0001498301-16-000216.txt : 20161212 0001498301-16-000216.hdr.sgml : 20161212 20161212181543 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001498301-16-000216 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20161208 FILED AS OF DATE: 20161212 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20161212 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Ascena Retail Group, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001498301 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-APPAREL & ACCESSORY STORES [5600] IRS NUMBER: 300641353 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0729 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 933 MACARTHUR BOULEVARD CITY: MAHWAH STATE: NJ ZIP: 07430 BUSINESS PHONE: 551.777.6700 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 933 MACARTHUR BOULEVARD CITY: MAHWAH STATE: NJ ZIP: 07430 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: JAFFE ELLIOT S CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000903343 STATE OF INCORPORATION: CT FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-11736 FILM NUMBER: 162047270 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 30 DUNNIGAN DR STREET 2: C/O DRESS BARN CITY: SUFFERN STATE: NY ZIP: 10901 4 1 edgar.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0306 4 2016-12-08 1 0001498301 Ascena Retail Group, Inc. ASNA 0000903343 JAFFE ELLIOT S C/O ASCENA RETAIL GROUP, INC. 933 MACARTHUR BOULEVARD MAHWAH NJ 07430 1 1 0 0 Chairman Common 2016-12-08 4 M 0 24603 A 1093267 D Common 2016-12-12 4 S 0 9150 7.6114 D 1084117 D Common 862938 I See Footnote (4) Restricted Stock Units 2016-12-08 4 M 0 16010 0 D Common 16010 0 D Restricted Stock Units 2016-12-08 4 M 0 1667 0 D Common 1667 0 D Restricted Stock Units 2016-12-08 4 M 0 2917 0 D Common 2917 2916 D Restricted Stock Units 2016-12-08 4 M 0 2916 0 D Common 2916 0 D Restricted Stock Units 2016-12-08 4 M 0 364 0 D Common 364 729 D Restricted Stock Units 2016-12-08 4 M 0 364 0 D Common 364 365 D Restrcited Stock Units 2016-12-08 4 M 0 365 0 D Common 365 0 D Restricted stock units convert into common stock on a one-for-one basis. Shares sold to pay taxes due upon vesting of restricted stock units. This transaction was executed in multiple trades ranging from $7.60 to $7.64 The price reported above reflects the weighted average sale price. Detailed information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price will be provided upon request by the Commission staff, the issuer or a security holder of the issuer. Shares are held by Roslyn Jaffe, Mr. Jaffe's wife. Mr. Jaffe disclaims beneficial ownership of these shares. Granted under the Company's 2016 Omnibus Incentive Plan. Effective December 8, 2016, the Compensation and Stock Incentive Committee of the Board of Directors accelerated the vesting of the Restricted Stock Units in connection with the reporting person's retirement as the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors pursuant to the Company's 2010 Stock Incentive Plan and 2016 Omnibus Incentive Plan. Granted under the Company's 2010 Stock Incentive Plan. Mary Beth Riley, by power of attorney 2016-12-12 EX-24 2 ejaffepofa.htm

POWER OF ATTORNEY



KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Armand Correia, Gene Wexler and Mary Beth Riley, and each of them acting or signing alone, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:



 (1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of The Dress Barn, Inc. (the "Company"), any and all reports required to be filed by the undersigned in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;



 (2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5 or other required report and timely file such report with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and



 (3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned, pursuant to this Power of Attorney, shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his discretion.



The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or his or her substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that no such attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is hereby assuming, nor is the Company hereby assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.



This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file reports under Section 16 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.



IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 29th day of November, 2006.





   Signature: /s/ Elliot S. Jaffe



   Printed Name:  Elliot S. Jaffe