregate. We have submitted indemnification claims to Unilever regarding ten DiverseyLever locations and may file additional claims in the future. Although Unilever has acknowledged receipt of the indemnification claims, it has not notified us as to whether it will indemnify us for those claims. There can be no assurance that we will be able to recover any amounts relating to these indemnification claims, or any future indemnification claims, from Unilever.

Given the nature of our business, we believe that it is possible that, in the future, we will be subject to more stringent environmental laws or regulations that may result in restrictions imposed on our manufacturing, processing and distribution activities, which may result in possible violations, substantial fines, penalties, damages or other significant costs. The potential cost to us relating to environmental matters, including the cost of complying with the foregoing legislation and remediation of contamination, is uncertain due to such factors as the unknown magnitude and type of possible pollution and clean-up costs, the complexity and evolving nature of laws and regulations, including those outside the United States, and the timing, variable costs and effectiveness of alternative clean-up methods. We have accrued our best estimate of probable future costs relating to such known sites, but we cannot estimate at this time the costs associated with any contamination that may be discovered as a result of future investigations, and we cannot provide assurance that those costs or the costs of any required remediation will not have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

Environmental Permits and Licensing. In the ordinary course of our business, we are continually subject to environmental inspections and monitoring by governmental enforcement authorities. In addition, our production facilities, warehouse facilities and operations require operating permits that are subject to renewal, modification, and, in specified circumstances, revocation. We are aware that there may be noncompliance with permit or licensing requirements at some of our facilities. Based on available information and our indemnification rights, we believe that costs associated with our permit and licensing obligations will not have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

Product Registration and Compliance

Various federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations regulate some of our products and require us to register our products and to comply with specified requirements. In the United States, we must register our sanitizing and disinfecting products with the EPA. In addition, each state where these products are sold requires registration and payment of a fee. When we register these products, we must also submit to the EPA information regarding the chemistry, toxicology and antimicrobial efficacy for the agency’s review. Data must be consistent with the desired claims stated on the product label.

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(“FDA”). The FDA regulates the manufacture and sale of food, drugs and cosmetics, which includes antibacterial soaps and products used in food preparation establishments. The FDA requires companies to register antibacterial hand care products and imposes specific criteria that the products must meet in order to be marketed for these regulated uses. Before we are able to advertise our product as an antibacterial soap or food-related product, we must generate, and maintain in our possession, information about the product that is consistent with the appropriate FDA monograph. FDA monographs dictate the necessary requirements for various product types such as antimicrobial handsoaps. In addition, the FDA regulates the labeling of these products. If the FDA determines that any of our products do not meet their standards for an antibacterial product, we will not be able to market the product as an antibacterial product. Some of our business operations are subject to similar restrictions and obligations under an order of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission which was issued in 1999 and will remain in effect until at least 2019.

To date, the cost of complying with product registration and compliance has not had a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

In addition to the other information contained in this Form 10-K report, certain risk factors should be considered carefully in evaluating our business. The risk factors include, but are not limited to, those discussed below. These and many other factors described in this report could adversely affect our results of operations, cash flows and financial condition.

We may not realize the anticipated cost savings from our restructuring initiatives.

We anticipate significant cost savings as a result of our recently announced restructuring program, which is expected to take two to three years to implement and includes a redesign of our organization structure, the closure of a number of manufacturing and other facilities and a workforce reduction of approximately 10%, in addition to previously planned divestitures. We are also considering the potential divestiture of, or exit from, certain non-core or underperforming businesses. The businesses being considered for divestiture accounted for approximately $500 million of net sales during fiscal year 2005 and may include our Johnson Polymer operations.

Our ability to divest or exit non-core or underperforming businesses are limited by restrictions in the indentures for our senior subordinated notes, our senior secured credit facilities and the stockholders’ agreement among Holdings, Holdco and Unilever. See “—The indentures for our senior subordinated notes, our senior secured credit facilities and the stockholders’ agreement among Holdings, Holdco and Unilever restrict our abililty to engage in some business and financial transactions.” Further, our assumptions underlying estimates of anticipated cost savings from these restructuring initiatives may be inaccurate, and future business conditions and events may impede our ability to complete our restructuring initiatives. If we are unable to complete these initiatives in a timely manner or if we do not realize the anticipated cost savings, our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows may be materially adversely affected.

Our substantial indebtedness may adversely affect our financial health.

We have substantial indebtedness. As of December 30, 2005, we had total indebtedness of about $1.4 billion, consisting of $566.6 million of senior subordinated notes, $775.0 million of borrowings under our senior secured credit facilities, $22.7 million of other long-term borrowings and $44.8 million in short-term credit lines. In addition, we had $220.7 million in operating lease commitments, $2.8 million in capital lease commitments and $7.3 million committed under letters of credit that expire in fiscal year 2006.

The degree to which we are leveraged may have important consequences to our company. For example, it may:

 

  •   make it more difficult for us to make payments on our indebtedness;

 

  •   increase our vulnerability to general economic and industry conditions, including recessions;

 

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  •   require us to use a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations to service our indebtedness, thereby reducing our ability to fund working capital, capital expenditures, research and development efforts and other expenses;

 

  •   limit our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and the industries in which we operate;

 

  •   place us at a competitive disadvantage compared to competitors that have less indebtedness; and

 

  •   limit our ability to borrow additional funds that may be needed to operate and expand our business.

The indentures for our senior subordinated notes and our senior secured credit facilities contain financial and other restrictive covenants that limit our ability to engage in activities that may be in our long-term best interests. Those covenants include restrictions on, among others, the incurrence of indebtedness and liens, consolidations and mergers, the purchase and sale of assets, the issuance of stock, loans and investments, voluntary payments and modifications of indebtedness, and affiliate transactions. Our failure to comply with those covenants could result in an event of default, which, if not cured or waived, could result in the acceleration of all of our indebtedness. See also “—The indentures for our senior subordinated notes, our senior secured credit facilities and the stockholders’ agreement among Holdings, Holdco and Unilever restrict our ability to engage in some business and financial transactions.”

In addition, the terms of the indentures for our senior subordinated notes do not fully prohibit us or our subsidiaries from incurring additional indebtedness. If we or our subsidiaries are in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in our senior secured credit facilities and the indentures for our senior subordinated notes, we and our subsidiaries may be able to incur substantial additional indebtedness, which may increase the risks created by our current substantial indebtedness.

We require a significant amount of cash to service our indebtedness. The ability to generate cash depends on many factors beyond our control.

Our ability to make payments on our indebtedness and to fund planned capital expenditures, research and development efforts and other corporate expenses depend on our future operating performance and on economic, financial, competitive, legislative, regulatory and other factors. Many of these factors are beyond our control. We cannot assure you that our business will generate sufficient cash flow from operations, that currently anticipated cost savings and operating improvements will be realized or that future borrowings will be available to us in an amount sufficient to enable us to pay our indebtedness or to fund our other needs. In order to repay our indebtedness and fund our planned capital expenditures, we must successfully implement our business strategy and restructuring program. If we are unable to do so, we may need to reduce or delay our planned capital expenditures or refinance all or a portion of our indebtedness on or before maturity. Any delay in our planned capital expenditures may materially and adversely affect our future revenue prospects. In addition, we cannot assure you that we will be able to refinance any of our indebtedness on commercially reasonable terms or at all.

The indentures for our senior subordinated notes, our senior secured credit facilities and the stockholders’ agreement among Holdings, Holdco and Unilever restrict our ability to engage in some business and financial transactions.

Indentures for the senior subordinated notes. The indentures for our senior subordinated notes restrict our ability and the ability of our restricted subsidiaries to, among other things:

 

  •   incur additional indebtedness;

 

  •   pay dividends on, redeem or repurchase capital stock;

 

  •   issue or allow any person to own preferred stock of restricted subsidiaries;

 

  •   in the case of non-guarantor subsidiaries under the indentures, guarantee indebtedness without also guaranteeing the senior subordinated notes;

 

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  •   in the case of restricted subsidiaries, create or permit to exist dividend or payment restrictions with respect to us;

 

  •   make investments;

 

  •   incur or permit to exist liens;

 

  •   enter into transactions with affiliates;

 

  •   merge, consolidate or amalgamate with another company; and

 

  •   transfer or sell assets.

Senior secured credit facilities. Our senior secured credit facilities contain a number of covenants that:

 

  •   require us to meet specified financial ratios and financial tests;

 

  •   limit our capital expenditures;

 

  •   restrict our ability to declare dividends;

 

  •   restrict our ability to redeem and repurchase capital stock;

 

  •   limit our ability to incur additional liens;

 

  •   limit our ability to engage in sale-leaseback transactions; and

 

  •   limit our ability to incur additional indebtedness and make investments.

Our senior secured credit facilities also contain other covenants customary for credit facilities of this nature. Our ability to borrow under these credit facilities depends upon satisfaction of these covenants. Events beyond our control can affect our ability to meet these covenants.

Stockholders’ Agreement. Under the stockholders’ agreement that Holdings, Holdco and Unilever entered into in connection with the acquisition of the DiverseyLever business, Unilever must approve specified transactions and actions by Holdings and its subsidiaries, including us. Among the transactions and actions requiring Unilever’s approval are expenditures in excess of $50 million, future borrowings, investments in new ventures, exiting specified lines of businesses, specified acquisitions and divestitures and the issuance of additional capital stock. See “— Some decisions affecting our business require approval of Unilever” and “Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions—Relationships with Unilever.”

We face significant competition and will face more competition in the future.

The worldwide market for our products is highly competitive. Our principal competitor on a worldwide basis is Ecolab, which is the largest supplier of cleaning and sanitizing products to the institutional and industrial cleaning and sanitation industry. Ecolab has significant capacity, technology, expertise and financial resources, which enables it to compete effectively with us. We also face significant competition from numerous national, regional and local companies within some or all of our product lines in each sector that we serve. Many of these companies have increased in strength as a result of recent consolidations in the industry. Barriers to entry and expansion in the institutional and industrial cleaning and sanitation industry are low. Other competitors in the market include The Procter & Gamble Company and The Clorox Company, which have expanded into the institutional sector from their bases in consumer products, and Kimberly-Clark Corporation, which has expanded from paper accessories into personal care and washroom products.

To achieve expected profitability levels, we must, among other things, maintain the service levels and competitive pricing necessary to retain existing customers and attract new customers. Our failure to address these challenges adequately could put us at a competitive disadvantage relative to our competitors.

 

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The polymer market is also highly competitive. Many of our competitors in the polymer market are larger than us and have less indebtedness. These competitors have greater financial resources and are better able to respond to price increases in raw materials and to compete on pricing than us. If we are not able to compete on pricing, we may not be able to compete in the polymer industry successfully.

The volatility of our raw material costs may adversely affect our operations.

The key raw materials we use in our professional business are surfactants, polymers and resins, fragrances, solvents, caustic soda, waxes, chelates and phosphates. The prices of many of these raw materials are cyclical and have recently reached record levels. Supply and demand factors, which are beyond our control, generally affect the price of our raw materials. We try to minimize the effect of price increases through production efficiency and the use of alternative suppliers. If we are unable to minimize the effects of increased raw material costs, our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows may be materially adversely affected.

We may lose substantial amounts in agency fees if our sales agency agreement with Unilever is terminated.

In connection with the DiverseyLever acquisition, we entered into a sales agency agreement with Unilever under which we have agreed to act as Unilever’s sales agent in specified territories for the sale into the institutional and industrial markets of Unilever’s consumer brand products. If we are unable to comply with our obligations under the sales agency agreement or if Unilever terminates that agreement for any other reason, including if we are insolvent or our sales drop below 75% of targeted sales for a given year, we may lose significant amounts in agency fees. Furthermore, a willful breach by us also obligates us to make additional payments. In addition, the sales agency agreement with Unilever expires in May 2007; however, we are currently in negotiations with Unilever to replace this arrangement with a product licensing agreement in fiscal 2007. If the sales agency agreement is terminated prior to its scheduled termination date or we and Unilever are unable to agree to a mutually acceptable product licensing agreement, we may lose substantial amounts in agency fees, which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

We have also entered into a supply agreement with Unilever under which we have agreed to manufacture some Unilever consumer brand products that we will sell on behalf of Unilever under the sales agency agreement. If we fail to meet our supply obligations under the supply agreement and the failure causes our sales to drop below 75% of targeted sales, Unilever may terminate the sales agency agreement. If the supply agreement is terminated, we may lose substantial amounts in agency fees, which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

If we are unable to keep and protect our intellectual property rights, our ability to compete may be negatively impacted.

The market for our products depends to a significant extent upon the goodwill associated with our brand names. We currently hold licenses under agreements with SCJ to use specified technology, trade names, housemarks and brand names of SCJ incorporating “Johnson,” including “Johnson Wax Professional” and the “Johnson” name, including “Johnson” with our owned trade name “Diversey,” in the commercial and industrial channels of trade. If our rights under these license agreements are terminated, we may lose the ability to use these brand names and technology, which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

In addition, we own, or have licenses to use, all of the material trademark and trade name rights used in connection with the packaging, marketing and distribution of our major products both in the United States and in other countries where our products are principally sold. Trademark and trade name protection is important to our business. Although most of our trademarks are registered in the United States and in the foreign countries in which we operate, we may not be successful in asserting trademark or trade name protection. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries may not protect our intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States. The costs required to protect our trademarks and trade names may be substantial.

 

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We cannot be certain that we will be able to assert these intellectual property rights successfully in the future or that they will not be invalidated, circumvented or challenged. Other parties may infringe on our intellectual property rights and may thereby dilute the value of our brand names in the marketplace. Any infringement of our intellectual property rights would also likely result in a diversion of our time and resources to protect these rights through litigation or otherwise. Similarly, other parties may infringe on intellectual property rights that SCJ licenses to us. The protection of these licensed intellectual property rights are under the control of SCJ and, therefore, we cannot assure the protection of those trademarks or other intellectual property rights or prevent dilution in the marketplace of the value of those brands. Finally, we may infringe on others’ intellectual property rights. Any failure by us or SCJ to protect our trademarks, or any adverse judgment with respect to infringement by us of others’ intellectual property rights, may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

We are subject to risks related to our operations outside the United States.

We have substantial operations outside the United States. In the fiscal year ended December 30, 2005, approximately 68% of net sales were derived outside the United States. In addition to the risks that are common to both our U.S. and non-U.S. operations, we face risks related to our foreign operations such as:

 

  •   foreign currency fluctuations;

 

  •   unstable political, economic, financial and market conditions;

 

  •   import and export license requirements;

 

  •   trade restrictions;

 

  •   increases in tariffs and taxes;

 

  •   high levels of inflation;

 

  •   restrictions on repatriating foreign profits back to the United States;

 

  •   greater difficulty collecting accounts receivable and longer payment cycles;

 

  •   less favorable intellectual property laws;

 

  •   unfamiliarity with foreign laws and regulations; and

 

  •   changes in labor conditions and difficulties in staffing and managing international operations.

All of these risks have affected our business in the past and may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows in the future.

Fluctuations in exchange rates may materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Our results of operations are reported in U.S. dollars. Outside the United States, however, our sales and costs are denominated in a variety of currencies including the euro, British pound, Japanese yen, Brazilian real and Turkish lira. A significant weakening of the currencies in which we generate sales relative to the U.S. dollar may adversely affect our ability to meet our U.S. dollar obligations.

In addition, we are required to maintain compliance with financial covenants under our amended senior secured credit facilities. The covenants are measured in U.S. dollar terms; therefore, an adverse shift in currency exchange rates may cause us to be in breach of these covenants, which, if not cured or waived, may result in the acceleration of all of our indebtedness.

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repatriate cash as dividends or otherwise to the United States and may limit our ability to convert foreign currency cash flows into U.S. dollars. A weakening of the currencies in which we generate sales relative to the currencies in which our costs are denominated may lower our operating profits and cash flows.

If we are unable to retain key employees and other personnel, our operations and growth may be adversely affected.

Our success depends largely on the efforts and abilities of our management team and other key personnel. Their experience and industry contacts significantly benefit us and we need their expertise to execute on-going restructuring programs. If any of our senior management or other key personnel ceases to work for us, our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows may be materially adversely affected.

We are subject to a variety of environmental and product registration laws that expose us to potential financial liability and increased operating costs.

Our operations are regulated under a number of federal, state and foreign environmental, health and safety laws and regulations that govern, among other things, the discharge of hazardous materials into the air, soil and water as well as the handling, storage and disposal of these materials. These laws and regulations include the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Resource, Conversation and Recovery Act and CERCLA, as well as analogous state and foreign laws. Compliance with these environmental laws is a major consideration for us because we use hazardous materials in some of our manufacturing processes. In addition, because we are a generator of hazardous wastes, we, along with any other person who arranges for the disposal of our wastes, may be subject to financial exposure for costs associated with an investigation and any remediation of sites at which we have arranged for the disposal of hazardous wastes if those sites become contaminated, even if we fully comply with applicable environmental laws. Furthermore, process wastewater from our manufacturing operations is discharged to various types of wastewater management systems. We may incur significant costs relating to contamination that may have been, or is currently being, caused by this practice. We are also subject to numerous federal, state and foreign laws that regulate the manufacture, storage, distribution and labeling of many of our products, including disinfecting, sanitizing and antimicrobial products. Some of these laws require us to have operating permits for our production facilities, warehouse facilities and operations and we may not have some of these permits or some of the permits we have may not be current. Various state, local and foreign jurisdictions also require us to register our products and to comply with specified requirements with respect to those products. In the event of a violation of any of these laws, we may be liable for damages and the costs of remedial actions, and may also be subject to revocation, non-renewal or modification of our operating permits and revocation of our product registrations. Any revocation, modification or non-renewal may require us to cease or limit manufacture and sale of products at one or more of our facilities, and may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. Any revocation, non-renewal or modification may also result in an event of default under the indentures for our senior subordinated notes, the indenture for the senior discount notes of JohnsonDiversey Holdings and our credit facilities, which, if not cured or waived, may result in the acceleration of that indebtedness.

The potential cost to us relating to environmental and product registration matters, including the cost of complying with the foregoing legislation and remediating contamination, is uncertain due to factors such as the unknown magnitude and type of possible contamination and clean-up costs, the complexity and evolving nature of laws and regulations, including those outside of the United States, and the timing, variable costs and effectiveness of clean-up and compliance methods. Environmental and product registration laws may also become more stringent over time, imposing greater compliance costs and increasing risks and penalties associated with any violation, which may also negatively impact our operating results. Accordingly, we may become subject to additional liabilities and increased operating costs in the future under these laws and regulations that may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

We currently expect significant future environmental compliance obligations in our European facilities as a result of a European Community Directive “Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control” enacted on September 24, 1996. The directive imposes several requirements related to integrated pollution prevention and control on chemical manufacturing businesses throughout Europe and requires companies to obtain authorization or permits from governmental authorities before carrying out specified activities at facilities located in these countries. This directive became effective in October 1999 for all new facilities and for existing facilities that undergo a substantial change

 

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that may have a significant negative impact on the environment. While the directive will be effective in 2007 for all existing facilities, some member states have introduced a transitional schedule, which applies the directive to specified sectors prior to 2007 in a phased manner. Our environmental capital expenditures, costs and operating expenses will be subject to evolving regulatory requirements and will depend on the timing of the effectiveness of requirements in these various jurisdictions. As a result of the directive, we may be subject to an increased regulatory burden, and we expect significant future environmental compliance obligations in our European facilities. This directive may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

We will not receive indemnification from Unilever for breaches of warranty or for environmental costs under the acquisition agreement until the aggregate amount of damages exceeds agreed dollar thresholds.

Under the acquisition agreement for the DiverseyLever business, Unilever made warranties to us with respect to the DiverseyLever business. In addition, Unilever has agreed to indemnify us for damages in respect of breaches of its warranties and for specified types of environmental liabilities if the aggregate amount of damages meet various dollar thresholds. Unilever will not be liable for any damages resulting from environmental matters (1) in the case of known environmental matters or breaches, that are less than $250,000 in the aggregate, and (2) in the case of unknown environmental matters or breaches, that are less than $50,000 individually and $2 million in the aggregate. In the case of clause (1) above, we will bear the first $250,000 in damages. In the case of clause (2) above, once the $2 million threshold is reached, Unilever will not be liable for any occurrence where the damages are less than $50,000 or for the first $1 million of damages that exceed the $50,000 per occurrence threshold. In no event will Unilever be liable for any damages arising out of or resulting from environmental claims that exceed $250 million in the aggregate. As a result, if we incur damages or liabilities that do not meet the indemnity thresholds under the acquisition agreement, or if the aggregate limits on indemnity payments under the acquisition agreement become applicable, we would not be entitled to indemnity from Unilever and would be required to bear the costs ourselves. We cannot be certain that we will have sufficient funds available to bear these costs. Further, the payment of these costs may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

In addition, we have submitted indemnification claims to Unilever regarding ten DiverseyLever locations and may file additional claims in the future. Although Unilever has acknowledged receipt of the indemnification claims, it has not notified us as to whether it will indemnify us for those claims. There can be no assurance that we will be able to recover any amounts relating to these indemnification claims, or any future indemnification claims, from Unilever. If we are unable to recover costs relating to the sites for which we seek indemnification, we cannot be certain that we will have sufficient funds to bear these costs relating to environmental matters, which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

Descendants of Samuel Curtis Johnson beneficially own the majority of our common equity interests and the common equity interests of SCJ, with which we have material arrangements.

Descendants of Samuel Curtis Johnson beneficially own a majority of the common equity interests in Holdco. Under the stockholders’ agreement that Holdco, Holdings and Unilever entered into in connection with the DiverseyLever acquisition, the descendants of Samuel Curtis Johnson, through their controlling interest in Holdco, may nominate and elect nine of the eleven directors of Holdings. Holdings, as the owner of all of our common equity interests, except for one share, has the sole right to elect our directors. As a result, subject to the provisions of the stockholders’ agreement, the descendants of Samuel Curtis Johnson can effectively control the management and affairs of our company.

Generally, the same descendants of Samuel Curtis Johnson beneficially own a majority of the common equity interests in SCJ, and, by virtue of their controlling interest, effectively control the management and affairs of SCJ. As a result of these ownership interests, conflicts of interest may arise with respect to business dealings between us and SCJ, including with respect to various agreements with SCJ that are important to our business and acquisitions of businesses or properties. Disputes may also arise between us and SCJ in the course of these business dealings. Because the same shareholders control both us and SCJ, we cannot be certain that those shareholders will not, directly or indirectly, resolve these conflicts or decide any dispute in favor of SCJ. Furthermore, under some of our agreements with SCJ, the chairman of the board or the board of directors of SCJ has the ultimate authority to resolve

 

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disputes under those agreements, and, if a dispute is decided in favor of SCJ, we cannot challenge that decision. Any such decision may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Our relationship with SCJ is important to our future operations.

We are party to various agreements with SCJ, including a trademark license agreement, a technology disclosure and license agreement, supply and manufacturing agreements and several leases. See “Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.” Under the trademark license agreement, SCJ has granted us the right to use specified technology, trade names, housemarks and brand names incorporating “Johnson,” including “Johnson Wax Professional” and the “Johnson” name, including “Johnson” with our owned trade name “Diversey,” which we believe are critical to our business. Further, our rights to sell products, including DiverseyLever products, in some channels of trade that are not exclusively institutional and industrial, which we refer to as “cross-over” channels of trade, are subject to the approval of SCJ, in its sole discretion, under the trademark license agreement. Our sales in these channels of trade have historically been significant.

Under the technology disclosure and license agreement, SCJ has granted us the right to use specified technology of SCJ. In addition, we lease our principal manufacturing facilities in Sturtevant, Wisconsin from SCJ. If we default under the trademark license agreement or technology disclosure and license agreement and either agreement is terminated, we will no longer be able to use the Johnson name or the technology of SCJ. Furthermore, SCJ will then have the right to terminate the leases governing our manufacturing facilities in Sturtevant, Wisconsin. Finally, in some countries, we depend on SCJ to produce or sell some of our products. If our relationship with SCJ is damaged or severed, or if SCJ were to limit significantly our rights to sell some products in specified channels of trade, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Our relationship with Unilever is important to our future operations.

In connection with the DiverseyLever acquisition in 2002, we entered into agreements with Unilever, including transitional services, license and supply agreements. See “Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.” If Unilever fails to observe its commitments under these agreements, we may not be able to operate in accordance with our business plans and we may incur additional costs. Any failure by Unilever to observe its obligations may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. If these agreements are terminated before the end of their terms, we may not be able to obtain similar services, intellectual property or products on the same terms from third parties or at all.

As a result of the DiverseyLever acquisition, we own the name “Diversey.” We also hold licenses to use some trademarks and technology of Unilever in the institutional and industrial channels of trade under license agreements with Unilever. We believe that these license agreements are critical to our business and the termination of our rights under any of these agreements may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Some decisions affecting our business require approval of Unilever.

Unilever beneficially owns one-third of the common stock of Holdings. Also, two of the eleven members of the board of directors of Holdings are officers of Unilever. As a result, conflicts of interest may arise with respect to business dealings between us and Unilever. Under the stockholders’ agreement among Unilever, Holdco and Holdings, Unilever generally must approve specified transactions and actions by Holdings and its subsidiaries, including us. Among the transactions and actions requiring Unilever approval are capital expenditures in excess of $50 million, future borrowings, investments in new ventures, exiting specified lines of business, specified acquisitions and divestitures and the issuance of additional capital stock. While Unilever does not have the ability to exercise control or decisive influence over our strategic business affairs, Unilever may prevent us from engaging in specified transactions or acts that may be beneficial to our business or that may be in our long-term best interest. Because the stockholders’ agreement does not contain any arbitration or tie-breaking provisions, if we have

 

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disagreements with Unilever, we have no remedies or procedures to challenge its veto rights. As with any similar arrangement, differences in views between Unilever and us may result in delayed decisions or the failure to agree on major matters, each of which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

General economic downturns are likely to have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

General economic downturns adversely impact some of our end-users, such as hotels, restaurants, food and beverage processors and other end-users that are sensitive to travel and dining activities. These end-users typically reduce their volume of purchases of cleaning, hygiene and appearance products during economic downturns. Any future general economic downturn would likely have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS

Not applicable.

 

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

We have a total of 44 manufacturing facilities in 24 countries, including Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the U.K. and the U.S. Our principal manufacturing facilities for both our professional and polymer businesses are located at Waxdale in Sturtevant, Wisconsin. We lease these facilities from SCJ under leases expiring in 2009, with renewal options. See “Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions—Relationships with S.C. Johnson & Son—Leases.” Our corporate headquarters are also located in Sturtevant, Wisconsin. We believe our facilities are in good condition and are adequate to meet the existing production needs of our businesses.

The following table summarizes our principal plants and other physical properties that are important to our professional and polymer businesses. Unless indicated otherwise, all owned properties listed below are subject to mortgages.

 

Location

   Approximate Square
Feet Occupied
    Principal Activity  

Business

Used In

   Owned     Leased      

United States:

        

Madera, California

     90,000     Manufacturing and warehouse   Professional

Garden Grove, California

     36,000     Manufacturing, warehouse and
research and development
  Professional

Santa Cruz, California

     75,000     Manufacturing and research and
development
  Professional

Seaford, Delaware

   46,000       Manufacturing   Polymer

Sharonville, Ohio

   284,000       Manufacturing and research and
development
  Professional

East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

   142,000       Manufacturing   Professional

Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin

     365,000     Warehousing logistics   Professional

Sturtevant, Wisconsin

     144,000  **   Manufacturing   Polymer

Sturtevant, Wisconsin

     156,000     Logistics (warehouse, distribution)   Polymer

Sturtevant, Wisconsin

     180,000  **   Manufacturing   Professional

Sturtevant, Wisconsin

   278,000       International headquarters, data center
and research and development
  Professional
and Polymer

Watertown, Wisconsin

   125,000       Manufacturing   Professional

International:

        

Villa Bosch, Argentina

   77,000       Manufacturing   Professional

Socorro, Brazil

   123,000  *   97,000     Manufacturing   Professional

London, Ontario, Canada

   193,000       Manufacturing   Professional

Guangdong, China

   75,000       Manufacturing   Professional

Villefranche-sur-Soane, France

   181,000  *     Manufacturing   Professional

Kirchheimbolanden, Germany

   302,000     86,000     Manufacturing   Professional

Bagnolo, Italy

   594,000  *     Manufacturing   Professional

Shizuoka-Ken, Kakegawa, Japan

   115,000       Manufacturing   Professional

Tsukuba, Japan

   25,000 *     Manufacturing   Professional

Enschede, The Netherlands

   289,000       Manufacturing   Professional

Heerenveen, The Netherlands

   140,000       European headquarters, manufacturing
and logistics (warehouse, distribution)
  Polymer

Utrecht, The Netherlands

   44,000     68,000     Office and research and development   Professional

Polinya, Spain

   240,000       Manufacturing   Professional

Valdemoro, Spain

     45,000     Manufacturing   Professional

Munchwilen, Switzerland

   112,000       Manufacturing   Professional

Gebze, Turkey

     50,000     Manufacturing   Professional

Cotes Park, United Kingdom

   583,000       Manufacturing and warehouse   Professional

* Property not mortgaged
** Leased from SCJ

 

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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

We are party to various legal proceedings in the ordinary course of our business which may, from time to time, include product liability, intellectual property, contract, environmental and tax claims as well as government or regulatory agency inquiries or investigations. We believe that, taking into account our insurance and reserves and the valid defenses with respect to legal matters currently pending against us, the ultimate resolution of these proceedings will not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS

On December 15, 2005, Holdings, the holder of all of the outstanding shares of our common stock, except for one share owned by SCJ, approved by written consent in lieu of a meeting of stockholders, a cash dividend to Holdings in the amount of $35.2 million. See “Item 5. Market for the Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities” below.

 

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PART II

ITEM 5. MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES

As of March 3, 2006, there were 24,422 shares of our common stock outstanding. Holdings owns all of the outstanding shares of our common stock, except for one share owned by SCJ. There is no established public trading market for our common stock.

The following table sets forth the amount of ordinary cash dividends we paid to our stockholders in fiscal years 2005 and 2004 on a per share basis:

 

     2005    2004

January

   $ —      $ 107.96

March

     107.16      179.31

May

     107.31      107.27

August

     —        107.76

December

     —        107.31
             
   $ 214.47    $ 609.61
             

In addition, in December 2005, we paid a special cash dividend of $35.2 million to Holdings. Holdings subsequently distributed the amount to Holdco as a dividend on its shares of common stock owned by Holdco. The dividend was made in connection with our decision to cease granting stock options under Holdco’s long-term incentive plan and was used by Holdco to fund its offer to purchase all of its outstanding shares of class C common stock, options to purchase class C common stock and class B common stock held by current or former employees of SCJ in March 2006.

Cash dividends declared in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2003 were paid in January 2004. In March 2004, in addition to the regularly scheduled quarterly cash dividend, we paid our stockholders a special cash dividend of $72.07 per share to fund certain administrative expenses related to the senior discount note exchange offer concluded in February 2004. Our ability to pay dividends is restricted by covenants in the indentures governing our senior subordinated notes and in the senior secured credit facilities.

ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

Through fiscal year 2001, our fiscal year ended on the Friday nearest to June 30. In June 2002, we elected to report our results of operations on a 52/53 week year ending on the Friday nearest to December 31. Accordingly, references in this annual report to our fiscal year 2005 relate to the period from January 1, 2005 to December 30, 2005. Our fiscal year 2004 commenced on January 3, 2004 and ended on December 31, 2004. Our fiscal year 2003 commenced on January 4, 2003 and ended January 2, 2004. Our fiscal year 2002 commenced on December 29, 2001 and ended on January 3, 2003. Operations included 52 weeks in fiscal years 2005, 2004 and 2003, and 53 weeks in fiscal year 2002.

We derived the following selected historical consolidated financial data from our audited consolidated financial statements as of and for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, January 2, 2004 and January 3, 2003 and from our unaudited consolidated financial statements for the twelve months ended December 28, 2001. Those audited and unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”). You should read the following selected historical consolidated financial data in conjunction with the financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this annual report and with the information included in this annual report under “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

 

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     Fiscal Year Ended     Twelve Months
Ended
 
     December 30,
2005
    December 31,
2004
    January 2,
2004
    January 3,
2003(1)
    December 28, 2001
(unaudited)(1)(2)(3)
 
     (dollars in thousands)  

Selected Income Statement Data:

          

Net sales:

          

Net product and service sales

   $ 3,216,185     $ 3,080,428     $ 2,816,162     $ 2,093,646     $ 1,134,776  

Sales agency fee income (4)

     94,105       92,975       86,907       54,673       —    

Cost of sales (5)

     1,957,720       1,822,304       1,605,888       1,185,938       562,239  

Gross profit (6)

     1,352,570       1,351,099       1,297,181       962,381       572,537  

Selling, general and administrative expenses (4)(5)

     1,146,678       1,099,463       1,059,565       779,442       467,771  

Research and development expenses

     71,009       75,283       72,798       62,133       37,796  

Restructuring expenses

     17,677       20,525       12,919       19,646       —    

Operating profit (4)

     117,206       155,828       151,899       101,160       66,970  

Interest expense, net

     134,739       118,432       124,337       84,618       16,822  

Other (income) expense, net (4)

     1,025       4,909       (7,445 )     (16,728 )     2,899  

Provision for income taxes

     152,096       20,832       16,739       11,540       14,934  

Minority interests in net income (loss) of subsidiaries

     (57 )     285       262       (315 )     121  

Income (loss) from continuing operations

     (170,597 )     11,370       18,006       22,045    

Income from discontinued operations

     4,000       2,296       6,135       7,523    

Net income (loss)

   $ (166,597 )   $ 13,666     $ 24,141     $ 29,568     $ 32,194  

Selected Other Financial Data:

          

EBITDA (7)

   $ 303,629     $ 348,265     $ 327,943     $ 239,759     $ 109,247  

Depreciation and amortization

     183,448       194,269       159,463       109,348       45,176  

Capital expenditures (8)

     92,169       129,802       135,153       111,886       54,349  

Net cash provided by operating activities

     135,170       198,776       275,678       231,020       126,138  

Net cash used in investing activities

     (71,590 )     (73,319 )     (134,788 )     (1,468,514 )     (53,991 )

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

     74,718       (109,423 )     (203,608 )     1,360,875       (74,384 )

Gross profit margin (6)

     40.9 %     42.6 %     44.7 %     44.8 %     50.5 %

Operating margin (9)

     3.5 %     4.9 %     5.2 %     4.7 %     5.9 %

 

     As of
     December 30,
2005
   December 31,
2004
   January 2,
2004
   January 3,
2003
   December 28,
2001
     (dollars in thousands)

Selected Balance Sheet Data:

              

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 162,014    $ 28,044    $ 24,543    $ 59,272    $ 8,093

Accounts receivable, net

     534,941      556,245      647,956      544,665      161,619

Inventories

     283,673      281,752      263,397      260,983      99,082

Accounts payable

     398,657      429,868      360,548      328,561      139,623

Working capital (10)

     419,957      408,129      550,805      477,087      121,078

Property, plant and equipment, net

     481,208      566,961      595,483      561,835      207,060

Total assets

     3,308,893      3,611,426      3,665,327      3,383,385      926,284

Total debt, including current portion

     1,409,035      1,345,163      1,490,662      1,474,295      361,783

Stockholders’ equity

     728,178      1,045,825      994,895      833,033      209,660

(1) In May 2002, we acquired the DiverseyLever business from Unilever. As a result of the acquisition, results for our fiscal year 2002 include eight months of DiverseyLever results, and historical comparisons for years prior to our fiscal year 2002 are of limited relevance.

 

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(2) Through fiscal year 2001, our fiscal year ended on the Friday nearest to June 30. In June 2002, we elected to report our results of operations on a 52/53 week year ending on the Friday nearest to December 31. For comparative purposes, we have included unaudited selected historical financial data for the twelve months ended December 28, 2001.

 

(3) In June 2004, we sold our former subsidiary, Whitmire Micro-Gen Research Laboratories, Inc. Due to immateriality and the limited relevance of the historical information, the financial data for the fiscal periods prior to the fiscal year ended January 3, 2003 have not been restated to show the effects of this discontinued operation.

 

(4) Sales agency termination fees of $7.7 million, $4.4 million, $1.8 million and $1.1 million were included in sales agency fees in fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, January 2, 2004 and January 3,2003, respectively, of which, $4.1 million, $99 thousand and $387 thousand were reclassified from other (income) expense in fiscal years 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively. The sales agency agreement was entered into in May 2002.

We include gains and losses on fixed asset and product line disposals in our selling, general and administrative expenses. Accordingly, in the above selected historical consolidated financial data for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, January 2, 2004 and January 3, 2003, (gains) losses on fixed asset and product line disposals of ($53) thousand, $247 thousand, $1.6 million and $366 thousand, respectively, are included in selling, general and administrative expenses. For periods prior to fiscal year 2002, we included gains and losses on fixed asset and product line disposals in other (income) expense.

We include gains and losses on business divestitures in our selling, general and administrative expenses. Accordingly, in the above selected historical consolidated financial data for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, January 2, 2004 and January 3, 2003, (gains) losses on business divestitures of $3.3 million, ($1.1) million, ($3.4) million and ($11.9) million, respectively, are included in selling, general and administrative expenses. For the periods prior to fiscal year 2002, we included gains and losses on business divestitures in other (income) expense.

 

(5) We include distribution costs in our cost of sales. Accordingly, in the above selected historical consolidated financial data for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, January 2, 2004 and January 3, 2003, distribution costs of $306 million, $294 million, $270 million and $201 million, respectively, are included in cost of sales. For periods prior to fiscal year 2002, we included our distribution costs in selling, general and administrative expenses. For fiscal year 2001, we included distribution costs of $90.5 million in selling, general and administrative expenses.

In January 2005, in order to achieve alignment with its functional cost structure, we reclassified certain customer support costs. Accordingly, in the above selected historical consolidated financial data for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, January 2, 2004 and January 3, 2003, certain customer support costs of $5.4 million, $4.4 million, $3.5 million and $2.6 million, respectively are included in cost of sales. For periods prior to fiscal year 2002, we included these costs in selling, general and admistrative expenses. For fiscal year 2001, we included related customer service costs of $1.0 million in selling, general and administrative expenses.

 

(6) Gross profit equals net sales less cost of sales. Gross profit margin is gross profit as a percentage of net sales. As stated in footnote 5 above, distribution costs are included in selling, general and administrative expenses for the twelve months ended December 28, 2001, and therefore, excluded from cost of sales and the calculations of gross profit and gross profit margin for this period. Conversely, distribution costs are included in cost of sales and, therefore, our calculations of gross profit and gross profit margin for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, January 2, 2004 and January 3, 2003. Gross profit and gross profit margin for those periods in which distribution costs were excluded from cost of sales is not comparable to gross profit and gross profit margin for those periods in which distribution costs were included in cost of sales. In addition, because some other companies include costs related to their distribution network in cost of sales and, accordingly, in their calculations of gross profit and gross profit margin, our gross profit and gross profit margin for the twelve months ended December 28, 2001 may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.

 

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(7) EBITDA is a non-U.S. GAAP financial measure, and you should not consider EBITDA as an alternative to U.S. GAAP financial measures such as (a) operating profit or net profit as a measure of our operating performance or (b) cash flows provided by operating, investing and financing activities (as determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP) as a measure of our ability to meet cash needs.

We believe that, in addition to cash flows from operating activities, EBITDA is a useful financial measurement for assessing liquidity as it provides management, investors, lenders and financial analysts with an additional basis to evaluate our ability to incur and service debt and to fund capital expenditures. In addition, various covenants under our credit facilities are based on EBITDA, as adjusted pursuant to the provisions of those facilities.

In evaluating EBITDA, management considers, among other things, the amount by which EBITDA exceeds interest costs for the period, how EBITDA compares to principal repayments on outstanding debt for the period and how EBITDA compares to capital expenditures for the period. Management believes many investors, lenders and financial analysts evaluate EBITDA for similar purposes. To evaluate EBITDA, the components of EBITDA, such as net sales and operating expenses and the variability of such components over time, should also be considered.

Accordingly, we believe that the inclusion of EBITDA in this annual report permits a more comprehensive analysis of our liquidity relative to other companies and our ability to service debt requirements. Because all companies do not calculate EBITDA identically, the presentation of EBITDA in this annual report may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.

EBITDA should not be construed as a substitute for, and should be read together with, net cash flows provided by operating activities as determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The following table reconciles EBITDA to net cash flows provided by operating activities, which is the U.S. GAAP measure most comparable to EBITDA, for each of the periods for which EBITDA is presented.

 

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     Fiscal Year Ended     Twelve Months
Ended
 
     December 30,
2005
    December 31,
2004
    January 2,
2004
    January 3,
2003
    December 28, 2001
(unaudited)
 
     (dollars in thousands)  

Net cash flows provided by operating activities

   $ 135,170     $ 198,776     $ 275,678     $ 231,020     $ 126,138  

Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of effects from acquisitions and divestitures of businesses

     76,116       3,664       (113,630 )     (103,832 )     (57,822 )

Depreciation and amortization expense

     (183,448 )     (194,269 )     (159,463 )     (109,348 )     (45,176 )

Amortization of debt issuance costs

     (28,738 )     (12,464 )     (13,126 )     (5,951 )     —    

Interest accrued on long-term receivables–related parties

     3,317       3,399       4,365       1,417       —    

Changes in deferred income taxes

     (157,983 )     16,126       39,656       11,271       9,997  

Gain from divestitures

     667       2,099       3,372       11,921       —    

Gain (loss) on property disposals

     (5,715 )     936       (12,026 )     (11,626 )     —    

Compensation costs

     (5,136 )     —         —         —         —    

for long-term incentives

          

Other

     (847 )     (4,601 )     (685 )     4,696       (943 )
                                        

Net income

     (166,597 )     13,666       24,141       29,568       32,194  

Minority interests in net income (loss) of subsidiaries

     (57 )     285       262       (315 )     121  

Provision for income taxes

     152,096       21,613       19,774       16,662       14,934  

Interest expense, net

     134,739       118,432       124,303       84,496       16,822  

Depreciation and amortization expense

     183,448       194,269       159,463       109,348       45,176  
                                        

EBITDA

   $ 303,629     $ 348,265     $ 327,943     $ 239,759     $ 109,247  
                                        

 

(8) Capital expenditures include expenditures for capitalized computer software.

 

(9) Operating margin is operating profit as a percentage of net sales.

 

(10) Working capital is defined as net accounts receivable plus inventories less accounts payable.

ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Executive Overview

We are a leading global marketer and manufacturer of cleaning, hygiene and appearance products, equipment and related services for the institutional and industrial cleaning and sanitation market. We are also a leading global supplier of environmentally compliant, water-based acrylic polymer resins for the industrial printing and packaging, coatings and plastics markets. We sell our products in more than 140 countries through our direct sales force, wholesalers and third-party distributors. Our sales are balanced geographically, with our principal markets being Europe, North America and Japan. For financial statement reporting purposes, our business is comprised of two operating segments: professional and polymer.

In the fiscal year ended December 30, 2005, net sales increased by $137 million compared to the prior year. As indicated in the following table, excluding the impact of foreign currency exchange rates and acquisitions and divestitures, our net sales increased by 3.4% for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2005, compared to the prior year.

 

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     Fiscal Year Ended     Change  
(dollars in thousands)    December 30, 2005     December 31, 2004    

Net Sales

   $ 3,310,290     $ 3,173,403     4.3 %

Variance due to:

      

Foreign currency exchange

     —         41,884    

Acquisitions and divestitures

     (3,148 )     (17,920 )  
                  
     (3,148 )     23,964    
                  
   $ 3,307,142     $ 3,197,367     3.4 %
                  

We continued to show net sales growth, primarily due to price increases taking hold in all business sectors and global geographic areas, expansion of developing markets in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East and payments received from Unilever in connection with partial terminations of our sales agency agreement.

 

  •   In North America, one of our largest markets, net sales increased by 3.6% compared to the prior year, reversing the recent trend of flat to declining revenues. The North America sales growth was primarily attributable to key customer wins and pricing actions and more than offset regional challenges related to industry consolidation and changes in customer purchase practices. The price increases were introduced globally late in 2004 and continued throughout fiscal year 2005 in response to rising raw material costs.

 

  •   In our Europe, Africa and Middle East regions, net sales increased by 1.4% compared to the prior year, primarily due to sales growth in developing countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East and a correction in accounting treatment for certain equipment leases which increased our European net sales by $15.3 million compared to the prior year. These favorable factors were partially offset by softening economies in key countries and continuing consolidation in key market sectors, including distribution, building service contractors and food and beverage.

 

  •   In Asia Pacific, net sales increased by 7.9% compared to the prior year, primarily due to sales growth in China and India.

 

  •   In Latin America, net sales increased by 9.6% compared to the prior year, primarily due to improved economic conditions and growth in distributor markets, the food and beverage business and the lodging sector.

 

  •   In Japan, net sales increased by 1.3% compared to the prior year, despite significant economic pressures, primarily due to expansion of our total solutions approach with retail customers.

 

  •   Net sales in our polymer segment increased by 11.3% compared to the prior year, primarily due to the aforementioned price increases.

 

  •   In fiscal year 2005, we recognized a $3.3 million increase in partial termination fees associated with our sales agency agreement with Unilever.

Our gross profit percentages have declined compared to prior year levels as recent pricing actions have not been able to fully offset the unprecedented increases in key raw material costs and transportation costs. Our gross profit percentages for the three most recent fiscal years are set forth below:

 

    Fiscal Year Ended  
    December 30, 2005     December 31, 2004     January 2, 2004  

Consolidated

  40.9 %   42.6 %   44.7 %
                 

Professional

  42.6 %   44.2 %   45.9 %

Polymer

  25.6 %   27.0 %   32.7 %

 

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Despite the implementation of price increases in greater scope and frequency than prior periods, both professional segment and polymer segment gross profit percentages for fiscal year 2005 were lower than in prior years primarily due to the continuing impact of increased crude oil and natural gas costs on our raw material costs. We also experienced escalating freight and transportation costs in North America, which are also attributable to the rise in crude oil prices and changes in U.S. transportation legislation that have reduced carrier availability. We continue to be confronted with rising raw material costs. In response, we continue to implement a mix of general and selective price increases to recover these costs, to the extent possible, and pursue cost reduction initiatives.

In mid to late 2004, our industry and others began to be materially impacted by rapid increases in crude oil and natural gas costs. This trend continued through 2005. In response to these structural changes in the raw materials market that have led to significant increases in our input costs, in November 2005, our Board of Directors concluded that an operational restructuring of our company was required and approved a restructuring program. This program, which is expected to take two to three years to implement, includes a redesign of our organization structure, the closure of a number of manufacturing and other facilities and a workforce reduction of approximately 10%, in addition to previously planned divestitures.

We are also considering the potential divestiture of, or exit from, certain non-core or underperforming businesses. The businesses being considered for divestiture accounted for approximately $500 million of net sales during fiscal year 2005, and may include our Johnson Polymer operations. At the appropriate time, and as we progress through our restructuring program, we expect to implement additional growth initiatives focusing on our core businesses.

The implementation of the restructuring program is expected to result in cumulative, pre-tax restructuring and other non-recurring period cash charges totaling between $345 and $370 million, including $4.9 million recorded in fiscal year 2005 and $170 to $190 million expected to be recorded in fiscal year 2006. Over the duration of the restructuring program, we expect to incur approximately $195 to $210 million (pre-tax) in employee-related costs, including severance, pension and other termination benefits and approximately $150 to $160 million (pre-tax) in other associated costs, including facility closures, contract termination fees and costs related to the execution of the restructuring program. In addition, we expect to incur approximately $60 to $75 million (pre-tax) in non-cash asset write-downs and require capital expenditures of approximately $50 to $65 million, primarily for certain new manufacturing facilities supporting our supply chain optimization and expansion in developing markets, and investment in continued ERP roll-out, business intelligence and customer-facing systems. Annual savings associated with this restructuring program are expected to be approximately $150 to $175 million by the end of fiscal year 2008. There can be no assurance, however, that we will achieve anticipated cost savings.

In December 2005, in connection with our restructuring program, we amended and restated our senior secured credit facilities to provide additional financial flexibility and liquidity to execute our strategy. The amended facilities increased our term loan borrowing capability and modified the financial covenants contained in our previous credit facilities. Our cash flow performance during fiscal year 2005 enabled us to pay down term borrowings under our previous credit facilities prior to the execution of the amended facilities. Cash flow generation from our operations was supplemented by cash proceeds from the divestiture of our European and Canadian commercial laundry businesses ($18.6 million) and through payments from Unilever to partially settle pension adjustments related to the May 2002 acquisition of DiverseyLever ($28.9 million).

 

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Critical Accounting Policies

The preparation of our financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reported periods. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. We believe the accounting policies that are most critical to our financial condition and results of operations and that involve management’s judgment and/or evaluation of inherent uncertain factors are as follows:

Revenue Recognition. We recognize revenue on product sales when risk of loss and title to the product is transferred to the customer, substantially all of which occurs at the time shipment is made. We record an estimated reduction to revenue for customer discount programs and incentive offerings, including allowances and other volume-based incentives. If market conditions were to decline, we may take actions to increase customer incentive offerings, possibly resulting in a reduction of gross profit margins in the period during which the incentive is offered.

In arriving at net sales, we estimate the amounts of sales deductions likely to be earned by customers in conjunction with incentive programs such as volume rebates and other discounts. Such estimates are based on written agreements and historical trends and are reviewed periodically for possible revision based on changes in facts and circumstances.

Estimating Reserves and Allowances. We estimate inventory reserves based on periodic reviews of our inventory balances to identify slow-moving or obsolete items. This determination is based on a number of factors, including new product introductions, changes in customer demand patterns and historic usage trends.

We estimate the allowance for doubtful accounts by analyzing accounts receivable balances by age, applying historical trend rates, analyzing market conditions and specifically reserving for identified customer balances, based on known facts, which are deemed probable as uncollectible. For larger accounts greater than 90 days past due, an allowance for doubtful accounts is recorded based on the customer’s ability and likelihood to pay and based on management’s review of the facts and circumstances. For other customers, we recognize an allowance based on the length of time the receivable is past due based on historical experience.

We accrue for losses associated with litigation and environmental claims based on management’s best estimate of future costs when such losses are probable and reasonably able to be estimated. We record those costs based on what management believes is the most probable amount of the liability within the ranges or, where no amount within the range is a better estimate of the potential liability, at the minimum amount within the range. The accruals are adjusted as further information becomes available or circumstances change.

Pension and Post-Retirement Benefits. We sponsor pension and post-retirement plans in various countries, including the United States, which are separately funded. Several statistical and judgmental factors, which attempt to anticipate future events, are used in calculating the expense and liability related to the plans. These factors include assumptions about the discount rate, expected return on plan assets, rate of future compensation increases and healthcare cost trends, as determined by us and our actuaries. In addition, our actuarial consultants also use subjective factors, such as withdrawal and mortality rates, to estimate these factors. The actuarial assumptions used by us may differ materially from actual results due to changing market and economic conditions, higher or lower withdrawal rates, longer or shorter life spans of participants and changes in actual costs of healthcare. Actual results may significantly affect the amount of pension and other post-retirement benefit expenses recorded by us.

Goodwill and Long-Lived Assets. We periodically review long-lived assets, including non-amortizing intangible assets and goodwill, for impairment and assess whether significant events or changes in business circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the assets may not be recoverable. An impairment loss is recognized when the carrying amount of an asset exceeds the anticipated future undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use of the asset and its eventual disposition. The amount of the impairment loss to be recorded, if any, is calculated by the excess of the asset’s carrying value over its estimated fair value. We also periodically

 

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reassess the estimated remaining useful lives of our amortizing intangible assets and our other long-lived assets. Changes to estimated useful lives would impact the amount of depreciation and amortization expense recorded in our consolidated financial statements. We annually complete an impairment analysis of goodwill and non-amortizing intangible assets. Moreover, where indicators of impairment are identified for long-lived assets, we would prepare a future undiscounted cash flows analysis, determine any impairment impact and record, if necessary, a reduction in the affected asset(s). We performed the required impairment test for fiscal year 2005 and recorded charges of $0.7 million and $1.0 million to selling, general and administrative expenses for the impairment of indefinite-lived and amortizable assets, respectively. There were no known impairments or indicators of impairment identified during the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004 that had a material impact on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

For an additional discussion of our critical accounting policies and a discussion of new accounting pronouncements, see note 2 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this report.

Fiscal Year Ended December 30, 2005, Compared to Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2004

Net Sales:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended    Change  
(dollars in thousands)    December 30, 2005    December 31, 2004    Amount    Percentage  

Net product and service sales:

           

Professional

   $ 2,873,000    $ 2,772,593    $ 100,407    3.6 %

Polymer (1)

     343,185      307,835      35,350    11.5 %
                           
     3,216,185      3,080,428      135,757    4.4 %

Sales agency fee income

     94,105      92,975      1,130    1.2 %
                           
   $ 3,310,290    $ 3,173,403    $ 136,887    4.3 %
                           

(1) Excludes inter-segment sales to the professional segment

 

  •   The strengthening of the euro and certain other foreign currencies against the U.S. dollar contributed $39.6 million to the increase in net product and service sales, primarily attributed to the professional segment.

 

  •   Excluding the impact of foreign currency exchange rates and acquisitions and divestitures, consolidated net sales increased 3.4% compared to the prior year.

 

  •   Excluding the impact of foreign currency exchange rates and acquisitions and divestitures and sales agency fee income, professional segment net sales increased 2.2% compared to the prior year. The net sales growth was primarily due to price increases taking hold in all business sectors and global geographic areas, and expansion of developing markets in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

 

  •   In North America, net sales increased by 3.6% compared to the prior year, reversing the recent trend of flat to declining revenues. The North America sales growth was primarily attributable to key customer wins and pricing actions and more than offset regional challenges related to industry consolidation and changes in customer purchase practices. The price increases were introduced globally late in 2004 and continued throughout fiscal year 2005 in response to rising raw material costs.

 

  •   In our Europe, Africa and Middle East regions, net sales increased by 1.4% compared to the prior year, primarily due to sales growth in developing countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East and a correction in accounting treatment for certain equipment leases which increased our European net sales by $15.3 million compared to the prior year. These favorable factors were partially offset by softening economies in key countries and continuing consolidation in key market sectors, including distribution, building service contractors and food and beverage.

 

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  •   In Asia Pacific, net sales increased by 7.9% compared to the prior year, primarily due to sales growth in China and India.

 

  •   In Latin America, net sales increased by 9.6% compared to the prior year, primarily due to improved economic conditions and growth in distributor markets, the food and beverage business and the lodging sector.

 

  •   In Japan, net sales increased by 1.3% compared to the prior year, despite significant economic pressures, primarily due to expansion of our total solutions approach with retail customers.

 

  •   Excluding the foreign currency impact, polymer segment net sales increased by $34.8 million, or 11.3%, compared to the prior year period, primarily due to price increases in response to the significant rise in raw material costs experienced over the past year.

 

  •   Excluding a $2.3 million increase from the strengthening of the euro and certain other foreign currencies against the U.S. dollar, net sales under our sales agency agreement with Unilever decreased $1.1 million, or 1.2%, compared to the prior year primarily due to certain brand disposals by Unilever in the European and Asia Pacific markets ($4.5 million) substantially offset by an increase in partial termination fees ($3.3 million).

Gross Profit:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended     Change  
(dollars in thousands)    December 30, 2005     December 31, 2004     Amount     Percentage  

Professional

   $ 1,264,589     $ 1,267,916     $ (3,327 )   -0.3 %

Polymer

     87,981       83,183       4,798     5.8 %
                              
     1,352,570       1,351,099       1,471     0.1 %
                              

Gross profit as a % of net sales:

        

Professional

     42.6 %     44.2 %    

Polymer

     25.6 %     27.0 %    
                    
     40.9 %     42.6 %    
                    

 

  •   The strengthening of the euro and certain other foreign currencies against the U.S. dollar increased gross profit by $23.1 million compared to the prior year. The increase was primarily attributable to the professional segment.

 

  •   The reduction in professional segment gross profit in fiscal year 2005 compared to the prior year was primarily due to the impact of increased crude oil and natural gas costs on raw materials, with a particularly strong impact on our floorcare business where acrylic based polymers are common in product formulations. The segment was also adversely impacted by higher freight and transportation costs, primarily attributable to the rise in crude oil prices and changes in U.S. transportation legislation that has affected driver hours and carrier availability. To a lesser extent, gross profit was impacted by a change in product and services mix, reflecting a relative increase in lower margin sales to our food and beverage sector, which is not expected to continue, and a strategic shift towards increased solutions selling, which has a different business model than most of our operations. These decreases were partially offset by a correction in accounting treatment for certain equipment leases which increased our European gross profit by $5.8 million compared to the prior year.

 

  •   The polymer segment gross profit percentage for fiscal year 2005 decreased 140 basis points compared to the prior year. The effect of higher crude oil and natural gas costs on key fuel feedstocks has continued to outpace the impact of targeted price increases. Additionally, industry cyclical factors and the implications of the Gulf coast hurricanes caused demand to outstrip supply for certain raw materials. Polymer products are formulated from solvents, acrylates and resins that include propylene, ethylene and benzene, costs for all of which are partially dependent on the price of crude oil and natural gas. Costs for acrylates and

 

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styrene, key raw materials in our polymer business, were at peak levels in 2005 and are expected to remain in a cost range that is above historical averages, consistent with crude oil and natural gas costs. In addition, as costs have increased, the polymer segment has also moved towards a change in product mix, with customers substituting lower margin products for specialty polymers.

 

  •   We continue to be confronted with rising raw material costs and, in response, we continue to implement a mix of general and selective price increases to recover these costs, to the extent possible, and pursue further cost reduction initiatives.

Operating Expenses:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended     Change  
(dollars in thousands)    December 30,
2005
    December 31,
2004
    Amount     Percentage  

Selling, general and administrative expenses

   $ 1,146,678     $ 1,099,463     $ 47,215     4.3 %

Research and development expenses

     71,009       75,283       (4,274 )   -5.7 %

Restructuring expenses

     17,677       20,525       (2,848 )   -13.9 %
                              
   $ 1,235,364     $ 1,195,271     $ 40,093     3.4 %
                              

As a percentage of net sales:

        

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     34.6 %     34.6 %    

Research and development expenses

     2.1 %     2.4 %    

Restructuring expenses

     0.5 %     0.6 %    
                    
     37.2 %     37.6 %    
                    

 

  • The strengthening of the euro and certain other foreign currencies against the U.S. dollar increased operating expenses by $12.1 million compared to the prior year.

 

  • Selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of net sales were flat compared to the prior year. Excluding the impact of foreign currency, selling, general and administrative expenses increased $35.3 million compared to the prior year period. The impact from cost containment and reduction programs, a settlement with Unilever related to indemnified legal costs ($2.5 million) and a change in estimate for environmental reserves ($2.9 million) based on updated exposure studies offset general inflationary pressures, compensation expense from the cancellation of our long-term incentive plan ($5.1 million), certain employee separation costs ($3.6 million), a loss on divestiture of the European and Canadian commercial laundry businesses ($3.5 million) and certain contract termination fees ($3.0 million).

 

  • Excluding the impact of foreign currency, research and development expenses decreased $4.5 million compared to the prior year, primarily due to a planned slowing of on-going and planned projects in anticipation of the November 2005 restructuring program.

 

  • Excluding the impact of foreign currency, restructuring expenses decreased $2.7 million compared to the prior year, primarily due to the timing of employee severance and exit cost payments and the wind-down of activity related to the DiverseyLever acquisition integration, partially offset by severance costs of $4.9 million related to the November 2005 restructuring program recorded in fiscal year 2005.

Restructuring and Integration:

A summary of all costs associated with the restructuring and integration programs for fiscal year 2005, fiscal year 2004 and since the DiverseyLever acquisition in May 2002, is outlined below. The reserve balance shown below reflects the aggregate reserves for all restructuring and integration projects, including the November 2005 restructuring program.

 

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     Fiscal Year Ended    

Total Project to

Date May 4, 2002 -
December 30, 2005

 
(dollars in thousands)    December 30, 2005     December 31, 2004    

Reserve balance at beginning of period

   $ 9,008     $ 34,798     $ —    

Exit costs recorded as purchase accounting adjustments

     —         —         80,574  

Restructuring costs charged to income

     17,677       20,525       70,767  

Liability adjustments

     407       (4,337 )     (3,930 )

Payments of accrued costs

     (19,033 )     (41,978 )     (139,352 )
                        

Reserve balance at end of period

   $ 8,059     $ 9,008     $ 8,059  
                        

Period costs classified as cost of sales

   $ —       $ —       $ 4,878  

Period costs classified as selling, general and administrative expenses

     43,994       25,332       143,994  

Capital expenditures

     20,239       39,205       130,657  

 

  •   During fiscal years 2002 and 2003, in connection with the May 2002 acquisition of the DiverseyLever business, we recorded liabilities for the involuntary termination of former DiverseyLever employees and other exit costs associated with former DiverseyLever facilities. We also developed plans to restructure certain facilities that we owned prior to the acquisition of the DiverseyLever business, primarily for the purpose of eliminating redundancies resulting from the acquisition.

 

  •   During fiscal years 2005 and 2004, we recorded $17.7 million and $20.5 million of restructuring costs, respectively, and $44.0 million and $25.3 million of selling, general and administrative expenses, respectively, related to our restructuring and integration programs in our consolidated statements of operations. These costs consisted primarily of involuntary termination and other costs incurred throughout North America and Europe as we continued to consolidate our operations and IT ERP system platforms and complete the integration of the acquired DiverseyLever business.

 

  •   In November 2005, we announced a global restructuring program. This program, which is expected to take two to three years to implement, includes a redesign of our organization structure, the closure of a number of manufacturing and other facilities and a workforce reduction of approximately 10%, in addition to previously planned divestitures. In fiscal year 2005, we incurred $4.9 million in restructuring expenses and $15.3 million in selling, general and administrative costs, all of which were severance related.

 

  •   The combination of historical U.S. tax losses and the additional expenses to be incurred in the U.S. as part of the November 2005 restructuring program caused us to reconsider the need for a valuation allowance against our deferred tax assets. Forming a conclusion that a valuation allowance is not needed is difficult when there is negative evidence such as cumulative losses in recent years. In certain cases, the negative evidence associated with historical losses cannot be overcome by management’s expectation of future taxable income. Based on the historical U.S. tax losses and the anticipated additional expenses to be incurred in the U.S. as part of the November 2005 restructuring program, it was no longer more likely than not that U.S. deferred tax assets would be fully realized. Accordingly, the Company recorded a charge for an additional valuation allowance of $140.2 million. If the November 2005 restructuring program produces the results anticipated by management, all or a portion of the valuation allowance would reverse in future periods.

Non-Operating Results:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended     Change  
(dollars in thousands)    December 30, 2005     December 31, 2004     Amount     Percentage  

Interest expense

   $ 143,671     $ 124,705     $ 18,966     15.2 %

Interest income

     (8,932 )     (6,273 )     (2,659 )   42.4 %
                              

Net interest expense

     134,739       118,432       16,307     13.8 %

Other (income) expense, net

     1,025       4,909       (3,884 )   -79.1 %

 

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  •   Net interest expense increased, primarily due to one-time charges associated with repayment of the euro portion of the term loan B in connection with an April 2005 amendment to our senior secured credit facilities, including the write-off of accumulated losses associated with our EURIBOR-based interest swap agreements ($8.7 million), and the write-off of unamortized debt issuance costs ($11.7 million) from the April 2005 and December 2005 debt amendments, partially offset by gains recognized on the ineffective EURIBOR-based interest swap agreements subsequent to the repayment of the term B loan ($3.2 million), a reduction in the interest rate spread on the term B loan resulting from the February 2004 and April 2005 amendments to our senior secured credit facilities and higher interest income from short-term investments.

 

  •   Other expense, net, decreased compared to the prior year period, primarily due to lower net losses from foreign currency translation and transactions.

Income Taxes:

 

    Fiscal Year Ended     Change  
(dollars in thousands)   December 30, 2005     December 31, 2004     Amount     Percentage  

Income (loss) before taxes and discontinued operations excluding minority interests

  $ (18,501 )   $ 32,202     $ (50,703 )   -157.5 %

Provision for income taxes

    152,096       20,832       131,264     630.1 %

Effective income tax rate

    -822.1 %     64.7 %    

 

  •   In fiscal year 2005, the provision for income taxes increased as compared to the prior year primarily due to charges for increases in valuation allowances against U.S. and international deferred tax assets of $140.2 million and $11.6 million, respectively, and because a tax benefit could not be claimed for book goodwill considered disposed as part of divestitures occurring in fiscal year 2005. The valuation allowance at December 30, 2005 was determined in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes.” The combination of historical U.S. tax losses and the anticipated additional expenses to be incurred in the U.S. as part of the November 2005 restructuring program caused the Company to reconsider the need for a valuation allowance against its U.S. deferred tax assets. Forming a conclusion that a valuation allowance is not needed is difficult when there is negative evidence such as cumulative losses in recent years. In certain cases, the negative evidence associated with historical losses cannot be overcome by management’s expectation of future taxable income. Based on the historical U.S. tax losses and the anticipated additional expenses to be incurred in the U.S. as part of the November 2005 restructuring program, it was no longer more likely than not that U.S. deferred tax assets would be fully realized. Accordingly, the Company recorded a charge for an additional valuation allowance of $140.2 million. If the November 2005 restructuring program produces the results anticipated by management, the Company anticipates that all or a portion of the valuation allowance would reverse in future periods.

 

  •   In fiscal year 2004, the effective tax rate exceeds the U.S. statutory tax rate of 35% primarily due to the decision to begin remitting earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries to the U.S. parent company. An increase in income tax expense results from this decision since the foreign subsidiaries were, collectively, subject to a rate of tax lower than the U.S. statutory tax rate.

Net Income:

We recorded a net loss of $166.6 million in fiscal year 2005 compared to net income of $13.7 million in fiscal year 2004. The difference of $180.3 million was primarily due to an increase in the income tax provision ($131.3 million), a net increase in interest expense resulting from ineffective interest rate swap agreements ($5.5 million), the write-off of unamortized debt issuance costs ($11.7 million) associated with the April 2005 and December 2005 credit facility amendments, a loss on divestiture of the European and Canadian commercial laundry businesses ($3.5 million), compensation expense from the cancellation of our long-term incentive plan ($5.1 million), certain employee separation costs ($3.6 million) and partial contract termination fees ($3.0 million), as well as raw material cost increases in both our professional and polymer segments. In addition, price increases introduced late in 2004 and throughout fiscal year 2005 have not been able to fully offset these rising raw material costs. These factors were

 

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partially offset by income from the correction in the accounting treatment for equipment leased to customers ($3.8 million), a gain on discontinued operations ($4.0 million), partial termination fees associated with our sales agency agreement with Unilever ($3.3 million), a change in estimate for environmental reserves ($2.9 million) and risk insurance reserves ($2.1 million) based on updated exposure studies, a settlement with Unilever related to indemnified legal costs ($2.5 million) and the impact of cost reduction/containment programs.

EBITDA:

EBITDA is a non-U.S. GAAP financial measure, and you should not consider EBITDA as an alternative to U.S. GAAP financial measures such as (a) operating profit or net profit as a measure of our operating performance or (b) cash flows provided by operating, investing and financing activities (as determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP) as a measure of our ability to meet cash needs.

We believe that, in addition to cash flows from operating activities, EBITDA is a useful financial measurement for assessing liquidity as it provides management, investors, lenders and financial analysts with an additional basis to evaluate our ability to incur and service debt and to fund capital expenditures. In addition, various covenants under our senior secured credit facilities are based on EBITDA, as adjusted pursuant to the provisions of those facilities.

In evaluating EBITDA, management considers, among other things, the amount by which EBITDA exceeds interest costs for the period, how EBITDA compares to principal repayments on outstanding debt for the period and how EBITDA compares to capital expenditures for the period. Management believes many investors, lenders and financial analysts evaluate EBITDA for similar purposes. To evaluate EBITDA, the components of EBITDA, such as net sales and operating expenses and the variability of such components over time, should also be considered.

Accordingly, we believe that the inclusion of EBITDA in this annual report permits a more comprehensive analysis of our liquidity relative to other companies and our ability to service debt requirements. Because all companies do not calculate EBITDA identically, the presentation of EBITDA in this annual report may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.

EBITDA should not be construed as a substitute for, and should be considered together with, net cash flows provided by operating activities as determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP.

EBITDA decreased by $44.6 million, or 12.8%, compared to the prior year, primarily due to raw material cost increases in both our professional and polymer segments. Price increases introduced late in 2004 and the first nine months of 2005 have not been able to fully offset these rising raw material costs. Also contributing to the decrease in EBITDA were a loss on divestiture of the European and Canadian commercial laundry businesses ($3.5 million), compensation expense from the cancellation of our long-term incentive plan ($5.1 million), certain employee separation costs ($3.6 million) and partial contract termination fees ($3.0 million). These factors were partially offset by an increase from the correction in the accounting treatment for equipment leased to customers ($5.8 million), a gain on discontinued operations ($4.0 million), partial termination fees associated with our sales agency agreement with Unilever ($3.3 million), a change in estimate for environmental reserves ($2.9 million) and risk insurance reserves ($2.1 million) based on updated exposure studies, a settlement with Unilever related to indemnified legal costs ($2.5 million) and the impact of cost reduction/containment programs. For a reconciliation of EBITDA to net cash flows provided by operating activities, see “Item 6. Selected Financial Data.”

 

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Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2004, Compared to Fiscal Year Ended January 2, 2004

Net Sales:

 

    Fiscal Year Ended   Change  
(dollars in thousands)   December 31, 2004   January 2, 2004   Amount   Percentage  

Net product and service sales:

       

Professional

  $ 2,772,593   $ 2,549,673   $ 222,920   8.7 %

Polymer (1)

    307,835     266,489     41,346   15.5 %
                       
    3,080,428     2,816,162     264,266   9.4 %

Sales agency fee income

    92,975     86,907     6,068   7.0 %
                       
  $ 3,173,403   $ 2,903,069   $ 270,334   9.3 %
                       

(1) Excludes inter-segment sales to the professional segment

 

  •   The strengthening of the euro and certain other foreign currencies against the U.S. dollar contributed $162 million to the increase in net product and service sales ($152 million for the professional segment and $9.8 million for the polymer segment) compared to the prior year.

 

  •   Excluding the impact of foreign currency exchange rates, professional segment net product and service sales increased by $70.6 million, or 2.6%, compared to the prior year, primarily due to the impact of recent acquisitions, most notably Daisan Kogyo Co., Ltd. ($46.2 million), and volume growth in the Asia Pacific region (7.7%) from expansion into the developing markets in India and China, as well as in Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. This growth was partially offset by reduced volumes in North America, primarily in the first half of the year, due to competitive global pricing pressures, consolidation in the food and beverage industry and lower budgeted government and education spending. All other regions showed a slight improvement in net sales or were flat compared to the prior year.

 

  •   Excluding the foreign currency impact, polymer segment net sales increased by $31.5 million, or 11.4%, compared to the prior year, primarily as a result of volume growth of 11.0%, mainly in the Asia Pacific and North America regions.

 

  •   Excluding an $8.4 million increase from the strengthening of the euro and certain other foreign currencies against the U.S. dollar, net sales under our sales agency agreement with Unilever decreased $2.3 million, or 2.4%, compared to the prior year primarily due to certain brand disposals by Unilever in the European and Asia Pacific markets ($4.9 million) largely offset by an increase in partial termination fees ($2.7 million).

Gross Profit:

 

    Fiscal Year Ended     Change  
(dollars in thousands)   December 31, 2004     January 2, 2004     Amount     Percentage  

Professional

  $ 1,267,916     $ 1,209,993     $ 57,923     4.8 %

Polymer

    83,183       87,188       (4,005 )   -4.6 %
                             
    1,351,099       1,297,181       53,918     4.2 %
                             

Gross profit as a % of net sales:

       

Professional

    44.2 %     45.9 %    

Polymer

    27.0 %     32.7 %    
                   
    42.6 %     44.7 %    
                   

 

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  •   The strengthening of the euro and certain other foreign currencies against the U.S. dollar increased gross profits by $75.0 million ($72.1 million for the professional segment and $2.9 million for the polymer segment) compared to the prior year.

 

  •   The reductions in gross margin were most evident in our polymer segment, where our products are formulated from solvents, acrylates and resins that include propylene, ethylene and benzene, all of which are dependent on the price of crude oil and natural gas. Styrene costs, a key raw material in our polymer business, are currently at a level more than 50% above their peak in 2003. Another contributor to the rise in raw material costs and the availability of product is a cyclical mismatch in demand and supply for these materials in the marketplace. As costs have increased, the polymer segment has trended toward an unfavorable product mix from customers substituting lower margin products for specialty polymers.

 

  •   In our professional segment, the primary driver of the gross margin decline was an unfavorable product and services mix, primarily in Europe, Japan and Latin America, where lower margin products or services are being substituted for higher margin products. Increased crude oil and natural gas costs also negatively affected our floorcare business, where acrylic based polymers are more common in product formulations. The segment was also adversely impacted by higher freight and transportation costs, primarily in North America, which is attributable to the rise in crude oil prices, and additional depreciation expense ($12.8 million) resulting from a change in accounting estimate of dishwashing equipment useful lives.

 

  •   We have implemented focused price increases to recover, to the extent possible, raw material cost increases. In addition, we intend to implement incentives and training programs designed to improve our product mix and continue our aggressive global cost reduction programs to lift gross margins.

Operating Expenses:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended     Change  
(dollars in thousands)    December 31, 2004     January 2, 2004     Amount    Percentage  

Selling, general and administrative expenses

   $ 1,099,463     $ 1,059,565     $ 39,898    3.8 %

Research and development expenses

     75,283       72,798       2,485    3.4 %

Restructuring expenses

     20,525       12,919       7,606    58.9 %
                             
   $ 1,195,271     $ 1,145,282     $ 49,989    4.4 %
                             

As a percentage of net sales:

         

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     34.6 %     36.5 %     

Research and development expenses

     2.4 %     2.5 %     

Restructuring expenses

     0.6 %     0.4 %     
                     
     37.6 %     39.4 %     
                     

 

  •   The strengthening of the euro and certain other foreign currencies against the U.S. dollar increased operating expenses by $58.0 million ($54.3 million in selling, general and administrative expenses, $2.5 million in research and development expenses and $1.2 million in restructuring expenses) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 compared to the prior year.

 

  •   Excluding the impact of foreign currency, selling, general and administrative expenses decreased $14.4 million compared to the prior year. Cost reductions are primarily due to synergies from restructuring and integration programs and an adjustment in pension plan costs ($5.8 million) related to census data and plan curtailments in Brazil and the U.K. These decreases more than offset the incremental operating expenses from the Daisan Kogyo Co., Ltd. acquisition ($11.6 million), as well as increases in capital software amortization costs related to projects placed into service in 2003, legal and other professional fees, employee benefit costs, particularly in North America, and other wages and costs.

 

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Restructuring and Integration:

During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, we recorded $20.5 million of restructuring costs and $25.3 million of selling, general and administrative expenses related to our restructuring and integration programs in our consolidated statements of operations. These costs consisted primarily of severance costs recorded for employees terminated as part of approved integration projects, including the closure of facilities and organizational restructuring in the United States ($10.0 million) and initiatives in the Netherlands and Spain ($7.0 million) as we continued to consolidate our operations.

A summary of costs associated with the restructuring and integration program for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004 and from inception is outlined below. The reserve balance shown below reflects the aggregate reserves for restructuring costs.

 

    Fiscal Year Ended     Total Project to
Date May 4, 2002 -
December 31, 2004
 
(dollars in thousands)   December 31, 2004     January 2, 2004    

Reserve balance at beginning of period

  $ 34,798     $ 68,858     $ —    

Exit costs recorded as purchase accounting adjustments

    —         10,480       80,574  

Restructuring costs charged to income

    20,525       12,919       53,090  

Liability adjustments

    (4,337 )     —         (4,337 )

Payments of accrued costs

    (41,978 )     (57,459 )     (120,319 )
                       

Reserve balance at end of period

  $ 9,008     $ 34,798     $ 9,008  
                       

Period costs classified as cost of sales

  $ —       $ 2,420     $ 4,878  

Period costs classified as selling, general and administrative expenses

    25,332       43,137       100,000  

Capital expenditures

    39,205       55,535       110,418  

Non-Operating Results:

 

    Fiscal Year Ended     Change  
(dollars in thousands)   December 31, 2004     January 2, 2004     Amount     Percentage  

Interest expense

  $ 124,705     $ 131,372     $ (6,667 )   -5.1 %

Interest income

    (6,273 )     (7,035 )     762     -10.8 %
                             

Net interest expense

    118,432       124,337       (5,905 )   -4.7 %

Other (income) expense, net

    4,909       (7,445 )     12,354     —    

 

  •   Net interest expense decreased for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 compared to the prior year primarily due to the reduction in total debt outstanding and reduction in interest rates resulting from the August 2003 and February 2004 amendments to our senior secured credit facilities. This reduction was partially offset by increased debt issuance cost amortization expense related to the pre-payment of debt from the Whitmire divestiture and the expansion of our receivable securitization facility to our Italian operations.

 

  •   Other expense, net, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 included net losses from foreign currency transactions ($3.4 million) and non-recoverable sales tax assessments related to prior years ($1.1 million).

 

  •   Other income, net, for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2004 primarily included net gains from foreign currency translation and transactions ($7.3 million).

 

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Income Taxes:

 

    Fiscal Year Ended     Change  
(dollars in thousands)   December 31, 2004     January 2, 2004     Amount     Percentage  

Income before taxes and discontinued operations excluding minority interests

  $ 32,202     $ 34,745     $ (2,543 )   -7.3 %

Provision for income taxes

    20,832       16,739       4,093     24.5 %

Effective income tax rate

    64.7 %     48.2 %    

 

  •   The provision for income taxes increased compared to the prior year primarily due to the decision to begin to remit earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries to us. An increase in income tax expense results from this decision since the foreign subsidiaries were, collectively, subject to a rate of tax lower than the U.S. statutory tax rate.

Net Income:

Net income decreased by $10.5 million, or 43.4%, to $13.7 million for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 compared to $24.1 million for fiscal year ended January 2, 2004, primarily due to a 210 basis point decrease in gross margin percentage, higher depreciation and amortization expense resulting from a change in accounting estimate for dishwashing machines ($12.8 million), and an increase in income tax expense ($4.1 million), primarily attributable to a non-cash charge for removing the permanently invested status for earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries, all as previously discussed.

EBITDA:

EBITDA increased by $20.3 million, or 6.2%, to $348 million for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, compared to $328 million for fiscal year ended January 2, 2004, primarily due to the $266 million increase in net sales and a $7.6 million net decrease in restructuring related expenses, partially offset by a 210 basis point decrease in gross margin percentage. For a reconciliation of EBITDA to net cash flows provided by operating activities, see “Item 6. Selected Financial Data.”

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

    Fiscal Year Ended     Change  
(dollars in thousands)   December 30, 2005     December 31, 2004     Amount     Percentage  

Net cash provided by operating activities

  $ 135,170     $ 198,776     $ (63,606 )   -32.0 %

Net cash used in investing activities

    (71,590 )     (73,319 )     1,729     -2.4 %

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

    74,718       (109,423 )     184,141     168.3 %

Capital expenditures

    92,169       129,802       (37,633 )   -29.0 %
                Change  
    December 30, 2005     December 31, 2004     Amount     Percentage  

Cash and cash equivalents

  $ 162,014     $ 28,044     $ 133,970     477.7 %

Working capital (1)

    419,957       408,129       11,828     2.9 %

Total debt

    1,409,035       1,345,163       63,872     4.7 %

(1) Working capital is defined as net accounts receivable, plus inventories less accounts payable.

 

  •   Cash and cash equivalents were favorably impacted during fiscal year 2005 as a result of the December 2005 debt amendment which increased our term loan balance by $193 million. In addition, our cash position was strengthened by payments from Unilever to settle and/or partially settle pension adjustments

 

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related to the May 2002 acquisition of DiverseyLever ($28.9 million) and for indemnification of prior period legal expenses and current legal claims as provided for under the DiverseyLever acquisition agreement ($2.5 million). In addition, we realized cash proceeds from the divestiture of the European and Canadian commercial laundry businesses ($18.6 million). These cash inflows were used to pay down term borrowings under the senior secured credit facilities.

 

  •   The decrease in net cash provided by operating activities for fiscal year 2005 compared to the prior year was primarily due to a $38.6 million difference in operating profit, a $54.1 million variance in the accounts receivable securitization facility participation and a $4.0 million gain related to the disposal of discontinued operations recognized in the first quarter of fiscal year 2005, partially offset by the aforementioned cash inflows from the divestiture of the European and Canadian commercial laundry businesses and payments from Unilever.

 

  •   The decrease in net cash used in investing activities in fiscal year 2005 compared to the prior year was primarily due to a $37.6 million reduction in expenditures for property, plant and equipment and computer software, partially offset by a $33.8 million decrease in proceeds received from divestitures and property disposals. Other than our investment in dosing and feeder equipment with new and existing customer accounts, the characteristics of our business do not generally require us to make significant ongoing capital expenditures. We may make significant cash expenditures in the next few years in an effort to capitalize on cost savings opportunities.

 

  •   The $74.7 million of net cash provided by financing activities in fiscal year 2005 was primarily due to proceeds from the December 2005 debt amendment of $193 million, partially offset by net repayments of debt from divestiture proceeds ($43.5 million) and dividends paid ($40.4 million) most of which were related to the cancellation of our share-based long-term incentive compensation plan.

 

  •   The $109 million of net cash used in financing activities in fiscal year 2004 was primarily due to net debt repayments of $93.2 million resulting from the proceeds of the Whitmire divestiture and further expansion of the receivables securitization program to our Italian subsidiary, as well as $14.9 million in dividend payments.

 

  •   The increase in net working capital in fiscal year 2005 compared to the prior year was due to a $31.2 million decrease in accounts payable, resulting from a 2.4 day reduction in average days in trade accounts payable, and a $1.9 million increase in inventories, resulting from increased raw material costs, partially offset by a $21.3 million reduction in accounts receivable resulting from a 3.3 day decrease in days sales outstanding as collection activities improved and the payment of related party receivables by Unilever.

Debt and Contractual Obligations. As a result of the DiverseyLever acquisition, we have a significant amount of indebtedness. In May 2002, in connection with the acquisition, we issued senior subordinated notes and entered into a $1.2 billion senior secured credit facility. We used the proceeds of the sale of the senior subordinated notes and initial borrowings under the senior secured credit facilities, together with other available funds, to finance the cash portion of the purchase price for the DiverseyLever business and the related fees and expenses and to refinance then-existing indebtedness.

The senior secured credit facilities were amended and restated in December 2005.

The amended facilities, among other things, permit the global restructuring program and modify the financial covenants contained in our previous credit facilities. The amended facilities consist of a revolving loan facility in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $175 million, including a letter of credit sub-limit of $50 million and a swingline loan sub-limit of $30 million, that matures on December 16, 2010, as well as a term loan facility of up to $775 million that matures on December 16, 2011. In addition, the amended facilities include a committed delayed draw term facility of up to $100 million, which is available to be drawn until December 16, 2006 and would mature on December 16, 2010. The amended facilities also provide for an increase in the revolving credit facility of up to $25 million under specified circumstances. As of December 30, 2005, we had no borrowings under the revolving portion of the senior secured credit facilities and therefore had the ability to borrow $175 million under those revolving facilities.

 

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As of December 30, 2005, we had total indebtedness of about $1.4 billion, consisting of $566.6 million of senior subordinated notes, $775.0 million of borrowings under the senior secured credit facilities, $22.7 million of other long-term borrowings and $44.8 million in short-term credit lines. In addition, we had $220.7 million in operating lease commitments, $2.8 million in capital lease commitments and $7.3 million committed under letters of credit that expire in fiscal year 2006.

 

          Payments Due by Period:

Contractual Obligations

   Total    2006    2007-2008    2009-2010    2011 and
Thereafter
     (dollars in thousands)

Long-term debt obligations:

              

Term credit facilities

   $ 797,657    $ 12,550    $ 24,861    $ 23,996    $ 736,250

Senior subordinated notes (1)

     911,993      54,535      109,071      109,071      639,316

Operating leases

     220,692      64,782      78,979      26,668      50,263

Capital leases

     2,845      1,672      861      274      38

Purchase commitments (2)

     1,380      1,380      —        —        —  
                                  

Total contractual obligations

   $ 1,934,567    $ 134,919    $ 213,772    $ 160,009    $ 1,425,867
                                  

(1) Includes scheduled annual interest payments at 9.625%
(2) Primarily relates to commitments of our polymer business to purchase minimum quantities of styrene monomer from certain vendors

We believe that the cash flows from operations, together with available cash, borrowings available under our amended and restated senior secured credit facilities and the proceeds from our receivables securitization facility will generate sufficient cash flow to meet our liquidity needs for the foreseeable future, including our restructuring programs. Please refer to our forward-looking statements and “Item 1A. Risk Factors” for potential risks associated with our restructuring programs.

We have obligations related to our pension and post-retirement plans which are discussed in detail in Notes 19 and 20 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. As of the most recent actuarial measurement date, we anticipate making $33.8 million of contributions to pension plans in fiscal year 2006. Post-retirement medical claims are paid as they are submitted and are anticipated to be $3.6 million in fiscal year 2006.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements. We and certain of our subsidiaries entered into an agreement (the “Receivables Facility”) in March 2001 whereby we and each participating subsidiary sell, on a continuous basis, certain trade receivables to JWPR Corporation (“JWPRC”), our wholly owned, consolidated, special purpose, bankruptcy-remote subsidiary. JWPRC was formed for the sole purpose of buying and selling receivables generated by us and certain of our subsidiaries party to the Receivables Facility. JWPRC, in turn, sells an undivided interest in the accounts receivable to a nonconsolidated financial institution (the “Conduit”) for an amount equal to the value of all eligible receivables (as defined under the receivables sale agreement between JWPRC and the Conduit) less the applicable reserve. The accounts receivable securitization arrangement is accounted for under the provisions of SFAS No. 140, “Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishment of Liabilities–A replacement of FASB Statement No. 125.” As of December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, our total potential for securitization of trade receivables was $150 million.

As of December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, the Conduit held $111 million and $130 million, respectively, of accounts receivable that are not included in the accounts receivable balance reflected in our consolidated balance sheets.

As of December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, we had a retained interest of $149 million and $135 million, respectively, in the receivables of JWPRC. The retained interest is included in the accounts receivable balance and is reflected in the consolidated balance sheets at estimated fair value.

 

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In fiscal year 2005, JWPRC’s cost of borrowing under the Receivables Facility was at a weighted average rate of 4.4% per annum, which is significantly lower than our incremental borrowing rate.

Under the terms of our senior secured credit facilities, we must use any net proceeds from the Receivables Facility first to prepay loans outstanding under the senior secured credit facilities. In addition, the net amount of trade receivables at any time outstanding under this and any other securitization facility that we may enter into may not exceed $200 million in the aggregate.

Financial Covenants under Our Senior Secured Credit Facilities

Under the amended terms of our senior secured credit facilities, we are subject to certain financial covenants. The financial covenants under the senior secured credit facilities require us to meet the following targets and ratios.

Maximum Leverage Ratio. We are required to maintain a leverage ratio for each financial covenant period of no more than the maximum ratio specified in the senior secured credit facilities for that financial covenant period. The maximum leverage ratio is the ratio of (1) our consolidated indebtedness (excluding up to $55 million of indebtedness incurred under our Receivables Facility and indebtedness relating to specified interest rate hedge agreements) as of the last day of a financial covenant period to (2) our consolidated EBITDA, as defined in the senior secured credit facilities, for that same financial covenant period.

The senior secured credit facilities require that we maintain a leverage ratio of no more than the ratio set forth below for each of the financial covenant periods ending nearest the corresponding date set forth below:

 

    

Maximum

Leverage Ratio

December 31, 2005

   5.00 to 1

March 31, 2006

   5.00 to 1

June 30, 2006

   5.00 to 1

September 30, 2006

   5.00 to 1

December 31, 2006

   5.00 to 1

March 31, 2007

   5.00 to 1

June 30, 2007

   5.00 to 1

September 30, 2007

   4.75 to 1

December 31, 2007

   4.75 to 1

March 31, 2008

   4.75 to 1

June 30, 2008

   4.75 to 1

September 30, 2008

   4.25 to 1

December 31, 2008

   4.25 to 1

March 31, 2009

   4.25 to 1

June 30, 2009

   4.25 to 1

September 30, 2009

   3.75 to 1

December 31, 2009

   3.75 to 1

March 31, 2010

   3.75 to 1

June 30, 2010

   3.75 to 1

September 30, 2010 and thereafter

   3.50 to 1

Minimum Interest Coverage Ratio. We are required to maintain an interest coverage ratio for each financial covenant period of no less than the minimum ratio specified in the senior secured credit facilities for that financial covenant period. The minimum interest coverage ratio is the ratio of (1) our consolidated EBITDA, as defined in the senior secured credit facilities, for a financial covenant period to (2) our cash interest expense for the same financial covenant period.

 

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The senior secured credit facilities require that we maintain an interest coverage ratio of no more than the ratio set forth below for each of the financial covenant periods ending nearest the corresponding date set forth below:

 

    

Minimum Interest

Coverage Ratio

December 31, 2005

   2.00 to 1

March 31, 2006

   2.00 to 1

June 30, 2006

   2.00 to 1

September 30, 2006

   2.00 to 1

December 31, 2006

   2.00 to 1

March 31, 2007

   2.00 to 1

June 30, 2007

   2.00 to 1

September 30, 2007

   2.25 to 1

December 31, 2007

   2.25 to 1

March 31, 2008

   2.25 to 1

June 30, 2008

   2.25 to 1

September 30, 2008

   2.50 to 1

December 31, 2008

   2.50 to 1

March 31, 2009

   2.50 to 1

June 30, 2009

   2.50 to 1

September 30, 2009

   2.75 to 1

December 31, 2009

   2.75 to 1

March 31, 2010

   2.75 to 1

June 30, 2010

   2.75 to 1

September 30, 2010 and thereafter

   3.00 to 1

Compliance with Maximum Leverage Ratio and Minimum Interest Coverage Ratio. For our financial covenant period ended on December 30, 2005, we were in compliance with the maximum leverage ratio and minimum interest coverage ratio covenants contained in the senior secured credit facilities.

Capital Expenditures. Capital expenditures are generally limited under the senior secured credit facilities to $150 million in each fiscal year and to $130 million for fiscal years following the fiscal year in which any sale of our polymer business occurs. To the extent that we make capital expenditures of less than the limit in any fiscal year, however, we may carry forward into the subsequent year the difference between the limit and the actual amount we expended, provided that the amounts we carry forward from the previous year will be allocated to capital expenditures in the current fiscal year only after the amount allocated to the current fiscal year is exhausted. As of December 30, 2005, we were in compliance with the limitation on capital expenditures for fiscal year 2005.

Restructuring Charges. The senior secured credit facilities limit the amount of cash payments (i) arising in connection with the November 2005 restructuring program at any time from fiscal year 2006 through the end of fiscal year 2009 to $355 million in the aggregate and (ii) arising in connection with permitted divestitures at any time from fiscal year 2006 through the end of fiscal year 2008 to $45 million. As of December 30, 2005, we were in compliance with the limitation on spending for restructuring and permitted divestiture related activities.

In addition, the senior secured credit facilities contain covenants that restrict our ability to declare dividends and to redeem and repurchase capital stock. The senior secured credit facilities also limit our ability to incur additional liens, engage in sale-leaseback transactions and incur additional indebtedness and make investments.

Senior Discount Notes of Holdings

In connection with the acquisition of the DiverseyLever business, our parent, Holdings, issued senior discount notes with a principal amount at maturity of $406 million to Unilever. In addition, Unilever received a one-third equity interest in Holdings. Under the indenture for the Holdings senior discount notes, the principal amount of the

 

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senior discount notes will accrete at a rate of 10.67% per annum through May 15, 2007. After May 15, 2007, interest will accrue on the accreted value of the senior discount notes at this rate, but will be payable in cash semiannually in arrears to the extent that we can distribute to Holdings the cash necessary to make the payments in accordance with the restrictions contained in the indentures for our senior subordinated notes and senior secured credit facilities. The failure by Holdings to make all or any portion of a semiannual interest payment on the senior discount notes will not constitute an event of default under the indenture for the senior discount notes if that failure results from our inability to distribute the cash necessary to make that payment in accordance with these restrictions. Instead, interest will continue to accrue on any unpaid interest at a rate of 10.67% per annum, and the unpaid interest will be payable on the next interest payment date on which we are able to distribute to Holdings the cash necessary to make the payment in accordance with the provisions contained in the indentures for the senior subordinated notes and the senior secured credit facilities. Holdings has no income from operations and no meaningful assets. Holdings receives all of its income from us and substantially all of its assets consist of its investment in us. The senior discount notes mature on May 15, 2013. In September 2003, Unilever sold the Holdings’ senior discount notes to certain institutional investors.

Related Party Transactions

Until 1999, we were part of SCJ. In connection with our spin-off from SCJ in November 1999, we entered into a number of agreements relating to the separation and our ongoing relationship with SCJ after the spin-off. A number of these agreements relate to our ordinary course of business, while others pertain to our historical relationship with SCJ and our former status as a wholly owned subsidiary of SCJ.

We are also party to various agreements with Unilever entered into in connection with the acquisition of the DiverseyLever business. All of the agreements with Unilever were negotiated before Unilever acquired its equity interest in our parent, Holdings, and the senior discount notes of Holdings. These agreements with Unilever are on arms-length terms.

For further discussion of the related party transactions, see note 25 to our audited consolidated financial statements and “Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions,” included elsewhere in this annual report.

ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURE ABOUT MARKET RISK

As a result of our acquisition of the DiverseyLever business, we have a significant amount of indebtedness. In May 2002 in connection with the acquisition, we issued senior subordinated notes and entered into $1.2 billion senior secured credit facilities. In December 2005, we entered into amended and restated senior secured credit facilities.

Interest Rate Risk

As of December 30, 2005, we had $775 million of debt outstanding under our senior secured credit facilities. After giving effect to the interest rate swap transactions that we have entered into with respect to some of the borrowings under our credit facilities, $556 million of the debt outstanding remained subject to variable rates. We also have entered into interest rate swap agreements with a notional value of €146 million that were related to the euro portion of the term loan B that was fully repaid in April 2005. As a result of the debt repayment, these interest rate swaps have been deemed ineffective and, therefore, must be marked-to-market at the end of each accounting period. Because of certain intercompany funding arrangements, we believe that these swaps provide an economic hedge to the incremental debt used to finance the repayment. In addition, as of December 30, 2005, we had $66.0 million of debt outstanding under foreign lines of credit, all of which were subject to variable rates. Accordingly, our earnings and cash flows are affected by changes in interest rates. At the above level of variable rate borrowings, we do not anticipate a significant impact on earnings in the event of a reasonable change in interest rates. In the event of an adverse change in interest rates, management would likely take actions that would mitigate our exposure to interest rate risk; however, due to the uncertainty of the actions and their possible effects, this analysis assumes no such action. Further, this analysis does not consider the effects of the change in the level of the overall economic activity that could exist in such an environment.

 

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Foreign Currency Risk

We conduct our business in various regions of the world and export and import products to and from many countries. Our operations may, therefore, be subject to volatility because of currency fluctuations, inflation changes and changes in political and economic conditions in these countries. Sales and expenses are frequently denominated in local currencies, and results of operations may be affected adversely as currency fluctuations affect product prices and operating costs. We engage in hedging operations, including forward foreign exchange contracts, to reduce the exposure of our cash flows to fluctuations in foreign currency rates. All hedging instruments are designated and effective as hedges, in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Other instruments that do not qualify for hedge accounting are marked to market with changes recognized in current earnings. We do not engage in hedging for speculative investment reasons. There can be no assurance that our hedging operations will eliminate or substantially reduce risks associated with fluctuating currencies.

Based on our overall foreign exchange exposure, we estimate that a 10% change in the exchange rates would not materially affect our financial position or liquidity. The effect on our results of operations would be substantially offset by the impact of the hedged items.

ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

See the Index to Consolidated Financial Statements beginning on page F-1.

ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

During fiscal years 2005 and 2004 and through the date of this annual report, there were no disagreements with Ernst & Young LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, on accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosures, audit scope or audit procedures.

ITEM 9A. DISCLOSURE CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Evaluation of JohnsonDiversey’s Disclosure Controls and Internal Controls. As of the end of the period covered by this annual report, we evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our “disclosure controls and procedures” (“Disclosure Controls”). The controls evaluation was done under the supervision and with the participation of management, including our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”).

CEO & CFO Certifications. Attached as exhibits 31.1 and 31.2 to this annual report are certifications of the CEO and the CFO required in accordance with Rule 13a-14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). This portion of our annual report includes the information concerning the controls evaluation referred to in the certifications and should be read in conjunction with the certifications for a more complete understanding of the topics presented.

Disclosure Controls. Disclosure Controls are procedures that are designed with the objective of ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Exchange Act, such as this annual report, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure Controls are also designed with the objective of ensuring that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including the CEO and CFO, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Our Disclosure Controls include those components of our internal control over financial reporting that are designed to provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit the preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP. To the extent that components of our internal control over financial reporting are included in our Disclosure Controls, they are included in the scope of our quarterly evaluation of Disclosure Controls.

 

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Limitations on the Effectiveness of Controls. Our Disclosure Controls were designed to provide reasonable assurance that the controls and procedures would meet their objectives. Our management, including the CEO and CFO, does not expect that our Disclosure Controls will prevent all error and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the designed control objectives, and management is required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake. Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people, or by management override of the control. The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.

Scope of the Controls Evaluation. The evaluation of our Disclosure Controls included a review of the controls’ objectives and design, our implementation of the controls and the effect of the controls on the information generated for use in this annual report. In the course of the controls evaluation, we sought to identify data errors, control problems or acts of fraud and to confirm that appropriate corrective action, including process improvements, were undertaken. This evaluation is done on a quarterly basis so that the conclusions of management, including the CEO and the CFO, concerning the effectiveness of the controls can be reported in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and our annual report on Form 10-K. Many of the components of our Disclosure Controls are also evaluated on an ongoing basis by our internal audit department and by other personnel in our finance organization, as well as our independent registered public accounting firm in connection with their audit and review activities. The overall goals of these various evaluation activities are to monitor our Disclosure Controls and to make modifications as necessary; our intent in this regard is that the Disclosure Controls will be maintained as dynamic systems that change (including with improvements and corrections) as conditions warrant.

Among other matters, we sought in our evaluation to determine whether there were any “significant deficiencies” or “material weaknesses” in our internal control over financial reporting, or whether we had identified any acts of fraud involving personnel who have a significant role in our internal control over financial reporting. This information was important both for our controls evaluation and for Rule 13a-14 of the Exchange Act, which requires that the CEO and CFO disclose that information to our Audit Committee and to our independent registered public accounting firm, and report on that information and related matters in this section of the annual report. In the professional accounting literature, “significant deficiencies” are referred to as “reportable conditions,” which are control issues that could have a significant adverse effect on our ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data in the consolidated financial statements. A “material weakness” is defined in professional accounting literature as a particularly serious reportable condition whereby the internal control does not reduce to a relatively low level the risk that misstatements caused by error or fraud may occur in amounts that would be material in relation to the financial statements and not be detected within a timely period by employees in the normal course of performing their assigned functions. We also sought to deal with other control matters in the controls evaluation, and in each case, if an issue was identified, we considered what revision, improvement and/or correction to make in accordance with our on-going procedures.

Conclusions. Based upon the controls evaluation, our CEO and CFO have concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this annual report, our Disclosure Controls are effective to ensure that material information relating to JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries is made known to management, including the CEO and CFO, particularly during the period when our periodic reports are being prepared, and that our internal controls are effective in providing reasonable assurance that our financial statements are fairly presented in conformity with U.S. GAAP. In addition, no change in our internal control over financial reporting has occurred during the most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

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PART III

ITEM 10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT

The following is a list of our directors and executive officers, their ages as of March 3, 2006, and their positions and offices:

 

Name

   Age   

Position

S. Curtis Johnson III

   50   

Director and Chairman

Edward F. Lonergan

   46   

Director, President and Chief Executive Officer

JoAnne Brandes

   52   

Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Secretary

Joseph F. Smorada

   59   

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Sanjib Choudhuri

   57   

Senior Vice President – Chief Marketing Officer

Gregory F. Clark

   52   

Senior Vice President – Global Supply Chain

Stephen A. Di Biase

   53   

Senior Vice President – Chief Scientific Officer

Diarmuid P. Ryan

   54   

Senior Vice President – Global Human Resources

Pedro Chidichimo

   47   

Regional President – Latin America

Mark S. Cross

   49   

Regional President – Europe

Thomas M. Gartland

   48   

Regional President – North America

Edward J. Kennedy

   49   

Regional President – Asia Pacific

Norio Kinouchi

   56   

Regional President – Japan

J. Gary Raley

   56   

President – Johnson Polymer

David S. Andersen

   45   

Vice President – Global Business Development

Lori P. Marin

   44   

Vice President and Coporate Treasurer

John W. Matthews

   46   

Vice President – Corporate Affairs

Clive A. Newman

   42   

Vice President and Corporate Controller

Todd C. Brown

   56   

Director

Irene M. Esteves

   47   

Director

Robert M. Howe

   61   

Director

Helen P. Johnson-Leipold

   49   

Director

Clifton D. Louis

   50   

Director

Neal R. Nottleson

   68   

Director

Reto Wittwer

   57   

Director

S. Curtis Johnson III has served as Chairman since February 1996. He also has served as Chairman of Holdco since December 1999 and Chairman of Holdings since November 2001. From 1983 through 1996, Mr. Johnson held various positions with SCJ, most recently serving as Vice President – Global Business Development from October 1994 to February 1996. He has held several other executive offices at SCJ, including Vice President and Managing Director of Mexican Johnson, Director – Worldwide Business Development and general partner of Wind Point Partners, L.C., a venture capital partnership which he co-founded and in which SCJ was a major limited partner. Mr. Johnson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Cornell University and a Master of Business Administration in Marketing/Finance from Northwestern University. Mr. Johnson also serves as a director of Cargill, Incorporated, an international provider of food and agricultural products, and the World Wildlife Fund, a privately financed conservation organization. He is a descendant of Samuel Curtis Johnson, the brother of Helen Johnson-Leipold and cousin of Clifton Louis, both directors of our company.

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Officer of Holdings since February 13, 2006. Prior to joining us, Mr. Lonergan had over 25 years of experience in the consumer products industry, most recently serving as President of the European region for The Gillette Company from May 2002 until January 2006. He was employed from 1981 to April 2002 by The Procter & Gamble Company, where he held a variety of responsibilities including most recently Customer General Management assignments in Europe and the United States. Mr. Lonergan graduated from Union College of New York in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. Mr. Lonergan replaced Gregory E. Lawton, who announced his retirement in September 2005 but continued in his capacity as President and Chief Executive Officer of our company and Holdings until February 13, 2006.

JoAnne Brandes has served as Executive Vice President since March 2003, as General Counsel since October 1996, as Secretary since October 1997, and as Chief Administrative Officer since January 2002. Ms. Brandes also served as Senior Vice President from October 1997 until March 2003. From October 1996 until October 1997, she was Vice President and General Counsel. She has also been the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Holdco since December 1999, the Vice President and Secretary of Holdings since November 2001 and General Counsel of Holdings since August 2003. From 1981 through October 1996, Ms. Brandes held various leadership positions at SCJ. Prior to that, Ms. Brandes was in the private practice of law in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ms. Brandes holds a Bachelor degree from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire and a Juris Doctor degree from Willamette University College of Law. Ms. Brandes also serves as a member of the boards of directors of Alternative Resources Corporation, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc. and Johnson Family Funds, Inc. She also is a Regent Emeritus of the University of Wisconsin System.

Joseph F. Smorada has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since November 2004 and as Global Leader for our restructuring program since May 2005. Mr. Smorada has also been the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Holdings since November 2004. From 1992 until October 2004, Mr. Smorada served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and, most recently, as Executive Consultant, at Axel Johnson Inc., an international company with business interests, public and private, in manufacturing, energy and technology products and services. Mr. Smorada holds a Bachelor degree in Economics from California University of Pennsylvania and has also completed management development programs at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University and Columbia University.

Sanjib Choudhuri has served as Senior Vice President – Chief Marketing Officer since January 2006. He was our Senior Vice President – Global Strategy Development from February 2004 through December 2005. From May 2002 through February 2004, he was loaned to us from Unilever, serving as Vice President—Global Strategy Development. From 1991 through May 2002, Mr. Choudhuri served in various management positions at Unilever, most recently as Vice President—Knowledge Management from 1999 until May 2002. Mr. Choudhuri holds a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in India and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Gregory F. Clark has served as Senior Vice President – Global Supply Chain since January 2004. He was our Senior Vice President – Global Development and Customer Solutions from May 2002 until January 2004 and was our Vice President – Global Manufacturing and Sourcing from May 1999 until May 2002. From 1978 through May 1999, Mr. Clark served at SCJ in a variety of manufacturing, operations and financial positions domestically and internationally. Mr. Clark holds a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago.

Stephen A. Di Biase has served as Senior Vice President – Chief Scientific Officer since September 2004. From 1978 to August 2004, Dr. Di Biase served in various management positions at Lubrizol Corporation, a global provider of specialty chemicals and materials, most recently as Vice President – Emulsified Products from January 2001 until August 2004 and Vice President of Research, Development and Engineering from 1993 to January 2001. Dr. Di Biase holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelor degree in Chemistry from St. John Fischer College.

Diarmuid P. Ryan has served as Senior Vice President – Global Human Resources since May 2004. Prior to joining us, Mr. Ryan led his own leadership development consultancy practice in Europe from November 2001 until April 2004. From February 1998 until October 2001, Mr. Ryan served as Human Resources Director for Waterford

 

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Crystal. Mr. Ryan has over 20 years of global human resources experience having also served in leadership positions with Pepsico and Intercontinental Hotels in Europe, the Middle East and North America. Mr. Ryan holds a Master degree in Manpower Development from the University of Westminster in the U.K.

Pedro Chidichimo has served as Regional President – Latin America since July 2005. Mr. Chidichimo, who joined us in 1994, has served as Vice President of our Southern & Andina Latin America sub-region from 2002 until June 2005 and as managing director of our Argentina operations from 1997 until June 2005. Mr. Chidichimo holds a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de Buenos Aires and a Master of Business Administration from Universidad Austral in Argentina.

Mark S. Cross has served as Regional President – Europe since May 2005. From August 2003 until April 2005, Mr. Cross served as our Senior Vice President – Global Marketing & Customer Management and Group President – Latin America and Asia Pacific. From 1979 until August 2003, Mr. Cross served in various management positions at Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a global supplier of paper and consumer products, most recently as President of Kimberly-Clark Professional from 2001 until August 2003. Mr. Cross holds a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maine and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University.

Thomas M. Gartland has served as Regional President – North America since May 2003 and has been Vice President of Sales – Health and Hospitality since May 2002. From May 1998 until May 2002, Mr. Gartland served as Vice President – Business Development. Mr. Gartland has over twenty years of experience in the institutional and industrial cleaning, sanitation and hygiene industry, including more than ten years of service with us and the former DiverseyLever business, where he held a variety of management positions, including Vice President – Corporate Accounts and Vice President – Sales and Marketing. Mr. Gartland holds a Bachelor degree from the College of St. Thomas.

Edward J. Kennedy has served as Regional President – Asia Pacific since October 2005. Prior to joining us, Mr. Kennedy was an independent consultant serving clients in the life science industry. Mr. Kennedy held many management positions from 1981 through 2001 at Bristol-Myers Squibb, a global pharmaceutical and health care related products company. His most recent positions included Vice President – International, for the ConvaTec Division from April 2000 through March 2001 and Vice President – Sales and Marketing for the Apothecon Division from May 1999 through April 2000. Mr. Kennedy holds a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from Syracuse University.

Norio Kinouchi has served as Regional President – Japan since January 2006. From April 2001 until December 2005, Mr. Kinouchi served as a managing director in our Japanese operations, including the Daisan business from May 2002 until December 2005 and the TeepolDiversey business from April 2001 until March 2002. From 1972 until April 2001, Mr. Kinouchi served in various management positions at Development Bank of Japan. Mr. Kinouchi holds a Bachelor degree from Kyoto University in Japan and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University.

J. Gary Raley has served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Johnson Polymer since May 2002. Prior to joining Johnson Polymer, he was President of Johnson Wax Professional, North America from April 2000 until May 2002, and Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing from June 1998 until April 2000. Mr. Raley holds a Bachelor degree in Economics from Bellarmine University and an Executive Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

 

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David S. Andersen has served as Vice President – Global Business Development since July 2003. From February 1997 through July 2003, Mr. Andersen served in numerous management positions, most recently as Vice President – Global Enterprise Development from May 2002 until July 2003, Vice President – eSolutions from October 2000 until May 2002, and Vice President – Global Enterprise Development Group from July 1999 until October 2000. From 1991 through February 1997, Mr. Andersen held numerous management positions at SCJ, most recently as Director of Worldwide Business Development. Mr. Andersen holds a Bachelor degree from Brown University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University.

Lori P. Marin has served as Vice President and Corporate Treasurer since May 2005. Prior to joining us, Ms. Marin served as Managing Director of the Risk Services Group for Aon from June 2003 until May 2005. From September 1996 until January 2003 Ms. Marin served as Vice President and Treasurer of Keebler Foods Co. Ms. Marin has over 13 years of global treasury experience having also served as Director of Finance for Dominick’s Finer Foods, and over 10 years of experience as a commercial banker, having commenced her career as a First Scholar at The First National Bank of Chicago. Ms. Marin is a Certified Cash Manager and holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago.

John W. Matthews has served as Vice President Corporate Affairs since May 2002. Mr. Matthews has more than 20 years of experience in strategic communications, regulatory and public affairs. Prior to joining us, Mr. Matthews led the national Public Affairs Practice Group for the Foley & Lardner law firm based in Milwaukee. Mr. Matthews began his career as a news reporter, and then moved into government, eventually becoming chief of staff to former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson. Mr. Matthews holds a Bachelor degree in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater.

Clive A. Newman has served as Vice President and Corporate Controller since May 2002, upon the closing of the DiverseyLever acquisition. From 1986 until May 2002, Mr. Newman held various positions at Unilever, most recently as Controller and Vice President—Finance Europe for DiverseyLever from May 2001 until May 2002 and Finance Manager—Beverages for Unilever from 2000 until April 2001. Mr. Newman holds a Bachelor degree in Economics from Leicester University in the UK and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Todd C. Brown has served as a director since April 2001. Mr. Brown has also been a director of Holdco since April 2000 and of Holdings since May 2002. Since August 2003, Mr. Brown has served as Vice Chairman of ShoreBank Corporation and Chairman of the Board of Directors for ShoreBank’s banking operations in Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland. From 1985 through June 2003, Mr. Brown served in various positions at Kraft Foods, Inc., most recently as Executive Vice President and President of its e-Commerce Division from January 2001 until June 2003 and President of Kraft Foodservices Division from April 1998 until December 2000. Mr. Brown is also a director of ADVO Inc., a targeted direct mail marketing services company.

Irene M. Esteves has served as a director since June 1998. Ms. Esteves has also been a director of Holdco since April 2000 and of Holdings since May 2002. From 1997 to 2004, she was the Chief Financial Officer of Putnam Investments, LLC, an asset management firm. Prior to 1997, Ms. Esteves was with Miller Brewing Company for two years, last serving as Vice President – International Finance and Corporate Strategy, and SCJ for thirteen years in various finance and business development roles, last serving as Controller – North America Home Care. Ms. Esteves is also a director of The Timberland Company, a manufacturer of premium-quality footwear, apparel and accessories.

Robert M. Howe has served as a director since April 1996. He has also been a director of Holdco since April 2000 and of Holdings since May 2002. Since February 2003, Mr. Howe has been the Chairman of Montgomery Goodwin Investments, LLC, a private investment and consulting firm. From April 2000 to September 2002, Mr. Howe was the Chairman of Scient, Inc., a provider of integrated e-Business strategy and technology services, and previously served as its Chief Executive Officer. In July 2002, Scient filed a petition under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Mr. Howe served on a special committee supervising the winding up of Scient’s business. Prior to that, Mr. Howe was with International Business Machines Corporation, last serving as General Manager of its global banking, financial and securities services business. He is a director of NorthStar, a financial services industry consulting firm, and Symphony Services, an information technology consulting firm.

 

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Helen P. Johnson-Leipold has served as a director since December 1999. Ms. Johnson-Leipold has also been a director of Holdco since April 2000 and of Holdings since May 2002. Since 1999, Ms. Johnson-Leipold has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Johnson Outdoors, Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of outdoor recreational equipment. In addition, since July 2004, she has been Chairman of Johnson Financial Group, a global financial services company. From 1995 through 1999, she was with SCJ in various executive positions, last serving as Vice President - Worldwide Consumer Products. Ms. Johnson-Leipold is a descendant of Samuel Curtis Johnson, the sister of S. Curtis Johnson III, the Chairman of our company, and cousin of Clifton Louis, another director of our company.

Clifton D. Louis has served as a director since December 1999. Mr. Louis has also been a director of Holdco since March 1999 and of Holdings since May 2002. Mr. Louis is the owner of The Vineyard, Inc., a retail wine store, and has been its President and Chief Executive Officer since 1985. Mr. Louis is a descendant of Samuel Curtis Johnson, a cousin of S. Curtis Johnson III, the Chairman of our company, and a cousin of Helen Johnson-Leipold, another director of our company.

Neal R. Nottleson has served as a director since March 1999. Mr. Nottleson has also been a director Holdings since September 1999 and of Holdco since May 2002. Mr. Nottleson was the Vice Chairman of SCJ from October 1996 until his retirement in June 1999.

Reto Wittwer has served as a director since July 2002. Mr. Wittwer has also been a director of Holdings since July 2002. Since 1995, Mr. Wittwer has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Kempinski Hotel Group, an international luxury hotel and resort company. From 1992 to 1995, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of CIGA Hotels, a European luxury hotel company.

Audit Committee

The Audit Committee of our board of directors recommends our independent registered public accounting firm, reviews the scope and results of the audits with the auditors and management, approves the scope and results of the audits, monitors the adequacy of our system of internal controls and reviews the annual report, auditors’ fees and non-audit services to be provided by the independent registered public accounting firm. The members of our Audit Committee are Irene Esteves, chairperson of the Audit Committee, Todd Brown, Robert Howe, and Reto Wittwer. Our board of directors has determined that Ms. Esteves meets the definition of an audit committee financial expert, as set forth in Item 401(h)(2) of Regulation S-K, and has also determined that she meets the independence requirements of the SEC.

Code of Ethics

We and our employees operate under the values and principles defined in our “This We Believe” culture, which extends to our customers and users, the general public, our neighbors and the world community. We have adopted a Finance Officers Code of Ethics applicable to our principal executive officer, principal financial officer and principal accounting officer. As a best practice, this code has been executed by all other key financial and accounting personnel as well. In addition, we have adopted a general code of business conduct for all of our directors, officers and employees, which is known as the JohnsonDiversey, Inc. Code of Ethics and Business Conduct. The Finance Officers Code of Ethics, the JohnsonDiversey, Inc. Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and other information regarding our corporate governance is available on our website (www.johnsondiversey.com), or free of charge by writing c/o Investor Relations at the address on the cover page of this annual report on Form 10-K. In addition to any reports required to be filed with the SEC, we intend to disclose on our website any amendments to, or waivers from, the Finance Officers Code of Ethics or the JohnsonDiversey, Inc. Code of Ethics and Business Conduct that are required to be disclosed pursuant to SEC rules. To date, there have been no waivers of the Finance Officers Code of Ethics or the JohnsonDiversey, Inc. Code of Ethics and Business Conduct.

 

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ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

The following table sets forth information with respect to compensation earned during our last three fiscal years by our Chief Executive Officer as of December 30, 2005 and our four other most highly compensated executive officers. The officers listed in the following table are referred to as the named executive officers.

Summary Compensation Table

 

                 Long-Term Compensation    

All Other
Compensation
($)

 
           Annual Compensation     Awards    

Name and Principal Position

   Year     Salary ($)    Bonus ($)     Other Annual
Compensation
($)
    Restricted
Stock
Awards ($)
    Securities
Underlying
Options (#) (1)
   

Gregory E. Lawton*

   2005     905,000    786,123 (2)   18,844 (3)   —       17,100 (4)   3,174,476 (5)

President and Chief

   2004     882,500    1,463,350 (6)   70,418 (7)   —       15,000 (8)   614,564 (9)

Executive Officer

   2003     861,308    704,202 (10)   107,371 (11)   1,001,109 (12)   23,000 (13)   619,334 (14)

S. Curtis Johnson III

   2005     671,250    543,464 (2)   56,192 (15)   —       17,100 (4)   17,529 (16)

Chairman

   2004     655,000    1,007,332 (6)   64,530 (15)   —       15,000 (8)   19,272 (17)
   2003     640,854    518,475 (10)   107,554 (18)   90,463 (19)   23,000 (13)   11,446 (20)

Joseph F. Smorada

   2005     441,250    963,000 (2)   10,000 (21)   —       5,100 (4)   31,041 (22)

Executive Vice President,

   2004 (23)   71,667    —       —       339,025 (24)   2,500 (25)   41,642 (26)

Chief Financial Officer

   2003     —      —       —       —       —       —    

JoAnne Brandes

   2005     439,500    407,503 (2)   10,000 (21)   —       5,100 (4)   23,418 (27)

Executive Vice President, Chief

   2004     416,250    451,063 (6)   20,571 (28)   —       3,600 (8)   128,135 (29)

Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Secretary

   2003     405,096    230,082 (10)   26,739 (30)   57,101 (19)   6,210 (13)   170,178 (31)

Mark S. Cross

   2005     378,500    200,072 (2)   45,706 (39)   —       4,500 (4)   21,815 (32)

Regional President - Europe

   2004     368,250    121,400 (6)   11,400 (33)   —       3,600 (8)   118,124 (34)
   2003  (35)   150,923    100 (10)   7,174 (36)   753,709 (37)   3,900 (13)   100,000 (38)

* Mr. Lawton retired as President and Chief Executive Officer effective February 13, 2006.
1. Represents shares of class B or C common stock of Holdco. In December 2005, we approved the cancellation of the share-based long-term incentive compensation plan. In connection with this decision, Holdco commenced an offer to purchase all of its outstanding class C common stock and options to purchase class C common stock. The offer expired on March 6, 2006. Pursuant to the offer, holders of Holdco’s class B common stock and class C common stock who tendered shares in the offer received $83.30 and $139.25, respectively, in cash, without interest, for each share of class B and C common stock tendered. Holders of options to purchase class C common stock received a cash payment as follows: (a) for options with an exercise price less than $139.25 per share, an amount equal to the difference between $139.25 and the exercise price for each share of class C common stock issuable upon exercise of the options and (b) for options with an exercise price equal to or greater than $139.25 per share, $8.00 for each share of class C common stock issuable upon the exercise of the options. As a result of the offer, the named executive officers received cash payments with respect to their shares of class B and C common stock and options as follows: Mr. Lawton $0 and $2,999,445; Mr. Johnson $0 and $548,923; Mr. Smorada $0 and $0; Ms. Brandes $0 and $564,524 and $904,707: and Mr. Cross $0 and $182,418. The options listed in this column have been cancelled as of the date of this report.
2. Bonuses paid in 2005 pertain to performance for the twelve month period ended December 31, 2004.
3. Consists of $17,500 of flexible spending account and $1,344 of personal travel allowance.
4. Options granted in 2005 had an exercise price of $143.06. See Note 1 above for information related to the cancellation of the share-based long-term incentive compensation plan.
5. In connection with his announced retirement in September 2005 and in accordance with his employment agreement, Mr. Lawton received a lump-sum payment of $3,135,088 in December 2005 under our supplemental executive retirement plan. In addition, Mr. Lawton received $14,457 of dividend equivalents on unvested restricted stock, $5,000 for use of company facilities, a $2,000 contribution to a retiree medical savings account, $10,614 of employer’s deferred profit sharing and matching contributions to a 401(k) plan and $7,317 of deferrable profit sharing in excess of deferral limits paid in cash.

 

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6. Bonuses paid in 2004 pertain to performance for the twelve month period ended January 2, 2004.
7. Consists of $17,500 of flexible spending account, $6,401 of personal travel allowance, and $46,517 for reimbursement of company loan interest expense.
8. Options granted in 2004 have an exercise price of $136.79. See Note 1 above for information related to the cancellation of the share-based long-term incentive compensation plan.
9. Consists of $561,153 in loan forgiveness of 50% of the principal balance of a company loan due for the purchase of class C common stock plus a 45% gross-up, $887 interest paid on deferred compensation account, $32,290 as dividend equivalents on unvested restricted stock, $770 for use of company facilities, a $2,000 contribution to a retiree medical savings account, $10,400 of employer’s deferred profit sharing and matching contributions to a 401(k) plan, and $7,064 of deferrable profit sharing in excess of deferral limits paid in cash.
10. Bonuses paid in 2003 pertain to performance for the six month period ended January 3, 2003.
11. Consists of $17,500 of flexible spending account, $11,200 of personal travel allowance, and $78,671 reimbursement of company loan interest expense.
12. All shares in this column were granted at $115.07 per share and were to have vested 100% in 2008. As a result of Mr. Lawton’s announced retirement, all shares of restricted stock held by Mr. Lawton were forfeited.
13. Two option grants were awarded in 2003. The spring grant awarded options that were authorized in the fourth quarter of 2002 and have an exercise price of $106.93. The fall grant has an exercise price of $115.07. See Note 1 above for information related to the cancellation of the share-based long-term incentive compensation plan.
14. Consists of a $575,105 of loan forgiveness of 75% of the principal balance of a company loan due for the purchase of class C common stock plus a 45% gross-up, $2,171 interest paid on deferred compensation account, $31,517 as dividend equivalents on unvested restricted stock, $400 contribution to a retiree medical savings account, $8,000 of employer’s deferred profit sharing and matching contributions to a 401(k) plan, and $2,141 of deferrable profit sharing in excess of deferral limits paid in cash.
15. Represents personal use of company aircraft.
16. Consists of $296 as dividend equivalents on unvested restricted stock, $2,000 contribution to a retiree medical savings account, $10,373 of employer’s deferred profit sharing and matching contributions to a 401(k) plan, and $4,860 of deferrable profit sharing in excess of deferral limits paid in cash.
17. Consists of $1,971 as dividend equivalents on unvested restricted stock, $2,000 contribution to a retiree medical savings account, $194 interest on a deferred compensation account, $10,400 of employer’s deferred profit sharing and matching contributions to a 401(k) plan, and $4,707 of deferrable profit sharing in excess of deferral limits paid in cash.
18. Consists of $7,000 of flexible spending account, and $100,554 for the personal use of company aircraft.
19. All shares in this column were granted at $106.93 per share and were 100% vested in fiscal year 2005. As of December 30, 2005, Mr. Johnson held a total of 1,408 shares of restricted stock and Ms. Brandes held a total of 1,013 shares of restricted stock.
20. Consists of $1,971 as dividend equivalents on unvested restricted stock, $400 contribution to a retiree medical savings account, $8,000 of employer’s deferred profit sharing and matching contributions to a 401(k) plan, and $1,075 of deferrable profit sharing in excess of deferral limits paid in cash.
21. Consists of flexible spending account.
22. Consists of $1,750 as dividend equivalents on unvested restricted stock, $7,363 of employer’s matching contributions to a 401(k) plan, and $21,928 in relocation expense reimbursement.
23. Mr. Smorada joined us in November 2004. All components of 2004 compensation relate to the period from November through December.
24. Represents shares of class C common stock of Holdco. All shares in this column were granted at $135.61 per share with 50% vesting in December 2008 and 50% vesting in December 2009. As of December 30, 2005, Mr. Smorada held a total of 2,500 shares of restricted stock.
25. Options granted upon hire in 2004 have an exercise price of $135.61. See Note 1 above for information related to the cancellation of the share-based long-term incentive compensation plan.
26. Consists of $875 as dividend equivalents on unvested restricted stock, $860 of employer’s matching contributions to a 401(k) plan, $50,000 sign-on bonus, and $22,907 in relocation expense reimbursement.
27. Consists of $5,937 as dividend equivalents on unvested restricted stock, $5,000 for use of company facilities, $2,000 contribution to a retiree medical savings account, $8,199 of employer’s deferred profit sharing and matching contributions to a 401(k) plan, and $2,282 of deferrable profit sharing in excess of deferral limits paid in cash.
28. Consists of $10,000 of flexible spending account, $2,201 of personal travel allowance, and $8,370 reimbursement of company loan interest expense.

 

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29. Consists of $100,975 of loan forgiveness of 50% of the principal balance of a company loan due for the purchase of class C common stock plus a 45% gross-up, $12,569 as dividend equivalents on unvested restricted stock, $2,000 contribution to a retiree medical savings account, $10,400 of employer’s deferred profit sharing and matching contributions to a 401(k) plan, and $2,191 of deferrable profit sharing in excess of deferral limits paid in cash.
30. Consists of $9,990 of flexible spending account and $16,749 reimbursement of company loan interest expense.
31. Consists of a $149,797 of loan forgiveness of 75% of the principal balance of a company loan due for the purchase of Class C common stock plus a 45% gross-up, $13,113 as dividend equivalents on unvested restricted stock, $400 contribution to a retiree medical savings account, and $6,868 of employer’s deferred profit sharing and matching contributions to a 401(k) plan.
32. Consists of $3,668 as dividend equivalents on unvested restricted stock, $5,770 for use of company facilities, $10,614 of employer’s deferred profit sharing and matching contributions to a 401(k) plan, and $1,763 of deferrable profit sharing in excess of deferral limits.
33. Consists of $10,000 of flexible spending account and $1,400 of personal travel allowance.
34. Consists of $8,712 as dividend equivalents on unvested restricted stock, $9,412 of employer’s deferred profit sharing and matching contributions to a 401(k) plan, and $100,000 sign-on bonus.
35. Mr. Cross joined us in August 2003. All components of 2003 compensation relate to the period from August through December.
36. Consists of $2,974 of flexible spending account and $4,200 of personal travel allowance.
37. Represents shares of class C common stock of Holdco. All shares in this column were granted at $115.07 per share and vest 20% per year from fiscal year 2004 to fiscal year 2008. As of December 30, 2005, Mr. Cross held a total of 5,240 shares of restricted stock.
38. Consists of $100,000 sign-on bonus.
39. Consists of $10,000 flexible spending allowance and $35,706 of expat allowance.

Option/SAR Grants in Last Fiscal Year

We have a long-term incentive compensation plan that allows us to grant rights to purchase shares of class C common stock of Holdco to certain of our senior management. All awards granted under the plan are stock option grants. Newly issued stock options vest over four years and have an exercise period of seven years from the date of grant. Stock options granted to the named executive officers in fiscal year 2005 are noted below. In December 2005, we approved the cancellation of this share-based long-term incentive compensation plan. In connection with this decision, Holdco commenced an offer to purchase all of its outstanding class C common stock and options to purchase its class C common stock. Each of the named executive officers tendered their shares or options in the offer and, as a result, all of the options listed below have been canceled as of the date of this report. No stock appreciation rights (“SARs”) were granted to the named executive officers during this period.

 

Name

   Number of
Securities
Underlying
Options
Granted
   Percent of
Total Options
granted to
Employees in
2005
   

Exercise
Price

($/Sh) (1)

   Expiration
Date
   Potential Realizable Value
at Assumed Annual Rate of Stock
Price Appreciation for Option
Term
              5%    10%

Gregory E. Lawton

   17,100    11 %   $ 143    April 2012    $ 995,900    $ 2,320,871

S. Curtis Johnson III

   17,100    11 %     143    April 2012      995,900      2,320,871

Joseph F. Smorada

   5,100    3 %     143    April 2012      297,023      692,190

JoAnne Brandes

   5,100    3 %     143    April 2012      297,023      692,190

Mark S. Cross

   4,500    3 %     143    April 2012      262,079      610,756

(1) Exercise price is the most recently calculated share price using a Cash Flow Return on Investment (“CFROI”) model in effect at the time of the stock option grant.

 

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Aggregated Option/SAR Exercises in Last Fiscal Year and Fiscal Year End Option/SAR Values

The following table summarizes pertinent information concerning the exercise of stock options to purchase class C common stock of Holdco during our fiscal year 2005 by each of the named executive officers and the fiscal year-end value of unexercised options. In December 2005, we approved the cancellation of the share-based long-term incentive compensation plan. In connection with this decision, Holdco commenced an offer to purchase all of its outstanding class C common stock and options to purchase its class C common stock. Each of the named executive officers tendered their shares or options in the offer and, as a result, all of the options listed below have been canceled as of the date of this report..

 

Name

   Shares
Acquired
on Exercise
   Value
Realized
   Number of Securities
Underlying Unexercised
Options at End of 2005
Exercisable/ Unexercisable
  

Value of Unexercised In-

The-Money Options at
End of 2005 (1)

Exercisable/
Unexercisable

Gregory E. Lawton

   —      —      10,995 / 55,100    $1,458,766 /$4,608,920

S. Curtis Johnson III

   —      —      61,716 / 55,100    6,447,709 / 4,608,920

Joseph F. Smorada

   —      —      0 / 7,600    0 / 339,025

JoAnne Brandes

   —      —      3,516 / 14,910    434,442 / 1,184,155

Mark S. Cross

   —      —      0 / 12,000    0 / 941,217

(1) At December 30, 2005, an estimated market value of $139.25 per share of class C common stock was used to determine the value of the in-the-money options.

Pension Plan

Employees who have completed at least one year of service with us with more than 1,000 hours of service and who work a regular schedule of at least 20 hours a week are eligible to participate in our “cash balance” retirement plan. Each participant has an account balance which represents his or her benefit under the retirement plan. Under the retirement plan, we make annual credits to a participant’s cash balance account in an amount equal to 5% of the participant’s eligible compensation up to the Social Security wage base and 10% in excess thereof and an investment credit each plan year. The investment credit is based on the value of the participant’s cash balance account as of December 31 of the prior year and 75% of the rate of return earned by the pension trust. The investment credit will never be less than 4%. Our retirement plan consists of two components: a qualified retirement plan and a non-qualified plan. For purposes of the qualified retirement plan, “eligible compensation” is the participant’s salary and bonus as included in the Summary Compensation Table above, subject to an annual limitation imposed by law which for 2005 was $210,000. For amounts of eligible compensation above the annual limitation, the credits for each participant continue under the non-qualified plan. Each participant becomes fully vested in the benefits under the retirement plan after five years of employment. Vested benefits may be paid upon termination of employment or retirement. Under the plan, a participant is eligible to retire at age 50 with at least 10 years of service. The retirement plan specifies various options that participants may select for the distribution of their accrued balance, including forms of annuity payments and lump sum distributions.

The retirement plan has a “grandfather” clause under which employees who were employed by us on or before June 1, 1998, have their retirement benefit calculated under both the cash balance account and the grandfathered formula. The grandfathered employee receives whichever alternative, the cash balance account or grandfathered formula, results in the higher retirement plan benefit. Benefits will continue to grow in the grandfathered alternative until June 1, 2008, at which time the benefit under that formula will be frozen. There is a two-part formula to determine the grandfathered benefits: benefits for service before 1975 and benefits for service after January 1, 1975. These amounts are added together to determine the participant’s monthly pension amount upon retirement.

A participant’s pension benefit for service before 1975 is calculated by two formulas: the point formula and the percentage formula. The participant receives the greater of the two. The point formula is shown below:

 

Percentage of final

average monthly pay

  x      

Final average

monthly pay

  x      

Years of service

before 1975

  ÷      

Total years of

service

  =      

Monthly pension

service before 1975

 

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The participant’s final average monthly pay is the average of his or her monthly base pay for the highest paid 60 consecutive months out of the last 12 years the participant worked for us before retirement or termination.

The participant’s percentage of final average monthly pay is the percentage that corresponds to the sum of the participant’s age and years of service before retirement (which sum is referred to in the table as points) in the table below:

 

Points

  

Pension as

% of Final
Average
Monthly Pay

62    6.0
63    6.5
64    7.0
65    7.5
66    8.0
67    8.5
68    9.0
69    9.5
70    10.0
71    10.5
72    11.0
73    11.5
74    12.0
75    12.5
76    13.0
77    13.5
78    14.0
79    14.5
80    15.0
81    15.5
82    16.0
83    16.5
84    17.0
85    17.5
86    18.0
87    18.5
88    19.0
89    19.5
90    20.0
91    20.5
92    21.0
93    21.5
94    22.0
95    22.5
96    23.0
97    23.5
98    24.0
99    24.5
100    25.0

The participant’s monthly pension for service before 1975 is calculated using the percentage formula as follows:

 

8/10 of 1% (.008)   x       Final average monthly pay   x       Years of service before 1975   =       Monthly pension service before 1975

For service to us before 1975, the participant receives the greater of the two monthly pension amounts calculated using the point formula and percentage formula.

A participant’s monthly benefit for service beginning in January 1975 or later is coordinated with Social Security using a three-step formula. First, the participant’s retirement amount is calculated using the following formula:

 

Final average monthly pay   x       1.75%     x       Years of Service after January 1, 1975   =       Retirement Amount

 

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Next, the participant’s portion of primary Social Security paid by us is calculated:

 

Monthly Social

Security benefit

   x        Company’s share (1/2)    x        1/30    x        Years of service after January 1, 1975    =        Portion of primary Social Security paid for by the Company beginning January 1, 1975

Primary Social Security is an estimate of the participant’s monthly Social Security benefit he or she can receive at age 62. If the participant retires after age 62, primary Social Security is the estimated amount he or she can receive as of his or her retirement date.

The difference between the participant’s retirement amount and the primary Social Security paid by us since January 1, 1975, represents the participant’s monthly benefit for services after January 1, 1975. The total monthly benefit the participant receives under the grandfather clause of our retirement plan is equal to the sum of the monthly benefit for services before 1975 and the monthly benefit for services after January 1, 1975.

Finally, an employee eligible to participate under the grandfather clause of our retirement plan receives the greater of the amount calculated using the cash balance account and the amount calculated using the grandfather formula.

All of the named executive officers residing in the United States participate in our qualified and non-qualified retirement plans. The following table sets forth the estimated lump sum payable to each of the named executive officers at the normal retirement age of 65, assuming 3% annual increases in eligible compensation until retirement, no change from 2003 levels of maximum includable compensation and Social Security wage base and an annual investment credit of 4% under our qualified retirement plan:

 

Executive Officer

  

Qualified

Retirement Plan

Gregory E. Lawton

   $ 158,750

S. Curtis Johnson III

     1,373,040

Joseph F. Smorada

     140,691

JoAnne Brandes

     1,298,906

Mark S. Cross

     533,403

The following table sets forth the estimated lump sum payable to each of the named executive officers at normal retirement age of 65, assuming 3% annual increases in eligible compensation until retirement, 2% annual increases in Social Security wage base and Consumer Price Index and an annual investment credit of 4% under our non-qualified retirement plan:

 

Executive Officer

   Non-Qualified
Retirement Plan

Gregory E. Lawton

   $ 1,115,390

S. Curtis Johnson III

     3,251,899

Joseph F. Smorada

     240,098

JoAnne Brandes

     1,112,995

Mark S. Cross

     646,164

On December 30, 2005, we paid out a lump sum benefit to Mr. Lawton relating to his funded supplemental executive retirement plan in the amount of $3,135,088.

Ms. Brandes also participates in our funded supplemental executive retirement plan. The provisions of the plan entitle her to a monthly benefit payable in a single life annuity equal to one-twelfth of $50,000 upon retirement. Retirement is defined as attaining age 58 for Ms. Brandes. If Ms. Brandes’ employment is terminated due to a

 

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change in control of our company, she is entitled to receive the same benefit as if her retirement had occurred on the day before the change in control. The projected benefit obligation upon Ms. Brandes’ attainment of age 58, in fiscal year 2012, is $2.6 million.

Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan

Holdco’s long-term equity incentive plan permits the Compensation Committee of Holdco’s board of directors broad discretion to grant stock options to purchase shares of class C common stock of Holdco to Holdco’s and its subsidiaries’, including our outside directors, officers and employees who are responsible to contributing to the growth and profitability of its and the subsidiaries’ businesses. The total number of class C common stock of Holdco that may be issued under its long-term equity incentive plan is 15% of the number of available shares of class A, class B and class C common stock and series A preferred stock of Holdco. The maximum share number may be adjusted if Holdco undertakes a stock split, stock dividend or similar transaction. Under the terms of the long-term equity incentive plan, if an employee is terminated for cause or terminates his employment without good reason, his unvested stock options will be canceled, and if the employee is terminated for any other reason, Holdco’s Compensation Committee has the discretion to determine if his unvested stock options will be canceled. Further, if an outside director’s services are terminated, his unvested stock options will be canceled. In any event, the terminated employee or director must exercise any vested stock options within 90 days after termination. Under the terms of the plan, an optionee may not sell or otherwise dispose of his stock options, and with respect to shares of class C common stock issued upon exercise of stock options, may not sell or otherwise dispose of those shares prior to six months after the exercise of the stock options. If the optionee wishes to sell his class C common stock after the six-month period, the optionee must first offer those shares to Holdco. An offer and subsequent purchase of shares by Holdco must occur during April, May, October or November unless employment has terminated for any reason. Holdco may purchase those shares within 60 days of receipt of the offer at the value determined in accordance with the terms of the long-term equity incentive plan. In addition, Holdco has the right to repurchase any shares if the optionee ceases to be employed by one of its subsidiaries. Finally, in the event of a change in control, as defined in the plan, Holdco’s Compensation Committee may:

 

  •   accelerate the vesting of stock options;

 

  •   purchase the stock options for cash;

 

  •   adjust the terms of the stock options to reflect the change in control;

 

  •   cause the stock options to be assumed, or new rights substituted for the stock options, by another entity; or

 

  •   approve any other provision as Holdco’s Compensation Committee considers advisable and in the best interests of Holdco and its shareholders.

In December 2005, we approved the cancellation of the long-term incentive plan and as of that time, ceased granting stock options under the plan. However, stock options previously granted under the plan that were not tendered in connection with Holdco’s offer to purchase as described above, remain outstanding pursuant to their existing terms.

Director Compensation

The Vice Chairman of our board of directors, who also serves as the Chairman of the Compensation Committee, was paid $93,750 for fiscal year 2005. Also in fiscal year 2005, the Chairman of the Audit Committee was paid $80,000 and other directors who are not our employees were paid $70,000. All of the directors who receive annual retainers receive at least 50% of the cash value of their annual retainer in class C common stock of Holdco and have the opportunity to elect to receive the full amount of the retainer in such shares. Additionally, all non-employee directors receive options to purchase class C common stock of Holdco under the long-term equity incentive plan to purchase a number of shares whose value on the date of grant is equal to about 50% of each director’s annual retainer. All of our directors are also directors of Holdings. The above described fees are fees for serving on both our and Holdings’ boards of directors. Members of our board of directors who are also our employees receive no additional compensation for service on the board.

 

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Employment Agreements

We entered into employment agreements with Gregory E. Lawton and JoAnne Brandes in November 1999, with Mark S. Cross in August 2003, with Joseph F. Smorada in November 2004, and with Edward F. Lonergan in March 2006. Except for compensation provisions, the terms of these agreements are substantially similar. The employment agreements require the executive to maintain the confidentiality of our proprietary information and refrain from competing with and soliciting employees from us during his or her employment and for a period of up to two years after termination. Under these agreements, in addition to their annual salary, the executives are eligible to receive a performance bonus. Ms. Brandes’, Mr. Smorada’s and Mr. Cross’ target bonuses are 65% of base salary and Mr. Lawton’s and Mr. Lonergan’s target bonuses are 100% of base salary. Depending on the achievement of specified objectives, the amount of the bonus may range between 0% and 200% of the target. In addition to salary and performance bonuses, each of the executives is entitled to an annual flexible spending account, which may be used for specified personal expenses, and to participate in our long-term equity incentive plan under the terms described below. The amounts available under the flexible spending accounts are as follows: Mr. Lawton and Mr. Lonergan, $17,500; Ms. Brandes, Mr. Smorada and Mr. Cross, $10,000. Under their employment agreements, if Ms. Brandes or Mr. Smorada are terminated without cause, he or she is entitled to receive continuation of his or her base salary for a period of one year following termination of his or her employment with us and a pro-rated performance bonus for the fiscal year in which the termination occurs. In addition, Mr. Smorada is entitled to receive a performance bonus at the target level for the one-year salary continuation period and if the termination is without cause prior to his five-year anniversary with us, we are required to pay his relocation expenses in accordance with the terms of our relocation policy in effect on the date of Mr. Smorada’s offer of employment. Under Mr. Cross’ employment agreement, if he is terminated without cause, he is entitled to receive continuation of his base salary for a period of one year following termination of his employment with us and his target performance bonus for the fiscal year in which the termination occurs. Under their employment agreements, if Mr. Lawton or Mr. Lonergan is terminated without cause, he is entitled to receive continuation of his base salary and bonus payments at the target level during the two-year period following termination of his employment with us. The executives are entitled to reimbursement of expenses under their flexible spending accounts.

Mr. Lawton and Ms. Brandes were eligible to participate in Holdco’s long-term incentive plan and were provided with an opportunity to purchase shares of class C common stock of Holdco. In connection with their purchases of shares in 1999 and 2000, the offers provided that for each four shares purchased by the executive, the executive was awarded one share of restricted stock and a stock option to purchase one share of class C common stock of Holdco. The restricted share becomes vested four years from the date of grant. If the executive resigns or is terminated for cause, he or she will forfeit all unvested shares of restricted stock and options. If the executive is terminated due to death, disability or retirement, all shares of restricted stock and options will become immediately vested. If the executive is terminated for other reasons, Holdco’s Compensation Committee will determine if his or her unvested shares of restricted stock and options are forfeited. In connection with the executive’s stock purchase, we agreed to lend the executive funds to purchase the shares at the applicable federal rate. Each loan is due and payable four years after the date of the loan. If the executive remains employed by us when the loan is due, 75% of the principal amount of the loan is forgiven. To the extent the principal of the loan is forgiven, the executive receives a tax gross-up bonus. In addition to the loan, during the term of employment with us, each executive receives a bonus that is equal to the interest due on the loan. The bonus is paid to the executive at the time interest is due on the loan. No new executive loans relating to the purchase of common stock have been made since December 2000. Additional detail with respect to outstanding loans is provided under “Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions - - Transactions with Management.”

The long-term incentive compensation plan provided that stock options granted to Mr. Lawton and Ms. Brandes would become vested seven years after the date of grant, and vested options would be exercisable for a period of ten years following the date of grant. If the executive resigns or is terminated for cause, all of the executive’s unvested options would be forfeited. If the executive is terminated due to death, disability or retirement, all of his or her stock options would become immediately vested and exercisable. If he or she is terminated for other reasons, Holdco’s Compensation Committee would determine if the executive’s options are forfeited. The executive

 

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would have 90 days after the date of his or her termination of employment with us to exercise vested stock options. In addition, under the agreements, we may repurchase any shares of common stock upon the executive’s termination of employment.

Mr. Smorada and Mr. Cross were also eligible to participate in Holdco’s long-term incentive plan. Under the terms of Mr. Smorada’s agreement, he was granted stock options to purchase class C common stock of Holdco and shares of class C restricted stock upon signing and is eligible to receive additional grants at the sole discretion of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Smorada’s and Mr. Cross’ employment agreements also provide that if they are terminated without cause or resign for good reason, as defined in the agreements, all of their respective stock options and restricted stock would vest immediately.

As discussed above, in December 2005, we approved the cancellation of the long-term incentive compensation plan. In connection with this decision, Holdco commenced an offer to purchase all of its outstanding class C common stock and options to purchase its class C common stock. Mr. Lawton, Mr. Smorada, Ms. Brandes and Mr. Cross tendered their shares and options in the offer and, as a result, no longer hold shares of Holdco class C common stock or stock options.

Mr. Lawton retired as President and Chief Executive Officer effective February 13, 2006. In order to ensure a smooth transition of responsibilities, on February 3, 2006, we entered into an exit agreement with Mr. Lawton that is intended to restate the terms of Mr. Lawton’s employment agreement described above and set forth the benefits Mr. Lawton is entitled to receive under the Company’s benefit arrangements. The exit agreement also contains a release by Mr. Lawton of the Company and specified officers, directors, employees and affiliates relating to claims arising out of Mr. Lawton’s employment with or retirement from the Company.

In December 2001, we entered into an agreement with S. Curtis Johnson III under which he was eligible to participate in the long-term incentive plan. The agreement provides that stock options granted to Mr. Johnson would become vested four years after the date of grant, and his vested options would be exercisable for a period of seven years following the date of grant. Holdco’s Compensation Committee may accelerate the vesting of Mr. Johnson’s options. If Mr. Johnson resigns or is terminated for cause, he would forfeit all of his unvested options. If Mr. Johnson is terminated due to death, disability or retirement, all of his stock options would become immediately vested and exercisable. If Mr. Johnson is terminated for other reasons, Holdco’s Compensation Committee would determine if his options are forfeited. Mr. Johnson will have 90 days after the date of his termination of employment with us to exercise his vested stock options. As discussed above, in December 2005, we approved the cancellation of the long-term incentive compensation plan. In connection with this decision, Holdco commenced an offer to purchase all of its outstanding class C common stock and options to purchase its class C common stock. Mr., Johnson tendered his shares and options in the offer and, as a result, no longer holds shares of Holdco class C common stock or stock options.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

Subject to the terms of the stockholders’ agreement among Unilever, Holdco and Holdings, the Compensation Committee of our board of directors establishes our compensation policies and the compensation of our officers and establishes and administers our compensation programs. See “Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.” The members of our Compensation Committee are Neal Nottleson, chairman, Irene Esteves, Todd Brown, Robert Howe, S. Curtis Johnson III and Reto Wittwer. In addition, Rudy Markham serves as the Unilever appointed director to our Compensation Committee, but is a non-voting member. Other than S. Curtis Johnson III, our Chairman and a descendant of Samuel Curtis Johnson, none of these directors is, or has been, an officer or employee of JohnsonDiversey, Holdings or Holdco.

 

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ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

Equity Compensation Plan Information

The following table provides information as of December 30, 2005, with respect to compensation plans under which shares of class C common stock of Holdco are authorized for issuance under compensation plans previously approved and not previously approved by our stockholders. (1)

 

     (a)    (b)    (c)  

Plan Category

   Number of securities to be
issued upon exercise of
outstanding options,
warrants and rights
   Weighted-average exercise
price of outstanding options,
warrants and rights
   Number of securities
remaining available for
future issuance under
equity compensation
plans (excluding
securities reflected in
column (a)
 

Equity compensation plans approved by security holders

   409,049    $ 119.39    427,784 (2)

Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders

   —        N/A    —    
                  

Total

   409,049    $ 119.39    427,784  
                  

(1) On January 19, 2006, Holdco commenced an offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of its class C common stock and options to purchase class C common stock. The offer expired on March 6, 2006. Immediately following that date, an aggregate of 128,796 shares of class C sommon stock were subject to outstanding options at a weighted average exercise price of $116.67.
(2) Excludes 14,428 shares of unvested restricted stock awards; any of such awards that do not vest will increase the number of shares available for issuance pursuant to future long-term equity incentive plan awards.

Except for one share owned by SCJ, Holdings owns all of our outstanding shares of common stock. Holdco owns two-thirds of the equity interests of Holdings and Marga B.V., which is 100% owned by Unilever, owns one-third of the equity interests of Holdings. The stockholders’ agreement among Unilever, Holdings and Holdco and the certificate of incorporation of Holdings generally require, with specified exceptions, the approval of stockholders holding more than 90% of the outstanding shares of Holdings to effect various transactions and actions by Holdings and its subsidiaries, including the sale or other disposition of shares of our common stock. See “Item 13, Certain Relationships and Related Transactions – Relationships with Unilever – Stockholders’ Agreement.” In addition, two of the eleven members of the board of directors of Holdings are officers and/or directors of Unilever. Accordingly, Unilever and Holdco would be deemed to have shared investment power over all of the shares of our common stock owned by Holdings.

None of our directors or officers owns shares of our common stock. However, several of our directors and officers own shares of the common stock of Holdco.

The following table sets forth information regarding beneficial ownership of the common and preferred stock of Holdco as of March 6, 2006, held by;

 

  •   Imogene P. Johnson, surviving spouse of Samuel C. Johnson;

 

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  •   our Chairman, our Chief Executive Officer and our three other most highly compensated executive officers; and

 

  •   all directors and executive officers as a group.

S. Curtis Johnson III has voting and investment power with respect to 252,467 shares of class A common stock of Holdco, or 56.6% of the voting power of Holdco. Because Holdco has a controlling interest in our direct parent, Holdings, and has shared investment power over all of the shares of our common stock owned by Holdings, S. Curtis Johnson III may be deemed to share voting and investment power with respect to all shares of our common stock owned by Holdings.

Beneficial ownership is calculated in accordance with Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Except as otherwise noted, we believe that each of the holders listed below has sole voting and investment power over the shares beneficially owned by the holder.

 

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Name and Address of Beneficial Owner (1)

  

Title of Class (2)

   Amount and
Nature of
Beneficial
Ownership (3)
    Percent of
Class
Outstanding
 

Five Percent Owners:

       

Imogene P. Johnson

   Class B Common    800,000 (4)   28.8 %

555 North Main Street Racine,

   Series A Preferred    67,766 (5)   28.8 %

Wisconsin 53402

       

Directors:

       

Todd C. Brown

   Class C Common    —         *

Irene M. Esteves

   Class C Common    —         *

Robert M. Howe

   Class C Common    3,361 (6)   4.6 %

Helen P. Johnson-Leipold

   Class B Common    525,271 (7)   18.9 %
   Class C Common    1,465 (8)   2.0 %
   Series A Preferred    28,499 (9)   12.1 %

Clifton D. Louis

   Class B Common    40,523 (10)   1.5 %
   Class C Common    1,918 (11)   2.6 %

Neal R. Nottleson

   Class A Common    —       *  
   Class B Common    —       *  
   Class C Common    —       *  

Reto Wittwer

   Class C Common    658     *  

Named Executive Officers:

       

S. Curtis Johnson III

   Class A Common    252,467 (12)   56.6 %
   Class B Common    547,378 (13)   19.7 %
   Class C Common    65,658 (14)   89.1 %
   Series A Preferred    68,977 (15)   29.4 %

Gregory E. Lawton

   Class C Common    —         *

JoAnne Brandes

   Class B Common    —         *
   Class C Common    —         *
   Series A Preferred    200       *

Mark Cross

   Class C Common    —         *

Joseph Smorada

   Class C Common    —         *

All Directors and Executive Officers as a Group (12 persons)

   Class A Common    252,867     56.7 %
   Class B Common    667,456     24.0 %
   Class C Common    73,060 (16)   99.1 %
   Series A Preferred    71,067     30.2 %

* Indicates that the percentage of shares beneficially owned does not exceed 1% of the class.
(1) Except as otherwise indicated, the mailing address of each person shown is c/o JohnsonDiversey, Inc., 8310 16th Street, P.O. Box 902, Sturtevant, Wisconsin 53177-0902.
(2) The equity securities of Holdco consist of class A common stock, par value $1.00 per share, class B common stock, par value $1.00 per share, class C common stock, par value $1.00 per share and series A convertible

 

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preferred stock, par value $100.00 per share. The holders of class A common stock of Holdco are entitled to one vote on all matters submitted for a vote of the security holders of the company. The class B common stock are non-voting securities. The holders of class C common stock have no voting rights other than the right to elect one director who must be an officer of Holdco. The series A convertible preferred stock has no voting rights other than the right to vote on the creation or issuance of any equity securities that would rank senior to the series A convertible preferred stock and the right to elect one director if the company fails to pay cash dividends in specified circumstances.

(3) For purposes of this table, shares are considered to be “beneficially” owned if the person directly or indirectly has the sole or shared power to vote or direct the voting of the securities or the sole or shared power to dispose of or direct the disposition of the securities, and a person is considered to be the beneficial owner of shares if that person has the right to acquire the beneficial ownership of the shares within 60 days of March 6, 2005. Unless otherwise noted, the beneficial owners have sole voting and dispositive power over their shares listed in this column.
(4) Consists of 500,000 shares of class B common stock owned by H.F.J. Holding Co., Inc., 200,000 shares of class B common stock owned by Windpoint 1970 Holding Company and 100,000 shares owned by Nomad Investment Co. Inc. The H.F. Johnson Family Trust is the sole shareholder of each of these companies. Imogene P. Johnson is the trustee of the H.F. Johnson Family Trust.
(5) Includes 36,254 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by H.F.J. Holding Co., Inc., 21,751 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by Windpoint 1970 Holding Company and 9,761 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by Samuel C. Johnson 1988 Trust No. 1. The H.F. Johnson Family Trust is the sole shareholder of H.F.J. Holding Co., Inc. and of Windpoint 1970 Holding Company. Imogene P. Johnson is the trustee of the H.F. Johnson Family Trust and, along with Johnson Bank, is co-trustee of the Samuel C. Johnson 1988 Trust No. 1.
(6) Includes 1,700 shares of class C common stock subject to outstanding options.
(7) Includes 129,000 shares of class B common stock owned by Cayuga 1993 Limited Partnership, 105,830 shares of class B common stock owned by Rochester 1993 Limited Partnership, and 110,868 shares of class B common stock owned by Johnson Family Partnership L.P. The Helen Johnson-Leipold Third Party Gift and Inheritance Trust, over which Ms. Johnson-Leipold has voting and investment power, is a general partner of each of these limited partnerships and shares voting and investment power. This number also includes 26,000 shares of class B common stock owned by S, F & H Partners, L.P., 41,775 shares of class B common stock owned by HELSA Associates II, L.P., 21,306 shares of class B common stock owned by Combined Partners L.P. and 78 shares of class B common stock owned by H.P.J.L. Corporation. Ms. Johnson-Leipold is a general partner of HELSA Associates II, L.P., which is a general partner of both Combined Partners L.P. and S, F & H Partners, L.P. She is also an officer and director and the sole shareholder of H.P.J.L. Corporation. Finally, this number also includes 90,414 shares of class B common stock owned by C and H Investment Co., Inc. The Helen Johnson-Leipold Third Party Gift and Inheritance Trust is a general partner of Curelle II L.P., which is a general partner of Curelle Associates L.P. Curelle Associates, L.P. owns all of the outstanding common stock of C and H Investment Co., Inc.
(8) Includes 125 shares of class C common stock subject to outstanding options.
(9) Includes 9,353 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by Cayuga 1993 Limited Partnership, 7,673 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by Rochester 1993 Limited Partnership, and 8,039 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by Johnson Family Partnership L.P. The Helen Johnson-Leipold Third Party Gift and Inheritance Trust is a general partner of each of these limited partnerships and shares voting and investment power. This number also includes 1,885 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by S, F & H Partners, L.P., 1,544 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by Combined Partners L.P. and 5 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by H.P.J.L. Corporation. Ms. Johnson-Leipold is a general partner of HELSA Associates II, L.P., which is a general partner of both Combined Partners L.P. and S, F & H Partners L.P. She is also an officer and director and the sole shareholder of H.P.J.L. Corporation.

 

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(10) Includes 40,253 shares of class B common stock owned by All Blue But One, L.P.
(11) Includes 125 shares of class C common stock subject to outstanding options.
(12) Consists of 242,136 shares of class A common stock owned by the H.F. Johnson Distributing Trust B, f/b/o Samuel C. Johnson et. al., 10,254 shares of class A common stock owned by the Herbert F. Johnson Foundation Trust #1 and 77 shares of class A common stock owned by the S. Curtis Johnson Third Party Gift and Inheritance Trust. S. Curtis Johnson III is the trustee of the H.F. Johnson Distributing Trust B and the Herbert F. Johnson Foundation Trust #1, and the grantor of the S. Curtis Johnson Third Party Gift and Inheritance Trust. S. Curtis Johnson III has voting and investment power with respect to these shares.
(13) Includes 129,000 shares of class B common stock owned by Cayuga 1993 Limited Partnership, 105,830 shares of class B common stock owned by Rochester 1993 Limited Partnership, 21,306 shares of class B common stock owned by Combined Partners L.P. and 110,868 shares of class B common stock owned by Johnson Family Partnership L.P. The S. Curtis Johnson Third Party Gift and Inheritance Trust is a general partner of each of these limited partnerships and shares voting and investment power. This number also includes 90,414 shares of class B common stock owned by C and H Investment Co., Inc. and includes 47,651 shares of class B common stock owned by C&S Partners II L.P., of which S. Curtis Johnson III is a general partner and shares voting and investment power. S. Curtis Johnson III is a general partner of Curelle SCJ III, L.P., which is a general partner of Curelle Associate, L.P. Curelle Associate, L.P. owns all of the outstanding common stock of C and H Investment Co., Inc. Finally, this number also includes 30,000 shares of class B common stock owned by the Herbert F. Johnson Foundation Trust #1, 2,014 shares of class B common stock owned by the S. Curtis Johnson Third Party Gift and Inheritance Trust and 10,295 shares of class B common stock owned by the S. Curtis Johnson III Family Trust. S. Curtis Johnson III is the trustee of the S. Curtis Johnson III Family Trust.
(14) These shares are owned by the S. Curtis Johnson Third Party Gift and Inheritance Trust. Includes 61,716 shares of class C common stock subject to outstanding options. Includes 1,408 class C common stock in the name of S. Curtis Johnson.
(15) Includes 17,557 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by H.F. Johnson Distributing Trust B. S. Curtis Johnson III is the trustee of the H.F. Johnson Distributing Trust B, f/b/o Samuel C. Johnson et. al. Also includes 9,353 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by Cayuga 1993 Limited Partnership, 7,673 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by Rochester 1993 Limited Partnership, 1,544 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by Combined Partners L.P. and 8,039 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by Johnson Family Partnership L.P. The S. Curtis Johnson Third Party Gift and Inheritance Trust is a general partner of each of these limited partnerships and shares voting and investment power. This number also includes 7,250 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by Herbert F. Johnson Foundation Trust #1, 746 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by S. Curtis Johnson III Family Trust, 363 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by SCJ III Family Line Investments, Inc., 8,334 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by S. Curtis Johnson Third Party Gift and Inheritance Trust and 8,118 shares of series A convertible preferred stock owned by Helen J. Leipold Third Party Gift and Inheritance Trust. S. Curtis Johnson III is the trustee of each of S. Curtis Johnson III Family Trust and SCJ III Family Line Investments, Inc. The trustee of the S, Curtis Johnson Third Party Gift and Inheritance Trust is the Johnson Trust Company, over which S. Curtis Johnson III has voting and investment power.
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ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

The following summarizes the material terms of various agreements and arrangements that we have entered into with our directors, executive officers, affiliates, including SCJ and Unilever, and other beneficial owners of our company.

Relationships with S.C. Johnson & Son

Until 1999, we were a wholly owned subsidiary of SCJ, a leading manufacturer and marketer of branded consumer products for air care, home cleaning, insect control, home food management and personal care that Samuel Curtis Johnson founded in 1886. In November 1999, we were separated from SCJ in a tax-free spin-off to descendants of Samuel Curtis Johnson and the other stockholders of SCJ. In connection with the 1999 spin-off, we entered into a number of agreements relating to the separation from SCJ and the ongoing relationship of the two companies after the spin-off. A number of these agreements relate to our ordinary course of business, while others pertain to our historical relationship with SCJ and our former status as a wholly owned subsidiary of SCJ. The material terms of these agreements, amendments to these agreements and other agreements and arrangements entered into since the 1999 spin-off are summarized below.

Leases. We have entered into several leases with SCJ for space in SCJ’s Waxdale manufacturing facility. Under two short-term leases, we lease about 45,600 square feet of manufacturing space for our professional business and about 17,000 square feet of manufacturing space for our polymer business. These leases expire on July 2, 2006, and automatically renew for additional one-year terms, unless terminated earlier. Under two long-term leases, we lease about 180,000 square feet of manufacturing space for our professional business and about 144,000 square feet of manufacturing space for our polymer business. These long-term leases expire on July 2, 2009, and automatically renew for additional five-year terms, unless terminated earlier. Each lease may be terminated by SCJ as a result of an event of default under the lease, if the license agreements or technology disclosure and license agreement referred to below terminate, or upon prior notice by SCJ of 18 months in the case of the long-term lease for our professional business, 30 months in the case of the long-term lease for our polymer business and six months in the case of both short-term leases. In addition, if the long-term lease for our polymer business is terminated under specified circumstances by either party, we must pay to SCJ an amount equal to the then-current net book value of the rented space. For the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, we paid SCJ an aggregate of $3.1 million, $3.2 million and $2.7 million, respectively, under the Waxdale leases. In addition to the Waxdale leases, we lease facilities in Japan from SCJ under the Administration Services and Shared Services Agreements described below.

License Agreements. Under a license agreement, SCJ has granted us an exclusive license to use specified trade names, housemarks and brand names incorporating “Johnson” (including “Johnson Wax Professional”) and “Drackett,” including the right to use “Johnson” with our owned trade name “Diversey,” in the institutional and industrial channels of trade and in specified channels of trade approved by SCJ in which both our professional business and SCJ’s consumer business operate, which we refer to as “cross-over” channels of trade. SCJ has the unilateral right to eliminate any existing, or to withhold approval of any proposed future, cross-over channels of trade (including cross-over channels of trade in which DiverseyLever products are sold by us after the closing of the acquisition) and can terminate the license agreement if we sell any products in the cross-over channels of trade that are not authorized under the license agreement. SCJ has also granted us a license to use specified SCJ brand names in connection with various products sold in institutional and industrial channels of trade and the cross-over channels of trade. We have the right to grant sublicenses under the license agreement to our subsidiaries.

Under this license agreement, we are required to pay SCJ a royalty fee equal to 4% of our and our sub licensees’ net sales of the products bearing the SCJ brand names. The license agreement also provides for a royalty fee equal to 6% for SCJ brand names added after January 1, 2003, and for certain products having SCJ brand names that are actually produced by SCJ. For the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, we paid SCJ a total royalty fee of $4.5 million, $4.5 million and $4.1 million, respectively. Pursuant to an adjustment clause in the license agreement, as of May 1, 2007, the royalty rate on products at the 4% rate will increase to 6%.

 

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The license agreement terminates on May 2, 2011, and may be extended to May 2, 2012, provided the license agreement has not been terminated by SCJ prior to May 2, 2006. Thereafter, the license agreement automatically renews for successive two-year terms. The license agreement automatically terminates if:

 

  •   we, Holdings or Holdco undergo a change of control;

 

  •   prior to the spin-off of any subsidiary, we fail to change the name of that subsidiary to a name that does not include “Johnson”;

 

  •   we make any assignment for the benefit of creditors, a trustee or receiver is appointed to administer our business or we are in voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy;

 

  •   a country or governmental entity nationalizes or acquires any interest in us; or

 

  •   if we, Holdings, Holdco or any of the sub licensees enters into a joint venture, co- marketing arrangement, or other strategic alliance with a competitor of SCJ, or 10% or more of the voting shares or other issued and outstanding equity interests of us, Holdings, Holdco or any of the sub licensees is acquired by a competitor of SCJ or if the license agreement is directly or indirectly assigned, assumed or in any way transferred to a competitor of SCJ.

SCJ may terminate the license agreement in whole or in part:

 

  •   if we or any of our sub licensees are in material breach of the license agreement;

 

  •   for any actions by us or our sub licensees that are detrimental to the best interests of SCJ or the goodwill of any trade name, housemark or trademark, as determined by the board of directors of SCJ;

 

  •   if Unilever transfers any of its ownership interest in us or Holdings to a third party;

 

  •   if any rights under the license agreement are assigned or transferred;

 

  •   if any of the following has occurred or is continuing with respect to indebtedness under any agreement or arrangement under which indebtedness of at least $25 million is outstanding: (1) we, Holdings or any subsidiary fail to make any payment in respect of indebtedness when due, (2) any event occurs that results in acceleration of indebtedness, or (3) any event or condition occurs that permits the lenders under the senior secured credit agreement for our senior secured credit facilities or that permits a holder of the senior subordinated notes or of the senior discount notes of Holdings to accelerate the indebtedness there under; or

 

  •   if we or any of our affiliates promote, market, sell or distribute, directly or indirectly, including through a joint venture, co-marketing arrangement or other strategic alliance, outside of the industrial channels of trade and the cross-over channels of trade, any product that competes with SCJ’s consumer branded products (unless permitted by SCJ).

In some circumstances, however, instead of terminating, the license agreement will convert into a license to use only the trade names and housemarks involving combinations of “Johnson” and “Diversey” until May 2, 2012.

In the event any dispute arising under the license agreement cannot be resolved through negotiation, the dispute will either be referred to the board of directors or chairman of the board of SCJ, depending on the nature of the dispute. In either case, the chairman of the board has ultimate authority to resolve the dispute, and we cannot challenge that decision.

In addition, we have a license agreement with SCJ under which SCJ has granted us a license to use the Johnson trade name and housemark in our polymer business, the terms of which are similar to those of the license agreement discussed above. We do not, however, pay any fees to SCJ under the license agreement relating to our polymer business.

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technology being used by that party in connection with products sold by that party under its own brand names and in its own channels of trade. The technology disclosure and license agreement also provides guidelines pursuant to which the parties may voluntarily disclose and sublicense to each other new technologies that they develop internally, acquire or license from third parties. The technology disclosure and license agreement terminates on May 2, 2011, and will extend automatically to May 2, 2012, if the license agreement has not been terminated by SCJ prior to May 2, 2006. Thereafter, the license agreement automatically renews for successive two-year terms. The licenses granted to us and Johnson Polymer terminate upon the occurrence of specified bankruptcy or insolvency-related events involving us or Johnson Polymer or upon thirty days’ notice of an uncured material breach by us or Johnson Polymer. No fees are paid under the technology disclosure and license agreement.

After our 1999 separation from SCJ, SCJ continued to operate the professional and polymer businesses in various countries in which we did not have operations. Under a territorial license agreement, we license the intellectual property rights to SCJ to allow it to manufacture and sell our products in those countries. Under this agreement, SCJ pays a royalty fee based on its and its sub licensees’ net sales of products bearing our brand names. This agreement expires on July 2, 2006, but will automatically renew for additional two-year terms. Since the separation, we have established operations in several countries and have purchased the inventory and other assets relating to the professional or polymer business in those countries from SCJ. Amounts paid by SCJ to us under the territorial license agreement during the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004 were not material.

Administrative Services and Shared Services Agreements. We have entered into several administrative services agreements with SCJ. Under these agreements, SCJ provides us with a wide range of central support services. These services include various information technology, office and mail support, property administration, medical center nursing, facilities maintenance and other services. In addition, the agreements provide for the use by us of several administrative and other properties owned by SCJ. Generally, these agreements are for a one-year term but automatically renew for additional one-year terms, unless terminated earlier. SCJ may terminate each agreement under specified circumstances or for any reason by providing prior written notice to us. In addition, SCJ provides us with various business support services pursuant to shared services agreements. For the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, we paid to SCJ an aggregate of $12.2 million, $14.5 million, and $29.8 million, respectively, under all of these administrative services and shared services agreements, including $0, $0, and $11.5 million, respectively, of amounts paid to reimburse SCJ for benefit costs and other miscellaneous costs paid by SCJ on our behalf.

Joint Operating Agreement. Holdco, our indirect parent, is party to a joint operating agreement with SCJ, dated June 17, 1999, governing the use of several airplanes. Holdco has an 18% ownership interest in those airplanes, and SCJ holds the remaining ownership interests. Under the joint operating agreement, SCJ agreed to provide Holdco with various services relating to the airplanes, including administering the Federal Aviation Administration reporting requirements for Holdco, providing all required maintenance and repairs for the airplanes, providing insurance and risk management services and maintaining qualified licensed pilots to pilot the airplanes. SCJ may not terminate or reduce the level of any service without Holdco’s prior consent. Under the joint operating agreement, Holdco must pay SCJ its proportional share of capital and operating costs for the airplanes. Holdco’s share of the operating costs is based on the relative usage of the airplanes by our employees, and we have agreed to pay its share of the operating costs directly to SCJ. The joint operating agreement terminates on July 2, 2006, and automatically renews for additional one-year terms. The joint operating agreement will also terminate upon a material breach or default under the agreement that is not cured within thirty days of written notice. In addition, the joint operating agreement terminates if at any time the voting control of either party is not directly or indirectly owned by a lineal descendant of Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr., a descendant of Samuel Curtis Johnson. Finally, at any time after the joint operating agreement is terminated, SCJ has the right to purchase Holdco’s ownership interest in the airplanes at the fair market value of the airplanes. For the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, we paid an aggregate of $1.6 million, $841,000, and $938,000, respectively, for operating costs in connection with the joint operating agreement.

Environmental Agreement. Under an environmental agreement with SCJ, SCJ has agreed to bear financial responsibility for, and indemnify us against, specified environmental liabilities existing on June 28, 1997, for sites used in our professional and polymer businesses and for which liability may have been incurred prior to our

 

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separation from SCJ. Under the agreement, we are financially responsible for all other environmental liabilities that arise from or are related to the historic, current and future operation of our business and must indemnify SCJ for any losses associated with these liabilities. Under the agreement, SCJ has the authority to manage any environmental projects as to which circumstances make it appropriate for SCJ to manage the project. Amounts paid by us to SCJ under the environmental agreement during the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004 were not material.

Tax Sharing Agreement. The 1999 separation from SCJ caused us, our subsidiaries and Holdco to cease to be members of the SCJ affiliated tax group and to become a new affiliated tax group headed by Holdco. To allocate responsibility for taxes following the separation, we, Holdco and SCJ entered into a tax sharing agreement. The tax sharing agreement provides generally that the SCJ group is liable for, and will indemnify the Holdco group against, all U.S. federal, state, and non-U.S. taxes for all periods before the separation; however, we are responsible for the payment to the SCJ group of our own share of taxes before the separation. For periods after the separation, the SCJ group is responsible for its own taxes, but not the taxes of the Holdco group. The tax sharing agreement also requires the parties to make adjustments for differences between the SCJ group’s tax liability under the consolidated tax returns filed for periods before the separation and what the parties’ respective liabilities would have been for the same periods had they filed separate returns. For those periods, we owed SCJ approximately $1.3 million of which $650,000 was paid in October 2002, $300,000 was paid in October 2003, and $350,000 was satisfied by offsetting other U.S. income tax audit adjustments favorable to the Company. In 2005, the Company received $3.8 million from SCJ representing adjustments resulting from the closure of the U.S. income tax audit for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2000 and June 29, 2001. The $3.8 million, however, is subject to further adjustment as a result of current and potential future tax audits as well as tax carryforward and carryback provisions. Under the tax sharing agreement, SCJ is responsible for any taxes imposed as a result of the separation itself. However, if we or Holdco take any action that is inconsistent with, or fail to take any action required by, the agreement pursuant to which the separation was effected, the parties’ application to the Internal Revenue Service for a determination that the separation would qualify for favorable U.S. federal income tax treatment, or the Internal Revenue Service’s determination, we and Holdco would be responsible for any taxes that result from our action or failure to act. The tax sharing agreement also provides for the conduct of tax audits and contests, and for the retention of records.

Supply Agreements. We have entered into numerous supply and manufacturing agreements with SCJ. Under some of these agreements, we manufacture and supply raw materials and products, including polymers, to SCJ in several countries, including Japan, the Netherlands and the United States. Under other supply and manufacturing agreements, SCJ manufactures and supplies raw materials and products to us in several countries, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Spain, U.K. and the United States. The terms of the agreements range between two to five years, with rights to renew the agreements for additional one-year terms. In general, the agreements terminate for breach or default under the agreements, if a specified insolvency-related event involving either party is commenced or occurs or by mutual agreement. For the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, we paid to SCJ an aggregate of $32.8 million, $29.2 million, and $27.0 million, respectively, under these supply and manufacturing agreements for inventory purchases, and SCJ paid us an aggregate of $25.1 million, $22.8 million, and $23.9 million, respectively, under the agreements for inventory purchases.

Relationships with Other Johnson Family Businesses

We lease office space in Sturtevant, Wisconsin from Willow Holdings, Inc., which is controlled by the descendants of Samuel Curtis Johnson. We entered into this lease on July 1, 2002, and it expires on June 30, 2007. For the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, we paid $789,000, $812,000 and $766,000, respectively, under this lease. In addition, the lease provides for a line of credit not exceeding $1.2 million at an interest rate of 8% per annum from Willow Holdings, LLC to us for the purpose of certain leasehold improvements. At December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, amounts outstanding under this line of credit were $361,000 and $504,000, respectively.

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$167,000 and $104,000 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, respectively. We had no loans outstanding with Johnson Financial Group for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005 or December 31, 2004.

Relationships with Unilever

Prior to our acquisition of the DiverseyLever business in May 2002, DiverseyLever was a division of Unilever and consequently relied on Unilever for various services, including administration, research and development, treasury, legal, tax planning and compliance, and other support services. In addition, DiverseyLever was party to a number of transactions with Unilever, including the sale of products to and the purchase of products from Unilever.

Simultaneously with the closing of the acquisition, we, Holdings, Unilever and some of our affiliates entered into agreements which replaced a number of these prior agreements with Unilever, as well as agreements relating to our governance and the governance of Holdings, commercial relationships and matters arising out of the acquisition. These agreements include a sales agency agreement, various intellectual property agreements, a transitional services agreement, two supply agreements, a stockholders’ agreement, a non-competition agreement and a registration rights agreement relating to the senior discount notes of Holdings. All of the agreements with Unilever were negotiated before Unilever acquired its equity interest in Holdings and its senior discount notes of Holdings and, therefore, are on arms-length terms. We, Holdings and Unilever are also parties to an acquisition agreement that imposes certain on-going obligations on the parties, including indemnity obligations.

Acquisition Agreement.

Initial Acquisition Agreement. At the closing of the acquisition, Unilever transferred the DiverseyLever business to us, Holdings and several of our subsidiaries. All of the assets and operations of the DiverseyLever business acquired by Holdings in the acquisition were subsequently contributed by Holdings to us. In consideration for the DiverseyLever business, Unilever received:

 

  •   a net cash payment in various currencies equivalent to about $1 billion;

 

  •   a one-third equity interest in Holdings; and

 

  •   the senior discount notes of Holdings, which had a principal amount at issuance of about $241 million and are recorded on Holdings’ financial statements.

Post-Closing Adjustments to Consideration. The acquisition agreement provides for various adjustments to the consideration for the DiverseyLever business paid by us and Holdings to Unilever if, at closing, (1) the net debt of the DiverseyLever business or (2) the working capital of the DiverseyLever business, was less or more than the amounts estimated by the parties. In addition, the amount paid by Unilever as its subscription price for its equity interest in Holdings is subject to adjustment if, at closing, (1) our net debt or (2) our working capital, was less or more than the amounts estimated by the parties. The acquisition agreement provides that any adjustments to the consideration or subscription price resulting from differences in net debt or working capital of us or the DiverseyLever business at the closing of the acquisition from the estimated amounts will be paid:

 

  •   in the case of an excess or shortfall of the net debt or working capital of the DiverseyLever business, subject to a $1 million deductible in the case of any working capital adjustment, 100% in cash to us if net debt was more or working capital was less at closing than the estimated amounts and 100% in cash to Unilever if net debt was less or working capital was greater at closing than the estimated amounts, each payable together with interest from and including the closing date at an agreed rate within five business days following final determination of the adjustment amount; and

 

  •   in the case of an excess or shortfall of the net debt or working capital of us, in an amount equal to (1) the product of the amount of that excess or shortfall (subject to a $1 million deductible in the case of any working capital adjustment), together with interest from and including the closing date at an agreed rate,

 

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and, (2) multiplied by 1.5, that amount payable on the date on which Unilever ceases to hold its equity interest in Holdings. Any amount paid by us to Unilever is intended to make Unilever whole with respect to its portion of any excess in net debt or deficit in our working capital, recognizing Unilever’s one-third equity interest in Holdings; similarly, any amount paid by Unilever to us is intended to make us whole with respect to its portion of any deficit in net debt or excess in our working capital, recognizing Holdco’s two-thirds equity interest in Holdings.

In July 2002, we and Unilever determined the net debt adjustments to (1) the purchase price for the DiverseyLever business and (2) the subscription price Unilever paid for its one-third equity interest in Holdings. We and Unilever agreed that DiverseyLever’s net debt at closing was less than estimated amounts, resulting in an adjustment to the purchase price for the DiverseyLever business equal to 100% of such amount, plus interest, in cash to Unilever. The adjustment was determined to be about $15.3 million, of which about $5.6 million was paid by us to Unilever in July 2002 and the balance was paid in February 2003. In addition, we and Unilever agreed that our net debt at closing exceeded estimated amounts by about $23.5 million. This will result in a reduction to Unilever’s subscription price for its equity interest in Holdings of about $11.8 million according to the formula described above. Under the acquisition agreement, we will pay this amount on behalf of Holdings, together with interest from and including the closing date (in accordance with the formula described above), to Unilever on the date on which Unilever ceases to hold its equity interest in Holdings. See “—Stockholders’ Agreement—Put and Call Options.”

In November 2002, we agreed with Unilever that we would pay to Unilever about $33.6 million, representing the working capital adjustment to the purchase price for the DiverseyLever business. We paid this amount to Unilever during the fourth quarter of 2002. Also, based on our final pre-closing balance sheet, a comparison was made of the final working capital amount to a predetermined working capital amount set forth in the acquisition agreement. Because our final working capital amount exceeded the predetermined amount, we anticipate that Unilever will be required to pay to us about $30.9 million, representing an adjustment to the subscription price for Unilever’s equity interest in Holdings. However, Unilever would be required to pay the final agreed amount, together with interest from and including the closing date (in accordance with the formula described above), to us on the date on which Unilever ceases to hold its equity interest in Holdings.

At the closing of the acquisition, post-employment benefit liabilities in respect of pre-closing service of DiverseyLever business employees and, in some cases, former employees, under most employee benefit plans maintained by Unilever were transferred to us or our employee benefit plans. To the extent that the value of any employee benefit plan assets transferred differed from the value of the transferred liabilities, in each case calculated as provided in the acquisition agreement and using actuarial methods and assumptions specified therein, the excess or shortfall, as the case may be, adjusted in some cases by a tax adjustment factor, is to be paid as an adjustment to purchase price for the DiverseyLever business (1) by us to Unilever in the case of any excess or (2) to us by Unilever in the case of any shortfall. Unilever may defer and pay to us with interest up to the time Unilever ceases to own any equity interest in Holdings, up to 75% of any shortfall attributable to transferred liabilities under unfunded post-employment benefit plans.

Based on a determination of the transferred pension assets and liabilities relating to specified plans we assumed in the acquisition, Unilever agreed to pay to us an aggregate of about $115 million, representing an adjustment to the purchase price for the DiverseyLever business. The majority of this adjustment is to be paid by Unilever once the amounts are agreed in respect of a plan, with the remainder to be paid, together with interest from and including the closing date, on the date on which Unilever ceases to hold its equity interest in Holdings. As of December 30, 2005, we had received about $88.7 million, representing a portion of Unilever’s payment of the transferred pension adjustment. The transferred pension adjustment represents the shortfall of transferred pension assets relative to liabilities, adjusted for tax, if applicable. Under the acquisition agreement, if the transferred assets are less than 90% of the value of the transferred liabilities of specified DiverseyLever pension plans, we are required to use the amounts received from Unilever in connection with the transferred pension adjustment to fund those plans up to 90% of the value of the transferred liabilities. Any amount received from Unilever over the required funding level may be used by us for other purposes. As of December 30, 2005, we had contributed an aggregate of about $43.5 million, including interest to the pension plans, fulfilling the funding obligations under the acquisition agreement.

 

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The purchase price of the DiverseyLever business is also subject to adjustment relating to pension expenses of DiverseyLever’s employee benefit plans for the twelve-months ended June 29, 2001. This adjustment has been finalized and agreed to with Unilever with them required to pay us $9.9 million. We have received $9.9 million in cash as of December 30, 2005.

Warranty Indemnity. In connection with the acquisition, Unilever made representations and warranties to us in respect of the DiverseyLever business. In addition, in connection with the issuance to Unilever of the one-third equity interest in Holdings and the senior discount notes of Holdings, we made representations and warranties to Unilever, which are customary in this kind of transaction.

Subject to the limitations on indemnity described below, the parties will generally be liable for damages in the event of a breach of any warranty, other than damages less than $250,000 per occurrence, as well as for some specific losses and claims. Most claims for breaches of warranty must have been brought on or prior to May 2, 2004, while claims under some warranties are subject to longer time limits.

Unilever generally will not be liable for any damages in respect of breaches of its warranties, excluding environmental warranties, unless (1) the amount of damages in respect of any individual breach of its warranties exceeds $250,000 per occurrence and (2) the aggregate amount of damages in respect of breaches of its warranties, excluding environmental warranties, exceeds $30 million. Once the $30 million threshold is reached, Unilever will not be liable for any occurrence where the damages are less than $250,000 or for the first $15 million of damages that exceed the $250,000 per occurrence threshold. In any event, Unilever will not be liable for any damages, excluding environmental claims, which exceed $500 million in the aggregate.

We generally will not be liable for any damages in respect of our breaches of warranty, excluding environmental warranties, unless (1) the amount of damages in respect of any individual breach of our warranties exceeds $250,000 per occurrence and (2) the aggregate amount of damages in respect of breaches of our warranties exceeds $7 million. Once the $7 million threshold is reached, we will not be liable for any occurrence where the damages are less than $250,000 or for the first $3.5 million of damages that exceed the $250,000 per occurrence threshold. In any event, we will not be liable for any damages, excluding environmental claims, which exceed $120 million in the aggregate.

Other Indemnities. Unilever will also indemnify us for, among other things, damages arising out of or resulting from:

 

  •   liabilities expressly retained by Unilever and its affiliates, including some of their discontinued businesses and some ongoing litigation of the DiverseyLever business;

 

  •   specified liabilities with respect to the operation of the DiverseyLever business prior to closing relating to Unilever’s failure to comply with environmental laws and pre-closing discharges or contaminations at, of or relating to DiverseyLever facilities or waste disposal sites;

 

  •   specified liabilities relating to pre-closing taxes; and

 

  •   specified liabilities relating to employee benefits, including Unilever’s failure to comply with certain legal and regulatory requirements with respect to those employee benefits.

With respect to environmental matters, including environmental warranties, Unilever will not be liable for any damages (1) in the case of known environmental matters or breaches, that are less than $250,000 in the aggregate, and (2) in the case of unknown environmental matters or breaches, that are less than $50,000 individually and $2 million in the aggregate. In the case of clause (1) above, we will bear the first $250,000 in damages. In the case of clause (2) above, once the $2 million threshold is reached, Unilever will not be liable for any occurrence where the damages are less than $50,000 or for the first $1 million of damages that exceed the $50,000 per occurrence threshold. In no event will Unilever be liable for any damages arising out of or resulting from environmental claims that exceed $250 million in the aggregate. We have submitted indemnification claims to Unilever regarding ten DiverseyLever locations and may file additional claims in the future. Although Unilever has acknowledged receipt of the indemnification claims, it has not notified us as to whether it will indemnify us for those claims.

 

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We will also indemnify Unilever for, among other things, damages arising out of or resulting from:

 

  •   liabilities we assume in connection with the acquisition;

 

  •   liabilities relating to some of our discontinued businesses;

 

  •   specified liabilities with respect to our operation prior to the closing of the acquisition relating to our failure to comply with environmental laws and pre-closing discharges or contaminations at, of or relating to our facilities or waste disposal sites;

 

  •   specified liabilities relating to post-closing taxes; and

 

  •   specified liabilities relating to employee benefits, including our failure to comply with certain legal and regulatory requirements with respect to these employee benefits.

With respect to environmental matters, including environmental warranties, we will not be liable for any damages (1) in the case of known matters or breaches, that are less than $250,000 in the aggregate, and (2) in the case of unknown matters or breaches, that are less than $50,000 individually and $2 million in the aggregate. In the case of clause (1) above, Unilever will bear the first $250,000 in damages. In the case of clause (2) above, once the $2 million threshold is reached, we will not be liable for any occurrence where the damages are less than $50,000 or for the first $1 million of damages that exceed the $50,000 per occurrence threshold. In no event will we be liable for any damages arising out of or resulting from environmental claims that exceed $60 million in the aggregate.

Indemnification Payments. Any damages for which we indemnify Unilever will be paid in cash at the time the damages are finally determined until the aggregate of the damages equals $17 million. Thereafter, any damages for which we indemnify Unilever will, with limited exceptions, be deferred and paid in cash on the date Unilever and its affiliates cease to own any equity interest in Holdings.

Prior to the date on which Unilever ceases to own any equity interest in Holdings, any damages for which Unilever indemnifies us will be paid two-thirds in cash at the time the damages are finally determined and one-third in cash on the date on which Unilever ceases to own any equity interest in Holdings.

In calculating the amount of damages for which we will indemnify Unilever, the provisions of the acquisition agreement operate to make Unilever whole, but not more than whole, taking into account Unilever’s equity interest in Holdings, as it may decrease or cease to exist over time, and whether the price paid by Holdings to Unilever for any of its equity has been reduced to reflect any damages for which we are liable. This is accomplished by means of a gross-up to the amount of damages suffered and, in the case of damages suffered directly by us, by allocating one-third, or such lower number as represents Unilever’s equity interest in Holdings from time to time, of damages to Unilever. Accordingly, the following rules apply in calculating the amount of damages:

 

  •   if Unilever or another indemnified party actually pays, suffers or incurs damages, the damages will be paid dollar-for-dollar by us and Holdings on a grossed-up basis; and

 

  •   if we or Holdings pay, suffer or incur damages, one-third, or such lower number as represents Unilever’s equity interest in Holdings from time to time, of the damages will be paid by us and Holdings on a grossed-up basis.

After the date on which Unilever and its affiliates cease to own any equity interest in Holdings, any damages for which we indemnify Unilever will be paid 100% in cash at the time those damages are finally determined.

 

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Stockholders’ Agreement.

In connection with the acquisition of the DiverseyLever business, Holdings and its stockholders, Holdco and Marga B.V., entered into a stockholders’ agreement relating to, among other things:

 

  •   restrictions on the transfer of Holdings’ shares held by the stockholders;

 

  •   Holdings’ corporate governance, including board and committee representation and stockholder approval provisions;

 

  •   the put and call options described under the caption “—Put and Call Options;”

 

  •   the payments described under the caption “—Contingent Payments;” and

 

  •   various other rights and obligations of Holdings and its stockholders, such as provisions relating to delivery of and access to financial and other information, payment of dividends and indemnification of directors, officers and stockholders.

Marga B.V.’s obligations under the stockholders’ agreement are guaranteed by Unilever N.V.

In December 2005, Unilever approved and Holdings declared and paid, a special dividend payment of $35.2 million to Holdco in order to facilitate the cash requirements of the Holdco tender offer. In consideration of the special dividend, Holdings, Holdco and Unilever agreed to amend the stockholders’ agreement. The amendment effectively increases the amount of the purchase price to be paid to Unilever at the time Unilever ceases to own any equity interest in Holdings by approximately $13.1million plus applicable interest from the date the special dividend was paid to Holdco.

Put and Call Options. Under the stockholders’ agreement, at any time after May 3, 2007, Holdings has the option to purchase, and Unilever has the right to require Holdings to purchase, the shares then beneficially owned by Unilever. Any exercise by Holdings of its call option must be for at least 50% of each of the shares beneficially owned by Unilever. Any exercise by Unilever of its put option must be for all of its shares.

Before May 3, 2010, Holdings’ obligations in connection with a put by Unilever are conditioned on a refinancing of our and Holdings’ indebtedness, including indebtedness under our senior subordinated notes and our senior secured credit facilities. In connection with the put, Holdings must use its reasonable best efforts prior to May 3, 2009, and its best efforts after that date, to consummate a refinancing and may be required to purchase less than all of the shares subject to the put under some circumstances. If Holdings purchases less than all of the shares subject to a put, Unilever may again put its remaining shares after a specified suspension period.

Following the exercise by Unilever of its put rights, if Holdings fails to purchase all of Unilever’s shares for cash by May 3, 2010, it must issue a promissory note to Unilever in exchange for the remaining shares. The maturity date of the promissory note will be either 90 days or one year after its issuance, depending on the level of Unilever’s ownership interest in Holdings at that time. The terms of the promissory note will provide Unilever with rights similar to its rights as a stockholder under the stockholders’ agreement, including board representation, veto and access and informational rights. The promissory note will contain various subordination provisions in relation to our and Holdings’ indebtedness.

If, after May 3, 2010, Unilever has not been paid cash with respect to its put option, Unilever may also:

 

  •   require Holdings to privately sell Unilever’s shares or other shares of Holdings’ capital stock to a third party; and

 

  •   require Holdings to sell our polymer and/or Japan businesses.

The exercise of these remedies, other than sales of Unilever’s shares, is subject to compliance with the agreements relating to our and Holdings’ indebtedness.

 

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The price for Holdings’ shares subject to a put or call option will be based on Holdings’ enterprise value at the time the relevant option is exercised, plus its cash and minus its indebtedness.

Holdings’ enterprise value cannot be less than eight times the EBITDA of Holdings and its subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, for the preceding four fiscal quarters, as calculated in accordance with the terms of the stockholders’ agreement. If Holdings, Unilever and their respective financial advisors cannot agree on an enterprise value, the issue will be submitted to an independent third-party for determination.

If Holdings purchases less than all of the shares beneficially owned by Unilever in connection with the exercise of the put or call option, Unilever may elect to fix the price for its remaining shares not purchased. If Unilever does not elect to fix the price, the price will float and a new price will be determined based on the enterprise value the next time a put or call option is exercised.

Contingent Payments. Under the stockholders’ agreement, Holdings may be required to make payments to Unilever in each year from 2007 through 2010 so long as Unilever continues to beneficially own 5% or more of Holdings’ outstanding shares. The amount of each payment will be equal to 25% of the amount by which the cumulative cash flows of Holdings and its subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, for the period from May 3, 2002, through the end of the fiscal year preceding the payment (not including any cash flow with respect to which Unilever received a payment in a prior year), exceeds:

 

  •   $727 million in 2006;

 

  •   $975 million in 2007;

 

  •   $1,200 million in 2008; and

 

  •   $1,425 million in 2009.

The aggregate amount of all these payments cannot exceed $100 million. Payment of these amounts is subject to compliance with the agreements relating to Holdings’ and our senior indebtedness including, without limitation, the senior discount notes of Holdings, our senior subordinated notes and our senior secured credit facilities.

Transfer Restrictions. Under the stockholders’ agreement, a stockholder controlled by Unilever may only transfer its shares of Holdings to another entity of which Unilever owns at least an 80% interest, and a stockholder controlled by Holdco may transfer its shares of Holdings to another entity of which Holdco owns at least an 80% interest.

Corporate Governance. Holdings’ board of directors consists of eleven directors, including five independent directors appointed by Holdco. So long as Unilever beneficially owns at least 20% of Holdings’ outstanding shares, it is entitled to nominate two directors to Holdings’ board of directors. If Unilever beneficially owns less than 20% but at least 5% of Holdings’ outstanding shares, it will be entitled to nominate one director. Holdco has agreed to vote its shares of Holdings to cause the board of directors to include the directors nominated by Unilever if Unilever satisfies the conditions above. Under the stockholders’ agreement, a Unilever director representative will continue to sit on the Compensation Committee of Holdings’ board of directors. Unilever has also designated one of its director representatives to be an observer to attend, but not vote at, meetings of the Audit Committee. In addition, the authority of Holdings’ board of directors with respect to specified formal bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings will be exercised by a special bankruptcy committee constituted in accordance with the terms of Holdings’ bylaws and the stockholders’ agreement. The stockholders’ agreement and Holdings’ certificate of incorporation generally require, with specified exceptions, the approval of stockholders holding more than 90% of Holdings’ outstanding shares before Holdings or its subsidiaries can affect various transactions, including, among others, transactions relating to:

 

  •   any acquisition or disposition or any joint venture, alliance or capital project having an aggregate fair market value or which will result in aggregate expenditures or payments in excess of (1) $50 million individually, or (2) $10 million individually and $100 million collectively with other transactions entered into in the immediately preceding twelve months;

 

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  •   the issuance of any additional shares of capital stock, common stock equivalents, or other equity or equity-related interests;

 

  •   any merger, consolidation or similar business combination or any sale of all or substantially all of the assets or equity or any reorganization or recapitalization having similar effect;

 

  •   a liquidation or dissolution;

 

  •   the purchase or investment of a minority equity investment or investment in the nature of indebtedness with a fair market value or resulting in payments that exceed $10 million;

 

  •   the entering into of any material line of business unrelated to the business of Holdings and its subsidiaries as of May 3, 2002;

 

  •   the closing, winding-up, discontinuation or other exiting or termination of any line of business, if such line of business generated more than $5 million of annualized EBITDA;

 

  •   the modification of the policies governing dividends or distributions to Holdings’ stockholders or the declaration by Holdings of dividends or distributions in violation of that policy;

 

  •   the incurrence of specified types of additional indebtedness;

 

  •   the settlement of any legal proceedings that would impose any material restrictions on the operations of Holdings and its subsidiaries or involve amounts in excess of $10 million, except for proceedings covered by insurance;

 

  •   any change in independent registered public accounting firm;

 

  •   specified transactions with affiliates of Holdco, including SCJ;

 

  •   the redemption or retirement of any of Holdings’ common stock or other equity securities or common stock equivalents;

 

  •   any amendment of Holdings’ certificate of incorporation, bylaws or audit or Compensation Committee charters, with specified exceptions;

 

  •   the adoption of any stock option or employee stock ownership plan or the issuance of any equity securities under any stock plan; and

 

  •   the adoption of any new, or amendment of existing, employee benefit plans that would result in increases above specified levels in annual costs of benefits, with specified exceptions.

The stockholders’ agreement also requires that agreements, contracts, arrangements or transactions relating to the compensation of our officers and directors be approved by the Compensation Committee of Holdings’ board of directors. The stockholders’ agreement requires that Holdings’ board of directors’ review, consider and approve annual capital and operating budgets, and strategic plans prepared from time to time. The stockholders’ agreement also requires that Holdings’ board of directors approve the initiation of various material legal proceedings by or on behalf of us or Holdings and any subsidiary.

Stockholder Indemnification. Under the stockholders’ agreement, Holdings will indemnify Unilever and its affiliates, officers, directors and employees against all costs arising out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in specified documents filed with the SEC or provided to prospective investors or the omission or alleged omission from those documents of a material fact required to be stated in the documents or necessary to make the statements in the documents, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, if, and only to the extent, that those costs arise from Unilever or its affiliate, officer, director or employee being determined to be a person who controls Holdings within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act of 1933. This indemnification does not apply to any costs to the extent arising out of any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to Holdings for inclusion in any document described above by Unilever or any of its affiliates (other than Holdings), including any financial statements required to be delivered under the acquisition agreement.

 

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Unilever will indemnify and hold Holdings harmless from and against any and all costs arising out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in specified documents filed by Holdings with the SEC or provided to prospective investors, or the omission or alleged omission from a document of a material fact required to be stated in that document or necessary to make the statements in that document, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, if and only to the extent that the untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in that document in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to Holdings for inclusion in any document described above by Unilever or any of its affiliates (other than Holdings), including any financial statements required to be delivered under the acquisition.

Term. The stockholders’ agreement terminates, with respect to a stockholder, after its affiliates no longer own any shares of Holdings, and with respect to Unilever, after Unilever no longer beneficially owns any of the shares of Holdings or, if issued, the promissory note of Holdings to Unilever in exchange for shares put by Unilever. See “—Put and Call Options.”

Sales Agency Agreement

In connection with the acquisition of the DiverseyLever business, we and various of our subsidiaries entered into a sales agency agreement with Unilever whereby, subject to limited exceptions, we and various of our subsidiaries act as Unilever’s exclusive sales agents in the sale of certain of Unilever’s consumer brand cleaning products to institutional and industrial end-users in most countries where DiverseyLever conducted its business prior to the closing of the acquisition. In turn, we and our subsidiaries have agreed that we will not act on behalf of any other third parties in the sale or promotion of those parties’ products if the products are similar to products we are selling for Unilever as its agents, except with respect to sales of products for affiliates or under arrangements existing on May 3, 2002. The sales agency agreement terminates on May 2, 2007; however, we are currently in negotiations with Unilever to replace this arrangement with a product licensing agreement prior to the expiration of the sales agency agreement.

In exchange for our and our subsidiaries’ sales agency services, which include sales, promotion, collection and after-sales technical support and customer care, we and our subsidiaries are paid an agency fee. The agency fee is determined separately for each territory. The agency fee, expressed as a percentage of the net proceeds of sales, covers specified pre-determined costs for that territory based upon the costs incurred by the DiverseyLever business prior to May 3, 2002, plus one half of the EBITDA margin of all territories combined, both for the twelve months ended June 30, 2001. In any given year, for amounts sold in excess of targeted sales, the agency fee will be one-half of the regular amount. The targeted sales amount will equal the net proceeds of sales for the twelve months ended June 30, 2001, subject to change through indexation.

In addition to the agency fee, we and our subsidiaries are paid an additional agency fee per territory based on agreed-upon multipliers of the total amount of specified non-variable costs for each territory for the twelve months ended June 30, 2001. This additional agency fee is payable upon the termination of the entire agreement. A portion of the fee attributable to a territory is payable earlier if the sales agency agreement is terminated in part with respect to that territory, or, if we elect, if sales in that territory drop below 90% of the targeted sales for a given year.

Subject to paying the additional agency fee, with specified exceptions, Unilever may terminate the sales agency agreement in whole if sales drop below 75% of the targeted sales for the whole area for a given year or in part, by territory, if sales drop below 75% of the targeted sales for a territory or territories for a given year. Unilever may also terminate the sales agency agreement for specified other reasons, including insolvency and change of control.

While the agency fee contemplates historical levels and rates of enforcement and collection of bad debts, we are responsible for 100% of all bad debts, if any, in excess of these historical levels until the bad debt rate rises to twice as high as those historical levels, at which time the parties will begin to share equally the costs of those bad debts.

 

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Due to pre-existing contractual obligations with SCJ, we and our subsidiaries may not sell any products as agent for Unilever in some channels of trade that are not exclusively institutional and industrial, and we and our subsidiaries may not sell some products, such as general cleaning products, in any channels of trade that are not exclusively institutional and industrial. The sales agency agreement carves out these restricted channels of trade and products and allows Unilever to make sales associated with these channels of trade and products directly or through another agent or distributor. Our agreements with SCJ do not affect our or our subsidiaries’ ability to sell products on behalf of Unilever in exclusively institutional and industrial channels of trade.

Under the sales agency agreement, the parties will generally be liable for damages in the event of a breach of their obligations, as well as for some specific losses and claims, including losses resulting from termination of employees, product recalls, product warranty or product liability. In addition, in the case of a willful breach, the parties may be liable for loss of profits, loss of margin, loss of contract, loss of goodwill or any other indirect, special or consequential losses resulting from that breach. The aggregate liabilities of the parties under the sales agency agreement may not exceed €20 million for us and €10 million for Unilever. Unilever’s indemnification limit does not include its obligation to pay the additional agency fee described above. For the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, we received an aggregate of $94.1 million, $93.0 million and $86.9 million, respectively, in agency fees from Unilever under the sales agency agreement.

Intellectual Property Agreements

Retained Technology License Agreement. In connection with the acquisition of the DiverseyLever business, we entered into a retained technology license agreement with Unilever under which Unilever has granted us a license of the patents, design rights, copyrights and know-how used in the DiverseyLever business, during the period from July 1, 2000, through May 3, 2002, but that were retained by Unilever. The patents, design rights, copyrights and know-how that were retained by Unilever are those patents, design rights, copyrights and know-how that were either used in Unilever’s businesses, in addition to the DiverseyLever business, or are those specified patents that are the subject of retained litigation or license agreements that restrict assignments. In this annual report, these specified patents are referred to as the “restricted patents.” Under the retained technology license agreement, Unilever has granted us:

 

  •   a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual license (with a right to freely sublicense) of the proprietary know-how, trade secrets, unregistered design rights and copyrights used in the DiverseyLever business at any time during the period from July 1, 2000, through May 3, 2002, and owned by Unilever on May 3, 2002;

 

  •   a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual license of specified Unilever patents in the professional market (with rights to sublicense to our subsidiaries and affiliates and to the extent sublicenses were in effect in the DiverseyLever business on May 3, 2002); and

 

  •   a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license of the restricted patents for all purposes, with a right to freely sublicense, in all jurisdictions in which the restricted patents are in effect.

The licenses to use Unilever’s intellectual property described above are irrevocable, subject to various exceptions described in the retained technology license agreement. Unilever’s ability to grant any further licenses of the patents in the professional market prior to May 2, 2005 is subject to specified conditions in the retained technology license agreement, and Unilever has agreed not to grant any further licenses of the restricted patents for any purpose, except to the extent necessary to resolve litigation or a dispute. Unilever has also agreed not to engage in any acts that would infringe on the restricted patents.

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us. We may terminate the retained technology license agreement at any time by providing written notice to Unilever. Unilever may terminate the patent licenses granted to us if we challenged the validity of, or Unilever’s ownership of, any of its patents licensed under the retained technology license agreement or if we are in material or persistent breach of any provision of the retained technology license agreement and, if the breach is curable, have not cured the breach within ten business days after receipt of notice of the breach.

Transferred Technology License Agreement. On May 3, 2002, we entered into a transferred technology license agreement with Unilever under which we have granted a license to Unilever to use specified intellectual property rights (other than patents and registered designs) and specified patents and registered designs that were transferred to us as part of the acquisition. Under the transferred technology license agreement, we have granted to Unilever:

 

  •   a nonexclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual license of the transferred technology (with a right to freely sublicense), provided that Unilever may use the trademarks included in the transferred technology only in relation to goods and services in respect of, and only in countries in, which the trademarks were used on May 3, 2002; and

 

  •   a nonexclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license of the transferred patents in the consumer brands business of Unilever and for developing, manufacturing, marketing, distributing, keeping, importing and selling specified products permitted under the transferred technology license agreement, in all jurisdictions in which the transferred patents are in effect.

With respect to each licensed patent, the license will terminate upon the expiration of the particular patent, unless the patent is terminated or held invalid sooner. The license granted with respect to copyrights, unregistered design rights and know-how will exist until expiry of the relevant rights unless terminated earlier by Unilever. Unilever may terminate the transferred technology license agreement at any time upon providing written notice to us. We may terminate the license of the transferred patents if:

 

  •   Unilever challenges the validity of our ownership of any of the transferred patents;

 

  •   Unilever is in material or persistent breach of a provision of the transferred technology license agreement and, if the breach is curable, has not cured the breach within ten business days after receipt of notice of the breach; or

 

  •   a specified insolvency-related event involving Unilever is commenced or occurs.

Retained Trademark License Agreement. On May 3, 2002, we entered into a retained trademark license agreement with Unilever under which Unilever has granted us a license to use the “Lever” name in our business. We were also granted the right to use the “Unilever” name. The license terminated on November 2, 2004, but was extended, in certain specific circumstances, until May 2006. Under the retained trademark license agreement, Unilever has granted us an exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense only to our subsidiaries and affiliates) to use the Lever mark in the same combinations and manner in which it was used in the DiverseyLever business on the closing date of the acquisition, and in the word “DiverseyLever” until the license’s expiration, in the same manner and in relation to the same goods and services as those for which the Lever mark was used, and in the countries in which the DiverseyLever business operated, on May 3, 2002. The license does not extend to the dispensed products, which are covered by their own license under the dispensed products license agreement discussed below.

The retained trademark license agreement will continue until the end of the periods for which the license is granted as discussed above. We may terminate the license granted at any time. Unilever may terminate the retained trademark license agreement if:

 

  •   We challenge the validity of or Unilever’s ownership of any rights or registrations in or in relation to any of the trademarks;

 

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  •   We are in breach of provisions of the retained trademark license agreement relating to the use of, or filings for, the trademarks;

 

  •   We are in material or persistent breach of a provision of the retained trademark license agreement and, if the breach is curable, have not cured the breach within fifteen business days after receipt of notice of the breach;

 

  •   We have a change of control; or

 

  •   A specified insolvency-related event involving us is commenced or occurs.

Dispensed Products License Agreement. On May 3, 2002, we entered into a dispensed products license agreement with Unilever under which Unilever has granted us a license to use the trademarks, patents and know-how relating to the products we and our subsidiaries sell for use in our cleaner dispensing systems. Under the dispensed products license agreement, Unilever has granted us:

 

  •   a nonexclusive license (with the right to sublicense only to our subsidiaries and affiliates) to use in specified countries (in accordance with Unilever’s guidelines on use) the relevant trademarks on the corresponding dispensed products manufactured and packed in accordance with Unilever’s technical specifications;

 

  •   a nonexclusive license (with right to sublicense only to our subsidiaries and affiliates) of the patents and know-how relevant to the dispensed products in specified countries to use, keep, produce for sale, make, offer and import for sale and sell the corresponding dispensed products manufactured and packed in accordance with Unilever’s technical specifications and under its trademarks.

Under the dispensed products license agreement, we paid to Unilever a royalty of 4% of the net sales of the dispensed products. We may not use the trademarks or formulation rights other than in the same manner and for the same purposes as they were used in the DiverseyLever business prior to May 3, 2002. For the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, we paid an aggregate of $764,000, $756,000 and $959,000, respectively, to Unilever under the dispensed products license agreement.

The dispensed products license agreement terminates on May 2, 2007. At the end of the term the dispensed products license agreement automatically renews for successive one year periods. Either party may terminate the dispensed products license agreement or the licenses granted under the agreement by providing six months’ written notice prior to any anniversary of the dispensed products license agreement, provided that Unilever may terminate prior to May 2, 2007, only if:

 

  •   We and/or any of our subsidiaries sells a product for use in (or by means of) any dispensing system similar to a specified dispensing system in the dispensed products license agreement, which product is branded with a trademark that is neither licensed under the dispensed products license agreement, owned by us or any of our subsidiaries or affiliates, nor owned by the professional end-user of that product; and

 

  •   Unilever notifies us of those sales, and we do not cease those sales within twenty business days after the notice.

Unilever may also terminate the dispensed products license agreement if:

 

  •   We challenge the validity of or Unilever’s ownership of any rights or registrations in or in relation to any of the licensed rights;

 

  •   We are in breach of the provisions of the dispensed products license agreement that relate to the use of the trademarks and formulation rights and quality control;

 

  •   We are in material or persistent breach of a provision of the dispensed products license agreement and, if the breach is curable, have not cured the breach within fifteen business days after receipt of notice of the breach;

 

  •   We have a change of control; or

 

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  •   A specified insolvency-related event involving us is commenced or occurs.

Transitional Services Agreement

On May 3, 2002, we entered into a transitional services agreement with Unilever relating to a wide range of support services from Unilever and intended to ensure the smooth transition of the DiverseyLever business from Unilever to us. These services included various human resources, information technology, intellectual property administration, analytical, warehousing and transportation, administrative, provision of office space and other services. In addition, Unilever agreed to allow our affiliates access to its computer network under a network access arrangement. The level and manner in which Unilever provides these services generally must be consistent with the level and manner in which they were provided to the DiverseyLever business immediately prior to the closing of the acquisition.

Unilever provided each service for the period agreed upon by the parties, but did not provide any service longer than 24 months, except for redirecting internet traffic to the appropriate new domain name or address, which Unilever provided for up to 30 months. Under the transitional services agreement, Unilever provided most services until May 2, 2003 and, as of December 30, 2005; the services under the transitional services agreement have been terminated.

The price for each service is at cost, and generally was determined in a manner consistent with Unilever’s existing cost allocation methodology. Unilever adjusted the prices from time to time in the ordinary course of business, provided the adjustments reflect the cost for the relevant service. For the fiscal years ended December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, we paid an aggregate of $1.9 million and $9.5 million, respectively, to Unilever under the transitional services agreement. We paid Unilever $912,000 during fiscal 2005 in connection with the continuation of various support services.

Supply Agreements

We entered into two supply agreements with Unilever in connection with the acquisition. Under these agreements, we and Unilever, through the members of our respective groups, manufacture, pack, store and ship products for each other. Under one of the supply agreements, we act as the supplier and Unilever serves as the customer, and under the other agreement the roles are reversed. With the exception of this role reversal and the factories involved, the products that are supplied and some other less significant differences included in the supply agreement under which we act as supplier based on the integration of the DiverseyLever business with us, the two supply agreements are identical.

The supply agreements provide for the supply of all products that Unilever and the DiverseyLever business supplied to one another during the period immediately preceding the closing date of the acquisition. Prices are based on the provisions relating to pricing and terms of payment that existed between Unilever and the DiverseyLever business prior to closing, subject to revision by agreement of the parties.

Each supply agreement remains in effect as to a particular product until that product will not be supplied any longer. We and Unilever may terminate either supply agreement in part or in its entirety in the event of an unremedied serious or persistent breach by the other party, upon a change in control or for any reason on the giving of six months’ written notice. Further, we or Unilever may terminate a particular order upon a breach of the terms of the order that remains uncured for a specified period. Finally, the customer under either supply agreement may terminate the agreement as to products supplied at a particular factory if the supplier does not implement reasonable suggestions that the customer makes, taking into account standards used in the supply of the products in the period immediately prior to the closing of the acquisition, after visiting that factory. For the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, we paid Unilever an aggregate of $52.1 million, $55.4 million and $67.8 million, respectively, and Unilever paid us an aggregate of $44.5 million, $39.4 million and $43.6 million, respectively, under these supply agreements.

 

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Non-Competition Agreement

On May 3, 2002, we and Holdings entered into a non-competition agreement with Unilever. The noncompetition agreement restricted or restricts Unilever and its affiliates from competing with us in the Business (as defined below) (1) in the European Union, until May 2, 2005, and (2) in countries outside of the European Union in which the DiverseyLever business was engaged prior to the acquisition, until May 2, 2007.

For purposes of the non-competition agreement, the term “Business” is defined as the business of:

(1) developing, manufacturing, marketing, distributing and selling to professional end-users and wholesalers, distributors, “cash and carry” outlets or similar resellers who purchase products for resale, directly or indirectly, to professional end-users:

 

  •   fabric care products

 

  •   machine warewashing products

 

  •   kitchen cleaning products

 

  •   personal care products

 

  •   building care products

 

  •   pest control products

 

  •   air cleaning products

 

  •   cleaning and hygiene utensils and paper products,

which, in each case, are marketed and sold

(A) under a “professional brand,” i.e., one used exclusively or primarily on products sold to or for use by commercial, institutional or industrial end-users, or

(B) under a “consumer brand,” i.e., one used exclusively or primarily on products sold to or for use by domestic end-users, and where no equivalent product for the same general purpose is marketed and sold by Unilever or its affiliates in its consumer products business;

(2) developing, manufacturing, marketing, distributing and selling other specified categories of industrial cleaning, hygiene and maintenance products; and

(3) developing, marketing, distributing, selling and providing specified categories of services in relation to the products described above or in connection with the cleaning and hygiene requirements of commercial, institutional and industrial end-users.

Neither Unilever nor any of its affiliates will be in breach of the non-competition agreement if:

 

  •   it acquires a business that includes a competing business if:

(1) the aggregate revenues of the competing business for the twelve months immediately preceding the closing of the acquisition of the acquired business represent less than 33% of the acquired business in the territory covered by the non-competition agreement for the same twelve-month period and Unilever or an affiliate of Unilever uses its reasonable best efforts to sell the competing business within twelve months of the date of acquisition, subject to involving us and Holdings in any auction sales process and to specified other requirements; or

 

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(2) the aggregate revenues of the competing business for the twelve months immediately preceding the closing of the acquisition of the acquired business represent less than $50 million annually in the aggregate or less than $25 million annually in any one country;

 

  •   it continues any operations carried out by Unilever and its affiliates under contracts with us or Holdings or our respective subsidiaries; or

 

  •   it continues to conduct the Business in Cote d’Ivoire, El Salvador, Ecuador, Honduras, Malawi and, pursuant to the distributorship operations of Unilex Cameroun S.A., in Cameroon, in which Unilever retained assets and operations of its institutional cleaning and hygiene business.

Moreover, the non-competition agreement does not prohibit Unilever and its affiliates from engaging in its consumer products business anywhere in the world or developing, manufacturing, marketing, distributing or selling any product which has the same general purpose as the products described in clause (1) of the definition of “Business” above to or for commercial, industrial or institutional end-users if an equivalent product is marketed or sold by Unilever or any of its affiliates in connection with its consumer products business, whether or not the product is reformulated and repackaged for use by commercial, industrial or institutional end-users.

Interests of Our Officers and Directors

S. Curtis Johnson III, our Chairman, and Helen Johnson-Leipold and Clifton Louis, our directors, and some members of their respective immediate families, are descendants of Samuel Curtis Johnson and shareholders of SCJ and Willow Holdings, Inc. Messrs. Johnson and Louis and Ms. Johnson-Leipold, and members of their respective immediate families, also beneficially own shares of Holdco, our indirect parent. See “Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.” As a result of these relationships, these individuals may have an interest in our transactions with SCJ and other Johnson family businesses, including Willow Holdings, Inc.

Transactions with Management

On May 31, 2002, we loaned $97,500 to Clive Newman, our Vice President and Corporate Controller, in connection with the purchase of his home. The interest rate on the loan is 5.16% per annum, payable semi-monthly. The loan has a term of five years and matures on May 31, 2007, with no payments against principal due until that date. If Mr. Newman’s employment with us is terminated for any reason before that date, the full amount of unpaid principal and any accrued interest will become due and payable immediately. As of March 3, 2006, the full amount of the loan was outstanding.

Holdco is a party to buy-sell agreements with some of our employees, consultants or directors who also own shares of class A or class B common stock of Holdco. These buy-sell agreements were entered into in connection with our separation from SCJ in 1999. Under these buy-sell agreements, the holder has the right to sell to Holdco, and Holdco is required to purchase, shares of the holder’s class A or class B common stock at a formula price set forth in the agreements. This right may be exercised annually during the months of April, May, October and November. Under the agreements, Holdco has the option to purchase the holder’s shares upon termination of the holder’s employer-employee, director or consultant relationship with us. In addition, subject to specified exceptions, the holder has agreed that it will not sell or otherwise dispose of any of its shares without first offering those shares to Holdco. If Holdco does not exercise its right to purchase those shares within a 60-day period, the holder may transfer its shares to the proposed transferee on the same terms and price as set forth in its offer.

 

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ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES

Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, served as our principal accountants for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004. During those periods, we incurred the following fees for services rendered by Ernst & Young LLP:

Audit Fees. Represents fees for professional services rendered in connection with the audit of our annual consolidated financial statements and reviews of our quarterly financial statements, advice on accounting matters that arose during the audit and audit services provided in connection with other global statutory or regulatory filings. Audit fees were $4.1 million for the year ended December 30, 2005 and $5.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2004. The decrease in audit fees from fiscal year 2004 to fiscal year 2005 was primarily due to additional billings in 2004 for the 2003 audit, the timing of payments, and the timing of accruals for audit services rendered.

Audit-Related Fees. Represents fees for professional services rendered in connection with merger and acquisition due diligence, audits of acquired businesses and employee benefit plan audits. Audit-related fees were $247,000 for the year ended December 30, 2005 and $307,000 for the year ended December 31, 2004.

Tax Fees. Represents fees for professional services rendered in connection with general tax advice, tax planning and tax compliance. Tax fees were $441,000 for the year ended December 30, 2005 and $1.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2004.

All Other Fees. Represents fees for all other professional services rendered by Ernst & Young LLP. All other fees were $321,000 for the year ended December 30, 2005 and $411,000 for the year ended December 31, 2004.

The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors has determined that the provision by Ernst & Young LLP of non-audit services to us in the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, is compatible with maintaining the independence of Ernst & Young LLP. In accordance with its charter, the Audit Committee approves in advance all audit and non-audit services to be rendered by Ernst & Young LLP. In determining whether to approve such services, the Audit Committee considers the following:

 

  •   whether the services are performed principally for the Audit Committee;

 

  •   the effect of the service, if any, on audit effectiveness or on the quality and timeliness of our financial reporting process;

 

  •   whether the service would be performed by a specialist (e.g., technology specialist) who also provides audit support and whether that would hinder independence;

 

  •   whether the service would be performed by audit personnel and, if so, whether it will enhance the knowledge of our business;

 

  •   whether the role of those performing the service would be inconsistent with the auditor’s role (e.g., a role where neutrality, impartiality and auditor skepticism are likely to be subverted);

 

  •   whether the audit firm’s personnel would be assuming a management role or creating a mutuality of interest with management;

 

  •   whether the auditors would be in effect auditing their own numbers;

 

  •   whether the audit firm has unique expertise in the service; and

 

  •   the size of the fee(s) for the non-audit service(s).

During fiscal years 2005 and 2004, all professional services provided Ernst & Young LLP were pre-approved by the Audit Committee in accordance with our policies.

 

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PART IV

ITEM 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

The following documents are filed as part of this annual report on Form 10-K:

 

(1) Financial Statements:

See the Index to Consolidated Financial Statements on page F-1.

 

(2) Financial Statement Schedules:

See Item 15(c) of this report.

 

(3) Exhibits:

The exhibits required by Item 15 are listed in the Exhibit Index on page E-1.

INFORMATION TO BE FURNISHED WITH REPORTS FILED PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE ACT BY REGISTRANTS WHICH HAVE NOT REGISTERED SECURITIES PUSUANT TO SECTION 12 OF THE ACT.

Other than this annual report filed on Form 10-K, no other annual reports or proxy soliciting materials have been or will be sent to our security holders.

 

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(c) Schedule II - Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

Schedule II - Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

JohnsonDiversey, Inc.

Years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004

(Dollars in thousands)

 

     Balance at
Beginning
of Year
   Charges to
Costs and
Expenses
   Charges to
Other
Accounts (1)
    Deductions (2)     Balance at
End of
Year

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

            

Fiscal Year Ended December 30, 2005

   $ 29,881    $ 7,825    $ (2,278 )   $ (8,022 )   $ 27,406

Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2004

     28,089      9,774      1,373       (9,355 )     29,881

Fiscal Year Ended January 2, 2004

     21,099      11,660      3,530       (8,200 )     28,089

Tax Valuation Allowance

            

Fiscal Year Ended December 30, 2005

   $ 47,821    $ 152,378    $ 52,252     $ (620 )   $ 251,831

Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2004

     46,189      12,890      (4,234 )     (7,024 )     47,821

Fiscal Year Ended January 2, 2004

     28,789      33,774      (3,192 )     (13,182 )     46,189

(1) Includes the effects of changes in currency translation and business acquisitions
(2) Represents amounts written off, net of recoveries

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized on March 21, 2006.

 

JohnsonDiversey, Inc.
By  

/s/ Joseph F. Smorada

 

Joseph F. Smorada, Executive Vice President and

Chief Financial Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below on March 21, 2006 by the following persons on the behalf of the registrant and in the capacities indicated.

 

/s/ Edward F. Lonergan

Edward F. Lonergan

  

Chief Executive Officer and President and Director

(Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Joseph F. Smorada

Joseph F. Smorada

  

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial Officer)

/s/ Clive A. Newman

Clive A. Newman

  

Vice President and Corporate Controller

(Principal Accounting Officer)

/s/ S. Curtis Johnson III*

S. Curtis Johnson III

   Director and Chairman

/s/ Todd C. Brown*

Todd C. Brown

   Director

/s/ Irene M. Esteves*

Irene M. Esteves

   Director

/s/ Robert M. Howe*

Robert M. Howe

   Director

/s/ Helen Johnson-Leipold*

Helen Johnson-Leipold

   Director

/s/ Clifton D. Louis*

Clifton D. Louis

   Director

/s/ Neal R. Nottleson*

Neal R. Nottleson

   Director

/s/ Reto Wittwer*

Reto Wittwer

   Director

 

______________________________
* Joseph F. Smorada, by signing his name hereto, does hereby sign this Form 10-K on behalf of each of the above-named officers and directors of JohnsonDiversey, Inc., pursuant to a power of attorney executed on behalf of each such officer and director.

 

By  

/s/ Joseph F. Smorada

  Joseph F. Smorada, Attorney-in-fact

 

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JOHNSONDIVERSEY, INC.

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Fiscal Years Ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004

 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm    F-2
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004    F-3
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004    F-4
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004    F-5
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004    F-6
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements – December 30, 2005    F-7

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Directors and

Stockholders of JohnsonDiversey, Inc.

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. as of December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 30, 2005. Our audits also included the financial statement schedule as of December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004 listed in the Index at Item 15(c). These financial statements and schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and schedule based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. We were not engaged to perform an audit of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. at December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 30, 2005, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects the information set forth therein.

/s/ ERNST & YOUNG LLP

Chicago, Illinois

March 10, 2006

 

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JOHNSONDIVERSEY, INC.

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(dollars in thousands, except share data)

 

     December 30,
2005
    December 31,
2004
 

ASSETS

    

Current assets:

    

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 162,014     $ 28,044  

Accounts receivable, less allowance of $27,406 and $29,881, respectively

     506,015       524,669  

Accounts receivable – related parties

     28,926       31,576  

Inventories

     283,673       281,752  

Deferred income taxes

     14,410       24,458  

Other current assets

     120,125       107,439  
                

Total current assets

     1,115,163       997,938  

Property, plant and equipment, net

     481,208       566,961  

Capitalized software, net

     90,996       112,229  

Goodwill, net

     1,127,986       1,253,738  

Other intangibles, net

     342,570       408,433  

Deferred income taxes

     —         100,241  

Long-term receivables – related parties

     65,194       96,269  

Other assets

     85,776       76,200  
                

Total assets

   $ 3,308,893     $ 3,612,009  
                

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

    

Current liabilities:

    

Short-term borrowings

   $ 44,775     $ 92,704  

Current portion of long-term debt

     12,550       8,286  

Accounts payable

     345,619       364,559  

Accounts payable – related parties

     53,038       65,309  

Accrued expenses

     372,967       409,931  
                

Total current liabilities

     828,949       940,789  

Pension and other post-retirement benefits

     269,787       278,890  

Long-term borrowings

     1,351,710       1,244,173  

Long-term payables – related parties

     28,242       28,695  

Deferred income taxes

     43,620       —    

Other liabilities

     58,407       73,637  
                

Total liabilities

     2,580,715       2,566,184  

Commitments and contingencies (Notes 24 and 28)

     —         —    

Stockholders’ equity:

    

Common stock – $1.00 par value; 200,000 shares authorized; 24,422 shares issued and outstanding

     24       24  

Class A 8% cumulative preferred stock – $100.00 par value; 1,000 shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding

     —         —    

Class B 8% cumulative preferred stock – $100.00 par value; 1,000 shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding

     —         —    

Capital in excess of par value

     742,790       737,610  

Retained earnings

     (91,551 )     115,551  

Accumulated other comprehensive income

     77,775       192,981  

Notes receivable from management

     (860 )     (341 )
                

Total stockholders’ equity

     728,178       1,045,825  
                

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

   $ 3,308,893     $ 3,612,009  
                

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

 

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JOHNSONDIVERSEY, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(dollars in thousands)

 

     Fiscal Year Ended  
     December 30,
2005
    December 31,
2004
    January 2,
2004
 

Net sales:

      

Net product and service sales

   $ 3,216,185     $ 3,080,428     $ 2,816,162  

Sales agency fee income

     94,105       92,975       86,907  
                        
     3,310,290       3,173,403       2,903,069  

Cost of sales

     1,957,720       1,822,304       1,605,888  
                        

Gross profit

     1,352,570       1,351,099       1,297,181  

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     1,146,678       1,099,463       1,059,565  

Research and development expenses

     71,009       75,283       72,798  

Restructuring expenses

     17,677       20,525       12,919  
                        

Operating profit

     117,206       155,828       151,899  

Other (income) expense :

      

Interest expense

     143,671       124,705       131,372  

Interest income

     (8,932 )     (6,273 )     (7,035 )

Other (income) expense , net

     1,025       4,909       (7,445 )
                        

Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes and minority interests

     (18,558 )     32,487       35,007  

Provision for income taxes

     152,096       20,832       16,739  
                        

Income (loss) from continuing operations before minority interests

     (170,654 )     11,655       18,268  

Minority interests in net income (loss) of subsidiaries

     (57 )     285       262  
                        

Income (loss) from continuing operations

     (170,597 )     11,370       18,006  

Income from discontinued operations, net of income taxes of $0, $781 and $3,035 (Note 8)

     4,000       2,296       6,135  
                        

Net income (loss)

   $ (166,597 )   $ 13,666     $ 24,141  
                        

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

 

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JOHNSONDIVERSEY, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(dollars in thousands)

 

    Comprehensive
Income/(Loss)
    Common
Stock
  Capital in Excess
of Par Value
  Retained
Earnings
    Accumulated Other
Comprehensive
Income/(Loss)
    Notes
Receivable from
from Management
    Total
Stockholders’
Equity
 

Balance, January 3, 2003

    $ 24   $ 734,568   $ 100,672     $ 1,262     $ (3,493 )   $ 833,033  

Comprehensive income–

             

Net income

  $ 24,141       —       —       24,141       —         —         24,141  

Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax

    145,049       —       —       —         145,049       —         145,049  

Unrealized gains on derivatives, net of tax

    2,285       —       —       —         2,285       —         2,285  

Adjustment to minimum pension liability, net of tax

    (3,195 )     —       —       —         (3,195 )     —         (3,195 )
                   

Total comprehensive income

  $ 168,280              
                   

Capital contributions

      —       2,391     —         —         —         2,391  

Dividends declared

      —       —       (10,615 )     —         —         (10,615 )

Principal payments on notes receivable from management

      —       —       —         —         231       231  

Forgiveness of portion of notes receivable from management

      —       —       —         —         1,575       1,575  
                                             

Balance, January 2, 2004

    $ 24   $ 736,959   $ 114,198     $ 145,401     $ (1,687 )   $ 994,895  

Comprehensive income–

             

Net income

  $ 13,666       —       —       13,666       —         —         13,666  

Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax

    60,968       —       —       —         60,968       —         60,968  

Unrealized gains on derivatives, net of tax

    4,097       —       —       —         4,097       —         4,097  

Adjustment to minimum pension liability, net of tax

    (17,485 )     —       —       —         (17,485 )     —         (17,485 )
                   

Total comprehensive income

  $ 61,246              
                   

Capital contributions

      —       651     —         —         —         651  

Dividends declared

      —       —       (12,313 )     —         —         (12,313 )

Principal payments on notes receivable from management

      —       —       —         —         997       997  

Forgiveness of portion of notes receivable from management

      —       —       —         —         349       349  
                                             

Balance, December 31, 2004

    $ 24   $ 737,610   $ 115,551     $ 192,981     $ (341 )   $ 1,045,825  

Comprehensive loss–

             

Net loss

  $ (166,597 )     —       —       (166,597 )     —         —         (166,597 )

Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax

    (115,110 )     —       —       —         (115,110 )     —         (115,110 )

Unrealized gains on derivatives, net of tax

    10,953       —       —       —         10,953       —         10,953  

Adjustment to minimum pension liability, net of tax

    (11,049 )     —       —       —         (11,049 )     —         (11,049 )
                   

Total comprehensive loss

  $ (281,803 )            
                   

Capital contributions

      —       5,180     —         —         —         5,180  

Dividends declared

      —       —       (40,505 )     —         —         (40,505 )

Principal payments on notes receivable from management

      —       —       —         —         153       153  

Additional notes receivable from management

      —       —       —         —         (672 )     (672 )
                                             

Balance, December 30, 2005

    $ 24   $ 742,790   $ (91,551 )   $ 77,775     $ (860 )   $ 728,178  
                                             

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

 

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JOHNSONDIVERSEY, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(dollars in thousands)

 

     Fiscal Year Ended  
    

December 30,

2005

   

December 31,

2004

   

January 2,

2004

 

Cash flows from operating activities:

      

Net income (loss)

   $ (166,597 )   $ 13,666     $ 24,141  

Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities –

      

Depreciation and amortization

     149,842       157,469       124,073  

Amortization of intangibles

     33,606       36,800       35,390  

Amortization of debt issuance costs

     28,738       12,464       13,126  

Interest accrued on long-term receivables- related parties

     (3,317 )     (3,399 )     (4,365 )

Deferred income taxes

     157,983       (16,126 )     (39,656 )

Gain on disposal of discontinued operations

     (4,000 )     (966 )     —    

(Gain) loss from divestitures

     3,333       (1,133 )     (3,372 )

(Gain) loss on property disposals

     5,715       (936 )     12,026  

Compensation costs associated with cancellation of long-term incentive plan

     5,136       —         —    

Other

     847       4,601       685  

Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of effects from acquisitions and divestitures of businesses

      

Accounts receivable securitization

     (19,000 )     35,100       59,300  

Accounts receivable

     (2,329 )     (18,737 )     11,461  

Inventories

     (22,967 )     (17,148 )     24,101  

Other current assets

     (23,077 )     (2,747 )     (11,906 )

Other assets

     2,765       (6,156 )     25,886  

Accounts payable and accrued expenses

     (14,269 )     27,221       (20,267 )

Other liabilities

     2,761       (21,197 )     25,055  
                        

Net cash provided by operating activities

     135,170       198,776       275,678  

Cash flows from investing activities:

      

Capital expenditures

     (73,381 )     (93,527 )     (98,840 )

Expenditures for capitalized computer software

     (18,788 )     (36,275 )     (36,313 )

Cash from property disposals

     3,310       12,028       16,946  

Acquisitions of businesses

     (6,114 )     (3,968 )     (21,622 )

Proceeds from divestitures

     23,383       48,423       5,041  
                        

Net cash used in investing activities

     (71,590 )     (73,319 )     (134,788 )

Cash flows from financing activities:

      

Proceeds from (repayments of) short-term borrowings

     (39,431 )     60,686       (53,273 )

Proceeds from (repayments of) long-term borrowings

     161,823       (153,841 )     (140,639 )

Payment of debt issuance costs

     (7,235 )     (1,337 )     (1,818 )

Dividends paid

     (40,439 )     (14,931 )     (7,878 )
                        

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

     74,718       (109,423 )     (203,608 )
                        

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents

     (4,328 )     (12,533 )     27,989  
                        

Change in cash and cash equivalents

     133,970       3,501       (34,729 )

Beginning balance

     28,044       24,543       59,272  
                        

Ending balance

   $ 162,014     $ 28,044     $ 24,543  
                        

Supplemental cash flows information

      

Cash paid during the year:

      

Interest

   $ 101,708     $ 107,270     $ 103,833  

Income taxes

     27,067       20,316       16,694  

Non-cash financing activities:

      

Contribution from JohnsonDiversey Holdings, Inc. associated with cancellation of long-term incentive plan

   $ 5,136     $ —       $ —    

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

 

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JOHNSONDIVERSEY, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

December 30, 2005

(dollars in thousands)

(1) Description of the Company

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include all of the operations, assets and liabilities of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (the “Company”), which is comprised of a Professional Business and a Polymer Business. The Professional Business is a global manufacturer of commercial, industrial and institutional building maintenance and sanitation products. The Polymer Business is a global manufacturer of polymer intermediates marketed to the printing and packaging, coatings, adhesives and related industries.

Prior to November 5, 1999, the Company was a wholly owned subsidiary of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (“SCJ”). On November 5, 1999, ownership of the Company, including all of its assets and liabilities, was spun-off in a tax-free reorganization. In connection with the spin-off, Commercial Markets Holdco, Inc. (“Holdco”) obtained substantially all of the shares of the Company from SCJ.

Prior to May 3, 2002, Holdco contributed its shares in the Company to Johnson Professional Holdings, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Holdco.

On May 3, 2002, the Company acquired the DiverseyLever business from Conopco, Inc., a subsidiary of Unilever N.V. and Unilever PLC (together, “Unilever”). At the closing of the acquisition, the Company changed its name to JohnsonDiversey, Inc., and Johnson Professional Holdings, Inc. changed its name to JohnsonDiversey Holdings, Inc. (“Holdings”). In connection with the acquisition, Unilever acquired a 33 1/3% interest in Holdings, with the remaining 66 2/3% continuing to be held by Holdco.

(2) Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and all of its majority owned and controlled subsidiaries and are prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”). All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Year-End

Operations included 52 weeks in the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004.

Revenue Recognition

Revenues are recognized when all the following criteria are met: persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists; delivery has occurred and ownership has transferred to the customer; the price to the customer is fixed and determinable; and collectibility is reasonably assured. The Company meets these criteria for revenue recognition upon shipment of product, which corresponds with transfer of title. Revenues are recorded net of estimated allowances for returns, discounts and rebates.

On May 3, 2002, the Company acquired the DiverseyLever business. The Company did not acquire the Unilever consumer branded business of DiverseyLever. Prior to the acquisition, Unilever’s consumer brand products were sold, directly or indirectly, by DiverseyLever to institutional and industrial end users. In connection with the acquisition, the Company entered into a sales agency agreement with Unilever relating to these products.

 

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Under the sales agency agreement, the Company acts as Unilever’s exclusive sales agent for the sale of its consumer brand products to institutional and industrial end-users in most countries where DiverseyLever conducted its business prior to the acquisition. In exchange for the Company’s sales agency services, which include sales, promotion, collection and after-sales technical support and customer care, the Company is paid an agency fee. Sales agency fee income is recognized based on a percentage of the net proceeds of sales of Unilever consumer brand products. Expenses incurred pursuant to sales agency services are recorded as selling, general and administrative expenses.

Rebates and Customer Incentives

Rebates granted to customers are accounted for on an accrual basis as a reduction in net sales in the period in which the related sales are recognized.

Volume rebates are supported by customer contracts, which typically extend over two- to five-year periods. In the case where rebate rates are not contractually fixed, the rates used in the calculation of accruals are estimated based on forecasted annual volumes.

Cost of Sales

Cost of sales includes material costs, packaging costs, production costs, distribution costs, including shipping and handling costs, and other factory overhead costs.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling expenses include advertising and promotion costs, marketing and sales overhead costs. General and administrative expenses include other administrative and general overhead costs.

Advertising Costs

The Company expenses advertising costs as incurred. Total advertising expense was $2,313, $2,062 and $2,622 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers all highly liquid investments, with maturities of 90 days or less at the date of purchase, to be cash equivalents. The cost of cash equivalents approximates fair value due to the short-term nature of the investments.

Accounts Receivable

The Company does not require collateral on sales and evaluates the collectibility of its accounts receivable based on a number of factors. For larger accounts greater than 90 days past due, an allowance for doubtful accounts is recorded based on a customer’s ability and likelihood to pay based on management’s review of the facts. For all other customers, the Company recognizes an allowance based on the length of time the receivable is past due based on historical experience.

Inventories

Inventories are carried at the lower of cost or market. As of December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, the cost of certain domestic inventories determined by the last-in, first-out (“LIFO”) method was $73,781 and $57,671, respectively. This represented 25.2% and 19.9% of total inventories, respectively. For the balance of the Company’s inventories, cost is determined using the first-in, first-out (“FIFO”) method. If the FIFO method of accounting had been used for all inventories, they would have been $8,702 and $8,623 higher than reported at December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively. The components of inventory are as follows:

 

    

December 30,

2005

  

December 31,

2004

Raw materials and containers

   $ 73,066    $ 71,835

Finished goods

     210,607      209,917
             

Total inventories

   $ 283,673    $ 281,752
             

 

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Property, Plant and Equipment

Property, plant and equipment are recorded at cost. Major replacements and improvements are capitalized, while maintenance and repairs which do not improve or extend the life of the respective assets are expensed as incurred. Depreciation is generally computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets, which typically range from 20-40 years for buildings, 3-14 years for machinery and equipment, and 5-20 years for improvements.

When properties are disposed of, the related costs and accumulated depreciation are removed from the respective accounts, and any gain or loss on disposition is typically reflected in selling, general and administrative expense.

Capitalized Software

The Company capitalizes both internal and external costs to develop computer software for internal use. These costs are accounted for under the provisions of Statement of Position (“SOP”) 98-1, “Accounting for the Costs of Computer Software Developed or Obtained for Internal Use.” SOP 98-1 permits the capitalization of certain costs, including internal payroll costs, incurred in connection with the development or acquisition of software for internal use. Accordingly, certain costs of this internal-use software are capitalized beginning at the software application development phase.

Capitalized software costs are amortized using the straight-line method over the expected useful life of the software, which is generally five years.

Goodwill

Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price over fair value of identifiable net assets acquired from business acquisitions. In accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 142, goodwill is no longer amortized, but is reviewed for impairment on an annual basis and between annual tests in certain circumstances. The Company conducts its annual impairment test for goodwill at the beginning of the fourth quarter. The Company performed the required impairment test for fiscal years 2005 and 2004 and found no impairment of goodwill. There can be no assurance that future goodwill impairment tests will not result in a charge to earnings.

Other Intangibles

SFAS No. 142 requires purchased intangible assets other than goodwill to be amortized over their useful lives unless these lives are determined to be indefinite. Purchased intangible assets are carried at cost less accumulated amortization. Definite-lived intangible assets, which primarily include customer lists, contractual arrangements, trademarks, patents and licenses, have been assigned an estimated finite life and are amortized on a straight-line basis over periods ranging from 1 to 37 years. Indefinite-lived intangible assets, which primarily include trademarks, are evaluated annually for impairment and between annual tests in certain circumstances. The Company conducts its annual impairment test for indefinite-lived intangible assets at the beginning of the fourth quarter. The Company performed the required impairment test for fiscal year 2005 and recorded a charge of $679 to selling, general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statement of operations. No material impairment of indefinite-lived intangible assets was determined in fiscal year 2004. There can be no assurance that future indefinite-lived intangible asset impairment tests will not result in a charge to earnings.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets

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recoverable. If the sum of the expected undiscounted cash flows is less than the carrying value of the related asset or group of assets, a loss is recognized for the difference between the fair value and carrying value of the asset or group of assets. Such analyses necessarily involve significant judgment. In fiscal year 2005, the Company’s professional segment recorded related impairment charges of $1,014 to selling, general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statement of operations. In fiscal year 2004, impairment charges were not material to the Company’s consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Environmental Remediation Costs

The Company accrues for losses associated with environmental remediation obligations when such losses are probable and reasonably estimable. Recoveries of environmental remediation costs from other parties are recorded as assets when their receipt is deemed probable. The accruals are adjusted as further information becomes available or circumstances change.

Foreign Currency Translations and Transactions

The functional currency of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries is generally the local currency. Accordingly, balance sheet accounts are translated using the exchange rates in effect at the respective balance sheet dates and income statement amounts are translated using the monthly weighted-average exchange rates for the periods presented. The aggregate effects of the resulting translation adjustments are included in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (Note 26), except in the case of hyper-inflationary countries, which use the U.S. dollar as the functional currency and the effects are recorded as a component of other (income) expense, net and were $0, $1,773 and ($1,827) for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

Gains and losses resulting from foreign currency transactions are recorded as a component of either cost of sales or other (income) expense, net. Total net transaction (gains) losses included in cost of sales were ($41), ($603) and $446 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively. Total net transaction (gains) losses included with other (income) expense, net were $25,692, ($4,765) and ($8,419) for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, January 2, 2004, respectively.

Stock-Based Compensation

The Company measures compensation cost for stock-based compensation plans using the intrinsic value method of accounting as prescribed in Accounting Principles Board (“APB”) Opinion No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees,” and related interpretations. Under the intrinsic value method, compensation cost is the excess, if any, of the fair value at grant date or other measurement date of the stock that may be purchased upon exercise of an option over the option’s exercise price.

The Company has adopted those provisions of SFAS No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation,” which require disclosure of the pro forma effect on net income or loss as if compensation cost had been recognized based upon the estimated fair value at the date of grant for options awarded. The estimated fair value represents the present value of cash flow return on investment at the end of the exercise period (usually seven years after grant). The Company prorates pro forma compensation equally over the vesting period (four years after grant).

The pro forma impact of incremental compensation expense if the Company had used the fair-value method of accounting to measure compensation expense would have reduced net income or increased net loss by approximately $3,044, $16,189 and $7,857 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

Derivative Financial Instruments

The Company utilizes certain derivative financial instruments to enhance its ability to manage foreign currency exposures. Derivative financial instruments are entered into for periods consistent with the related underlying exposures and do not represent positions independent of those exposures. The Company does not enter into forward foreign currency exchange contracts for speculative purposes. The contracts are entered into with major financial institutions with no credit loss anticipated for the failure of counterparties to perform.

 

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The Company recognizes all derivative financial instruments in the consolidated financial statements at fair value regardless of the purpose or intent for holding the instrument. Changes in the fair value of derivative financial instruments are either recognized periodically in the consolidated statements of operations or in stockholders’ equity as a component of comprehensive income or loss depending on whether the derivative financial instrument qualifies for hedge accounting, and if so, whether it qualifies as a fair value hedge or cash flow hedge. Generally, changes in fair values of derivatives accounted for as fair value hedges are recorded in the consolidated statements of operations along with the portions of the changes in the fair values of the hedged items that relate to the hedged risks. Changes in fair values of derivatives accounted for as cash flow hedges, to the extent they are effective as hedges, are recorded in other comprehensive income or loss, net of deferred taxes. Hedge ineffectiveness was insignificant for all periods reported. Changes in fair value of derivatives not qualifying as hedges are reported in the consolidated statements of operations.

Reclassifications

In December 2005, in order to achieve alignment with its functional cost structure, the Company reclassified certain customer support costs. Prior year amounts have been reclassified for consistency. Related customer support costs of $4,419 and $3,468 were reclassified from selling, general and administrative expenses to cost of sales in fiscal years 2004 and 2003, respectively.

In June 2005, the Company reclassified additional fees related to partial terminations under the sales agency agreement from selling, general and administrative expenses to sales agency fee income to properly reflect the components of operating profit. Prior year amounts have been reclassified from other (income) expense to sales agency fee income for consistency. See Note 3 below.

In March 2005, the Company reclassified gains and losses on fixed asset and product line disposals from other (income) expense to selling, general and administrative expenses. The Company recognized (gains) losses on fixed asset and product line disposals of ($53), $247 and $1,585 in the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

In March 2005, the Company reclassified gains and losses on business divestitures from other (income) expense to selling, general and administrative expenses. The Company recognized (gains) losses on business divestitures of $3,333, ($1,133) and ($3,372) in the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

Certain other prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the 2005 presentation. None of these reclassifications are considered material to the Company’s consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

New Accounting Pronouncements

In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 123 (revised 2004), “Share-Based Payments” (“SFAS No. 123(R)”). SFAS No. 123(R) replaces SFAS No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation,” supersedes APB Opinion No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees” and amends FASB Statement No. 95, “Statement of Cash Flows.” Generally, the approach in SFAS No. 123(R) is similar to the approach described in SFAS No. 123. However, SFAS No. 123(R) requires all share-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options, to be recognized in the statement of operations based on the fair value method. Pro forma disclosure is no longer an alternative. The accounting provisions of SFAS No. 123(R) will be effective for the Company in the first quarter of fiscal year 2006. As permitted by SFAS No. 123, the Company currently accounts for share-based payments to employees using APB Opinion No. 25’s intrinsic value method and, as such, generally recognizes no compensation cost for employee stock options. Accordingly, the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R)’s fair value method will have an impact on the Company’s result of operations, although it will have no impact on the Company’s overall financial position. The Company will adopt the provisions of SFAS No. 123(R) using a modified prospective application. Under the modified prospective application, SFAS No. 123(R), which provides certain changes to the method for valuing stock-based compensation among other changes, will apply to new awards and to awards that are outstanding on the effective date and are subsequently modified or cancelled. Compensation expense for outstanding awards for which the requisite service had not been rendered as of the effective date will be recognized over the remaining service period using the compensation cost calculated for pro forma disclosure purposes under SFAS No.

 

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123. Based on the Company’s December 2005 decision to cancel the long-term incentive compensation plan, the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R) is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial condition, results of operations or cash flows. For a description of the Company’s cancellation of its long-term incentive compensation plan, see Note 23.

In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 153, “Exchanges of Nonmonetary Assets – an amendment of APB Opinion No. 29, Accounting for Nonmonetary Transactions” (“APB 29”). SFAS No. 153 is based on the principle that nonmonetary asset exchanges should be recorded and measured at the fair value of the assets exchanged, with certain exceptions. This standard requires exchanges of productive assets to be accounted for at fair value, rather than at carryover basis, unless (i) neither the asset received nor the asset surrendered has a fair value that is determinable within reasonable limits or (ii) the transactions lack commercial substance (as defined). In addition, the FASB decided to retain the guidance in APB 29 for assessing whether the fair value of a nonmonetary asset is determinable within reasonable limits. The new standard is the result of the convergence project between the FASB and the International Accounting Standards Board. The Company will adopt this standard for nonmonetary asset exchanges beginning in fiscal year 2006. The adoption of SFAS No. 153 is not expected to have significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

In November 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 151, “Inventory Costs – an amendment of ARB No. 43,” which is the result of its efforts to converge U.S. accounting standards for inventories with International Accounting Standards. SFAS No. 151 requires idle facility expenses, freight, handling costs, and wasted material (spoilage) costs to be recognized as current-period charges. It also requires that allocation of fixed production overheads to the costs of conversion be based on the normal capacity of the production facilities. SFAS No. 151 will be effective for inventory costs incurred during fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2005. Adoption of SFAS No. 151 in fiscal year 2006 is not expected to have significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

(3) Master Sales Agency Terminations

In connection with the May 2002 acquisition of the DiverseyLever business, the Company entered into a master sales agency agreement (the “Agreement”) with Unilever, whereby the Company acts as an exclusive sales agent in the sale of Unilever’s consumer brand products to various institutional and industrial end-users. At acquisition, the Company assigned an intangible value to the Agreement of $13,000.

An agency fee is paid by Unilever to the Company in exchange for its sales agency services. An additional fee is payable by Unilever to the Company in the event that conditions for full or partial termination of the Agreement are met. The Company elected, and Unilever agreed, to partially terminate the Agreement in several territories resulting in payment by Unilever to the Company of additional fees. In association with the partial terminations, the Company recognized sales agency fee income of $7,737, $4,428 and $1,769 during fiscal years 2005, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Partial termination fees of $4,128 and $99 were reclassified from other (income) expense in fiscal years 2004 and 2003, respectively.

In September 2005, the Company and Unilever agreed to terminate a portion of the Agreement relating to certain product lines, effective January 2006. Such agreement was reached in anticipation of, and contingent on, the full replacement of the current Agreement with a new licensing agreement by December 2005. In conjunction with the expected termination, Unilever paid the Company $6,503 in September 2005. The payment was recorded as deferred revenue and classified as a current liability on the consolidated balance sheet. In December 2005, as a result of the Company and Unilever not reaching conclusion on a new product licensing agreement, the Company returned the payment to Unilever and reversed the deferred revenue previously recorded. The Company is currently in negotiations with Unilever to replace the Agreement with a product license agreement in fiscal year 2007.

(4) Lease Accounting Adjustment

During the first quarter of 2005, the Company identified inconsistencies in its accounting treatment for equipment leased to a European-based customer. Further analysis concluded that such leases should primarily be accounted for as sales-type capital leases rather than as operating leases. The cumulative impact of the correction was recorded by the Company in the three months ended April 1, 2005. The Company concluded that the impact of the accounting error was not significant to its current year or prior year consolidated financial position, results of

 

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operations or cash flows and, as such, does not require restatement of prior year amounts. Below is a summary of the adjustment with increases to key measures in the consolidated statements of operations for fiscal year 2005:

 

Net sales

   $ 15,333

Gross profit

     5,764

Operating profit

     5,764

Net income

     3,770

(5) Long-Term Receivables

In September 2005, Unilever agreed to pay the Company for certain long-term receivables, including related accrued interest receivable, established through the acquisition of the DiverseyLever business in 2002. The Company and Unilever previously expected to settle these balances at the time that Unilever no longer holds an equity position in the parent of the Company. The Company received $28,935, including interest of $4,773, in partial settlement of pension related long-term receivables. The payments were recorded as reductions to long-term receivables – related parties in the consolidated balance sheet.

(6) Acquisitions

In July 2005, the Company purchased a minority equity interest in a North American business associated with its professional segment, from Holdco, a related party, for $994 and one unrelated minority equity interest in a Dutch business associated with its polymer segment for $2,000. Neither of these transactions was considered material to the Company’s consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

In fiscal year 2004, the Company acquired or purchased interests in business assets associated with its professional segment, from SCJ, a related party, in Colombia, Costa Rica, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, for an aggregate purchase price of $3,256 and two unrelated businesses as part of its polymer segment for $1,714. None of the transactions was considered material to the Company’s consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

(7) Divestitures

In September 2005, the Company sold or agreed to sell its European commercial laundry operations in a two-phase transaction. In phase 1, which closed in September 2005, the Company sold its related operations in seven countries for $14,758, which includes a reduction of $1,043 for certain pension related purchase price adjustments, resulting in a realized gain of $1,181 ($426 after-tax loss). Net assets sold include an allocation of goodwill and other identifiable intangible assets of $5,725 and $1,838, respectively. In phase 2, the Company agreed to sell its remaining related operations in six additional countries not later than January 2007 for approximately $8,651, which includes a reduction of $465 for certain pension related purchase price adjustments. Effective September 2005, the Company designated the net assets associated with phase 2 as “held for sale”, as required by SFAS No. 144, and recorded an expected net loss of $6,110 ($4,742 after-tax). Net assets held for sale include an allocation of goodwill and other identifiable intangible assets of $6,625 and $1,329, respectively. The gross and net assets held for sale of $9,116, which include a write-down of $5,219 to net realizable value, are not considered material and, as such, are not disclosed separately on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. Net sales associated with these operations were approximately $37,264 and $23,656 for phase 1 and phase 2, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2004.

In September 2005, the Company divested its Canadian commercial laundry operations for proceeds of $2,843, resulting in a realized gain of $1,462 ($1,186 after-tax). Net sales associated with this business were approximately $4,821 for the year ended December 31, 2004.

The divestiture of the commercial laundry operations in Europe and Canada were part of larger cash-flow-generating groups and do not represent separate reporting units or components as defined by SFAS No. 144. As such, the divestitures were not reported as discontinued operations. Further, the information is not readily available to determine, with adequate precision, net sales and net income associated with the divested businesses for the periods presented in the consolidated statements of operations.

 

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The gains and losses associated with these divestiture activities are included as a component of selling, general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statements of operations.

(8) Divestiture of the Whitmire Micro-Gen Business

The Company determined that Whitmire Micro-Gen Research Laboratories, Inc. (“Whitmire”), a wholly-owned subsidiary that manufactured and supplied insecticides and equipment to the professional pest management industry in the U.S., was no longer part of the overall corporate strategic focus and therefore had been seeking a buyer.

In June 2004, the Company completed the sale of Whitmire to Sorex Holdings, Ltd. (“Sorex”), a leading European pest-control manufacturer headquartered in the United Kingdom, for $46,000 in cash and the assumption of certain liabilities. The purchase price was subject to a working capital adjustment, which was agreed and settled in September 2004, resulting in Sorex paying $751 to the Company.

The purchase agreement also provided for additional earnout provisions based on future Whitmire net sales, for which the Company recorded $4,000 during the three month period ended April 1, 2005. The income is included as a component of income from discontinued operations in the consolidated statements of operations.

As of the divestiture date, Whitmire net assets were as follows:

 

Assets

    

Current assets:

  

Accounts receivable, net

   $ 6,617

Inventories

     8,947

Other current assets

     463
      

Total current assets

     16,027

Property, plant and equipment

     2,692

Other intangibles, net

     32,060

Other assets

     850
      

Total assets

   $ 51,629
      

Liabilities

    

Current liabilities:

  

Accounts payable

   $ 2,593

Other liabilities

     3,522
      

Total current liabilities

     6,115

Other liabilities

     624
      

Total liabilities

   $ 6,739
      

Net assets divested

   $ 44,890
      

Effective with the second quarter of 2004, Whitmire, which was included in the Company’s professional segment, was classified as a discontinued operation in the consolidated statement of income with the prior periods restated.

 

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Income from discontinued operations for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2005, January 2, 2004 and January 3, 2003 is comprised of the following:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended
    

December 30,

2005

  

December 31,

2004

  

January 2,

2004

Income from operations, net of tax

   $ —      $ 1,330    $ 6,135

Gain on sale, net of tax

     4,000      966      —  
                    

Income from discontinued operations

   $ 4,000    $ 2,296    $ 6,135
                    

Net sales from discontinued operations for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2005, January 2, 2004 and January 3, 2003 are as follows:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended
    

December 30,

2005

  

December 31,

2004

  

January 2,

2004

Net sales

   $ —      $ 18,688    $ 44,802

(9) Accounts Receivable Securitization

The Company and certain of its subsidiaries in the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy entered into an agreement (the “Receivables Facility”) whereby they sell, on a continuous basis, certain trade receivables to JWPR Corporation (“JWPRC”), a wholly owned, consolidated, special purpose, bankruptcy-remote subsidiary of the Company. JWPRC was formed for the sole purpose of buying and selling receivables generated by the Company and its subsidiaries party to the Receivables Facility. JWPRC, in turn, sells an undivided interest in the accounts receivable to a nonconsolidated financial institution (the “Conduit”) for an amount equal to the value of all eligible receivables (as defined under the receivables sale agreement between JWPRC and the Conduit) less the applicable reserve. The total potential for securitization of trade receivables under this program is $150,000. The accounts receivable securitization arrangement is accounted for under the provisions of SFAS No. 140, “Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishment of Liabilities–A replacement of FASB Statement No. 125.”

In December 2005, the Receivables Facility was amended to conform the financial convenants in the agreement to the Company’s amended and restated senior secured credit agreement, and to extend the maturity of the agreement to December 2008.

As of December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, the Conduit held $111,300 and $130,300, respectively, of accounts receivable that are not included in the accounts receivable balance reflected in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet.

As of December 30, 2005, the Company had a retained interest of $149,197 in the receivables of JWPRC. The retained interest is included in the accounts receivable balance and is reflected in the consolidated balance sheet at estimated fair value.

Costs associated with the sale of beneficial interests in the receivables vary on a monthly basis and are generally related to the commercial paper rate and administrative fees associated with the overall program facility. Such costs were $5,540, $3,228, and $1,149 for the years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, respectively, and are included in interest expense, net in the consolidated statements of operations.

 

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(10) Property, Plant and Equipment

Property, plant and equipment, net, consisted of the following:

 

    

December 30,

2005

   

December 31,

2004

 

Land and improvements

   $ 69,268     $ 76,159  

Buildings and leasehold improvements

     206,111       216,647  

Equipment

     700,485       700,668  

Capital leases

     2,045       3,927  

Construction in progress

     18,103       27,506  
                
     996,012       1,024,907  

Less–Accumulated depreciation

     (514,804 )     (457,946 )
                

Property, plant and equipment, net

   $ 481,208     $ 566,961  
                

Effective January 3, 2004, the Company changed its accounting estimates relating to depreciation. The estimated useful lives for dishwashing machines were changed to seven years from a range of five to 14 years to more appropriately reflect the useful life and to provide consistency in accounting treatment following the integration of acquisitions into a combined business unit. As a result of this change in accounting estimate, cost of sales was increased by $7,715 and $12,784 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively.

(11) Capitalized Software

Capitalized software, net, consisted of the following:

 

    

December 30,

2005

   

December 31,

2004

 

Capitalized software

   $ 189,131     $ 176,681  

Less–Accumulated amortization

     (98,135 )     (64,452 )
                
   $ 90,996     $ 112,229  
                

Amortization expense related to capitalized software was $37,516, $33,596 and $20,509 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

During the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, the Company capitalized $210, $419 and $1,589, respectively, of interest in connection with its ongoing software projects. Periodically, the Company assesses potential impairment of capitalized software balances. The Company recorded impairment charges of $3,166, $240 and $2,336 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, respectively. All charges were included in selling, general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statements of operations and were related to the integration of computer systems in connection with the acquisition of the DiverseyLever business.

 

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(12) Goodwill

Changes in the balance of the goodwill account were as follows:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended  
    

December 30,

2005

   

December 31,

2004

 

Balance at beginning of year

   $ 1,253,738     $ 1,224,059  

Acquisitions

     91       1,595  

Divestitures

     (13,040 )     (32,812 )

Post-acquisition adjustments

     (4,866 )     (7,196 )

Impact of foreign currency fluctuations

     (107,937 )     68,092  
                

Balance at end of year

   $ 1,127,986     $ 1,253,738  
                

(13) Other Intangibles

Other intangibles consisted of the following:

 

     Weighted-Average
Useful Lives
  

December 30,

2005

   

December 31,

2004

 

Definite-lived intangible assets:

       

Trademarks and patents

   10 years    $ 46,009     $ 54,239  

Customer lists, contracts, licenses and other intangibles

   12 years      290,881       310,048  

Indefinite-lived intangible assets:

       

Trademarks and patents

   —        129,737       142,766  

Licenses and other intangibles

   —        4,876       5,810  
                   
        471,503       512,863  

Less–Accumulated amortization

        (128,933 )     (104,430 )
                   

Other intangibles, net

      $ 342,570     $ 408,433  
                   

Amortization expense for other intangibles was $33,606, $36,800 and $35,390 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

The aggregate amounts of anticipated amortization of intangible assets for each of the next five fiscal years and thereafter are as follows:

 

Year

    

2006

   $ 30,959

2007

     28,376

2008

     26,842

2009

     24,496

2010

     23,647

Thereafter

     73,637
      
   $ 207,957
      

 

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(14) Indebtedness and Credit Arrangements

The Company’s indebtedness and credit arrangements consisted of the following:

 

    

December 30,

2005

  

December 31,

2004

Short-term borrowings:

     

Lines of credit

   $ 44,775    $ 53,404

Revolving credit facilities

     —        39,300
             
   $ 44,775    $ 92,704
             

Long-term borrowings:

     

Term loan B

   $ 775,000    $ 641,145

Term loan C

     —        4,130

Japan loan

     21,240      —  

Senior subordinated notes

     566,603      604,954

Other

     1,417      2,230
             
     1,364,260      1,252,459

Less: Current portion

     12,550      8,286
             
   $ 1,351,710    $ 1,244,173
             

In December 2005, the Company amended its senior secured credit facilities. The term loan B facility was restructured, as follows: the aggregate principal amount of the facility was increased to $775,000; the maturity of the facility was extended to December 16, 2011 from November 3, 2009; and the variable, leverage ratio-based spread on the facility was increased to 250 basis points from 175 basis points. At December 30, 2005, the interest rate on the term B loan was based on LIBOR plus 250 basis points (6.80%) and at December 31, 2004, the interest rate on the term B loan was based on LIBOR plus 225 basis points (4.43%) and EURIBOR plus 325 basis points (5.40%). The term B loan has scheduled principal reductions semiannually. The tranche C term loan was fully repaid during 2005. At December 31, 2004, the interest rate on outstanding borrowings was 5.31%, based on Canadian dollar LIBOR plus 275 basis points.

The Company’s revolving credit facilities were restructured, as follows: the aggregate principal amount of the dollar/euro revolving credit facility was reduced to $175,000 from $210,000; the maturity of the facility was extended to December 16, 2010 from May 3, 2008; the variable, leverage ratio-based spread on the dollar/euro facility was reduced to 250 basis points from 325 basis points; and the yen revolving credit facility was eliminated. At December 30, 2005, there were no borrowings under the revolving credit facility. At December 31, 2004, borrowings under the dollar/euro facility were $39,300. The revolving facilities bear interest at floating rates based on Prime or LIBOR, plus a variable, leverage ratio-based spread. At December 31, 2004 the interest rate on outstanding borrowings was 7.5%.

In December 2005, the Company’s Japanese subsidiary entered into a ¥2,500,000 term loan. The interest rate on the loan is based on TIBOR plus 102.5 basis points (1.135% at December 30, 2005). The loan matures on December 29, 2009, with scheduled principal reductions semiannually.

In December 2005, the Company recorded additional interest expense of $10,343 in relation to its debt restructuring.

In May 2002, the Company issued $300,000 and €225,000 of 9.625% senior subordinated notes due 2012 to finance a portion of the cash purchase price of the DiverseyLever business. In January 2003, the series A senior subordinated notes were converted to series B senior subordinated notes (the “Senior Subordinated Notes”) with the same interest rates and due dates.

 

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Scheduled Maturities of Long-term Borrowings

Aggregate scheduled maturities of long-term borrowings in each of the next five fiscal years and thereafter are as follows:

 

Year

    

2006

   $ 12,550

2007

     12,573

2008

     12,288

2009

     16,246

2010

     7,750

Thereafter

     1,302,853
      
   $ 1,364,260
      

Financial Covenants

Under the terms of its amended and restated senior secured credit facilities, the Company is subject to specified financial covenants. The most restrictive covenants under the senior secured credit facilities require the Company to meet the following targets and ratios:

Maximum Leverage Ratio. The Company is required to maintain a leverage ratio for each financial covenant period of no more than the maximum ratio specified in the senior secured credit facilities for that financial covenant period. The maximum leverage ratio is the ratio of: (i) the Company’s consolidated indebtedness (excluding up to $55 million of indebtedness incurred under the Company’s Receivables Facility and indebtedness relating to specified interest rate hedge agreements) as of the last day of a financial covenant period using the weighted-average exchange rate for the relevant fiscal six-month period to (ii) the Company’s consolidated EBITDA for the same financial covenant period. EBITDA is generally defined in the senior secured credit facilities as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, plus the addback of specified expenses. The senior secured credit facilities require that the Company’s maximum leverage ratio not exceed a declining range from 5.00 to 1 for the financial covenant period ending nearest December 31, 2005, to 3.50 to 1 for the financial covenant periods ending nearest September 30, 2010 and thereafter.

Minimum Interest Coverage Ratio. The Company is required to maintain an interest coverage ratio for each financial covenant period of no less than the minimum ratio specified in the senior secured credit facilities for that financial covenant period. The minimum interest coverage ratio is the ratio of: (i) the Company’s consolidated EBITDA for a financial covenant period to (ii) the Company’s cash interest expense for that same financial period. The senior secured credit facilities require that the Company’s minimum interest coverage ratio not exceed an increasing range from 2.00 to 1 for the financial covenant period ending nearest December 31, 2005, to 3.00 to 1 for the financial covenant period ending nearest September 30, 2010 and thereafter.

Capital Expenditures. The senior secured credit facilities prohibit the Company from making capital expenditures during any calendar year in an amount in excess of $150,000.

Restructuring Charges. The senior secured credit facilities limit the amount of cash payments (i) arising in connection with the November 2005 restructuring program at any time from fiscal year 2006 through the end of fiscal year 2009 to $355,000 in the aggregate and (ii) arising in connection with permitted divestitures at any time from fiscal year 2006 through the end of fiscal year 2008 to $45,000.

In addition, the senior secured credit facilities contain covenants that restrict the Company’s ability to declare dividends and to redeem and repurchase capital stock. The senior secured credit facilities also limit the Company’s ability to incur additional liens, engage in sale-leaseback transactions and incur additional indebtedness and make investments.

As of December 30, 2005, the Company was in compliance with all covenants under the senior secured credit facilities.

Indentures for the Notes

The indentures for the senior subordinated notes of the Company restrict the Company’s ability and the ability of its restricted subsidiaries to, among other things, incur additional indebtedness; pay dividends on, redeem or repurchase capital stock; issue or allow any person to own preferred stock of restricted subsidiaries; in the case of

 

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non-guarantor subsidiaries, guarantee indebtedness without also guaranteeing the notes; in the case of restricted subsidiaries, create or permit to exist dividend or payment restrictions with respect to the Company; make investments; incur or permit to exist liens; enter into transactions with affiliates; merge, consolidate or amalgamate with another company; and transfer or sell assets.

As of December 30, 2005, the Company was in compliance with all covenants under the indentures for the senior subordinated notes.

Cross Defaults

The Company’s failure to comply with the covenants in its senior secured credit facilities or its indentures for the senior subordinated notes or the Company’s inability to comply with financial ratio tests or other restrictions could result in an event of default under the indentures for the senior subordinated notes or the senior secured credit facilities. Additionally, a payment default or default that results in the acceleration of indebtedness aggregating $25,000 or more, including, without limitation, indebtedness under the senior secured credit facilities, the indentures for the senior subordinated notes and indebtedness under the Company’s receivables securitization facility and foreign lines of credit, is also an event of default under the senior secured credit facilities, the indentures for the senior subordinated notes and the indenture for Holdings’ senior discount notes. Further, specified defaults under the credit facilities and the indentures for the senior subordinated notes constitute defaults under the Company’s receivables securitization facility, some of the Company’s foreign lines of credit and the Company’s license agreements with SCJ. A default, if not cured or waived, may permit acceleration of the Company’s indebtedness or result in a termination of its license agreements.

Interest Rate Swaps

In connection with the senior secured credit facilities, the Company is party to seven interest rate swaps, as described in Note 15.

Stockholders’ Agreement

In connection with the acquisition of DiverseyLever, Holdings entered into a stockholders’ agreement with its stockholders–Holdco and Marga B.V., a subsidiary of Unilever N.V. The stockholders’ agreement limits Holdings’ and the Company’s ability to effect various transactions, including among others, entering into certain transactions with affiliates, issuing additional shares of capital stock or other equity or equity-related interests, incurring certain types of indebtedness and making certain investments.

(15) Financial Instruments

The Company sells its products in more than 140 countries and approximately 68% of the Company’s revenues are generated outside the U.S. The Company’s activities expose it to a variety of market risks, including the effects of changes in foreign currency exchange rates and interest rates. These financial risks are monitored and managed by the Company as an integral part of its overall risk management program.

The Company maintains a foreign currency risk management strategy that uses derivative instruments (foreign currency forward contracts) to protect its interests from fluctuations in earnings and cash flows caused by the volatility in currency exchange rates. Movements in foreign currency exchange rates pose a risk to the Company’s operations and competitive position, since exchange rate changes may affect the profitability and cash flow of the Company, and business and/or pricing strategies of competitors.

Certain of the Company’s foreign business unit sales and purchases are denominated in the customers’ or vendors’ local currency. The Company purchases foreign currency forward contracts as hedges of foreign currency denominated receivables and payables and as hedges of forecasted sales and purchases that are denominated in foreign currencies. These contracts are entered into to protect against the risk that the future dollar-net-cash inflows and outflows resulting from such sales, purchases, firm commitments or settlements will be adversely affected by changes in exchange rates.

 

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At December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, the Company held foreign currency forward contracts with notional amounts of $496,110 and $370,043, respectively, for the purpose of hedging foreign currency denominated receivables and payables. Because the terms of such contracts are primarily less than three months, the Company did not elect hedge accounting treatment for these contracts. The Company records the changes in the fair value of those contracts for which it does not elect hedge accounting within other (income) expense, net, in the consolidated statement of operations. Total net realized and unrealized (gains) losses recognized on foreign currency forward contracts were $(24,387), $6,382 and $2,989 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

As of December 30, 2005, the Company was party to an additional 21 forward exchange contracts, with an aggregate notional amount of $11,504, for the purpose of hedging future cash flows. Net unrealized losses of $65 on these contracts were included in accumulated other comprehensive income, net of tax, at December 30, 2005. As of December 31, 2004, the Company was not party to any forward exchange contracts for the purpose of hedging future cash flows.

The Company is also party to seven interest rate swaps entered into in May 2002, with the latest expiration date in May 2007. These swaps were purchased to hedge the Company’s floating interest rate exposure on term loan B (see Note 14) with a final maturity of December 2011. Under the terms of these swaps, the Company pays a fixed rate of 4.8% and receives three-month LIBOR on the notional amount of U.S. dollar swaps and three-month EURIBOR on the notional amount of Euro swaps for the life of the swaps. In connection with the April 2005 amendment to the senior secured credit facilities, all Euro-based term debt was paid in full. As a result, the three Euro swaps were caused to be ineffective, requiring all unrealized gains and losses to be recorded as a component of interest expense in the consolidated statement of operations from the payment date forward. As of December 30, 2005, the unrealized loss on the Euro swaps was $4,800. Unrealized gains and losses on the U.S. dollar swaps and the Euro swaps, up to the April 2005 payment date, were recognized in other comprehensive income, net of tax. The net unrealized loss included in accumulated other comprehensive income, net of tax, was $113 and $11,131 for the years ended December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively. There was no ineffectiveness related to the U.S. dollar swaps as of December 30, 2005 and for all seven swaps as of December 31, 2004.

To the extent that such derivative financial instruments are designated and qualify as hedging instruments, the effective portion of the gain or loss on the derivative instrument is recorded in other comprehensive income and reclassified as a component to net income in the same period or periods during which the hedged transaction affects earnings. Gains or losses, existing at December 30, 2005, which are expected to be reclassified into the statement of operations from other comprehensive income during fiscal year 2006 are not expected to be significant.

(16) Restructuring Liabilities

November 2005 Restructuring Program

On November 7, 2005, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a restructuring program (“November 2005 Plan”), which is expected to take two to three years to implement, and includes a redesign of the Company’s organization structure, the closure of a number of manufacturing and other facilities and a workforce reduction of approximately 10%, in addition to previously planned divestitures. The Company is also considering the potential divestiture of or exit from certain non-core or underperforming businesses.

In connection with the November 2005 Plan, the Company recognized liabilities of $1,979 in the fourth quarter of 2005 for the involuntary termination of 13 employees and an additional $47 for other restructuring costs. During the second and third quarters of fiscal 2005, prior to the formal approval of the November 2005 Plan, the Company eliminated certain management positions and recorded restructuring reserves of $1,431 and $1,052, respectively, in accordance with SFAS Nos. 112, “Employer’s Accounting for Postemployment Benefits” and 146, “Accounting for Costs Associated with Exit or Disposal Activties.” These restructuring reserves were previously disclosed as “Other Restructuring Plans” in the Company’s 2005 quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Because these activities were directly related to and were consistent with the goals of the November 2005 Plan, management has combined these costs with the November 2005 Plan for accounting and disclosure purposes.

 

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The activities associated with the November 2005 Plan for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2005 are as follows:

 

     November 2005 Restructuring Plan  
     Employee-
Related
    Other    Total  

Liability recorded as restructuring expense

   $ 4,462     $ 47    $ 4,509  

Liability Adjustments 2

     383       —        383  

Cash Paid 1

     (2,545 )     —        (2,545 )
                       

Liability balances as of December 30, 2005

   $ 2,300     $ 47    $ 2,347  
                       

1 Cash paid includes the effects of foreign exchange.
2 Liability adjustments reflect the reclassification of amounts previously recorded in other liabilities.

Exit and Acquisition-Related Restructuring Programs

During fiscal years 2002 and 2003, in connection with the acquisition of the DiverseyLever business, the Company recorded liabilities for the involuntary termination of former DiverseyLever employees and other exit costs associated with former DiverseyLever facilities (“exit plans”). During the twelve months ended December 30, 2005, the Company paid cash of $1,076 representing contractual obligations associated with involuntary terminations and lease payments on closed facilities.

Also in connection with the acquisition of the DiverseyLever business, the Company recorded liabilities for the involuntary termination of pre-acquisition employees and other restructuring costs associated with pre-acquisition facilities (“acquisition-related plans”). The Company recognized liabilities of $12,574 and $20,231, for the involuntary termination of 253 and 316 additional pre-acquisition employees and an additional $618 and $294 for other restructuring costs during the twelve months ended December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively. The Company’s acquisition-related restructuring plans provide for the planned termination of 930 pre-acquisition employees, of which 717 and 464 were actually terminated as of December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively. Net liabilities recognized by the Company in connection with such planned terminations were recorded as restructuring expenses in accordance with SFAS No. 146.

The activities associated with the acquisition-related restructuring programs are disclosed in the table below.

 

     Exit Plans     Acquisition-Related Restructuring Plans  
     Employee-
Related
    Other     Total     Employee-
Related
    Other     Total  

Liability balances as of January 2, 2004

   $ 24,821     $ 3,411     $ 28,232     $ 5,173     $ 1,393     $ 6,566  

Liability recorded as restructuring expense

     —         —         —         20,404       579       20,983  

Liability Reclassifications 3

     (182 )     182       —         369       (369 )     —    

Liability Adjustments 2

     (2,932 )     (1,405 )     (4,337 )     (173 )     (285 )     (458 )

Cash Paid 1

     (20,511 )     (1,894 )     (22,405 )     (18,576 )     (997 )     (19,573 )
                                                

Liability balances as of December 31, 2004

   $ 1,196     $ 294     $ 1,490     $ 7,197     $ 321     $ 7,518  

Liability recorded as restructuring expense

     —         —         —         12,567       601       13,168  

Liability Adjustments 2

     —         —         —         7       17       24  

Cash Paid 1

     (796 )     (280 )     (1,076 )     (14,492 )     (920 )     (15,412 )
                                                

Liability balances as of December 30, 2005

   $ 400     $ 14     $ 414     $ 5,279     $ 19     $ 5,298  
                                                

1 Cash paid includes the effects of foreign exchange.
2 Liability adjustments include reductions to previously established plan obligations based on revisions to initial assumptions and removal of liabilities related to impaired long-lived assets in accordance with SFAS No. 144, which were charged to selling, general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statement of income. Accordingly, all charges related to the liability adjustments were recorded in the proper period.
3 Liability reclassifications include reclassification between previously determined employee-related and other plan liabilities based on clarification of original assumptions. All charges related to the liability reclassifications were recorded in the proper period.

 

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(17) Other (Income) Expense, Net

The components of other (income) expense, net in the consolidated statements of operations, include the following:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended  
    

December 30,

2005

   

December 31,

2004

   

January 2,

2004

 

Foreign currency translation (gain) loss

   $ 25,692     $ (4,765 )   $ (8,419 )

Forward contracts (gain) loss

     (24,387 )     6,382       2,989  

(Gain) Loss on hyperinflationary country foreign currency translations

     —         1,773       (1,827 )

Other, net

     (280 )     1,519       (188 )
                        
   $ 1,025     $ 4,909     $ (7,445 )
                        

(18) Income Taxes

The income tax provision for the Company has been calculated as if the entities included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements file separately from their parent holding company, Holdings, except with respect to U.S. foreign tax credits for which no tax benefit is taken by the Company, unless such benefit is expected to be realized by Holdings.

As a result of the separation from SCJ in 1999, the Company and its former parent, Holdco, entered into a tax sharing agreement to allocate responsibility for taxes between SCJ and the Company. In accordance with the terms of the agreement, the Company owed SCJ approximately $1,300, of which $650 was paid in October 2002, $300 was paid in October 2003, and $350 was satisfied by offsetting other U.S. income tax audit adjustments favorable to the Company. In 2005, the Company received $3,796 from SCJ representing adjustments resulting from the closure of the U.S. income tax audit for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2000 and June 29, 2001; however, the payment is subject to further adjustment as a result of current and potential future tax audits as well as tax carryforward and carryback provisions. The payment relates to the ability to carryback certain credits to the pre-separation period that were generated by the Company subsequent to separation. As these credits were generated and benefited by the Company in previous periods, the payment was not recognized as tax benefit in the current period.

The provision for income taxes for continuing operations was comprised of:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended  
  

December 30,

2005

  

December 31,

2004

   

January 2,

2004

 

Current tax expense:

       

Federal

   $ 7,006    $ 8,860     $ 10,225  

State

     41      136       23  

Foreign

     23,124      22,588       18,864  

Deferred tax expense (benefit):

       

Federal

     98,891      (21,569 )     (22,245 )

Foreign

     23,034      10,817       9,872  
                       
   $ 152,096    $ 20,832     $ 16,739  
                       

 

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A reconciliation of the difference between the statutory U.S. federal income tax to the Company’s income tax expense for continuing operations is as follows:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended  
  

December 30,

2005

   

December 31,

2004

   

January 2,

2004

 

Statutory U.S. federal income tax

   $ (6,475 )   $ 11,271     $ 12,161  

State income taxes, net of federal benefit

     41       136       (538 )

Effect of foreign operations

     (2,189 )     (5,529 )     (1,284 )

Westpoint goodwill

     2,137       —         —    

Nondeductible expenses

     4,767       5,237       3,912  

Increase in valuation allowance

     151,758       1,632       2,660  

Foreign earnings deemed remitted

     1,940       7,993       (745 )

Other

     117       92       573  
                        

Income tax expense

   $ 152,096     $ 20,832     $ 16,739  
                        

Deferred income taxes are recorded to reflect the tax consequences on future years of differences between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their financial reporting amounts at each year end.

The differences between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their financial reporting amounts that give rise to significant portions of deferred income tax liabilities or assets include the following:

 

    

December 30,

2005

   

December 31,

2004

 

Deferred tax assets:

    

Employee benefits

   $ 95,711     $ 98,462  

Inventories

     8,117       6,525  

Accrued expenses

     41,988       40,535  

Net operating loss carryforwards

     181,142       148,369  

Foreign tax credits

     70,035       56,070  

Valuation allowance

     (251,831 )     (47,821 )
                
   $ 145,162     $ 302,140  
                

Deferred tax liabilities:

    

Tangible assets

   $ 14,507     $ 35,850  

Intangible assets

     123,660       108,374  

Foreign earnings deemed remitted

     27,127       22,712  

Other, net

     9,078       10,505  
                
   $ 174,372     $ 177,441  
                

The Company has foreign net operating loss carryforwards totaling $340,433 that expire as follows: fiscal 2006 – $1,175; fiscal 2007 – $1,553; fiscal 2008 – $5,478; fiscal 2009 – $32,451; fiscal 2010 – $45,345; fiscal 2011 and beyond – $64,828; and no expiration – $189,603.

The Company also has foreign tax credit carryforwards totaling $45,789 that expire as follows: fiscal 2010 - $677; fiscal 2011 and beyond - $37,743; and no expiration - $7,369. The Company also has U.S. federal and state net operating loss carryforwards totaling $131,987 and $447,604, respectively. The federal carryforward expires as follows: 2022 - $3,471; 2024 - $55,698; and 2025 - $72,818. The state net operating loss carryforwards expire in various amounts over one to twenty years. Valuation allowances of $251,831 and $47,821 as of December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively, have been provided for deferred income tax benefits related to the foreign, federal and state loss carryforwards, U.S. capital loss carryforwards, foreign tax credits, and other net deferred tax assets where it is more likely than not that amounts may not be realized. The valuation allowance at December 30, 2005, includes $4,473 related to acquired foreign loss carryforwards. Any tax benefits subsequently recognized for the acquired foreign loss carryforwards will be allocated to reduce goodwill.

 

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The valuation allowance at December 30, 2004 was determined in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes.” The Company’s U.S. business has incurred accounting losses in recent years. However, the Company concluded that an increase to the valuation allowance against its deferred tax asset for U.S. federal net operating loss and foreign tax credit carryforwards was not required during 2004 due to the consideration of available tax planning strategies.

The valuation allowance at December 30, 2005 was also determined in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes.” The combination of historical U.S. tax losses and the anticipated additional expenses to be incurred in the U.S. as part of the November 2005 restructuring program caused the Company to reconsider the need for a valuation allowance against its U.S. deferred tax assets. Forming a conclusion that a valuation allowance is not needed is difficult when there is negative evidence such as cumulative losses in recent years. In certain cases, the negative evidence associated with historical losses cannot be overcome by management’s expectation of future taxable income. Based on the historical U.S. tax losses and the anticipated additional expenses to be incurred in the U.S. as part of the November 2005 restructuring program, it was no longer more likely than not that U.S. deferred tax assets would be fully realized. Accordingly, the Company recorded a charge for an additional valuation allowance of $140,181. The Company does not believe the impairment in fiscal year 2005 is indicative of future cash expenditures. If the November 2005 restructuring program produces the results anticipated by management, the Company anticipates that all or a portion of the valuation allowance would reverse in future periods.

Pretax income from foreign operations was $86,829, $105,101 and $87,048, for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively. Federal and state income taxes are provided on international subsidiary income distributed to or taxable in the U.S. during the year. As of December 30, 2005, federal and state taxes have not been provided for the repatriation of unremitted earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries, which are considered to be permanently invested. A determination of the unrecognized deferred tax liability associated with permanently reinvested foreign subsidiary earnings is not practicable.

On October 22, 2004, the President signed the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (Jobs Creation Act). The Jobs Creation Act creates a temporary incentive for U.S. corporations to repatriate accumulated income earned abroad by providing an 85-percent dividends-received deduction for certain dividends from controlled foreign corporations. The Company has determined that repatriation of accumulated income earned abroad under this provision is not beneficial. As of December 30, 2005, the amount the Company has considered for repatriation from controlled foreign corporations under this provision, subject to the 85-percent dividends-received deduction, is zero.

On June 10, 2004, the Company completed the sale of stock of Whitmire. The sale of stock resulted in a capital loss of $3,568 for U.S. income tax purposes. The capital loss can be carried forward for five years and the Company has recorded a full valuation allowance on the deferred tax asset related to this capital loss.

(19) Defined Benefit Plans

The Company provides retirement and other defined benefits to its employees worldwide. The retirement benefits are provided mainly through pension and other defined benefit plans. Under the acquisition agreement with Unilever, the Company has agreed to maintain the employees’ benefit programs for DiverseyLever employees who joined the Company at their current level for at least three years. Otherwise, the Company reserves the right to amend or terminate its employee benefit plans at any time.

Employees around the world participate in various local pension and other defined benefit plans. These plans provide benefits that are generally based on years of credited service and a percentage of the employee’s eligible compensation, either earned throughout that service or during the final years of employment. Some smaller plans also provide long-service payments. Under the constitutions of Unilever’s plans, the Company’s plans have received transfer payments based on an equitable distribution of funds in respect of transferring employees. All such payments due relative to the transferring liability, measured using U.S. GAAP at the time of the agreement, have been settled by a cash payment from Unilever to the Company. The Company received $2,723 from Unilever in settlement of the agreement during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004.

 

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Global Defined Benefit Pension Plans

The following table provides a summary of the changes in the Company’s plans’ benefit obligations, assets and funded status during fiscal years 2005 and 2004, and the amounts recognized in the consolidated balance sheets, in respect of those countries where the pension liabilities exceeded a certain threshold (approximately $5,000).

 

     Fiscal Year Ended  
     December 30, 2005     December 31, 2004  
     North
America
Plans
    Japan
Plans
    Rest of
World
Plans
    North
America
Plans
    Japan
Plans
    Rest of
World
Plans
 

Change in benefit obligations:

            

Benefit obligation at beginning of period

   $ 222,132     $ 85,665     $ 417,802     $ 185,922     $ 82,801     $ 310,146  

Measurement date adjustment

     —         —         —         131       —         —    

Service cost

     11,267       1,543       20,849       9,267       1,722       20,557  

Interest cost

     13,269       1,588       20,775       11,949       1,627       16,675  

Plan participant contributions

     434       —         3,682       336       —         6,466  

Actuarial loss or (gain)

     10,162       4,617       53,180       23,668       846       (1,570 )

Benefits paid

     (11,737 )     (4,538 )     (15,785 )     (11,524 )     (4,787 )     (11,416 )

(Gain)/Loss due to exchange rate movements

     1,652       (11,185 )     (56,886 )     2,331       3,456       30,535  

Plan amendments

     —         —         —         52       —         (364 )

Acquisitions

     —         —         54,499       —         —         43,375  

Curtailments, settlements and special termination benefits

     150       —         (2,486 )     —         —         3,398  
                                                

Benefit obligation at end of period

   $ 247,329     $ 77,690     $ 495,630     $ 222,132     $ 85,665     $ 417,802  
                                                

Change in plan assets:

            

Fair value of plan assets at beginning of period

   $ 158,565     $ 38,999     $ 258,937     $ 138,734     $ 37,854     $ 154,553  

Measurement date adjustment

     —         —           (1,084 )     —         —    

Actual return on plan assets

     12,713       210       41,932       12,470       3       9,826  

Employer contribution

     9,009       4,669       24,297       17,814       4,181       50,132  

Plan participant contributions

     434       —         3,682       336       —         6,466  

Benefits paid

     (11,737 )     (4,538 )     (15,785 )     (11,524 )     (4,611 )     (9,612 )

Gain/(Loss) due to exchange rate movements

     1,135       (5,016 )     (35,634 )     1,819       1,572       18,916  

Acquisitions

     —         —         39,930       —         —         28,308  

Settlements

     —         —         —         —         —         348  
                                                

Fair value of plan assets at end of period

   $ 170,119     $ 34,324     $ 317,359     $ 158,565     $ 38,999     $ 258,937  
                                                

Net amount recognized:

            

Funded status

   $ (77,210 )   $ (43,366 )   $ (178,271 )   $ (63,567 )   $ (46,667 )   $ (158,865 )

Employer contributions between measurement date and year-end

     20,043       —         —         14       —         —    

Unrecognized net actuarial loss

     84,579       33,469       86,675       76,067       35,665       54,180  

Unrecognized prior service cost

     (251 )     30       (3,977 )     (282 )     (138 )     (4,735 )

Unrecognized transition obligation

     —         602       —         —         961       —    
                                                

Net amount recognized

   $ 27,161     $ (9,265 )   $ (95,573 )   $ 12,232     $ (10,179 )   $ (109,420 )
                                                

Net amount recognized in consolidated balance sheets consists of:

            

Prepaid benefit cost

   $ 31,815     $ 333     $ 1,461     $ 16,257     $ 2,096     $ 2,442  

Accrued benefit liability

     (4,654 )     (9,598 )     (97,034 )     (4,025 )     (12,275 )     (111,862 )

Additional minimum liability

     (67,371 )     (33,505 )     (22,889 )     (64,292 )     (36,214 )     (8,181 )

Intangible assets

     216       633       927       231       1,002       1,278  

Accumulated other comprehensive income

     67,155       32,872       21,962       64,061       35,212       6,903  
                                                

Net amount recognized

   $ 27,161     $ (9,265 )   $ (95,573 )   $ 12,232     $ (10,179 )   $ (109,420 )
                                                

Pension plans with accumulated benefit obligations in excess of plan assets at year end were as follows:

 

     December 30, 2005    December 31, 2004
     North         Rest of    North         Rest of
     America    Japan    World    America    Japan    World
     Plans    Plans    Plans    Plans    Plans    Plans

Projected benefit obligation

   $ 240,119    $ 77,586    $ 391,877    $ 181,490    $ 85,666    $ 331,481

Accumulated benefit obligation

     225,203      76,928      333,585      179,940      85,069      281,960

Fair value of plan assets

     162,375      33,989      237,182      125,093      38,999      186,420

 

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Actuarial calculations were computed using the following weighted-average rates:

 

     December 30, 2005     December 31, 2004  
     North
America
Plans
    Japan
Plans
    Rest of
World
Plans
    North
America
Plans
    Japan
Plans
    Rest of
World
Plans
 

Weighted-average discount rate

   5.65 %   2.00 %   4.16 %   5.79 %   2.00 %   4.48 %

Weighted-average rate of increase in future compensation levels

   4.40 %   4.00 %   2.77 %   4.42 %   4.00 %   2.71 %

Weighted-average expected long-term rate of return on plan assets

   7.90 %   2.00 %   6.43 %   8.75 %   2.00 %   6.42 %

The components of net periodic benefit cost for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively, were as follows:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended  
     December 30, 2005     December 31, 2004     January 2, 2004  
     North
America
Plans
    Japan
Plans
    Rest of
World
Plans
    North
America
Plans
    Japan
Plans
    Rest of
World
Plans
    North
America
Plans
    Japan
Plans
    Rest of
World
Plans
 

Service cost

   $ 11,267     $ 1,543     $ 20,849     $ 9,267     $ 1,722     $ 20,557     $ 6,389     $ 2,717     $ 17,540  

Interest cost

     13,269       1,588       20,775       11,949       1,627       16,675       11,419       2,024       11,943  

Expected return on plan assets

     (14,175 )     (633 )     (18,550 )     (12,168 )     —         (12,688 )     (10,139 )     —         (7,521 )

Amortization of net loss

     3,645       2,497       2,508       2,524       2,908       718       2,331       2,541       1,514  

Amortization of transition obligation

     —         252       —         —         256       —         —         240       —    

Amortization of prior service cost

     (31 )     (161 )     (108 )     (35 )     (207 )     (236 )     28       (47 )     —    

Curtailments, settlements and special termination benefits

     150         (2,406 )     —         —         —         —         1,015       —    
                                                                        

Net periodic pension cost

   $ 14,125     $ 5,086     $ 23,068     $ 11,537     $ 6,306     $ 25,026     $ 10,028     $ 8,490     $ 23,476  
                                                                        

The amortization of any prior service cost is determined using a straight-line amortization of the cost over the average remaining service period of employees expected to receive benefits under the plan.

Expected pension benefit disbursements for each of the next five years and the five succeeding years are as follows:

 

     North
America
Plans
   Japan
Plans
   Rest of
World
Plans

Year

        

2006

   $ 8,578    $ 3,524    $ 10,732

2007

     9,871      3,279      11,822

2008

     11,020      3,819      13,674

2009

     12,636      3,419      15,684

2010

     14,299      3,529      16,688

Next five years thereafter

     93,920      32,017      101,077

The Company participates with SCJ, a related party, in certain defined benefit plans at its Dutch and UK subsidiaries, and has not previously accounted for these plans under SFAS No. 87. In connection with the anticipated formal separation of the plans, the plan assets, obligations and related activity were separated in fiscal year 2005 and are included in the acquisition line of the tables represented above. In fiscal year 2005, the Company made an adjustment to account for the plans under SFAS No. 87, which did not have a significant impact on its results of operations for year ended December 30, 2005, or any prior periods. In connection with these plans, the Company recorded additional minimum pension liabilities of $9,861 as of December 30, 2005.

The Company also has an unfunded supplemental separation pay plan. This plan provides retirement benefits for employees formerly with SCJ who were hired before 1995. The projected benefit obligation was $7,081 and $7,612 as of December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively, and is included in pension and other liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet. The accumulated benefit obligation was $4,869 and $5,364 as of December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively.

Defined Benefit Pension Plans

The Company uses a measurement date of October 31 for its U.S. based pension plans, and December 31 for its non-U.S. based pension plans.

 

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The following represents the weighted-average asset allocation by asset category for the Company’s North America, Japan and Rest of World defined benefit pension plans on December 30, 2005:

 

     North America Plans     Japan Plans     Rest of World Plans  

Asset Class

   Allocation     Target     Allocation     Target     Allocation     Target  

Non-U.S. Equities

   16 %   16 %   15 %   15 %   24 %   24 %

U.S. Equities

   32 %   31 %   14 %   14 %   22 %   22 %

Non-U.S. Fixed Income

   8 %   8 %   0 %   0 %   26 %   26 %

U.S. Fixed Income

   38 %   39 %   13 %   13 %   16 %   16 %

Non-U.S. Real Estate

   0 %   0 %   16 %   16 %   8 %   8 %

U.S. Real Estate

   4 %   2 %   0 %   0 %   2 %   2 %

Cash and Cash Equivalents

   3 %   3 %   0 %   0 %   2 %   2 %

Employer Contributions

The Company expects to contribute approximately $1,912, $4,400 and $27,505, respectively, to its North America, Japan and Rest of World defined benefit pension plans during fiscal year 2006.

Investment Policies & Strategies

A diversified strategic asset allocation that efficiently and prudently generates investment returns that will meet the objectives of the trust is developed using an asset / liability study for each trust. These studies incorporate specific plan objectives as well as long-term capital market returns and volatilities. Managers are selected to manage assets in given asset class based on their ability to provide returns at or above a passive investment in their asset class. These managers are evaluated annually on their risk adjusted returns. The actual asset allocations are monitored and adjusted toward the strategic target when appropriate. Investment guidelines have been developed and provided to the managers.

A number of philosophical beliefs are inherent in the allocation of assets. Over the long term, equities are expected to outperform fixed income investments. The long-term nature of the trust makes it well suited to bear the added volatility from equities in exchange for the greater long-term expected return. Accordingly, the trusts’ asset allocation usually favors a higher allocation to equities versus fixed income unless circumstances warrant otherwise.

Non-U.S equities serve to diversify some of the volatility of the U. S. equity market while providing comparable long-term returns. Additionally, non-U.S. equities expand the investment opportunities of the funds. In some countries, governmental or regulatory restrictions require that a certain percentage be invested in the home country’s capital markets.

Alternative asset classes, such as private equity and real estate may be utilized for additional diversification and return potential where appropriate. Allocation to real estate tends to be higher in Europe than the rest of the world.

Fixed income managers will be afforded the opportunity to invest in essentially all sectors of the fixed income market albeit restricted in some instances by investment guidelines to limit exposure to the more volatile security sectors.

Long-Term Rate of Return Assumptions

The expected long-term rate of return assumptions were chosen from the range of likely results of compound average annual returns over a long-term time horizon. Historical returns and volatilities are modeled to determine the final asset allocations that best meet the objectives of asset/liability studies. These asset allocations, when viewed over a long-term historical view of the capital markets, yield an expected return on assets as follows:

 

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North America

   Expected
Return
 

Canada

   7.50 %

United States

   8.00 %

Japan

      

Japan

   2.00 %

Rest of World

      

Belgium

   7.25 %

Denmark

   6.75 %

France

   5.25 %

Germany

   5.50 %

Netherlands

   6.75 %

Switzerland

   5.75 %

United Kingdom

   7.00 %

(20) Other Post-Employment Benefits

In addition to providing pension benefits, the Company provides for a portion of healthcare, dental, vision and life insurance benefits for certain retired employees. Covered employees retiring from the Company on or after attaining age 50 and who have rendered at least ten years of service to the Company are entitled to post-retirement healthcare, dental and life insurance benefits. These benefits are subject to deductibles, co-payment provisions and other limitations. Contributions made by the Company are equivalent to benefits paid. The Company may change or terminate the benefits at any time. The Company has elected to amortize the transition obligation over a 20-year period. In connection with the change in the Company’s fiscal year end to the Friday nearest December 31, the Company changed the measurement date of the post-retirement plan in fiscal year 2003 and adjusted the post-retirement expense prospectively over the balance of the fiscal year. The status of these plans, including a reconciliation of benefit obligations, a reconciliation of plan assets and the funded status of the plans follows:

 

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     Fiscal Year Ended  
    

December 30,

2005

   

December 31,

2004

 

Change in benefit obligations:

    

Benefit obligation at beginning of period

   $ 84,590     $ 76,687  

Measurement date adjustment

     —         470  

Service cost

     3,355       3,065  

Interest cost

     4,896       4,741  

Actuarial loss

     8,340       2,495  

Benefits paid

     (4,259 )     (3,641 )

(Gain)/Loss due to exchange rate movements

     (699 )     649  

Plan amendments

       124  
                

Benefit obligation at end of period

   $ 96,223     $ 84,590  
                

Change in plan assets:

    

Fair value of plan assets at beginning of period

   $ —       $ —    

Employer contribution

     4,259       3,641  

Plan participants contribution

     840       736  

Benefits paid

     (5,099 )     (4,377 )
                

Fair value of plan assets at end of period

   $ —       $ —    
                

Net amount recognized:

    

Funded status

   $ (96,223 )   $ (84,590 )

Employer contributions between measurement

     1,160       547  

date and year-end

    

Unrecognized transition obligation

     —         2,294  

Unrecognized net actuarial loss

     33,462       20,696  

Unrecognized prior service cost

     (2,816 )     629  
                

Accrued benefit costs

   $ (64,417 )   $ (60,424 )
                

The accumulated post-retirement benefit obligations were determined using a weighted-average discount rate of 5.73% and 5.70% at December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively. The components of net periodic benefit cost for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004 were as follows:

 

     Fiscal Year Ended
    

December 30,

2005

  

December 31,

2004

  

January 2,

2004

Service cost

   $ 3,355    $ 3,065    $ 2,966

Interest cost

     4,896      4,741      4,910

Amortization of net loss

     751      531      332

Amortization of transition obligation

     287      287      722

Amortization of prior service cost

     50      48      —  
                    

Net periodic benefit cost

   $ 9,339    $ 8,672    $ 8,930
                    

For the fiscal year ended December 30, 2005, healthcare cost trend rates were assumed to be in a range of 3% to 4% for international plans and 10% downgrading to 5% by 2011 for domestic plans. For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, healthcare cost trend rates were assumed to be in a range of 3% to 4% for international plans and 10% downgrading to 5% by 2010 for domestic plans. The assumed healthcare cost trend rate has a significant effect on the amounts reported for the healthcare plans. A one percentage point change on assumed healthcare cost trend rates would have the following effect for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2005:

 

     One Percentage Point
Increase
   One Percentage Point
Decrease
 

Effect on total of service and interest cost components

   $ 1,284    $ (1,074 )

Effect on post-retirement benefit obligation

     17,346      (13,372 )

 

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The amortization of any prior service cost is determined using a straight-line amortization of the cost over the average remaining service period of employees expected to receive benefits under the plan.

Expected post-retirement benefits for each of the next five years and succeeding five years are as follows:

 

Year

    

2006

   $ 3,600

2007

     3,921

2008

     4,243

2009

     4,567

2010

     4,957

Next five years thereafter

     30,410

The Company adopted FSP 106-2 “Accounting and Disclosure Requirements Related to the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003,” during fiscal year 2004. In accordance with the proposed guidance, the Company and its actuarial advisors determined that benefits provided to certain plan participants are expected to be at least actuarially equivalent to Medicare Part D, and, accordingly, the Company was entitled to a subsidy. The expected subsidy reduced the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation at January 1, 2004 by $6,100, and net periodic benefit cost by $748 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004. The Company did not need to amend its postretirement health care plans to qualify for the federal subsidy.

(21) Other Employee Benefit Plans

The Company has a discretionary profit-sharing plan covering certain employees. Under the plan, the Company expensed $13,516, $12,334 and $16,656 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

The Company has various defined contribution benefit plans which cover certain employees. Participants can make voluntary contributions in accordance with the provisions of their respective plan, which includes a 40l(k) tax-deferred option. The Company paid $8,913 and $9,408 for matching contributions during the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively. In addition, the Company contributed $1,266 to the DiverseyLever, Inc. Retirement Plan, a defined contribution plan for former DiverseyLever employees, for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2004. On December 31, 2003 the Retirement Plan was frozen. In February 2004, the Retirement Plan assets were merged into the JohnsonDiversey, Inc. Employee’s Deferred Profit Sharing and Savings Plan, and the DiverseyLever, Inc. Retirement Plan was terminated.

(22) Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The book value of the Company’s financial instruments including cash and cash equivalents, trade receivables, trade payables and derivative instruments approximates their respective fair values.

The book values and estimated fair values of borrowings are reflected below:

 

    

December 30,

2005

  

December 31,

2004

     Book Value    Fair Value    Book Value    Fair Value

Short-term borrowings and current portion of long term debt

   $ 57,325    $ 57,325    $ 100,990    $ 100,990

Long-term borrowings

     1,351,710      1,355,876      1,244,173      1,330,200

The fair values of long-term borrowings were estimated using quoted market prices. The book value of short-term borrowings approximate fair value due to the short-term nature of the lines of credit (see Note 14).

(23) Stock-Based Compensation

The Company has a Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) that provides certain senior management of the Company with the right to purchase stock of Holdco. Prior to July 1, 2001, the Plan provided for the award of one

 

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share of restricted stock and one stock option for every four shares purchased; participants could purchase these shares in exchange for a promissory note. Shares are acquired at a formula value, which is an estimation of fair value by the Company based on overall Holdco performance. All restricted shares vest over a two-to-four year period from the grant date. Stock options have an exercise term of ten years from the date of grant. Also, employees that remain with the Company for four years after spin-off are granted debt forgiveness of at least 50% of the purchase price of the stock. As of June 29, 2001, 18,222 shares of restricted stock and 1,302 options were issued under the Plan. Further, the board of directors approved discretionary stock options to certain employees under the Plan. As of June 29, 2001, total discretionary stock options issued under the plan were 29,295.

Subsequent to June 30, 2001, the Plan was modified so that all awards granted under the Plan were stock option grants. Newly issued stock options vest over four years and have an exercise period of seven years from the date of grant. Options issued under the modified plan were 153,622, 108,637, and 161,712 for the periods ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, respectively. Further, the board of directors approved discretionary stock options to certain employees under the modified plan. Discretionary stock options issued under the Plan were 4,570, 16,075, and 24,725 for the periods ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

The Company conducted an equity offering (“First Supplemental Sale”) of shares of Holdco stock to senior management and directors in November 2001. A total of 7,088 restricted shares of stock were granted in conjunction with the First Supplemental Sale at the rate of one restricted share for every two shares purchased. Participants could purchase these shares in exchange for a promissory note. The restricted shares issued were valued at the stockholder valuation date nearest the grant date and vest over four years.

The Company conducted an equity offering (“Second Supplemental Sale”) of shares of Holdco stock to senior management and directors in March 2003. Restricted shares of stock were granted in conjunction with the Second Supplemental Sale at the rate of three restricted shares for every five shares purchased. Restricted shares issued under the Second Supplemental Sale were 8,496 for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2004. No loans were offered in association with the Second Supplemental Sale. The restricted shares issued were valued at the stockholder valuation date nearest the grant date and vest over two years.

Compensation expense recorded by the Company related to restricted stock and debt forgiveness, net of forfeitures, was ($171), $1,941 and $1,499 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively. During 2005, 19,950 restricted stock shares were forfeited thereby reversing $1,122 of compensation expense recorded ratably since the stock was granted; of which, $812 relates to compensation expense recorded in years prior to 2005.

A summary of stock option activity and average exercise price is as follows:

 

     Number of Shares     Weighted- Average
Exercise Price

Shares under option at January 3, 2003

   124,742     $ 113.17

Options granted

   186,437       111.22

Options lapsed or surrendered

   (4,748 )     121.92

Options exercised

   (2,326 )     84.79
        

Shares under option at January 2, 2004

   304,105       112.05

Options granted

   124,712       136.61

Options lapsed or surrendered

   (13,800 )     118.61

Options exercised

   (5,968 )     107.13
        

Shares under option at December 31, 2004

   409,049       119.39

Options granted

   158,192       143.06

Options lapsed or surrendered

   (47,041 )     126.81

Options exercised

   (19,062 )     118.41
        

Shares under option at December 30, 2005

   501,138     $ 126.20
        

 

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Information related to stock options outstanding and stock options exercisable as of December 30, 2005, is as follows:

 

Weighted-Average
Price Range
  Number of Shares  

Weighted-Average
Remaining
Contractual

Life (in Years)

  Outstanding   Exercisable  
$  82.63   33,327   33,327   4
  114.16   34,340   34,340   5
  136.05   38,536   38,536   3
  106.93   65,576   460   4
  115.07   76,067   440   5
  120.85   1,200   —     5
  136.79   100,062   530   5
  135.61   2,500   —     5
  143.06   149,530   650   6
         
  501,138   108,283  
         

Exercisable options held by employees at December 30, 2005 are 108,283. The weighted-average exercise price for options exercisable December 30, 2005 is $112.50.

Holdco Tender Offer

In December 2005, the Company and Holdco approved the cancellation of the Plan. In connection with this decision, Holdco commenced an offer to purchase all of its outstanding class C common stock, options to purchase its class C common stock and class B common stock held by current or former employees of SCJ. The offer expired in March 2006. Pursuant to the offer, holders of Holdco’s class C common stock who tendered shares in the offer received $139.25 in cash, without interest, for each share of class C common stock tendered. Holders of options received a cash payment as follows: (a) for options with an exercise price less than $139.25 per share, an amount equal to the difference between $139.25 and the exercise price for each share of class C common stock issuable upon exercise of the options and (b) for options with an exercise price equal to or greater than $139.25 per share, $8.00 for each share of class C common stock issuable upon exercise of the options. Holders of class B common stock received $83.30 for each share of class B common stock tendered.

The Company recorded $5,136 in selling, general and administrative expenses in December 2005 to recognize the costs associated with the participants accepting the tender offer, as the offer was approved by the Company’s Compensation Committee in December 2005 and its outcome on the financial results of the Company was both probable and reasonably estimable as of year-end.

 

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Information related to stock options outstanding and stock options exercisable following completion of the tender offer is as follows:

 

Weighted-Average
Price Range
  Number of Shares  

Weighted-Average
Remaining
Contractual

Life (in Years)

  Outstanding   Exercisable  
$  82.63   26,316   26,316   4
  114.16   27,675   27,675   5
  136.05   10,570   10,570   3
  106.93   12,405   —     4
  115.07   13,325   —     5
  136.79   18,065   —     5
  143.06   20,440   —     6
         
  128,796   64,561  
         

Adoption of New Cash-Based Long-Term Incentive Program

In December 2005, the Company approved a new long-term incentive program, which will become effective at the beginning of fiscal year 2006. The new program is not stock-based, rather, it provides for the accumulation of long-term cash awards based on three-year financial performance periods. The new awards are earned through service and will be recorded as compensation expense over the term of the program.

(24) Lease Commitments

The Company leases certain plant, office and warehouse space as well as machinery, vehicles, data processing and other equipment under long-term, noncancelable operating leases. Certain of the leases have renewal options at reduced rates and provisions requiring the Company to pay maintenance, property taxes and insurance. Generally, all rental payments are fixed. At December 30, 2005, the future payments for all operating leases with remaining lease terms in excess of one year, and excluding maintenance, taxes and insurance, in each of the next five fiscal years and thereafter were as follows:

 

Year

    

2006

   $ 64,782

2007

     49,259

2008

     29,720

2009

     15,211

2010

     11,457

Thereafter

     50,263
      
   $ 220,692
      

Total rent expense under all leases was $78,478, $79,868 and $64,666 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

(25) Related-Party Transactions

The Company purchases certain raw materials and products from SCJ, which, like the Company, is majority-owned by the descendants of Samuel Curtis Johnson. Total inventory purchased from SCJ was $32,800, $29,227 and $26,981 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

SCJ also provides certain administrative, business support and general services, including shared facility services to the Company. In addition, the Company leases certain facilities from SCJ. Charges for these services and leases totaled $16,953, $18,592 and $33,398 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively. Of these amounts $0, $0 and $11,470 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively, represent amounts paid to reimburse SCJ for payroll, benefit and other costs paid by SCJ on behalf of the Company.

 

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The Company licenses the use of certain trade names, housemarks and brand names from SCJ. Payments to SCJ under the license agreements governing the names and marks totaled $4,482, $4,473 and $4,083 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

SCJ purchases certain raw materials and products from the Company. Total inventory purchased by SCJ from the Company was $25,117, $22,777 and $23,946 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004, and January 2, 2004, respectively.

The Company has a banking relationship with the Johnson Financial Group, which is majority-owned by the descendants of Samuel Curtis Johnson. Service fees paid to the Johnson Financial Group totaled $155, $167 and $104, for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

The Company leases its North American headquarters building from Willow Holdings, Inc., which is controlled by the descendants of Samuel Curtis Johnson. The Company’s operating lease costs were $789, $812 and $766 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

Several of the Company’s management are indebted to the Company in connection with their purchases of shares of class C common stock of Holdco (see Note 27). These loans were outstanding in the amount of $860 and $341, net of the forgiven portion, as of December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively.

On May 3, 2002, in connection with the acquisition of the DiverseyLever business from Unilever, the Company entered into a sales agency agreement, a transitional services agreement and a dispensed products license agreement with Unilever. The sales agency agreement terminates on May 2, 2007. Amounts earned under the sales agency agreement totaled $94,105, $92,975 and $86,907 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

Under the dispensed products license agreement, Unilever has granted the Company a license to use certain intellectual property relating to the products the Company sells for use in certain personal care product dispensing systems. The dispensed products license agreement expires on May 2, 2007, and automatically renews for successive one-year periods unless terminated by either party under certain circumstances. Payments to Unilever under the dispensed products license agreement totaled $764, $756 and $959 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

Under the transitional services agreement, Unilever provides the Company with a wide range of support services that are intended to ensure the smooth transition of the DiverseyLever business from Unilever to the Company. Unilever provided most services for no more than 24 months, and, accordingly, services under the transitional services agreement have been terminated. Payments to Unilever under the transitional services agreement totaled $1,906 and $9,548 for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively. The Company paid Unilever $912 during fiscal 2005 in association with the continuation of various support services.

During the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, the Company reimbursed Unilever $0, $722 and $5,028, respectively, for payroll and benefit-related costs paid by Unilever on behalf of the Company.

The Company purchases certain raw materials and products from Unilever, acts as a co-packer for Unilever and also sells certain finished goods to Unilever as a customer. Total purchases of inventory by the Company from Unilever were $52,128, $55,446 and $67,751, respectively, for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004. Total sales of finished product by the Company to Unilever were $44,544, $39,437 and $43,565, for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively.

The Company recognized interest income of $3,317, $3,536 and $5,290 for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005, December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2004, respectively, related to certain long-term acquisition related receivables from Unilever. The Company received $4,773 and $136 during the fiscal years ended December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively, in partial settlement of the interest due.

 

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In July 2005, the Company purchased two minority equity interests from Holdco, including a North American business associated with its professional segment for $994 and a Dutch business associated with its polymer segment for $2,000.

In December 2004, the Company acquired an office and manufacturing facility in Argentina from Unilever for $500 in cash and a short term payable of $500. In December 2005, the Company paid $500 to Unilever in settlement of the short term payable.

Related-party receivables and payables at December 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004 consist of the following:

 

    

December 30,

2005

  

December 31,

2004

Included in accounts receivable – related parties:

     

Receivable from Holdco

   $ 4,712    $ 4,213

Receivable from Holdings

     303      428

Receivable from SCJ

     1,662      1,644

Receivable from Unilever

     21,856      25,291

Receivable from other related parties

     393      —  

Long-term acquisition-related receivable from Unilever (see Note 5)

     65,194      96,269

Included in accounts payable – related parties:

     

Payable to SCJ

     2,923      4,016

Payable to Unilever

     50,021      61,010

Payable to other related parties

     94      —  

Short-term acquisition-related payable to Unilever

     —        283

Long-term acquisition-related payables to Unilever

     27,921      28,176

Long-term payable to other related parties

     321      519

Included in equity:

     

Notes receivable from management

     860      341

 

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(26) Other Comprehensive Income/(Loss)

Components of other comprehensive income/(loss) are disclosed, net of tax, in the consolidated statements of stockholders’ equity. The following table reflects the gross other comprehensive income and related income tax (expense) benefit.

 

     Fiscal Year Ended  
     December 30, 2005     December 31, 2004  
     Gross     Tax     Net     Gross     Tax     Net  

Foreign Currency translation adjustments:

            

Balance at beginning of year

   $ 278,433     $ (7,608 )   $ 270,825     $ 205,311     $ 4,546     $ 209,857  

Foreign Currency translation adjustments

     (107,063 )     (8,047 )     (115,110 )     73,122       (12,154 )     60,968  
                                                

Balance at end of year

     171,370       (15,655 )     155,715       278,433       (7,608 )     270,825  

Adjustments to minimum pension liability:

            

Balance at beginning of year

     (106,176 )     39,463       (66,713 )     (81,873 )     32,645       (49,228 )

Adjustments to minimum pension liability

     (16,059 )     5,010       (11,049 )     (24,303 )     6,818       (17,485 )
                                                

Balance at end of year

     (122,235 )     44,473       (77,762 )     (106,176 )     39,463       (66,713 )

Unrealized gains (losses) on derivatives:

            

Balance at beginning of year

     (16,378 )     5,247       (11,131 )     (23,328 )     8,100       (15,228 )

Gains (losses) in fair value of derivatives

     7,411       (2,412 )     4,999       6,950       (2,853 )     4,097  

Reclassification of prior unrealized losses realized in net income

     8,692       (2,738 )     5,954       —         —         —    
                                                

Balance at end of year

     (275 )     97       (178 )     (16,378 )     5,247       (11,131 )
                                                

Total accumulated other comprehensive income, net

   $ 48,860     $ 28,915     $ 77,775     $ 155,879     $ 37,102     $ 192,981  
                                                

(27) Stockholders’ Equity

During calendar years 1999, 2000 and 2005, the Company received notes from several of its management in connection with their purchases of shares of Class C common stock of Holdco, which currently owns two-thirds of the equity interests of Holdings, the Company’s parent. None of the notes received by the Company in 2005 were from officers.

As it relates to the notes received in 1999 and 2000, a minimum of 50% of the balance due was forgiven over a four-year vesting period. The notes were recorded by Holdco and later contributed to the Company. The Company recorded a charge for the amortization of the amount to be forgiven over the vesting period, with a corresponding payable to Holdco.

(28) Contingencies

The Company is subject to various legal actions and proceedings in the normal course of business. Although litigation is subject to many uncertainties and the ultimate exposure with respect to these matters cannot be ascertained, the Company does not believe the final outcome of any current litigation will have a material effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

The Company has purchase commitments for materials, supplies, and property, plant and equipment incidental to the ordinary conduct of business. In the aggregate, such commitments are not in excess of current market prices. Additionally, the Company normally commits to some level of marketing related expenditures that extend beyond the fiscal year. These marketing expenses are necessary in order to maintain a normal course of business and the risk associated with them is limited. It is not expected that these commitments will have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

The Company maintains environmental reserves for remediation, monitoring, assessment and other expenses at one of its domestic facilities. While the ultimate exposure at this site continues to be evaluated, the Company does not anticipate a material effect on its consolidated financial position or results of operations.

In connection with the acquisition of the DiverseyLever business, the Company conducted environmental assessments and investigations at DiverseyLever facilities in various countries. These investigations disclosed the likelihood of soil and/or groundwater contamination, or potential environmental regulatory matters. The Company continues to evaluate the nature and extent of the identified contamination and is preparing and executing plans to address the contamination. In fiscal 2002 and 2003, the Company estimated costs and recorded liabilities of $11,800

 

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representing the expected extent of contamination and the expected likelihood of recovery for some of these costs from Unilever under the purchase agreement. There were no adjustments to the liability during fiscal year 2004. During fiscal 2005, the Company reduced its environmental reserves by $2,916 in conjunction with the completion of remediation activities or determination that the need for remediation was no longer probable. Such reserve reduction was offset by a decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statements of operations. To the extent that contamination is determined to be in violation of local environmental laws, the Company intends to seek recovery from Unilever under indemnification clauses contained in the purchase agreement.

In connection with the acquisition of DiverseyLever, Holdings entered into a stockholders’ agreement with its stockholders, Holdco and Marga B.V. Under the stockholders’ agreement, at any time after May 3, 2007, Holdings has the option to purchase, and Unilever has the right to require Holdings to purchase, the shares of Holdings then beneficially owned by Unilever. If, after May 3, 2010, Holdings is unable to fulfill its obligations in connection with the put option, Unilever may require Holdings to take certain actions, including selling certain assets of the Company.

Under the stockholders’ agreement, Holdings may be required to make payments to Unilever in each year from 2007 through 2010 so long as Unilever continues to beneficially own 5% or more of Holdings’ outstanding shares. The amount of each payment will be equal to 25% of the amount by which the cumulative cash flows of Holdings and its subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, for the period from the closing of the acquisition through the end of the fiscal year preceding the payment (not including any cash flow with respect to which Unilever received payment in a prior year), exceeds $727,500 in 2006, $975,000 in 2007, $1,200,000 in 2008 or $1,425,000 in 2009. The aggregate amount of these payments cannot exceed $100,000. Payment of these amounts, which may be funded with cash flows generated by the Company, is subject to compliance with the agreements relating to Holdings and the Company’s senior indebtedness including, without limitation, the senior secured credit facilities, the senior subordinated notes and the senior discount notes of Holdings.

(29) Segment Information

Information regarding the Company’s operating segments is shown below. Each segment is individually managed with separate operating results that are reviewed regularly by the executive management. Each segment’s accounting policies are consistent with those used by the Company. The operating segments are:

Professional–The Professional Business is a global manufacturer of commercial, industrial and institutional cleaning and sanitation products. In addition, the Professional Business provides services to customers including pest control, facility maintenance, and warewashing.

Polymer–The Polymer Business is a global manufacturer of polymer intermediates marketed to the printing and packaging, coatings, and plastics industries. The Polymer Business sells products to the Professional Business, all of which are eliminated in consolidation.

The following table represents operating segment information. Statement of operations, except depreciation and amortization, include results from continuing operations only.

 

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     Fiscal Year Ended December 30, 2005
     Professional    Polymer    Eliminations/
Other
    Total Company

Net sales

   $ 2,967,162    $ 365,793    $ (22,665 )   $ 3,310,290

Operating profit

     80,272      36,934      —         117,206

Depreciation and amortization

     173,473      9,975      —         183,448

Interest expense

     146,164      819      (3,312 )     143,671

Interest income

     8,856      3,388      (3,312 )     8,932

Total assets

     3,226,756      247,825      (165,688 )     3,308,893

Goodwill, net

     1,126,347      1,639      —         1,127,986

Capital expenditures, including capitalized computer software

     86,202      5,967      —         92,169
     Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2004
     Professional    Polymer    Eliminations/
Other
    Total Company

Net sales

   $ 2,865,568    $ 328,378    $ (20,543 )   $ 3,173,403

Operating profit

     122,452      33,376      —         155,828

Depreciation and amortization

     184,396      9,873      —         194,269

Interest expense

     125,323      598      (1,216 )     124,705

Interest income

     6,234      1,255      (1,216 )     6,273

Total assets

     3,531,523      238,404      (157,918 )     3,612,009

Goodwill, net

     1,251,623      2,115      —         1,253,738

Capital expenditures, including capitalized computer software

     124,898      4,904      —         129,802
     Fiscal Year Ended January 2, 2004
     Professional    Polymer    Eliminations/
Other
    Total Company

Net sales

   $ 2,636,580    $ 285,101    $ (18,612 )   $ 2,903,069

Operating profit

     115,004      36,895      —         151,899

Depreciation and amortization

     150,364      9,099      —         159,463

Interest expense

     131,337      752      (717 )     131,372

Interest income

     6,750      1,002      (717 )     7,035

Total assets

     3,593,605      208,288      (136,566 )     3,665,327

Goodwill, net

     1,223,316      743      —         1,224,059

Capital expenditures, including capitalized computer software

     130,684      4,469      —         135,153

Pertinent financial data by geographical location is as follows:

 

     North
America
   Europe    Japan    Latin
America
   Asia
Pacific
   Eliminations/
Other
    Total
Company

Net sales:

                   

Fiscal year ended December 30, 2005

   $ 1,064,356    $ 1,574,224    $ 346,896    $ 173,406    $ 215,578    $ (64,170 )   $ 3,310,290

Fiscal year ended December 31, 2004

     1,008,231      1,538,310      348,747      139,346      195,161      (56,392 )     3,173,403

Fiscal year ended January 2, 2004

     993,700      1,378,453      278,616      128,352      170,711      (46,763 )     2,903,069

Long-lived assets:

                   

December 30, 2005

     571,421      1,132,225      161,694      105,365      81,035      —         2,051,740

December 31, 2004

     627,739      1,334,094      200,513      98,624      86,202      —         2,347,172

 

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(30) Subsidiary Guarantors of Senior Subordinated Notes

The Senior Subordinated Notes are guaranteed by certain of the Company’s wholly owned subsidiaries (the “Guarantor Subsidiaries”). Such guarantees are full and unconditional, to the extent allowed by law, and joint and several. Separate financial statements of the Guarantor Subsidiaries are not presented because the guarantors are unconditionally, jointly, and severally liable under the guarantees, and the Company believes such separate statements or disclosures would not be useful to investors. The following supplemental financial information sets forth, on an unconsolidated basis, statements of operations, balance sheets and statements of cash flows information for the Company (“Parent Company”), for the Guarantor Subsidiaries and for the Company’s non-guarantor subsidiaries (the “Non-guarantor Subsidiaries”), each of which were determined on a combined basis with the exception of eliminating investments in combined subsidiaries and certain reclassifications, which are eliminated at the consolidated level. The supplemental financial information reflects the investments of the Company in the Guarantor Subsidiaries and Non-guarantor Subsidiaries using the equity method of accounting.

Condensed consolidating statement of operations for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2005:

 

     Parent
Company
    Guarantor
Subsidiaries
    Non-guarantor
Subsidiaries
    Consolidating
Adjustments
    Consolidated  

Net product and service sales

   $ 706,065     $ 295,793     $ 2,336,257     $ (121,930 )   $ 3,216,185  

Sales agency fee income

     4,313       41       89,751       —         94,105  
                                        
     710,378       295,834       2,426,008       (121,930 )     3,310,290  

Cost of sales

     430,174       210,294       1,439,010       (121,758 )     1,957,720  
                                        

Gross profit

     280,204       85,540       986,998       (172 )     1,352,570  

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     362,302       34,656       749,720       —         1,146,678  

Research and development expenses

     35,130       8,060       27,819       —         71,009  

Restructuring expense

     6,768       —         10,909       —         17,677  
                                        

Operating profit

     (123,996 )     42,824       198,550       (172 )     117,206  

Other (income) expense:

          

Interest expense

     137,267       1,073       104,400       (99,069 )     143,671  

Interest income

     (38,219 )     (63,232 )     (6,550 )     99,069       (8,932 )

Other (income) expense, net

     (135,619 )     549       (37,041 )     173,136       1,025  
                                        

Income (loss) before taxes

     (87,425 )     104,434       137,741       (173,308 )     (18,558 )

Provision for income taxes

     79,172       26,191       46,733       —         152,096  
                                        

Income (loss) before minority interests

     (166,597 )     78,243       91,008       (173,308 )     (170,654 )

Minority interests in net income of subsidiaries

     —         —         (57 )     —         (57 )
                                        

Income (loss) from continuing operations

     (166,597 )     78,243       91,065       (173,308 )     (170,597 )

Income from discontinued operations, net of income taxes

     —         4,000       —         —         4,000  
                                        

Net income (loss)

   $ (166,597 )   $ 82,243     $ 91,065     $ (173,308 )   $ (166,597 )
                                        

 

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Condensed consolidating statement of operations for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004:

 

     Parent
Company
    Guarantor
Subsidiaries
    Non-guarantor
Subsidiaries
    Consolidating
Adjustments
    Consolidated  

Net product and service sales

   $ 630,206     $ 325,299     $ 2,266,653     $ (141,730 )   $ 3,080,428  

Sales agency fee income

     5,293       102       87,580       —         92,975  
                                        
     635,499       325,401       2,354,233       (141,730 )     3,173,403  

Cost of sales

     358,236       229,450       1,369,688       (135,070 )     1,822,304  
                                        

Gross profit

     277,263       95,951       984,545       (6,660 )     1,351,099  

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     326,520       52,146       720,797       —         1,099,463  

Research and development expenses

     34,099       8,302       32,882       —         75,283  

Restructuring expense

     9,851       —         10,674       —         20,525  
                                        

Operating profit

     (93,207 )     35,503       220,192       (6,660 )     155,828  

Other (income) expense:

          

Interest expense

     110,685       2,269       104,218       (92,467 )     124,705  

Interest income

     (34,844 )     (55,228 )     (8,668 )     92,467       (6,273 )

Other (income) expense, net

     (148,177 )     (2,357 )     2,610       152,833       4,909  
                                        

Income before taxes

     (20,871 )     90,819       122,032       (159,493 )     32,487  

Provision for income taxes

     (34,537 )     18,890       36,479       —         20,832  
                                        

Income (loss) before minority interests

     13,666       71,929       85,553       (159,493 )     11,655  

Minority interests in net income of subsidiaries

     —         —         285       —         285  
                                        

Income (loss) from continuing operations

     13,666       71,929       85,268       (159,493 )     11,370  

Income from discontinued operations, net of income taxes

     —         2,296       —         —         2,296  
                                        

Net income (loss)

   $ 13,666     $ 74,225     $ 85,268     $ (159,493 )   $ 13,666  
                                        

Condensed consolidating statement of operations for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2004:

 

 

     Parent
Company
    Guarantor
Subsidiaries
    Non-guarantor
Subsidiaries
    Consolidating
Adjustments
    Consolidated  

Net product and service sales

   $ 637,276     $ 317,080     $ 2,004,010     $ (142,204 )   $ 2,816,162  

Sales agency fee income

     7,139       215       79,553       —         86,907  
                                        
     644,415       317,295       2,083,563       (142,204 )     2,903,069  

Cost of sales

     352,455       205,446       1,190,183       (142,196 )     1,605,888  
                                        

Gross profit

     291,960       111,849       893,380       (8 )     1,297,181  

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     316,315       73,050       670,200       —         1,059,565  

Research and development expenses

     28,437       9,602       34,759       —         72,798  

Restructuring expense

     1,089       —         11,830       —         12,919  
                                        

Operating profit

     (53,881 )     29,197       176,591       (8 )     151,899  

Other (income) expense:

          

Interest expense

     115,601       935       100,272       (85,436 )     131,372  

Interest income

     (31,026 )     (55,180 )     (6,265 )     85,436       (7,035 )

Other (income) expense, net

     (131,608 )     (4,464 )     (6,485 )     135,112       (7,445 )
                                        

Income before taxes

     (6,848 )     87,906       89,069       (135,120 )     35,007  

Provision for income taxes

     (30,989 )     19,251       28,477       —         16,739  
                                        

Income (loss) before minority interests

     24,141       68,655       60,592       (135,120 )     18,268  

Minority interests in net loss of subsidiaries

     —         —         262       —         262  
                                        

Income (loss) from continuing operations

     24,141       68,655       60,330       (135,120 )     18,006  

Income from discontinued operations, net of income taxes

     —         6,135       —         —         6,135  
                                        

Net income (loss)

   $ 24,141     $ 74,790     $ 60,330     $ (135,120 )   $ 24,141  
                                        

 

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Condensed consolidating balance sheet at December 30, 2005:

 

      Parent
Company
   Guarantor
Subsidiaries
   Non-guarantor
Subsidiaries
   Consolidating
Adjustments
    Consolidated

Assets

             

Current assets:

             

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 105,614    $ 1,238    $ 55,162    $ —       $ 162,014

Accounts receivable

     12,524      3,422      518,995      —         534,941

Intercompany receivables

     261,634      433,866      —        (695,500 )     —  

Inventories

     61,318      21,274      201,225      (144 )     283,673

Other current assets

     13,224      5,217      116,094      —         134,535
                                   

Total current assets

     454,314      465,017      891,476      (695,644 )     1,115,163

Property, plant and equipment, net

     119,920      25,753      342,278      (6,743 )     481,208

Capitalized software, net

     81,570      1,115      8,311      —         90,996

Goodwill and other intangibles, net

     182,264      148,014      1,132,564      7,714       1,470,556

Deferred income taxes

     —        —        —        —         —  

Intercompany advances

     414,956      390,669      —        (805,625 )     —  

Other assets

     107,543      3,470      40,253      (296 )     150,970

Investments in subsidiaries

     1,542,879      64,079      —        (1,606,958 )     —  
                                   

Total assets

   $ 2,903,446    $ 1,098,117    $ 2,414,882    $ (3,107,552 )   $ 3,308,893
                                   

Liabilities and stockholders’ equity

             

Current liabilities:

             

Short-term borrowings

   $ —      $ 39    $ 44,736    $ —       $ 44,775

Current portion of long-term debt

     7,750      —        4,800      —         12,550

Accounts payable

     77,138      9,576      311,943      —         398,657

Intercompany payables

     510,304      7,423      177,769      (695,496 )     —  

Accrued expenses

     122,319      24,214      227,451      (1,017 )     372,967
                                   

Total current liabilities

     717,511      41,252      766,699      (696,513 )     828,949

Intercompany note payable

     —        171,741      633,884      (805,625 )     —  

Long-term borrowings

     1,333,853      —        17,857      —         1,351,710

Other liabilities

     123,904      41,252      233,619      1,281       400,056
                                   

Total liabilities

     2,175,268      254,245      1,652,059      (1,500,857 )     2,580,715

Stockholders’ equity

     728,178      843,872      762,823      (1,606,695 )     728,178
                                   

Total liabilities and equity

   $ 2,903,446    $ 1,098,117    $ 2,414,882    $ (3,107,552 )   $ 3,308,893
                                   

 

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Condensed consolidating balance sheet at December 31, 2004:

 

      Parent
Company
   Guarantor
Subsidiaries
   Non-guarantor
Subsidiaries
   Consolidating
Adjustments
    Consolidated

Assets

             

Current assets:

             

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 810    $ 646    $ 26,588    $ —       $ 28,044

Accounts receivable

     13,139      3,586      539,520      —         556,245

Intercompany receivables

     264,447      410,968      42,138      (717,553 )     —  

Inventories

     39,194      24,189      218,458      (89 )     281,752

Other current assets

     28,319      7,472      96,106      —         131,897
                                   

Total current assets

     345,909      446,861      922,810      (717,642 )     997,938

Property, plant and equipment, net

     130,179      32,100      411,308      (6,626 )     566,961

Capitalized software, net

     98,939      2,825      10,465      —         112,229

Goodwill and other intangibles, net

     123,267      170,233      1,343,353      25,318       1,662,171

Deferred income taxes

     100,241      —        —        —         100,241

Intercompany advances

     520,031      531,821      27,751      (1,079,603 )     —  

Other assets

     140,088      1,620      30,761      —         172,469

Investments in subsidiaries

     1,630,140      60,714      —        (1,690,854 )     —  
                                   

Total assets

   $ 3,088,794    $ 1,246,174    $ 2,746,448    $ (3,469,407 )   $ 3,612,009
                                   

Liabilities and stockholders’ equity

             

Current liabilities:

             

Short-term borrowings

   $ 39,300    $ —      $ 53,404    $ —       $ 92,704

Current portion of long-term debt

     3,959      —        4,327      —         8,286

Accounts payable

     70,866      18,626      340,376      —         429,868

Intercompany payables

     689,132      6,430      23,678      (719,240 )     —  

Accrued expenses

     150,829      16,661      257,029      (14,588 )     409,931
                                   

Total current liabilities

     954,086      41,717      678,814      (733,828 )     940,789

Intercompany note payable

     —        170,558      909,044      (1,079,602 )     —  

Long-term borrowings

     987,038      —        257,135      —         1,244,173

Other liabilities

     101,845      45,668      227,729      5,980       381,222
                                   

Total liabilities

     2,042,969      257,943      2,072,722      (1,807,450 )     2,566,184

Stockholders’ equity

     1,045,825      988,231      673,726      (1,661,957 )     1,045,825
                                   

Total liabilities and equity

   $ 3,088,794    $ 1,246,174    $ 2,746,448    $ (3,469,407 )   $ 3,612,009
                                   

 

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Condensed consolidating statement of cash flows for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2005:

 

     Parent
Company
    Guarantor
Subsidiaries
    Non-guarantor
Subsidiaries
    Consolidating
Adjustments
    Consolidated  

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

   $ (68,890 )   $ 212,318     $ 258,362     $ (266,620 )   $ 135,170  

Cash flows from investing activities:

          

Capital expenditures, net

     (34,308 )     (3,400 )     (51,151 )     —         (88,859 )

Acquisitions of businesses

     23,680       (5,390 )     (20,843 )     (3,561 )     (6,114 )

Proceeds from divestitures

     979       4,000       18,404       —         23,383  
                                        

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

     (9,649 )     (4,790 )     (53,590 )     (3,561 )     (71,590 )

Cash flows from financing activities:

          

Proceeds from (repayments of) short-term borrowings

     (15,324 )     (2,961 )     122,027       (143,173 )     (39,431 )

Proceeds from (repayments of) long-term borrowings

     361,191       106       (446,990 )     247,516       161,823  

Proceeds from (repayments of) additional paid in capital

     (74,119 )     (91,715 )     113,287       52,547       —    

Payment of debt issuance costs

     (6,594 )     —         (641 )     —         (7,235 )

Dividends paid

     (40,437 )     (56,791 )     (56,502 )     113,291       (40,439 )
                                        

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

     224,717       (151,361 )     (268,819 )     270,181       74,718  
                                        

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents

     (41,555 )     (55,394 )     92,621       —         (4,328 )
                                        

Change in cash and cash equivalents

     104,623       773       28,574       —         133,970  

Beginning balance

     991       465       26,588       —         28,044  
                                        

Ending balance

   $ 105,614     $ 1,238     $ 55,162     $ —       $ 162,014  
                                        

Condensed consolidating statement of cash flows for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004:

 

 

     Parent
Company
    Guarantor
Subsidiaries
    Non-guarantor
Subsidiaries
    Consolidating
Adjustments
    Consolidated  

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

   $ (74,822 )   $ 77,655     $ 193,015     $ 2,928     $ 198,776  

Cash flows from investing activities:

          

Capital expenditures, net

     (64,757 )     1,863       (54,880 )     —         (117,774 )

Acquisitions of businesses

     33,439       (21,129 )     2,453       (18,731 )     (3,968 )

Proceeds from divestitures

     —         48,423       —         —         48,423  
                                        

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

     (31,318 )     29,157       (52,427 )     (18,731 )     (73,319 )

Cash flows from financing activities:

          

Proceeds from (repayments of) short-term borrowings

     298,418       (91 )     (37,762 )     (199,879 )     60,686  

Proceeds from (repayments of) long-term borrowings

     (112,340 )     3,625       (84,816 )     39,690       (153,841 )

Proceeds from (repayments of) additional paid in capital

     (78,631 )     (80,587 )     52,945       106,273       —    

Payment of debt issuance costs

     9,644       —         (10,981 )     —         (1,337 )

Dividends paid

     (14,888 )     (63,051 )     (6,711 )     69,719       (14,931 )
                                        

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

     102,203       (140,104 )     (87,325 )     15,803       (109,423 )
                                        

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents

     4,747       32,751       (50,031 )     —         (12,533 )
                                        

Change in cash and cash equivalents

     810       (541 )     3,232       —         3,501  

Beginning balance

     —         1,187       23,356       —         24,543  
                                        

Ending balance

   $ 810     $ 646     $ 26,588     $ —       $ 28,044  
                                        

Condensed consolidating statement of cash flows for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2004:

 

 

     Parent
Company
    Guarantor
Subsidiaries
    Non-guarantor
Subsidiaries
    Consolidating
Adjustments
    Consolidated  

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

   $ 210,764     $ (110,305 )   $ 189,356     $ (14,137 )   $ 275,678  

Cash flows from investing activities:

          

Capital expenditures, net

     (60,514 )     (797 )     (56,896 )     —         (118,207 )

Acquisitions of businesses

     40,427       7,108       (48,381 )     (20,776 )     (21,622 )

Proceeds from divestitures

     2,830       —         2,211       —         5,041  
                                        

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

     (17,257 )     6,311       (103,066 )     (20,776 )     (134,788 )

Cash flows from financing activities:

          

Proceeds from (repayments of) short-term borrowings

     62,957       (124 )     (58,902 )     (57,204 )     (53,273 )

Proceeds from (repayments of) long-term borrowings

     (240,578 )     164,889       50,887       (115,837 )     (140,639 )

Proceeds from (repayments of) additional paid in capital

     (60,871 )     (73,009 )     9,054       124,826       —    

Payment of debt issuance costs

     (1,491 )     —         (327 )     —         (1,818 )

Dividends paid

     (7,856 )     (78,644 )     (4,506 )     83,128       (7,878 )
                                        

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

     (247,839 )     13,112       (3,794 )     34,913       (203,608 )
                                        

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents

     50,031       85,787       (107,829 )     —         27,989  
                                        

Change in cash and cash equivalents

     (4,301 )     (5,095 )     (25,333 )     —         (34,729 )

Beginning balance

     4,301       6,282       48,689       —         59,272  
                                        

Ending balance

   $ —       $ 1,187     $ 23,356     $ —       $ 24,543  
                                        

 

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(31) Quarterly Financial Data (unaudited)

 

     1st Quarter    2nd Quarter    3rd Quarter    4th Quarter  
     April 1,
2005
    April 2,
2004
   July 1,
2005
   July 2,
2004
   September 30,
2005
   October 1,
2004
   December 30,
2005
    December 31,
2004
 

Net sales 1

   $ 804,360     $ 773,179    $ 869,553    $ 809,726    $ 833,535    $ 783,938    $ 802,842     $ 806,560  

Gross profit 1

     328,203       339,007      363,781      359,828      346,282      333,147      314,304       319,117  

Net income (loss) 2

     (7,844 )     4,172      5,143      18,770      8,425      4,440      (172,321 )     (13,716 )

1 Amounts include results from continuing operations. Prior year data has been restated to conform to the current year presentation.
2 During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2005, the Company recorded compensation expense of $5,136 associated with the cancellation of its long-term incentive program (see Note 23) and additional interest expense of $10,343 in relation to its debt restructuring (see Note 14). In addition, based on the combination of historical U.S. tax losses and the anticipated additional expenses to be incurred in the U.S. as part of the November 2005 restructuring program, the Company recorded a charge for a valuation allowance against its U.S. deferred tax assets of $140,181 (see Note 18).

During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2004, the Company recorded adjustments to decrease fixed assets by $6,600 (pre-tax) to properly recognize consolidated carrying value. In addition, the Company continued to see declines in gross profit margins, primarily due to unfavorable sales mix and escalating raw material price increases.

(32) Subsequent Event

On March 7, 2006, the Company announced its intention to exit the service-oriented laundry and ware washing business in the United States and to develop a new model for delivering cleaning and sanitation products and systems to customers in the health care and hospitality sectors. This decision does not apply anywhere outside the United States.

As a result of these decisions, the Company will reduce employment in the United States by more than 500 positions and will shut down manufacturing plants in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and Cambridge, Maryland, along with several distribution warehouses by the end of 2006. In March 2006, in association with the restructuring, the Company expects to record reserves of approximately $20,500 for severance costs and approximately $3,100 for non-employee related costs, primarily associated with facility closures and contract termination fees. In addition, the Company expects to record additional selling, general and administrative costs of approximately $42,800 relating to asset impairment.

The Company expects to record additional cash and non-cash costs related to the restructuring in future periods. At this time, these costs cannot be reasonably estimated.

 

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JOHNSONDIVERSEY, INC.

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
Number
  

Description of Exhibit

3.1    Certificate of Incorporation of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 3.1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. filed with the SEC on July 31, 2002 (Reg. No. 333-97427)(the “JDI Form S-4”))
3.2    Bylaws of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 3.20 to the JDI Form S-4)
4.1    Indenture between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and each of the guarantors named therein and BNY Midwest Trust Company, as trustee, dated as of May 3, 2002, relating to the $300,000,000 9.625% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 4.1 to the JDI Form S-4)
4.2    Indenture between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and each of the guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York, as trustee, dated as of May 3, 2002, relating to the €225,000,000 9.625% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2012 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 4.2 to the JDI Form S-4)
10.1    Purchase Agreement among JohnsonDiversey Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as Johnson Professional Holdings, Inc.), JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.) and Conopco, Inc., dated as of November 20, 2001 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.1 to the JDI Form S-4)*
10.2    First Amendment to the Purchase Agreement by and among JohnsonDiversey Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as Johnson Professional Holdings, Inc.), JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.) and Conopco, Inc., dated as of February 11, 2002 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.2 to the JDI Form S-4)
10.3    Second Amendment to the Purchase Agreement by and among JohnsonDiversey Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as Johnson Professional Holdings, Inc.), JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.) and Conopco, Inc., dated as of April 5, 2002 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.3 to the JDI Form S-4)
10.4    Third Amendment to the Purchase Agreement by and among JohnsonDiversey Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as Johnson Professional Holdings, Inc.), JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.) and Conopco, Inc., dated as of May 3, 2002 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.4 to the JDI Form S-4)*
10.5    Master Sales Agency Agreement among Unilever N.V., Unilever PLC and JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.), dated as of May 3, 2002 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.5 to the JDI Form S-4)*
10.6    Stockholders’ Agreement among JohnsonDiversey Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as Johnson Professional Holdings, Inc.), Commercial Markets Holdco, Inc. and Marga B.V., dated as of May 3, 2002 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.6 to the JDI Form S-4)
10.7    Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of December 16, 2005, among JohnsonDiversey, Inc., as borrower, JohnsonDiversey Holdings, Inc., the lenders and issuers party thereto, as lenders, Citicorp USA, Inc., as administrative agent, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., General Electric Capital Corporation and National City Bank of the Midwest, each as a co-documentation agent, and Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., as sole arranger and book runner (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. filed with the SEC on December 19, 2005)
10.8    Amended and Restated Guaranty Agreement, dated as of December 16, 2005, by JohnsonDiversey Holdings, Inc. (f/k/a/, Johnson Professional Holdings, Inc.) and each of the other entities on the signature pages thereof in favor of Citicorp, USA, Inc. as administrative agent (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. filed with the SEC on December 19, 2005)
10.9    Pledge and Security Agreement, dated as of May 3, 2002, by JohnsonDiversey, Inc., JohnsonDiversey Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as Johnson Professional Holdings, Inc.) and the other loan parties signatories thereto in favor of the Administrative Agent (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.8 to the JDI Form S-4)

 

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Exhibit
Number
  

Description of Exhibit

10.10    Agreement between S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. and JohnsonDiversey, Inc., dated as of May 3, 2002, with respect to, among other things, the house marks (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.9 to the JDI Form S-4)*
10.11    Agreement between S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. and Johnson Polymer, LLC (formerly known as Johnson Polymer, Inc.), dated as of May 3, 2002, with respect to, among other things, the house marks (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.10 to the JDI Form S-4)*
10.12    Technology Disclosure and License Agreement among S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.) and Johnson Polymer, LLC (formerly known as Johnson Polymer, Inc.) dated as of May 3, 2002 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.11 to the JDI Form S-4)*
10.13    Omnibus Amendment of Leases among S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Johnson Polymer, LLC (formerly known as Johnson Polymer, Inc.) and JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.), dated November 20, 2001 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.12 to the JDI Form S-4)
10.14    Lease Agreement between S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. and JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.) for Waxdale Building 65, 8311 16th Street, Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin, dated July 3, 1999 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.13 to the JDI Form S-4)*
10.15    Lease Agreement between S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. and Johnson Polymer, LLC (formerly known as Johnson Polymer, Inc.) for Waxdale Buildings 50, 57 and 59, 8311 16th Street, Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin, dated July 3, 1999 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.14 to the JDI Form S-4)*
10.16    Real Estate and Equipment Lease Agreement between S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. and JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.) for Waxdale Buildings 59 and 63, 8311 16th Street, Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin, dated July 3, 1999 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.15 to the JDI Form S-4)*
10.17    Lease Agreement between S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. and Johnson Polymer, LLC (formerly known as Johnson Polymer, Inc.) for Waxdale Buildings 52, 53, 54, 66, 66A, 71 & 72, 8311 16th Street, Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin, dated July 3, 1999 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.16 to the JDI Form S-4)*
10.18    Receivables Purchase Agreement among JWPR Corporation, as seller and servicer, Falcon Asset Securitization Corporation, and Bank One, NA, as Financial Institution and as Agent, dated March 2, 2001, as amended through Amendment No. 2 dated May 3, 2002 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.17 to the JDI Form S-4)***
10.19    Amendment and Waiver No. 3 to the Receivable Purchase Agreement dated as of December 19, 2002, among JWPR Corporation, as Seller and Servicer, Falcon Asset Securitization Corporation, and Bank One, NA, As Financial Institution and Agent (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.27 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 of JohnsonDiversey Holdings, Inc. filed with the SEC on September 16, 2003 (Reg. No. 333-108853)(the “JDHI Form S-4”))***
10.20    Amendment No. 4 to the Receivable Purchase Agreement dated as of May 1, 2003, among JWPR Corporation, as Seller and Servicer, Falcon Asset Securitization Corporation, and Bank One, NA, As Financial Institution and Agent (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.28 to the JDHI Form S-4)***
10.21    Amendment No. 5 to the Receivable Purchase Agreement dated as of June 30, 2003, among JWPR Corporation, as Seller and Servicer, Falcon Asset Securitization Corporation, and Bank One, NA, As Financial Institution and Agent (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.29 to the JDHI Form S-4)***
10.22    Amendment No. 6 to the Receivable Purchase Agreement dated as of July 31, 2003, among JWPR Corporation, as Seller and Servicer, Falcon Asset Securitization Corporation, and Bank One, NA, As Financial Institution and Agent (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.30 to the JDHI Form S-4)***
10.23    Amendment No. 7 to the Receivable Purchase Agreement dated as of July 31, 2003, among JWPR Corporation, as Seller and Servicer, Falcon Asset Securitization Corporation, and Bank One, NA, As Financial Institution and Agent (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.31 to the JDHI Form S-4)***
10.24    Receivables Sale Agreement, dated as of March 2, 2001, between Johnson Polymer, LLC (formerly known as Johnson Polymer, Inc.), as originator, and JWPR Corporation, as buyer (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.18 to the JDI Form S-4)

 

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Exhibit
Number
  

Description of Exhibit

10.25    Receivables Sale Agreement, dated as of March 2, 2001, between U S Chemical Corporation, as originator, and JWPR Corporation, as buyer (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.19 to the JDI Form S-4)
10.26    Receivables Sale Agreement, dated as of March 2, 2001, between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.), as originator, and JWPR Corporation, as buyer (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.20 to the JDI Form S-4)
10.27    Amendment No. 1 to Receivables Sale Agreement, dated as of August 29, 2003, between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.), as originator, and JWPR Corporation, as buyer (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.35 to the JDHI Form S-4)
10.28    Receivables Sale Agreement, dated as of August 29, 2003, between The Butcher Company, as originator, and JohnsonDiversey, Inc., as buyer (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.36 to the JDHI Form S-4)
10.29    Receivables Sale and Contribution Agreement, dated as of March 2, 2001, among Johnson Polymer, LLC (formerly known as Johnson Polymer, Inc.), U S Chemical Corporation, Whitmire Micro-Gen Research Laboratories, Inc., JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.), JWP Investments, Inc. and JWPR Corporation (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.21 to the JDI Form S-4)
10.30    Stock Purchase Agreement by and among JWP Investments, Inc., Sorex Holdings, Ltd. and Whitmire Holdings Inc. dated as of June 9, 2004 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 2.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. filed with the SEC on June 25, 2004)
10.31    Commercial Markets Holdco, Inc. Second Amended and Restated Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.31 to Amendment No. 2 of the Registration Statement on Form S-4 of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. filed with the SEC on November 21, 2002 (Reg. No. 333-97247)**
10.32    Form of Stock Option Agreement under Commercial Markets Holdco, Inc. Amended and Restated Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.32 to the JDI Form S-4)**
10.33    Employment Agreement between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.) and Gregory E. Lawton, dated November 8, 1999 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.26 to the JDI Form S-4)**
10.34    Employment Agreement between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.) and JoAnne Brandes, dated November 8, 1999 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.22 to the JDI Form S-4)**
10.35    Employment Agreement between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.) and Gregory F. Clark, dated November 8, 1999 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.35 to the JDI Form S-4)**
10.36    Employment Agreement between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.) and David S. Andersen, dated November 8, 1999 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.36 to the JDI Form S-4)**
10.37    Amendment to Employment Agreement and Long Term Incentive Plan Operating Provisions between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.) and Gregory E. Lawton, dated October 4, 2000 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.27 to the JDI Form S-4)**
10.38    Amendment to Employment Agreement and Long Term Incentive Plan Operating Provisions between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.) and JoAnne Brandes, dated October 23, 2000 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.23 to the JDI Form S-4)**
10.39    Agreement between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (formerly known as S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.) and S. Curtis Johnson, dated December 6, 2001 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.30 to the JDI Form S-4)**
10.40    JohnsonDiversey, Inc. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan for Gregory E. Lawton, effective January 1, 2002 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.47 to the JDHI Form S-4)**
10.41    Employment Agreement between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and Thomas Gartland, executed July 17, 2003 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.1 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. filed with the SEC on November 14, 2003)**

 

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Exhibit
Number
  

Description of Exhibit

10.42    Employment Agreement between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and Mark S. Cross, executed August 1, 2003 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.2 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. filed with the SEC on November 14, 2003) **
10.43    Employment Agreement between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and Diarmuid P. Ryan, executed May 3, 2004 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.1 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. filed with the SEC on November 12, 2004)**
10.44    Employment Agreement between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and Joseph F. Smorada, executed November 1, 2004 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. filed with the SEC on November 12, 2004) **
10.45    Employment Agreement between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and Dr. Stephen A. Di Biase, executed December 7, 2004 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.50 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. filed with the SEC on March 21, 2005) **
10.46    Employment Agreement between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and Pedro Chidichimo, dated as of October 31, 2005 (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.1 to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. filed with the SEC on November 8, 2005)**
10.47    Retirement Agreement between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and Gregory E. Lawton, dated as of February 3, 2006**
10.48    Employment Agreement between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and Edward F. Lonergan, dated as of March 17, 2006**
14.1    JohnsonDiversey, Inc. Finance Officers Ethics Policy (incorporated by reference as Exhibit 14.1 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. filed with the SEC on April 3, 2003)
21.1    Subsidiaries of JohnsonDiversey, Inc.
24.1    Power of Attorney
31.1    Principal Executive Officer’s Certifications Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
31.2    Principal Financial Officer’s Certifications Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.1    Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

* Portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment. The omitted material has been filed separately with the SEC.
** Management contract or compensatory plan.
*** Effective April 2004, Falcon Asset Securitization Corporation assigned its interest to Chariot Asset Securitization Corporation.

 

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EX-10.47 2 dex1047.htm RETIREMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN JOHNSONDIVERSEY, INC. AND GREGORY E. LAWTON Retirement Agreement between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and Gregory E. Lawton

Exhibit 10.47

LOGO

 

Date:    January 2, 2006   
      PERSONAL & CONFIDENTIAL
From:    Curt Johnson   
To:    Greg Lawton   

The following sets forth our mutual agreement regarding your separation from the Company:

 

  1. Salary Continuation. Your last day of work will be a date mutually agreed upon by you and the Company for transition purposes after a new CEO has been hired. We have agreed that this Termination Date will be no sooner than January 2, 2006 nor later than April 1, 2006. The Company will pay you two years base salary, flexible spending accounts at your current rate, and PBO at your current target rate in a lump sum payment within the month following the Termination Date. This payment will have all federal, state and local taxes deducted, as applicable.

 

  2. Health Benefits. The medical, dental and vision coverage you elected under the JohnsonDiversey Choice Benefits Program will cease on your Termination Date, as defined above. At your option, you may continue your coverage for a period of 18 months by paying the full cost for you and your covered dependents. Please contact the JDI Service Center at (866) 391-0760 for more detailed information.

 

  3. COBRA Assistance. If you elect COBRA, the Company will subsidize the medical and dental rates for the 18 months coverage period so that for the same coverage you will pay the same amount of contribution as if you were an active employee.

 

  4. Retiree Medical Savings Account (RMSA). You will retain your RMSA Employee Account to be used for payment of healthcare expenses. You will not retain any contributions or earnings from Company Accounts.

 

  5. Life Insurance. For options on converting core and any additional life insurance coverage, please contact the JDI Service Center.


  6. Choice Benefits. As with the health benefits, the coverage you elected will cease on your Termination Date.

 

  7. Class C Stock. Since you have tendered all of your Class C Stock and Stock Options pursuant to the tender offer for those shares, all terms and conditions of the tender offer apply to the redemption of the stock and options.

 

  8. Restricted Stock. You will forfeit your 2000 and 2003 special retention Restricted Stock awards.

 

  9. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan. You will be eligible for a retirement benefit prorated through your Termination Date from the JohnsonDiversey, Inc. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan. This benefit will be calculated pursuant to Section 4.03 of the Plan Document. Details of your calculation and payment options are available from Todd Blazei.

 

  10. Flexible Spending Account. You will be entitled to use the remaining 2006 Flexible Spending Account of $17,500 for annual country club dues, financial planning, tax advice/preparation, estate planning, legal fees associated with estate and/or property matters, automobile lease, automobile payments (monthly payments only) and health club memberships.

 

  11. Cash Profit Sharing. Your remaining cash profit sharing payment for calendar year 2005 will be made in June, 2006.

 

  12. 2006 PBO. You will receive a 2006 PBO payment at the target level based on salary earned through March, 2006. This payment will be made within the month following your termination date. In consideration of this payment, you agree to be available through December, 2006 at reasonable times upon reasonable notice for consultation with the Company’s CEO.

 

  13. JohnsonDiversey Cash Balance Plan. Your vested benefit under the JohnsonDiversey Cash Balance Plan is available to you as of your Termination Date. You will receive more detailed information.

 

  14. 401(k) Plan. You will continue to participate in the 401(k) Plan based on your base salary up to your Termination Date. Your Plan account will be based on the date of distribution of your account to you. To access your 401(k) account, please call Fidelity at (800) 890-4015.

 

  15. All Other Benefits. All other benefits not specifically mentioned above cease as of your Termination Date.


  16. Corporate Credit Card. You agree to file all expense reports on your Mastercard Corporate Credit Card on or before your Termination Date. If any amount remains outstanding, you agree that the Company will withhold said amount from any monies due you under this Agreement.

 

  17. Return of Company Property. You agree to return within a time and manner mutually agreed upon between you and JoAnne Brandes any and all Company property, including, but not limited to, credit cards, files, including all originals and copies of Company documents (whether or not you were the author or recipient) and any Company material you may have in any electronic form, keys, laptop computer, cell phone, etc. in accordance with Company guidelines.

 

  18. Release. In consideration of the Company’s provision for the severance payment provided above, you, on your own behalf and for your heirs, assigns and representatives of any kind, hereby release and forever discharge the Company, its officers, directors, shareholders, employees, insurers, subsidiaries and any affiliated companies from any and all claims, demands, rights, liabilities and causes of action of any kind or nature, including, without limitation, rights and/or claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and/or the Civil Rights Act of 1991, known or unknown, arising or having arisen out of, in connection with or during your employment with or separation from the Company. However, this release shall not apply to any of your rights under benefit plans which apply generally to former employees (subject to any benefit plan restrictions) of the Company, any claims based on facts arising after the date of execution of this Agreement, and your rights under this Agreement.

 

  19. Older Worker Benefit Protection Act. In compliance with the Older Worker Benefit Protection Act, you (“Employee”), agree and acknowledge as follows:

 

  a. Employee has read the terms of this Agreement, understands its contents, and agrees to the terms and conditions set forth therein of your own free will.

 

  b. Employee has been advised orally and, by this document, in writing of your right to consult with legal counsel prior to executing this Agreement.

 

  c. Employee does not rely on any statement or representation of the Company in entering into this Agreement.

 

  d. Employee understands that this Agreement includes a general release and that Employee can make no claims against the Company except as provided in the general release.

 

  e. Employee acknowledges that Employee has been afforded a reasonable period of time within which to consider this Agreement. Accordingly, Employee hereby waives the applicable period provided under the Act (45 days) to consider this Agreement.


  f. Employee acknowledges and understands that Employee may rescind the release and waivers contained herein within seven (7) calendar days of the date on which Employee executes this document. Should Employee wish to exercise the right to rescind the release and waivers, the rescission must be in writing and must be delivered by hand or mail within seven (7) calendar days of the date set forth herein. If Employee wishes to deliver the rescission by mail, the rescission must be postmarked within the seven (7) calendar days set forth above; must be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested; and must be properly addressed as follows:

 

BY MAIL/HAND DELIVERY
JoAnne Brandes, General Counsel
JohnsonDiversey, Inc.
8310 - 16th Street
P. O. Box 902
Sturtevant, WI 53177-0902

If Employee wishes to deliver the rescission by hand, the rescission shall be delivered to the person and address stated above.

 

  g. The consideration referred to in paragraph 1, above, will not be paid until the aforesaid rescission period has expired without Employee exercising Employee’s right of rescission and all terms of this Agreement are fulfilled.

 

  20. Confidentiality. You agree to keep strictly confidential, and will not disclose to any third party in any manner, excluding your immediate family, attorney or accountant, directly or indirectly, the terms of this Agreement, any confidential business or technical information of the Company, as well as any information regarding any business, and/or personal affairs of any present or former directors, officers, stockholders and/or employees of the Company or any affiliate or subsidiary companies of the Company to which you have been privy during the time that you were an employee of this Company in accordance with the requirements of this Agreement or as may be required by the Agreement to Respect Proprietary Rights and Non-Compete (the “Non-Compete”) you signed.

 

  21. Non-Compete. You acknowledge and agree that the Non-Compete remains in full force and effect notwithstanding the termination of your employment with the Company. The terms of the Non-Compete are hereby incorporated by reference. You reaffirm the terms of the Non-Compete and agree that (a) by executing this Agreement you are agreeing to all of the terms of the Non-Compete as if you signed that document anew, and (b) the payments you are receiving and/or are to receive under this Agreement is consideration for the obligations you have under the Non-Compete.


  22. Breach of Agreement. The Company shall have the right to terminate any and all payments to be made to you under this Agreement in the event of your breach of any of your obligations under this Agreement or under the Non-Compete, or in the event you challenge the enforceability of any portion of this Agreement or of the Non-Compete.

 

  23. Miscellaneous.

 

  a. You agree to cooperate with the Company (including meeting with personnel of the Company and/or their lawyers) in any claim or matter which may arise (including in the future) about which you may have knowledge acquired during your period of employment.

 

  b. You agree and understand that this Agreement sets forth and contains all of the obligations the Company has to you and that you are not entitled to any other compensation of any kind or description.

 

  c. We advise you to consult an attorney prior to signing this Agreement, especially in relation to the release stated above.

If you are in agreement with all of the terms stated in this letter, please sign both copies where provided below and return one copy to me.

 

/s/ Curt Johnson

Curt Johnson

 

Accepted and agreed to this 3 day of

February, 2006.

/s/ Greg Lawton

Greg Lawton
EX-10.48 3 dex1048.htm EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN JOHNSONDIVERSEY, INC. AND EDWARD F. LONERGAN Employment Agreement between JohnsonDiversey, Inc. and Edward F. Lonergan

Exhibit 10.48

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this March day of 17, 2006, by and between JohnsonDiversey, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“JDI”), and Edward F. Lonergan (“Employee”).

In consideration of the mutual promises and agreements set forth below, and intending to be legally bound, the parties agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

Employment

1.1 Position and Responsibilities. During the period of this Agreement and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, JDI shall employ Employee, and Employee shall serve, as President and Chief Executive Officer of JDI and Employee shall have such management authority and responsibilities as are customary for a President and Chief Executive Officer and such other responsibilities commensurate with such position as may be assigned to Employee from time to time by the Chairman.

1.2 Place of Employment. Employee’s initial principal place of employment shall be 8310 16th Street, Sturtevant, Wisconsin.

1.3 Duties. During the Period of Employment, Employee shall devote substantially all of Employee’s business time, attention and skill to the business and affairs of the Company and its subsidiaries, except, so long as such activities do not unreasonably interfere with the business of the Company or diminish the Employee’s obligations under the Agreement, that Employee may (i) participate in the affairs of any governmental, educational or other charitable institution, or engage in professional speaking and writing activities, or (ii) serve as a member of the board of directors of other corporations, and in either case, the Employee shall be entitled to retain all fees, royalties and other compensation derived from such activities in addition to the compensation and other benefits payable to him under this Agreement; and provided further, that the Employee may invest Employee’s personal or family funds in any form or manner he may choose that will not require any services on Employee’s part in the operation of or the affairs of the entities in which such investments are made, which services are inconsistent with this Paragraph. The Employee will perform faithfully his duties and responsibilities hereunder.


ARTICLE II

Term and Termination

2.1 Term. Employee’s employment under this Agreement shall commence on February 1 2006, shall be at will, and may be terminated by formal or informal action of the Chairman or the Employee at any time for any reason not prohibited by law.

2.2 Resignation or Termination for Cause. If Employee should resign Employee’s employment without Good Reason (defined below), or if the Chairman should terminate Employee’s employment for Cause (defined below), Employee shall not be entitled to any compensation or remuneration other than all earned and unpaid salary, unused vacation, unreimbursed business expenses, and such amounts and benefits as Employee is eligible to receive under JDI’s then prevailing policies and benefit plans and as prescribed by law. “Good Reason” means JDI’s material breach of any provision of this Agreement. “Cause” means termination for any of the following reasons:

(a) Material breach of this Agreement.

(b) Material failure to perform within the provisions of “This We Believe.”

(c) Gross misconduct, or willful violation of the law in the performance of duties under this Agreement.

(d) Willful failure or refusal to follow reasonable, explicit, and lawful instructions or directions from the Chairman concerning the operation of JDI’s business.

(e) Conviction of a felony.

(f) Theft or misappropriation of funds or property of JDI, or commission of any material act of dishonesty involving JDI, its employees, or business.

(g) Breach of the fiduciary duty owed to JDI as an officer of JDI.

(h) Material breach of any duty or obligation under the agreements attached as Addenda A and B to this Agreement (following notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure).

2.3 Retirement, Death, Disability or Termination without Cause.

(a) Employee’s employment shall terminate automatically and immediately upon Employee’s Retirement or Death.

(b) Upon the Chairman’s written determination that Employee is unable, due to a disability, to continue carrying out the duties and responsibilities of Employee’s position, Employee’s officer status will be terminated, and Employee’s employment will continue pursuant to the JDI’s

 

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applicable policies and benefits related to disabled employees. For purposes of this Agreement, “disability” means the inability of the Employee, due to a physical or mental impairment, for 120 consecutive days to perform the essential duties and functions contemplated by this Agreement with or without reasonable accommodation. A determination of disability shall be made by an independent physician selected by the Chairman who is satisfactory to the Employee, and Employee shall cooperate with the efforts to make such determination. Notice of determination of disability shall be provided by the Chairman in writing to Employee stating the facts and reasons for such determination. Any such determination shall be conclusive and binding on the parties. Nothing in this section, however, shall be deemed to alter JDI’s duty to reasonably accommodate, if possible, any disability of Employee. Any determination of disability under this Section is not intended to affect any benefits to which employee may be entitled under any long term disability insurance policy provided by JDI or Employee with respect to Employee, which benefits shall be governed solely by the terms of any such insurance policy.

(c) If Employee’s employment is terminated as a result of Death, JDI shall pay to Employee’s estate, in addition to all earned and unpaid salary, unused vacation, unreimbursed business expenses, and any other compensation and benefits provided by JDI policies and benefit plans then in effect, (1) a prorated performance bonus for the fiscal year in which the termination occurs, as described in Section 3.2, which shall be payable at the time and in the manner in which JDI normally pays such bonuses; and (2) reimbursement of expenses to which Employee is entitled under Section 3.6.

(d) If Employee’s employment is terminated as a result of Termination without Cause or Resignation with Good Reason, and so long as Employee complies with all provisions of the Agreement to Respect Proprietary Rights and Noncompete and Code of Ethics, attached as Addenda A and B, respectively, JDI shall, in addition to paying Employee all earned and unpaid salary, unused vacation, unreimbursed business expenses, and any other compensation and benefits due him under JDI policies and benefit plans then in effect, (1) continue to pay Employee his base salary for and during the two-year period beginning on the day immediately following the date of such termination (“Salary Continuation Period”); (2) pay Employee a prorated performance bonus for the period worked during the fiscal year in which the termination occurs, as described in Section 3.2; and (3) pay Employee a performance bonus at the target level (currently 100% of Base Salary) for each year during the Salary Continuation Period.

ARTICLE III

Compensation

3.1 Base Salary. Pursuant to Company policy, Employee’s compensation will be administered as a Tier 1. The Company shall pay Employee an initial base salary

 

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of $700,000 (“Base Salary”). Such Base Salary shall be payable according to the customary payroll practices of the Company. Beginning in April 2007, Employee shall be considered for an increase in Base Salary effective on the payroll date nearest April 1 of each contract year.

3.2 Performance Bonus. Employee shall be eligible to receive, at the discretion of the Board of Directors Compensation Committee, a Performance Bonus in accordance with the terms of the Performance Bonus Opportunity Plan. The Employee’s target bonus is 100% of the base salary as of the last day of the fiscal year. Depending on achievement of objectives, this amount can range between 0% and 200% of the target. The Performance Bonuses are paid after approval by the Board of Directors Compensation Committee of the Company.

3.3 Profit Hunt Special Incentive. Employee will be eligible to receive a Profit Hunt special incentive for fiscal years 2006 and 2007. The bonus target will be $300,000 per year and will be paid in accordance with the metrics set by the Board of Directors.

3.4 Long Term Incentive Plan. Employee will participate in the new JohnsonDiversey Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP), and will have a target grant value of $2,000,000 per year.

3.5 Deferred Compensation Plan. Employee shall be eligible to participate in the Company’s Deferred Compensation Plan.

3.6 Flexible Spending Account. Employee shall be entitled to an annual Flexible Spending Account of $17,500 to be used for annual country club dues, financial planning, tax advice/preparation, estate planning, legal fees associated with estate and/or property matters, automobile lease, automobile payments (monthly payments only), and health club membership.

3.7 Benefits. Employee shall be entitled to participate in all benefit programs which JDI from time to time may make available to other executive level employees in the Employee’s assigned country for benefit purposes. Employee shall have no vested rights in any such programs except as expressly provided under the terms thereof. JDI expressly reserves the right in its sole discretion to terminate or modify any such programs at any time and from time to time.

3.8 Signing Bonus. JDI shall pay Employee a signing bonus in the amount of $300,000, less applicable taxes, to be paid on JDI’s first regularly scheduled payday occurring at least 7 calendar days after the date of this Agreement.

3.9 Expenses. JDI shall reimburse Employee for all reasonable and necessary business expenses he incurs in the course of performing his duties under this Agreement, provided he submits proper substantiation and an itemized account of such expenses in accordance with JDI’s expense reimbursement policies and procedures as may be in effect from time to time.

 

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3.10. Relocation. JDI shall provide relocation assistance to Employee, including new home purchase assistance; transportation of household and storage goods from Boston, Massachusetts, and Cincinnati, Ohio, respectively; ninety days of household storage; transit insurance; sixty days of temporary living (accommodations, meals and transportation for Employee and his family); one-time relocation allowance of $12,000 grossed up; tax counseling up to $500; Home Connections discounted products and services; Concierge Service; and tax assistance. Employee’s former employer is providing shipment of household goods from Switzerland to Boston, including insurance, and air transportation from Switzerland to the United States for Employee and his family.

3.11 Vacation. During the Term, Employee shall be entitled to five (5) weeks of paid vacation each year and to paid holidays given by JDI to its employees generally, including the time between the Christmas and New Years holidays. Vacation days accrued in any calendar year and not used on or before December 31st of such year may be carried into the subsequent year.

3.12 Company Resorts. Employee and his immediate family may, at JDI’s cost, make personal use of JDI’s condominium in Aspen, Colorado, the villa in St. Jean Cap Ferrat, France, and the Lighthouse Resort in Fence Lake, Wisconsin, in accordance with the guidelines for use of each resort.

ARTICLE IV

Miscellaneous

4.1 Entire Agreement. This Agreement and the letter from S. Curtis Johnson to Edward F. Lonergan dated December 21, 2005 (“Offer Letter”), which is incorporated herein by reference, together set forth the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof.

4.2 Waiver of Breach. The waiver by a party of the breach of any provision of this Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver by said party of any other or subsequent breach.

4.3 Assignment. This Agreement shall not be assignable by JDI without the written consent of Employee; provided, however, that if JDI shall merge or consolidate with or into, transfer substantially all of its assets, including goodwill, to another corporation or other form of business organization, this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the successor corporation in such merger, consolidation or transfer. Employee may not assign, pledge or encumber any interest in this Agreement or any part thereof without the written consent of JDI.

 

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4.4 Disputes. Any dispute or controversy arising from or relating to this Agreement shall be submitted to and decided by binding arbitration in the State of Wisconsin, USA, before the American Arbitration Association in accordance with its National Rules for the Resolution of Employment Disputes. The arbitrator shall have full authority to award damages and other remedies as may be permitted under applicable law and, as the law permits, award costs and attorneys’ fees. Judgment upon such award may be entered in any state or federal court of competent jurisdiction. At the request of either JDI or Employee, arbitration proceedings will be conducted in the utmost secrecy; in such case, all documents, testimony and records shall be received, heard and maintained by the arbitrator(s) in secrecy, available for inspection only by JDI or by the Employee and by their respective attorneys and experts who shall agree, in advance and in writing, to receive all such information in confidence and to maintain such information in secrecy until such information shall be generally known. JDI shall pay 100% of all costs related to any such arbitration, including without limitation AAA administrative fees, arbitrator compensation and expenses, and costs of witnesses called by the arbitrator (“Arbitration Costs”), other than the Employee’s legal expenses. Upon the conclusion of the arbitration hearing and based upon evidence presented during that hearing, the arbitrator have the right to require that, in addition to the foregoing, JDI shall reimburse the Employee for his legal fees or that the Employee reimburse JDI for up to 50% of the Arbitration Costs. In no event shall the Employee be required to reimburse JDI prohibitive costs that would effectively deny Employee a forum to vindicate his rights. Except to the extent set forth above and unless otherwise ordered by the Arbitrator under applicable law, each party shall bear his or its own expenses, such as attorneys’ fees, costs, and expert witness fees.

4.5 Limitation on Claims. Any claim or controversy otherwise arbitrable hereunder shall be deemed waived, and no such claim or controversy shall be made or raised, unless a request for arbitration thereof has been given to the other party in writing as provided in Paragraph 4.6 below not later than one year after the termination of this Agreement.

4.6 Notices. All notices, requests, demands or other communications required or permitted under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given to any party when delivered personally (by courier service or otherwise), when delivered by telecopy or facsimile, by overnight courier, or seven days after being mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid and return receipt requested in each case to the applicable addresses set forth below:

 

If to Employee:    Edward F. Lonergan
     c/o JohnsonDiversey, Inc.
     8310 16th Street
     P. O. Box 902
     Sturtevant, WI 53177-0902

 

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If to JDI:    JoAnne Brandes
   Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer,
   General Counsel & Secretary
     JohnsonDiversey, Inc.
     8310 16th Street – MS 510
     P. O. Box 902
   Sturtevant, WI 53177-0902

or to such other address as such party shall have designated by written notice so given to each other party.

4.7 Amendment. This Agreement may be modified only in writing, signed by a duly authorized representative of JDI and Employee. Headings included in this Agreement are for convenience only and are not intended to limit or expand the rights of the parties hereto.

4.8 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, then such invalidity or unenforceability shall have no effect on the other provisions hereof, which shall remain valid, binding and enforceable and in full force and effect, and such invalid or unenforceable provision, shall be construed in a manner so as to give the maximum valid and enforceable effect to the intent of the parties expressed therein.

4.9 Incorporation of Terms. The introductory language and recitals set forth above, and Addenda A and B attached hereto, are incorporated by reference as a part of this Agreement.

4.10 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Wisconsin, USA (regardless of such State’s conflicts of law principles).

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the day, month and year first above written.

 

JOHNSONDIVERSEY, INC.

By  

/s/ JoAnne Brandes

  JoAnne Brandes, Executive Vice
  President, Chief Administrative Officer,
  General Counsel and Secretary

/s/ Edward F. Lonergan

Edward F. Lonergan

 

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EX-21.1 4 dex211.htm SUBSIDIARIES OF JOHNSONDIVERSEY, INC Subsidiaries of JohnsonDiversey, Inc

Exhibit 21.1

SUBSIDIARIES OF JOHNSONDIVERSEY, INC.

NORTH AMERICA

United States

California

Chemical Methods Associates, Inc.

Chemical Methods Leasco, Inc.

Delaware

Auto-C, LLC

Integrated Sanitation Management, Inc.

Johnson Diversey Puerto Rico, Inc.

Johnson Diversey Shareholdings, Inc.

Johnson Diversey Subsidiary #1 LLC

Johnson Wax Diversey Shareholdings, Inc.

Professional Shareholdings, Inc.

The Butcher Company

JDI CEE, Inc.

Nevada

JWP Investments, Inc.

JWPR Corporation

JDI Holdings, Inc.

Ohio

DuBois International, Inc.

Wisconsin

Johnson Polymer, LLC

Canada

JohnsonDiversey Canada, Inc.

EUROPE

Austria

JohnsonDiversey Austria Trading GmbH

Belgium

JohnsonDiversey Belgium BVBA

Czech Republic

JohnsonDiversey Ceska republika s.r.o.


France

Johnson Professional Holdings S.A.S.

JohnsonDiversey (France) S.A.S.

Germany

DuBois Chemie GmbH

JohnsonDiversey Deutschland Management GmbH

JohnsonDiversey Deutschland GmbH & Co OHG

Greece

JohnsonDiversey Hellas S.A.

Hungary

JohnsonDiversey Hungary Ltd. (official abbreviated name of JohnsonDiversey Manufacture and Trade Limited Liability Company)

JohnsonDiversey Acting Off-shore Capital Management Limited Liability Company

Ireland

JohnsonDiversey Ireland Limited

DiverseyLever (Ireland) Limited

Ranger Hygiene Cleaning Systems Limited

Italy

JohnsonDiversey S.p.A.

Netherlands

JohnsonDiversey B.V.

Diversey IP International B.V.

Johnson Wax Professional B.V.

JohnsonDiversey Europe B.V.

JohnsonDiversey Holdings II B.V.

Johnson Polymer, B.V.

Poland

JohnsonDiversey Polska Sp. Z.o.o.

Portugal

JohnsonDiversey Sistemas de Higiene e Limpeza, S.A.

Romania

Johnson Diversey Romania S.R.L.

Russia

JohnsonDiversey LLC

Slovak Republic

JohnsonDiversey Slovensko, s.r.o.


Slovenia

Johnson Diversey d.o.o.

Spain

JohnsonDiversey España, S.L.

Sweden

JohnsonDiversey Sverige AB

JohnsonDiversey Sverige Holdings AB

United Kingdom

Diversey (Europe) Limited

Diversey (UK) Limited

JohnsonDiversey Equipment Limited

JohnsonDiversey UK Holdings Ltd.

JohnsonDiversey UK Ltd.

Lever Industrial Limited

DiverseyLever Limited

JohnsonDiversey UK Trustee Ltd.

Chemical Methods (Europe) Ltd.

ASIA/PACIFIC/JAPAN

Australia

JohnsonDiversey Australia Pty. Limited

Company No. ACN 000 065 725

China

DiverseyLever Hygiene (Guangdong) Ltd.

Johnson Polymer Shanghai Company Limited

Shanghai JohnsonDiversey, Ltd.

Hong Kong

JohnsonDiversey Hong Kong Limited

Johnson Polymer, Ltd.

Johnson Wax Professional (Hong Kong) Ltd.

Premier Cleaning Engineering Pte Limited

JohnsonDiversey Asia Holdings Limited

Johnson Diversey Hong Kong RE Holdings Limited

India

JohnsonDiversey India Private Limited

Indonesia

PT Diversey Indonesia


Israel

JohnsonDiversey Israel Ltd.

Japan

JohnsonDiversey Co., Ltd.

Johnson Professional Co., Ltd.

TeepolDiversey Co., Ltd.

Daisan Kogyo Co., Limited

Johnson Polymer Corporation

Malaysia

JohnsonDiversey Holdings Sdn. Bhd.

JohnsonDiversey (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.

Mauritius

Johnson Diversey Mauritius Holdings

New Zealand

JohnsonDiversey New Zealand Limited

Philippines

JohnsonDiversey Philippines, Inc.

Singapore

JohnsonDiversey Singapore Pte. Ltd.

South Korea

JohnsonDiversey Korea Co., Ltd.

Taiwan

Johnson Diversey Taiwan Co., Ltd.

Thailand

Johnson Polymer, Ltd.

JohnsonDiversey (Thailand) Ltd.

Turkey

Diversey Kimya Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.

United Arab Emirates

JohnsonDiversey Gulf FZE

AMERICAS

Argentina

JohnsonDiversey de Argentina S.A.

Aconcagua Distribuciones SRL

Barbados

Johnson Diversey (Barbados) Holdings Ltd.

Brazil

JohnsonDiversey Brasil Ltda.


Cayman Islands

Johnson Diversey Cayman, Inc. (Finance Company)

JWP Investments Offshore, Inc.

Chile

JohnsonDiversey Industrial y Comercial de Chile Limitada

Colombia

JohnsonDiversey Colombia Limitada

Costa Rica

JohnsonDiversey Centro America S.A.

Dominican Republic

JohnsonDiversey Dominicana, S.A.

Guatemala

JohnsonDiversey Centroamerica S.A.

Jamaica

DiverseyLever Jamaica Limited

JohnsonDiversey Jamaica Limited

Wyandotte Chemicals Jamaica Limited

Mexico

JohnsonDiversey Mexico, S.A. de C.V.

Paraguay

JohnsonDiversey Paraguay SRL

Peru

JohnsonDiversey Perú S.A.C.

Uruguay

JohnsonDiversey de Uruguay S.R.L.

Venezuela

JohnsonDiversey Venezuela, S.A.

AFRICA

Egypt

DiverseyLever Egypt Limited

Johnson Diversey Egypt One, Limited

Johnson Diversey Egypt Trading Company, S.A.E.

Johnson Diversey Egypt Two, Limited

Kenya

JohnsonDiversey East Africa Limited

Morocco

DiverseyLever Maroc S.A.

South Africa

JohnsonDiversey South Africa (Pty) Ltd.

EX-24.1 5 dex241.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY Power of Attorney

Exhibit 24.1

Power of Attorney

Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Edward F. Lonergan, Joseph F. Smorada and Clive A. Newman, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of and substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign JohnsonDiversey, Inc.’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2005, and any and all amendments thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits and schedules thereto, and other documents therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and hereby grants unto such attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing necessary or desirable to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or his or her substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

This Power of Attorney may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original and all of which, when taken together, shall constitute one and the same document.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands as of the 21st day of March, 2006.

 

/s/ Edward F. Lonergan

   

/s/ Joseph F. Smorada

Edward F. Lonergan     Joseph F. Smorada
Chief Executive Officer, President and Director     Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

/s/ Clive A. Newman

   

/s/ S. Curtis Johnson III

Clive A. Newman     S. Curtis Johnson III
Vice President and Corporate Controller     Director and Chairman

/s/ Todd C. Brown

   

/s/ Irene M. Esteves

Todd C. Brown     Irene M. Esteves
Director     Director

/s/ Robert M. Howe

   

/s/ Helen Johnson-Leipold

Robert M. Howe     Helen Johnson-Leipold
Director     Director

/s/ Clifton D. Louis

   

/s/ Neal R. Nottleson

Clifton D. Louis     Neal R. Nottleson
Director     Director

/s/ Reto Wittwer

   
Reto Wittwer    
Director    
EX-31.1 6 dex311.htm SECTION 302 CEO CERTIFICATION Section 302 CEO Certification

Exhibit 31.1

PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S CERTIFICATIONS

PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, Edward F. Lonergan, certify that:

 

  1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of JohnsonDiversey, Inc.;

 

  2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

  3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

  4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and have:

 

  a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

  b) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

  c) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

  5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors:

 

  a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

  b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

Date: March 21, 2006

 

/s/ Edward F. Lonergan

 

Edward F. Lonergan

President and Chief Executive Officer

EX-31.2 7 dex312.htm SECTION 302 CFO CERTIFICATION Section 302 CFO Certification

Exhibit 31.2

PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER’S CERTIFICATIONS

PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, Joseph F. Smorada, certify that:

 

  1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of JohnsonDiversey, Inc.;

 

  2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

  3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

  4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant and have:

 

  a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

  b) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

  c) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

  5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors:

 

  a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

  b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

Date: March 21, 2006

 

/s/ Joseph F. Smorada

 

Joseph F. Smorada

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

EX-32.1 8 dex321.htm SECTION 906 CEO AND CFO CERTIFICATION Section 906 CEO and CFO Certification

Exhibit 32.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO

18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In connection with the Annual Report of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. (the “Company”) on Form 10-K for the year ended December 30, 2005, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), each of the undersigned officers of the Company certifies, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that, to such officer’s knowledge:

 

  (1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

 

  (2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company as of the dates and for the periods expressed in the Report.

 

Date: March 21, 2006  

/s/ Edward F. Lonergan

 

Edward F. Lonergan

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

/s/ Joseph F. Smorada

 

Joseph F. Smorada

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

The foregoing certification is being furnished solely pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 and is not being filed as part of the Report or as a separate disclosure document.

A signed original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided to the Company and will be retained by the Company and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.

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