• | | The Coca-Cola Company has certain registration rights with respect to shares of Consolidated stock owned by it; and |
• | | as long as The Coca-Cola Company holds the number of shares of Consolidated stock that it currently owns, it has the right to have its designee proposed by Consolidated for nomination to its Board of Directors, and Mr. Harrison, III and the trustees of certain trusts established for the benefit of members of the Harrison Family have agreed to vote the shares of Consolidated stock that they control in favor of such designee. |
The Amended and Restated Stock Rights and Restrictions Agreement also provides The Coca-Cola Company the option to exchange its 497,670 shares of Consolidated Common Stock for an equivalent number of shares of Consolidated Class B Common Stock in the event any person or group acquires control of more of Consolidated’s voting power than is collectively controlled by the Harrison Family.
Termination of Irrevocable Proxy and Voting Agreement
On February 19, 2009, in connection with entering into the Amended and Restated Stock Rights and Restrictions Agreement, The Coca-Cola Company, J. Frank Harrison, III and the other parties thereto entered into a termination of irrevocable proxy and voting agreement, pursuant to which the parties terminated the irrevocable proxy granted to Mr. Harrison, III by The Coca-Cola Company and the voting agreement, dated January 27, 1989, between The Coca-Cola Company, J. Frank Harrison, Jr., J. Frank Harrison, III and Reid M. Henson, as co-trustee of the three trusts established for the benefit of certain members of the Harrison Family.
Other Arrangements with Respect to the Voting and Dispositive Power or the Sale or Acquisition of Consolidated Stock
As the general partner of the FH1 Partnership, the Harrison Family LLC holds voting and dispositive power with respect to all of the shares of Consolidated stock held by the FH1 Partnership. Pursuant to the terms of the operating agreement for the Harrison Family LLC, J. Frank Harrison, III, as the Consolidated Stock Manager, has sole voting and dispositive power over all of the shares of Consolidated stock with respect to which the Harrison Family LLC exercises voting or dispositive power (either directly or in its capacity as the general partner of the FH1 Partnership).
The terms of the trust described in clause (ii) of Item 5(a) & (b) above provide that any shares of Consolidated stock held by the trust will be voted by Mr. Harrison, III, that no shares of Consolidated stock held by the trust may be sold without the written consent of Mr. Harrison, III and that any shares of Consolidated stock held by the trust will be sold upon the instructions of Mr. Harrison, III.
The trust described in clause (ii) of Item 5(a) & (b) above has the right to acquire 292,386 shares of Class B Common Stock from Consolidated in exchange for an equivalent number of shares of Common Stock. In the event of such an exchange, Mr. Harrison, III would have sole voting and dispositive power over the shares of Class B Common Stock acquired. The trust does not own any shares of Common Stock with which to make the exchange, and any purchase of Common Stock would require approval by the trustees of the trust.
Simplification Plan and Agreement
On March 17, 2022, J. Frank Harrison, III, individually and as trustee of two trusts established for the benefit of certain relatives of the late J. Frank Harrison, Jr., the other trustees of such trusts and the beneficiaries of such trusts entered into a simplification plan and agreement, pursuant to which (i) the parties agreed to modify the governing documents of each of the trusts and to separate the J. Frank Harrison Family, LLC into three separate
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