-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, EV/MUVbG4Pn7jl7hQGEZ+yqKVPgNFAHW5/q2K4rgFlL22J9tkHJRf3HD08XxWx3+ WhSBsmxj1J1U4O7+AnXLXw== 0001214659-08-001454.txt : 20080624 0001214659-08-001454.hdr.sgml : 20080624 20080624140054 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001214659-08-001454 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20080623 FILED AS OF DATE: 20080624 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20080624 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: TALBOTS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000912263 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-WOMEN'S CLOTHING STORES [5621] IRS NUMBER: 411111318 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0129 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE TALBOTS DRIVE CITY: HINGHAM STATE: MA ZIP: 02043 BUSINESS PHONE: 7817497600 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE TALBOTS DRIVE CITY: HINGHAM STATE: MA ZIP: 02043 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: POOLE GREGORY I CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001437907 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-12552 FILM NUMBER: 08913950 BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: (781) 749-7600 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O THE TALBOTS, INC. STREET 2: ONE TALBOTS DRIVE CITY: HINGHAM STATE: MA ZIP: 02043 3 1 a62481f3_ex.xml X0203 3 2008-06-23 1 0000912263 TALBOTS INC TLB 0001437907 POOLE GREGORY I C/O THE TALBOTS, INC. ONE TALBOTS DRIVE HINGHAM MA 02043 0 1 0 0 EVP, Chief Supply Chain Off. Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney /s/ Warren J. Casey, Attorney-in-Fact 2008-06-23 EX-24 2 poa.htm
Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Richard T. O’Connell, Jr., John L. Florio, Mara D. Calame, and the following attorneys at Day Pitney LLP: Warren J. Casey, Randy K. Rutherford and Ellen S. Knarr, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as an officer of The Talbots, Inc. (the “Company”), a Form ID, Forms 3, 4 and 5 and any other documents necessary to facilitate the filing of reports in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act 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 ID or Forms 3, 4 or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and file such forms with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3) take any other action 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 such attorney-in-fact’s discretion. 

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing requisite, necessary, or 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 such attorney-in-fact’s 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 the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such  capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 4 and 5 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 16th day of June, 2008.
 
 

 
/s/ Gregory I. Poole  
Signature  
   
Gregory I. Poole  
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