S-8 1 pdm63a.txt FORM S-8 Registration No. 333-_____ SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 ------------------------- FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT Under THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 ------------------------- SNAP-ON INCORPORATED (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware 39-0622040 (State or other jurisdiction (I.R.S. Employer of incorporation or organization) Identification No.) 10801 Corporate Drive Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin 53158-1603 (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code) Snap-on Incorporated 2001 Incentive Stock and Awards Plan (Full title of the plan) -------------------------- S.F. Marrinan Vice President, Secretary & General Counsel 2801 - 80th Street Kenosha, Wisconsin 53141-1410 (414) 656-5200 (Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE Proposed Proposed Maximum Maximum Title of Securities to Amount to be Offering Price Per Aggregate Offering Amount of be Registered Registered Share Price Registration Fee Common Stock, $1 par value 5,000,000 shares $ 29.26(1) $146,300,000(1) $ 36,575 Preferred Stock Purchase Rights 5,000,000 rights (2) (2) (2) (1) Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act of 1933 solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee based upon the average of the high and low price of the Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on May 29, 2001. (2) The value attributable to the Preferred Stock Purchase Rights is reflected in the market price of the Common Stock to which the Rights are attached.
--------------------------------- PART I INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS The document or documents containing the information specified in Part I are not required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") as part of this Form S-8 Registration Statement. PART II INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference. The following documents filed with the Commission by Snap-on Incorporated (the "Company") are hereby incorporated herein by reference: 1. The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 30, 2000, which includes certified financial statements of the Company as of and for the year ended December 30, 2000. 2. All other reports filed since December 30, 2000 by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. 3. The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in Item 1 of the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A, dated January 12, 1978, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description. 4. The description of the Company's Preferred Stock Purchase Rights contained in Item 1 of the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A, dated October 14, 1997, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description. All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, after the date of filing of this Registration Statement and prior to such time as the Company files a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Item 4. Description of Securities. Not applicable. Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel. Not applicable. Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers. Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law permits corporations to indemnify directors and officers. The statute generally requires that to obtain indemnification the director or officer must have acted in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation; and, additionally, in criminal proceedings, that the officer or director had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. In any proceeding by or in the right of the corporation, no indemnification may be provided if the director or officer is adjudged liable to the corporation (unless ordered by the court). Indemnification against expenses actually and reasonably incurred by a director or officer is required to the extent that such director or officer is successful on the merits in the defense of the proceeding. The Company's Bylaws provide generally for indemnification, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law, of a director and officer who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to 2 or is involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a "proceeding"), by reason of the fact that he is or was a director or officer of the Company or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of certain other related entities. The Bylaws provide that the indemnification will cover all costs, charges, expenses, liabilities and losses reasonably incurred by the director or officer. The Bylaws further provide that a director or officer has the right to be paid expenses incurred in defending a proceeding, except the amount of any settlement, in advance of its final disposition upon receipt by the Company of an undertaking from the director or officer to repay the advances if it is ultimately determined that he is not entitled to indemnification. The Company has entered into Indemnification Agreements with its directors and certain officers. The Indemnification Agreements provide generally that the Company must promptly advance directors and certain officers all reasonable costs of defending against certain litigation upon request, and must indemnify such director or officer against liabilities incurred in connection with such litigation to the extent that such director or officer is successful on the merits of the proceeding, or, if unsuccessful, to the extent that such director or officer acted in good faith. However, no indemnification will be made under the Agreement if the director or officer is found to not have acted in good faith. The advance is subject to repayment under certain circumstances. The directors and officers of the Company are also covered by insurance policies indemnifying them (subject to certain limits and exclusions) against certain liabilities, including certain liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, which might be incurred by them in such capacities and against which they cannot be indemnified by the Company. Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed. Not Applicable. Item 8. Exhibits. The exhibits filed herewith or incorporated herein by reference are set forth on the attached Exhibit Index. Item 9. Undertakings. *(a) The Company hereby undertakes: (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement: (i) To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act; (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement; (iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement; provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement. (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. 3 (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering. *(b) The Company hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, each filing of the Company's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. *(h) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Company pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Company has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Company of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Company in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Company will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. ------------------ * Paragraph references correspond to those of Item 512 of Regulation S-K. 4 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Kenosha, State of Wisconsin, on June 1, 2001. SNAP-ON INCORPORATED By: /s/ D.F. Elliott D.F. Elliott President and Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below as of June 1, 2001, by the following persons in the capacities indicated. Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Donald S. Huml, Michael F. Montemurro and Susan F. Marrinan, and each of them individually, his or her attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to the Registration Statement and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and to perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, 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 any of them, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. Signatures Title /s/ D. F. Elliott President and Chief D.F. Elliott Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) and Director 5 /s/ D. S. Huml Senior Vice President- D.S. Huml Finance, Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer), and Controller (Principal Accounting Officer) /s/ R.A. Cornog Chairman of the Board of Directors R.A. Cornog /s/ B.M. Beronja Director B.M. Beronja /s/ B.S. Chelberg Director B.S. Chelberg /s/ R.J. Decyk Director R.J. Decyk /s/ L.A. Hadley Director L.A. Hadley /s/ A.L. Kelly Director A.L. Kelly /s/ G.W. Mead Director G.W. Mead /s/ J.D. Michaels Director J.D. Michaels /s/ F.S. Ptak Director F.S. Ptak /s/ E.H. Rensi Director E.H. Rensi /s/ R.F. Teerlink Director R.F. Teerlink EXHIBIT INDEX Exhibit No. Exhibit (4.1) Snap-on Incorporated 2001 Incentive Stock and Awards Plan (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit B to the Company's Proxy Statement for its Annual Meeting of Stockholders held April 27, 2001 filed on Schedule 14A, File No. 1-7724). (4.2) Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3(a) to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 2, 1998, File No. 1-7724). (4.3) Bylaws of the Company (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3(b) to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 30, 1996, File No. 1-7724). 6 (4.4) Rights Agreement dated as of August 22, 1997 between the Company and First Chicago Trust Company of New York, as Rights Agent (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4 to the Company's Report on Form 8-K dated August 22, 1997, File No. 1-7724). (5) Opinion of Susan F. Marrinan, Esq. (23.1) Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP. (23.2) Consent of Susan F. Marrinan, Esq. (contained in Exhibit 5 hereto) 7