Exhibit 3.24
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
HBI BRANDED APPAREL LIMITED, INC.
FIRST: The name of the Corporation is HBI Branded Apparel Limited, Inc. (hereinafter the “Corporation”).
SECOND: The address of the registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of its registered agent at that address is Corporation Service Company.
THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as set forth in Title 8 of the Delaware Code (the “GCL”).
FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 1,000 shares of Common Stock, each having a par value of $ .01 per share.
FIFTH: The name and mailing address of the Sole Incorporator is as follows:
Helen N. Kaminski
c/o Sara Lee Corporation
Three First National Plaza
Chicago, IL 60602
c/o Sara Lee Corporation
Three First National Plaza
Chicago, IL 60602
SIXTH: The following provisions are inserted for the management of the business and the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation, and for further definition. limitation and regulation of the powers of the Corporation and of its directors and stockholders:
(1) The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors.
(2) The directors, without the prior consent of the stockholders, shall have concurrent power with the stockholders to adopt, alter, amend, change, add to or repeal the By-Laws of the Corporation.
(3) The number of directors of the Corporation shall be fixed from time to time in the manner provided in the By-Laws of the Corporation. Election of directors need not be by written ballot unless the By-Laws so provide.
(4) To the fullest extent permitted by the GCL, as amended from time to time, no director shall be personally liable to the Corporation or any of its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) pursuant to Section 174 of the GCL or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an
improper personal benefit. The Corporation shall indemnify all directors, officers and employees of the Corporation, and shall advance expenses reasonably incurred by such directors, officers and employees, in defending any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding, in accordance with and to the fullest extent permitted by the GCL, as amended from time to time. Any repeal or modification of this Article SIXTH, subsection (4) shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification with respect to acts or omissions occurring prior to such repeal or modification.
(5) In addition to the powers and authority hereinbefore or by statute expressly conferred upon them, the directors are hereby empowered to exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done by the Corporation, subject to the provisions of the GCL, this Certificate of Incorporation, and the By-Laws of the Corporation; provided, however, that no By-Laws or amendments thereto hereafter adopted shall invalidate any prior act of the directors which would have been valid if such By-Laws or amendments thereto had not been adopted.
SEVENTH: Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the By-Laws may provide. The books of the Corporation may be kept (subject to any provision contained in the GCL) outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors or in the By-Laws of the Corporation.
EIGHTH: The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.
THE UNDERSIGNED, being the Sole Incorporator hereinbefore named, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the GCL, does make this Certificate, hereby declaring and certifying that this is my act and deed and the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly have hereunto set my hand as of July 20, 2006.
| /s/ Helen N. Kaminski |
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