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<b><font style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times">Employees’
Stock Incentive Plans and Management Incentive Plans</font></b>
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As of July 29, 2009, the Company had outstanding stock
option awards, restricted stock units and restricted stock
awards issued pursuant to various shareholder-approved plans and
a shareholder-authorized employee stock purchase plan, as
described on pages 55 to 60 of the Company’s Annual Report
on
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for the fiscal year ended April 29, 2009. The compensation
cost related to these plans recognized in general and
administrative expenses (“G&A”), and the related
tax benefit was $6.3 million and $1.9 million for the
first quarter ended July 29, 2009, and $6.8 million
and $2.4 million for the first quarter ended July 30,
2008, respectively.
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In Fiscal 2010, the Company granted performance awards as
permitted in the Fiscal Year 2003 Stock Incentive Plan, subject
to the achievement of certain performance goals. These
performance awards are tied to the Company’s relative Total
Shareholder Return (“Relative TSR”) Ranking within the
defined Long-term Performance Program (“LTPP”) peer
group and the
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average after-tax Return on Invested Capital (“ROIC”)
metrics. The Relative TSR metric is based on the two-year
cumulative return to shareholders from the change in stock price
and dividends paid between the starting and ending dates. The
starting value was based on the average of each LTPP peer group
company stock price for the 60 trading days prior to and
including April 30, 2009. The ending value will be based on
the average stock price for the 60 trading days prior to and
including the close of the Fiscal 2011 year end, plus
dividends paid over the 2 year performance period. The
compensation cost related to current and prior period LTPP
awards recognized in G&A was $2.6 million, and the
related tax benefit was $0.8 million for the first quarter
ended July 29, 2009. The compensation cost related to LTPP
awards recognized in G&A was $6.1 million, and the
related tax benefit was $2.0 million for the first quarter
ended July 30, 2008.
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