Registration of Securities Issued in a Business-Combination Transaction — Form S-4
Filing Table of Contents
Document/Exhibit Description Pages Size
1: S-4 Registration of Securities Issued in a 120 663K
Business-Combination Transaction
2: EX-2.1 Agreement of Sale and Plan of Merger 90 281K
3: EX-2.2 1st Amendment to Agreement of Sale 5 27K
4: EX-3.1 Cert. of Incorp. - American Home Foods Products 8 41K
13: EX-3.10 Bylaws of Canadian Home Products 14 64K
14: EX-3.11 Ceri. of Incorp. - Heritage Brands Holdings 4 22K
15: EX-3.12 Bylaws of Heritage Brands Holdings 13 57K
16: EX-3.13 Certificate of Incorporation - Heritage Brands 2 17K
17: EX-3.14 Bylaws of Heritage Brands 13 57K
18: EX-3.15 Certificate of Incorporation of Campfire 2 17K
19: EX-3.16 Bylaws of Campfire, Inc. 13 57K
5: EX-3.2 Bylaws of American Home Foods Products, Inc. 9 42K
6: EX-3.3 Certificate of Incorporation - American Home Foods 9 41K
7: EX-3.4 Bylaws of American Home Foods 7 37K
8: EX-3.5 Certificate of Incorporation - Luck's, Inc. 7 33K
9: EX-3.6 Bylaws of Luck's, Inc. 7 36K
10: EX-3.7 Certificate of Incorporation - M. Polaner, Inc. 6 32K
11: EX-3.8 Bylaws of M. Polaner, Inc. 7 41K
12: EX-3.9 Certificate of Continuance 13 45K
20: EX-4.1 Registration Rights Agreement 17 82K
21: EX-4.2 Indenture Dated as of November 1, 1996 125 413K
22: EX-10.1 Transisitional Services Agreement 9 35K
27: EX-10.10 Monitoring and Oversight Agreement 7 30K
23: EX-10.2 Financial Advisory Agreement 5 26K
24: EX-10.3 International Home Foods, Inc. Stock Option Plan 16 74K
25: EX-10.8 Indemnification Agreement 11 45K
26: EX-10.9 Credit Agreement 242 879K
28: EX-12.1 Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges 1 13K
29: EX-12.2 Pro Forma Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges 1 13K
30: EX-16.1 Letter Re: Change to Certifying Acountants 1 12K
31: EX-21.1 List of Subsidiaries 1 12K
32: EX-23.1 Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP 1 12K
33: EX-25.1 Form T-1 5 25K
34: EX-27.1 Financial Data Schedule 1 15K
EXHIBIT 3.8
BY - LAWS
OF
AHP SUBSIDIARY (12) CORPORATION
(A Delaware Corporation)
ARTICLE I
STOCKHOLDERS
1. CERTIFICATES REPRESENTING STOCK. Every holder of stock in the
corporation shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name
of, the corporation by the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors,
if any, or by the President or a Vice-President and by the Treasurer or an
Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the
corporation certifying the number of shares owned by him in the corporation.
Any and all signatures on any such certificate may be facsimiles. In case any
officer, transfer agent, or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile
signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such
officer, transfer agent, or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may
be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if he were such officer,
transfer agent, or registrar at the date of issue.
Whenever the corporation shall be authorized to issue more than one
class of stock or more than one series of any class of stock, and whenever the
corporation shall issue any shares of its stock as partly paid stock, the
certificates representing shares of any such class or series or of any such
partly paid stock shall set forth thereon the statements prescribed by the
General Corporation Law. Any restrictions on the transfer or registration of
transfer of any shares of stock of any class or series shall be noted
conspicuously on the certificate representing such shares.
The corporation may issue a new certificate of stock in place of any
certificate theretofore issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen, or
destroyed, and the Board of Directors may require the owner of any lost,
stolen, or destroyed certificate, or his legal representative, to give the
corporation a bond sufficient to indemnify the corporation against any claim
that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss, theft, or
destruction of any such certificate or the issuance of any such new
certificate.
2. STOCK TRANSFERS. Upon compliance with provisions restricting the
transfer or registration of transfer of shares of stock, if any, transfers or
registration of transfers of shares of stock of the corporation shall be made
only on the stock ledger of the corporation by the registered holder thereof,
or by his attorney thereunto authorized by power of attorney duly executed and
filed with the Secretary of the corporation or with a transfer agent or a
registrar, if any, and on surrender of the certificate or certificates for such
shares of stock properly endorsed and the payment of all taxes due thereon.
3. RECORD DATE FOR STOCKHOLDERS. For the purpose of determining the
stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or
any adjournment thereof, or to express consent to corporate action in writing
without a meeting, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other
distribution or the allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights
in respect to any change, conversion, or exchange of stock or for the purpose
of any other lawful action, the directors may fix, in advance, a record date,
which shall not be more than sixty days nor less than ten days before the date
of such meeting, nor more than sixty days prior to any other action. If no
record date is fixed, the record date for determining
stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders
shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which
notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day
next preceding the day on which the meeting is held; the record date for
determining stockholders entitled to express consent to corporate action in
writing without a meeting, when no prior action by the Board of Directors is
necessary, shall be the day on which the first written consent is expressed;
and the record date for determining stockholders for any other purpose shall be
at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the
resolution relating thereto. A determination of stockholders of record
entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders shall apply to
any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board of Directors
may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.
4. MEANING OF CERTAIN TERMS. As used herein in respect of the right
to notice of a meeting of stockholders or a waiver thereof or to participate or
vote thereat or to consent or dissent in writing in lieu of a meeting, as the
case may be, the term "share" or "shares" or "share of stock" or "shares of
stock" or "stockholder" or "stockholders" refers to an outstanding share or
shares of stock and to a holder or holders of record of outstanding shares of
stock when the corporation is authorized to issue only one class of shares of
stock, and said reference is also intended to include any outstanding share or
shares of stock and any holder or holders of record of outstanding shares of
stock of any class upon which or upon whom the certificate of incorporation
confers such rights where there are two or more classes or series of shares of
stock or upon which or upon whom the General Corporation Law confers such
rights notwithstanding that the certificate of incorporation may provide for
more than one class or series of shares of stock, one or more of which are
limited or denied such right thereunder; provided, however, that no such right
shall vest in the event of an increase or a decrease in the authorized number
of shares of stock of any class or series which is otherwise denied voting
rights under the provisions of the certificate of incorporation.
5. STOCKHOLDER MEETING.
- TIME. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the corporation
should be held annually during the month of February each year at such time and
place within or without the State of Delaware as shall be stated in the notice
of the meeting, a duly executed waiver or a duly executed unanimous consent,
for the purpose of electing directors and for the transaction of such other
business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
- CALL. Annual meetings and special meetings may be called by the
directors or by any officer instructed by the directors to call the meeting.
- NOTICE OR WAIVER OF NOTICE. Written notice of all meetings shall
be given, stating the place, date, and hour of the meeting and stating the
place within the city or other municipality or community at which the list of
stockholders of the corporation may be examined. The notice of an annual
meeting shall state that the meeting is called for the election of directors
and for the transaction of other business which may properly come before the
meeting, and shall, (if any other action which could be taken at a special
meeting is to be taken at such annual meeting) state the purposes. The notice
of a special meeting shall in all instances state the purpose or purposes for
which the meeting is called. The notice of any meeting shall also include, or
be accompanied by, any additional statements, information, or documents
prescribed by the General Corporation Law. Except as otherwise provided by the
General Corporation Law, a copy of the notice of any meeting shall be given,
personally or by mail, not less than ten days nor more than sixty days before
the date of the meeting, unless the lapse of the prescribed period of time
shall have been waived, and directed to each stockholder at his record address
or at such other address which he may have furnished by request in writing to
the Secretary of the corporation. Notice by mail shall be deemed to be given
when deposited, with postage thereon prepaid, in the United States Mail. If a
meeting is adjourned to another time, not more than thirty days hence, and/or
to another place, and if an announcement of the adjourned time and/or place is
made at the meeting, it shall not be necessary to give notice of the adjourned
meeting unless the directors, after adjournment, fix a new record date for the
adjourned meeting. Notice need not be given to any stockholder who submits a
written waiver of notice signed by him before or after the time stated therein.
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Attendance of a stockholder at a meeting of stockholders shall constitute a
waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the stockholder attends the
meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting,
to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called
or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any
regular or special meeting of the stockholders need be specified in any written
waiver of notice.
- STOCKHOLDER LIST. The officer who has charge of the stock ledger
of the corporation shall prepare and make, at least ten days before every
meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders, arranged in
alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number
of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open
to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting,
during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least ten days prior to the
meeting, either at a place within the city or other municipality or community
where the meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice
of the meeting, or if not so specified, at the place where the meeting is to be
held. The list shall also be produced and kept at the time and place of the
meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder
who is present. The stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the
stockholders entitled to examine the stock ledger, the list required by this
section or the books of the corporation, or to vote at any meeting of
stockholders.
- CONDUCT OF MEETING. Meetings of the stockholders shall be
presided over by one of the following officers in the order of seniority and if
present and acting - the Chairman of the Board, if any, the Vice-Chairman of
the Board, if any, the President, a Vice President, or, if none of the
foregoing is in office and present and acting, by a chairman to be chosen by
the stockholders. The Secretary of the corporation, or in her absence, an
Assistant Secretary, shall act as secretary of every meeting, but if neither
the Secretary nor an Assistant Secretary is present the Chairman of the meeting
shall appoint a secretary of the meeting.
- PROXY REPRESENTATION. Every stockholder may authorize another
person or persons to act for him by proxy in all matters in which a stockholder
is entitled to participate, whether by waiving notice of any meeting, voting or
participating at a meeting, or expressing consent or dissent without a meeting.
Every proxy must be signed by the stockholder or by his attorney-in-fact. No
proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date unless such
proxy provides for a longer period. A duly executed proxy shall be irrevocable
if it states that it is irrevocable and, if, and only as long as, it is coupled
with an interest sufficient in law to support an irrevocable power. A proxy
may be made irrevocable regardless of whether the interest with which it is
coupled is an interest in the stock itself or an interest in the corporation
generally.
- INSPECTORS. The directors, in advance of any meeting, may, but
need not, appoint one or more inspectors of election to act at the meeting or
any adjournment thereof. If an inspector or inspectors are not appointed, the
person presiding at the meeting may, but need not, appoint one or more
inspectors. In case any person who may be appointed as an inspector fails to
appear or act, the vacancy may be filled by appointment made by the directors
in advance of the meeting or at the meeting by the person presiding thereat.
Each inspector, if any, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall
take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector at such
meeting with strict impartiality and according to the best of his ability. The
inspectors, if any, shall determine the number of shares of stock outstanding
and the voting power of each, the shares of stock represented at the meeting,
the existence of a quorum, the validity and effect of proxies, and shall
receive votes, ballots or consents, hear and determine all challenges and
questions arising in connection with the right to vote, count and tabulate all
votes, ballots or consents, determine the result, and do such acts as are
proper to conduct the election or vote with fairness to all stockholders. On
request of the person presiding at the meeting, the inspector or inspectors, if
any, shall make a report in writing of any challenge, question or matter
determined by him or them and execute a certificate of any fact found by him or
them.
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- QUORUM. The holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of
stock shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of stockholders for the
transaction of any business. The stockholders present may adjourn the meeting
despite the absence of a quorum.
- VOTING. Each share of stock shall entitle the holder thereof to
one vote. In the election of directors, a plurality of the votes cast shall
elect. Any other action shall be authorized by a majority of the votes cast
except where the General Corporation Law prescribes a different percentage of
votes and/or a different exercise of voting power, and except as may be
otherwise prescribed by the provisions of the certificate of incorporation and
these By-Laws. In the election of directors, and for any other action, voting
need not be by ballot.
6. STOCKHOLDER ACTION WITHOUT MEETINGS. Any action required by the
General Corporation Law to be taken at any annual or special meeting of
stockholders, or any action which may be taken at any annual or special meeting
of stockholders, may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and
without a vote, if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken,
shall be signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the
minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such
action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present
and voted. Prompt notice of the taking of the corporate action without a
meeting by less an unanimous written consent shall be given to those
stockholders who have not consented in writing.
ARTICLE II
DIRECTORS
1. FUNCTIONS AND DEFINITION. The business and affairs of the
corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of
Directors of the corporation. The Board of Directors shall have the authority
to fix the compensation of the members thereof. The use of the phrase "whole
board" herein refers to the total number of directors which the corporation
would have if there were no vacancies.
2. QUALIFICATIONS AND NUMBER. A director need not be a stockholder,
a citizen of the United States, or a resident of the State of Delaware. The
initial Board of Directors shall consist of 5 persons. Thereafter the number
of directors constituting the whole board shall be at least two. Subject to
the foregoing limitation and except for the first Board of Directors, such
number may be fixed from time to time by action of the stockholders or of the
directors, or, if the number is not fixed, the number shall be not less than 3
nor more than 7. The number of directors may be increased or decreased by
action of the stockholders or of the directors.
3. ELECTION AND TERM. The first Board of Directors, unless the
members thereof shall have been named in the certificate of incorporation,
shall be elected by the incorporator or incorporators and shall hold office
until the first annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are
elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal. Any
director may resign at any time upon written notice to the corporation.
Thereafter, directors who are elected at an annual meeting of stockholders, and
directors who are elected in the interim to fill vacancies and newly created
directorships, shall hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders
and until their successors are elected and qualified or until their earlier
resignation or removal. In the interim between annual meetings of stockholders
or of special meetings of stockholders called for the election of directors
and/or for the removal of one or more directors and for the filling of any
vacancy in that connection, newly created directorships and any vacancies in
the Board of Directors, including unfilled vacancies resulting from the removal
of directors for cause or without cause, may be filled by the vote of a
majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a
quorum, or by the sole remaining directors.
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4. MEETINGS,
- TIME Meetings shall be held at such time as the Board shall
fix, except that the first meeting of a newly elected Board shall be held as
soon after its election as the directors may conveniently assemble.
- PLACE. Meetings shall be held at such place within or without
the State of Delaware as shall be fixed by the Board.
- CALL. No call shall be required for regular meeting for which
the time and place have been fixed. Special meetings may be called by or at
the direction, of the Chairman of the Board, if any, the Vice-Chairman of the
Board, if any, of the President, or of a majority of the directors in office.
- NOTICE OF ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE WAIVER. No notice shall be
required for regular meetings for which the time and place have been fixed.
Written, oral, or any other mode of notice of the time and place shall be given
for special meetings in sufficient time for the convenient assembly of the
directors thereat. Notice need not be given to any director or to any member
of a committee of directors who submits a written waiver of notice signed by
him before or after the time stated therein. Attendance of any such person at
a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when he
attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the
meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully
called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose
of, any regular or special meeting of the directors need be specified in any
written waiver of notice.
- QUORUM AND ACTION. A majority of the whole Board shall
constitute a quorum except when a vacancy or vacancies prevents such majority,
whereupon a majority of the directors in office shall constitute a quorum,
provided, that such majority shall constitute at least one-third of the whole
Board. A majority of the directors present, whether or not a quorum is
present, may adjourn a meeting to another time and place. Except as herein
otherwise provided, by the General Corporation Law, the vote of the majority of
the directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the
act of the Board. The quorum and voting provisions herein stated shall not be
construed as conflicting with any provisions of the General Corporation Law and
these By-Laws which govern a meeting of directors held to fill vacancies and
newly created directorships in the Board of action of disinterested directors.
Any member or members of the Board of Directors or of any committee
designated by the Board may participate in a meeting of the Board, or any such
committee, as the case may be, by means of conference telephone or similar
communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the
meeting can hear each other.
- CHAIRMAN OF THE MEETING. The Chairman of the Board, if any and if
present and acting, shall preside at all meetings. Otherwise, the Vice-
Chairman of the Board, if any and if present and acting, or the President, if
present and acting, or any other director chosen by the Board, shall preside.
5. REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS. Except as may otherwise be provided by the
General Corporation Law, any director or the entire Board of Directors may be
removed, with or without cause, by the holders of a majority of the shares then
entitled to vote at an election of directors.
6. COMMITTEES. Whenever its number consists of three or more, the
Board of Directors may, by resolution passed by a majority of the whole Board,
designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of two or more of
the directors of the corporation. The Board may designate one or more
directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or
disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. In the absence or
disqualification of any member of any such committee or committees, the
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member or the members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from
voting, whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint
another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of
any such absent or disqualified member. Any such committee, to the extent
provided in the resolution of the Board, shall have and may exercise the powers
and authority of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and
affairs of the corporation with the exception of any authority the delegation
of which is prohibited by Section 141 of the General Corporation Law, and may
authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers which may
require it.
7. WRITTEN ACTION. Any action required or permitted to be taken at
any meeting of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof may be taken
without a meeting if all members of the Board or committee, as the case may be,
consent thereto in writing, and the writing or writings are filed with the
minutes of proceedings of the Board or committee.
ARTICLE III
OFFICERS
The officers of the corporation shall consist of a President, a
Secretary, a Treasurer, and, if deemed necessary, expedient, or desirable by
the Board of Directors, a Chairman of the Board, a Vice-Chairman of the Board,
an Executive Vice-President, one or more other Vice Presidents, one or more
Assistant Secretaries, one or more Assistant Treasurers, and such other
officers with such titles as the resolution of the Board of Directors choosing
them shall designate. Except as may otherwise be provided in the resolution of
the Board of Directors choosing him, no officer other than the Chairman or
Vice-Chairman of the Board, if any, need be a director. Any number of offices
may be held by the same person, as the directors may determine, except that no
person may hold the offices of President or Secretary simultaneously.
Unless otherwise provided in the resolution choosing him, each officer
shall be chosen for a term which shall continue until the meeting of the Board
of Directors following the next annual meeting of stockholders and until his
successor shall have been chosen and qualified.
All officers of the corporation shall have such authority and perform
such duties in the management and operation of the corporation as shall be
prescribed in the resolutions of the Board of Directors designating and
choosing such officers and prescribing their authority and duties, and shall
have such additional authority and duties as are incident to their office
except to the extent that such resolutions may be inconsistent therewith. The
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the corporation shall record all of the
proceedings of all meetings and actions in writing of stockholders, directors,
and committees of directors, and shall exercise such additional authority and
perform such additional duties as the Board shall assign to him. Any officer
may be removed, with or without cause, by the Board of Directors. Any vacancy
in any office may be filled by the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE IV
CORPORATE SEAL
The corporate seal shall be in such form as the Board of Directors shall
prescribe.
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ARTICLE V
INSTRUMENT EXECUTION
Unless otherwise provided by law or the Board of Directors, all
instruments to be executed on behalf of the Corporation, whether or not
requiring the seal of the Corporation, may be executed by the President or any
Vice President, and attested to by the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary.
ARTICLE VI
FISCAL YEAR
The fiscal year of the corporation shall be fixed, and shall be subject
to change, by the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE VII
CONTROL OVER BY-LAWS
Subject to the provisions of the certificate of incorporation and the
provisions of the General Corporation Law, the power to amend, alter or repeal
these By-Laws and to adopt new By-Laws may be exercised by the Board of
Directors or by the stockholders.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of
the By-Laws of AHP Subsidiary (12) Corporation, a Delaware corporation, as in
effect on the date hereof.
WITNESS my hand and the seal of the corporation.
Dated February 22, 1993.
/s/ Mariee Pilkington
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Mariee Pilkington
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