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Exhibit 10.3

EXECUTION VERSION

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

by and among

VITAMIN SHOPPE INDUSTRIES LLC,

and

certain Subsidiaries of Vitamin Shoppe Industries LLC

as Borrowers

and

VALOR ACQUISITION, LLC (successor by merger to Vitamin Shoppe, Inc.)

as Parent

THE LENDERS AND ISSUING BANK FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

as Administrative Agent

Dated: December 16, 2019

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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SECTION 1.		DEFINITIONS		2
SECTION 2.		CREDIT FACILITIES		55
	2.1	Revolving Loans		55
	2.2	[Reserved]		56
	2.3	Letters of Credit		56
	2.4	Termination, Reductions or Increases of Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts		61
	2.5	Revolving Commitments		64
	2.6	Bank Products		64
	2.7	Joint and Several Liability		65
	2.8	Defaulting Lenders		65
	2.9	Prepayment of Loans		67
	2.10	Loans and Borrowings		68
	2.11	Requests for Borrowings		69
	2.12	Interest Elections		69
SECTION 3.		INTEREST AND FEES		71
	3.1	Interest Payments		71
	3.2	Fees		71
	3.3	Increased Costs		72
	3.4	Alternate Rate of Interest; Illegality		74
	3.5	Withholding of Taxes;Gross-Up		75
	3.6	Mitigation of Obligations; Replacement of Lenders		79
	3.7	Break Funding Payments		80
SECTION 4.		CONDITIONS PRECEDENT		81
	4.1	Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness		81
	4.2	Conditions Precedent to All Loans and Letters of Credit		84
SECTION 5.		GRANT AND PERFECTION OF SECURITY INTEREST		84
	5.1	Grant of Security Interest		84
	5.2	Perfection of Security Interests		86
SECTION 6.		COLLECTION AND ADMINISTRATION		92
	6.1	Borrowers’ Loan Accounts		92
	6.2	Statements		92
	6.3	Collection of Accounts		92
	6.4	Payments		94
	6.5	[Reserved]		97
	6.6	Authorization to Make Loans		97
	6.7	Use of Proceeds		97

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	6.8	Appointment of Administrative Borrower as Agent for Requesting Loans and Receipts of Loans and Statements	98
	6.9	Pro Rata Treatment	98
	6.10	Sharing of Payments, Etc.	99
	6.11	[Reserved]	100
	6.12	Settlement Procedures	100
	6.13	Obligations Several; Independent Nature of Lenders’ Rights	102
SECTION 7.		COLLATERAL REPORTING AND COVENANTS	102
	7.1	Collateral Reporting	102
	7.2	Accounts Covenants	104
	7.3	Inventory Covenants	104
	7.4	Equipment and Real Property Covenants	105
	7.5	Delivery of Instruments, Chattel Paper and Documents	106
	7.6	Intellectual Property Appraisal	106
	7.7	Power of Attorney	106
	7.8	Right to Cure	108
	7.9	Access to Premises	109
SECTION 8.		REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES	109
	8.1	Corporate Existence, Power and Authority	109
	8.2	Name; State of Organization; Chief Executive Office; Collateral Locations	110
	8.3	Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Change	110
	8.4	Priority of Liens; Title to Properties	110
	8.5	Tax Returns	111
	8.6	Litigation	111
	8.7	Compliance with Other Agreements and Applicable Laws	111
	8.8	Environmental Compliance	112
	8.9	Employee Benefits	112
	8.10	Bank Accounts	113
	8.11	Intellectual Property	113
	8.12	Subsidiaries; Capitalization; Solvency	114
	8.13	Labor Disputes	115
	8.14	Restrictions on Subsidiaries	115
	8.15	Material Contracts	116
	8.16	Credit Card Agreements	116
	8.17	Investment Company Status	116
	8.18	Accuracy and Completeness of Information	116
	8.19	Survival of Warranties; Cumulative	117
	8.20	Reaffirmation of Financing Documents	117
	8.21	Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions	117
	8.22	Regulatory Compliance	118
SECTION 9.		AFFIRMATIVE AND NEGATIVE COVENANTS	119
	9.1	Maintenance of Existence	119
	9.2	New Collateral Locations	120
	9.3	Compliance with Laws, Regulations, Etc.	120

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	9.4	Payment of Taxes and Claims	121
	9.5	Insurance	121
	9.6	Financial Statements and Other Information	122
	9.7	Sale of Assets, Consolidation, Merger, Dissolution, Etc.	125
	9.8	Encumbrances	129
	9.9	Indebtedness	132
	9.10	Loans, Investments, Etc.	135
	9.11	Dividends and Redemptions	138
	9.12	Transactions with Affiliates	139
	9.13	Compliance with ERISA	140
	9.14	Fiscal Year	140
	9.15	Change in Business	140
	9.16	Limitation of Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries	141
	9.17	[Reserved]	141
	9.18	Credit Card Agreements	141
	9.19	License Agreements	142
	9.20	Foreign Assets Control Regulations, Etc.	143
	9.21	After Acquired Real Property	143
	9.22	Costs and Expenses	143
	9.23	Further Assurances	144
	9.24	Permitted Payments of Indebtedness	146
	9.25	Commodity Exchange Act Keepwell Provisions	147
	9.26	Disbursement Cash Management Systems	147
	9.27	Amendments to Term Loan Documents	147
	9.28	Valor Merger	147
	9.29	Parent Holding Company Status	147
	9.30	Post-Closing Equity Contribution and Fundamental Change Company Notice	148
	9.31	Post-Closing Obligations	148
SECTION 10.		EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES	149
	10.1	Events of Default	149
	10.2	Remedies	151
	10.3	Borrowers’ and Guarantors’ Obligations Upon Default	155
	10.4	Grant of Intellectual Property License	155
SECTION 11.		JURY TRIAL WAIVER; OTHER WAIVERS AND CONSENTS; GOVERNING LAW	155
	11.1	Governing Law; Choice of Forum; Service of Process; Jury Trial Waiver	155
	11.2	Waiver of Notices	157
	11.3	Collateral Waivers	157
	11.4	Amendments and Waivers	157
	11.5	Waiver of Counterclaims	160
	11.6	Indemnification	160
SECTION 12.		THE AGENT	161
	12.1	Appointment, Powers and Immunities	161

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	12.2	Reliance by Agent	161
	12.3	Events of Default	162
	12.4	Chase in its Individual Capacity	162
	12.5	Indemnification	163
	12.6	Non-Reliance on Agent and Other Lenders	163
	12.7	Failure to Act	164
	12.8	Additional Loans	164
	12.9	Concerning the Collateral and the Related Financing Agreements	164
	12.10	Field Audit, Examination Reports and other Information; Disclaimer by Lenders	164
	12.11	Collateral Matters	165
	12.12	Agency for Perfection	167
	12.13	Successor Agent	167
	12.14	Other Agent Designations	167
	12.15	Intercreditor Agreement	168
	12.16	Posting of Communications	168
SECTION 13.		TERM OF AGREEMENT; MISCELLANEOUS	170
	13.1	Term	170
	13.2	Interpretative Provisions	171
	13.3	Notices	172
	13.4	Partial Invalidity	174
	13.5	Confidentiality	174
	13.6	Successors	175
	13.7	Assignments; Participations	175
	13.8	Entire Agreement	178
	13.9	USA Patriot Act	178
	13.10	Counterparts, Etc.	178
	13.11	Restatement	178
	13.12	Acknowledgment Regarding Any Supported QFCs	179
	13.13	Intercreditor Agreement	179

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INDEX

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EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES

Exhibit A	Form of Assignment and Assumption
Exhibit B	Information Certificate
Exhibit C	Form of Compliance Certificate
Exhibit D	Form of Borrowing Base Certificate
ExhibitE-1	Form of U.S. Tax Certificate
ExhibitE-2	Form of U.S. Tax Certificate
ExhibitE-3	Form of U.S. Tax Certificate
ExhibitE-4	Form of U.S. Tax Certificate
Exhibit F	Form of Commitment Increase Agreement
Exhibit G	Form of Additional Lender Agreement
Exhibit H	Form of Borrower Joinder Agreement
Schedule 1	Revolving Commitments
Schedule 5.2(g)	Commercial Tort Claims
Schedule 8.2	Addresses
Schedule 8.4	Liens
Schedule 8.6	Litigation
Schedule 8.10	Bank Accounts
Schedule 8.11	Intellectual Property
Schedule 8.12	Affiliates and Subsidiaries, etc.
Schedule 8.13	Collective Bargaining Agreements
Schedule 8.15	Material Contracts
Schedule 8.16	Credit Card Agreements
Schedule 9.9	Existing Indebtedness
Schedule 9.10	Loans and Advances
Schedule 9.31	Post-Closing Obligations

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SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT

This Second Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement dated December 16, 2019 (this “Agreement”) is by and among Vitamin Shoppe Industries LLC, a New York limited liability company, Vitamin Shoppe Mariner, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Vitamin Shoppe Global, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Vitamin Shoppe Florida, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Betancourt Sports Nutrition, LLC, a Florida limited liability company, Vitamin Shoppe Procurement Services, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as Borrowers, Valor Acquisition, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (successor by merger to Vitamin Shoppe, Inc.) (“Parent”), as Parent and a Guarantor, the parties hereto from time to time as lenders (each individually, a “Lender” and collectively, “Lenders” as hereinafter further defined) and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., a national banking association, in its capacity as agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, “Agent” as hereinafter further defined).

WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS, Borrowers, Guarantors (as such term is defined below), Agent and Lenders, are parties to that certain Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement dated as of January 20, 2011 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from prior to the date hereof, the “Existing Credit Agreement”); and

WHEREAS, on the date hereof, Vitamin Shoppe, Inc., a Delaware corporation and prior to the consummation of the Valor Merger, the direct or indirect parent of the Borrowers (“Original Parent”), will merge with and into Parent in accordance with the Valor Merger Agreement (as hereinafter defined) with Parent continuing as the surviving company, and after the consummation of the Valor Merger (as hereinafter defined), the Borrowers will be direct or indirect subsidiaries of Parent and Ultimate Parent; and

WHEREAS, subject to the conditions precedent set forth herein, the parties hereto desire to amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement in its entirety in the form of this Agreement; and

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, and subject to the satisfaction of each condition precedent contained inSection 4.1 hereof, the Existing Credit Agreement shall be amended and restated as of the Closing Date (as defined below) in the form of this Agreement. It is the intention of Borrowers, Guarantors, Agent and Lenders, and such parties hereby agree, that this Agreement supersedes and replaces the Existing Credit Agreement in its entirety, and that (a) such amendment and restatement shall operate to renew, amend and modify certain of the rights and obligations of the parties under the Existing Credit Agreement as provided herein, but shall not act as a novation thereof, and (b) the Liens securing the “Obligations” under and as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement shall not be extinguished, but shall be carried forward and shall secure such obligations and Indebtedness as renewed, amended, restated and modified hereby. The parties hereto further agree as follows:

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SECTION 1.     DEFINITIONS

For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the respective meanings given to them below:

“2019 Commitment Letter” shall mean that certain Commitment Letter dated as of August 7, 2019, by and among Ultimate Parent and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A..

“ABR Borrowing” shall mean a Borrowing of ABR Loans.

“ABR Loans” shall mean any Loans or portion thereof on which interest is payable based on the Alternate Base Rate in accordance with the terms thereof.

“Accounts” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC and includes, without limitation, as to each Borrower and Guarantor, all present and future rights of such Borrower and Guarantor to payment of a monetary obligation, whether or not earned by performance, which is not evidenced by Chattel Paper or an Instrument, (a) for property that has been or is to be sold, leased, licensed, assigned, or otherwise disposed of, (b) for services rendered or to be rendered, (c) for a secondary obligation incurred or to be incurred, (d) arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or information contained on or for use with the card or (e) arising out of franchising agreements.

“Account Debtor” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

“ACH Transactions” shall mean the automatic clearing house transfer of funds by Agent, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates for the account of any Borrower or its Subsidiaries, in each case pursuant to agreements entered into with any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.

“Additional Lender Agreement” has the meaning assigned to such term inSection 2.4(d)(ii).

“Adjusted LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period or for any ABR Borrowing, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to (a) the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by (b) the Statutory Reserve Rate.

“Administrative Borrower” shall mean Vitamin Shoppe in its capacity as Administrative Borrower on behalf of itself and the other Borrowers pursuant toSection 6.8 hereof and its successors and assigns in such capacity.

“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Agent.

“Affiliate” shall mean, with respect to a specified Person, any other Person which directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with such Person. For the purposes of this definition, the term “control” (including with correlative meanings, the terms “controlled by” and “under common control with”), as used with respect to any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of Voting Stock, by agreement or otherwise. Without limiting the foregoing, Ultimate Parent and any Subsidiary of Ultimate Parent shall be considered Affiliates of the Borrowers for purposes of this Agreement.

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“Agent” shall mean JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as agent on behalf of Lenders pursuant to the terms hereof and any replacement or successor agent hereunder.

“Agent Payment Account” shall mean account no. XXXXX9773 of Agent at Chase, or such other account of Agent as Agent may from time to time designate to Administrative Borrower as the Agent Payment Account for purposes of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements.

“Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts” shall mean, at any time, the sum of the Revolving Commitments, as the same may be adjusted pursuant toSection 2.4. As of the Closing Date, the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts are $100,000,000.

“Aggregate Revolving Exposure” shall mean, at any time, the aggregate amount of Revolving Exposure of all Revolving Lenders.

“Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the NYFRB Rate in effect on such day plus¹⁄₂ of 1% and (c) the Adjusted LIBO Rate for a one month Interest Period on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) plus 1%,provided that, for the purpose of this definition, the Adjusted LIBO Rate for any day shall be based on the LIBO Screen Rate (or if the LIBO Screen Rate is not available for such one month Interest Period, the Interpolated Rate) at approximately 11:00 a.m. London time on such day. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate, respectively. If the Alternate Base Rate is being used as an alternate rate of interest pursuant toSection 3.4, then the Alternate Base Rate shall be the greater of clause (a) and (b) above and shall be determined without reference to clause (c) above. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Alternate Base Rate as determined pursuant to the foregoing would be less than 1.00%, such rate shall be deemed to be 1.00% for purposes of this Agreement.

“Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Borrowers, the Guarantors or any of their respective Subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption.

“Applicable Margin” means, for any day, with respect to any Revolving Loan, the applicable rate per annum set forth below under the caption “Revolver ABR Spread” or “Revolver Eurodollar Spread”, as the case may be, based upon the Borrowers’ Average Excess Availability for the prior fiscal quarter as of the most recent determination date, provided that until the delivery to Agent, pursuant toSection 7.1(a)(i), of the Borrowers’ Borrowing Base Certificate for the fiscal quarter ended March 30, 2020, the “Applicable Margin” shall be the applicable rate per annum set forth below in Category 3:

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Average Excess Availability	Revolver ABR Spread			Revolver Eurodollar Spread
Category 1: Average Excess Availability greater than or equal to 66% of the Borrowing Cap		0.25	%		1.25	%
Category 2: Average Excess Availability less than 66% but greater than or equal to 33% of the Borrowing Cap		0.50	%		1.50	%
Category 3: Average Excess Availability less than 33% of the Borrowing Cap		0.75	%		1.75	%

For purposes of the foregoing, (a) the Applicable Margin shall be determined as of the end of each fiscal quarter of the Borrowers based upon the Borrowers’ Average Excess Availability for the prior fiscal quarter upon Agent’s receipt of the Borrowers’ Borrowing Base Certificate delivered pursuant toSection 7.1(a)(i) and (b) each change in the Applicable Margin resulting from a change in the Borrowers’ Average Excess Availability for the prior fiscal quarter shall be effective during the period commencing on and including the date of delivery to Agent of such Borrowing Base Certificate indicating such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change, provided that the Borrowers’ Average Excess Availability shall be deemed to be in Category 3 at the option of Agent or at the request of the Required Lenders if the Borrowers fail to deliver the Borrowing Base Certificate required to be delivered by them pursuant toSection 7.1(a)(i), during the period from the expiration of the time for delivery thereof until such Borrowing Base Certificate is delivered.

“Approved Electronic Platform” has the meaning assigned to it inSection 12.16(a).

“Asset Sale” shall mean:

(a) the sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of any assets or rights; and

(b) the issuance of Capital Stock in any of the Borrowers or the Subsidiary Guarantors or the sale of Capital Stock in any of the Borrowers or the Subsidiary Guarantors.

Notwithstanding the preceding, none of the following items will be deemed to be an Asset Sale:

(i) any single transaction or series of related transactions that involves assets having a fair market value of less than $1,000,000;

(ii) a transfer of assets between or among any Loan Parties;

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(iii) an issuance of Capital Stock by a Loan Party (other than Parent) to a Loan Party;

(iv) the sale or lease of products, services, inventory, equipment, leasehold improvements, fixtures or accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business and any sale or other disposition of damaged,worn-out or obsolete assets in the ordinary course of business;

(v) the sale or other disposition of cash or Cash Equivalents;

(vi) the grant in the ordinary course of business of anynon-exclusive license of patents, trademarks, registrations thereof and other similar intellectual property;

(vii) any release of intangible claims or rights in connection with the loss or settlement of a bona-fide lawsuit, dispute or other controversy;

(viii) leases or subleases in the ordinary course of business to third persons not interfering in any material respect with the business of the Borrowers or any of the Guarantors; and

(ix) an Investment permitted underSection 9.10 and any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Capital Stock of the Borrowers and the Subsidiary Guarantors that are expressly permitted underSection 9.11.

“Assignment and Assumption” shall mean an Assignment and Assumption substantially in the form ofExhibit A attached hereto (with blanks appropriately completed) delivered to Agent in connection with an assignment of a Lender’s interest hereunder in accordance with the provisions ofSection 13.7 hereof.

“Authorized Officer” shall mean the individuals holding the position of president, treasurer, vice president of finance, chief executive officer, chief financial officer or controller of Administrative Borrower, or if no such officers have been appointed or elected, the sole member of the Administrative Borrower.

“Availability Block” means an amount equal to the greater of (a) $10,000,000 and (b) ten percent (10%) of the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts.

“Availability Reserves” shall mean all Reserves other than Inventory Reserves.

“Average Excess Availability” means, for any period, the average daily Excess Availability during such period, as determined by the Agent’s system of records.

“Bank Products” shall mean any one or more of the following types of services or facilities provided to any Loan Party or its Subsidiaries by a Bank Product Provider: (a) credit cards for commercial customers (including, without limitation, “commercial credit cards” and purchasing cards), (b) stored value cards, (c) treasury management services (including, without limitation, controlled disbursement, ACH Transactions, return items, overdrafts and interstate depository network services), (d) foreign exchange contracts, and (e) Hedge Agreements, if and to the extent provided hereunder and coin and currency lines.

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“Bank Product Providers” shall mean Agent, any Lender and any of their respective Affiliates that may, from time to time, provide any Bank Products to a Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party; each sometimes being referred to herein individually as a “Bank Product Provider”.

“Bank Product Reserve” shall mean any and all reserves that Agent may establish from time to time with the written consent of the Administrative Borrower, to reflect any obligations, liabilities or indebtedness (contingent or otherwise) of any Borrower to Agent or any Bank Product Provider arising under or in connection with any Bank Products or as such Bank Product Provider may otherwise require in connection therewith to the extent that such obligations, liabilities or indebtedness constitute Obligations as such term is defined herein or otherwise receive the benefit of the security interest of Agent in the Collateral.

“Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership or control as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.

“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.

“BHC Act Affiliate” of a party means an “affiliate” (as such term is defined under, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such party.

“Blocked Accounts” shall have the meaning set forth inSection 6.3 hereof.

“Borrower Joinder Agreement” shall mean a joinder agreement in substantially the form ofExhibit H hereto and otherwise in form and substance acceptable to Agent.

“Borrowers” shall mean, collectively, the following (together with their respective successors and assigns): (a) Vitamin Shoppe; (b) VS Mariner, (c) VS Global, (d) VS Florida, (e) BSN, (f) VSPS, and (g) any other Person that at any time after the Closing Date becomes a Borrower pursuant to the terms hereof, including, without limitation,Section 9.23 hereof and by the execution of a Borrower Joinder Agreement; each sometimes being referred to herein individually as a “Borrower”.

“Borrowing” means Revolving Loans of the same Type, made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.

“Borrowing Base” shall mean, at any time, the amount equal to:

(a) the amount equal to:

(i) ninety (90%) percent of the amount of Eligible Credit Card Receivables of the Borrowers at such time,plus

(ii) up to eighty-five percent (85%) of the amount of Eligible Accounts of the Borrowers at such time,plus

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(iii) up to ninety percent (90%) of the Net Recovery Percentage multiplied by the Value of the Eligible Inventory of the Borrowers net of any Inventory Reserves, in each case, at such time,minus

(b) the Availability Reserves.

The amounts of Eligible Inventory shall, at Agent’s option, be determined based on the lesser of the amount of applicable Inventory set forth in the general ledger of the Borrowers or the perpetual inventory record maintained by the Borrowers.

Agent shall have the right to establish Reserves against or sublimits in the Borrowing Base in such amounts and with respect to such matters as Agent shall deem reasonably necessary or appropriate, based on new information received by Agent and after Agent has completed its updated field audits, examinations and appraisals of the Collateral;provided, however, that, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Agent shall give to Administrative Borrower five (5) Business Days’ telephonic or electronic notice if (A) Agent establishes new categories of Reserves, (B) Agent changes the methodology of calculating Reserves, or (C) Agent establishes new categories of sublimits in the Borrowing Base. The foregoing notwithstanding, in the event Agent establishes Reserves to preserve or protect or maximize the value of the Collateral during the continuance of an Event of Default, Agent shall only provide Administrative Borrower with notice at the time such Reserves are established.

The actual advance rate percentages to be used in calculating the amounts pursuant toclause (a)(i),clause (a)(ii), andclause (a)(iii) above, which advance rate percentages shall not exceed the applicable maximum percentage as set forth in such clauses, shall be determined by Agent in its Permitted Discretion. Once the applicable advance rate percentage has been established by Agent, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Agent shall give to Administrative Borrower five (5) Business Days’ telephonic or electronic notice of any change in such advance rate percentage.

Accounts, Credit Card Receivables and Inventory of the Borrowers shall only be Eligible Accounts, Eligible Credit Card Receivables, and Eligible Inventory, as applicable, to the extent that (x) Agent has conducted and completed a field examination, appraisal and other due diligence with respect thereto and (y) the criteria for Eligible Accounts, Eligible Credit Card Receivables, and Eligible Inventory set forth herein, as applicable, are satisfied with respect thereto in accordance with this Agreement (or such other or additional criteria as Agent may, at its option, establish with respect thereto in accordance with this Agreement and subject to such Reserves as Agent may establish in its Permitted Discretion).

The Borrowing Base shall be determined at any time by Agent, on the basis of the most recently delivered Borrowing Base Certificate, as adjusted by Agent for any changes in Reserves or otherwise in accordance with the terms hereof.

“Borrowing Base Certificate” shall mean a certificate substantially in the form ofExhibit D hereto, as such form may from time to time be modified by Agent to reflect modifications to the Borrowing Base and the reporting requirements pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, which is duly completed (including all schedules thereto) and executed by the chief financial officer, a vice president of finance, a controller or other appropriate financial officer of Administrative Borrower (or if no such officer has been appointed or elected, the sole member of Administrative Borrower) reasonably acceptable to Agent and delivered to Agent.

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“Borrowing Cap” shall mean, the amount, calculated at any date, equal to the result of (a) the lesser of (i) the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts and (ii) the Borrowing Base, in each case, in effect at such time,minus (b) the Availability Block.

“Borrowing Request” means a request by the Administrative Borrower for a Borrowing in accordance withSection 2.11.

“BSN” shall mean Betancourt Sports Nutrition, LLC, a Florida limited liability company.

“Business Day” shall mean any day on which Agent is open for the transaction of business other than a Saturday, Sunday, or other day on which commercial banks are authorized or required to close under the laws of the State of New York, except that if a determination of a Business Day shall relate to any Eurodollar Rate Loans, the term Business Day shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for general business in London.

“Canadian Priority Payables” shall mean, as to any Borrower at any time, (a) the full amount of the liabilities of such Borrower at such time which (i) have a trust imposed to provide for payment or a security interest, pledge, lien or charge ranking or capable of ranking senior to or pari passu with security interests, liens or charges securing the Obligations on any of the Eligible Credit Card Receivables, Eligible Accounts, or Eligible Inventory of such Borrower located in Canada under Federal, Provincial, State, county, district, municipal, or local law in Canada or (ii) have a right imposed to provide for payment ranking or capable of ranking senior to or pari passu with the Obligations under local or national law of Canada, regulation or directive of Canada, including, but not limited to, claims for unremitted and/or accelerated rents, taxes, wages, withholding taxes, VAT and other amounts payable to an insolvency administrator, employee withholdings or deductions and vacation pay, workers’ compensation obligations, government royalties or pension fund obligations in each case to the extent such trust, or security interest, lien or charge has been or may be imposed and (b) the amount equal to the percentage applicable to Eligible Inventory in the calculation of the Borrowing Base multiplied by the aggregate Value of the Eligible Inventory of such Borrower which is or may be subject to retention of title by a supplier or a right of a supplier to recover possession thereof, where such supplier’s right has priority over the security interests, liens or charges securing the Obligations in accordance with Section 81.1 of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada) or any applicable laws granting revendication or similar rights to unpaid suppliers or any similar laws of Canada (provided, that, to the extent such Inventory has been identified and has been excluded from Eligible Inventory, the amount owing to the supplier shall not be considered a Canadian Priority Payable).

“Capital Expenditures” shall mean, for any period, any expenditure of money under a Capital Lease or for the lease, purchase or other acquisition of any capital asset, or for the purchase or construction of assets, or for improvements or additions thereto, which are capitalized on a Person’s balance sheet, but excluding (i) any such expenditure to the extent oftrade-ins thereon and (ii) reimbursed leasehold improvements.

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“Capital Leases” shall mean, as applied to any Person, any lease of (or any agreement conveying the right to use) any property (whether real, personal or mixed) by such Person as lessee which in accordance with GAAP, is required to be reflected as a liability on the balance sheet of such Person.

“Capital Stock” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of such Person’s capital stock or partnership, limited liability company or other equity interests at any time outstanding, and any and all rights, warrants or options exchangeable for or convertible into such capital stock or other interests (but excluding any debt security that is exchangeable for or convertible into such capital stock).

“Cash Equivalents” shall mean, at any time, (a) any evidence of Indebtedness with a maturity date of ninety (90) days or less issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof;provided, that, the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged in support thereof; (b) certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances with a maturity of ninety (90) days or less of any financial institution that is a member of the Federal Reserve System having combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $1,000,000,000; (c) commercial paper (including variable rate demand notes) with a maturity of ninety (90) days or less issued by a corporation (except an Affiliate of any Borrower other than Guarantor) organized under the laws of any State of the United States of America or the District of Columbia and rated at leastA-1 by S & P Global Ratings Service, a division of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, or at leastP-1 by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.; (d) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than thirty (30) days for underlying securities of the types described inclause (a) above entered into with any financial institution having combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $1,000,000,000; (e) repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements relating to marketable direct obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America or issued by any governmental agency thereof and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America, in each case maturing within ninety (90) days or less from the date of acquisition;provided, that, the terms of such agreements comply with the guidelines set forth in the Federal Financial Agreements of Depository Institutions with Securities Dealers and Others, as adopted by the Comptroller of the Currency on October 31, 1985; and (f) investments in money market funds and mutual funds which invest substantially all of their assets in securities of the types described inclauses (a) through(e) above; and (g) other investments as reasonably agreed by Agent in writing.

“Change in Law” means the occurrence after the date of this Agreement (or, with respect to any Lender, such later date on which such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement) of any of the following: (a) the adoption of or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty; (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority; or (c) compliance by any Lender or the Issuing Bank (or, for purposes ofSection 3.3(b), by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any) with any request, guideline, requirement or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the date of this Agreement;provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests,

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rules, guidelines, requirements or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith or in the implementation thereof, and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted, issued or implemented.

“Change of Control” shall mean (a) a transfer (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of all or substantially all of the assets of any Borrower or Guarantor to any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), other than as permitted inSection 9.7 hereof; (b) the liquidation or dissolution of any Borrower or Guarantor or the adoption of a plan by the stockholders of any Borrower or Guarantor relating to the dissolution or liquidation of any Borrower or Guarantor, other than as permitted inSection 9.7 hereof; (c) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), excluding Permitted Holders, shall become, or obtain rights (whether by means of warrants, options or otherwise) to become, the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than thirty-five percent (35%) of the issued and outstanding shares of the Voting Stock of Ultimate Parent entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote for the election of members of the board of directors of Ultimate Parent; (d) other than the Permitted Holders, any Person and/or its Affiliates shall at any time have the right to elect, or cause to be elected, and have elected, or caused to be elected, a majority of the members of the board of directors of Ultimate Parent, (e) Ultimate Parent fails to own directly or indirectly at least a majority of the voting power of the total outstanding Voting Stock of Parent, (f) Parent fails to own directly one hundred percent (100%) of the Capital Stock of Vitamin Shoppe, (g) other than as permitted inSection 9.7(a)(iv) hereof, Vitamin Shoppe fails to own directly or indirectly one hundred percent (100%) of the Capital Stock of any of its Subsidiaries that are a Borrower as of the Closing Date or become a Borrower thereafter, (h) other than as permitted inSection 9.7(a)(iv), Parent fails to own directly or indirectly one hundred percent (100%) of the Capital Stock of any Person that becomes a Borrower after the date hereof, (i) the failure of Parent to own directly or indirectly a majority of the voting power of the total outstanding Voting Stock of any Person that becomes a Guarantor after the date hereof, or (j) any “Change of Control” (or equivalent term) as defined in the Term Loan Agreement occurs. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Change of Control shall occur as a result of the Valor Merger.

“Chase” shall mean JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., a national banking association, in its individual capacity, and its successors.

“Chattel Paper” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

“Closing Date” shall mean December 16, 2019.

“Closing Date Equity Contribution” shall have the meaning set forth inSection 4.1(v) hereof.

“Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as the same now exists or may from time to time hereafter be amended, modified, recodified or supplemented, together with all rules, regulations and interpretations thereunder or related thereto.

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“Collateral” shall have the meaning set forth inSection 5.1 hereof.

“Collateral Access Agreement” shall mean an agreement in writing, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, from any lessor of premises to any Borrower or Guarantor, or any other Person to whom any Collateral is consigned or who has custody, control or possession of any such Collateral or is otherwise the owner or operator of any premises on which any of such Collateral is located, in favor of Agent (or in favor of Agent and Term Loan Agent) with respect to the Collateral at such premises or otherwise in the custody, control or possession of such lessor, consignee or other Person, inter alia, acknowledges the first priority security interest of Agent in such Collateral, agrees to waive (or subordinate on terms acceptable to Agent) any and all claims such lessor, consignee, processor or other person may, at any time, have against such Collateral, whether for storage or otherwise, and agrees to permit Agent access to, and the right to remain on, the premises of such lessor, consignee, processor or other person so as to exercise Agent’s rights and remedies and otherwise deal with such Collateral, and in the case of any customs broker, cargo consolidator, freight forwarder, consignee or other person who at any time has custody, control or possession of any bills of lading or other documents of title, agrees to hold such Collateral, acknowledges that it holds and will hold possession of the Collateral for the benefit of the Agent and the Term Loan Agent and agrees to follow all instructions of Agent or Term Loan Agent (as the case may be) with respect thereto.

“Collateral Documents” shall mean, collectively, the Pledge Agreements, each Guaranty, the Deposit Account Control Agreements, the Investment Property Control Agreements and any other agreements, instruments and documents executed in connection with this Agreement that are intended to create, perfect or evidence liens to secure the Obligations, including, without limitation, all other security agreements, deposit account control agreements, pledge agreements, subordination agreements, pledges, powers of attorney, assignments, financing statements and all other written matter whether theretofore, now or hereafter executed by any Borrower or any Guarantor and delivered to Agent, in each case as may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Commitment Increase Agreement” has the meaning assigned to such term inSection 2.4(d)(ii).

“Commodity Exchange Act” shall mean the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1etseq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute, and any regulations promulgated thereunder.

“Common Stock” shall mean the common stock of Parent, par value $0.01 per share.

“Compliance Period” shall mean any period commencing on the first date on which Excess Availability is less than the greater of (a) ten percent (10%) of the Borrowing Cap or (b) $10,000,000, in each case for three (3) consecutive days, and continuing until the date that both (x) Excess Availability exceeds the greater of (i) ten percent (10%) of the Borrowing Cap or (ii) $10,000,000 for sixty (60) consecutive days, and (y) no Default or Event of Default then exists and is continuing.

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“Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the total amount of depreciation and amortization expense, including the amortization of deferred financing fees or costs, capitalized expenditures, customer acquisition costs and incentive payments, conversion costs and contract acquisition costs, the amortization of original issue discount resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than par and amortization of favorable or unfavorable lease assets or liabilities, of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis and otherwise determined in accordance with GAAP.

“Consolidated Net Income” shall mean with respect to any specified Person for any period, the aggregate of the Net Income of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period, on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance with GAAP;provided, that, the Net Income (but not loss) of any Person that is not a Subsidiary or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting will be included only to the extent of the amount of dividends or similar distributions paid in cash to the specified Person or a Subsidiary of the Person; andprovided,further that there shall be excluded:

(a) the Net Income of any Subsidiary to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Subsidiary of that Net Income is not at the date of determination permitted without any prior governmental approval (that has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly, by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that Subsidiary or its stockholders;

(b) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles will be excluded;

(c) anynon-recurring costs and expenses included in connection with (i) the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements, and (ii) any equity issuance by Parent;

(d) anynon-cash compensation charges, including, any such charges arising from stock options, restricted stock grants or other equity-incentive programs;

(e) anynon-cash costs, charges or expenses relating to the application of purchase accounting;

(f) any unrealized gain or loss resulting from the application of SFAS 133 with respect to obligations in respect of a Hedge Agreement;

(g) anynon-cash goodwill impairment charges or other intangible asset impairment charges incurred subsequent to the date of this Agreement resulting from the application of SFAS 142 or othernon-cash asset impairment charges incurred subsequent to the date of this Agreement resulting from the application of SFAS 144; and

(h) the Net Income (or deficit) of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary or is merged into or consolidated with Parent or any of its Subsidiaries.

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In addition, to the extent included in the Consolidated Net Income of such Person and its Subsidiaries, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, Consolidated Net Income shall exclude (i) any expenses and charges that are reimbursed by indemnification or other reimbursement provisions in connection with any investment or any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of assets permitted hereunder and (ii) the amount of business interruption insurance proceeds received and, to the extent covered by insurance and actually reimbursed, or, so long as the Borrowers have made a determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such amount will in fact be reimbursed by the insurer and only to the extent that such amount is (A) not denied by the applicable carrier in writing within 180 days and (B) in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of such evidence (with a deduction for any amount so added back to the extent not so reimbursed within such 365 days), expenses with respect to liability or casualty events or business interruption.

“Control” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 8 or, if applicable, inSection 9-104,9-105,9-106 or9-107 of Article 9 of the UCC.

“Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Counterparty” shall mean Bank of America, N.A., JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association or any other financial institution in its capacity as counterparty to Parent under the applicable Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Documents and any successor, replacement or additional counterparty and their respective successors and assigns.

“Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Documents” shall mean the confirmations related to the Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Transactions, in each case, entered into between Parent and the applicable Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Counterparty and all other agreements, documents and instruments now or at any time executed and delivered by Parent in connection with the Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Transactions, as the same now exists or may hereafter be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced to the extent permitted herein.

“Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Transactions” shall mean (x) the convertible note hedge transactions entered into by Parent with the Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Counterparty to offset any cash payments required to be made by Parent in excess of the principal amount of the Convertible Notes that are converted or exchanged, so long as the Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any payment obligation with respect to such convertible note hedge transactions other than premiums and charges the total amount of which are fixed and known at the time such convertible note hedge transactions are entered into and (y) separate warrant transactions entered into by Parent with the Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Counterparty.

“Convertible Note Indenture” shall mean that certain Indenture by and between Parent (as successor to Vitamin Shoppe, Inc.), as issuer, and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee, (or another similar financial institution) with respect to the Convertible Notes due 2020, as amended by that certain First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 16, 2019, among Parent and Wilmington Trust National Association, as the same now exists or may hereafter be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced to the extent permitted herein.

“Convertible Notes” shall mean, collectively, the Convertible Notes due 2020 issued by Parent (with an effective interest rate not to exceed 4%) pursuant to the Convertible Note Indenture in the original aggregate principal amount of up to $300,000,000, as in existence on the Closing Date.

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“Convertible Notes Escrow” means an escrow arrangement reasonably satisfactory to the Agent for the deposit of cash required to be used to fund the Convertible Notes Repurchase Amount into a Deposit Account reasonably acceptable to Agent, which Deposit Account shall, if Agent requests, be subject to a Deposit Account Control Agreement.

“Convertible Notes Repurchase Amount” means, as of any date of determination, the amount required to fully repurchase, redeem, defease and satisfy 100% of the then outstanding Convertible Notes (including any make-whole premiums required thereby) in cash, which shall solely be funded by proceeds of cash equity contributions (in the form of (i) common equity or(ii) pay-in-kind preferred equity reasonably satisfactory to Agent) from Ultimate Parent and/or the Permitted Holders, including the Closing Date Equity Contribution and Post-Closing Equity Contribution and shall not for the avoidance of doubt, be funded using proceeds from any (x) Asset Sale, (y) Event of Loss, or (z) incurrence of Indebtedness.

“Covered Entity” means any of the following:

(a) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);

(b) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or

(c) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).

“Covered Party” has the meaning assigned to it inSection 13.12.

“Credit Card Acknowledgments” shall mean, collectively, the agreements by Credit Card Issuers or Credit Card Processors who are parties to Credit Card Agreements in favor of Agent acknowledging Agent’s first priority security interest, for and on behalf of Lenders, in the monies due and to become due to a Borrower (including, without limitation, credits and reserves) under the Credit Card Agreements, and agreeing to transfer all such amounts to the Blocked Accounts, as the same now exist or may hereafter be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced pursuant to their terms, sometimes being referred to herein individually as a “Credit Card Acknowledgment”.

“Credit Card Agreements” shall mean all agreements entered into on, prior and after the date hereof by any Borrower or for the benefit of any Borrower, in each case with any Credit Card Issuer or any Credit Card Processor, as the same now exist or may hereafter be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced, including, but not limited to, the agreements set forth onSchedule 8.16 hereto.

“Credit Card Issuer” shall mean any Person (other than Parent and its Subsidiaries) who issues or whose members issue credit cards, including, without limitation, MasterCard or VISA bank credit or debit cards or other bank credit or debit cards issued through MasterCard International, Inc., Visa, U.S.A., Inc. or Visa International and American Express, Discover, Japan Credit Bureau (a/k/a JCB Co.), Diners Club, Carte Blanche and othernon-bank credit or debit cards, including, without limitation, credit or debit cards issued by or through American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., and Novus Services, Inc.

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“Credit Card Processor” shall mean any servicing or processing agent or any factor or financial intermediary (other than Parent and its Subsidiaries) who facilitates, services, processes or manages the credit authorization, billing transfer and/or payment procedures with respect to any Borrower’s sales transactions involving credit card or debit card purchases by customers using credit cards or debit cards issued by any Credit Card Issuer.

“Credit Card Receivables” shall mean collectively, (a) all present and future rights of any Borrower to payment from any Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor arising from sales of goods or rendition of services to customers who have purchased such goods or services using a credit or debit card, and (b) all present and future rights of any Borrower to payment from any Credit Card Issuer, Credit Card Processor or other third party in connection with the sale or transfer of Credit Card Receivables arising pursuant to the sale of goods or rendition of services to customers who have purchased such goods or services using a credit card or a debit card, including, but not limited to, all amounts at any time due or to become due from any Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor under the Credit Card Agreements or otherwise which in the case of bothclause (a) and(b) above have been earned by performance by such Borrower but not yet been paid to such Borrower by the Credit Card Issuer or the Credit Card Processor, as applicable.

“Credit Facility” shall mean the Loans and Letters of Credit provided to or for the benefit of any Borrower pursuant toSections 2.1 and2.3 hereof.

“Default” shall mean an act, condition or event which with notice or passage of time or both would constitute an Event of Default.

“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.

“Defaulting Lender” shall mean any Revolving Lender, as determined by Agent, that has (a) failed to fund any portion of its Revolving Loans or participations in Letters of Credit within three Business Days of the date required to be funded by it hereunder, (b) notified any Borrower, Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement or has made a public statement to the effect that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations under this Agreement or under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) failed, within three Business Days after request by Agent, to confirm that it will comply with the terms of this Agreement relating to its obligations to fund prospective Revolving Loans and participations in then outstanding Letters of Credit, (d) otherwise failed to pay over Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within three Business Days of the date when due, unless the subject of a good faith dispute, or (e) (i) become or is insolvent or has a parent company that has become or is insolvent or (ii) become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee or custodian appointed for it, or has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment or has a parent company that has become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee or custodian appointed for it, or has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment.

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“Deposit Accounts” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

“Deposit Account Control Agreement” shall mean an agreement in writing, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, by and among Agent, Term Loan Agent (if a party thereto), Borrowers or Guarantor with a Deposit Account at any bank and the bank at which such Deposit Account is at any time maintained which provides that such bank will comply with instructions originated by Agent directing disposition of the funds in the Deposit Account without further consent by such Borrower or Guarantor upon the occurrence of an Event of Default or upon the commencement of a Compliance Period and at all times during the continuance of such Event of Default or Compliance Period, and has such other terms and conditions as Agent may reasonably require including as to any such agreement with respect to any Blocked Account, providing that all items received or deposited in the Blocked Accounts are the property of Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of the Lenders and the Bank Product Providers and, except as otherwise agreed with the corresponding bank and with such other appropriate or customary exceptions for agreements of this kind, that the bank has no lien upon, or right to setoff against, the Blocked Accounts, the items received for deposit therein, or the funds from time to time on deposit therein and that the bank will upon the occurrence of an Event of Default or upon the commencement of a Compliance Period and at all times during the continuance of such Event of Default or Compliance Period, wire, or otherwise transfer, in immediately available funds, on a daily basis to the Agent Payment Account all funds received or deposited into the Blocked Accounts.

“Dividing Person” has the meaning assigned to it in the definition of “Division.”

“Division” means the division of the assets, liabilities and/or obligations of a Person (the “Dividing Person”) among two or more Persons (whether pursuant to a “plan of division” or similar arrangement), which may or may not include the Dividing Person and pursuant to which the Dividing Person may or may not survive.

“Division Successor” means any Person that, upon the consummation of a Division of a Dividing Person, holds all or any portion of the assets, liabilities and/or obligations previously held by such Dividing Person immediately prior to the consummation of such Division. A Dividing Person which retains any of its assets, liabilities and/or obligations after a Division shall be deemed a Division Successor upon the occurrence of such Division.

“Documents” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

“dollars” or “$” refers to lawful money of the U.S., unless the context clearly otherwise indicates.

“E-Payables Agreement” shall mean that certain Bank of America Corporate Purchasing Card Agreement, dated as of June 7, 2007, by and among the parties thereto, including Vitamin Shoppe and Bank of America, N.A.

“E-Payables Reserve” shall mean any Reserves implemented by Agent pursuant toclause (b)(ii) of the definition of Obligations related to theE-Payables Agreement.

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“EBITDA” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period:

(a) increased (without duplication) by the following:

(i) provision for Taxes based on income or profits or capital, including, without limitation, state franchise, excise and similar taxes, property taxes and foreign withholding taxes of such Person paid or accrued during such period, including any penalties and interest relating to any tax examinations, deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income;plus

(ii) Interest Expense of such Person for such period (including (x) net losses or any obligations under any Hedge Agreement, (y) bank fees and (z) costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities, to the extent the same were deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income);plus

(iii) Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense of such Person for such period to the extent the same were deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income;plus

(iv) any expenses or charges (other than depreciation or amortization expense) related to any equity offering, Investment, acquisition, disposition or recapitalization permitted hereunder or the incurrence of Indebtedness permitted to be incurred hereunder (including a refinancing thereof) (whether or not successful), including (A) such fees, expenses or charges related to this Agreement, the Term Loan Agreement and any other credit facilities, (B) any amendment or other modification of this Agreement, the Term Loan Agreement and any other credit facilities and (C) the costs and expenses incurred in connection with the Valor Merger on or prior to the Closing Date, in each case, deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income;plus

(v) the amount of any restructuring charge or reserve, integration cost, severance expense or other business optimization expense or cost or any other unusual,non-recurring or extraordinary expense, loss or cost that is deducted (and not added back) in such period in computing Consolidated Net Income, including, anyone-time costs incurred in connection with acquisitions or divestitures after the Closing Date, costs related to the closure and/or consolidation of facilities and to existing lines of business, costs related to new product introductions or one-time compensation charges; provided that the aggregate amount of add backs made pursuant to this clause (a)(v) and clause (a)(vii) below (other than up to $10,000,000 in severance expenses and lease breakage costs contemplated by the Specified Closing Plan during the term of this Agreement), which shall not be subject to or counted towards this cap) shall not exceed an amount equal to 15% of EBITDA for such period (and such determination shall be made after the making of, and after giving effect to, any adjustments pursuant to this clause (a)(v));plus

(vi) any othernon-cash charges, write-downs, write-offs, expenses, losses or items reducing Consolidated Net Income for such period including deferred financing costs and other charges written off in connection with any early extinguishment of Indebtedness, any impairment charges, write-downs or write-offs relating to goodwill, intangible assets, long-lived assets, investments in debt and equity securities or as a result of a change in law or regulation or the impact of purchase accounting (excluding any suchnon-cash charge, write-down or item to the extent it represents an accrual or reserve for a cash expenditure for a future period), or other items classified by the Borrowers asnon-recurring items less othernon-cash items of income increasing Consolidated Net Income (excluding any suchnon-cash item of income to the extent it represents a receipt of cash in any future period);plus

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(vii) the amount of“run-rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies projected by the Borrowers in good faith to result from actions taken prior to or during or expected to be taken following such period (which cost savings, operating expense reductions or synergies shall be subject only to certification by an authorized officer of the Borrowers (or if no applicable officers have been appointed or elected, the sole member or members of the applicable Borrower(s)) and shall be calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions or synergies had been realized on the first day of such period), net of the amount of actual benefits realized prior to or during such period from such actions; provided that (1) an authorized officer of the Borrowers (or if no applicable officers have been appointed or elected, the sole member or members of the applicable Borrower(s)) shall have certified to the Agent that (x) such cost savings, operating expense reductions or synergies are reasonably identifiable, reasonably attributable to the actions specified and reasonably anticipated to result from such actions and (y) such actions have been taken or are to be taken within twelve (12) months from the date of such transaction and (2) the aggregate amount of add backs made pursuant to clause (a)(v) above and this clause (a)(vii) (other than up to $10,000,000 in severance expenses and lease breakage costs contemplated by the Specified Closing Plan during the term of this Agreement, which shall not be subject to or counted towards this cap) shall not exceed an amount equal to 15% of EBITDA for such period (and such determination shall be made after the making of, and after giving effect to, any adjustments pursuant to this clause (a)(vii));plus

(viii) any costs or expense incurred by the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement, to the extent that such cost or expenses arenon-cash or otherwise funded with cash proceeds contributed to the capital of the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or net cash proceeds of an issuance of Capital Stock (other than disqualified equity interests) of the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries;plus

(ix) earnout and contingent consideration obligations (including to the extent accounted for as bonuses or otherwise) and adjustments thereof and purchase price adjustments to the extent deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income;plus

(x) any net loss included in Consolidated Net Income attributable tonon-controlling interests pursuant to the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic810-10-45 of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”);plus

(xi)non-cash realized foreign exchange losses resulting from the impact of foreign currency changes on the valuation of assets or liabilities on the balance sheet of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries;

(b) decreased (without duplication) by the following:

(i)non-cash gains increasing Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period, excluding anynon-cash gains to the extent they represent the reversal of an accrual or cash reserve for a potential cash item that reduced EBITDA in any prior period and anynon-cash gains with respect to cash actually received in a prior period so long as such cash did not increase EBITDA in such prior period;plus

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(ii) realized foreign exchange income or gains resulting from the impact of foreign currency changes on the valuation of assets or liabilities on the balance sheet of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries;plus

(iii) any amount included in Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period attributable tonon-controlling interests pursuant to the application of FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic810-10-45;

(c) increased or decreased (without duplication) by, as applicable, any adjustments resulting from the application of FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 460 or any comparable regulation; and

(d) increased or decreased (without duplication) by any net gain (or loss) from disposed, abandoned or discontinued operations and any net gain (or loss) on disposal of disposed, discontinued or abandoned operations.

In determining EBITDA for any period, on a pro forma basis without duplication, (A) the consolidated EBITDA of any Person acquired by Parent and or any of its Subsidiaries, all or substantially all of the assets of a Person, or any business unit, line of business or division of any Person acquired by the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries during such period (but not the EBITDA of any related Person, property, business or assets to the extent not so acquired), to the extent not subsequently sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of by the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries during such period (each such Person, property, business or asset acquired and not subsequently so disposed of, an “Acquired Entity or Business”), based on the actual acquired EBITDA of such Acquired Entity or Business for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such acquisition) shall be included, and (B) the EBITDA of any Person or business unit, line of business or division of any Person sold, transferred, or otherwise disposed of or closed or classified as discontinued operations by the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries to any Person (other than the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries) during such period (each such Person, property, business or asset sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of, closed or classified as discontinued operations by the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries during such period a “Disposed Entity or Business”), based on the actual EBITDA of such Disposed Entity or Business for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such disposition) shall be excluded.

“ECP” shall mean an “eligible contract participant” as defined in Section 1(a)(18) of the Commodity Exchange Act and the applicable rules and regulations issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and/or the Securities Exchange Commission.

“Electronic System” means any electronic system, includinge-mail,e-fax, web portal access for such Borrower and any other Internet or extranet-based site, whether such electronic system is owned, operated or hosted by the Agent or any Issuing Bank and any of its respective Related Parties or any other Person, providing for access to data protected by passcodes or other security system.

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“Eligible Accounts” shall mean, at any time, the Accounts of a Borrower which Agent determines in its Permitted Discretion are eligible as the basis for the extension of Loans and the issuance of Letters of Credit. Without limiting Agent’s Permitted Discretion provided herein, Eligible Accounts shall not include any Account of a Borrower:

(a) which is not subject to a first priority perfected security interest in favor of Agent;

(b) which is subject to any lien other than (i) a lien in favor of Agent and (ii) a Permitted Encumbrance or a Lien permitted pursuant toSection 9.8(s), in each case, which does not have priority over the lien in favor of Agent;

(c) (i) with respect to which the scheduled due date is more than sixty (60) days after the date of the original invoice therefor, (ii) which, is unpaid more than ninety (90) days after the date of the original invoice therefor or more than sixty (60) days after the original due date, therefor (“Overage”) (when calculating the amount under thisclause (ii), for the same Account Debtor, Agent shall include the net amount of such Overage and add back any credits, but only to the extent that such credits do not exceed the total gross receivables from such Account Debtor, or (iii) which has been written off the books of such Borrower or otherwise designated as uncollectible;

(d) which is owing by an Account Debtor for which more than fifty percent (50%) of the Accounts owing from such Account Debtor and its Affiliates are ineligible hereunder;

(e) which is owing by an Account Debtor to the extent the aggregate amount of Accounts owing from such Account Debtor and its Affiliates to (i) such Borrower exceeds ten percent (10%) of the aggregate amount of Eligible Accounts of such Borrower or (ii) all Borrowers exceeds ten percent (10%) of the aggregate amount of Eligible Accounts of all Borrowers;

(f) with respect to which any covenant, representation, or warranty contained in this Agreement or any other Financing Agreement has been breached in any material respect or is not true in any material respect;

(g) which (i) does not arise from the sale of goods or performance of services in the ordinary course of business, (ii) is not evidenced by an invoice or other documentation satisfactory to Agent in its Permitted Discretion which has been sent to the Account Debtor, (iii) represents a progress billing, (iv) is contingent upon such Borrower’s completion of any further performance, (v) represents a sale on abill-and-hold, guaranteed sale,sale-and-return, sale on approval, consignment,cash-on-delivery or any other repurchase or return basis, (vi) relates to payments of interest or (vii) constitutes a Franchisee Receivable, other than a Franchise Receivable arising after the Closing Date owing by a franchisee that has been approved by Agent in its Permitted Discretion pursuant to a franchise agreement that has been approved by Agent in its Permitted Discretion;

(h) for which the goods giving rise to such Account have not been shipped to the Account Debtor or for which the services giving rise to such Account have not been performed by such Borrower or if such Account was invoiced more than once;

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(i) with respect to which any check or other instrument of payment has been returned uncollected for any reason;

(j) which is owed by an Account Debtor which has (i) applied for, suffered, or consented to the appointment of any receiver, custodian, trustee, or liquidator of its assets, (ii) had possession of all or a material part of its property taken by any receiver, custodian, trustee or liquidator, (iii) filed, or had filed against it, any request or petition for liquidation, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debts, adjudication as bankrupt,winding-up, or voluntary or involuntary case under any state or federal bankruptcy laws (other than post-petition accounts payable of an Account Debtor that is adebtor-in-possession under the United States Bankruptcy Code and reasonably acceptable to Agent), (iv) admitted in writing its inability, or is generally unable to, pay its debts as they become due, (v) become insolvent, or (vi) ceased operation of its business;

(k) which is owed by any Account Debtor which has sold all or a substantially all of its assets;

(l) which is owed by an Account Debtor which (i) does not maintain its chief executive office in the U.S. or Canada or (ii) is not organized under applicable law of the U.S., any state of the U.S., Canada, or any province of Canada unless, in either case, such Account is backed by a Letter of Credit acceptable to Agent which is in the possession of, and is directly drawable by, Agent;

(m) which is owed in any currency other than U.S. dollars or Canadian dollars;

(n) which is owed by (i) the government (or any department, agency, public corporation, or instrumentality thereof) of any country other than the U.S. unless such Account is backed by a Letter of Credit acceptable to Agent which is in the possession of, and is directly drawable by, Agent, or (ii) the government of the U.S., or any department, agency, public corporation, or instrumentality thereof, unless the Federal Assignment of Claims Act of 1940, as amended (31 U.S.C. § 3727etseq. and 41 U.S.C. § 15etseq.), and any other steps necessary to perfect the lien of Agent in such Account have been complied with to Agent’s satisfaction;

(o) which is owed by any Affiliate of any Borrower or any Guarantor or any employee, officer, director, agent or stockholder of any Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their Affiliates;

(p) which, for any Account Debtor, exceeds a credit limit determined by Agent in its Permitted Discretion, to the extent of such excess;

(q) which is owed by an Account Debtor or any Affiliate of such Account Debtor to which any Borrower or any Guarantor is indebted, but only to the extent of such indebtedness, or is subject to any security, deposit, progress payment, retainage or other similar advance made by or for the benefit of an Account Debtor, in each case to the extent thereof;

(r) which is subject to any counterclaim, deduction, defense, setoff or dispute but only to the extent of any such counterclaim, deduction, defense, setoff or dispute;

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(s) which is evidenced by any promissory note, chattel paper, or instrument;

(t) which is owed by an Account Debtor (i) located in any jurisdiction which requires filing of a “Notice of Business Activities Report” or other similar report in order to permit such Borrower to seek judicial enforcement in such jurisdiction of payment of such Account, unless such Borrower has filed such report or qualified to do business in such jurisdiction or (ii) which is a Sanctioned Person;

(u) with respect to which such Borrower has made any agreement with the Account Debtor for any reduction thereof, other than discounts and adjustments given in the ordinary course of business, or any Account which was partially paid and such Borrower created a new receivable for the unpaid portion of such Account;

(v) which does not comply in all material respects with the requirements of all applicable laws and regulations, whether Federal, state or local, including without limitation the Federal Consumer Credit Protection Act, the Federal Truth in Lending Act and Regulation Z of the Federal Reserve Board;

(w) which is for goods that have been sold under a purchase order or pursuant to the terms of a contract or other agreement or understanding (written or oral) that indicates or purports that any Person other than such Borrower has or has had an ownership interest in such goods, or which indicates any party other than such Borrower as payee or remittance party;

(x) which was created on cash on delivery terms; or

(y) which is a Credit Card Receivable;

provided that, the aggregate amount of Eligible Accounts in respect of Franchisee Receivables shall not exceed the amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the Borrowing Cap at any time.

In the event that an Account of a Borrower which was previously an Eligible Account ceases to be an Eligible Account hereunder, such Borrower or Administrative Borrower shall notify thereof on and at the time of submission to Agent of the next Borrowing Base Certificate. In determining the amount of an Eligible Account of a Borrower, the face amount of an Account may, in Agent’s Permitted Discretion, be reduced by, without duplication, to the extent not reflected in such face amount, (i) the amount of all accrued and actual discounts, claims, credits or credits pending, promotional program allowances, price adjustments, finance charges or other allowances (including any amount that such Borrower may be obligated to rebate to an Account Debtor pursuant to the terms of any agreement or understanding (written or oral)) and (ii) the aggregate amount of all cash received in respect of such Account but not yet applied by such Borrower to reduce the amount of such Account.

“Eligible Credit Card Receivables” shall mean, the gross amount of Credit Card Receivables of Borrowers that are subject to a valid, first priority and fully perfected security interest in favor of the Agent for itself and the Secured Parties, which conform to all applicable warranties contained herein, less, without duplication, (a) the sum of all Credit Card Receivables: (i) for which Agent has not received a Credit Card Acknowledgment pursuant toSection 9.31 if the Credit Card Agreement exists on the Closing Date (or if the Credit Card Agreement is entered

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into after the Closing Date, no later than ninety (90) days after the date of such Credit Card Agreement or such later date as is acceptable to Agent), and (ii) which are unpaid more than five (5) Business Days after the date of the sale of Inventory giving rise to such Credit Card Receivable, and (b) amounts owing to Credit Card Issuers or Credit Card Processors in connection with the Credit Card Agreements.

“Eligible Depository Bank” means:

(a) Any Lender or any of its Affiliates;

(b) Bank of America, N.A.; or

(c) Any other Person who is a commercial bank or financial institution having total assets in excess of $1,000,000,000; organized under the laws of any country that is a member of the Basel Accord and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, or a political subdivision of any such country, so long as such bank or financial institution is acting through a branch or agency located in the United States.

“Eligible Inventory” shall mean, as to each Borrower, Inventory of such Borrower consisting of finished goods held for resale in the ordinary course of the business of such Borrower, that satisfy the criteria set forth below as reasonably determined by Agent. Eligible Inventory shall not include:(a) work-in-process; (b) raw materials; (c) spare parts for Equipment; (d) packaging and shipping materials; (e) supplies used or consumed in such Borrower’s business; (f) Inventory located (i) at premises other than a premise which is owned or leased by any Borrower or (ii) in any third party warehouse or in the possession of a bailee (other than a third Party processor) unless Agent has received, subject toSection 9.31, a Collateral Access Agreement in respect of such premises on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to Agent (Inventory of any Borrower which isin-transit from any location of Borrower permitted herein to another such location shall be considered Eligible Inventory, provided, that, it otherwise satisfies the criteria for Eligible Inventory set forth herein and is notin-transit more than ten (10) consecutive days; provided, further, that, the aggregate amount of Eligible Inventory consisting ofin-transit Inventory shall not exceed the amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the Value of all Inventory of Borrowers at such time); (g) Inventory subject to a security interest or lien in favor of any Person other than Agent except those permitted in this Agreement that are subject to an intercreditor agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Agent between the holder of such security interest or lien and Agent and those liens described inclause (j) below; (h) bill and hold goods; (i) Inventory which is past its expiration date; (j) Inventory that is not subject to the first priority, valid and perfected security interest of Agent except in the case of thosenon-consensual statutory liens described inSection 9.8(c)(i) hereof, liens permitted underSection 9.8(s) so long as such liens are subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, and landlord, warehouseman or similar liens (i) in respect of which Agent has established a Reserve (if and only to the extent establishment of a Reserve is permitted by the terms hereof), (ii) for which no Reserve is provided by the terms hereof, or (iii) in respect of which premises Agent has received a Collateral Access Agreement pursuant to which the landlord, warehouseman or bailee, as applicable, has either waived or subordinated its lien on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to Agent; (k) returned Inventory which is not held for sale in the ordinary course of business, (l) damaged and/or defective Inventory; (m) Inventory purchased or sold on consignment, (n) Inventory located outside the United States of America,

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unless otherwise approved by Agent in writing; provided, that, Inventory in Canada shall be deemed Eligible Inventory if Agent has a valid, first priority and fully perfected first priority security interest therein, as determined by Agent, in its sole discretion, provided, that, such Inventory otherwise satisfies the criteria with respect to Eligible Inventory; (o) Inventory which may become subject to the claims of a supplier pursuant to Section 81.1 of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), R.S.C. 1985,c.B-3, as amended, or any applicable provincial laws granting revendication or similar rights to unpaid suppliers; and (p) Inventory which has been acquired from a Sanctioned Person. The criteria for Eligible Inventory set forth above may only be changed and any new criteria for Eligible Inventory may only be established by Agent in its good faith based on either: (i) an event, condition or other circumstance arising after the date hereof, or (ii) an event, condition or other circumstance existing on the date hereof to the extent Agent has no written notice thereof from a Borrower prior to the date hereof in either case underclause (i) or(ii) which materially and adversely affects or could reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the Inventory, its value or the amount that would be received by Agent from the sale or other disposition or realization upon such Inventory as determined by Agent in its good faith and commercially reasonable determination. Any Inventory that is not Eligible Inventory shall nevertheless be part of the Collateral.

“Eligible Transferee” shall mean (a) any Lender; (b) the parent company of any Lender and/or any Affiliate of such Lender which is at least fifty (50%) percent owned by such Lender or its parent company; (c) any Person that is engaged in the business of making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and is administered or managed by a Lender or with respect to any Lender that is a fund which invests in bank loans and similar extensions of credit, any other fund that invests in bank loans and similar extensions of credit and is managed by the same investment advisor as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor, in each case is approved by Agent and, unless an Event of Default underSection 10.1(a),Section 10.1(g) orSection 10.1(h) has occurred and is continuing at the time any assignment is effected hereunder, Administrative Borrower (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed by Administrative Borrower,provided, that, (i) Administrative Borrower’s failure to consent to an assignment to a “distressed debt” purchaser, a “vulture” fund or other similar assignee or buyer shall not be deemed unreasonable and (ii) no such consent shall be required in connection with any assignment to another Lender or to an Affiliate of any Lender); and (d) any other commercial bank, financial institution or “accredited investor” (as defined in Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933) approved by Agent (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) and, unless an Event of Default underSection 10.1(a),Section 10.1(g) orSection 10.1(h) has occurred and is continuing at the time any assignment is effected hereunder, Administrative Borrower,provided, that, (i) neither any Borrower nor any Guarantor or any Affiliate of any Borrower or Guarantor shall qualify as an Eligible Transferee; (ii) no Person to whom any Indebtedness which is in any way subordinated in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of any Borrower or Guarantor shall qualify as an Eligible Transferee, except, in each case, as Agent may otherwise specifically agree; and (iii) a competitor of Borrowers shall not be deemed an “Eligible Transferee” under any circumstances except after the occurrence of either (A) an Event of Default fornon-payment of any principal amount of Obligations owing hereunder or (B) the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to any Borrower or Guarantor set forth inSection 10.1(g) orSection 10.1(h) hereof.

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“Environmental Events” shall have the meaning set forth inSection 9.3(b) hereof.

“Environmental Laws” shall mean all foreign, Federal, State and local laws (including common law), rules, codes, licenses, permits (including any conditions imposed therein), authorizations, legally binding judicial or administrative decisions, injunctions or agreements between Borrower and any Governmental Authority, (a) relating to pollution and the protection, preservation or restoration of the environment (including air, water vapor, surface water, ground water, drinking water, drinking water supply, surface land, subsurface land, plant and animal life or any other natural resource), (b) relating to the exposure of humans to, or the use, storage, recycling, treatment, generation, manufacture, processing, distribution, transportation, handling, labeling, production, release or disposal, or threatened release, of hazardous, toxic or dangerous substances, materials, and wastes, or (c) imposing requirements with regard to recordkeeping, notification, disclosure and reporting respecting hazardous, toxic or dangerous substances, materials, and wastes. The term “Environmental Laws” includes (i) the Federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, the Federal Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, the Federal Clean Water Act, the Federal Clean Air Act, the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (including the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments thereto), the Federal Solid Waste Disposal and the Federal Toxic Substances Control Act, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, and the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, (ii) applicable state counterparts to such laws and (iii) any common law or equitable doctrine that imposes liability or obligations for injuries or damages due to, or threatened as a result of, the presence of or exposure to any hazardous, toxic or dangerous substances, materials, and wastes.

“Equipment” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC and includes, without limitation, as to each Borrower and Guarantor, all of such Borrower’s and Guarantor’s now owned and hereafter acquired equipment, wherever located, including machinery, data processing and computer equipment (whether owned or licensed and including embedded software), vehicles, tools, furniture, fixtures, all attachments, accessions and property now or hereafter affixed thereto or used in connection therewith, and substitutions and replacements thereof, wherever located.

“Equity Commitment Letter” shall mean that certain letter agreement dated August 7, 2019 (as amended by that certain letter agreement dated December 16, 2019) by and between Tributum, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Tributum”) and Ultimate Parent pursuant to which Tributum will provide no less than $60,000,000 in cash equity proceeds to Ultimate Parent, which will be contributed by Ultimate Parent and its Subsidiaries to Parent on or after the Closing Date.

“ERISA” shall mean the United States Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, together with all rules, regulations and interpretations thereunder or related thereto.

“ERISA Affiliate” shall mean any Person required to be aggregated with any Borrower, any Guarantor or any of its or their respective Subsidiaries under Sections 414(b), 414(c), 414(m) or 414(o) of the Code.

“ERISA Event” shall mean (a) any “reportable event”, as defined in Section 4043(c) of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, with respect to a Plan, except for any such event with respect to which notice has been waived pursuant to applicable regulations; (b) the adoption of any amendment to a Plan that would require the provision of security pursuant to Section 401(a)(29)

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of the Code or Section 307 of ERISA; (c) the existence with respect to any Plan of an “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived; (d) the filing pursuant to Section 412 of the Code or Section 303(d) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (e) the occurrence of anon-exempt “prohibited transaction” with respect to which Borrower, or any of their respective Subsidiaries is a “disqualified Person” (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code); (f) a complete or partial withdrawal by Borrower, or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or a cessation of operations which is treated as such a withdrawal or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization; (g) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a Plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of proceedings by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to terminate a Plan; (h) an event or condition which might reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Plan; (i) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon Borrower, or any ERISA Affiliate in an amount that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

“Eurodollar Borrowing” shall mean a Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans.

“Eurodollar Rate Loans” shall mean any Loan or portion thereof on which interest is payable based on the Adjusted LIBO Rate in accordance with the terms hereof.

“Event of Default” shall mean the occurrence or existence of any event or condition described inSection 10.1 hereof.

“Event of Loss” means, with respect to any property, any of the following: (a) any loss, destruction or damage of such property; or (b) any actual condemnation, seizure or taking, by exercise of the power of eminent domain or otherwise, of such property, or confiscation of such property or the requisition of the use of such property; which for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include store closings or liquidations.

“Excess Availability” shall mean, the amount, as determined by Agent, calculated at any date, equal to: (a) the Borrowing Capminus (b) the Aggregate Revolving Exposure.

“Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, together with all rules, regulations and interpretations thereunder or related thereto.

“Excluded Accounts” means (a) Zero Balance Accounts, (b) Store Accounts, (c) accounts into which government receivables and government reimbursement payments are deposited, (d) payroll accounts (including accounts used for the disbursement of payroll, payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments, including 401(k) and other retirement plans, rabbi trusts for deferred compensation and health care benefits), (e) withholding and trust accounts, escrow and other fiduciary accounts, and (f) Manual Sweeping Accounts.

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“Excluded Hedge Obligation” shall mean, with respect to any Borrower or Guarantor, any Hedge Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the guarantee of such Borrower or Guarantor of, or the grant by such Borrower or Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Hedge Obligation (or any guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) (a) by virtue of such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an ECP at the time the guarantee of such Borrower or Guarantor or the grant of such security interest becomes effective with respect to such Hedge Obligation or (b) in the case of a Hedge Obligation subject to a clearing requirement pursuant to Section 2(h) of the Commodity Exchange Act (or any successor provision thereto), because such Borrower or Guarantor is a “financial entity,” as defined in Section 2(h)(7)(C)(i) of the Commodity Exchange Act (or any successor provision thereto), at the time the guarantee of such Borrower or Guarantor becomes effective with respect to such related Hedge Obligation. If a Hedge Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Hedge Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such guarantee or security interest is or becomes illegal.

“Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient: (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes; (b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. Federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan, Letter of Credit or Revolving Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan, Letter of Credit or Revolving Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrowers underSection 3.6(b)) or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant toSection 3.5, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender acquired the applicable interest in a Loan, Letter of Credit or Revolving Commitment or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office; (c) Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply withSection 3.5(f); and (d) any withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

“Existing Credit Agreement” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals to this Agreement.

“FATCA” shall mean Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreement entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code and any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement, treaty or convention among Governmental Authorities and implementing such Sections of the Code.

“Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the rate calculated by the NYFRB based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depositary institutions (as determined in such manner as the NYFRB shall set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as the effective federal funds rate, provided that, if the Federal Funds Effective Rate as so determined would be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement.

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“Federal Reserve Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America.

“Fee Letter” shall mean the fee letter, dated as of August 7, 2019, by and among Ultimate Parent and Agent, setting forth certain fees payable by Borrowers to Agent for the benefit of itself and Lenders, as the same now exists or may hereafter be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced.

“Financing Agreements” shall mean, collectively, this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Collateral Documents and all notes, guarantees, security agreements, intercreditor agreements, the Fee Letter and all other agreements, documents and instruments now or at any time hereafter executed and/or delivered by any Borrower or Guarantor in connection with this Agreement.

“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” shall mean, as to any Person for any period, the ratio of: (a) EBITDA for such Person and its Subsidiariesminus the unfinanced portion of Capital Expenditures paid in cash during such period to (b) Fixed Charges, all calculated for any Person on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

“Fixed Charges” shall mean, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum of, without duplication, (a) all cash Interest Expense paid during such period (net of interest income of such Person during such period and excluding, to the extent taken into account in the calculation of Interest Expense, upfront fees, costs and expenses in respect of this Agreement and any other issuance of Indebtedness permitted hereunder and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby),plus (b) all prepayments (other than (i) prepayments and refinancings with respect to the Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness and the Convertible Notes, in each case to the extent permitted hereunder, (ii) prepayments made with the proceeds of refinancings of such Indebtedness prepaid to the extent permitted hereunder, (iii) prepayments made with, and withinone-hundred eighty (180) days of receipt of, the net proceeds of new equity capital contributed after the date of this Agreement, and (iv) prepayments of Indebtedness permitted underSection 9.9(b) required in connection with any disposition or casualty of assets financed and securing such Indebtedness, which prepayments shall be in an amount not to exceed the net proceeds received as a result of such disposition or casualty event) and regularly scheduled principal repayments in respect of Indebtedness for borrowed money and Indebtedness with respect to Capital Leases paid during such period in cash (excluding the interest component with respect to Indebtedness under Capital Leases),plus (c) all income taxes paid during such period in cash (net of refunds or tax credits to such Person in respect of income taxes, and excluding income tax on extraordinary ornon-recurring gains or gains from asset sales outside of the ordinary course of business)plus (d) dividends or distributions paid in cash (including, without limitation, Permitted Tax Distributions), all as determined for any Person on a consolidated basis and in accordance with GAAP.

“Foreign Lender” shall mean any Lender that is not a U.S. Person.

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“Foreign Subsidiary” shall mean a Subsidiary of Parent that is organized or incorporated under the laws of any jurisdiction outside of the United States of America; sometimes being referred to herein collectively as “Foreign Subsidiaries”.

“Franchisee Receivable” shall mean an Account of a Borrower owed by an Account Debtor in respect of payment obligations of such Account Debtor under any franchise agreement arising from the sale of Inventory by a Borrower to a franchisee (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, franchise fees).

“Frequent Buyer Program” shall mean the Borrowers’ “Healthy Awards” customer loyalty program, which as in effect on the Closing Date is described at https://www.vitaminshoppe.com/lp/Newhealthyaward.

“GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect from time to time as set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other principles as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States (including any principles required by the Securities and Exchange Commission), that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination, consistently applied. If there occurs after the date of this Agreement any change in GAAP that affects the calculation of any requirements, terms or covenants set forth in this Agreement or any other Financing Agreement (whether contained inSection 9.24 or otherwise), Agent and Borrowers shall negotiate in good faith to amend the provisions of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements that relate to the calculation of such requirements, terms and covenants with the intent of having the respective positions of the Lenders and Borrowers after such change in GAAP conform as nearly as possible to their respective positions as of the date of this Agreement and, until any such amendments have been agreed upon, the implicated requirements and covenants shall be calculated as if no such change in GAAP has occurred;provided, that, for the avoidance of doubt, the parties agree that all financial statements required to be delivered hereunder shall and will be delivered giving effect to any such change in GAAP.

“General Intangibles” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

“Goods” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

“Governmental Authority” shall mean any nation or government, any state, province, or other political subdivision thereof, any central bank (or similar monetary or regulatory authority) thereof, and any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of government.

“Guarantors” shall mean, collectively, the following (together with their respective successors and assigns): (a) Parent and (b) any other Subsidiary of Parentthat at any time after the date hereof becomes party to a Guaranty in favor of Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties or otherwise liable on or with respect to the Obligations (other than Borrowers) (each a “Subsidiary Guarantor”); each sometimes being referred to herein individually as a “Guarantor”;provided, that, if at any time after the date hereof, a Guarantor which is directly or indirectly wholly owned

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by Parent shall own any assets that would constitute Eligible Inventory if owned by a Borrower, upon Administrative Borrower’s request, such Guarantor shall cease to be a Guarantor hereunder and shall be deemed a Borrower effective on the date of the confirmation by Agent to Administrative Borrower that (i) Agent has received such request and that Agent has received an appraisal with respect to such Inventory and conducted a field examination with respect thereto, the results of which are satisfactory to Agent in good faith, or alternatively, at Agent’s option, Agent shall have received such information with respect thereto as Agent may in its good faith require and (ii) Agent and each Lender have received all information and documentation reasonably requested by the Agent and the Lenders for purposes of compliance with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation with respect to such Guarantor.

“Guaranty” shall mean (a) that certain Guaranty Agreement dated as of the Closing Date, by each of Loan Parties from time to time party thereto in favor of Agent, Lenders and the other Secured Parties, and (b) any other guaranty agreement executed by a Subsidiary of Parent that at any time after the date hereof becomes a Guarantor under this Agreement in favor of Agent, Lenders and the other Secured Parties, in each case, as the same may be amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Hazardous Materials” shall mean any hazardous, toxic or dangerous substances, materials and wastes, including petroleum hydrocarbons, flammable explosives, asbestos, urea formaldehyde insulation, radioactive materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, pesticides, herbicides and any other kind and/or type of pollutants or contaminants, sewage, sludge, industrial slag, solvents and/or any other substances, materials or wastes that are or become regulated under any Environmental Law (including any that are or become classified as hazardous or toxic under any Environmental Law).

“Hedge Agreement” shall mean an agreement between any Borrower or Guarantor and a third party (including without limitation a Bank Product Provider) that is a rate swap agreement, basis swap, forward rate agreement, commodity swap, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options, forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange agreement, spot foreign exchange agreement, rate cap agreement rate, floor agreement, rate collar agreement, currency swap agreement, cross-currency rate swap agreement, currency option, any other similar agreement or any combination of these transactions (including any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act and any option to enter into any of the foregoing or a master agreement for any the foregoing together with all supplements thereto) for the purpose of protecting against or managing exposure to fluctuations in interest or exchange rates, currency valuations or commodity prices);provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Borrowers or their Subsidiaries shall be a Hedge Agreement; sometimes being collectively referred to herein as “Hedge Agreements”;providedfurther, however, the definition of Hedge Agreement shall not include the Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Transactions.

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“Hedge Obligations” of any Borrower or Guarantor means any and all obligations of such Borrower or Guarantor, whether absolute or contingent and howsoever and whensoever created, arising, evidenced or acquired (including all renewals, extensions and modifications thereof and substitutions therefor), under (a) any and all Hedge Agreements, and (b) any and all cancellations, buy backs, reversals, terminations or assignments of any Hedge Agreement transaction, in each case, solely under Hedge Agreements entered into with a Bank Product Provider and which are deemed to be Obligations underclause (b)(i) of the definition of Obligations.

“Impacted Interest Period” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of “LIBO Rate”.

“Increased Reporting Period” shall mean any period commencing on the first date on which Excess Availability is less than the greater of (a) twenty percent (20%) of the Borrowing Cap or (b) $20,000,000, in each case for three (3) consecutive days, and continuing until the date that both (x) Excess Availability exceeds the greater of (i) twenty percent (20%) of the Borrowing Cap or (ii) $20,000,000 for sixty (60) consecutive days, and (y) no Default or Event of Default then exists and is continuing.

“Indebtedness” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any liability, whether or not contingent, (a) in respect of borrowed money (whether or not the recourse of the lender is to the whole of the assets of such Person or only to a portion thereof) or evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments; (b) representing the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any property or services (except any such balance that constitutes an account payable to a trade creditor (whether or not an Affiliate) created, incurred, assumed or guaranteed by such Person in the ordinary course of business of such Person; (c) all obligations as lessee under leases which have been, or should be, in accordance with GAAP recorded as Capital Leases; (d) any contractual obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person to pay or be liable for the payment of any indebtedness described in this definition of another Person, including, any such indebtedness, directly or indirectly guaranteed, or any agreement to purchase, repurchase, or otherwise acquire such indebtedness, obligation or liability or any security therefor, or to provide funds for the payment or discharge thereof, or to maintain solvency, assets, level of income, or other financial condition; (e) all obligations with respect to redeemable stock and redemption or repurchase obligations under any Capital Stock or other equity securities issued by such Person; (f) all reimbursement obligations and other liabilities of such Person with respect to surety bonds (whether bid, performance or otherwise), letters of credit, banker’s acceptances, drafts or similar documents or instruments issued for such Person’s account other than bonds to stay execution of a judgment on appeal; (g) all indebtedness of such Person in respect of indebtedness of another Person for borrowed money or indebtedness of another Person otherwise described in this definition which is secured by any consensual lien, security interest, collateral assignment, conditional sale, mortgage, deed of trust, or other encumbrance on any asset of such Person, whether or not such obligations, liabilities or indebtedness are assumed by or are a personal liability of such Person, all as of such time; (h) all obligations, liabilities and indebtedness of such Person (marked to market) arising under swap agreements, cap agreements and collar agreements and other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in interest rates or currency or commodity values or other Hedge Agreements; (i) indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in such entity, except to the extent that the terms of such indebtedness expressly provide that such Person is not liable therefor or such Person has no liability therefor as a matter of law, (j) all sales by such Person

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(except for sales without recourse to such Person) of (i) Accounts or General Intangibles for money due or to become due, (ii) Chattel Paper, Instruments or documents creating or evidencing a right to payment of money or (iii) other receivables whether pursuant to a purchase facility or otherwise, other than in connection with the disposition of the business operations of such Person relating thereto or a disposition of defaulted receivables for collection and not as a financing arrangement, and together with any obligation of such Person to pay any discount, interest, fees, indemnities, penalties, recourse, expenses or other amounts in connection therewith, and (k) the principal and interest portions of all rental obligations of such Person under any synthetic lease or similaroff-balance sheet financing where such transaction is considered to be indebtedness for borrowed money for tax purposes but is classified as an operating lease in accordance with GAAP; provided, however, the definition of Indebtedness shall not include the obligations owed with respect to the Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Transactions.

“Indemnified Taxes” means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by, or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Financing Agreement and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in the foregoing clause (a) hereof, Other Taxes.

“Indemnitee” shall have the meaning set forth inSection 11.6 hereof.

“Information Certificate” shall mean the Information Certificate of Borrowers and Guarantor constitutingExhibit B hereto containing material information with respect to Borrowers and Guarantors, their respective businesses and assets provided by or on behalf of Borrowers and Guarantors to Agent in connection with the preparation of the Existing Credit Agreement and the other Financing Agreements and the financing arrangements provided for herein, as amended, modified, replaced or supplemented by that certain Information Certificate delivered by the Borrowers and Guarantors on the Closing Date.

“Instruments” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

“Intellectual Property” shall mean, as to each Borrower and Guarantor, such Borrower’s and Guarantor’s now owned and hereafter arising or acquired: patents, patent rights, patent applications (including all inventions and improvements described and claimed therein), copyrights, works which are the subject matter of copyrights, copyright applications, copyright registrations, trademarks, servicemarks, trade names, trade dress, trade styles, trademark and service mark applications, and licenses and rights to use any of the foregoing and all applications, registrations and recordings relating to any of the foregoing as may be filed in the United States Copyright Office, the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States, any State thereof, any political subdivision thereof or in any other country or jurisdiction, together with all rights and privileges arising under applicable law with respect to any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s use of any of the foregoing; all extensions, renewals, reissues, divisions, continuations, andcontinuations-in-part of any of the foregoing; and payments now or hereafter due or payable with respect thereto, including, without limitation, damages, claims, and payments for past and future infringement thereof, all rights to sue for past, present and future infringement of any of the foregoing; inventions, trade secrets, formulae, processes, compounds, drawings, designs, blueprints, surveys, reports, manuals, and operating standards; goodwill (including any goodwill associated with any trademark or servicemark, or the license of any trademark or servicemark); customer and other lists in whatever form maintained; trade secret rights, copyright rights, rights in works of authorship, domain names and internet domain name registration; software and contract rights relating to computer software programs, in whatever form created or maintained.

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“Intercreditor Agreement” means that certain Intercreditor Agreement dated as of the Closing Date, by and between the Agent and the Term Loan Agent, and acknowledged by the Borrowers and the Guarantors, as the same may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the provisions hereof and thereof.

“Interest Election Request” means a request by the Administrative Borrower to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance withSection 2.12.

“Interest Expense” shall mean, for any period, as to any Person, as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, the total interest expense of such Person, whether paid or accrued during such period (including the interest component of Capital Leases for such period), including, discounts in connection with the sale of any Accounts and bank fees, commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit, banker’s acceptances or similar instruments, losses, fees, net costs and early termination costs under Hedge Agreements, amortization orwrite-off of debt discounts and debt issuance costs and commissions, and other discounts and other fees and charges associated with Indebtedness.

“Interest Payment Date” means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan, the first Business Day of each calendar quarter and the Maturity Date, and (b) with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part (and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period) and the Maturity Date.

“Interest Period” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Eurodollar Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, two, three or six thereafter, as the Administrative Borrower may elect;provided, that (a) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless, such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day and (b) any Interest Period that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.

“Interpolated Rate” means, at any time, for any Interest Period, the rate per annum (rounded to the same number of decimal places as the LIBO Screen Rate) determined by the Agent (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) to be equal to the rate that results from interpolating on a linear basis between: (a) the LIBO Screen Rate for the longest period (for which the LIBO Screen Rate is available) that is shorter than the Impacted Interest Period and (b) the LIBO Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which the LIBO Screen Rate is available) that exceeds the Impacted Interest Period, in each case, at such time;provided, that if any Interpolated Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.

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“Inventory” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC and includes, without limitation, as to each Borrower and Guarantor, all of such Borrower’s and Guarantor’s now owned and hereafter existing or acquired goods, wherever located, which (a) are leased by such Borrower or Guarantor as lessor; (b) are held by such Borrower or Guarantor for sale or lease or to be furnished under a contract of service; (c) are furnished by such Borrower or Guarantor under a contract of service; or (d) consist of raw materials, work in process, finished goods or materials used or consumed in its business.

“Inventory Reserves” shall mean the reserves described inclauses (i),(ii),(viii),(x),(xi) and(xii) of the definition of “Reserves”.

“Investment Property” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

“Investment Property Control Agreement” shall mean an agreement in writing, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, by and among Agent (and the Term Loan Agent, if a party), any Borrower or Guarantor (as the case may be) and any securities intermediary, commodity intermediary or other Person who has custody, control or possession of any Investment Property of such Borrower or Guarantor acknowledging that such securities intermediary, commodity intermediary or other Person has custody, control or possession of such Investment Property on behalf of Agent (and the Term Loan Agent, if a party) that it will comply with entitlement orders originated by Agent (or Term Loan Agent, as applicable) after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default with respect to such Investment Property, or other instructions of Agent (or Term Loan Agent, as applicable), and has such other terms and conditions as Agent may reasonably require.

“Issuing Bank” shall mean Chase.

“Landlord Lien States” shall mean the States of Washington and Virginia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and such other states, provinces or jurisdictions in which a landlord’s claim for rent (including a portion of rent) has or may have priority by operation of applicable law over the lien of the Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties in any of the Collateral.

“LC Disbursement” means any payment made by an Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.

“Lenders” shall mean the financial institutions who are signatories hereto as Lenders and other Persons made a party to this Agreement as a Lender in accordance withSection 13.7 hereof, and their respective successors and assigns, including the Revolving Lenders; each sometimes being referred to herein individually as a “Lender”.

“Letter of Credit Documents” shall mean, with respect to any Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit, any amendments thereto, any documents delivered in connection therewith, any application therefor, and any agreements, instruments, guarantees or other documents (whether general in application or applicable only to such Letter of Credit) governing or providing for (a) the rights and obligations of the parties concerned or at risk or (b) any collateral security for such obligations.

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“Letter of Credit Limit” shall mean $10,000,000.

“Letter of Credit Obligations” shall mean, at any time and without duplication, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time,plus (b) the aggregate amount of all drawings under Letters of Credit for which Issuing Bank has not at such time been reimbursed,plus (c) the aggregate amount of all payments made by each Revolving Lender to Issuing Bank with respect to such Revolving Lender’s participation in Letters of Credit as provided inSection 2.3 for which Borrowers have not at such time reimbursed the Revolving Lenders, whether by way of a Revolving Loan or otherwise.

“Letter-of-Credit Rights” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

“Letters of Credit” shall mean all letters of credit (whether documentary orstand-by and whether for the purchase of Inventory, Equipment or otherwise) issued by an Issuing Bank for the account of any Borrower pursuant to this Agreement or the Existing Credit Agreement, and all amendments, renewals, extensions or replacements thereof.

“Leverage Ratio” shall mean, for any date of determination, the ratio of: (a) Total Indebtedness as of such date to (b) EBITDA for the most recently completed Test Period, all calculated for any Person on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

“LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any applicable Interest Period or for any ABR Borrowing, LIBO Screen Rate at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period; provided that, if the LIBO Screen Rate shall not be available at such time for such Interest Period (an “Impacted Interest Period”), then the LIBO Rate shall be the Interpolated Rate, subject toSection 3.4 in the event that the Agent shall conclude that it shall not be possible to determine such Interpolated Rate (which conclusion shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error). Notwithstanding the above, to the extent that “LIBO Rate” or “Adjusted LIBO Rate” is used in connection with an ABR Borrowing, such rate shall be determined as modified by the definition of Alternate Base Rate.

“LIBO Screen Rate” means, for any day and time, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period or for any ABR Borrowing, the London interbank offered rate as administered by ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate for dollars) for a period equal in length to such Interest Period as displayed on such day and time on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Reuters screen that displays such rate (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Agent in its reasonable discretion); provided that if the LIBO Screen Rate as so determined would be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to zero for the purposes of this Agreement.

“License Agreements” shall have the meaning set forth inSection 8.11 hereof.

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“Lien” and “lien” mean, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset, (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities.

“Liquidity” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate amount of cash of the Loan Parties contained in any deposit account for which such Person has delivered to the Agent an account control agreement or other documentation reasonably required by the Agent, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, pursuant to which (i) the Agent has been granted a lien on and first-priority security interest in such account and all cash held from time to time therein and (ii) the Agent has been granted control over the amounts held from time to time therein and (b) any Excess Availability.

“Loan Parties” means, collectively, the Borrowers and the Guarantors and their respective successors and assigns, and the term “Loan Party” shall mean any one of them or all of them individually, as the context may require.

“Loans” shall mean, collectively, all of the Revolving Loans and “Loan” shall mean any one of the Revolving Loans.

“Manual Sweeping Accounts” shall mean the Deposit Accounts maintained by the Borrowers as of the Closing Date that are identified as “Manual Sweeping Accounts” onSchedule 8.10 hereto, and any replacement or additional accounts of the Borrowers.

“Material Adverse Effect” shall mean a material adverse effect on (a) the financial condition, business, performance or operations of Borrowers taken as a whole or of Borrowers and the Guarantors taken as a whole; (b) the legality, validity or enforceability of this Agreement, any Collateral Document, the Intercreditor Agreement or any of the other material Financing Agreements; (c) the legality, validity, enforceability, perfection or priority of the security interests and liens of Agent upon the Collateral; (d) the Collateral (taken as a whole) or its value; (e) the ability of Borrowers (taken as a whole) to repay the Obligations or of Borrowers (taken as a whole) to perform their obligations under this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements as and when to be performed; or (f) the ability of Agent or any Lender to enforce the Obligations or realize upon the Collateral or otherwise with respect to the material rights and remedies of Agent and Lenders under this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements.

“Material Contract” shall mean the Term Loan Agreement and any other contract or other agreement (other than the Financing Agreements and the Credit Card Agreements), whether written or oral, to which any Borrower or Guarantor is a party as to which the breach, nonperformance, cancellation or failure to renew by any party thereto (unless a replacement Material Contract has been entered into either prior to or contemporaneously with the date of such termination or cancellation) would have a Material Adverse Effect.

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“Maturity Date” shall mean the earliest of (a) the third anniversary of the Closing Date, (b) the date that isninety-one (91) days prior to the maturity date of any Indebtedness of any Borrower or Guarantor with an aggregate outstanding principal amount in excess of $5,000,000, excluding the Term Loan Obligations;provided that this clause (b) shall not apply to the Convertible Notes, if the Borrowers place the cash proceeds of a substantially concurrent equity contribution received from the holders of Parent’s Capital Stock in an amount equal to the Convertible Notes Repurchase Amount into a Convertible Notes Escrow on or before January 31, 2020 and the Convertible Notes Repurchase Amount remains in such Convertible Notes Escrow until such Convertible Notes Repurchase Amount is used to repurchase, redeem, retire, satisfy and/or defease all then outstanding Convertible Notes in full (for avoidance of doubt, such repurchases, redemptions, retirements, satisfactions and/or defeasances need not all occur on the same date, so long as sufficient cash to meet the Convertible Notes Repurchase Amount as of any date remains in the Convertible Notes Escrow on such date) and (c) any date on which the Revolving Commitments are reduced to zero or otherwise terminated pursuant to the terms hereof.

“Multiemployer Plan” shall mean a “multi-employer plan” as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA which is contributed to by any Borrower, Guarantor or any ERISA Affiliate or with respect to which any Borrower, Guarantor or any ERISA Affiliate may reasonably be expected to incur any liability.

“Net Income” shall mean, with respect to any specified Person, the net income (loss) of such Person, determined in accordance with GAAP and before any reduction in respect of preferred stock dividends, excluding, however;

(a) any gain or loss, together with any related provision for taxes on such gain or loss, realized in connection with (i) any Asset Sale; (ii) the disposition of any Securities by such Person or any of its Subsidiaries or the extinguishment of any Indebtedness of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries; and

(b) any extraordinary gain or loss, together with any related provision for taxes on such extraordinary gain or loss.

“Net Proceeds” means, with respect to any Prepayment Event, (a) the cash proceeds received in respect of such event or transaction (including (i) any cash received in respect of anynon-cash proceeds (including, without limitation, the monetization of notes receivables), but only as and when received and (ii) in the case of any insurance proceeds, proceeds of a condemnation award or other compensation payments), net of (b) the sum of all bona fide direct costs, fees andout-of-pocket expenses (including, without limitation, (A) appraisals, (B) brokerage, legal, advisory, banking, title and recording tax expenses and commissions, (C) income or gains taxes payable by a Loan Party as a result of any gain recognized in connection with any applicable Asset Sale during the tax period in which the sale occurs, (D) payment of the outstanding principal amount of, premium or penalty on, and interest on, any Indebtedness (other than the Indebtedness under the Financing Agreements (as defined in each of this Agreement and the Term Loan Agreement) that is permitted hereunder, is secured by a lien on the stock or assets in question and is required to be repaid under the terms thereof as a result of any applicable Asset Sale, (E) [reserved] and (F) a reasonable reserve for any indemnification payments (fixed or contingent) attributable to seller’s indemnities and representations and warranties to purchaser in respect of any applicable Asset Sale undertaken by any Loan Party in connection with such Asset Sale (provided that upon release of any such reserve, the amount released shall be considered Net Proceeds)) paid by any Borrower or Guarantor to third parties (other than Affiliates) in connection with such event.

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“Net Recovery Percentage” shall mean with respect to finished goods Inventory or raw materials Inventory, as applicable, the fraction, expressed as a percentage, (a) the numerator of which is the amount equal to the amount of the recovery in respect of the applicable Inventory at such time on a “net orderly liquidation value” basis as set forth in the most recent acceptable appraisal of such Inventory received by Agent in accordance withSection 7.3, net of operating expenses, liquidation expenses and commissions, and (b) the denominator of which is the applicable original cost of the aggregate amount of such Inventory subject to such appraisal.

“NYFRB” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

“NYFRB Rate” means, for any day, the greater of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Overnight Bank Funding Rate in effect on such day (or for any day that is not a Business Day, for the immediately preceding Business Day);provided that if none of such rates are published for any day that is a Business Day, the term “NYFRB Rate” means the rate for a federal funds transaction quoted at 11:00 a.m. on such day received by the Agent from a federal funds broker of recognized standing selected by it;provided,further, that if any of the aforesaid rates as so determined would be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.

“Obligations” shall mean

(a) any and all Loans, Letter of Credit Obligations and all other obligations, liabilities and indebtedness of every kind, nature and description owing by any or all of Borrowers and Guarantors to Agent or any Lender, including principal, interest, charges, fees, costs and expenses, however evidenced, whether as principal, surety, endorser, guarantor or otherwise, arising under this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, whether now existing or hereafter arising, whether arising before, during or after the initial or any renewal term of this Agreement or after the commencement of any case with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor under the United States Bankruptcy Code, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) or any similar statute (including the payment of interest and other amounts which would accrue and become due but for the commencement of such case, whether or not such amounts are allowed or allowable in whole or in part in such case), whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, joint or several, due or not due, primary or secondary, liquidated or unliquidated, or secured or unsecured; and

(b) for purposes only ofSection 5.1 hereof and subject to the priority in right of payment set forth inSection 6.4 hereof, upon Administrative Borrower’s request (which request may be evidenced by its signature on the agreement referred to inclause (i) below) and with the prior consent of Agent, all obligations, liabilities and indebtedness of every kind, nature and description owing by any or all of Borrowers or Guarantors to Agent or any Bank Product Provider arising under or pursuant to any Bank Products or to Bank of America, N.A. arising under theE-Payables Agreement, in each case whether now existing or hereafter arising to the extent such obligations, liabilities and indebtedness would not cause the total amount of the Obligations to exceed the value of the Collateral,provided, that,

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(i) as to any such obligations, liabilities and indebtedness arising under or pursuant to a Hedge Agreement with a Bank Product Provider, the same shall only be included within the Obligations if upon Agent’s and Administrative Borrower’s request, Agent shall have entered into an agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent (provided that any such agreement between a Borrower and Chase and/or its Affiliates shall be deemed to be acceptable and obligations, liabilities and indebtedness thereunder shall automatically be included within the Obligations), with the Bank Product Provider that is a counterparty to such Hedge Agreement, as acknowledged and agreed to by Borrowers and Guarantors, providing for the delivery to Agent by such counterparty of information with respect to the amount of such obligations and providing for the other rights of Agent and such Bank Product Provider in connection with such arrangements;provided that solely with respect to any Borrower or Guarantor that is not an ECP, Excluded Hedge Obligations of any such Borrower or Guarantor shall in any event be excluded from “Obligations” owing by such Borrower or Guarantor,

(ii) as to any such obligations, liabilities and indebtedness arising under or pursuant to theE-Payables Agreement, such obligations, liabilities and indebtedness owing to Bank of America, N.A. thereunder shall constitute Obligations entitled to the benefits of the security interest of Agent granted hereunder,provided, that (A) such obligations, liabilities and indebtedness considered Obligations hereunder shall not exceed $20,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding, (B) Administrative Borrower shall instruct and cause Bank of America, N.A. to deliver to Agent, monthly, a summary of the amount of the obligations, liabilities and indebtedness owing to Bank of America, N.A. under and pursuant to theE-Payables Agreement as Agent may reasonably request, (C) Agent may, at its option, establish a Reserve with respect to the amount of the reported obligations, liabilities and indebtedness owing to Bank of America, N.A. under and pursuant to theE-Payables Agreement and (D) Bank of America, N.A. shall not have any voting rights under this Agreement or any other Financing Agreement as a result of the existence of Obligations owing to it under and pursuant to theE-Payables Agreement,

(iii) Administrative Borrower and any Bank Product Provider (other than Chase and its Affiliates), shall have delivered written notice to Agent that (A) such Bank Product Provider has entered into a transaction to provide Bank Products to a Borrower and Guarantor and (B) the obligations arising pursuant to such Bank Products provided to Borrowers and Guarantors constitute Obligations entitled to the benefits of the security interest of Agent granted hereunder, and Agent shall have accepted such notice in writing, and

(iv) in no event shall any Bank Product Provider to whom such obligations, liabilities or indebtedness are owing be deemed a Lender for purposes hereof to the extent of and as to such obligations, liabilities or indebtedness other than for purposes ofSection 5.1 hereof and other than for purposes ofSections 12.1,12.2,12.3(b),12.6,12.7,12.9,12.12 and13.6 hereof and in no event shall such obligations be included in the Obligations to the extent that the effect is that the value of the Collateral (as determined by Agent) is less than the amount of the Obligations and in no event shall the approval of any such Person be required in connection with the release or termination of any security interest or lien of Agent.

“Original Parent” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals to this Agreement.

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“Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Taxes (other than a connection arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to, or enforced, any Financing Agreement, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan, Letter of Credit or any Financing Agreement).

“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Financing Agreement, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant toSection 3.6(b)).

“Overnight Bank Funding Rate” means, for any day, the rate comprised of both overnight federal funds and overnight Eurodollar borrowings by U.S.-managed banking offices of depository institutions (as such composite rate shall be determined by the NYFRB as set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as an overnight bank funding rate.

“Paid in Full” or “Payment in Full” means, (a) the payment in full in cash of all outstanding Loans and LC Disbursements, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon, (b) the termination, expiration, or cancellation and return of all outstanding Letters of Credit (or alternatively, with respect to each such Letter of Credit, the furnishing to the Agent of a cash deposit, or at the discretion of the Agent a backup standby letter of credit satisfactory to the Agent and the Issuing Bank, in an amount equal to 105% of the Letter of Credit Obligations as of the date of such payment), (c) the payment in full in cash of the accrued and unpaid fees, (d) the payment in full in cash of all reimbursable expenses and other Obligations (other than Unliquidated Obligations for which no claim has been made and other obligations expressly stated to survive such payment and termination of this Agreement), together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon, (e) the termination of all Revolving Commitments, and (f) the termination of the Hedge Obligations and the Bank Products or entering into other arrangements satisfactory to the Secured Parties counterparties thereto.

“Parent” shall mean Valor Acquisition, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (successor by merger to Vitamin Shoppe, Inc., a Delaware corporation), and its successors and assigns.

“Participant” shall mean any Person that acquires and holds a participation in the interest of any Lender in any of the Loans and Letters of Credit in conformity with the provisions ofSection 13.7 of this Agreement governing participations.

“Participant Register” has the meaning assigned to such term inSection 13.7(e).

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“Permitted Acquisitions” shall mean the purchase by a Borrower or Guarantor after the date hereof of all or a substantial portion of all of the assets of any Person or a business or division of such Person (including pursuant to a merger with such Person or the formation of a wholly owned Subsidiary solely for such purpose that is merged with such Person) or of all or a majority of the Capital Stock (such assets or Person being referred to herein as the “Acquired Business”) and in one or a series of transactions that satisfies each of the following conditions as reasonably determined by Agent:

(a) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice of the proposed acquisition and such information with respect thereto as Agent may request, in each case with such information to include (i) the proposed date and amount of the acquisition, (ii) the total purchase price for the assets to be purchased (and the terms of payment of such purchase price), and (iii) with respect to the purchase of an Acquired Business, the aggregate consideration to be paid in respect of which exceeds $1,000,000 (each such acquisition being a “Material Permitted Acquisition”), (A) a summary of the due diligence undertaken by Borrowers in connection with such acquisition (including a quality of earnings report, if one has been commissioned) and (B) a description of the assets or shares to be acquired,

(b) With respect to a Material Permitted Acquisition, Agent shall have received: (i) the most recent annual and interim financial statements with respect to the Acquired Business, (ii) projections for Parent and its Subsidiaries through the Maturity Date, on a monthly basis for the first year after the acquisition and on an annual basis thereafter, giving pro forma effect to such acquisition, based on assumptions reasonably satisfactory to Agent and demonstrating pro forma compliance with all financial covenants set forth in this Agreement, prepared in good faith an in a manner and using such methodology as is consistent with the most recent financial statements delivered to Agent pursuant toSection 9.6 hereof and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, and (iii) current, updated projections of the amount of the Borrowing Base and Excess Availability for the twelve (12) month period after the date of such acquisition, in a form reasonably satisfactory to Agent, representing Borrowers’ reasonable best estimate of the future Borrowing Base and Excess Availability for the period set forth therein as of the date not more than ten (10) days prior to the date of such acquisition, which projections shall have been prepared on the basis of the assumptions set forth therein which Borrowers believe are fair and reasonable as of the date of preparation in light of current and reasonably foreseeable business conditions,

(c) if EBITDA of the Acquired Business for the most recently ended twelve (12) month period for which financial information is available is negative, then Administrative Borrower shall have provided Agent with projections, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, showing Excess Availability for each month of the twelve (12) month period after the date of such acquisition of at least $10,000,000,

(d) Agent shall have received true, correct and complete copies of all agreements, documents and instruments relating to such acquisition, which documents, in the case of a Material Permitted Acquisition, shall be reasonably satisfactory to Agent,

(e) Agent shall have received a certificate of the chief financial officer or chief executive officer of Administrative Borrower on behalf of Administrative Borrower (or if no such officer has been appointed or elected, the sole member of Administrative Borrower) certifying to Agent and Lenders as to the matters set forth in this definition,

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(f) Accounts, Credit Card Receivables and Inventory of the Acquired Business shall only be Eligible Accounts, Eligible Credit Card Receivables, and Eligible Inventory to the extent that (i) such Accounts, Credit Card Receivables and Inventory are owned by a Borrower, (ii) Agent has conducted and completed a field examination and appraisal with respect thereto and (iii) the criteria for Eligible Accounts, Eligible Credit Card Receivables, and Eligible Inventory set forth herein are satisfied with respect thereto in accordance with this Agreement (or such other or additional criteria as Agent may, at its option, establish with respect thereto in accordance with this Agreement and subject to such Reserves as Agent may establish in connection with the Acquired Business),

(g) the Acquired Business, if a Person, shall be an operating company that engages in a Permitted Business,

(h) [Reserved.],

(i) Agent shall have received all items required bySections 5.2 and9.23 in connection with the Acquired Business to the extent required under such Sections,

(j) in the case of the acquisition of the Capital Stock of another Person, the board of directors (or other comparable governing body) of such other Person shall have duly approved such acquisition and such Person shall not have announced that it will oppose such acquisition or shall not have commenced any action which alleges that such acquisition will violate applicable law,

(k) (i) Excess Availability shall have been not less than the greater of (x) fifteen percent (15%) of the Borrowing Cap and (y) $15,000,000 for the thirty (30) day period ending on the date of consummation of such acquisition, and (ii) the Borrowers shall have projected Excess Availability of not less than the greater of (x) fifteen percent (15%) of the Borrowing Cap and (y) $15,000,000 immediately after giving effect to such acquisition and any payments made in respect of such acquisition and for the succeeding thirty (30) day period thereafter on a pro forma basis using the most recent calculation of the Borrowing Base immediately prior to such acquisition or payment, and

(l) no Event of Default shall exist or have occurred as of the date of the acquisition both prior to and after giving effect to such acquisition and any payment(s) made in respect of such acquisition.

“Permitted Business” shall mean any business engaged in by any of the Borrowers on the date hereof, and any business or other activities that are reasonably similar, ancillary, complementary or related to, or a reasonable extension, development or expansion of, the businesses in which the Borrowers are engaged as of the Closing Date.

“Permitted Discretion” shall mean a determination made in good faith and in the exercise of reasonable (from the perspective of a secured asset-based lender) business judgment.

“Permitted Distribution” shall mean any payment made in cash in accordance withSection 9.11.

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“Permitted Encumbrances” shall mean, collectively, the encumbrances permitted underSection 9.8(b),Section 9.8(c),Section 9.8(d),Section 9.8(f),Section 9.8(h) andSection 9.8(k);provided that the term “Permitted Encumbrances” shall not include any lien securing Indebtedness, except with respect toSection 9.8(k).

“Permitted Holders” shall mean (a) Vintage (and its controlled investment funds) and (b) Vintage’s controlling persons who are Brian Kahn and Andrew Laurence (together with their controlled family trusts and personal investment vehicles).

“Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness” means unsecured Indebtedness of Borrowers;provided, that (a) such Indebtedness does not mature or require any scheduled payments of principal prior to one hundred eighty (180) days after the Maturity Date in effect on the date of issuance, (b) such Indebtedness bears no greater than a market interest rate as of the time of its issuance or incurrence (as determined in good faith by Borrowers), (c) no indenture or other agreement governing such Indebtedness contains (i) maintenance financial covenants or (ii) covenants or events of default that are more restrictive on Borrowers or any of its subsidiaries than those contained in this Agreement, (d) after giving effect to the issuance or incurrence of such Indebtedness on a pro forma basis, Borrowers shall be in compliance with all covenants set forth in this Agreement, (e) the payment of such Indebtedness is subordinated to the Obligations to the written satisfaction of Agent (as determined in its sole discretion) and (f) there is no scheduled amortization with respect to such Indebtedness.

“Permitted Tax Distributions” means, for any taxable period or portion thereof in which Parent is a pass through entity (including a disregarded entity or partnership) for U.S. federal income tax purposes, distributions to the direct or indirect holders of the equity interests of Parent on or prior to each estimated payment date as well as each other applicable due date to enable such holders to timely make payments of U.S. federal, state and local income taxes for such taxable period arising solely as a result of the operations of Parent and its Subsidiaries not to exceed the product of (a) the taxable income (which shall mean the taxable income required to be reported to Parent’s direct or indirect holders for U.S. federal income tax purposes) attributable to Parent and its Subsidiaries for such period, calculated (i) with taking into account loss carryforwards of such holders available from losses of such holders attributable to Parent and its Subsidiaries for prior taxable periods, and (ii) without taking into account any basisstep-up after the date hereof (including under Sections 1012, 732, 734(b), 743(b) or 754 of the Code or similar provisions of state and local law), and (b) 28%.

“Person” or “person” shall mean any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation (including any corporation which elects subchapter S status under the Code), limited liability company, limited liability partnership, business trust, unincorporated association, joint stock corporation, trust, joint venture or other entity or any government or any agency or instrumentality or political subdivision thereof.

“Plan” shall mean an employee pension benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA) which Borrower or any Guarantor or, solely with respect to an employee benefit plan subject to Title IV of ERISA, an ERISA Affiliate sponsors or to which it contributes, or a Multiemployer Plan.

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“Pledge Agreements” shall mean (a) that certain Stock Pledge Agreement dated as of September 25, 2009, executed by Parent in favor of Agent and (b) that certain Stock Pledge Agreement dated as of September 25, 2009, executed by Vitamin Shoppe in favor of Agent , as the same may be amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Post-Closing Equity Contribution” shall have the meaning set forth inSection 9.29 hereof.

“Post-Closing Equity Contribution Deadline” shall have the meaning set forth inSection 9.29 hereof.

“PPSA” shall mean the Personal Property Security Act as in effect in the Province of Ontario, the Civil Code of Quebec as in effect in the Province of Quebec or any other Canadian Federal or Provincial statute pertaining to the granting, perfecting, priority or ranking of security interests, liens, hypothecs on personal property, and any successor statutes, together with any regulations thereunder, in each case as in effect from time to time. References to sections of the PPSA shall be construed to also refer to any successor sections.

“Prepayment Event” means:

(a) any Borrower or Guarantor shall undertake an Asset Sale which results in Net Proceeds in excess of $250,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal year;

(b) any Borrower or Guarantor shall issue or incur Indebtedness (other than any Indebtedness permitted bySection 9.9);

(c) any Borrower or Guarantor shall issue any Capital Stock (other than any issuances of Capital Stock permitted bySection 9.7); or

(d) any Borrower or Guarantor shall suffer Events of Loss in excess of $250,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal year.

“Prime Rate” shall mean the rate of interest last quoted by The Wall Street Journal as the “Prime Rate” in the U.S. or, if The Wall Street Journal ceases to quote such rate, the highest per annum interest rate published by the Federal Reserve Board in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) (Selected Interest Rates) as the “bank prime loan” rate or, if such rate is no longer quoted therein, any similar rate quoted therein (as determined by the Agent) or any similar release by the Federal Reserve Board (as determined by the Agent). Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced or quoted as being effective.

“pro forma basis” means, with respect to compliance with any test hereunder for an applicable period of measurement, that all Specified Transactions and the following transactions in connection therewith that have been made during the applicable period of measurement or subsequent to such period and prior to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation is made shall be deemed to have occurred as of the first day of the applicable measurement period with respect to such covenant or condition: (a) income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the property or Person subject to such Specified Transaction, (i) in the case of a sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all Capital Stock in the Parent or

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any of its Subsidiaries or any division or product line of the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, shall be excluded, and (ii) in the case of an Investment described in the definition of the term “Specified Transaction”, shall be included, (b) any retirement of Indebtedness and (c) any Indebtedness incurred or assumed by the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with such Specified Transaction, and assuming all Indebtedness so incurred or assumed to be outstanding shall be deemed to have borne interest (i) in the case of fixed rate Indebtedness, at the rate applicable thereto or (ii) in the case of floating rate Indebtedness, at the rates which were or would have been applicable thereto during the period when such Indebtedness was or was deemed to be outstanding.

“Promotional Agreements” shall mean all manufacturer ingredient promotional agreements between any Borrower or Guarantor and any product supplier or a contract manufacturer pursuant to which, among other things, such Borrower or Guarantor agrees to promote certain ingredients contained in the products manufactured by such supplier and/or contract manufacturer or the packaging for such products contains certain Intellectual Property of such supplier or contract manufacturer, and such Borrower or Guarantor is granted an express or implicitnon-exclusive, royalty-free license to use certain Intellectual Property of such supplier or contract manufacturer, as the same may be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced.

“Pro Rata Share” shall mean as to any Lender, the fraction (expressed as a percentage) the numerator of which is such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment and the denominator of which is the aggregate amount of the Revolving Commitments of all Revolving Lenders, as adjusted from time to time in accordance with the provisions ofSection 13.7 hereof;provided, that, if the Revolving Commitments have terminated, the numerator shall be the unpaid amount of such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Exposure and the denominator shall be the aggregate amount of Revolving Exposure of all Revolving Lenders.

“Push Down Reserve” means, a reserve implemented by the Agent within three (3) Business Days after written notice is received from the Term Loan Agent (such written notice, the “Push Down Reserve Notice”) in accordance with the Term Loan Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement in an amount equal to the Push Down Reserve Amount, which such notice specifies the amount, if any, that the aggregate Term Loan Outstandings exceed the Term Loan Borrowing Base (or, Term Loan Borrowing Base II if applicable under the Term Loan Agreement at the time) in each case, as reflected in the Term Loan Borrowing Base Certificate most recently delivered by the Administrative Borrower to the Term Loan Agent; provided that (a) the Push Down Reserve will only be implemented up to the Push Down Reserve Amount at such time and (b) in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement, such Push Down Reserve may be terminated and/or adjusted from time to time based on additional Push Down Reserve Notices or monthly reporting certificates delivered by the Term Loan Agent to the Agent specifying that the aggregate Term Loan Outstandings no longer exceed the Term Loan Borrowing Base (or, Term Loan Borrowing Base II if applicable under the Term Loan Agreement at the time) then in effect.

“Push Down Reserve Amount” means the lesser of (a) the amount, if any, that the aggregate Term Loan Outstandings exceed the Term Loan Borrowing Base (or, Term Loan Borrowing Base II if applicable under the Term Loan Agreement at the time) in each case, as reflected in the Term Loan Borrowing Base Certificate most recently delivered by the Administrative Borrower to the Term Loan Agent or (b) the amount of Excess Availability at such time.

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“Push Down Reserve Notice” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of “Push Down Reserve”.

“QFC” has the meaning assigned to the term “qualified financial contract” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 5390(c)(8)(D).

“QFC Credit Support” has the meaning assigned to it inSection 13.12.

“Qualified ECP Guarantor” shall mean, in respect of any Hedge Obligation, each Borrower or Guarantor that has total assets exceeding $10,000,000 at the time the relevant guarantee or grant of the relevant security interest becomes effective with respect to such Hedge Obligation or such other person as constitutes an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder and can cause another person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” at such time by entering into a keepwell under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

“Real Property” shall mean all now owned and hereafter acquired real property of each Borrower and Guarantor, including leasehold interests, together with all buildings, structures, and other improvements located thereon and all licenses, easements and appurtenances relating thereto, wherever located.

“Receivables” shall mean all of the following now owned or hereafter arising or acquired property of each Borrower and Guarantor: (a) all Accounts; (b) all interest, fees, late charges, penalties, collection fees and other amounts due or to become due or otherwise payable in connection with any Account; (c) all payment intangibles of such Borrower or Guarantor; (d) letters of credit, indemnities, guarantees, security or other deposits and proceeds thereof issued payable to any Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise in favor of or delivered to any Borrower or Guarantor in connection with any Account; or (e) all other Accounts, contract rights, Chattel Paper, Documents, Instruments, notes, General Intangibles and other forms of obligations owing to any Borrower or Guarantor, whether from the sale and lease of goods or other property, licensing of any property (including Intellectual Property or other General Intangibles), franchising, rendition of services or from loans or advances by any Borrower or Guarantor or to or for the benefit of any third Person (including loans or advances to any Affiliates or Subsidiaries of any Borrower or Guarantor) or otherwise associated with any Accounts, Inventory or General Intangibles of any Borrower or Guarantor (including choices in action, causes of action, tax refunds, tax refund claims, any funds which may become payable to any Borrower or Guarantor in connection with the termination of any Plan or other employee benefit plan and any other amounts payable to any Borrower or Guarantor from any Plan or other employee benefit plan, rights and claims against carriers and shippers, rights to indemnification, business interruption insurance and proceeds thereof, casualty or any similar types of insurance and any proceeds thereof and proceeds of insurance covering the lives of employees on which any Borrower or Guarantor is a beneficiary).

“Recipient” means, as applicable, (a) the Agent, (b) any Lender and (c) the Issuing Bank, or any combination thereof (as the context requires).

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“Records” shall mean, as to each Borrower and Guarantor, all of such Borrower’s and Guarantor’s present and future books of account of every kind or nature, purchase and sale agreements, invoices, ledger cards, bills of lading and other shipping evidence, statements, correspondence, memoranda, credit files and other data relating to the Collateral or any Account Debtor, together with the tapes, disks, diskettes and other data and software storage media and devices, file cabinets or containers in or on which the foregoing are stored (including any rights of any Borrower or Guarantor with respect to the foregoing maintained with or by any other Person).

“Refinanced Indebtedness” shall have the meaning set forth inSection 9.9(p) hereof.

“Register” shall have the meaning set forth inSection 13.7 hereof.

“Related Parties” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, partners, members, trustees, employees, agents, administrators, managers, representatives and advisors of such Person and such Person’s Affiliates.

“Required Conditions” shall mean, with respect to any Specified Transaction, either (a) Excess Availability exceeds fifteen percent (15%) of the Borrowing Cap and the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is equal to or greater than 1.10 to 1.0, in each case, calculated as of the date of such Specified Transaction both prior to and after giving effect to such Specified Transaction, on a pro forma basis using the most recent calculation of the Borrowing Base immediately prior to such Specified Transaction;provided that the pro forma Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio shall be calculated as of the last Test Period prior to the date of such Specified Transaction for which financial statements for the fiscal month, fiscal quarter or fiscal year then ended have been (or have been required to be) delivered pursuant toSection 9.6(a)(i) andSection 9.6(a)(ii), as applicable, or (b) Excess Availability exceeds the greater of (x) twenty percent (20%) of the Borrowing Cap and (y) $20,000,000 calculated as of the date of such Specified Transaction both prior to and after giving effect to such Specified Transaction, on a pro forma basis using the most recent calculation of the Borrowing Base immediately prior to such Specified Transaction.

“Required Lenders” shall mean, at any time, those Lenders whose Pro Rata Shares aggregate fifty percent (50%) or more of the aggregate of the Revolving Commitments of all Lenders, or if the Revolving Commitments shall have been terminated, Lenders to whom at least fifty percent (50%) of the then outstanding Obligations are owing.

“Requirement of Law” means, with respect to any Person, (a) the charter, articles or certificate of organization or incorporation and bylaws or operating, management or partnership agreement, or other organizational or governing documents of such Person and (b) any statute, law (including common law), treaty, rule, regulation, code, ordinance, order, decree, writ, judgment, injunction or determination of any arbitrator or court or other Governmental Authority (including Environmental Laws), in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject.

“Reserves” shall mean as of any date of determination, such amounts as Agent may from time to time, establish and revise reasonably and in good faith reducing the amount of Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit which would otherwise be available to any Borrower under the lending formula(s) provided for herein:

(a) to reflect events, conditions, contingencies or risks which, as determined by Agent reasonably and in good faith, materially and adversely affect, either (i) the Collateral, its value or the amount that might be received by Agent from the sale or other disposition or realization upon such Collateral, or (ii) the assets or business of any Borrower or Guarantor or (iii) the security interests and other rights of Agent or any Lender in the Collateral (including the enforceability, perfection and priority thereof); or

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(b) to reflect Agent’s reasonable and good faith belief that any collateral report or financial information furnished by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor to Agent is or may have been incomplete, inaccurate or misleading in any material respect; or

(c) in respect of any state of facts which Agent believes reasonably and in good faith determines constitutes a Default or an Event of Default (which reasonable and good faith belief shall be relevant for purposes of this definition regardless of whether the Agent has explicitly asserted any other rights to which it may be entitled); or

(d) Push Down Reserves.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Reserves may, at Agent’s option, be established to reflect any of the following:

(i) Inventory shrinkage,

(ii) reserves in respect of markdowns and cost variances (pursuant to discrepancies between the purchase order price of Inventory and the actual cost thereof),

(iii) past due amounts in respect of sales, use and/or withholding taxes,

(iv) any amounts which are past due in respect of rental payments, service charges or other amounts which are past due to (i) lessors of real property other than retail store locations (“Non-Retail Store Locations”) or (ii) consignees, warehousemen or bailees of Inventory or personal property (“Warehouse Locations”), to the extent Inventory or Records are located in or on such property (but not in respect ofNon-Retail Store Locations or Warehouse Locations (A) where Agent has received a Collateral Access Agreement executed and delivered by the owner and lessor of such real property that Agent has acknowledged in writing is in form and substance satisfactory to Agent or (B) which do not (1) contain Records relating to Receivables or Inventory or (2) in which either no Inventory or Inventory having a Value of less than $250,000 is located,provided, that, notwithstanding, the foregoing Agent may, at its option, establish Reserves in respect of amounts at any time due or to become due to the owner and operator of suchNon-Retail Store Location and Warehouse Location as Agent shall reasonably determine in the event that any of the following shall occurred: (A) an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (B) any Borrower, Guarantor or Agent shall have received notice of any event of default under (i) the lease with respect to suchNon-Retail Store Location or (ii) the bailee or warehouse agreement with respect to such Warehouse Location or (C) any Borrower or Guarantor has granted to the lessor, consignee, warehousemen or bailee a consensual security interest or lien upon any assets of such Borrower or Guarantor (unless such security interest is waived or subordinated to the security interest of Agent on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to Agent),

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(v) any rental payments, service charges or other amounts owing to lessors of retail store locations,

(A) which are past due and owing to lessors of retail store locations in states other than Landlord Lien States (but not in respect of retail store locations where Agent has received a Collateral Access Agreement executed and delivered by the owner and lessor of such real property that Agent has acknowledged in writing is in form and substance satisfactory to Agent),provided, that, Agent may, at its option, establish Reserves in respect of amounts at any time due or to become due to the owner and lessor of such a retail store location as Agent shall reasonably determine in the event that any of the following shall occurred: (1) an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (2) any Borrower, Guarantor or Agent shall have received notice of any event of default under the lease with respect to such location, or (3) any Borrower or Guarantor has granted to the lessor a security interest or lien upon any assets of such Borrower or Guarantor (unless such security interest is waived or subordinated to the security interest of Agent on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to Agent), and

(B) which are due or to become due to lessors of retail store locations located in Landlord Lien States (but not in respect of retail store locations where Agent has received a Collateral Access Agreement executed and delivered by the owner and lessor of such real property that Agent has acknowledged in writing is in form and substance satisfactory to Agent),provided, that, the Reserves established pursuant to thisclause (v)(B) as to any particular retail store location shall not exceed at any time the aggregate of such amounts payable for the next two (2) months to the lessors of such retail store locations,provided, that, such limitation on the amount of the Reserves which may be established by Agent pursuant to thisclause (v)(B) shall only apply so long as: (1) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (2) neither a Borrower, Guarantor nor Agent shall have received notice of any event of default under the lease with respect to such location or (3) any Borrower or Guarantor has granted a consensual lien or security interest upon any assets of such Borrower or Guarantor (unless such security interest is waived or subordinated to the security interest of Agent on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to Agent),

(vi) any rental payments, service charges or other amounts which are past due to lessors of personal property,

(vii) up to fifty (50%) percent of the aggregate amount of (A) merchandise gift certificates, and (B) the dollar value of Frequent Buyer Program points as accrued by Borrowers in accordance with GAAP,

(viii) an adverse change in the number of days of the turnover of Inventory or a material change in the mix of the Inventory that results in an overall decrease in the value thereof or a material deterioration in its nature or quality that results in an overall decrease in the value thereof (but only to the extent not addressed by the lending formulas in a manner satisfactory to Agent),

(ix) variances between the perpetual inventory records of Borrowers and the results of test counts of Inventory conducted by Agent or at the request of Agent pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, with respect thereto in excess of the percentage reasonably acceptable to Agent but only to the extent that such variances are not accounted for as Inventory shrinkage,

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(x) Inventory that may become obsolete, based on prior twelve (12) months expired product expenses or Inventory currently in retail store locations that was subject to previous store “giveaways” within the prior twelve (12) months,

(xi) the aggregate amount of deposits, if any, received by any Borrower from its retail customers in respect of unfilled orders for merchandise,

(xii) the amount of Canadian Priority Payables,provided, that, any Reserve with respect toclause (b) of the definition of Canadian Priority Payables shall only be taken in respect of Eligible Inventory located in Canada,

(xiii) Bank Product Reserve, and

(xiv)E-Payables Reserve.

Agent will not establish new Reserves after the date hereof on account of any circumstances, conditions, events or contingencies of which Agent has actual knowledge as of the Closing Date. To the extent Agent may establish new criteria or revise existing criteria (including percentages applied to determine the amount of) for Eligible Credit Card Receivables, Eligible Accounts, or Eligible Inventory so as to address any circumstances, condition, event or contingency in a manner reasonably satisfactory to Agent, Agent shall not establish or increase a Reserve for the same purpose. The amount of any Reserve established or increased by Agent shall have a reasonable relationship to the event, condition or other matter which is the basis for such Reserve as reasonably determined by Agent in good faith and to the extent that such Reserve is in respect of amounts that may be payable to third parties or is in respect of Bank Product Reserves, Agent may, at its option, deduct such Reserve from the Aggregate Revolving Commitments Amount at any time that such limit is less than the amount of the Borrowing Base. Agent shall provide prior written notice to Administrative Borrower of any material change in the categories of Reserves established after the date hereof or in the manner such Reserves are calculated or any other change to any item for the calculation thereof.

“Revolving Commitment” means, with respect to each Revolving Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Revolving Lender to make Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit, expressed as an amount representing the maximum possible aggregate amount of such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to (a) Section 2.4 and (b) assignments by or to such Revolving Lender pursuant toSection 13.7. Each Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment as of the Closing Date is the amount set forth opposite such Revolving Lender’s name onSchedule 1 under the caption “Revolving Commitment”.

“Revolving Exposure” means, with respect to any Revolving Lender at any time, the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Revolving Lender’s unpaid Revolving Loans and its outstanding Letter of Credit Obligations.

“Revolving Lender” means, as of any date of determination, a Lender with a Revolving Commitment or, if the Revolving Commitments have terminated or expired, a Lender with Revolving Exposure.

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“Revolving Loans” shall mean the loans now or hereafter made by or on behalf of any Revolving Lender or by Agent for the account of any Revolving Lender on a revolving basis pursuant to the Credit Facility (involving advances, repayments and readvances) as set forth inSection 2.1,Section 12.8 andSection 12.11 hereof.

“Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country, region or territory which is itself the subject or target of any Sanctions (as of the Closing Date, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria).

“Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of State or other relevant sanctions authority, (b) any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country, (c) any Person owned or controlled by any such Person or Persons described in the foregoing clauses (a) or (b) or (d) any Person otherwise the subject of any Sanctions.

“Sanctions” means all economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State, or (b) any other relevant sanctions authority.

“Secured Parties” shall mean, collectively, (a) Agent, (b) Lenders, (c) the Issuing Bank, and (d) any Bank Product Provider and Bank of America, N.A. (in its capacity as a party to theE-Payables Agreement);provided, that, (i) as to any Bank Product Provider and as to Bank of America, N.A., only to the extent of the Obligations owing to such Bank Product Provider and Bank of America, N.A., as provided, insubsection (b) of the definition of Obligations set forth herein and (ii) such parties are sometimes referred to herein individually as a “Secured Party”.

“Security” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 8 of the UCC.

“Solvent” shall mean, at any time with respect to any Person, that at such time such Person (a) is able to pay its debts as they mature and has (and has a reasonable basis to believe it will continue to have) sufficient capital (and not unreasonably small capital) to carry on its business consistent with its practices as of the Closing Date, and (b) the assets and properties of such Person at a fair valuation on a going concern basis (and including as assets for this purpose at a fair valuation all rights of subrogation, contribution or indemnification arising pursuant to any guarantees given by such Person) are greater than the Indebtedness of such Person, and including subordinated and contingent liabilities computed at the amount which, such Person has a reasonable basis to believe, represents an amount which can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability (and including as to contingent liabilities arising pursuant to any guarantee the face amount of such liability as reduced to reflect the probability of it becoming a matured liability).

“Special Agent Advances” shall have the meaning set forth inSection 12.11 hereof.

“Specified Closing Plan” means the model delivered to the Agent prior to the Closing Date with the file name “Project Valor Modelv2019-11-25 vF (70mm JPM & 70mm GACP - L + 900 BPS)” and titled “Project Valor Financial Model”.

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“Specified Transaction” means any (a) disposition of all or substantially all the assets of or all the Capital Stock of any Subsidiary of the Parent or of any business unit, line of business or division of the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries for which historical financial statements are available, (b) Permitted Acquisitions, (c) Investment that results in a Person becoming a Borrower or Subsidiary, (d) the proposed incurrence of Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness, or (e) the making of an Investment, dividend or distribution or repurchase of Capital Stock in respect of which compliance with the Required Conditions or any other financial ratio is by the terms of this Agreement is required to be calculated on a pro forma basis.

“Statutory Reserve Rate” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentage (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) established by the Federal Reserve Board to which the Agent is subject with respect to the Adjusted LIBO Rate, for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency liabilities” in Regulation D). Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to Regulation D of the Federal Reserve Board. Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under Regulation D of the Board or any comparable regulation. The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.

“Store Accounts” shall have the meaning set forth inSection 6.3;provided that the Store Accounts maintained by the Borrowers as of the Closing Date are identified as “Store Accounts” onSchedule 8.10 hereto, and any replacement or additional accounts of the Borrowers.

“Subsidiary” or “subsidiary” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership or other limited or general partnership, trust, association or other business entity of which an aggregate of at least a majority of the outstanding Capital Stock or other interests entitled to vote in the election of the board of directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether, at the time, Capital Stock of any other class or classes of such corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency), managers, trustees or other controlling Persons, or an equivalent controlling interest therein, of such Person is, at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by such Person and/or one or more subsidiaries of such Person.

“Subsidiary Guarantors” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of “Guarantors”.

“Supported QFC” has the meaning assigned to it inSection 13.12.

“Supporting Obligations” shall have the meaning set forth in Article 9 of the UCC.

“Taxes” means any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

“Term Loan Agent” means GACP Finance Co., LLC, in its capacity as “Agent” under the Term Loan Agreement, together with its successor and permitted assigns.

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“Term Loan Agreement” means that certain Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Borrowers, the Parent, the financial institutions from time to time party thereto as “Lenders” and the Term Loan Agent, as agent for the Term Loan Lenders, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement.

“Term Loan Borrowing Base” shall mean the “Borrowing Base” as defined in the Term Loan Agreement.

“Term Loan Borrowing Base II” shall mean the “Borrowing Base II” as defined in the Term Loan Agreement.

“Term Loan Borrowing Base Certificate” means the Borrowing Base Certificate (as defined in the Term Loan Agreement) from time to time delivered to the Term Loan Agent in accordance with the terms of the Term Loan Agreement.

“Term Loan Documents” means the “Financing Agreements” as defined in the Term Loan Agreement or the agreements and other documents governing other Indebtedness incurred underSection 9.9(t).

“Term Loan Lender” means a “Lender” under and as defined in the Term Loan Agreement.

“Term Loan Obligations” means all Indebtedness of the Borrower and the Guarantors incurred or owing under the Term Loan Documents, including all obligations in respect of the payment of principal, interest, fees, prepayment premiums and indemnification obligations, and any refinancing of such Indebtedness permitted under this Agreement and under the Intercreditor Agreement;provided that such Indebtedness is subject to the Intercreditor Agreement.

“Term Loan Outstandings” shall have the meaning assigned such term in the Term Loan Agreement.

“Term Loan Priority Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Intercreditor Agreement.

“Test Period” means the most recent period of twelve consecutive months of Parent ended on or prior to such time (taken as one accounting period) in respect of which financial statements for each month or fiscal year period have been (or have been required to be) delivered pursuant toSection 9.6.

“Total Indebtedness” shall mean, at any date, the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness of the Parent and its Subsidiaries at such date, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

“Type” when used in reference to any Revolving Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Revolving Loan, or on the Revolving Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the Alternate Base Rate.

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“UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York, and any successor statute, as in effect from time to time (except that terms used herein which are defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York on the date hereof shall continue to have the same meaning notwithstanding any replacement or amendment of such statute except as Agent may otherwise determine);provided, that, if, with respect to any financing statement or by reason of any provisions of law, the perfection or the effect of perfection ornon-perfection of the security interests granted to the Agent pursuant to applicable Financing Agreement is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction of the United States other than the State of New York, then “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions of each Financing Agreement and any financing statement relating to such perfection or effect of perfection ornon-perfection.

“Ultimate Parent” shall mean Franchise Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (formerly known as Liberty Tax, Inc.).

“Unliquidated Obligations” means, at any time, any Obligations (or portion thereof) that are contingent in nature or unliquidated at such time, including any Obligation that is: (a) an obligation to reimburse a bank for drawings not yet made under a letter of credit issued by it; (b) any other obligation (including any guarantee) that is contingent in nature at such time; or (c) an obligation to provide collateral to secure any of the foregoing types of obligations.

“U.S. Person” means a Person that is a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

“U.S. Special Resolution Regime” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 13.12.

“Valor Merger” means the “Merger” as defined in the Valor Merger Agreement as in effect on November 11, 2019 and the other transactions expressly described therein that are required to consummate the Merger.

“Valor Merger Agreement” means that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 7, 2019, by and among Ultimate Parent, Parent, and Original Parent, as amended by that certain First Amendment to Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of November 11, 2019.

“Value” shall mean, as reasonably determined by Agent in good faith, with respect to Inventory, the lower of (a) cost determined on the weighted average cost basis in accordance with GAAP or (b) market value,provided, that, for purposes of the calculation of the Borrowing Base, (i) the Value of the Inventory shall not include: (A) the portion of the value of Inventory equal to the profit earned by any Affiliate on the sale thereof to any Borrower unless the sale by such Affiliate is a bona fide arm’s length transaction consistent with the most recent appraisal received and accepted by Agent for the Inventory and consistent with the prices previously paid by such Borrower in comparable dealings withnon-Affiliates, or(B) write-ups or write-downs in value with respect to currency exchange rates and (ii) notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the cost of the Inventory shall be computed in the same manner and consistent with the most recent appraisal of the Inventory received and accepted by Agent prior to the date hereof, if any.

“VAT” shall mean Value Added Tax imposed in Canada or any other jurisdiction and any equivalent or similar tax applicable in any jurisdiction and including any goods and services tax.

“Vintage” shall mean Vintage Capital Management LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

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“Vitamin Shoppe” shall mean Vitamin Shoppe Industries LLC, a New York limited liability company, and its successors and assigns.

“Voting Stock” shall mean with respect to any Person, (a) one (1) or more classes of Capital Stock of such Person having general voting powers to elect at least a majority of the board of directors, managers or trustees of such Person, irrespective of whether at the time Capital Stock of any other class or classes have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency, and (b) any Capital Stock of such Person convertible or exchangeable without restriction at the option of the holder thereof into Capital Stock of such Person described inclause (a) of this definition.

“VS Florida” shall mean Vitamin Shoppe Florida, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (f/k/a FDC Vitamins, LLC), and its successors and assigns.

“VS Global” shall mean Vitamin Shoppe Global, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and its successors and assigns.

“VS Mariner” shall mean Vitamin Shoppe Mariner, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and its successors and assigns.

“VSPS” shall mean Vitamin Shoppe Procurement Services, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and its successors and assigns.

“Zero Balance Accounts” shall mean Deposit Accounts in which a balance of zero is maintained by the depository institution at all times by automatically transferring funds from a master Deposit Account to such Zero Balance Account in an amount only large enough to cover checks presented and other debits to such account, such that any such Zero Balance Account maintains an overnight balance of zero dollars at all times.

SECTION 2.     CREDIT FACILITIES

2.1Revolving Loans.

(a) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions contained herein, each Revolving Lender severally (and not jointly) agrees to make its Pro Rata Share of Revolving Loans to each Borrower from time to time in amounts requested by such Borrower (or Administrative Borrower on behalf of such Borrower) in an aggregate principal amount outstanding at any one time that will not result in such Revolving Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the aggregate amount of Revolving Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations then outstanding exceeding such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment. Subject to and upon the terms and conditions contained herein, each Revolving Loan shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans as each Borrower (or Administrative Borrower on behalf of such Borrower) may from time to time request in accordance herewith,provided that all Revolving Loans made on the date hereof must be made as ABR Loans but may be converted into Eurodollar Rate Loans in accordance withSection 3.1(b) hereof.

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(b) To the extent that any facts or circumstances (i) have led to Agent establishing a Reserve pursuant to one provision of this Agreement, Agent shall not establish any Reserves based on the same such facts or circumstances pursuant to any other provision of this Agreement, and (ii) were taken into account in calculating any component of the Borrowing Base, Agent shall not establish any Reserves based on the same such facts or circumstances.

(c) Except in Agent’s discretion, with the consent of all Revolving Lenders, or as otherwise provided inSection 12.8 orSection 12.11 herein, the Aggregate Revolving Exposure any time shall not exceed the Borrowing Cap at such time.

(d) In the event that the Aggregate Revolving Exposure at any time exceeds the Borrowing Cap at such time, (i) such event shall not limit, waive or otherwise affect any rights of Agent or Lenders in such circumstances or on any future occasions and (ii) Borrowers shall immediately repay to Agent the entire amount of any such excess.

2.2[Reserved].

2.3Letters of Credit.

(a) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions contained herein and in the Letter of Credit Documents, at the request of a Borrower (or Administrative Borrower on behalf of such Borrower), Agent agrees to cause Issuing Bank to issue, and Issuing Bank agrees to issue, for the account of such Borrower one or more Letters of Credit, for the ratable risk of each Revolving Lender according to its Pro Rata Share of Revolving Loans, containing terms and conditions acceptable to Agent and Issuing Bank. In the event of any inconsistency between the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of any form of letter of credit application or other agreement submitted by the Borrowers to, or entered into by the Borrowers with, Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Issuing Bank shall have no obligation hereunder to issue, and shall not issue, any Letter of Credit the proceeds of which would be made available to any Person (i) to fund any activity or business of or with any Sanctioned Person, or in any country or territory that, at the time of such funding, is the subject of any Sanctions or (ii) in any manner that would result in a violation of any Sanctions by any party to this Agreement.

(b) The Borrower requesting such Letter of Credit (or Administrative Borrower on behalf of such Borrower) shall hand deliver or facsimile (or transmit by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Issuing Bank) to Issuing Bank and Agent (prior to 10:00 a.m., New York time, at least three Business Days prior to the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension) a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply withparagraph (c) of this Section), the amount of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other information as shall be reasonably necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit. The form and terms of the proposed Letter of Credit shall be reasonably satisfactory to Agent and Issuing Bank, and as of the date of issuance, no order of any court, arbitrator or other Governmental Authority shall purport by its terms to enjoin or restrain money center banks relevant to the proposed issuance generally from issuing letters of credit of the type

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and in the amount of the proposed Letter of Credit, and no law, rule or regulation applicable to money center banks generally and no request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over money center banks relevant to the proposed issuance generally shall prohibit, or request that Issuing Bank refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or the issuance of such Letter of Credit. If requested by Issuing Bank, the applicable Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on Issuing Bank’s standard form in connection with any request for a Letter of Credit. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended, renewed or extended only if (and upon issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of each Letter of Credit the Borrowers shall be deemed to represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (i) the Letter of Credit Obligations with respect tostand-by Letters of Credit shall not exceed the Letter of Credit Limit, (ii) the terms and conditions ofSection 2.1 hereof shall be satisfied, and (iii) Excess Availability, prior to giving effect to any Reserves with respect to such Letter of Credit, on the date of the proposed issuance of any Letter of Credit shall be equal to or greater than: (A) if the proposed Letter of Credit is for the purpose of purchasing Eligible Inventory and the documents of title with respect thereto are consigned to Issuing Bank, the sum of (1) the percentage equal to one hundred (100%) percentminus the then applicable percentage with respect to Eligible Inventory set forth in the definition of the term Borrowing Base multiplied by the Value of such Eligible Inventory,plus (2) freight, taxes, duty and other amounts which Agent estimates must be paid in connection with such Inventory upon arrival and for delivery to one of such Borrower’s locations for Eligible Inventory within the United States of America or Canada and (B) if the proposed Letter of Credit is for any other purpose or the documents of title are not consigned to Issuing Bank in connection with a Letter of Credit for the purpose of purchasing Inventory, an amount equal to one hundred (100%) percent of the Letter of Credit Obligations with respect thereto. Effective on the issuance of each Letter of Credit, Reserves shall be established in the applicable amount set forth inSection 2.3(b)(iii)(A) orSection 2.3(b)(iii)(B).

(c) Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of business on the earlier of (i) the date one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, one year after such renewal or extension) unless otherwise agreed by the Issuing Bank and (including automatic or “evergreen” renewal) and (ii) the date that is five (5) Business Days prior to the Maturity Date.

(d) Except in Agent’s discretion, with the consent of all Revolving Lenders, the amount of all outstanding Letter of Credit Obligations with respect tostand-by Letters of Credit shall not at any time exceed the Letter of Credit Limit.

(e) If Issuing Bank shall make any payment in respect of a Letter of Credit, Borrowers shall reimburse such payment by paying to Agent an amount equal to such payment not later than 2:00 p.m., New York time, on the date that such payment is made, if Administrative Borrower shall have received notice of such payment prior to 10:00 a.m., New York time, on such date, or, if such notice has not been received by Administrative Borrower prior to such time on such date, then not later than 2:00 p.m., New York time, on (i) the Business Day that Administrative Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is received prior to 10:00 a.m., New York time, on the day of receipt, or (ii) the Business Day immediately following the day that Administrative Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is not received prior to such time on the day of receipt. Each drawing under any Letter of Credit or other amount payable in connection

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therewith when due shall constitute a request by the Borrower for whose account such Letter of Credit was issued to Agent for a ABR Loan in the amount of such drawing or other amount then due, and shall be made by Agent on behalf of Revolving Lenders as a Revolving Loan (or Special Agent Advance, as the case may be) (which Revolving Loan shall be deemed to reimburse the Issuing Bank for such amount due). The date of such Revolving Loan shall be the date of the drawing or as to other amounts, the due date therefor. Any payments made by or on behalf of Agent or any Revolving Lender to Issuing Bank and/or related parties in connection with any Letter of Credit shall constitute additional Revolving Loans to such Borrower pursuant to thisSection 2 (or Special Agent Advances as the case may be).

(f) Borrowers’ joint and several obligation to reimburse Issuing Bank for any payment under any Letter of Credit as provided inparagraph (e) of this Section shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein, (ii) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit, or (iv) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, Borrowers’ obligations hereunder. Neither Agent, Revolving Lenders nor Issuing Bank, nor any of their Related Parties, shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit or any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of Issuing Bank;provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse Issuing Bank from liability to Borrowers to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by Borrowers to the extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by any Borrower that are caused by Issuing Bank’s failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross negligence, bad faith, or willful misconduct on the part of Issuing Bank (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have exercised care in each such determination. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents presented which appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, Issuing Bank may, in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit.

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(g) Borrowers and Guarantors shall indemnify and hold Agent and Lenders harmless from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses which Agent or any Lender may suffer or incur in connection with any Letter of Credit and any documents, drafts or acceptances relating thereto, including any losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses due to any action taken by Issuing Bank or correspondent with respect to any Letter of Credit, except for such losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs or expenses that are a direct result of the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of Agent or any Lender. Each Borrower and Guarantor assumes all risks with respect to the acts or omissions of the drawer under or beneficiary of any Letter of Credit and for such purposes the drawer or beneficiary shall be deemed such Borrower’s agent. Each Borrower and Guarantor assumes all risks for, and agrees to pay, all foreign, Federal, State and local taxes, duties and levies relating to any goods subject to any Letter of Credit or any documents, drafts or acceptances thereunder. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby releases and holds Agent and Lenders harmless from and against any acts, waivers, errors, delays or omissions with respect to or relating to any Letter of Credit, except for the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of Agent or any Lender. The provisions of thisSection 2.3(g) shall survive the payment of Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

(h) At any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default,

(i) in connection with Inventory purchased pursuant to any Letter of Credit, Borrowers and Guarantors shall, at Agent’s reasonable request, instruct all suppliers, carriers, forwarders, customs brokers, warehouses or others receiving or holding cash, checks, Inventory, documents or instruments in which Agent holds a security interest that upon Agent’s request, such items are to be delivered to Agent and/or subject to Agent’s order, and if they shall come into such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s possession, to deliver them, upon Agent’s reasonable request, to Agent in their original form; and

(ii) within three (3) Business Days that Administrative Borrower receives notice from Agent or Required Lenders demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph, Borrowers shall deposit in an account with Agent, in the name of Agent and for the benefit of the Revolving Lenders (the “LC Collateral Account”), an amount in cash equal to 105% of the Letter of Credit Obligations as of such dateplus accrued and unpaid interest thereon;provided that the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to any Borrower described inclause (g) or(h) ofSection 10.1. Such deposit shall be held by Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the Letter of Credit Obligations. Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such account for so long as the Event of Default which triggered the requirement for such funds to be deposited is continuing and Borrowers hereby grant Agent a security interest in the LC Collateral Account. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole but reasonable discretion of Agent and at Borrowers’ risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account shall be applied by Agent to reimburse Issuing Bank for any draws under any Letter of Credit for which it has not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of Borrowers for the Letter of Credit Obligations at such time or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to the consent of Revolving Lenders with Letter of Credit Obligations representing greater than 50% of

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the total Letter of Credit Obligations), be applied to satisfy other Obligations. If Borrowers are required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to Borrowers within three Business Days after all such Events of Default have been cured or waived.

Except as otherwise provided herein, Agent shall not exercise any such rights pursuant to this clause so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Borrowers and Guarantors shall, at Agent’s reasonable request, designate Issuing Bank with respect to a Letter of Credit as the consignee on all bills of lading and other negotiable andnon-negotiable documents under such Letter of Credit.

(i) Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby irrevocably authorizes and directs Issuing Bank to name such Borrower or Guarantor as the account party therein and to deliver to Agent all instruments, documents and other writings and property received by Issuing Bank pursuant to the Letter of Credit and to accept and rely upon Agent’s instructions and agreements with respect to all matters arising in connection with the Letter of Credit or the Letter of Credit Documents with respect thereto. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed or construed to grant any Borrower or Guarantor any right or authority to pledge the credit of Agent or any Revolving Lender in any manner. Borrowers and Guarantors shall be bound by any reasonable interpretation made in good faith by Agent or Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit or any documents, drafts or acceptances thereunder, notwithstanding that such interpretation may be inconsistent with any instructions of any Borrower or Guarantor.

(j) Immediately upon the issuance or amendment of any Letter of Credit, each Revolving Lender shall be deemed to have irrevocably and unconditionally purchased and received, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation to the extent of such Revolving Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the liability with respect to such Letter of Credit and the obligations of Borrowers with respect thereto (including all Letter of Credit Obligations with respect thereto). Each Revolving Lender shall absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably assume, as primary obligor and not as surety, and be obligated to pay to Issuing Bank therefor and discharge when due, its Pro Rata Share of all of such obligations arising under such Letter of Credit. Without limiting the scope and nature of each Revolving Lender’s participation in any Letter of Credit, to the extent that Issuing Bank has not been reimbursed or otherwise paid as required hereunder or under any such Letter of Credit, each such Revolving Lender shall pay to Issuing Bank its Pro Rata Share of such unreimbursed drawing or other amounts then due to Issuing Bank in connection therewith.

(k) The obligations of Borrowers to pay Letter of Credit Obligations and the obligations of Revolving Lenders to make payments to Agent for the account of Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances, whatsoever, notwithstanding the occurrence or continuance of any Default, Event of Default, the failure to satisfy any other condition set forth inSection 4 or any other event or circumstance. If such amount is not made available by a Revolving Lender when due, Agent shall be entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Revolving Lender with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount was due until the date such amount is paid to Agent at the Interest Rate then payable by any Borrower in respect of Revolving Loans that are Prime Rate Loans. Any such reimbursement shall not relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of Borrowers to reimburse Issuing Bank under any Letter of Credit or make any other payment in connection therewith.

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(l) If Issuing Bank shall make any payment under any Letter of Credit, then, unless Borrowers shall reimburse such payment in full on the date such payment is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date such payment is made to but excluding the date that the Borrowers reimburse such payment including a reimbursement pursuant to any ABR Loan made by Agent in accordance withparagraph (e) of this Section, at the rate per annum then applicable to ABR Loans;provided that, if Borrowers fail to reimburse such payment when due pursuant toparagraph (e) of this Section, then Agent may, at its option, and Agent shall, at the direction of the Required Lenders, increase the Applicable Margin otherwise used to calculate the interest rate for ABR Loans by two (2%) percent per annum; provided that such increased Applicable Margins shall only apply to such unpaid amount and not to any other Obligations, outstanding hereunder. Interest accrued pursuant to this paragraph shall be for the account of Issuing Bank, except that interest accrued on and after the date of payment by any Revolving Lender pursuant toparagraph (e) of this Section to reimburse Issuing Bank shall be for the account of such Revolving Lender to the extent of such payment.

(m) Issuing Bank may be replaced at any time by written agreement among the Administrative Borrower, Agent, the replaced Issuing Bank and the successor Issuing Bank. Agent shall notify Lenders of any such replacement of Issuing Bank. At the time any such replacement shall become effective, Borrowers shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account of the replaced Issuing Bank as described inSection 3.2(b) hereof. From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) the successor Issuing Bank shall have all the rights and obligations of Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letter of Credit to be issued thereafter and (ii) references herein to the term “Issuing Bank” shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Issuing Bank, or to such successor and all previous Issuing Banks, as the context shall require. After the replacement of an Issuing Bank hereunder, the replaced Issuing Bank shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.

2.4Termination, Reductions or Increases of Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts.

(a) The Borrowers may at any time terminate the Revolving Commitments upon the Payment in Full of the Obligations.

(b) The Borrowers may from time to time reduce the Revolving Commitments;provided that (i) each reduction of the Revolving Commitments shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000 and (ii) the Borrowers shall not terminate or reduce the Revolving Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Revolving Loans in accordance withSection 2.4(e) andSection 2.9, the Aggregate Revolving Exposure would exceed the Borrowing Cap then in effect.

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(c) The Borrowers shall notify Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts pursuant toSection 2.4(a) or(b), as applicable, at least three (3) Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof;provided that the Borrowers shall not reduce the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Loans in accordance withSection 2.4(e) and/or2.9, the Aggregate Revolving Exposure then outstanding would exceed the Borrowing Cap. Promptly following receipt of any such notice, Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrowers pursuant to thisSection 2.4(c) shall be irrevocable;provided that a notice of termination of the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, in which case such notice may be revoked by Administrative Borrower (by notice to Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts shall be permanent and may not be reinstated. Each reduction of the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with each Lender’s Pro Rata Share.

(d)Increase of Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts.

(i) The Borrowers shall have the right to increase the Revolving Commitments by obtaining additional Revolving Commitments, either from one or more of the Lenders or another lending institution;provided that (A) any such request for an increase shall be in a minimum amount of $5,000,000, (B) the Administrative Borrower, on behalf of the Borrowers, may make a maximum of four (4) such requests, (C) after giving effect thereto, the sum of the total of the additional Revolving Commitments added pursuant to thisSection 2.4(d) does not exceed $20,000,000, (D) the Agent and the Issuing Bank have approved any such new Lender, such approvals not to be unreasonably withheld, (E) any such new Lender assumes all of the rights and obligations of a “Lender” hereunder, (F) the procedures described inSection 2.4(d)(ii) below have been satisfied and (G) the Agent shall be satisfied that such increase in the Revolving Commitments and all Loans or Letters of Credit that could be incurred or issued thereunder is permitted under the Intercreditor Agreement and the Term Loan Agreement, each as in effect at such time. Nothing contained in thisSection 2.4(d) shall constitute, or otherwise be deemed to be, a commitment on the part of any Lender to increase its Revolving Commitment hereunder at any time.

(ii) Any amendment hereto for such an increase or addition shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and shall only require the written signatures of the Agent, the Borrowers and each Lender being added or increasing its Revolving Commitment. As a condition precedent to such an increase or addition, the Borrowers shall deliver to the Agent (A) a certificate of each Loan Party signed by an authorized officer of such Loan Party (1) certifying and attaching the resolutions adopted by such Loan Party approving or consenting to such increase, and (2) in the case of the Borrowers, certifying that, before and after giving effect to such increase or addition, (x) the representations and warranties contained inSection 8 and the other Financing Agreements are true and correct in all material respects (without duplication of any materiality qualification applicable thereto), except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they are true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date and (y) no Default or Event of Default exists, and (B) legal opinions and documents consistent with those delivered on the Closing Date, to the extent requested by the Agent. If the Borrowers elect to increase the Aggregate Revolving

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Commitment Amounts by increasing the Revolving Commitment of a Lender, the Borrowers and such Lender shall execute and deliver to the Agent an agreement substantially in the form ofExhibit F (a “Commitment Increase Agreement”) or in such other form, including an amendment to this Agreement, otherwise acceptable to the Agent. If the Borrowers elect to increase the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts by causing an additional Lender to become a party to this Agreement and there is no increased Revolving Commitment by an existing Lender, then the Borrowers and such additional Lender shall execute and deliver to the Agent an agreement substantially in the form ofExhibit G (an “Additional Lender Agreement”) or in such other form, including an amendment to this Agreement, otherwise acceptable to the Agent. Each such additional Lender shall submit to the Agent an Administrative Questionnaire and a processing and recordation fee of $3,500. The Borrowers shall, if requested by the additional Lender, deliver a promissory note payable to such additional Lender in a principal amount equal to its Revolving Commitment, and otherwise duly completed.

(iii) On the effective date of any such increase or addition, (A) any Lender increasing (or, in the case of any newly added Lender, extending) its Revolving Commitment shall make available to the Agent such amounts in immediately available funds as the Agent shall determine, for the benefit of the other Lenders, as being required in order to cause, after giving effect to such increase or addition and the use of such amounts to make payments to such other Lenders, each Lender’s portion of the outstanding Revolving Loans of all the Lenders to equal its revised Pro Rata Share of such outstanding Revolving Loans, and the Agent shall make such other adjustments among the Lenders with respect to the Revolving Loans then outstanding and amounts of principal, interest, commitment fees and other amounts paid or payable with respect thereto as shall be necessary, in the opinion of the Agent, in order to effect such reallocation and (B) the Borrowers shall be deemed to have repaid and reborrowed all outstanding Revolving Loans as of the date of any increase (or addition) in the Revolving Commitments (with such reborrowing to consist of the Types of Revolving Loans, with related Interest Periods if applicable, specified in a notice delivered by the Administrative Borrower, in accordance with the requirements ofSection 3.7). The deemed payments made pursuant to clause (B) of the immediately preceding sentence shall be accompanied by payment of all accrued interest on the amount prepaid and, in respect of each Eurodollar Rate Loan, shall be subject to indemnification by the Borrowers pursuant to the provisions ofSection 3.7 if the deemed payment occurs other than on the last day of the related Interest Periods. Within a reasonable time after the effective date of any increase or addition, the Agent shall, and is hereby authorized and directed to, reviseSchedule 1 to reflect such increase or addition and such revisedSchedule 1 shall replace the oldSchedule 1 and become part of this Agreement.

(iv) Upon its receipt of a duly completed and executed Additional Lender Agreement or Commitment Increase Agreement, as applicable, and the satisfaction of each other condition to the applicable increase in the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts in accordance withSection 2.4(d)(i) and(ii), Agent shall accept such Revolving Commitment Increase Certificate and record, within three (3) Business Days, the information contained therein in the Register required to be maintained by Agent pursuant toSection 13.7(b). No increase in the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in thisSection 2.4(d)(iv).

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(e)Mandatory Prepayment Related to Reduction of Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts. If, after giving effect to any termination or reduction of the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts pursuant toSection 2.4(a) or(b), the Aggregate Revolving Exposure exceeds the total Revolving Commitments, then the Borrowers shall (i) prepay the Loans as provided inSection 2.9 on the date of such termination or reduction in an aggregate principal amount equal to such excess, and (ii) if any excess remains after prepaying all of the Loans as a result of a Letter of Credit Obligation, pay to Agent on behalf of the Lenders an amount equal to such excess to be held as cash collateral as provided inSection 2.3(h).

2.5Revolving Commitments. The aggregate amount of each Revolving Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Revolving Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations shall not exceed the amount of such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment, as the same may from time to time be amended in accordance with the provisions hereof.

2.6Bank Products. The Loan Parties, or any of their Subsidiaries, may (but no such Person is required to) request that the Bank Product Providers provide or arrange for such Person to obtain Bank Products from Bank Product Providers, and each Bank Product Provider may, in its sole discretion, provide or arrange for such Person to obtain the requested Bank Products. The Loan Parties and any of their Subsidiaries that obtain Bank Products shall indemnify and hold Agent, each Lender and their respective Affiliates harmless from any and all obligations now or hereafter owing to any other Person by any Bank Product Provider in connection with any Bank Products other than for gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of any such indemnified Person. ThisSection 2.6 shall survive the payment of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement. Borrower and its Subsidiaries acknowledge and agree that the obtaining of Bank Products from Bank Product Providers (a) is in the sole discretion of such Bank Product Provider, and (b) is subject to all rules and regulations of such Bank Product Provider. Upon the request by the Loan Parties and the acceptance by such Bank Product Provider in the first sentence of thisSection 2.6, such Bank Product Provider shall be deemed a party hereto for purposes of any reference in a Financing Agreement to the parties for whom Agent is acting,provided, that, the rights of such Bank Product Provider hereunder and under any of the other Financing Agreements shall consist exclusively of such Bank Product Provider’s right to share in payments and collections out of the Collateral as set forth herein. Each Lender or Affiliate thereof providing Bank Products for, or having Hedge Agreements with, any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party shall deliver to Agent, promptly after entering into such Hedge Agreement or Bank Product, written notice setting forth the aggregate amount of all Hedge Obligations or Obligations arising under or pursuant to any Bank Products of such Loan Party or Subsidiary to such Lender or Affiliate (whether matured or unmatured, absolute or contingent). In addition, each such Lender or Affiliate thereof shall deliver to Agent, from time to time after a significant change therein or upon a request therefor, a summary of the amounts due or to become due in respect of such Hedge Obligations and Obligations arising under or pursuant to any Bank Products. The most recent information provided to Agent shall be used in determining the amounts to be applied in respect of such Hedge Obligations and/or Obligations arising under or pursuant to any Bank Products pursuant toSection 6.4(a) and which tier of the waterfall, contained inSection 6.4(a), such Hedge Obligations and/or Obligations arising under or pursuant to any Bank Products will be placed.

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2.7Joint and Several Liability. Borrowers shall be liable for all Obligations due to Agent, Issuing Bank and Secured Parties under this Agreement, regardless of which Borrower actually receives the Loans, Letters of Credit or other extensions of credit hereunder or the amount of such Loans received or the manner in which Agent accounts for such Loans, Letters of Credit or other extensions of credit on its books and records. The Obligations with respect to Loans and Letters of Credit or other extensions of credit made to a Borrower, and the Obligations arising as a result of the joint and several liability of a Borrower hereunder, with respect to Loans and Letters of Credit or other extensions of credit made to the other Borrowers hereunder, shall be separate and distinct obligations, but all such Obligations shall be primary obligations of all Borrowers. The Obligations arising as a result of the joint and several liability of a Borrower hereunder with respect to Loans, Letters of Credit or other extensions of credit made to the other Borrowers hereunder shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be unconditional irrespective of (a) the validity or enforceability, avoidance or subordination of the Obligations of the other Borrowers or of any promissory note or other document evidencing all or any part of the Obligations of the other Borrowers, (b) the absence of any attempt to collect the Obligations from the other Borrowers, any Guarantor or any other security therefor, or the absence of any other action to enforce the same, (c) the failure by Agent to take any steps to perfect and maintain its security interest in, or to preserve its rights and maintain its security or collateral for the Obligations of the other Borrowers and Guarantors, (d) the election of Agent in any proceeding instituted under the Bankruptcy Code, of the application of Section 1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code, (e) the disallowance of all or any portion of the claim(s) of Agent for the repayment of the Obligations of the other Borrowers and Guarantors under Section 502 of the Bankruptcy Code, or (f) any other circumstances which might constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of any obligor, other than the payment of the Obligations and the willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence of Agent, any Issuing Bank or Lenders as determined pursuant to a final,non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction. With respect to the Obligations arising as a result of the joint and several liability of a Borrower hereunder with respect to Loans, Letters of Credit or other extensions of credit made to the other Borrowers hereunder, each Borrower and Guarantor waives, until the Obligations shall have been paid in full in immediately available funds and this Agreement shall have been terminated, any right to enforce any right of subrogation or any remedy which Agent now has or may hereafter have against Borrowers and Guarantors, any endorser or any guarantor of all or any part of the Obligations, and any benefit of, and any right to participate in, any security or collateral given to Agent. Upon any Event of Default and for so long as the same is continuing, Agent may proceed directly and at once, without notice, against any Borrower or Guarantor to collect and recover the full amount, or any portion of the Obligations, without first proceeding against the other Borrowers or any other Person, or against any security or collateral for the Obligations. Each Borrower and Guarantor consents and agrees that Agent and Lenders shall be under no obligation to marshal any assets in favor of Borrower(s) or Guarantors against or in payment of any or all of the Obligations.

2.8Defaulting Lenders. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Revolving Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Revolving Lender is a Defaulting Lender:

(a) fees shall cease to accrue on the unfunded portion of the Revolving Commitment of such Defaulting Lender pursuant toSection 3.2(a);

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(b) the Revolving Commitment and the Pro Rata Share of the then outstanding Obligations of such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining whether all Lenders or the Required Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder (including any consent to any amendment or waiver pursuant toSection 11.4),provided that any waiver, amendment or modification requiring the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender which affects such Defaulting Lender disproportionately than other affected Lenders shall require the consent of such Defaulting Lender;

(c) if any Letter of Credit Obligation exists at the time a Revolving Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender then:

(i) all or any part of the Letter of Credit Obligations shall be reallocated among the Revolving Lenders (other than those that are also Defaulting Lenders) in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Share of Revolving Loans but only to the extent (x) the sum of all Revolving Lenders’ (other than those that are also Defaulting Lenders) Pro Rata Share of the then outstanding Obligations consisting of Revolving Loansplus such Defaulting Lender’s Letter of Credit Obligations does not exceed the total of all Revolving Lenders’ (other than those that are also Defaulting Lenders) Commitments and (y) the conditions set forth inSection 4.2 are satisfied at such time;

(ii) if the reallocation described inclause (i) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, Borrowers shall within three (3) Business Days following notice by Agent cash collateralize such Defaulting Lender’s pro rata share of the Letter of Credit Obligations (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant toclause (i) above) in accordance with the procedures set forth inSection 2.3(h)(i) for so long as such Letter of Credit Obligation are outstanding;

(iii) if Borrowers cash collateralize any portion of such Defaulting Lender’s pro rata share of the Letter of Credit Obligations pursuant toSection 2.8(c), Borrowers shall not be required to pay any fees to such Defaulting Lender pursuant toSection 3.2 with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s Letter of Credit Obligations during the period such Defaulting Lender’s pro rata share of the Letter of Credit Obligations is cash collateralized;

(iv) if the Letter of Credit Obligations of thenon-Defaulting Lenders is reallocated pursuant toSection 2.8(c), then the fees payable to the Revolving Lenders pursuant toSection 3.2 shall be adjusted in accordance with suchnon-Defaulting Lenders’ Pro Rata Share; and

(v) if any Defaulting Lender’s Letter of Credit Obligations are neither cash collateralized nor reallocated pursuant toSection 2.8(c), then, without prejudice to any rights or remedies of the Issuing Bank or any Lender hereunder, all facility fees that otherwise would have been payable to such Defaulting Lender (solely with respect to the portion of such Defaulting Lender’s Commitment that was utilized by such Letter of Credit Obligations) and letter of credit fees payable underSection 3.2 with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s pro rata share of the Letter of Credit Obligations shall be payable to the Issuing Bank until such pro rata share of the Letter of Credit Obligations is cash collateralized and/or reallocated;

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(d) the Issuing Bank shall not be required to issue, amend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless it is satisfied that the related exposure will be 100% covered by the Commitments of the Revolving Lenders (other than those that are also Defaulting Lenders) and/or cash collateral will be provided by Borrowers in accordance withSection 2.8(c), and participating interests in any such newly issued or increased Letters of Credit shall be allocated among Revolving Lenders (other than those that are also Defaulting Lenders) in a manner consistent withSection 2.8(c)(i) (and Defaulting Lenders shall not participate therein);

(e) in the event and on the date that each of Agent, Borrowers and the Issuing Bank agrees that a Defaulting Lender has adequately remedied all matters that caused such Lender to be a Defaulting Lender, then the Letter of Credit Obligations of the other Revolving Lenders shall be readjusted to reflect the inclusion of such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment and on such date such Revolving Lender shall purchase at par such of the Revolving Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations of the other Revolving Lenders as Agent shall determine may be necessary in order for such Revolving Lender to hold such Revolving Loans in accordance with its Pro Rata Share of Revolving Loans; and

(f) Agent shall not be obligated to transfer to a Defaulting Lender any payments received by Agent for the Defaulting Lender’s benefit, nor shall a Defaulting Lender be entitled to the sharing of any payments hereunder (including any principal, interest or fees). Amounts payable to a Defaulting Lender shall instead be paid to or retained by Agent. Agent may hold and, in its discretion, relend to a Borrower the amount of all such payments received or retained by it for the account of such Defaulting Lender. The operation of this Section shall not be construed to increase or otherwise affect the Revolving Commitment of any Revolving Lender, or relieve or excuse the performance by any Borrower or Guarantor of their duties and obligations hereunder.

2.9Prepayment of Loans.

(a) Borrowers shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Loan in whole or in part, subject to prior notice in accordance withparagraph (b) of this Section;

(b) Administrative Borrower shall notify Agent by telephone (confirmed by facsimile) of any prepayment hereunder (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment or (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Loan, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York time, one Business Day before the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Loan or portion thereof to be prepaid. Promptly following receipt of any such notice relating to a Loan, Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each prepayment of the Revolving Loans shall be applied ratably to the Revolving Loans. Prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required bySection 3.1.

(c) In the event and on each occasion that any Net Proceeds are received by or on behalf of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party in respect of any Prepayment Event, then, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, (A) the Administrative Borrower shall promptly notify the Agent in writing of such Prepayment Event (including the amount of the estimated Net Proceeds to be received by a Borrower or a Guarantor thereof) and (B) within five (5) Business Days (or immediately in the case of any issuance or incurrence of Indebtedness or the issuance of

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Capital Stock, as the case may be) after receipt by any Borrower or Guarantor of any Net Proceeds of such Prepayment Event, the Administrative Borrower shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, an amount equal to 100% of such Net Proceeds to the Agent to, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, prepay the Obligations and cash collateralize the LC Exposure as set forth inSection 2.3(h);provided that any Net Proceeds attributable to the Term Loan Priority Collateral shall be applied in accordance with the Term Loan Documents, andprovidedfurther, that the Loan Parties shall be permitted to apply such Net Proceeds (or any portion thereof) from Events of Loss to replace, repair, restore or rebuild the assets subject to an Event of Loss or to purchase or construct other assets useful in the business of the Loan Parties,provided that (i) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (ii) any such Net Proceeds arising from such Event of Loss not (x) used to so replace, repair, restore or rebuild the assets subject to such Event of Loss, or to purchase or construct other assets useful in the business of the Loan Parties following such Event of Loss, within 180 days after the receipt of such Net Proceeds, or (y) committed to be used to so replace, repair, restore or rebuild the assets subject to such Event of Loss, or to purchase or construct other assets useful in the business of the Loan Parties following such Event of Loss, within 180 days after the receipt of such Net Proceeds, and subsequently used as so committed within 180 days after the end of such initial180-day period, in each case (as to clauses (x) and (y)), shall be applied to the prepayment of the Obligations and cash collateralize the LC Exposure as set forth inSection 2.3(h) in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of such Net Proceeds.

2.10Loans and Borrowings.

(a) Each Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans of the same Type made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Revolving Commitments. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder;provided that the Commitments of the Lenders are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender’s failure to make Loans as required.

(b) Subject toSection 3.4, each Borrowing and shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans as the Administrative Borrower may request in accordance herewith. Each Lender at its option may make any Eurodollar Rate Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan (and in the case of an Affiliate, the provisions ofSections 3.3,3.4,3.5 and3.6 shall apply to such Affiliate to the same extent as to such Lender);provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrowers to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

(c) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $500,000 and not less than $3,000,000. ABR Borrowings may be in any amount. Borrowings of more than one Type may be outstanding at the same time;provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of six (6) Eurodollar Borrowings outstanding.

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(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Administrative Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date.

2.11Requests for Borrowings.

(a) To request a Borrowing, the Administrative Borrower shall notify the Agent of such request either in writing (delivered by hand or fax) by delivering a Borrowing Request signed by a Authorized Officer of the Administrative Borrower or through Electronic System if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Agent not later than (a) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, 2:00 p.m., New York time, three (3) Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing or (b) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, 1:00 p.m., New York time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing;provided that any such notice of an ABR Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated bySection 2.3(e) may be given not later than 10:00 a.m., New York time, on the date of such proposed Borrowing. Each such Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable. Each such written (or if permitted, telephonic) Borrowing Request shall specify the following information:

(i) the name of the applicable Borrower(s);

(ii) the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing and a breakdown of the separate wires comprising such Borrowing;

(iii) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;

(iv) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing; and

(v) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period.”

If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurodollar Borrowing, then the applicable Borrower(s) shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.

2.12Interest Elections.

(a) Each Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing Request. Thereafter, the Administrative Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section. The Administrative Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing.

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(b) To make an election pursuant to this Section, the Administrative Borrower shall notify the Agent of such election either in writing (delivered by hand or fax) by delivering an Interest Election Request signed by a Authorized Officer of the Administrative Borrower or through Electronic System if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Agent by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required underSection 2.11 if the Borrowers were requesting a Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable.

(c) Each written Interest Election Request (including requests submitted through Electronic System) shall specify the following information:

(i) the name of the applicable Borrower and the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);

(ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day;

(iii) whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing; and

(iv) if the resulting Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”.

If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrowers shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.

(d) Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.

(e) If the Administrative Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Eurodollar Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders, so notifies the Administrative Borrower, then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing (i) no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each Eurodollar Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.

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SECTION 3. INTEREST AND FEES

3.1Interest Payments.

(a) The Loans comprising ABR Borrowings shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin.

(b) The Loans comprising each Eurodollar Borrowing shall bear interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Margin.

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) during the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, the Agent or the Required Lenders may, at their option, by notice to the Administrative Borrower, declare that (A) all Loans shall bear interest at 2% plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loans as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section and (B) in the case of any other amount outstanding hereunder, such amount shall accrue at 2% plus the rate applicable to such fee or other obligation as provided hereunder and (ii) during the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default described inSection 10.1(a),Section 10.1(g) orSection 10.1(h), (A) all Loans shall bear interest at 2% plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loans as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section and (B) in the case of any other amount outstanding hereunder, such amount shall accrue at 2% plus the rate applicable to such fee or other obligation as provided hereunder, in each case under this clause (c) without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each Borrower and Guarantor for the period from and after the date of the occurrence of such Event of Default and for so long as such Event of Default is continuing.

(d) Accrued interest on each Loan (for ABR Loans, accrued through the last day of the prior calendar month) shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan and upon termination of the Revolving Commitments;provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Loan prior to the Maturity Date), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in the event of any conversion of any Eurodollar Rate Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion.

(e) All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except that interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate, Adjusted LIBO Rate or LIBO Rate shall be determined by the Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

3.2Fees.

(a) Borrowers shall pay to Agent, for the account of Revolving Lenders, monthly an unused line fee at a rate equal toone-quarter percent (0.25%) per annum calculated upon the amount by which the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts exceeds the average daily principal balance of the outstanding Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit during the

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immediately preceding month (or part thereof), in which case it shall be calculated on the basis of days actually elapsed during such month) while this Agreement is in effect and for so long thereafter as any of the Obligations (other than indemnities and contingent Obligations which survive the termination of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements) are outstanding, which fee shall be payable on the first day of each month in arrears.

(b) In the case of all Letters of Credit, Borrowers shall pay to Agent, for the account of Revolving Lenders, a fee at a rate equal to Applicable Margin for Eurodollar Rate Loans (then in effect) per annum on the average daily maximum amount available to be drawn under all of such Letters of Credit for the immediately preceding month (or part thereof), in which case it shall be calculated on the basis of days actually elapsed during such month) payable in arrears as of the first day of each succeeding month, computed for each day from the date of issuance to the date of expiration; except that Borrowers shall pay, at Agent’s option, with notice, such fee at a rate two (2%) percent greater than the otherwise applicable rate on such average daily maximum amount for: (i) the period from and after the date of termination ornon-renewal of this Agreement until Revolving Lenders have received full and final payment of all Obligations (other than contingent Obligations not yet accrued) notwithstanding entry of a judgment against any Borrower or Guarantor and (ii) the period from and after the date of the occurrence of an Event of Default for so long as such Event of Default is continuing. Such letter of credit fees shall be calculated on the basis of a three hundred sixty (360) day year and actual days elapsed and the obligation of Borrowers to pay such fee shall survive the termination ornon-renewal of this Agreement. In addition to the letter of credit fees provided above, Borrowers shall pay to Issuing Bank for its own account (without sharing with Lenders), a letter of credit fronting fee equal toone-quarter of one (1/4%) percent (on a per annum basis) calculated upon the daily outstanding balance of the Letter of Credit Obligations for the immediately preceding month (or part thereof), payable in arrears as of the first day of each succeeding month and negotiation fees agreed to by Borrowers and Issuing Bank from time to time and the customary charges from time to time of Issuing Bank with respect to the issuance, amendment, transfer, administration, cancellation and conversion of, and drawings under, such Letters of Credit.

(c) Borrowers shall pay to Agent the other fees and amounts set forth in the Fee Letter in the amounts and at the times specified therein. To the extent payment in full of the applicable fee is received by Agent from Borrowers on or about the date hereof, Agent shall pay to each Lender its share of such fees in accordance with the terms of the arrangements of Agent with such Lender.

3.3Increased Costs.

(a) If any Change in Law shall:

(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, liquidity or similar requirement (including any compulsory loan requirement, insurance charge or other assessment) against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any Lender (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted LIBO Rate) or the Issuing Bank;

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(ii) impose on any Lender or the Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense (other than Taxes) affecting this Agreement or Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein; or

(iii) subject any Recipient to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes covered bySection 3.5 or (B) Excluded Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto;

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender or such other Recipient of making, continuing, converting into or maintaining any Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to increase the cost to such Lender, the Issuing Bank or such other Recipient of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender, the Issuing Bank or such other Recipient hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then the Borrowers will pay to such Lender, the Issuing Bank or such other Recipient, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender, the Issuing Bank or such other Recipient, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.

(b) If any Lender or the Issuing Bank determines that any Change in Law regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of, or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by the Issuing Bank, to a level below that which such Lender or the Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy and liquidity), then from time to time the Borrowers will pay to such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.

(c) A certificate of a Lender or the Issuing Bank setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section shall be delivered to the Agent and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrowers shall pay such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within ten (10) days after receipt thereof.

(d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the Issuing Bank to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s right to demand such compensation;provided that the Borrowers shall not be required to compensate a Lender or the Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 270 days prior to the date that such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, notifies the Administrative Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s intention to claim compensation therefor;providedfurther that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the270-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

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3.4Alternate Rate of Interest; Illegality.

(a) If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Borrowing:

(i) the Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO Rate, as applicable (including, without limitation, by means of an Interpolated Rate or because the LIBO Screen Rate is not available or published on a current basis) for such Interest Period; or

(ii) the Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders (or Lender) of making or maintaining their Loans (or its Loan) included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period;

then the Agent shall give notice thereof to the Administrative Borrower and the Lenders through Electronic System as provided inSection 13.3 as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (A) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective and any such Eurodollar Borrowing shall be repaid or converted into an ABR Borrowing on the last day of the then current Interest Period applicable thereto, and (B) if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing.

(b) If any Lender determines that any Requirement of Law has made it unlawful, or if any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable lending office to make, maintain, fund or continue any Eurodollar Borrowing, or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to purchase or sell, or to take deposits of, dollars in the London interbank market, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Administrative Borrower through the Agent, any obligations of such Lender to make, maintain, fund or continue Eurodollar Rate Loans or to convert ABR Borrowings to Eurodollar Borrowings will be suspended until such Lender notifies the Agent and the Administrative Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrowers will upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Agent), either convert or prepay all Eurodollar Borrowings of such Lender to ABR Borrowings, either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Borrowings to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Loans. Upon any such conversion or prepayment, the Borrowers will also pay accrued interest on the amount so converted or prepaid.

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(c) If at any time the Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that (i) the circumstances set forth in clause (a)(i) have arisen and such circumstances are unlikely to be temporary or (ii) the circumstances set forth in clause (a)(i) have not arisen but either (w) the supervisor for the administrator of the LIBO Screen Rate has made a public statement that the administrator of the LIBO Screen Rate is insolvent (and there is no successor administrator that will continue publication of the LIBO Screen Rate), (x) the administrator of the LIBO Screen Rate has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which the LIBO Screen Rate will permanently or indefinitely cease to be published by it (and there is no successor administrator that will continue publication of the LIBO Screen Rate), (y) the supervisor for the administrator of the LIBO Screen Rate has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which the LIBO Screen Rate will permanently or indefinitely cease to be published or (z) the supervisor for the administrator of the LIBO Screen Rate or a Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Agent has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which the LIBO Screen Rate may no longer be used for determining interest rates for loans, then the Agent and the Administrative Borrower shall endeavor to establish an alternate rate of interest to the LIBO Rate that gives due consideration to the then prevailing market convention for determining a rate of interest for syndicated loans in the United States at such time, and shall enter into an amendment to this Agreement to reflect such alternate rate of interest and such other related changes to this Agreement as may be applicable (but for the avoidance of doubt, such related changes shall not include a reduction of the Applicable Margin). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 9.02, such amendment shall become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement so long as the Agent shall not have received, within five (5) Business Days of the date notice of such alternate rate of interest is provided to the Lenders, a written notice from the Required Lenders stating that such Required Lenders object to such amendment. Until an alternate rate of interest shall be determined in accordance with this clause (c) (but, in the case of the circumstances described in clause (ii)(w), clause (ii)(x) or clause (ii)(y) of the first sentence of thisSection 3.4(c), only to the extent the LIBO Screen Rate for such Interest Period is not available or published at such time on a current basis), (x) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective and any such Eurodollar Borrowing shall be repaid or converted into an ABR Borrowing on the last day of the then current Interest Period applicable thereto, and (y) if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing;provided that, if such alternate rate of interest shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement.

3.5Withholding of Taxes;Gross-Up.

(a)Payment Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Financing Agreement shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable law. If any applicable law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable withholding agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a withholding agent, then the applicable withholding agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under thisSection 3.5) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.

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(b)Payment of Other Taxes by the Loan Parties. The Loan Parties shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law, or at the option of the Agent timely reimburse it for, Other Taxes.

(c)Evidence of Payment. As soon as practicable after any payment of Taxes by any Loan Party to a Governmental Authority pursuant to thisSection 3.5, such Loan Party shall deliver to the Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Agent.

(d)Indemnification by the Loan Parties. The Loan Parties shall jointly and severally indemnify each Recipient, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any the Administrative Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Agent), or by the Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

(e)Indemnification by the Lenders. Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Agent, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that any Loan Party has not already indemnified the Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Loan Parties to do so) and (ii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Agent in connection with any Financing Agreement, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Agent to setoff and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Financing Agreement or otherwise payable by the Agent to such Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Agent under this paragraph (e).

(f)Status of Lenders.

(i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Financing Agreement shall deliver to the Administrative Borrower and the Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Administrative Borrower or the Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Administrative Borrower or the Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Administrative Borrower or the Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law reasonably requested by the Administrative Borrower or the Agent as will enable the Borrowers or the Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such

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documentation (other than such documentation set forth inSection 3.5(f)(ii)(A),(ii)(B) and(ii)(D) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.

(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,

(A) any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Administrative Borrower and the Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Administrative Borrower or the Agent), an executed copy of IRS FormW-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax;

(B) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Administrative Borrower and the Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Administrative Borrower or the Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:

(1) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Financing Agreement, an executed copy of IRS FormW-8BEN or IRS FormW-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Financing Agreement, IRS FormW-8BEN or IRS FormW-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty;

(2) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming that its extension of credit will generate U.S. effectively connected income, an executed copy of IRS FormW-8ECI;

(3) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of ExhibitE-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of a Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) an executed copy of IRS FormW-8BEN or IRS FormW-8BEN-E, as applicable; or

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(4) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, an executed copy of IRS FormW-8IMY, accompanied by IRS FormW-8ECI, IRS FormW-8BEN or IRS FormW-8BEN-E, as applicable, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of ExhibitE-2 or ExhibitE-3, IRS FormW-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable;provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of ExhibitE-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;

(C) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Administrative Borrower and the Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Administrative Borrower or the Agent), executed copies of any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the Borrowers or the Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and; and

(D) if a payment made to a Lender under any Financing Agreement would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Administrative Borrower and the Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Administrative Borrower or the Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Administrative Borrower or the Agent as may be necessary for the Borrowers and the Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (D), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.

Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Administrative Borrower and the Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.

(g)Treatment of Certain Refunds. If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of allout-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this paragraph (g) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority.

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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph (g), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this paragraph (g) the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable netafter-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts giving rise to such refund had never been paid. This paragraph (g) shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.

(h)Survival. Each party’s obligations under this Section shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all obligations under any Financing Agreement (including the Payment in Full of the Obligations).

(i)Defined Terms. For purposes of thisSection 3.5, the term “Lender” includes any Issuing Bank.

(j)FATCA Status. For purposes of determining withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA under this Agreement, each Borrower and Agent shall treat (and the Lenders hereby authorize the Agent to treat) each Loan and this Agreement as not qualifying as a “grandfathered obligation” within the meaning ofSection 1.1471-2(b)(2)(i) of the United States Treasury Regulations.

3.6Mitigation of Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.

(a) If any Lender requests compensation underSection 3.3, or if the Borrowers are required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant toSection 3.5, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant toSection 3.3 or3.5, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrowers hereby agree to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.

(b) If any Lender requests compensation underSection 3.3, or if the Borrowers are required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant toSection 3.5, or if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the Borrowers may, at their sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained inSection 13.7), all its interests, rights (other than its existing rights to payments pursuant toSection 3.3 or3.5) and obligations under this Agreement and other Financing Agreements to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment);provided that (i) the Borrowers shall have received the prior written consent of the Agent (and in circumstances

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where its consent would be required underSection 13.7, the Issuing Bank), which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, (ii) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrowers (in the case of all other amounts) and (iii) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation underSection 3.3 or payments required to be made pursuant toSection 3.5, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrowers to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply. Each party hereto agrees that (x) an assignment required pursuant to this paragraph may be effected pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption executed by the Administrative Borrower, the Agent and the assignee, and (y) the Lender required to make such assignment need not be a party thereto in order for such assignment to be effective and shall be deemed to have consented to an be bound by the terms thereof;provided that, following the effectiveness of any such assignment, the other parties to such assignment agree to execute and deliver such documents necessary to evidence such assignment as reasonably requested by the applicable Lender,provided that any such documents shall be without recourse to or warranty by the parties thereto.

3.7Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurodollar Rate Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default or as a result of any prepayment pursuant toSection 2.1(d),2.4(e) or2.9, (b) the conversion of any Eurodollar Rate Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any Eurodollar Rate Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto, or (d) the assignment of any Eurodollar Rate Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Administrative Borrower pursuant toSection 3.6, then, in any such event, the Borrowers shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable to such event. In the case of a Eurodollar Rate Loan, such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to include an amount determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest which would have accrued on the principal amount of such Eurodollar Rate Loan had such event not occurred, at the Adjusted LIBO Rate that would have been applicable to such Eurodollar Rate Loan, for the period from the date of such event to the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Loan), over (ii) the amount of interest which would accrue on such principal amount for such period at the interest rate which such Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such period, for dollar deposits of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the eurodollar market. A certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section shall be delivered to the Administrative Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrowers shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within ten (10) days after receipt thereof.

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SECTION 4.     CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

4.1Conditions Precedent toEffectiveness. The effectiveness of this Agreement and the obligation of Lenders to make and/or continue to make Loans under this Agreement and of the Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit hereunder is subject to the satisfaction of, or waiver (in accordance withSection 11.4) of, each of the following conditions precedent:

(a)Counterparts. Agent (or its counsel) shall have been provided with executed counterparts of this Agreement duly executed and delivered by the Loan Parties and the Lenders.

(b)Officer’s Certificates. Agent shall have received (i) a certificate of each Loan Party (including Parent), dated as of the Closing Date and executed by its secretary, assistant secretary or other appropriate officer, which shall (ii) certify the resolutions of its board of directors, members or other governing body authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements to which it is a party, (iii) identify by name and title and bear the signatures of the Authorized Officers and any other officers of such Loan Party authorized to sign the Financing Agreements to which it is a party, and (iv) contain appropriate attachments, including the certificate or articles of incorporation or formation (or equivalent constitutional documents) of each Loan Party certified by the relevant authority of the jurisdiction of organization of such Loan Party and a true and correct copy of its bylaws or operating, limited liability company or partnership agreement (or equivalent governing documents), and (v) a good standing certificate or equivalent certification for each Loan Party from its jurisdiction of organization as of a recent date.

(c)[Reserved].

(d)[Reserved].

(e)Information Certificate. Agent shall have received an executed copy of an updated Information Certificate with respect to each of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries dated as of the Closing Date.

(f)Closing Certificate. Agent shall have received a duly executed certificate from an Authorized Officer of the Administrative Borrower certifying that (i) the conditions precedent set forth inclauses (k),(m),(p) and(q) of thisSection 4.1 have been satisfied as of the Closing Date, and (ii) attached to such certificate is a true, correct and complete copy of the Valor Merger Agreement (which shall not have been amended, changed, modified, supplemented or had its terms waived in a manner other than as set forth inclause (p) of thisSection 4.1) and all amendments, exhibits and schedules thereto and other material agreements and instruments executed and delivered in connection therewith.

(g)Solvency Certificate. Agent shall have received a duly executed certificate from an Authorized Officer of the Administrative Borrower certifying that the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, are Solvent and will continue to be Solvent immediately after giving effect to this Agreement, the Valor Merger, the incurrence of the Term Loan Obligations, the payment of all fees and expenses to be paid by the Loan Parties in connection with any of the foregoing, and the other transactions to be consummated in connection with the foregoing (referred to in thisSection 4.1, collectively, as the “Valor Merger Transactions”).

(h)Opinions of Counsel. Agent shall have received customary written opinions of (i) Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, special counsel to the Loan Parties, and (ii) Foley & Lardner LLP, special Florida counsel to the Loan Parties, addressed, in each case, to Agent, the Issuing Bank, the Lenders and the other holders of the Obligations.

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(i)Fees and Expenses. The Lenders and Agent shall have received all fees required to be paid, including fees payable pursuant to the Fee Letter, and all costs and expenses required to be paid by the Loan Parties pursuant toSection 9.22 for which invoices have been presented to the Administrative Borrower at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of Vinson & Elkins LLP, counsel to Agent), on or before the Closing Date.

(j)Lien Searches. Agent shall have received the results of a recent lien search in each jurisdiction where the Loan Parties are organized and where the assets of the Loan Parties are located, and such search shall reveal no liens on any of the assets of the Loan Parties except for liens permitted bySection 9.8, or discharged on or prior to the Closing Date pursuant to apay-off letter or other documentation satisfactory to Agent.

(k)Merger Agreement Representations and Specified Representations. The Acquisition Agreement Representations and the Specified Representations (each as defined in the 2019 Commitment Letter) shall be true and correct in all material respects (without duplication of any materiality qualifier applicable thereto) on and as of the Closing Date.

(l)[Reserved].

(m)Closing Liquidity. Agent shall have received a duly completed written calculation in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Agent, dated as of Closing Date, certified by an Authorized Officer of the Administrative Borrower, which shall evidence that after giving effect to all Valor Merger Transactions and the other transactions contemplated to be effective on the Closing Date, including all Borrowings to be made on the Closing Date, on a pro forma basis, Liquidity shall not be less than $25,000,000.

(n)Term Loan Facility. Agent shall have received (a) evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that (i) each of the conditions precedent (other than the effectiveness of this Agreement) for the effectiveness of the Term Loan Agreement has been, or contemporaneously with the effectiveness of this Agreement will be, satisfied or waived and (ii) substantially contemporaneously with the effectiveness of the Term Loan Agreement the Lenders (as defined in the Term Loan Agreement) will fund to the Borrowers loan proceeds in an aggregate gross principal amount equal to $70,000,000 pursuant to the terms of the Term Loan Agreement and (b) executed copies of the Term Loan Agreement and all material Term Loan Documents, each of which shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent.

(o)Pledged Capital Stock; Stock Powers; Pledged Notes. The Term Loan Agent shall have received (i) if applicable, the certificates representing the Capital Stock pledged pursuant to the Pledge Agreements, together with an undated stock power for each such certificate executed in blank by an Authorized Officer of the pledgor thereof and (ii) each promissory note (if any) pledged to Agent pursuant to this Agreement, endorsed (without recourse) in blank (or accompanied by an executed transfer form in blank) by the pledgor thereof.

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(p)The Valor Merger. The Valor Merger shall have been, or shall substantially concurrently with the effectiveness of this Agreement be, consummated in accordance with the terms of the Valor Merger Agreement as in effect on August 7, 2019 without giving effect to any amendment (other than the First Merger Agreement Amendment), change, modification, supplement or waiver of any provision thereof, in each case, in any manner that is materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders and Agent without the prior written consent (not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned) of the Lenders and Agent (it being understood that (i) any increase in the consideration for the Valor Merger shall not be deemed to be materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders and Agent so long as such increase in consideration (A) is pursuant to any purchase price or similar adjustment provisions set forth in the Valor Merger Agreement as in effect on August 7, 2019 or (B) is not funded with additional Indebtedness, (ii) the following decreases in the consideration for the Valor Merger shall not be deemed to be materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders and Agent: (A) decreases pursuant to any purchase price or similar adjustment provisions set forth in the Valor Merger Agreement as in effect on August 7, 2019 and (B) decreases to the extent they are applied to reduce the amount of Indebtedness issued under the Term Loan Agreement and the equity contribution described inclause (v) of thisSection 4.1 on a pro rata basis, (iii) any change in third party beneficiary rights applicable to the Lenders or Agent or in the governing law without the prior written consent of the Lenders and Agent shall be deemed to be materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders and Agent, and (iv) any modification to the definition of “Company Material Adverse Effect” (as defined in the Valor Merger Agreement as in effect on August 7, 2019) without the prior written consent of the Agent shall be deemed to be materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders and Agent).

(q)No Company Material Adverse Effect. No “Company Material Adverse Effect” (as defined in the Valor Merger Agreement as in effect on August 7, 2019) shall have occurred since the date of the Valor Merger Agreement.

(r)Indebtedness. No Loan Party shall have any outstanding Indebtedness for borrowed money other than Indebtedness permitted underSection 9.9.

(s) “Know Your Customer”; USA PATRIOT ACT. (i) Agent and the Lenders shall have received, at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date, all documentation and other information regarding the Loan Parties requested in connection with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT ACT, to the extent reasonably requested in writing of the Loan Parties at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the Closing Date and (ii) to the extent any Loan Party qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date, any Lender that has requested, a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to each Loan Party shall have received such Beneficial Ownership Certification.

(t)Intercreditor Agreement. Agent shall have received a copy of the Intercreditor Agreement executed by the Term Loan Agent and the Loan Parties and which shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent.

(u)Amended and Restated Guaranty. Agent shall have received a Guaranty in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent and executed by each of the Loan Parties.

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(v)Equity Contribution. Agent shall have received evidence satisfactory to it that Ultimate Parent and/or the Permitted Holders shall have contributed, directly or indirectly, cash equity contributions to Parent and its Subsidiaries (in the form of (i) common equity or(ii) pay-in-kind preferred equity reasonably satisfactory to Agent) in an aggregate amount of not less than $30,000,000 (the “Closing Date Equity Contribution”).

(w)Borrowing Notice. Agent shall have received a Borrowing Request executed by an Authorized Officer of the Administrative Borrower in accordance withSection 2.11 with respect to any Borrowings to be made on the Closing Date.

Notwithstanding anything in thisSection 4.1 to the contrary, the Borrowers shall be deemed to have made all representations and warranties herein and the other Financing Agreements on the Closing Date.

4.2Conditions Precedent to All Loans and Letters of Credit. The obligation of Lenders to make the Loans (other than the initial Loans to be made on the Closing Date, or of Issuing Bank to issue any Letter of Credit, including the initial Letters of Credit, is subject to the further satisfaction of, or waiver of, immediately prior to or concurrently with the making of each such Loan or the issuance of such Letter of Credit of each of the following conditions precedent:

(a) all representations and warranties contained herein and in the other Financing Agreements shall be true and correct in all material respects with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date of the making of each such Loan or providing each such Letter of Credit and after giving effect thereto, except to the extent that such representations and warranties expressly relate solely to an earlier date (in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and accurate on and as of such earlier date);

(b) no Default or Event of Default shall exist or have occurred and be continuing on and as of the date of the making of such Loan or providing each such Letter of Credit and immediately after giving effect thereto; and

(c) after giving effect to any Revolving Loan or the issuance of any Letter of Credit, Excess Availability is not less than zero;

Each Loan made after the Closing Date and each issuance, increase, renewal or extension (other than automatic renewals and extensions of evergreen Letters of Credit) of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by Borrowers on the date thereof as to the matters specified inparagraphs (a),(b), and(c) of this Section.

SECTION 5.     GRANT AND PERFECTION OF SECURITY INTEREST

5.1Grant of Security Interest. To secure payment and performance of all Obligations, each Borrower and Guarantor, including Parent, hereby grants to Agent, for itself and the benefit of the Secured Parties, a continuing security interest in, a lien upon, and a right of set off against, as security, all of the following personal property and fixtures, and interests in personal property and fixtures, of each Borrower and Guarantor, whether now owned or hereafter acquired or existing, and wherever located (together with all other collateral security for the Obligations at any time granted to or held or acquired by Agent or any Secured Party, collectively, the “Collateral”), including:

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(b) all General Intangibles;

(c) all Intellectual Property and all rights to registration of any domain name;

(d) all Goods, including but not limited to, Inventory and Equipment;

(e) all Chattel Paper, including, all tangible and electronic Chattel Paper;

(f) all Instruments, including, all promissory notes;

(g) all Documents;

(h) all Deposit Accounts;

(i) all letters of credit, banker’s acceptances and similar instruments and including allLetter-of-Credit Rights;

(j) all Supporting Obligations and all present and future liens, security interests, rights, remedies, title and interest in, to and in respect of Receivables and other Collateral, including (i) rights and remedies under or relating to guaranties, contracts of suretyship, letters of credit and credit and other insurance related to the Collateral, (ii) rights of stoppage in transit, replevin, repossession, reclamation and other rights and remedies of an unpaid vendor, lienor or secured party, (iii) Goods described in invoices, documents, contracts or instruments with respect to, or otherwise representing or evidencing, Receivables or other Collateral, including returned, repossessed and reclaimed Goods, and (iv) deposits by and property of Account Debtors or other Persons securing the obligations of Account Debtors;

(k) all (i) Investment Property (including, but not limited to, Securities, whether certificated or uncertificated, Securities accounts, Security entitlements, commodity contracts or commodity accounts) and (ii) monies, credit balances, deposits and other property of any Borrower or Guarantor now or hereafter held or received by or in transit to Agent, any Lender or its Affiliates or at any other depository or other institution from or for the account of any Borrower or Guarantor, whether for pledge, custody, transmission, collection or otherwise;

(l) all commercial tort claims, including, those identified inSchedule 5.2(g) hereto;

(m) to the extent not otherwise described above, all Receivables;

(n) all Records; and

(o) all accessions to, substitutions for and replacements, products and proceeds of the foregoing, in any form, including insurance proceeds and all claims against third parties for loss or damage to or destruction of or other involuntary conversion of any kind or nature of any or all of the other Collateral.

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Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall the Collateral include, and Borrowers and Guarantors shall not be deemed to have granted a security interest in, (i) any personal (other than Accounts, Inventory and Intellectual Property) and Real Property, fixtures and interest of any Borrower or Guarantor which are not assignable or are incapable of being encumbered as a matter of law (after giving effect to Sections9-406,9-407,9-408 or9-409 of the UCC (or any successor provision or provisions) of any relevant jurisdiction or any other applicable law), except for the products and proceeds thereof, (ii) any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s rights or interests in any license, contract or agreement with respect to Intellectual Property (which is not owned by such Borrower or Guarantor) to which such Borrower or Guarantor is a party or any of its rights or interests thereunder to the extent, but only to the extent, that such a grant would, under applicable law, result in a breach of the terms of, or constitute a default under any license, contract or agreement to which such Borrower or Guarantor is a party (after giving effect to Sections9-406,9-407,9-408 or9-409 of the UCC (or any successor provision or provisions) of any relevant jurisdiction or any other applicable law) (except for the products and proceeds thereof);provided,however, upon the ineffectiveness, lapse or termination of any such provision, the Collateral shall include, and such Borrower or Guarantor shall be deemed to have granted a security interest in, all such rights and interests as if such provision had never been in effect, and (iii) the Capital Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary to the extent that such Capital Stock constitutes more than sixty-five percent (65%) of the Voting Stock of all classes of the Capital Stock of such Foreign Subsidiary that are entitled to vote, except for the products and proceeds thereof as long as such products or proceeds do not cause the aggregate amount of the Voting Stock of such Foreign Subsidiary part of the Collateral to exceed at any time sixty-five percent (65%) of the Voting Stock of all classes of the Capital Stock of such Foreign Subsidiary. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Collateral shall exclude any rights to any Intellectual Property, or License Agreements that would be cancelled or rendered invalid or unenforceable under applicable law by the grant of a security interest created pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, for as long as such prohibition or reason for invalidity under applicable law exists, except for the products and proceeds thereof. If any Borrower or Guarantor is required to deliver an estoppel letter with respect to any leasehold to the landlord party to such lease (or to the mortgagor of such landlord), the Collateral shall also exclude any rights to such leasehold to the extent necessary to permit such Borrower or Guarantor to certify that such leasehold is not subject to any assignment or hypothecation, and solely for purposes of such estoppel letter.

5.2Perfection of Security Interests.

(a) Each Borrower and Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally authorizes Agent (or its agent) to file at any time and from time to time such financing statements with respect to the Collateral naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, as Agent may reasonably require, and including any other information with respect to such Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code of such jurisdiction or under the PPSA, as Agent may reasonably determine, together with any amendment and continuations with respect thereto, which authorization shall apply to all financing statements filed on, prior to or after the date hereof. Any such financing statements may indicate the Collateral as (i) all assets of the debtor or words of similar effect,

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regardless of whether any particular asset comprised in the Collateral falls within the scope of Article 9 of the UCC of such jurisdiction or under the PPSA, or (ii) by any other description which reasonably approximates the description contained herein. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby ratifies and approves all financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, as debtor with respect to the Collateral (and any amendments with respect to such financing statements) filed by or on behalf of Agent prior to the date hereof and ratifies and confirms the authorization of Agent to file such financing statements (and amendments, if any). Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby authorizes Agent to adopt on behalf of such Borrower and Guarantor any symbol required for authenticating any electronic filing. In the event that the description of the collateral in any financing statement naming Agent or its designee as the secured party and any Borrower or Guarantor as debtor includes assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not at any time constitute Collateral, whether hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise, the filing of such financing statement shall nonetheless be deemed authorized by such Borrower or Guarantor to the extent of the Collateral included in such description and it shall not render the financing statement ineffective as to any of the Collateral or otherwise affect the financing statement as it applies to any of the Collateral,provided, that, the inclusion of the description of assets and properties of such Borrower or Guarantor that do not constitute Collateral in any financing statement shall not be deemed a grant of a security interest in such asset of such Borrower or Guarantor in favor of Agent and Secured Parties. In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor at any time file, or permit or cause to be filed, any correction statement or termination statement with respect to any financing statement (or amendment or continuation with respect thereto) naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor without the prior written consent of Agent. Each Borrower and Guarantor acknowledges that it is not authorized to file any financing statement, amendment, termination statement or correction statement with respect to any financing statement without the prior written consent of Agent.

(b) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any Chattel Paper (whether tangible or electronic) or Instruments as of the Closing Date, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any Chattel Paper or Instrument after the date hereof, which together with all other Chattel Paper or Instruments that Borrower has become entitled to or has received after the date hereof has an aggregate fair market value in excess of $100,000, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon the receipt thereof by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor (including by any agent or representative), such Borrower or Guarantor shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, all such tangible Chattel Paper and Instruments that such Borrower or Guarantor has or may at any time acquire, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify, in each case except as Agent may otherwise agree. At Agent’s option, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, or Agent may at any time on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor, cause the original of any such Instrument or Chattel Paper with an aggregate fair market value in excess of $100,000, to be conspicuously marked in a form and manner acceptable to Agent with the following legend referring to Chattel Paper or Instruments as applicable: “This[chattel paper][instrument] is subject to the security interest of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and any sale, transfer, assignment or encumbrance of this[chattel paper][instrument] violates the rights of such secured party.”

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(c) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time hold or acquire an interest in any electronic Chattel Paper or any “transferable record” (as such term is defined in Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction, or any similar or successor act, law or statute) which together with all other electronic Chattel Paper or “transferable record” that Borrower has become entitled to or has received after the date hereof has an aggregate fair market value in excess of $100,000, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall take, or cause to be taken, such actions as Agent may request to give Agent control of such electronic Chattel Paper underSection 9-105 of the UCC and control of such transferable record under Section 201 of the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act or, as the case may be, Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, as in effect in such jurisdiction, or any similar or successor act, law or statute.

(d) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any Deposit Accounts as of the Closing Date, except (x) Store Accounts or (y) as set forth in the Information Certificate. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any Deposit Account unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of any Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity reasonably acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the bank at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such bank with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (ii) the bank where such account is opened or maintained shall be an Eligible Depository Bank or shall be reasonably acceptable to Agent, and (iii) within fifteen (15) Business Days after the opening of such Deposit Account, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may reasonably specify either (A) deliver to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement with respect to such Deposit Account duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and the bank at which such Deposit Account is opened and maintained or (B) arrange for Agent to become the customer of the bank with respect to the Deposit Account on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to Agent;provided, that to the extent a Deposit Account Control Agreement has not been delivered to Agent as of the Closing Date for any Deposit Account in existence at such time, Borrowers shall deliver a Deposit Account Control Agreement for such Deposit Account pursuant toSection 9.31. The terms of thissubsection (d) shall not apply to Excluded Accounts. Agent shall not exercise control over any Deposit Account until an Event of Default has occurred or a Compliance Period has commenced, and thereafter for only so long as it is continuing; and Agent shall cease to exercise control over any Deposit Accounts at such time as no Event of Default and no Compliance Period is then continuing.

(e) No Borrower or Guarantor owns or holds, directly or indirectly, beneficially or as record owner or both, any Investment Property, as of the Closing Date, or have any investment account, Securities account, commodity account or other similar account with any bank or other financial institution or other securities intermediary or commodity intermediary as of the Closing Date, in each case except as set forth in the Information Certificate.

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(i) In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any certificated Securities, which together with all other certificated Securities that Borrower holds or acquires an interest in after the date hereof have an aggregate fair market value in excess of $100,000, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly endorse, assign and deliver the same to Agent, accompanied by such instruments of transfer or assignment duly executed in blank as Agent may from time to time specify. If any Securities, now or hereafter acquired by any Borrower or Guarantor are uncertificated and are issued to such Borrower or Guarantor or its nominee directly by the issuer thereof, and such Securities together with all other such Securities acquired by Borrower have an aggregate fair market value in excess of $100,000, such Borrower or Guarantor shall immediately notify Agent thereof and shall as Agent may reasonably specify, either (A) cause the issuer to agree to comply with instructions from Agent as to such Securities, without further consent of any Borrower or Guarantor or such nominee (it being understood that Agent shall not give any such issuer any such instructions unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing), or (B) arrange for Agent to become the registered owner of the Securities.

(ii) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, after the date hereof open, establish or maintain any investment account, securities account, commodity account or any other similar account (other than a Deposit Account) with any securities intermediary or commodity intermediary unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (A) Agent shall have received not less than five (5) Business Days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to open or establish such account which notice shall specify in reasonable detail and specificity reasonably acceptable to Agent the name of the account, the owner of the account, the name and address of the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary at which such account is to be opened or established, the individual at such intermediary with whom such Borrower or Guarantor is dealing and the purpose of the account, (B) the securities intermediary or commodity intermediary (as the case may be) where such account is opened or maintained shall be acceptable to Agent, and (C) within fifteen (15) Business Days after the opening of such investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary, such Borrower or Guarantor shall as Agent may specify either (1) execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered to Agent, an Investment Property Control Agreement with respect thereto duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Borrower or Guarantor and such securities intermediary or commodity intermediary or (2) arrange for Agent or ABL Agent to become the entitlement holder with respect to such Investment Property on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to Agent;provided, that to the extent an Investment Property Control Agreement has not been delivered to Agent as of the Closing Date for any investment account, securities account or other similar account with a securities intermediary or commodity intermediary in existence at such time, Borrowers shall deliver an Investment Property Control Agreement pursuant toSection 9.31. Agent shall not exercise control over any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account (other than any Deposit Accounts which shall be governed bySection 5.2(d) above) unless an Event of Default has occurred or a Compliance Period has commenced, and thereafter for only so long as it is continuing; and Agent shall cease to exercise control over any investment account, securities account, commodity account or other similar account at such time as no Event of Default and no Compliance Period is then continuing.

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(f) Borrowers and Guarantors are not the beneficiary or otherwise entitled to any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument as of the Closing Date, except as set forth in the Information Certificate. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall receive any right to payment under any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or any similar instrument, whether as beneficiary thereof or otherwise after the date hereof, which together with all other letters of credit, banker’s acceptances and similar instruments that Borrower has become entitled to or has received after the date hereof has an aggregate fair market value in excess of $100,000, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly, as Agent may reasonably specify, either (i) deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent, with respect to any such letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, the written agreement of the issuer and any other nominated Person obligated to make any payment in respect thereof (including any confirming or negotiating bank), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, consenting to the assignment of the proceeds of the letter of credit to Agent by such Borrower or Guarantor and agreeing to make all payments thereon directly to Agent or as Agent may otherwise direct upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default or (ii) cause Agent to become, at Borrowers’ expense, the transferee beneficiary of the letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument (as the case may be) upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default).

(g) Except as set forth inSchedule 5.2(g) hereto, on the date hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any commercial tort claims with respect to which the amount claimed exceeds $250,000 and either a written demand therefor has been made or legal action has commenced. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall at any time after the date hereof have any commercial tort claims with respect to which the amount claimed exceeds $250,000 and either a written demand therefor has been made or legal action has commenced, or if any Event of Default exists, upon Agent’s request, if any Borrower or Guarantor has any commercial tort claims, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing, which notice shall (i) set forth in reasonable detail the basis for and nature of such commercial tort claim and (ii) include the express grant by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent of a security interest in such commercial tort claim (and the proceeds thereof). In the event that such notice does not include such grant of a security interest, the sending thereof by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent shall be deemed to constitute such grant to Agent. Upon the sending of such notice, any commercial tort claim described therein shall constitute part of the Collateral and shall be deemed included therein. Without limiting the authorization of Agent provided inSection 5.2(a) hereof or otherwise arising by the execution by such Borrower or Guarantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized from time to time and at any time to file such financing statements naming Agent or its designee as secured party and such Borrower or Guarantor as debtor, or any amendments to any financing statements, covering any such commercial tort claim as Collateral. In addition, each Borrower and Guarantor shall promptly upon Agent’s reasonable request, execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with such commercial tort claim.

(h) Borrowers and Guarantors do not have any Goods, documents of title or other Collateral in the custody, control or possession of a third party as of the Closing Date, except as set forth in the Information Certificate and except for Goods located in the United States (and Goods located in Canada, so long as Agent has received prior notification thereof and Borrowers have taken all action reasonably requested by Agent to perfect the security interest of Agent and Secured Parties therein) in transit to a location of a Borrower or Guarantor permitted herein in the

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ordinary course of business of such Borrower or Guarantor in the possession of any carrier transporting such Goods. In the event that any Goods covered by documents of title or other Collateral with a fair market value in excess of $250,000 are at any time after the date hereof in the custody, control or possession of any other Person not referred to in the Information Certificate or such carriers, Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly notify Agent thereof in writing. Promptly upon Agent’s reasonable request, Borrowers and Guarantors shall deliver to Agent a Collateral Access Agreement, subject toSection 9.31 hereof, duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Person and the Borrower or Guarantor that is the owner of such Collateral, except where the fair market value of the Collateral involved is less than $250,000 so long as the aggregate Value of all Collateral located at such locations without a Collateral Access Agreement shall not exceed $2,000,000.

(i) Each Borrower and Guarantor will use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the Intellectual Property owned by it, defend the Intellectual Property against the claims of all persons, and will maintain and renew all registrations of the Intellectual Property, if applicable;provided, that, Borrowers and Guarantors shall not be required to maintain, defend or renew any Intellectual Property which is not material to the Borrowers’ business or has no material economic value. If any trademark is material to the conduct of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s business or has material economic value, such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, shall not permit the expiration or abandonment of such trademark without the prior written consent of Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld). If, before the Obligations have been satisfied in full and the Financing Agreements have been terminated, any Borrower or Guarantor shall obtain or acquire any new trademark registration or file or acquire any new trademark application, Administrative Borrower shall give Agent notice thereof in the compliance certificate delivered to Agent pursuant toSection 9.6(a)(i) hereof.

(i) Until the Obligations shall have been Paid in Full and the Financing Agreements have been terminated (other than indemnification and other contingent obligations not yet accrued at such time), each Borrower and Guarantor shall use commercially reasonable efforts to preserve and maintain all rights in the trademarks and the other Intellectual Property;provided, that Borrowers and Guarantors are not required to preserve or maintain any trademarks which are not material to the Borrowers’ business or have no material economic value. Any expenses incurred in connection with such actions shall be borne by Borrowers.

(ii) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not expressly abandon any right to file a trademark, copyright or patent application or registration for any trademark, copyright or patent, or abandon any pending trademark, copyright or patent application or registration without the prior written consent of Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), except to the extent that the trademark, copyright or patent covered by such application or registration is not material to the Borrowers’ business or has no material economic value.

(j) Subject toSection 9.2 hereof, Borrowers and Guarantors shall take any other actions reasonably requested by Agent from time to time to cause the attachment, perfection and first priority of, and the ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in any and all of the Collateral, including, (i) executing, delivering and, where appropriate, filing financing statements and amendments relating thereto under the UCC, the PPSA or other applicable law, to the extent, if any, that any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s signature thereon is required therefor, (ii)

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upon Agent’s request after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, causing Agent’s name to be noted as secured party on any certificate of title for a titled good if such notation is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iii) complying with any provision of any statute, regulation or treaty of the United States or Canada as to any Collateral if compliance with such provision is a condition to attachment, perfection or priority of, or ability of Agent to enforce, the security interest of Agent in such Collateral, (iv) obtaining the required consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority or third party, including, any consent of any licensor, lessor or other Person obligated on Collateral, and taking all actions required by other law, as applicable in any relevant jurisdiction.

SECTION 6.     COLLECTION AND ADMINISTRATION

6.1Borrowers’ Loan Accounts. Agent shall maintain one or more loan account(s) on its books in which shall be recorded (a) all Loans, Letters of Credit and other Obligations and the Collateral, (b) all payments made by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor and (c) all other appropriate debits and credits as provided in this Agreement, including fees, charges, costs, expenses and interest. All entries in the loan account(s) shall be made in accordance with Agent’s customary practices as in effect from time to time and shall be deemed conclusive absent manifest error or omissions.

6.2Statements. Agent may from time to time provide the Borrowers with account statements or invoices with respect to any of the Obligations (the “Statements”). Agent is under no duty or obligation to provide Statements, which, if provided, will be solely for the Borrowers’ convenience. Statements may contain estimates of the amounts owed during the relevant billing period, whether of principal, interest, fees or other Obligations. If the Borrowers pay the full amount indicated on a Statement on or before the due date indicated on such Statement, the Borrowers shall not be in default of payment with respect to the billing period indicated on such Statement;provided, that acceptance by Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, of any payment that is less than the total amount actually due at that time (including but not limited to any past due amounts) shall not constitute a waiver of Agent’s or the Lenders’ right to receive payment in full at another time.

6.3Collection of Accounts.

(a) Each Borrower and Guarantor shall establish and maintain, at its expense, deposit account arrangements and merchant payment arrangements with the banks set forth onSchedule 8.10 hereto and subject toSection 5.2(d) hereof such other banks as such Borrower or Guarantor may hereafter select. The banks set forth onSchedule 8.10 hereto constitute all of the banks with which Borrowers and Guarantors have deposit account arrangements and merchant payment arrangements as of the Closing Date and identifies each of the Deposit Accounts at such banks that are used solely for receiving store receipts from a retail store location of a Borrower (together with any other Deposit Accounts at any time established or used by any Borrower for receiving such store receipts from any retail store location, collectively, the “Store Accounts” and each individually, a “Store Account”) or otherwise describes the nature of the use of such Deposit Account by such Borrower or Guarantor.

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(i) Each Borrower shall deposit all proceeds from sales of Inventory in every form, including, without limitation, cash, checks, credit card sales drafts, credit card sales or charge slips or receipts and other forms of daily store receipts, from each retail store location of such Borrower into the Store Account of such Borrower used solely for such purpose in accordance with the current and prior practices of such Borrower, but in any event no less frequently than once every three (3) Business Days;provided, that, each retail store of a Borrower may retain in such store funds of up to $10,000 immediately after each deposit of funds from such store into the applicable Store Account. All such funds deposited into the Store Accounts shall be sent by wire transfer or other electronic funds transfer on each Business Day to the Blocked Accounts as provided inSection 6.3(a)(ii) below, except for (A) nominal amounts which are required to be maintained in such Store Accounts under the terms of such Borrower’s arrangements with the bank at which such Store Accounts are maintained or (B) with respect to funds deposited in Manual Sweeping Accounts, which shall be sent to the Blocked Accounts not less than twice every week (and which amounts, together with all amounts held at the retail store locations and not yet deposited in the Store Accounts and amounts in Store Accounts, shall not in the aggregate exceed $3,500,000 at any one time, except (1) to the extent from time to time additional amounts may be held in the retail stores or the Store Accounts on Saturday, Sunday or other days where the applicable depository bank is closed, which additional amounts are to be, and shall be, transferred on the next Business Day to the Blocked Accounts, and (2) except as Agent may otherwise agree).

(ii) Each Borrower shall establish and maintain, at its expense, Deposit Accounts with such banks as are reasonably acceptable to Agent (the “Blocked Accounts”) into which each Borrower shall promptly either cause all amounts on deposit in the Store Accounts of such Borrower to be sent as provided inSection 6.3(a)(i) above or shall itself deposit or cause to be deposited all proceeds of Collateral, including all proceeds from sales of Inventory, all amounts payable to each Borrower from Credit Card Issuers and Credit Card Processors, and all other proceeds of Collateral. Subject toSection 9.26, any Eligible Depository Bank shall be deemed acceptable to Agent.

(iii) Borrowers and Guarantors shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to Agent a Deposit Account Control Agreement duly authorized, executed and delivered by each bank where a Blocked Account is maintained as provided inSection 5.2 hereof. Without limiting any other rights or remedies of Agent or Lenders, Agent may, at its option, and shall (at the direction of Required Lenders), instruct the depository banks at which the Blocked Accounts are maintained to transfer all available funds received or deposited into the Blocked Accounts to the Agent Payment Account at any time that an Event of Default is continuing or a Compliance Period is continuing and Agent shall send to Administrative Borrower a copy of any such written instruction sent by Agent to the depository bank promptly thereafter. At all times that Agent shall have notified any depository bank to transfer funds from a Blocked Account to the Agent Payment Account, all payments made to such Blocked Accounts, whether in respect of the Receivables, as proceeds of Inventory or other Collateral or otherwise shall be treated as payments to Agent in respect of the Obligations and therefore shall constitute the property of Agent and Lenders to the extent of the then outstanding Obligations.

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(b) Borrowers shall make each payment or prepayment required to be made by them hereunder (whether of principal, interest, fees or reimbursement of LC Disbursements, or of amounts payable underSections 3.3,3.5 or3.7, or otherwise) prior to 2:00 p.m., New York time, on the date when due or the date fixed for any prepayment hereunder, in immediately available funds, without setoff, recoupment or counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to Agent in the Agent Payment Account, except payments to be made directly to the Issuing Bank as expressly provided herein and except that payments pursuant toSections 3.3,3.5,3.7 and9.22 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto. Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. Unless otherwise provided for herein, if any payment hereunder shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments hereunder shall be made in dollars.

(c) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default or upon the commencement of any Compliance Period and during any Compliance Period, Parent and its shareholders, directors, employees, agents, each Borrower and Guarantor and their respective employees, agents and Subsidiaries or other Affiliates shall receive and promptly remit to Agent, as the property of Agent, any monies, checks, notes, drafts or any other payment relating to and/or proceeds of Accounts or other Collateral which come into their possession or under their control and promptly upon receipt thereof, shall deposit or cause the same to be deposited in the Blocked Accounts, or remit the same or cause the same to be remitted, in kind, to Agent. In no event shall the same be commingled with any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s own funds. Borrowers agree to reimburse Agent on demand for any amounts owed or paid to any bank or other financial institution at which a Blocked Account or any other Deposit Account or investment account is established or any other bank, financial institution or other Person involved in the transfer of funds to or from the Blocked Accounts arising out of Agent’s payments to or indemnification of such bank, financial institution or other Person. The obligations of Borrowers to reimburse Agent for such amounts pursuant to thisSection 6.3 shall survive the termination ornon-renewal of this Agreement.

6.4Payments.

(a) All Obligations shall be payable to the Agent Payment Account as provided inSection 6.3 or such other place as Agent may designate from time to time. Agent shall apply payments received or collected from any Borrower or Guarantor or for the account of any Borrower or Guarantor (including the monetary proceeds of collections or of realization upon any Collateral) as follows:

(i)first, to pay any fees, indemnities or expense reimbursements then due to Agent from any Borrower or Guarantor;

(ii)second, to pay any fees, indemnities, or expense reimbursements then due to Lenders from any Borrower or Guarantor;

(iii)third, to pay interest due in respect of any Loans (and including any Special Agent Advances);

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(iv)fourth, to pay or prepay principal in respect of Special Agent Advances;

(v)fifth, to pay or prepay principal in respect of the Loans and to pay or prepay Hedge Obligations then due (up to the amount of any then effective Reserve established in respect of such Obligations), on a pro rata basis;

(vi)sixth, to pay or prepay any other Obligations whether or not then due, in such order and manner as Agent determines or at any time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing to be held as cash collateral in connection with any Letter of Credit Obligations or other contingent Obligations (but not including for this purpose any such other contingent Obligations arising under or pursuant to any Bank Products); and

(vii)seventh, at any time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing to pay or prepay any Obligations arising under or pursuant to any Bank Products (other than to the extent provided for above) or to Bank of America, N.A. pursuant to theE-Payables Agreement on a pro rata basis. Bank of America, N.A. shall not have any voting rights under this Agreement or any other Financing Agreement as a result of the existence of Obligations owing to it under and pursuant to theE-Payables Agreement.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, (A) unless so directed by Administrative Borrower or if an Event of Default exists, Agent shall not apply any payments which it receives to any Loans that are Eurodollar Rate Loans except on the expiration date of the Interest Period applicable to any such Loans that are Eurodollar Rate Loans and if payments are received or collected from Borrower that otherwise would be applied to Eurodollar Rate Loans, provided no Event of Default or Compliance Period exists, Administrative Borrower may instruct Agent to remit such funds to Administrative Borrower, otherwise, such payments shall be held by Agent and shall bear interest at the NYFRB Rate per annum commencing on the second Business Day following the date such payments are received or collected from Borrowers and continuing through the date such payments are applied to the Obligations, which shall be upon the expiration of the first Interest Period after receipt or collection of such payments, to the extent of the principal amount of the applicable Eurodollar Rate Loan or otherwise, in Agent’s sole discretion, remitted to Administrative Borrower and (B) to the extent any Borrower uses any proceeds of the Loans or Letters of Credit to acquire rights in or the use of any Collateral or to repay any Indebtedness used to acquire rights in or the use of any Collateral, payments in respect of the Obligations shall be deemed applied first to the Obligations arising from Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations that were not used for such purposes and second to the Obligations arising from Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations the proceeds of which were used to acquire rights in or the use of any Collateral in the chronological order in which such Borrower acquired such rights in or the use of such Collateral. Notwithstanding the foregoing, amounts received from any Borrower or any Guarantor that is not an ECP shall not be applied to any Excluded Hedge Obligations (it being understood, that in the event that any amount is applied to the Obligations other than Excluded Hedge Obligations as a result of this clause, Agent shall make such adjustments as it determines are appropriate to distributions pursuant to the “fifth” step and the “seventh” step, in each case as set forth above, from amounts received from an ECP to ensure, as nearly as possible, that the proportional aggregate recoveries with respect to the Obligations described in the “fifth” step and the “seventh” step above by the holders of any Excluded Hedge Obligations are the same as the proportional aggregate recoveries with respect to other Obligations pursuant to the “fifth” step and the “seventh” step above).

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(b) During the continuance of an Event of Default, at the election of Agent, all payments of principal, interest, LC Disbursements, fees, premiums, reimbursable expenses (including, without limitation, all reimbursement for fees, costs and expenses pursuant toSection 9.22), and other sums payable under the Financing Agreements, may be paid from the proceeds of Borrowings made hereunder whether made following a request by the Administrative Borrower pursuant toSection 2.11 or a deemed request as provided in this Section or may be deducted from any deposit account of any Borrower maintained with Agent. The Borrowers hereby irrevocably authorize, during the continuance of an Event of Default, (i) Agent to make a Borrowing for the purpose of paying each payment of principal, interest and fees as it becomes due hereunder or any other amount due under the Financing Agreements and agrees that all such amounts charged shall constitute Loans and that all such Borrowings shall be deemed to have been requested pursuant toSection 2.11 and (ii) Agent to charge any deposit account of any Borrower maintained with Agent for each payment of principal, interest and fees as it becomes due hereunder or any other amount due under the Financing Agreements.

(c) Unless Agent shall have received, prior to any date on which any payment is due to Agent for the account of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank pursuant to the terms hereof or any other Financing Agreement, notice from the Administrative Borrower that the Borrowers will not make such payment, Agent may assume that the Borrowers have made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if the Borrowers have not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or Issuing Bank with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it but excluding the date of payment to Agent, at the greater of the NYFRB Rate and a rate determined by Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.

(d) Borrowers shall make all payments to Agent and Lenders on the Obligations free and clear of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any setoff, counterclaim, defense, restrictions or conditions of any kind. If after receipt of any payment of, or proceeds of Collateral applied to the payment of, any of the Obligations, Agent, any Lender or Issuing Bank is required to surrender or return such payment or proceeds to any Person for any reason, then the Obligations intended to be satisfied by such payment or proceeds shall be reinstated and continue and this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect as if such payment or proceeds had not been received by Agent or such Lender. Borrowers and Guarantors shall be liable to pay to Agent and Lenders, and do hereby indemnify and hold Agent and Lenders harmless for the amount of any payments or proceeds so surrendered or returned and to the extent thereof. ThisSection 6.4(d) shall remain effective notwithstanding any contrary action which may be taken by Agent or any Lender in reliance upon such payment or proceeds. ThisSection 6.4 shall survive the payment of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

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6.5[Reserved].

6.6Authorization to Make Loans. Agent and Lenders are authorized to make the Loans and Issuing Bank is authorized to issue Letters of Credit based upon telephonic or other instructions received from anyone purporting to be an Authorized Officer of Administrative Borrower or any Borrower or other authorized Person or, at the discretion of Agent, if such Loans are necessary to satisfy any Obligations;provided, that, Agent and Lenders shall direct the Loans only into the Funding Accounts and those accounts of Borrowers authorized in writing by an Authorized Officer. The foregoing sentence notwithstanding, if Agent or a Lender makes a Loan into an account of any Borrower designated by a Person who no longer is an Authorized Officer and Agent did not receive prior written notice that such Person is no longer an Authorized Officer, such Loan will still be considered an Obligation hereunder. All Loans and Letters of Credit under this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been made to, and at the request of and for the benefit of, any Borrower or Guarantor when deposited to the credit of any Borrower or Guarantor or otherwise disbursed or established in accordance with the instructions of any Borrower or Guarantor or in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

6.7Use of Proceeds.

(a) Borrowers shall use the initial proceeds of the Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit hereunder only for costs, expenses and fees in connection with the preparation, negotiation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements and consummation of any other permitted transactions contemplated hereby which will take place on or about the date hereof and costs, expenses and fees in connection with the preparation, negotiation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements. All other Revolving Loans made or Letters of Credit provided to or for the benefit of any Borrower pursuant to the provisions hereof shall be used by such Borrower only to finance Permitted Acquisitions and for general operating, working capital and other proper corporate purposes of such Borrower (including the intercompany funding of Borrowers and Guarantors and to fund a portion of the consideration, fees and expenses in respect of the Valor Merger) not otherwise prohibited by the terms hereof. None of the proceeds of any Loans or Letters of Credit will be used, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin security or for the purposes of reducing or retiring any Indebtedness which was originally incurred to purchase or carry any margin security or for any other purpose which might cause any of the Loans to be considered a “purpose credit” within the meaning of Regulation U of the Federal Reserve Board, as amended.

(b) No Borrower will request any Loan or Letter of Credit, and no Borrower or Guarantor shall use, and each Borrower and Guarantor shall procure that its Subsidiaries and its and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents shall not use, the proceeds of any Loan or Letter of Credit (i) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws, (ii) for the purpose of funding, financing or facilitating any activities, business or transaction of or with any Sanctioned Person, or in any Sanctioned Country, to the extent that such activities, businesses or transaction would be prohibited by applicable Sanctions, or (iii) in any manner that would result in the violation of any Sanctions applicable to any party hereto.

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6.8Appointment of Administrative Borrower as Agent for Requesting Loans and Receipts of Loans and Statements.

(a) Each Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints Vitamin Shoppe as Administrative Borrower and, as such, constitutes Administrative Borrower as its agent andattorney-in-fact to request and receive Loans and Letters of Credit pursuant to this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements from Agent or any Lender in the name or on behalf of such Borrower. Agent and Lenders may disburse the Loans to such bank account of Administrative Borrower or a Borrower or otherwise make such Loans to a Borrower and provide such Letter of Credit to a Borrower as Administrative Borrower may designate or direct, without notice to any other Borrower or Guarantor. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Agent may at any time and from time to time require that Loans to or for the account of any Borrower be disbursed directly to an operating account of such Borrower.

(b) Administrative Borrower hereby accepts the appointment by Borrowers to act as the agent andattorney-in-fact of Borrowers pursuant to thisSection 6.8. Administrative Borrower shall have and may exercise such powers under the Financing Agreements as are specifically delegated to Administrative Borrower by the terms of each thereof, including, but not limited to ensuring that the disbursement of any Loans to each Borrower requested by or paid to or for the account of a Borrower, or the issuance of any Letter of Credit for a Borrower hereunder, shall be paid to or for the account of such Borrower, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.

(c) Each Borrower and other Guarantor hereby irrevocably appoints and constitutes Administrative Borrower as its agent to receive statements on account and all other notices from Agent and Lenders with respect to the Obligations or otherwise under or in connection with this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements.

(d) Any notice, election, representation, warranty, agreement or undertaking by or on behalf of any other Borrower or any Guarantor by Administrative Borrower shall be deemed for all purposes to have been made by such Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, and shall be binding upon and enforceable against such Borrower or Guarantor to the same extent as if made directly by such Borrower or Guarantor.

(e) The Administrative Borrower may execute any of its duties as the Administrative Borrower hereunder and under any other Financing Agreements by or through Authorized Officers.

(f) No purported termination of the appointment of Administrative Borrower as agent as aforesaid shall be effective, except after ten (10) days’ prior written notice to Agent.

6.9Pro Rata Treatment. Except to the extent otherwise provided in this Agreement or as otherwise agreed by Lenders: (a) the making and conversion of Revolving Loans shall be made among the Revolving Lenders based on their respective Pro Rata Shares as to the Revolving Loans and (b) each payment on account of any Obligations to or for the account of one or more of Lenders in respect of any Obligations due on a particular day shall be allocated among the Lenders entitled to such payments based on their respective Pro Rata Shares of such Loans, as applicable, and shall be distributed accordingly.

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6.10Sharing of Payments, Etc.

(a) Each Borrower and Guarantor agrees that, in addition to (and without limitation of) any right of setoff, banker’s lien or counterclaim Agent or any Lender may otherwise have, each Lender shall be entitled, at its option (but subject, as among Agent and Lenders, to the provisions ofSection 12.3(b) hereof), to offset balances held by it for the account of such Borrower or Guarantor at any of its offices, in dollars or in any other currency, against any principal of or interest on any Loans owed to such Lender or any other amount payable to such Lender hereunder, that is not paid when due (regardless of whether such balances are then due to such Borrower or Guarantor), in which case it shall promptly notify Administrative Borrower and Agent thereof;provided, that, such Lender’s failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity thereof.

(b) If, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and accrued interest thereon than the proportion received by any other similarly situated Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans and participations in LC Disbursements of other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by all such Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares;provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrowers pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements to any assignee or participant, other than to the Borrowers or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof (as to which the provisions of this paragraph shall apply). Each Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against such Borrower rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Borrower in the amount of such participation.

(c) Each Borrower and Guarantor agrees that any Lender purchasing a participation (or direct interest) as provided in this Section may exercise, in a manner consistent with this Section, all rights of setoff, banker’s lien, counterclaim or similar rights with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct holder of Loans or other amounts (as the case may be) owing to such Lender in the amount of such participation.

(d) Nothing contained herein shall require any Lender to exercise any right of setoff, banker’s lien, counterclaims or similar rights or shall affect the right of any Lender to exercise, and retain the benefits of exercising, any such right with respect to any other Indebtedness or obligation of any Borrower or Guarantor. If, under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or

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other similar law, any Lender receives a secured claim in lieu of a setoff to which this Section applies, such Lender shall, to the extent practicable, assign such rights to Agent for the benefit of Secured Parties and, in any event, exercise its rights in respect of such secured claim in a manner consistent with the rights of Lenders entitled under this Section to share in the benefits of any recovery on such secured claim.

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6.12Settlement Procedures.

(a) In order to administer the Credit Facility in an efficient manner and to minimize the transfer of funds between Agent and Lenders, Agent may, at its option, subject to the terms of this Section, make available, on behalf of Lenders, the full amount of the Revolving Loans requested or charged to any Borrower’s loan account(s) or otherwise to be advanced by Lenders pursuant to the terms hereof, without requirement of prior notice to Lenders of the proposed Revolving Loans.

(b) With respect to all Revolving Loans made by Agent on behalf of Lenders as provided in this Section, the amount of each Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the outstanding Revolving Loans shall be computed weekly, and shall be adjusted upward or downward on the basis of the amount of the outstanding Revolving Loans as of 5:00 p.m. New York time on the Business Day immediately preceding the date of each settlement computation;provided, that, Agent retains the absolute right at any time or from time to time to make the above described adjustments at intervals more frequent than weekly, but in no event more than twice in any week. Agent shall deliver to each of the Lenders after the end of each week, or at such lesser period or periods as Agent shall determine, a summary statement of the amount of outstanding Revolving Loans for such period (such week or lesser period or periods being hereinafter referred to as a “Settlement Period”). If the summary statement is sent by Agent and received by a Lender prior to 11:00 a.m. New York time, then such Lender shall make the settlement transfer described in this Section by no later than 3:00 p.m. New York time on the same Business Day and if received by a Lender after 11:00 a.m. New York time, then such Lender shall make the settlement transfer by not later than 3:00 p.m. New York time on the next Business Day following the date of receipt. If, as of the end of any Settlement Period, the amount of a Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the outstanding Revolving Loans is more than such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the outstanding Revolving Loans as of the end of the previous Settlement Period, then, if the summary statement is prepared and delivered to Lenders by Agent prior to 11:00 a.m. New York City time, then Agent shall make the transfer described in this Section by no later than 3:00 p.m. New York City time on the same Business Day and if prepared and delivered to Lenders by Agent after 11:00 a.m. New York City time, then Agent shall make the transfer by no later than 3:00 p.m. New York City time on the next Business Day following the date of receipt, then such Lender shall forthwith (but in no event later than the time set forth in the preceding sentence) transfer to Agent by wire transfer in immediately available funds the amount of the increase. Alternatively, if the amount of a Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the outstanding Revolving Loans in any Settlement Period is less than the amount of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the outstanding Revolving Loans for the previous Settlement Period, Agent shall forthwith transfer to such Lender by wire transfer in immediately available funds the amount of the decrease. The obligation of each of the Lenders to transfer such funds and effect such settlement shall be irrevocable and unconditional and without recourse to or warranty by Agent. Agent and each Lender agrees to mark its books and records at the end of each Settlement Period to show at all times the dollar amount of its Pro Rata Share of the outstanding

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Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit. Each Lender shall only be entitled to receive interest on its Pro Rata Share of the Revolving Loans to the extent such Revolving Loans have been funded by such Lender. Because the Agent on behalf of Lenders may be advancing and/or may be repaid Revolving Loans prior to the time when Lenders will actually advance and/or be repaid such Revolving Loans, interest with respect to Revolving Loans shall be allocated by Agent in accordance with the amount of Revolving Loans actually advanced by and repaid to each Lender and the Agent and shall accrue from and including the date such Revolving Loans are so advanced to but excluding the date such Revolving Loans are either repaid by Borrowers or actually settled with the applicable Lender as described in this Section.

(c) To the extent that Agent has made any such amounts available and the settlement described above shall not yet have occurred, upon repayment of any Revolving Loans by a Borrower, Agent may apply such amounts repaid directly to any amounts made available by Agent pursuant to this Section. In lieu of weekly or more frequent settlements, Agent may, at its option, at any time require each Lender to provide Agent with immediately available funds representing its Pro Rata Share of each Revolving Loan, prior to Agent’s disbursement of such Revolving Loan to a Borrower (or Administrative Borrower on behalf of such Borrower). In such event, all Revolving Loans under this Agreement shall be made by the Lenders simultaneously and proportionately to their Pro Rata Shares of Loans. No Lender shall be responsible for any default by any other Lender in the other Lender’s obligation to make a Revolving Loan requested hereunder nor shall the Commitment of any Lender be increased or decreased as a result of the default by any other Lender in the other Lender’s obligation to make a Revolving Loan hereunder.

(d) If Agent is not funding a particular Revolving Loan to a Borrower (or Administrative Borrower for the benefit of such Borrower) pursuant toSections 6.11(a) and6.11(b) above on any day, but is requiring each Lender to provide Agent with immediately available funds on the date of such Revolving Loan as provided inSection 6.11(c) above, Agent may assume that each Lender will make available to Agent such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Revolving Loan requested or otherwise made on such day and Agent may, in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, cause a corresponding amount to be made available to or for the benefit of such Borrower on such day. If Agent makes such corresponding amount available to a Borrower and such corresponding amount is not in fact made available to Agent by such Lender, Agent shall be entitled to recover such corresponding amount on demand from such Lender together with interest thereon for each day from the date such payment was due until the date such amount is paid to Agent at the NYFRB Rate for each day during such period (as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or at Agent’s option based on the arithmetic mean determined by Agent of the rates for the last transaction in overnight Federal funds arranged prior to 9:00 a.m. (New York City time) on that day by each of the three leading brokers of Federal funds transactions in New York City selected by Agent) and if such amounts are not paid within three (3) days of Agent’s demand, at the highest interest rate provided for inSection 3.1 hereof applicable to ABR Loans. During the period in which such Lender has not paid such corresponding amount to Agent, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements, the amount so advanced by Agent to or for the benefit of any Borrower shall, for all purposes hereof, be a Revolving Loan made by Agent for its own account. Upon any such failure by a Lender to pay Agent, Agent shall promptly thereafter notify Administrative Borrower of such failure and Borrowers shall pay such corresponding amount to Agent for its own account within five (5) Business Days of Administrative Borrower’s receipt of such notice, which shall constitute a payment on account of Obligations.

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(e) Nothing in this Section or elsewhere in this Agreement or the other Financing Agreements shall be deemed to require Agent to advance funds on behalf of any Lender or to relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitment hereunder or to prejudice any rights that any Borrower may have against any Lender as a result of any default by any Lender hereunder in fulfilling its Commitment.

6.13Obligations Several; Independent Nature of Lenders’ Rights. The obligation of each Lender hereunder is several, and no Lender shall be responsible for the obligation or Commitment of any other Lender hereunder. Nothing contained in this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements and no action taken by the Lenders pursuant hereto or thereto shall be deemed to constitute the Lenders to be a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity. The amounts payable at any time hereunder to each Lender shall be a separate and independent debt, and subject toSection 12.3 hereof, each Lender shall be entitled to protect and enforce its rights arising out of this Agreement and it shall not be necessary for any other Lender to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.

SECTION 7.     COLLATERAL REPORTING AND COVENANTS

7.1Collateral Reporting.

(a) Borrowers and Guarantors shall maintain complete and accurate books and records in all material respects with respect to the Collateral owned by it. Borrowers and Guarantors shall provide Agent with the following documents in a form reasonably satisfactory to Agent:

(i) (A) promptly after the end of (but in no event more than fifteen (15) Business Days thereafter) (x) each fiscal quarter or (y) each fiscal month to the extent that aggregate sum of the Loans and Letters of Credit outstanding are greater than $20,000,000 at any time during the thirty days prior to the last day of such fiscal month, in each case, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and no Increased Reporting Period is then in effect, a Borrowing Base Certificate setting forth the calculation of the Borrowing Base as of the last Business Day of the immediately preceding fiscal month for monthly reporting (or the last Business Day of the immediately preceding fiscal quarter for quarterly reporting) and (B) no more than three (3) Business Days following the last Business Day of each calendar week at any time an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or an Increased Reporting Period is then in effect, a Borrowing Base Certificate setting forth the calculation of the Borrowing Base as of the last Business Day of the immediately preceding calendar week, in each case, duly completed and executed by the chief financial officer, vice president of finance, treasurer, controller or other similar financial officer of Administrative Borrower, together with all schedules required pursuant to the terms of the Borrowing Base Certificate duly completed, including but not limited to an inventory summary report by category as determined by Borrowers in accordance with their current and prior inventory management policies (and upon Agent’s reasonable request, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default letter of credit inventory summary) and identifying where such Inventory is located;

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(ii) promptly after the end of (but in no event more than fifteen (15) Business Days thereafter) (x) each fiscal quarter or (y) each fiscal month to the extent that aggregate sum of the Loans and Letters of Credit outstanding are greater than $20,000,000 at any time during the thirty days prior to the last day of such fiscal month, in each case, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and no Increased Reporting Period is then in effect (and more frequently as Agent may reasonably require at any time an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or an Increased Reporting Period is then in effect), a schedule and aging of the Borrowers’ accounts payable, delivered electronically in a text formatted file acceptable to Agent;

(iii) promptly after the end of (but in no event more than fifteen (15) Business Days thereafter) (x) each fiscal quarter or (y) each fiscal month to the extent that the aggregate sum of the Loans and Letters of Credit outstanding are greater than $20,000,000 at any time during the thirty days prior to the last day of such fiscal month, in each case, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and no Increased Reporting Period is then in effect (and more frequently as Agent may reasonably require at any time an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or an Increased Reporting Period is then in effect), inventory summary reports by location and category of Inventory (including the amounts of Inventory and the aggregate value thereof at each retail store location and at premises of warehouses or other third parties or is consigned Inventory); and

(iv) in connection with the delivery of the financial statements pursuant toSection 9.6(a)(i) andSection 9.6(a)(ii), a compliance certificate by the chief financial officer, vice president of finance, treasurer or controller or other similar financial or senior officer of Administrative Borrower (or if no such officer has been appointed or elected, the sole member of Administrative Borrower) consisting of: (1) a statement confirming there are no material past due amounts owing to owners and lessors of leased premises (including retail store locations), warehouses, fulfillment centers, processors, custom brokers, freight forwarders and other third parties from time to time in possession of any Collateral having a Value equal to or greater than $250,000, (2) the addresses of all new retail store or distribution center locations of Borrowers and Guarantors opened and existing retail store or distribution center locations closed or sold, in each case since the date of the most recent certificate delivered to Agent containing the information required under this clause, (3) a list of any new Deposit Account established by any Borrower or Guarantor with any bank or other financial institution, including the Borrower or Guarantor in whose name the account is maintained, the account number, the name and address of the financial institution at which such account is maintained, the purpose of such account and, if any, the amount held in such account on or about the date of such compliance certificate, and (4) a statement that all sales and use taxes have been paid when due as of the date of the compliance certificate, except as specifically described in such compliance certificate and except where thenon-payment of such sales and use taxes involves an aggregate amount of less than $200,000.

(b) Upon Agent’s reasonable request, Borrowers shall provide Agent with the following documents in a form reasonably satisfactory to Agent: (i) perpetual inventory summary reports by sku for each retail store location, (ii) summary reports on sales and use tax collections, deposits and payments, including monthly sales and use tax accruals, (iii) a report of aggregate credit card sales for the requested period, including the amount of the chargebacks, fees, and credits with respect thereto and providing an aging of such related Receivables identifying those outstanding more than five (5) Business Days since the sale date giving rise thereto, and (iv) true, correct and complete copies of all agreements, documents and instruments relating to any Permitted Acquisition which Agent has not otherwise received; and

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(c) Upon Agent’s reasonable request, Borrowers shall provide such other reports as to the Collateral as Agent shall reasonably request from time to time. If any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s records or reports of the Collateral are prepared or maintained by an accounting service, contractor, shipper or other agent, such Borrower and Guarantor hereby irrevocably authorizes such service, contractor, shipper or agent to deliver such records, reports, and related documents to Agent and to follow Agent’s instructions with respect to further reasonable services, in each case, at any time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

7.2Accounts Covenants.

(a) Borrowers shall notify Agent promptly of the assertion of any claims, offsets, defenses or counterclaims by any Account Debtor, Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor or any disputes with any of such Persons or any settlement, adjustment or compromise thereof, to the extent any of the foregoing exceeds $500,000 in any one case or $2,000,000 in the aggregate. No credit, discount, allowance or extension or agreement for any of the foregoing shall be granted to any Account Debtor, Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor except in the ordinary course of a Borrower’s business in accordance with the current and prior practices of such Borrower. So long as an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, no Borrower shall, without the prior written consent of Agent, settle, adjust or compromise any material claim, offset, counterclaim or dispute with any Account Debtor, Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor. At any time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Agent shall, at its option, have the exclusive right to approve, settle, adjust or compromise any claim, offset, counterclaim or dispute with Account Debtors, Credit Card Issuers or Credit Card Processors or grant any credits, discounts or allowances.

(b) Each Borrower shall notify Agent promptly of: (i) any notice of a material default by such Borrower under any of the Credit Card Agreements, (ii) of any default by such Borrower which has a reasonable likelihood of resulting in the Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor ceasing to make payments or suspending payments to such Borrower, and (iii) any notice from any Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor that such Person is ceasing or suspending, or will or may cease or suspend, any present or future payments due or to become due to any Borrower from such Person, or that such Person is terminating or will or may terminate any of the Credit Card Agreements.

(c) Agent shall have the right at any time or times, in Agent’s name or in the name of a nominee of Agent, to verify the validity, amount or any other matter relating to any Receivables or other Collateral, by mail, telephone, facsimile transmission or otherwise.

7.3Inventory Covenants. With respect to the Inventory: (a) each Borrower and Guarantor shall at all times maintain inventory records reasonably satisfactory to Agent, keeping correct and accurate records itemizing and describing the kind, type, quality and quantity of Inventory, such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s cost therefor and daily withdrawals therefrom and additions thereto; (b) Borrowers and Guarantors shall conduct physical counts of the Inventory (excluding Inventory located in retail stores that have not been open for more than twelve (12)

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months) either through periodic cycle counts or wall to wall counts, so that all Inventory located at distribution centers and retail stores that have been open for more than twelve months is subject to such counts at least once each year but at any time or times as Agent may request upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, and promptly following such physical counts of the Inventory (whether through periodic cycle counts or wall to wall counts) shall supply Agent with a report in the form and with such specificity as may be reasonably satisfactory to Agent concerning such physical count; (c) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not remove any Inventory from the locations set forth or permitted herein, without the prior written consent of Agent, except (i) for sales of Inventory in the ordinary course of its business, (ii) for sales, returns and exchanges of Inventory to manufacturers and suppliers in the ordinary course of business; (iii) to move Inventory directly from one location set forth or permitted herein to another such permitted location and (iv) for Inventory shipped from the manufacturer thereof to such Borrower or Guarantor which is in transit to the locations set forth or permitted herein; (d) upon Agent’s request, Borrowers shall, at their expense, no more than one (1) time in any twelve (12) month period (or one (1) additional time in any twelve (12) month period as Agent may request and at Borrowers’ expense if Excess Availability is less than the greater of (x) 20% of the Borrowing Cap and (y) $20,000,000 at any time during such period), but at any time or times as Agent may reasonably request upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default or if there is a Material Adverse Effect (at Borrowers’ sole expense), deliver or cause to be delivered to Agent written appraisals as to the Inventory in form, scope and methodology reasonably acceptable to Agent and by an appraiser reasonably acceptable to Agent, addressed to Agent and Lenders and upon which Agent and Lenders are expressly permitted to rely; (e) Borrowers and Guarantors shall produce, use, store and maintain the Inventory with all reasonable care and caution and in accordance with applicable standards of any insurance and in conformity with applicable laws (including, to the extent applicable, the requirements of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended and all rules, regulations and orders related thereto); (f) none of the Inventory or other Collateral constitutes farm products or the proceeds thereof; (g) as between Agent and Secured Parties and Borrowers and Guarantors, each Borrower and Guarantor assumes all responsibility and liability arising from or relating to the production, use, sale or other disposition of the Inventory; (h) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not sell Inventory to any customer on approval, or any other basis which entitles the customer to return or may obligate any Borrower or Guarantor to repurchase such Inventory other than returns and exchanges of Inventory from customers in the ordinary course business of such Borrower or Guarantor consistent with the then current return policy of such Borrower or Guarantor; (i) Borrowers and Guarantors shall keep the Inventory in good and marketable condition; and (j) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, without prior written notice to Agent or the specific identification of such Inventory in a report with respect thereto provided by Administrative Borrower to Agent pursuant toSection 7.1(a) hereof, acquire or accept any Inventory on consignment or approval except for (x) magazines, stationery and greeting cards, and (y) perishable food stuffs of a de minimus value.

7.4Equipment and Real Property Covenants. With respect to the Equipment and Real Property: (a) upon Agent’s request, Borrowers and Guarantors shall, at their expense, no more than one (1) time as Agent may request upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, deliver or cause to be delivered to Agent written appraisals as to the Equipment and/or the fee owned Real Property in form, scope and methodology reasonably acceptable to Agent and by an appraiser reasonably acceptable to Agent, addressed to Agent and upon which Agent is expressly permitted to rely; (b) Borrowers and Guarantors shall keep the Equipment in

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good order, repair, running and marketable condition (ordinary wear and tear and casualty and condemnation excepted); (c) Borrowers and Guarantors shall use the Equipment with all reasonable care and caution and in accordance with applicable standards of any insurance and in conformity with all applicable laws except where the failure to so use would not result in a Material Adverse Effect; (d) the Equipment is and shall be used in the business of Borrowers and Guarantors and not for personal, family, household or farming use; (e) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not remove any Equipment from the locations set forth or permitted herein, except to the extent necessary to have any Equipment repaired or maintained in the ordinary course of its business or to move Equipment directly from one location set forth or permitted herein to another such location and except for the movement of motor vehicles used by or for the benefit of such Borrower or Guarantor in the ordinary course of business; (f) the Equipment is now and shall remain personal property and Borrowers and Guarantors shall not permit any part of the Equipment to be or become a part of or affixed to real property except where the failure to do so would not have a Material Adverse Effect; and (g) each Borrower and Guarantor assumes all responsibility and liability arising from the use of the Equipment and Real Property.

7.5Delivery of Instruments, Chattel Paper and Documents. In the event that any Borrower or Guarantor shall be entitled to or shall at any time after the date hereof hold or acquire any Chattel Paper or Instruments constituting Collateral or any Documents evidencing or constituting Collateral which together with all other Chattel Paper, Instruments and Documents that Borrower or Guarantor holds or acquires an interest in after the date hereof have an aggregate fair market value in excess of $500,000, such Borrower or Guarantor shall promptly deliver to Agent any such Chattel Paper, Instruments and/or Documents along with such other documents as Agent may reasonably require pursuant to which such Borrower or Guarantor will pledge such additional Collateral. Such Borrower or Guarantor herby authorizes Agent to attach such supplemental documents to this Agreement and agrees that all additional Collateral owned by it set forth in such supplemental documents shall be considered to be part of the Collateral.

7.6Intellectual Property Appraisal. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default and during the continuance thereof, Borrowers shall, at their expense, no more than one (1) time as Agent may request upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, deliver or cause to be delivered to Agent written reports or appraisals as to the Intellectual Property in form, scope and methodology reasonably acceptable to Agent and Lenders and by an appraiser reasonably acceptable to Agent, addressed to Agent and Lenders and upon which Agent and Lenders are expressly permitted to rely.

7.7Power of Attorney.

(a) Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby irrevocably designates and appoints Agent (and all Persons reasonably designated by Agent) as such Borrower’s and Guarantor’s true and lawfulattorney-in-fact, and authorizes Agent, in such Borrower’s, Guarantor’s or Agent’s name, to: (i) at any time an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (A) demand payment on Receivables or other Collateral, (B) clear Inventory the purchase of which was financed with Letters of Credit through U.S. Customs or foreign export control authorities in any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s name, Agent’s name or the name of Agent’s designee, and to sign and deliver to customs officials powers of attorney in such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s name for such purpose, and to complete in Borrower’s, Guarantor’s or Agent’s name, any order, sale or transaction, obtain

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the necessary documents in connection therewith and collect the proceeds thereof, (C) enforce payment of Receivables by legal proceedings or otherwise, (D) exercise all of such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s rights and remedies to collect any Receivable or other Collateral, (E) in a commercially reasonable manner, sell or assign any Receivable upon such terms, for such amount and at such time or times as the Agent deems advisable, (F) settle, adjust, compromise, extend or renew an Account, (G) discharge and release any Receivable, (H) prepare, file and sign such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s name on any proof of claim in bankruptcy or other similar document against an Account Debtor or other such Borrower or Guarantor in respect of any Receivables or other Collateral, (I) notify the post office authorities to change the address for delivery of remittances from Account Debtors or other Borrowers or Guarantors in respect of Receivables or other proceeds of Collateral to an address designated by Agent, and open and dispose of all mail addressed to any Borrower or Guarantor and handle and store all mail relating to the Collateral,provided, that Agent shall turn over to such Borrower or Guarantor any such mail that that does not constitute a remittance from an Account Debtor or other Borrower or Guarantor in respect of Receivables or other proceeds of Collateral; (J) do all acts and things which are necessary, in Agent’s determination, to fulfill such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s obligations under this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements and (K) subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, with respect to Intellectual Property, execute, deliver and record, any and all agreements, instruments, documents and papers to evidence the Agent’s security interest in such Intellectual Property and the goodwill and general intangibles of Borrowers and Guarantors relating thereto or represented thereby, assign any Intellectual Property or license, throughout the world, (ii) at any time an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and during any Compliance Period, (A) have access to any lockbox or postal box into which remittances from Account Debtors or other Borrowers or Guarantors in respect of Receivables or other proceeds of Collateral are sent or received, (B) endorse such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s name upon any items of payment in respect of Receivables or constituting Collateral or otherwise received by Agent and any Lender and deposit the same in Agent’s account for application to the Obligations, (C) take control in any manner of any item of payment in respect of Receivables or constituting collateral or otherwise received in or for deposit in the Blocked Accounts or otherwise received by Agent or any Lender, (D) to file a carbon, photographic or other reproduction of this Agreement or any financing statement with respect to the Collateral as a financing statement and to file any other financing statement or amendment of a financing statement (which does not add new collateral or add a debtor) in such offices as Agent in its sole discretion deems necessary or desirable to perfect and to maintain the perfection and priority of Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, (E) to contact and enter into one or more agreements with the issuers of uncertificated Securities which are Collateral or with securities intermediaries holding Collateral as may be necessary or advisable to give Agent Control over such Collateral, (F) to demand payment or enforce payment of the Receivables in the name of Agent or such Borrower or Guarantor and to endorse any and all checks, drafts, and other instruments for the payment of money relating to the Receivables, (G) to sign such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s name on any invoice or bill of lading relating to the Receivables, drafts against any Account Debtor of the Borrower or Guarantor, assignments and verifications of Receivables, (H) to settle, adjust, compromise, extend or renew the Receivables, (I) to settle, adjust or compromise any legal proceedings brought to collect Receivables, (J) to prepare, file and sign such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s name on any notice of Lien, assignment or satisfaction of Lien or similar document in connection with the Receivables, and (K) to change the address for delivery of mail addressed to such Borrower or Guarantor to such address as Agent may designate and to receive, open and

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dispose of all mail addressed to such Borrower or Guarantor, (iii) at any time to (A) endorse Borrower’s name upon any Chattel Paper, document, Instrument, invoice, or similar document or agreement relating to any Receivable or any Goods pertaining thereto or any other Collateral, including any warehouse or other receipts, or bills of lading and other negotiable ornon-negotiable documents, and (B) sign such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s name on any verification of Receivables and notices thereof to Account Debtors or any secondary Guarantors or other Guarantors in respect thereof. Such Borrower or Guarantor agrees to reimburse Agent on demand for any payment made or any expense incurred by Agent in connection with any of the foregoing;provided that, this authorization shall not relieve such Borrower or Guarantor of any of its obligations under this Agreement. All acts of said attorney or designee are hereby ratified and approved. The powers conferred on Agent, for the benefit of the Agent and Lenders under thisSection 7.7 are solely to protect Agent’s interests in the Collateral and shall not impose any duty upon Agent or any Lender to exercise any such powers. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby releases Agent and Lenders and their respective officers, employees and designees from any liabilities arising from any act or acts under this power of attorney and in furtherance thereof, whether of omission or commission, except as a result of Agent’s or any Lender’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct.

(b)Nature of Appointment; Limitation of Duty. THE APPOINTMENT OF AGENT AS PROXY ANDATTORNEY-IN-FACT IN THISSECTION 7.7 IS COUPLED WITH AN INTEREST AND SHALL BE IRREVOCABLE UNTIL THE DATE ON WHICH THIS AGREEMENT IS TERMINATED IN ACCORDANCE WITHSECTION 13. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING CONTAINED HEREIN, NEITHER AGENT, NOR ANY LENDER, NOR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR REPRESENTATIVES SHALL HAVE ANY DUTY TO EXERCISE ANY RIGHT OR POWER GRANTED HEREUNDER OR OTHERWISE OR TO PRESERVE THE SAME AND SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY FAILURE TO DO SO OR FOR ANY DELAY IN DOING SO, EXCEPT IN RESPECT OF DAMAGES ATTRIBUTABLE SOLELY TO THEIR OWN GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT AS FINALLY DETERMINED BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION;PROVIDED THAT, IN NO EVENT SHALL THEY BE LIABLE FOR ANY PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.

7.8Right to Cure. Agent may, at its option, upon written notice to Administrative Borrower, (a) cure any default by any Borrower or Guarantor under any material agreement with a third party that materially and adversely affects the Collateral, its value or the ability of Agent to collect, sell or otherwise dispose of the Collateral or the rights and remedies of Agent or any Lender therein or the ability of any Borrower or Guarantor to perform its obligations hereunder or under any of the other Financing Agreements, (b) pay or bond on appeal any judgment entered against any Borrower or Guarantor, (c) discharge taxes, liens, security interests or other encumbrances at any time levied on or existing with respect to the Collateral and (d) pay any amount, incur any expense or perform any act which, in Agent’s reasonable judgment, is necessary or appropriate to preserve, protect, insure or maintain the Collateral and the rights of Agent and Lenders with respect thereto. Agent may add any amounts so expended to the Obligations and charge any Borrower’s account therefor, such amounts to be repayable by Borrowers on demand. Agent and Lenders shall be under no obligation to effect such cure, payment or bonding and shall not, by doing so, be deemed to have assumed any obligation or liability of any Borrower or Guarantor. Any payment made or other action taken by Agent or any Lender under this Section shall be without prejudice to any right to assert an Event of Default hereunder and to proceed accordingly.

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7.9Access to Premises. From time to time as reasonably requested by Agent, at the cost and expense (subject toSection 9.22 hereof) of Borrowers, (a) Agent or its designee shall have reasonable access, so as (if no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing) not to interfere with the operations of such Borrower or Guarantor to all of each Borrower’s and Guarantor’s premises during normal business hours and after notice to Administrative Borrower, or at any time and without notice to any Borrower or any Guarantor if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, for the purposes of inspecting, verifying and auditing the Collateral and all of each Borrower’s and Guarantor’s leases, books and records, including the Records, and (b) each Borrower and Guarantor shall promptly furnish to Agent such copies of such leases, books and records or extracts therefrom as Agent may request (subject to the confidentiality agreement set forth inSection 13.5 hereof), and Agent or any Lender or Agent’s designee may use during normal business hours such of any Borrower’s and Guarantor’s personnel, Equipment, supplies and premises as may be reasonably necessary for the foregoing (and as will not materially interfere with the business of the Loan Parties) and if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing for the collection of Receivables and realization of other Collateral. Borrowers and Guarantors further agree that during the course of suchon-site Record examinations; Agent may review reports by retail store location of sales and operating profits of Borrowers and Guarantors, but may not make copies of such reports or remove them from such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s premises.

SECTION 8.     REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby represents and warrants to Agent, Lenders and Issuing Bank the following, the truth and accuracy of which are a continuing condition of the making of Loans and Issuing Bank’s providing of Letters of Credit:

8.1Corporate Existence, Power and Authority. Each Borrower and Guarantor is a corporation duly organized and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation and is duly qualified as a foreign corporation and in good standing in all states or other jurisdictions where the nature and extent of the business transacted by it or the ownership of assets makes such qualification necessary, except for those other jurisdictions in which the failure to so qualify would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the other Financing Agreements and the transactions contemplated hereunder and thereunder (a) are all within each Borrower’s and Guarantor’s company powers, (b) have been duly authorized, (c) are not in contravention of law or the terms of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s certificate of formation, operating agreement, or other organizational documentation, or any indenture, agreement or undertaking to which any Borrower or Guarantor is a party or by which any Borrower or Guarantor or its property are bound and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of, or require or give rise to any obligation to grant, any lien, security interest, charge or other encumbrance upon any property of any Borrower or Guarantor, except, (i) with respect to (c) above, where such contravention of law would not have a Material Adverse Effect and (ii) with respect to (d) above, the creation of the security interest in the Collateral in favor of Agent and Secured Parties pursuant to the terms of the Financing Agreements. This Agreement and the other Financing Agreements to which any Borrower or Guarantor is a party constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of such Borrower and Guarantor enforceable in accordance with their respective terms except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium or similar laws limiting creditors’ rights generally or by general equitable principles.

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8.2Name; State of Organization; Chief Executive Office; Collateral Locations.

(a) The exact legal name of each Borrower and Guarantor is as set forth on the signature page of this Agreement and in the Information Certificate. No Borrower or Guarantor has, during the five years prior to the Closing Date, been known by or used any other corporate or fictitious name or been a party to any merger or consolidation, or acquired all or substantially all of the assets of any Person, or acquired any of its property or assets out of the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in the Information Certificate.

(b) Each Borrower and Guarantor is an organization of the type and organized in the jurisdiction set forth in the Information Certificate. The Information Certificate accurately sets forth the organizational identification number of each Borrower and Guarantor or accurately states that such Borrower or Guarantor has none and accurately sets forth the federal employer identification number of each Borrower and Guarantor.

(c) The chief executive office and mailing address of each Borrower and Guarantor and each Borrower’s and Guarantor’s Records concerning Accounts are located only at the address identified as such inSchedule 8.2 hereto and its only other places of business and the only other locations of Collateral, if any, are the addresses set forth inSchedule 8.2 hereto, subject to the rights of any Borrower or Guarantor to establish new locations in accordance withSection 9.2 below. The Information Certificate correctly identifies, as of the Closing Date, any of such locations which are not owned by a Borrower or Guarantor and sets forth the owners and/or operators of all locations which are not retail store locations.

8.3Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Change. All financial statements relating to any Borrower or Guarantor which have been or may hereafter be delivered by any Borrower or Guarantor to Agent and Lenders have been prepared in accordance with GAAP (except as otherwise disclosed in any notes thereto and as indicated in the notes thereto and as to any interim financial statements, to the extent such statements are subject to normalyear-end adjustments and do not include any notes) and fairly present in all material respects the financial condition and the results of operation of such Borrower and Guarantor as at the dates and for the periods set forth therein. Except as disclosed in any interim financial statements furnished by Borrowers and Guarantors to Agent prior to the date of this Agreement, there has been no act, condition or event which has had or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect since the date of the most recent audited financial statements of any Borrower or Guarantor furnished by any Borrower or Guarantor to Agent prior to the date of this Agreement.

8.4Priority of Liens; Title to Properties. Upon the filing of the UCC financing statements required pursuant to the Financing Agreements and the recording of security agreements with the United States Patent and Trademark Office within fifteen (15) days of the date hereof and United States Copyright Office within fifteen (15) days of the date hereof, the security interests and liens granted to Agent under this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements shall constitute valid and perfected liens and security interests in and upon the Collateral in accordance with the terms hereof and with the priority required by the Financing

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Agreements, subject only to the liens indicated onSchedule 8.4 hereto and the other liens permitted underSection 9.8 hereof (a) except for Borrower’s money, and vehicles and other assets the perfection of a security interest in which is governed bySection 9-303 of the Uniform Commercial Code, (b) subject to, with respect to Deposit Accounts,Section 5.2(d) hereof; and (c) with respect to Intellectual Property, only if and to the extent perfection may be achieved by the filing of security interests in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and United States Copyright Office), except that additional filings may have to be made in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and United States Copyright Office, as applicable, to perfect the security interest and lien of Agent in any issuances, registrations, or applications for registration of any Intellectual Property acquired by any Borrower or Guarantor after the date hereof. Each Borrower and Guarantor has good and marketable fee simple title to or valid leasehold interests in all of its Real Property and good, valid and merchantable title to, or a license, option or other right to use, all of its other properties and assets subject to no liens, mortgages, pledges, security interests, charges or other encumbrances of any kind, except those granted to Agent and such others as are specifically listed onSchedule 8.4 hereto or permitted underSection 9.8 hereof.

8.5Tax Returns. Each Borrower and Guarantor has filed, or caused to be filed, in a timely manner (including any extensions) all Federal income tax returns and all other material tax returns, reports and declarations which are required to be filed by it. All information in such tax returns, reports and declarations is complete and accurate in all material respects. Each Borrower and Guarantor has paid or caused to be paid all taxes due and payable or claimed due and payable in any assessment received by it, except taxes (a) the validity or amount of which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently pursued and available to such Borrower or Guarantor and with respect to which adequate reserves have been set aside on its books or (b) thenon-payment of which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Adequate provision has been made for the payment of all accrued and unpaid material Federal, State, county, local, foreign and other taxes whether or not yet due and payable and whether or not disputed.

8.6Litigation. Except as set forth onSchedule 8.6 hereto, there is no investigation, action, suit, proceeding or claim by any Governmental Authority or Person pending, or to the best of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s knowledge threatened in writing, against or affecting any Borrower or Guarantor, its or their assets or business, or against or affecting any transactions contemplated by this Agreement that (i) is not covered by insurance (except for normal deductibles) as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse determination that, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) involves any challenge to the validity or enforceability of any material provision of any Financing Agreement (including, without limitation, any provision relating to the Borrowers’ or Guarantors’ obligations to repay the Obligations or any provision relating to the validity or perfection of any lien created by any Financing Agreement).

8.7Compliance with Other Agreements and Applicable Laws. Borrowers and Guarantors are not in default in any respect under, or in violation in any material respect of any the terms of, any agreement, contract, instrument, lease or other commitment to which it is a party or by which it or any of its assets are bound which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, Borrowers and Guarantors are in compliance with the requirements of all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority relating to their businesses.

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8.8Environmental Compliance.

(a) Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) Borrowers, Guarantors and any Subsidiary of any Borrower or Guarantor have not generated, used, stored, treated, transported, manufactured, handled, produced or disposed of any Hazardous Materials, on or off its premises (whether or not owned by it) in any manner which at any time violates in any material respect any applicable Environmental Law or any permit issued to Borrower under Environmental Law, and (ii) the operations of Borrowers, Guarantors and any Subsidiary of any Borrower or Guarantor complies in all material respects with all Environmental Laws and all permits issued to Borrowers and Guarantors under Environmental Law.

(b) Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, there has been no investigation by any Governmental Authority or any proceeding, complaint, order, directive, claim, citation or notice by any Governmental Authority or any other Person nor is any pending or to the best of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s knowledge threatened, with respect to any non compliance with or violation of the requirements of any Environmental Law by any Borrower or Guarantor and any Subsidiary of any Borrower or Guarantor or the release, spill or discharge, threatened or actual, of any Hazardous Material or the generation, use, storage, treatment, transportation, manufacture, handling, production or disposal of any Hazardous Materials by any Borrower or Subsidiary of Borrower or any other environmental matter involving Borrower or any Subsidiary of Borrower.

(c) Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, Borrowers, Guarantors and their Subsidiaries have no material liability (contingent or otherwise) in connection with a release, spill or discharge, threatened or actual, of any Hazardous Materials or the generation, use, storage, treatment, transportation, manufacture, handling, production or disposal of any Hazardous Materials.

(d) Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, Guarantors and their Subsidiaries have all permits required to be obtained or filed in connection with the operations of Borrowers and Guarantors under any Environmental Law and all of such licenses, certificates, approvals or similar authorizations and other permits are valid and in full force and effect.

(e) ThisSection 8.8 sets forth the sole representations and warranties of Borrower with respect to Environmental Laws and Hazardous Materials and, notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement to the contrary, no other representation or warranty is made in this Agreement with respect to environmental matters.

8.9Employee Benefits.

(a) Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, each Plan has been established, maintained, funded, operated and administrated in compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other Federal or State law and each Plan which is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code

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has received a favorable determination letter (or a favorable opinion letter) from the Internal Revenue Service or is still within the remedial amendment period (as defined in Section 401(b) of the Code) to obtain a favorable determination letter and, to the best of each Borrower’s and Guarantor’s knowledge, nothing has occurred that could reasonably be expected to cause the revocation of such letter or the unavailability of reliance on such letter. Each Borrower and Guarantor and its respective ERISA Affiliates have made all required contributions to any Plan subject to Section 412 of the Code, and no application for a funding waiver or an extension of any amortization period pursuant to Section 412 of the Code has been made with respect to any such Plan.

(b) Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) there are no pending, or to the best of each Borrower’s and Guarantor’s knowledge, threatened claims, actions or lawsuits, or action by any Governmental Authority, with respect to any Plan, and (ii) there has been nonon-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or violation of the fiduciary responsibility rules under Section 404(a)(1) of ERISA with respect to any Plan.

(c) Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) no ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur; (ii) the current value of the assets of each Plan (determined in accordance with the assumptions used for funding such Plan pursuant to Section 412 of the Code) are not exceeded by such Plan’s liabilities under Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA in an amount that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (iii) no Borrower or Guarantor nor any of its respective ERISA Affiliates have incurred nor do any of them reasonably expect to incur any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to any Plan (other than premiums due and not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA); (iv) neither Borrower nor any of its ERISA Affiliates have incurred nor do any of them reasonably expect to incur any liability (and no event has occurred which, with the giving of notice under Section 4219 of ERISA, would result in such liability) under Section 4201 or 4243 of ERISA with respect to a Multiemployer Plan; (v) neither Borrower nor any of its ERISA Affiliates has engaged in a transaction that would be subject to Section 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA; and (vi) no Plan is a “welfare benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA that provides post-termination or retiree life insurance, health or other welfare benefits to any person, except pursuant to Section 4980B of the Code or any other applicable law and with respect to which the recipient pays the full premium cost of such coverage.

8.10Bank Accounts. All of the Deposit Accounts, investment accounts or other accounts in the name of or used by any Borrower or Guarantor maintained at any bank or other financial institution are set forth inSchedule 8.10 hereto, subject to the right of each Borrower and Guarantor to establish new accounts in accordance withSection 5.2 hereof.

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any Intellectual Property that is material to the conduct of such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s business other than as set forth inSchedule 8.11(b) hereto. Each Borrower and Guarantor is the sole and exclusive owner of the entire and unencumbered right, title, and interest in and to all Intellectual Property used in the operation of its business, or, in the case of licenses and options granted to such Borrower or Guarantor with respect to Intellectual Property owned by other Persons, each Borrower or Guarantor, as the case may be, has a valid and enforceable license, option or other right, as the case may be, to use such Intellectual Property; and except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Intellectual Property owned by each Borrower or Guarantor is valid, subsisting, unexpired (except as the result of the expiration of patents and copyrights at the end of their statutory term), and enforceable and has not been abandoned or adjudged invalid or unenforceable, in whole or part. Except as described inSchedule 8.11(c) hereto, to each Borrowers’ and Guarantor’s knowledge, no event has occurred which could reasonably be expected to result in after notice or passage of time or both, the revocation, suspension or termination of Intellectual Property rights included in the Collateral, the revocation, suspension or termination of which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the best of each Loan Party’s knowledge, except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, no IP Rights, advertising, product, process, method, substance, part or other material used by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary in the operation of their respective businesses as currently conducted infringes upon any rights held by any Person. No written claim or litigation regarding any of the IP Rights, is pending or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened against any Loan Party or Subsidiary.Schedule 8.11(d) hereto sets forth all of the agreements or other arrangements of Borrowers and Guarantors pursuant to which Borrower has a license, option, or other right to use any trademarks, logos, designs or other intellectual property that is material to such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s business and owned by another Person as in effect on the Closing Date (collectively, together with such agreements or other arrangements as may be entered into by any Borrower or Guarantor after the Closing Date, collectively, the “License Agreements” and individually, a “License Agreement”). No material trademark, service mark, copyright or other Intellectual Property at any time used by a Borrower which is owned by another Person, or owned by any Borrower or Guarantor subject to any security interest, lien, collateral assignment, pledge or other encumbrance in favor of any Person other than Agent, is affixed to any Eligible Inventory, except (x) as set forth in any Promotional Agreement, (y) to the extent permitted under the terms of the License Agreements listed onSchedule 8.11(d) hereto or (z) to the extent the sale of Inventory to which such Intellectual Property is affixed is permitted to be sold by any Borrower or Guarantor under applicable law (including the United States Copyright Act of 1976). As of the Closing Date, no Borrower or Guarantor licenses any Intellectual Property, except pursuant to the Promotional Agreements.

8.12Subsidiaries; Capitalization; Solvency.

(a) Each Borrower and Guarantor does not have any direct or indirect Subsidiaries and is not engaged in any joint venture or partnership except as set forth inSchedule 8.12 hereto and except as may be acquired, formed or entered into in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or otherwise and in accordance withSection 9.20 hereof.

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(b) Each Borrower and Guarantor is the record and beneficial owner of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Capital Stock of each of the Subsidiaries listed onSchedule 8.12 hereto as being owned by such Borrower or Guarantor and except as described onSchedule 8.12 hereto, there are no proxies, irrevocable or otherwise, with respect to such shares and no equity Securities of any of the Subsidiaries are or may become required to be issued by reason of any options, warrants, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any kind or nature and there are no contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which any Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional shares of its Capital Stock or Securities convertible into or exchangeable for such shares.

(c) As of the Closing Date, the issued and outstanding shares of Capital Stock of each Borrower and Subsidiary Guarantor are directly and beneficially owned and held by the Persons indicated in the Information Certificate, and in each case all of such shares have been duly authorized and are fully paid andnon-assessable, free and clear of all claims, liens, pledges and encumbrances of any kind, except for liens created hereunder and under the other Financing Agreements or as permitted bySection 9.8 hereof.

(d) The Loan Parties taken as a whole, are Solvent and will continue to be Solvent immediately after giving effect to the creation of the Obligations, the granting of security interests of Agent and the other transactions contemplated hereunder, or in connection with any of the foregoing.

8.13Labor Disputes.

(a) Set forth onSchedule 8.13 hereto is a list of all collective bargaining or similar agreements between or applicable to each Borrower and Guarantor and any union, labor organization or other bargaining agent in respect of the employees of any Borrower or Guarantor in force on the Closing Date.

(b) Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) there is no unfair labor practice complaint pending against any Borrower or Guarantor or, to the best of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s knowledge, threatened against it, before the National Labor Relations Board, and no grievance or significant arbitration proceeding arising out of or under any collective bargaining agreement is pending on the Closing Date against any Borrower or Guarantor or, to best of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s knowledge, threatened against it, (ii) there is no strike, labor dispute, slowdown or stoppage is pending against any Borrower or Guarantor or, to the best of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s knowledge, threatened against any Borrower or Guarantor, and (iii) each Borrower and Guarantor is in compliance with all applicable laws and orders with respect to employment (including applicable laws regarding wage and hour requirements, immigration status, discrimination in employment, employee health and safety, and collective bargaining).

8.14Restrictions on Subsidiaries. Except for restrictions contained in this Agreement, the other Financing Agreements or any other agreement with respect to Indebtedness of any Borrower or Guarantor permitted hereunder, there are no contractual restrictions binding on any Subsidiary of any Borrower or Guarantor which prohibit or otherwise materially restrict (unless permitted pursuant toSection 9.16) (a) the transfer of cash or other assets (i) between any Borrower or Guarantor and any of its or their Subsidiaries or (ii) between any Subsidiaries of any Borrower or Guarantor or (b) the ability of any Borrower or Guarantor or any of its or their Subsidiaries to incur Indebtedness or grant security interests to Agent or any Lender in the Collateral.

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8.15Material Contracts.Schedule 8.15 hereto sets forth all Material Contracts to which any Borrower or Guarantor is a party or is bound as of the Closing Date. Borrowers and Guarantors have delivered true, correct and complete copies of such Material Contracts to Agent on or before the date hereof. Borrowers and Guarantors are not in breach or in default in any material respect of or under any Material Contract and have not received any notice of the intention of any other party thereto to terminate any Material Contract except as would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.

8.16Credit Card Agreements. Set forth inSchedule 8.16 hereto is a correct and complete list of all of the Credit Card Agreements existing as of the Closing Date between or among any Borrower, Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries, the Credit Card Issuers and/or the Credit Card Processors. The Credit Card Agreements constitute all of such agreements necessary for each Borrower to operate its business as presently conducted with respect to credit cards and debit cards and no Receivables of any Borrower arise from purchases by customers of Inventory with credit cards or debit cards, other than those which are issued by Credit Card Issuers with whom such Borrower has entered into one of the Credit Card Agreements set forth onSchedule 8.16 hereto or with whom such Borrower has entered into a Credit Card Agreement in accordance withSection 9.18 hereof. Each of the Credit Card Agreements constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Borrower that is party thereto and to the best of each Borrower’s and Guarantor’s knowledge, the other parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms and is in full force and effect. Except as could not reasonably be expected to (a) have a Material Adverse Effect or (b) result in the cessation of the transfer of payments under any Credit Card Agreement to Blocked Accounts as required under this Agreement, no default or event of default, or act, condition or event which after notice or passage of time or both, would constitute a material default or a material event of default under any of the Credit Card Agreements has occurred and is continuing. The applicable Borrower and the other parties thereto have complied with all of the terms and conditions of the Credit Card Agreements to the extent necessary for such Borrower to be entitled to receive all payments thereunder which constitute proceeds of Eligible Credit Card Receivables. As of the Closing Date, Borrowers have delivered, or caused to be delivered to Agent, true, correct and complete copies of all of the Credit Card Agreements.

8.17Investment Company Status. No Borrower or Guarantor nor any of their Subsidiaries is an “investment company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940.

8.18Accuracy and Completeness of Information. All information furnished by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor in writing to Agent or any Lender in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements or any transaction, when taken as a whole, contemplated hereby or thereby, including all information on the Information Certificate is true and correct in all material respects on the date as of which such information is dated or certified and does not omit any material fact necessary in order to make such information not materially misleading. Since the date of the most recently delivered audited financial statements, described inSection 8.3, no event or circumstance has occurred which has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, which has not been fully and accurately disclosed to Agent in writing prior to the date hereof. As of the Closing Date, to the best knowledge of any Borrower, the information included in the Beneficial Ownership Certification provided on or prior to the Closing Date to any Lender in connection with this Agreement is true and correct in all respects as of the date so furnished.

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8.19Survival of Warranties; Cumulative. All representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and shall be deemed to have been made again to Agent and Lenders on the date of each additional borrowing or other credit accommodation hereunder and shall be conclusively presumed to have been relied on by Agent and Lenders regardless of any investigation made or information possessed by Agent or any Lender. The representations and warranties set forth herein shall be cumulative and in addition to any other representations or warranties which any Borrower or Guarantor shall now or hereafter give, or cause to be given, to Agent or any Lender.

8.20Reaffirmation of Financing Documents. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby confirms its respective pledges, grants of security interests and other obligations, as applicable, under the Existing Credit Agreement and under each Pledge Agreement to which it is a party, and agrees that such pledges, grants of security interests and other obligations are not impaired or affected in any manner whatsoever (except as amended hereby) and shall continue to be in full force and effect and shall continue to secure all the Obligations, as amended, increased and/or extended pursuant to this Agreement. Each Guarantor hereby confirms its respective guarantees under and subject to the terms of the Guaranty to which such Guarantor is a party, and agrees that such guarantees and other obligations, and the terms of the Guaranty to which it is a party, are not impaired or affected in any manner whatsoever (except as amended hereby) and shall continue to be in full force and effect and shall continue to guarantee all of the Obligations, as amended, increased and/or extended pursuant to this Agreement. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby further confirms that each other Financing Agreement to which it is a party is and shall continue to be in full force and effect and the same are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects (except as expressly amended hereby or by any other Financing Agreement entered into in connection with this Agreement).

8.21Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions. Each Borrower or Guarantor, their respective Subsidiaries and their respective officers and directors and, to the knowledge of such Borrower or Guarantor, its employees and agents, are in compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions in all material respects and are not knowingly engaged in any activity that would reasonably be expected to result in any Borrower or Guarantor being designated as a Sanctioned Person. None of (a) any Borrower or Guarantor, any Subsidiary or any of their respective directors or officers, or (b) to the knowledge of any such Borrower or Guarantor or Subsidiary, any employee or agent of such Borrower or Guarantor or any Subsidiary that will act in any capacity in connection with or benefit from the Credit Facility established hereby, is a Sanctioned Person. No Loan or Letter of Credit, use of proceeds or other transaction contemplated by this Agreement or the other Financing Agreements will violate Anti-Corruption Laws or applicable Sanctions.

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8.22Regulatory Compliance.

(a) Each Borrower and Subsidiary Guarantor possesses all licenses, permits and registrations that are required to be obtained for the operation of its business subject to renewal in the ordinary course of business, except where the failure to possess such licenses, permits and registrations would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect. All such licenses, permits and registrations are in full force and effect, and there are no actions pending or threatened in writing or, to each Borrower’s or Subsidiary Guarantor’s knowledge, otherwise threatened by any Governmental Authority that seek the revocation, cancellation, suspension or adverse modification thereof, except as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect. Each Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor is in compliance with all such licenses, permits and registrations, except for suchnon-compliance as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) Each Borrower and Subsidiary Guarantor is in compliance with, and at all times during the last three (3) years has complied in all respects with, the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (“FDCA”) and all regulations promulgated thereunder and with all other laws enforced by the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), except for suchnon-compliance as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect. Each Borrower and Subsidiary Guarantor has in effect Standard Operating Procedures governing, for its private label products, recalls, product ingredient safety reviews and regulatory filings, product claims and claim substantiation, adverse event reporting and complaint handlings. To each Borrower’s and Subsidiary Guarantor’s knowledge, during the three (3) years prior to the Closing Date, products sold by such Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor were not adulterated or misbranded as defined in the applicable provisions of the FDCA and relevant regulations; except to the extent that the liability to the Borrowers and Subsidiary Guarantors that could reasonably be expected to result from such adulterations or misbrandings would not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(c) No Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor has received any written or oral notice from the FDA during the three (3) years prior to the Closing Date of any material violation or alleged material violation of the FDCA, except to the extent that the liability to the Borrowers and Subsidiary Guarantors that could reasonably be expected to result from such violations and alleged violations would not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor has received any written or oral notice during the last three (3) years that the products it has sold have been the subject of any warning letter, notice of violation, seizure, recall, injunction, regulatory enforcement action, or criminal action issued, initiated, threatened in writing, or to any Borrower’s or Subsidiary Guarantor’s knowledge, otherwise threatened by the FDA or any comparable Governmental Authority, except to the extent that the liability to the Borrowers and Subsidiary Guarantors that could reasonably be expected to result from the foregoing would not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. As of the Closing Date, no Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor has any open product recalls; except to the extent that the liability to the Borrowers and Subsidiary Guarantors that could reasonably be expected to result from such open product recalls would not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(d) In the three (3) years prior to the Closing Date, each Borrower and Subsidiary Guarantor has been in compliance with the Federal Trade Commission Act with respect to the advertising and promotion, product descriptions, and claims for the products it sells, except to the extent that suchnon-compliance would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor has received

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written notice of and, to each Borrower’s and Subsidiary Guarantor’s knowledge, there is no written claim filed by the Federal Trade Commission against such Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor, alleging any violation of any of the laws implemented by it, except to the extent that such violations would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(e) To each Borrower’s or Subsidiary Guarantor’s knowledge,during the past three (3) years, all products sold by such Borrower or Subsidiary Guarantor were manufactured in compliance with, as applicable, FDA current Good Manufacturing Practice regulations set forth at 21 C.F.R. Parts 110 and 111 and FDA Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point systems and acidified food process requirements, where relevant, except for suchnon-compliance that would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 9.     AFFIRMATIVE AND NEGATIVE COVENANTS

Until the Obligations have been Paid in Full, each Borrower and each Guarantor on behalf of themselves and their Subsidiaries covenants and agrees, jointly and severally with all of the other Borrowers and Guarantors and the Lenders, to the covenants contained in thisSection 9;provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in thisSection 9, all references to the defined terms “Subsidiaries” or “Subsidiary” in thisSection 9 shall exclude any Foreign Subsidiary.

9.1Maintenance of Existence.

(a) Except as permitted bySection 9.7, each Borrower and Guarantor shall at all times preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and material rights and franchises with respect thereto and maintain in full force and effect all material governmental licenses, trademarks, tradenames, approvals, authorizations, leases, contracts and permits necessary to carry on the business as presently conducted, except where the failure to so preserve, renew or keep in full force and effect would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) No Borrower or Guarantor shall change its name, type of organization, jurisdiction of organization or other legal structure unless each of the following conditions is satisfied: (i) Agent shall have received not less than thirty (30) days prior written notice from Administrative Borrower of such proposed change (or such shorter notice period as the Agent may agree to in its reasonable discretion), which notice shall accurately set forth the new name; (ii) Agent shall have received a copy of the amendment to the certificate of formation of such Borrower or Guarantor providing for the name change certified by the Secretary of State of the jurisdiction of incorporation or organization of such Borrower or Guarantor as soon as it is available; and (iii) Agent shall have acknowledged in writing that either (A) such change will not adversely affect the validity, perfection or priority of Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, or (B) any action reasonably necessary to continue the perfection of any liens in favor of Agent, on behalf of Lenders, has been completed.

(c) No Borrower or Guarantor shall change its chief executive office or its mailing address or organizational identification number (or if it does not have one, shall not acquire one) unless Agent shall have received not less than thirty (30) days’ prior written notice from Administrative Borrower of such proposed change, which notice shall set forth such information with respect thereto as Agent may require and Agent shall have received such agreements as Agent may reasonably require in connection therewith.

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9.2New Collateral Locations. Each Borrower and Guarantor may only open new locations within the United States. Borrower or Guarantor shall (a) give Agent ten (10) days prior written notice of the intended opening of any such new location at which Collateral will be located (other than with respect to the opening of a retail store location for which no notice shall be required) and (b) execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, to Agent such agreements, documents, and instruments as Agent may deem reasonably necessary or desirable to protect its interests in the Collateral held at such location; except, that, if (i) such new location is a retail store location, or (ii) the fair market value of all of the Collateral located at such location is less than $250,000; provided that the aggregate Value of all Collateral located at such locations shall not exceed $2,000,000, no Collateral Access Agreement will be required by Agent.

9.3Compliance with Laws, Regulations, Etc.

(a) Except as could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, and shall cause any Subsidiary to, at all times, comply in all material respects with all laws, rules, regulations, licenses, approvals, orders and other permits applicable to it and duly observe all applicable requirements of any foreign, Federal, State or local Governmental Authority, the Code, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, all Federal, State and local statutes, regulations, rules and orders pertaining to sales of consumer goods (including the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, as amended, and all regulations, rules and orders promulgated thereunder, and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended, and all regulations, rules, guidance and orders promulgated thereunder) and all statutes, rules, regulations, orders, permits and stipulations relating to environmental pollution and employee health and safety, including all of the Environmental Laws.

(b) Administrative Borrower shall give written notice to Agent promptly upon any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s receipt of any notice of the following, except if the condition giving rise to such notice could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, “Environmental Events”), (i) the occurrence of any event involving the unpermitted release, spill or discharge, threatened or actual, of any Hazardous Material by any Borrower or Guarantor or (ii) any investigation, proceeding, complaint, order, directive, claims, citation or notice with respect to: (A) anynon-compliance with or violation of any Environmental Law by any Borrower or Guarantor or (B) the release, spill or discharge, threatened or actual, of any Hazardous Material by any Borrower or Guarantor (as applicable) other than in the ordinary course of business and other than as permitted under any applicable Environmental Law. Copies of allnon-privileged environmental surveys, audits, assessments, feasibility studies and results of remedial investigations conducted in connection with an Environmental Event shall be promptly furnished, or caused to be furnished, by such Borrower or Guarantor to Agent. Each Borrower and Guarantor shall take prompt action to respond to any materialnon-compliance with any of the Environmental Event and shall regularly report to Agent on such response.

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(c) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, whenever Agent reasonably determines that there is materialnon-compliance, or any condition which requires any action by or on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor in order to avoid any non compliance, with any Environmental Law except with respect to suchnon-compliance that could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, Borrowers shall, at Agent’s reasonable request and Borrowers’ expense: (i) cause an independent environmental consultant reasonably acceptable to Agent to conduct such tests of the site wherenon-compliance or alleged non compliance with such Environmental Laws (including sampling and analysis, if necessary) has occurred as to suchnon-compliance and prepare and deliver to Agent a report as to suchnon-compliance setting forth the results of such tests, a proposed plan for responding to any environmental problems described therein, and an estimate of the costs thereof and (ii) provide to Agent a supplemental report of such consultant whenever the scope of suchnon-compliance, or such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s response thereto or the estimated costs thereof, shall change in any material respect.

(d) Each Borrower and Guarantor shall indemnify and hold harmless Agent and Lenders and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, invitees, representatives, successors and assigns, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) directly or indirectly arising out of or attributable to the use, generation, manufacture, reproduction, storage, release, threatened release, spill, discharge, disposal or presence of a Hazardous Material on any property of a Borrower or resulting from a Borrower’s conduct, including the costs of any required or necessary repair, cleanup or other remedial work with respect to any property of any Borrower or Guarantor and the preparation and implementation of any closure, remedial or other required plans relating to such Hazardous Materials except to the extent such losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses arise out of or are attributable to the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of Agent or any Lender. All indemnifications in thisSection 9.3 shall survive the payment of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

9.4Payment of Taxes and Claims. Each Borrower and Guarantor shall, and shall cause any Subsidiary to, duly pay and discharge all taxes, assessments, contributions and governmental charges upon or against it or its properties or assets, except for taxes (a) the validity or amount of which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently pursued and available to such Borrower, Guarantor or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, and with respect to which adequate reserves have been set aside on its books or (b) thenon-payment of which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

9.5Insurance. Each Borrower and Guarantor shall, and shall cause any Subsidiary to, at all times, maintain with financially sound and reputable insurers insurance with respect to the Collateral against loss or damage and all other insurance of the kinds and in the amounts customarily insured against or carried by companies of established reputation engaged in the same or similar businesses and similarly situated. Such policies of insurance shall be reasonably satisfactory to Agent as to form, amount and insurer. Borrowers and Guarantor shall pay all premiums on any such insurance when due. Borrowers and Guarantors shall furnish certificates, policies or endorsements to Agent as Agent shall reasonably require as proof of such insurance, and, if any Borrower or Guarantor fails to do so, in the case of endorsements, subject toSection 9.31, Agent is authorized, but not required, to obtain such insurance at the expense of Borrowers,provided,however, that by purchasing such insurance, Agent shall not be deemed to have waived any Default arising from any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s failure to maintain such insurance or pay any premiums therefor. All such insurance policies shall provide for at least thirty (30) days prior

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written notice to Agent of any cancellation, amendment or reduction of coverage and that Agent may act as attorney for each Borrower and Guarantor in obtaining, and at any time an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, adjusting, settling, amending and canceling such insurance. Borrowers and Guarantors shall cause Agent to be named as a loss payee and/or an additional insured, as applicable (but without any liability for any premiums) under all casualty and property insurance policies (but not any business interruption insurance policies) and, subject toSection 9.31, Borrowers and Guarantors shall obtainnon-contributory lender’s loss payable endorsements to all property and casualty insurance policies in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, which provide that all proceeds thereunder with respect to any Collateral shall be payable to Agent, and that no such insurance shall be affected by any act or neglect of the insured or owner of the property described in such policy. Except upon (a) the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, or (b) during a Compliance Period solely to the extent the insurance proceeds relate to any Collateral which at the time of loss was included in the calculation of the Borrowing Base, insurance proceeds may be applied by Borrower in its discretion to the repair or replacement of any lost or damaged Collateral that gave rise to such insurance proceeds so long as (i) in the context of replacing lost or damaged Collateral, the insurance proceeds are used to replace such lost or damaged Collateral with like Collateral, and (ii) such repair or replacement is completed within one hundred eighty (180) days of the receipt of insurance proceeds, or if Borrower commits in writing to undertake such repair or replacement within such one hundred eighty (180) day period, within two hundred seventy (270) days of the date of the receipt of insurance proceeds. Such lender’s loss payable endorsements shall specify that the proceeds of such insurance shall be payable to Agent, for itself and the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, Lenders and the Bank Product Providers, as its interests may appear and further specify that Agent and Lenders shall be paid regardless of any act or omission by any Borrower, Guarantor or any of its or their Affiliates. Without limiting any other rights of Agent or Lenders, and subject to Borrowers’ right to otherwise use insurance proceeds as provided in thisSection 9.5, any insurance proceeds received by Agent at any time may be applied to payment of the Obligations, whether or not then due, in any order and in such manner as Agent may determine. Upon application of such proceeds to the Revolving Loans, Revolving Loans may be available subject and pursuant to the terms hereof to be used for the costs of repair or replacement of the Collateral lost or damages resulting in the payment of such insurance proceeds.

9.6Financial Statements and Other Information.

(a) Each Borrower and Guarantor shall, and shall cause any Subsidiary to, keep proper books and records in which true and complete entries shall be made of all dealings or transactions of or in relation to the Collateral and the business of such Borrower, Guarantor and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP. Borrowers and Guarantors shall promptly furnish to Agent and Lenders all such financial and other information as Agent shall reasonably request relating to the Collateral and the assets, business and operations of Borrowers and Guarantors, and Borrower shall notify the auditors and accountants of Borrowers and Guarantors that Agent is authorized to obtain such information directly from them. Without limiting the foregoing, Administrative Borrower shall furnish or cause to be furnished to Agent, the following:

(i) within forty-five (45) days after the end of each fiscal quarter, quarterly unaudited consolidated financial statements and unaudited consolidating financial statements (including in each case balance sheets, statements of income and loss, and statements

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of cash flow), all in reasonable detail, fairly presenting in all material respects the financial position and the results of the operations of Parent and its Subsidiaries as of the end of and through such fiscal quarter, certified to be correct in all material respects by the chief financial officer, treasurer, or other similar officer of Administrative Borrower, subject to normalyear-end adjustments and accompanied by a compliance certificate substantially in the form ofExhibit C hereto, along with a schedule in form reasonably satisfactory to Agent of the calculations used in determining the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio as of the end of such quarter;provided that, during an Increased Reporting Period, Borrowers shall deliver monthly financial statements along with a compliance certificate substantially in the form ofExhibit C hereto within thirty (30) days after the end of each fiscal month, and

(ii) within ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year, audited consolidated financial statements and unaudited consolidating financial statements of Parent and its Subsidiaries (including in each case balance sheets, statements of income and loss, statements of cash flow and statements of shareholders’ equity), and the accompanying notes thereto, all in reasonable detail, fairly presenting in all material respects the financial position and the results of the operations of Parent and its Subsidiaries as of the end of and for such fiscal year, together with the unqualified opinion of independent certified public accountants with respect to the audited consolidated financial statements, which accountants shall be an independent accounting firm selected by Administrative Borrower and reasonably acceptable to Agent, that such audited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP, and present fairly in all material respects the results of operations and financial condition of Parent and its Subsidiaries as of the end of and for the fiscal year then ended, and accompanied by a compliance certificate substantially in the form ofExhibit C hereto, and

(iii) (A) at such time as available, but in no event later than thirty (30) days after the end of each fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year of Borrowers ending December 31, 2019), projected consolidated financial statements (including in each case, forecasted balance sheets and statements of income and loss, statements of cash flow, and projected Borrowing Base availability) of Parent and its Subsidiaries for the next fiscal year, all in reasonable detail, and in a format consistent with the projections delivered by Borrowers to Agent prior to the date hereof, together with such supporting information as Agent may reasonably request. Such projected financial statements shall be prepared on a monthly basis for the next succeeding year. Such projections shall represent the reasonable best estimate by Administrative Borrower of the future financial performance of Parent and its Subsidiaries for the periods set forth therein and shall have been prepared on the basis of the assumptions set forth therein which Administrative Borrower believes is fair and reasonable as of the date of preparation in light of current and reasonably foreseeable business conditions (it being understood that actual results may differ from those set forth in such projected financial statements), and

(B) at such time as the aggregate amount of consideration paid by Borrowers and Guarantors in respect of Permitted Acquisitions equals or exceeds $7,500,000 since the date that the last projections were received by Agent pursuant toSection 9.6(a)(iii)(A) hereof or thisSection 9.6(a)(iii)(B), or in conjunction with a Material Permitted Acquisition, Administrative Borrower shall deliver updated (from the date of the last projections received) projected financial statements, in form and substance as required inSection 9.6(a)(iii)(A) hereof.

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(b) Administrative Borrower shall, and shall cause the other Borrower(s) to notify Administrative Borrower so that it may, promptly notify Agent in writing of the details of (i) any loss, damage, investigation, action, suit, proceeding or claim relating to Collateral having a value of more than $1,000,000 or which if adversely determined would result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) any Material Contract being terminated or materially amended or any new Material Contract entered into (in which event Administrative Borrower shall provide Agent with a copy of such Material Contract to the extent permitted by any applicable confidentiality provisions contained in such Material Contract,provided, that, Borrowers shall use commercially reasonable efforts to get any appropriate consent necessary to provide Agent with such a copy), (iii) any order, judgment or decree in excess of $1,000,000 shall have been entered against any Borrower or Guarantor any of its or their properties or assets, (iv) any notification of a material violation of laws or regulations received by any Borrower or Guarantor from a Governmental Authority, (v) any ERISA Event that could be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (vi) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default.

(c) Promptly after the sending or filing thereof, Administrative Borrower shall send to Agent copies of (i) all reports and registration statements which Ultimate Parent or any of its Subsidiaries files with the Securities Exchange Commission, any national or foreign securities exchange or the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., and such other reports as Agent may hereafter specifically identify to Administrative Borrower that Agent will require be provided to Agent, (ii) all press releases and (iii) all other statements concerning material changes or developments in the material business of a Borrower or Guarantor made available by any Borrower or Guarantor to the public.

(d) Administrative Borrower shall furnish or cause to be furnished to Agent such budgets, forecasts, projections and other information respecting the Collateral and the business of Borrowers and Guarantors, as Agent may, from time to time, reasonably request. Agent is hereby authorized to deliver a copy of any financial statement or any other information relating to the business of Borrowers and Guarantors to any court or other Governmental Authority or to any Lender or Participant or prospective Lender or Participant or any Affiliate of any Lender or Participant. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby irrevocably authorizes and directs all accountants or auditors to deliver to Agent, at Borrowers’ expense and without affecting any confidentiality obligations of such accountants and auditors to Persons other than Agent, copies of the financial statements of any Borrower and Guarantor and any reports or management letters prepared by such accountants or auditors on behalf of any Borrower or Guarantor and to disclose to Agent and Lenders such information as they may have regarding the business of any Borrower and Guarantor. Any documents, schedules, invoices or other papers delivered to Agent or any Lender may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of by Agent or such Lender one (1) year after the same are delivered to Agent or such Lender, except as otherwise designated by Administrative Borrower to Agent or such Lender in writing.

(e) Administrative Borrower shall furnish to Agent all material notices or demands in connection with Indebtedness incurred pursuant toSection 9.9(e),Section 9.9(g),Section 9.9(j) andSection 9.9(q) and the loans and advances made pursuant toSection 9.10(i), in each case either received by any Borrower or Guarantor or on its behalf promptly after the receipt thereof, or sent by any Borrower or Guarantor or on its behalf concurrently with the sending thereof, as the case may be.

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(f) Administrative Borrower shall furnish to Agent, promptly, but in any event within one (1) Business Day after the furnishing, receipt or execution thereof, copies of (i) any amendment, waiver, consent or other written modification of the Term Loan Documents, (ii) any notice of default or any notice related to the exercise of remedies under the Term Loan Documents, and (iii) any other material notice, certificate or other information or document provided to, or received from, the Term Loan Agent or the Term Loan Lenders.

(g) Administrative Borrower shall furnish to Agent concurrently with any delivery thereof to the Term Loan Agent, each Term Loan Borrowing Base Certificate and supporting information in connection therewith and any other additional reports related thereto that are delivered to the Term Loan Agent.

(h) Administrative Borrower shall furnish promptly following any request therefor, (i) such other information regarding the operations, material changes in ownership of Capital Stock, business affairs and financial condition of any Borrower or Guarantor, or compliance with the terms of this Agreement, as the Agent or any Lender may reasonably request, and (ii) information and documentation reasonably requested by the Agent or any Lender for purposes of compliance with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.

(i) Administrative Borrower shall promptly furnish to any Lender any change in the information provided in the Beneficial Ownership Certification delivered to such Lender that would result in a change to the list of beneficial owners identified in such certification.

(j) Administrative Borrower shall furnish to Agent copies of (i) any franchise agreements not previously delivered to Agent prior to any related Franchise Receivables being included in the Borrowing Base and (ii) any material amendments or modifications to any franchise agreement to which any Franchise Receivables included in the Borrowing Base are attributable.

9.7Sale of Assets, Consolidation, Merger, Dissolution, Etc. Borrowers and Guarantors shall not and shall not permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, (a) merge into or with or consolidate with any other Person or permit any other Person to merge into or with or consolidate with it; provided, however, upon prior written notice to Agent:

(i) a Subsidiary (other than a Borrower) may merge into or with or consolidate with or dissolve or liquidate into another Subsidiary;

(ii) Original Parent may merge into Parent on the Closing Date in accordance with the Valor Merger Agreement;

(iii) a Subsidiary may merge into or with or consolidate with or dissolve or liquidate into a Borrower or Guarantor (other than Parent), and a Borrower may merge into or with or consolidate with or dissolve or liquidate into another Borrower so long as (A) a Borrower (in the case of any such event involving a Borrower) or Guarantor (other than Parent) is the surviving entity with respect thereto and such Borrower or Guarantor has otherwise complied withSection 9.1(b) of this Agreement (if applicable) and all other terms of this Agreement, (B) no Default or Event of Default then exists or would occur as a result thereof, (C) no liens, other than

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those permitted under the terms of this Agreement or the other Financing Agreement with regard to any Borrower or Guarantor, on the assets of such Subsidiary then exist, and (D) such Borrower or Guarantor would not, as a result of such transaction and upon consummation thereof, be liable for any Indebtedness or other obligations of such Subsidiary, other than Indebtedness or other obligations which are permitted under the terms of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements with regard to a Borrower or Guarantor; and

(iv) a Guarantor or Borrower may merge into or with or consolidate with or dissolve or liquidate into a Borrower so long as (A) a Borrower is the surviving entity with respect thereto and continues to be an organization of the type, domiciled in the state and bearing the same corporate name as existed prior to such merger or consolidation, (B) no Default or Event of Default then exists or would occur, (C) no liens, other than those permitted under the terms of this Agreement with regard to such Borrower, on the assets of such Guarantor then exist, and (D) such Borrower would not, as a result of such transaction, be liable for any Indebtedness or other obligations of such Guarantor or other Borrower, other than Indebtedness or other obligations which are permitted under the terms of this Agreement with regard to such Borrower.

(b) sell, issue, assign, lease, license, transfer, abandon or otherwise dispose of any Capital Stock or any of its assets to any other Person (whether by Division or otherwise) (or agree to do any of the foregoing unless the terms of such agreement provide that: (i) Agent’s written consent is a condition to consummation of the prohibited action, or (ii) Payment in Full and termination of this Agreement is a condition to consummation of the prohibited action), except for:

(A) sales of Inventory in the ordinary course of business,

(B) returns and exchanges of Inventory to vendors in the ordinary course of business of a Borrower on terms and conditions consistent with the current or prior practices of such Borrower;

(C) the sale or other disposition of assets (other than Collateral and other than assets subject toclause (D) of this Section below) by a Borrower or Guarantor or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of its business that are no longer necessary or required, worn out,non-core or obsolete, in the conduct of such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s business;

(D) sales or other dispositions by any Borrower or Guarantor or any Subsidiary of assets in connection with the closing or sale of a retail store location (the closure of a store is not in and of itself the disposition of assets), warehouse, distribution center or corporate office of such Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary, which sale or disposition consists of leasehold interests in the premises of such store or distribution center, the Equipment and fixtures located at such premises and the books and records relating exclusively and directly to the operations of such store or distribution center;provided, that, as to each and all such sales and closings, (1) Agent shall have received written notice of such sale or closing in accordance withSection 7.1(a) hereof, (2) after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and (3) such sale shall be on commercially reasonable prices and terms in a bona fide arm’s length transaction, (4) all Net Proceeds thereof shall be subject toSection 2.9(c), and (5) in connection

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with the closure of any retail store locations pursuant to a plan where the aggregate Value of Inventory in all such stores is greater than $10,000,000, the Loan Parties shall solicit, on a competitive basis, reasonably detailed proposals from potential Liquidation Agents and the Loan Parties shall retain an independent, nationally recognized, professional retail inventory liquidation firm that provides full liquidation services reasonably acceptable to the Agent (the “Liquidation Agent”) (which for the avoidance of doubt, shall be subject to maintenance of “Chinese walls” between any Affiliate of the Agent submitting such proposal as a potential Liquidation Agent and the Agent),

(E) in addition to the dispositions permitted insubclause (D) above, the sale or other disposition of Equipment (includingworn-out,non-core or obsolete Equipment or Equipment no longer used or useful in the business of such Borrower or Guarantor) so long as the value of such Equipment sold in any fiscal year is equal to or less than the value of all Equipment acquired in such year,

(F) the grant by any Borrower or Guarantor after the date hereof of anon-exclusive or exclusive license to any Person for the use of commercially reasonable terms of Intellectual Property in the ordinary course of business, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of the execution and delivery of the subject license or sublicense;provided,however, (1) any such licenses or sublicenses, if exclusive, are for commercially reasonable periods of time and have commercially reasonable geographical limitations, (2) if any such license or sublicense is for use within the United States or in any territory or possession thereof, then, after giving effect to such license, such Borrower or Guarantor must retain sufficient rights to use its Intellectual Property as to enable such Borrower or Guarantor to continue to conduct the material aspects of its business in the ordinary course; (3) any such licenses or sublicenses are on commercially reasonable terms to such Borrower or Guarantor pursuant to bona fide arm’s length transactions, (4) any such licenses or sublicenses do not impair in any material respect the value (to Borrower, Agent or Lenders) of the Intellectual Property or the Collateral as a whole or the marketability of the Intellectual Property or the Collateral taken as a whole, and (5) any such licenses or sublicenses do not otherwise materially and adversely affect the potential realization by Agent and Lenders of the value of the Intellectual Property or the Collateral taken as a whole when exercising their remedies under the terms of this Agreement and applicable law,

(G) sales, transfers and dispositions of assets of (1) a Borrower to another Borrower, or (2) by a Guarantor to a Borrower or another Guarantor (other than Parent (other than assets the Parent is permitted to own pursuant toSection 9.29),provided, that, in each case such transfer is otherwise consummated (and the lien and security interest of Agent and Secured Parties continues in such assets) in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements,

(H) the issuance and sale by any Borrower or Guarantor of Capital Stock of such Borrower or Guarantor after the date hereof;provided, that, (1) Agent shall have received not less than ten (10) Business Days’ prior written notice of such issuance and sale by such Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary, which notice shall specify whether such shares are to be sold pursuant to a public offering or if not a public offering, then the parties to whom such shares are to be sold, the terms of such sale, the total amount which it is anticipated will be realized

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from the issuance and sale of such stock and the net cash proceeds which it is anticipated will be received by such Borrower or Guarantor from such sale, (2) such Borrower or Guarantor shall not be required to pay any cash dividends or repurchase or redeem such Capital Stock or make any other payments in respect thereof, (3) the terms of such Capital Stock, and the terms and conditions of the purchase and sale thereof, shall not include any terms that include any limitation on the right of any Borrower to request or receive Loans or Letters of Credit or the right of any Borrower and Guarantor to amend or modify any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements or otherwise in any way relate to or affect the arrangements of Borrowers and Guarantors with Agent and Lenders or are more restrictive or burdensome to any Borrower or Guarantor than the terms of any Capital Stock in effect on the date hereof, (4) except as Agent may otherwise agree in writing, upon the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default or during a Compliance Period, all of the proceeds of the sale and issuance of such Capital Stock shall be paid to Agent for application to the Obligations in accordance withSection 6.4(a) or at Agent’s option, to be held as cash collateral for the Obligationsprovided, that, in no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor issue any Capital Stock which would result in a Change of Control or other Event of Default; provided, further, that conditions (1) through (3) above shall not apply to issuances and sales of Capital Stock by any Borrower or Guarantor to any other Borrower or Guarantor (so long as such issued Capital Stock is pledged as Collateral),

(I) the issuance of Capital Stock in connection with the Closing Date Equity Contribution or the Post-Closing Equity Contribution,

(J) the abandonment,non-renewal, failure to maintain, cancellation or sale, transfer or other disposition of Intellectual Property which is not material to the conduct of any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s business and which has no material economic value, and

(K) leases and subleases and other agreements related to Real Property in the ordinary course of business;

(L) the transactions permitted underSections 9.9,9.10(h),9.12 and9.19 hereof,

(M) dispositions of cash and Cash Equivalents subject to compliance withSection 9.10(b) hereof, and

(N) in addition to the sales and dispositions permitted inclauses (A) through(M) of thisSection 9.6(b), the sale or other disposition of assets (other than Accounts and Inventory) with an aggregate fair market value not in excess of $20,000,000 for all such assets disposed of in any fiscal year of Borrowers or as Agent may otherwise agree.

In connection with any disposition set forth inSection 9.7(b) hereof, Agent shall (and is hereby irrevocably authorized by Lenders to) upon the request of Administrative Borrower and at Borrowers’ expense, (1) upon the sale or other disposition of any Collateral permitted underSection 9.7(b) hereof, release such Collateral from the lien of Agent hereunder, and (2) in connection with the transactions described inclause (i), deliver to Administrative Borrower aUCC-3 partial release (or other appropriate instrument, as the case may be) in form and substance

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reasonably satisfactory to Agent, as may be necessary to evidence the release of the lien in favor of Agent upon any Collateral to the extent such Collateral is sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of in accordance withSection 9.7(b) hereof;provided, that, (a) Administrative Borrower certifies to Agent, Issuing Bank and Lenders in writing that such sale, disposition or other transaction is being consummated in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (and Agent, Issuing Bank and Lenders may rely conclusively upon such certificate without any further inquiry) and such release shall only be effective upon the consummation of such transaction, sale or other disposition, (b) Agent shall not be required to execute any such document on terms which, in Agent’s opinion, would expose Agent to liability to any third Person or create any obligations or entail any consequence to Agent, Issuing Bank or Lenders other than the release of such Obligor or such lien without recourse or warranty, and (c) such release shall not in any manner discharge, affect or impair the Obligations of any Person not released or any lien upon (or obligations of obligors in respect of) the Collateral retained by such Borrower or Guarantor;

(c) wind up, liquidate or dissolve, except (i) as permitted inclause (a) above or (ii) if such Person is a Subsidiary of any Borrower with assets having an aggregate fair market value of less than or equal to $100,000;

(d) consummate a Division as a Dividing Person without the prior written consent of the Agent. Without limiting the foregoing, if any Borrower or Guarantor that is a limited liability company consummates a Division (with or without the prior consent of the Agent as required above), each Division Successor shall be required to comply with the obligations set forth inSection 9.23 and the other further assurances obligations set forth in the Financing Agreements and become a Borrower or Guarantor, as applicable, under this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements.

9.8Encumbrances. Each Borrower and Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, charge or other encumbrance of any nature whatsoever on any of its assets or properties, including the Collateral, or file or permit the filing of, or permit to remain in effect, any financing statement or other similar notice of any security interest or lien with respect to any such assets or properties, except:

(a) the security interests and liens of Agent for itself and the benefit of the Secured Parties and the rights of setoff of Secured Parties provided for herein or under applicable law;

(b) liens securing the payment of taxes, assessments or other governmental charges or levies either not yet delinquent or the validity or amount of which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently pursued and available to such Borrower, or Guarantor or Subsidiary, as the case may be and with respect to which adequate reserves have been set aside on its books;

(c)non-consensual statutory liens (including without limitation, landlords’, carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics, materialmen’s or other like liens but excluding liens securing the payment of taxes) arising in the ordinary course of such Borrower’s, Guarantor’s or Subsidiary’s business to the extent: (i) such liens secure Indebtedness which is not overdue or (ii)

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such liens secure Indebtedness relating to claims or liabilities which are fully insured and being defended at the sole cost and expense and at the sole risk of the insurer or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently pursued and available to such Borrower, Guarantor or such Subsidiary, in each case prior to the commencement of foreclosure or other similar proceedings and with respect to which adequate reserves have been set aside on its books;

(d) zoning restrictions, building codes, easements, licenses, covenants, land use laws, and other restrictions affecting the use of Real Property and other similar matters of record affecting title to Real Property which do not interfere in any material respect with the use of such Real Property or ordinary conduct of the business of such Borrower, Guarantor or such Subsidiary as presently conducted thereon or materially impair the value of the Real Property which may be subject thereto;

(e) purchase money security interests in Equipment (including Capital Leases) and purchase money mortgages on Real Property to secure Indebtedness permitted underSection 9.9(b) hereof;

(f) pledges and deposits of cash by any Borrower or Guarantor or Subsidiary after the date hereof in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security benefits consistent with the current or prior practices of such Borrower or Guarantor;

(g) liens or rights of setoff against credit balances of Borrowers, Guarantors or any of their Subsidiaries with Credit Card Issuers or Credit Card Processors or amounts owing by such Credit Card Issuers or Credit Card Processors to Borrower in the ordinary course of business, but not liens on or rights of setoff against any other property or assets of Borrowers, pursuant to the Credit Card Agreements to secure the obligations of Borrowers to the Credit Card Issuers or Credit Card Processors as a result of fees and chargebacks;

(h) pledges and deposits of cash by any Borrower or Guarantor or Subsidiary after the date hereof to secure the performance of tenders, bids, leases, trade contracts, statutory obligations and other similar obligations in each case (1) in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary and (2) other than for the repayment of Indebtedness;

(i) liens arising from (i) operating leases and the precautionary UCC and PPSA financing statement or fixture filings in respect thereof and (ii) Equipment or other materials which are not owned by any Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary located on the premises of such Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary (but not in connection with, or as part of, the financing thereof) from time to time in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary and the precautionary UCC financing statement or fixture filings in respect thereof;

(j) deposits of cash with the owner or lessor of premises leased and operated by any Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary in the ordinary course of the business of such Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary to secure the performance by such Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary of its obligations under the terms of the Real Property lease for such premises;

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(k) judgments and other similar liens arising in connection with court proceedings that do not constitute an Event of Default,provided, that, (i) such liens are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently pursued, (ii) adequate reserves or other appropriate provision, if any, as are required by GAAP have been made therefor, (iii) a stay of enforcement of any such liens is in effect and (iv) Agent may establish Reserves with respect thereto;

(l) security interests in assets of a Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary existing at the time such Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary is acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition after the date hereof;provided, that, each of the following conditions is satisfied as determined by Agent: (i) such security interests were not granted and did not arise in connection with, or in anticipation or contemplation of, such Permitted Acquisition, (ii) the assets subject to such security interests do not include any assets of the type or categories that constitute Collateral other than Equipment or Real Property and do not apply to any assets or properties of any Borrower or other Guarantor other than Equipment and Real Property of the Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary so acquired, (iii) the Indebtedness secured by such assets is permitted underSection 9.9(h) hereof;

(m) other liens not otherwise permitted under any other subsection of thisSection 9.8, other liens with respect to property or assets of any Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary;provided that the aggregate principal amount of the Indebtedness or other obligations secured by such liens does not exceed $1,000,000 at any time outstanding;

(n) liens or security interests arising by law or granted by any Borrower or any Guarantor in favor of a lessor, landlord, consignee, warehouseman or bailee of a retail store location,Non-Retail Store Location or Warehouse Location, as applicable, on personal property and/or trade fixtures owned by any Borrower or Guarantor located at such locations granted pursuant to a lease agreement between such Borrower or Guarantor and such lessor, landlord, consignee, warehouseman or bailee, as applicable, entered into in the ordinary course of business, in each case granted to secure obligations owed by such Borrower or Guarantor with respect to any rental payments, service charges or other amounts owing to such lessor, landlord, consignee, warehouseman or bailee, as applicable, pursuant to such lease agreement;provided, that, in the event that Administrative Borrower does not obtain a Collateral Access Agreement with respect to such locations, Agent at its option, may establish a Reserve with respect to each such location in respect of amounts at any time due or to become due to the lessor, landlord, consignee, warehouseman or bailee, as applicable, of such location as Agent shall reasonably determine but in no event shall any Reserve with respect to rent be maintained in respect of any location for which a Collateral Access Agreement has been delivered to Agent;

(o) [reserved];

(p) liens incurred by any Borrower or Guarantor on any unearned premiums paid by any Borrower or Guarantor or any return of the premium for such policy; pursuant to the Indebtedness described inSection 9.9(j) hereof;

(q) the security interests and liens set forth onSchedule 8.4 hereto;

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(s) liens securing the Term Loan Obligations to the extent permitted to be incurred pursuant toSection 9.9(t);provided that such liens are at all times subject to the Intercreditor Agreement.

For the avoidance of doubt, for purposes of this Agreement, “encumbrance” shall not be deemed to include licenses of Intellectual Property which are otherwise permitted under the terms of this Agreement.

9.9Indebtedness. Each Borrower and Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary to, incur, create, assume, become or be liable in any manner with respect to, or permit to exist, any Indebtedness, or guarantee, assume, endorse, or otherwise become responsible for (directly or indirectly), the Indebtedness, performance, obligations or dividends of any other Person, except:

(a) the Obligations;

(b) purchase money Indebtedness (including Capital Leases) arising after the date hereof to the extent secured by purchase money security interests in Equipment (including Capital Leases) and purchase money mortgages on Real Property not to exceed $10,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding so long as such security interests and mortgages do not apply to any property of such Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary other than the Equipment or Real Property so acquired, and the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed the cost of the Equipment or Real Property so acquired, as the case may be;

(c) guarantees by any Borrower or Guarantor or other Subsidiary of the Indebtedness or other obligations of any other Borrowers or Guarantors so long as such Indebtedness is otherwise permitted under thisSection 9.9 and such other obligations are not prohibited by the terms of this Agreement;

(d) the Indebtedness of any Borrower, Guarantor or other Subsidiary to any other Borrower or Guarantor or other Subsidiary arising after the date hereof pursuant to loans by any Borrower or Guarantor permitted underSections 9.10(g), 9.10(h), and 9.10(i) hereof;

(e) unsecured Indebtedness of any Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary arising after the date hereof to any third Person (but not to any other Borrower or Guarantor),provided, that, each of the following conditions is satisfied as determined by Agent: (i) such Indebtedness shall be on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent and shall be subject and subordinate in right of payment to the right of Agent and Lenders to receive the prior payment and satisfaction in full payment of all of the Obligations pursuant to the terms of an intercreditor and subordination agreement between Agent and such third party, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent, (ii) Agent shall have received not less than ten (10) days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower or Guarantor to incur such Indebtedness, which notice shall set forth in reasonable detail satisfactory to Agent the amount of such Indebtedness, the Person or Persons to whom such Indebtedness will be owed, the interest rate, the schedule of repayments and maturity date with respect thereto and such other information as Agent may request with respect thereto, (iii) Agent shall have received true, correct and complete copies of all agreements, documents and instruments evidencing or otherwise related to such Indebtedness, (iv) except as Agent may otherwise agree in

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writing, upon the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default or during a Compliance Period, all of the cash proceeds of such loans or other accommodations incurred during the occurrence of such Event of Default or during such Compliance Period shall be, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement, paid to Agent for application to the Obligations in such order and manner as Agent may determine or at Agent’s option, to be held as cash collateral for the Obligations, (v) in no event shall the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness incurred during the term of this Agreement exceed $5,000,000, (vi) as of the date of incurring such Indebtedness and after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and (vii) such Borrower and Guarantor shall not, directly or indirectly, (A) amend, modify, alter or change the terms of such Indebtedness or any agreement, document or instrument related thereto, except, that, such Borrower or Guarantor may, after prior written notice to Agent, amend, modify, alter or change the terms thereof so as to extend the maturity thereof, or defer the timing of any payments in respect thereof, or to forgive or cancel any portion of such Indebtedness (other than pursuant to payments thereof), or to reduce the interest rate or any fees in connection therewith, or (B) redeem, retire, defease, purchase or otherwise acquire such Indebtedness (except as permitted bySection 9.24), or set aside or otherwise deposit or invest any sums for such purpose, in each case without the written consent of Agent;

(f) Indebtedness of any Borrower, Guarantor or any of their Subsidiaries entered into in the ordinary course of business pursuant to a Hedge Agreement;provided, that, (i) such arrangements are not for speculative purposes, and (ii) such Indebtedness shall be unsecured, except to the extent such Indebtedness constitutes part of the Obligations arising under or pursuant to Hedge Agreements with any Bank Product Provider that are secured under the terms hereofor except to the extent secured by pledges or deposits of cash as permitted underSection 9.8 hereof;

(g) the Indebtedness set forth onSchedule 9.9 hereto;provided, that, (i) Borrowers and Guarantors may only make regularly scheduled payments of principal and interest in respect of such Indebtedness in accordance with the terms of the agreement or instrument evidencing or giving rise to such Indebtedness as in effect on the date hereof, and (ii) Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, (A) amend, modify, alter or change the terms of such Indebtedness or any agreement, document or instrument related thereto as in effect on the date hereof except, that, Borrowers and Guarantors may, after prior written notice to Agent, amend, modify, alter or change the terms thereof so as to extend the maturity thereof, or defer the timing of any payments in respect thereof, or to forgive or cancel any portion of such Indebtedness (other than pursuant to payments thereof), or to reduce the interest rate or any fees in connection therewith, or (B) redeem, retire, defease, purchase or otherwise acquire such Indebtedness, or set aside or otherwise deposit or invest any sums for such purpose;

(h) Indebtedness of a Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary existing at the time such Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary is acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition;provided, that, each of the following conditions is satisfied as reasonably determined by Agent: (i) such Indebtedness was not incurred in connection with, or in anticipation or contemplation of, such Permitted Acquisition, (ii) such Indebtedness is not secured by any assets of any Borrower or Guarantor other than Equipment or Real Property of the Borrower or Guarantor so acquired, (iii) no other Borrower or Guarantor shall have any obligation or liability in respect of such Indebtedness except as otherwise permitted hereof, (iv) if the amount of such Indebtedness is greater than $1,000,000, it shall be on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to Agent, and (v) the aggregate amount of such Indebtedness pursuant to all Permitted Acquisitions shall not exceed $2,000,000 at any time outstanding;

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(i) unsecured Indebtedness of the Parent evidenced by the Convertible Notes not to exceed the aggregate principal amount thereof outstanding on the Closing Date;

(j) Indebtedness of Borrowers and Guarantors and their Subsidiaries in connection with the financing of insurance premiums in respect of unearned premiums payable on certain insurance policies maintained by Borrower,provided, that, (i) in no event shall the total amount of such Indebtedness outstanding at any time exceed $4,000,000, and (ii) such Indebtedness shall be unsecured except to the extent of any unearned premiums paid by any Borrower or Guarantor or any return of the premium for such policy;

(k) unsecured Indebtedness in respect of workers’ compensation claims, self insurance obligations, bankers acceptances, performance, surety bonds and other similar obligations in the ordinary course of business;

(l) other unsecured Indebtedness of any Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary, in an aggregate outstanding principal amount that at the time of, and after giving effect to, the incurrence thereof, together with any refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof, would not exceed $25,000,000;

(m) unsecured Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument inadvertently drawn against insufficient funds, so long as such Indebtedness is repaid within five (5) Business Days,

(n) unsecured Indebtedness resulting from agreements to provide for working capital adjustments of purchase price, earnouts or other similar obligations incurred in connection with Permitted Acquisitions,provided, that, such Indebtedness shall be on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to Agent and shall be subject and subordinate in right of payment to the right of Agent and Lenders to receive the prior payment and satisfaction in full payment of all of the Obligations pursuant to the terms of a subordinations agreement between Agent and such third party, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent,

(o) the Indebtedness of any Borrower or Guarantor to any other Borrower or Guarantor arising after the date hereof pursuant to Investments consisting of loans and advances permitted underSection 9.10(c) hereof,provided, that, as to any such Indebtedness at any time owing by a Borrower to a Guarantor or another Borrower, (i) the Indebtedness arising pursuant to such Investment shall be subject to, and subordinate in right of payment to, the right of Agent and Lenders to receive the prior final payment and satisfaction in full of all of the Obligations on terms and conditions acceptable to Agent, and (ii) any such Indebtedness arising pursuant to any such loan shall not be evidenced by a promissory note or other instrument, unless the single original of such note or other instrument is promptly delivered to Agent upon its request to hold as part of the Collateral, with such endorsement and/or assignment by the payee of such note or other instrument as Agent may require,

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(p) Indebtedness incurred to refinance Indebtedness incurred pursuant tosubsections (a),(b),(c),(d),(e),(f),(g),(h),(i),(j), (l),(s) or(t) of thisSection 9.9 (or thissubsection (p)) (such Indebtedness being refinanced being referred to herein as the “Refinanced Indebtedness”) so long as (i) such Indebtedness continues to comply with all provisions of suchsubsections (a),(b),(c),(d),(e),(f),(g),(h),(i),(j), (l),(s) or (t) as applicable, (ii) the incurrence of such Indebtedness would not otherwise cause a Default or Event of Default to occur, and (iii) the terms of such Indebtedness (including subordination terms, if applicable) are not on terms which, taken as a whole, are materially more adverse to Borrowers, Guarantors, Agent or any Lender than the Refinanced Indebtedness, (iv) the principal amount of such Indebtedness as refinanced does not exceed the outstanding principal balance of the Refinanced Indebtedness plus costs, fees, expenses, and accrued interest, and (v) the final maturity date of such refinancing Indebtedness is a maturity date that is not earlier than ninety days after the scheduled Maturity Date,

(q) [reserved];

(r) [reserved];

(s) Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness;provided that (i) the Leverage Ratio for the Borrowers and Guarantors, calculated, on a pro forma basis, as of the last Test Period prior to the date of effectiveness of the incurrence of such Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness for which financial statements for the fiscal month, fiscal quarter or fiscal year then ended have been (or have been required to be) delivered pursuant toSection 9.6(a)(i) andSection 9.6(a)(ii), as applicable, both prior to and after giving effect to such Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness, is no greater than 2.50 to 1.00 and (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and

(t) the Term Loan Obligations;provided that (i) the aggregate principal amount of the Term Loan Obligations does not exceed at any one time outstanding the Term Loan Cap Amount (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) and (ii) the Term Loan Obligations and the Liens securing the Term Loan Obligations are at all times subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement.

Notwithstanding anything in thisSection 9.9 to the contrary, (x) the aggregate amount of any refinancing Indebtedness incurred pursuant to subsection (p) of thisSection 9.9 in respect of Refinanced Indebtedness originally incurred under subsections (b), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l), (s) or (t) shall be subject to, and shall continue to count towards, the dollar limitations applicable to Indebtedness set forth in the applicable subsection pursuant to which the Refinanced Indebtedness was incurred and (y) Term Loan Obligations may only be incurred underSection 9.9(t).

9.10Loans, Investments, Etc. Each Borrower and Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, purchase, hold or acquire (including pursuant to any merger with any Person that was not a wholly owned Subsidiary immediately prior to such merger) any Capital Stock, evidences of Indebtedness or other Securities (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing) of, make or permit to exist any loans or advances to, or make or permit to exist any investment or any other interest in, any other Person, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series of transactions) any assets of any other Person constituting a business unit or all or a substantial part of the assets or property of any other Person (whether through purchase of assets, merger or otherwise), or form or acquire any Subsidiaries, or agree to do any of the foregoing (each of the foregoing an “Investment”), except:

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(b) Investments in cash or Cash Equivalents;provided, that, the terms and conditions ofSection 5.2 andSection 6.3 hereof shall have been satisfied with respect to the Deposit Account, investment account or other account in which such cash or Cash Equivalents are held;

(c) (i) the existing equity Investments of each Borrower and Guarantor as of the Closing Date in its Subsidiaries,provided, that, no Borrower or Guarantor shall have any further obligations or liabilities to make any capital contributions or other additional investments or other payments to or in or for the benefit of any of such Subsidiaries;

(ii) a Borrower or Guarantor may form a Subsidiary,provided, that,

(A) Agent shall have received promptly upon any such formation or acquisition all of the agreements, documents and instruments required by the terms ofSections 5.2 and9.23 hereof,

(B) as of the date of the organization, formation or acquisition of any such Subsidiary and immediately after giving effect thereto, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and

(C) in the event that Administrative Borrower requests that any such new Subsidiary that is directly or indirectly wholly owned by Parent be designated a Borrower hereunder, in no event shall any Inventory, Accounts or Credit Card Receivables of such Subsidiary be deemed Eligible Inventory, Eligible Accounts or Eligible Credit Card Receivables until Agent shall have conducted a field examination and appraisal with respect to such assets and the results of such field examination, appraisal, and other due diligence shall be reasonably satisfactory to Agent, and then only to the extent the criteria for Eligible Inventory, Eligible Accounts and Eligible Credit Card Receivables set forth herein are satisfied with respect thereto (as such criteria may be reasonably modified by Agent to reflect the results of Agent’s field examination and appraisal including any separate advance percentage with respect to such Credit Card Receivables as Agent may reasonably determine); and

(D) such Subsidiary shall be an operating company that engages in a Permitted Business or an operating company or a holding company formed to make a Permitted Acquisition.

(d) Investments by a Borrower or Guarantor in another Borrower or Guarantor, in each case after the date hereof,provided, that, (i) to the extent that such Investment gives rise to any Indebtedness, such Indebtedness is permitted hereunder, and (ii) to the extent that such Investment gives rise to the issuance of any shares of Capital Stock, such issuance is permitted hereunder;

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(e) loans and advances by any Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary to employees of such Borrower or Guarantor not to exceed the principal amount of $500,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding;

(f) stock or obligations issued to any Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary by any Person (or the representative of such Person) in respect of Indebtedness of such Person owing to such Borrower or Guarantor in connection with the insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership or reorganization of such Person or a composition or readjustment of the debts of such Person;provided, that, the original of any such stock or instrument evidencing such obligations shall be promptly delivered to Agent, upon Agent’s request, together with such stock power, assignment or endorsement by such Borrower or Guarantor as Agent may request;

(g) obligations of Account Debtors to any Borrower, Guarantor or Subsidiary arising from Accounts which are past due whether or not evidenced by a promissory note made by such Account Debtor payable to such Borrower or Guarantor;provided, that, promptly upon the receipt of the original of any such promissory note by such Borrower or Guarantor, such promissory note shall be endorsed to the order of Agent by such Borrower or Guarantor and promptly delivered to Agent as so endorsed;

(h) loans by a Borrower or Guarantor or Subsidiary to another Borrower or Guarantor after the date hereof,provided, that,

(i) as to all of such loans, (A) the Indebtedness arising pursuant to any such loan shall not be evidenced by a promissory note or other instrument, unless the single original of such note or other instrument is promptly delivered to Agent upon its request to hold as part of the Collateral, with such endorsement and/or assignment by the payee of such note or other instrument as Agent may require, (B) as of the date of any such loan and after giving effect thereto, the Borrower or Guarantor making such loan shall be Solvent, and (C) as of the date of any such loan and after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and

(ii) as to loans by a Guarantor or Subsidiary to a Borrower, (A) the Indebtedness arising pursuant to such loan shall be subject to, and subordinate in right of payment to, the right of Agent and Lenders to receive the prior final payment and satisfaction in full of all of the Obligations on terms and conditions reasonably acceptable to Agent, (B) promptly upon Agent’s request, Agent shall have received a subordination agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, providing for the terms of the subordination in right of payment of such Indebtedness of such Borrower to the prior final payment and satisfaction in full of all of the Obligations, duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Guarantor and such Borrower, and (C) such Borrower shall not, directly or indirectly make, or be required to make, any payments in respect of such Indebtedness owing to any Subsidiary that is not a Borrower or Guarantor prior to the end of the then current term of this Agreement.

(i) the loans and advances set forth onSchedule 9.10 hereto;provided, that, as to such loans and advances, Borrowers and Guarantors shall not, directly or indirectly, amend, modify, alter or change the terms of such loans and advances or any agreement, document or instrument related thereto;

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(j) other Investments or loans by a Borrower or Guarantor;provided, that, at the time of making any such Investment and immediately after giving effect thereto (i) the Required Conditions shall have been satisfied and (ii) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(k) Permitted Acquisitions;

(l) Investments by any Borrower or Guarantor in any Foreign Subsidiary, or acquisitions by any Borrower or Guarantor of any foreign Acquired Business;provided, that, at the time of making any such Investment and immediately after giving effect thereto (i) the Required Conditions shall have been satisfied and (ii) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(m) other Investments by Borrowers and Guarantors and their Subsidiaries not otherwise permitted pursuant tosubsections (a) through (l) of thisSection 9.10, including, without limitation, any Investments by such Borrower or Guarantor in any Foreign Subsidiary,provided, that, (i) the aggregate outstanding amount of all such Investments (valued at cost) shall not exceed $5,000,000 at any time (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write offs), and (ii) at the time of making any such Investment and immediately after giving effect thereto no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and

(n) the Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Transactions.

9.11Dividends and Redemptions. Each Borrower and Guarantor shall not, directly or indirectly, declare or pay any dividends on account of any shares of class of any Capital Stock of such Borrower or Guarantor now or hereafter outstanding, or set aside or otherwise deposit or invest any sums for such purpose, or redeem, retire, defease, purchase or otherwise acquire any shares of any class of Capital Stock (or set aside or otherwise deposit or invest any sums for such purpose) for any consideration or apply or set apart any sum, or make any other distribution (by reduction of capital or otherwise) in respect of any such shares or agree to do any of the foregoing, except that:

(a) any Borrower or Guarantor may declare and pay such dividends or redeem, retire, defease, purchase or otherwise acquire any shares of any class of Capital Stock for consideration in the form of shares of Capital Stock (other than capital stock described inclause (e) of the definition of “Indebtedness”);

(b) Borrowers and Guarantors may pay dividends or make distributions to the extent of payments permitted inSection 9.12 below (other thanclause (b)(iii) thereof);

(c) any Subsidiary of a Borrower or Guarantor may pay dividends or make distributions (directly or indirectly) to a Borrower or Guarantor;

(d) Parent may pay cash dividends to its shareholders from legally available funds therefor,provided, that, (i) the Required Conditions have been satisfied and (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing as of the date of any such payment and after giving effect to such payment;

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(e) Parent may repurchase Capital Stock of Parent, including, without limitation, (i) pursuant to the Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Documents) and (ii) Capital Stock held by or to be issued to current or former employees, directors and officers pursuant to or in connection with any employee stock ownership, option or other equity compensation plan thereof or pursuant to any employment or consulting arrangement or equity subscription agreement, shareholders agreement or similar agreement, provided, that, in each case, (A) the Required Conditions have been satisfied as of the date of any such payment and (B) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing as of the date of any such payment and after giving effect to such payment; and

(f) Parent may make Permitted Tax Distributions so long as no Event of Default pursuant toSections 10.1(a)(i),10.1(g) or10.1(h) has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom

9.12Transactions with Affiliates. Each Borrower and Guarantor shall not, directly or indirectly:

(a) purchase, acquire or lease any property from, or sell, transfer or lease any property or provide services to, any officer, director or other Affiliate of such Borrower or Guarantor (other than another Borrower or Guarantor), except:

(i) in the ordinary course of (except with respect to transactions permitted underSections 9.7,9.8,9.9,9.10 or9.11) and pursuant to the reasonable requirements of such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s business (as the case may be) and upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to such Borrower or Guarantor than such Borrower or Guarantor would obtain in a comparable arm’s length transaction with an unaffiliated Person;

(ii) transactions permitted underSection 9.7(a) hereof;

(iii) transactions permitted underSection 9.12(b) hereof;

(iv) transactions between any Borrower and/or Guarantor and any other Borrower and/or Guarantor,provided, that, in each case such transaction is in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements;

(v) any Indebtedness permitted bySection 9.9(c),(d), and(o);

(vi) any Investments in a Subsidiary, or joint venture permitted bySection 9.10; and

(vii) issuances of Capital Stock.

(b) make any payments (whether by dividend, loan or otherwise) of management, consulting or other fees for management or similar services, or of any Indebtedness owing to any officer, employee, shareholder, director or any other Affiliate of such Borrower or Guarantor, except

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(i) reasonable compensation to officers, employees and directors for services rendered to such Borrower or Guarantor and reimbursement of expenses in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower or Guarantor;

(ii) payments to any Person that owns, directly or indirectly, 100% of the Capital Stock of Parent for actual and necessary reasonableout-of-pocket legal and accounting, insurance, marketing, payroll and similar types of services (other than management or sponsor fees) paid by such Person on behalf of such Borrower or Guarantor, in the ordinary course of their respective businesses or as the same may be directly attributable to such Borrower or Guarantor,provided, that, the aggregate amount of all such payments in any fiscal year shall not exceed $3,000,000; and

(iii) payments permitted underSection 9.24 hereof.

For the avoidance of doubt, the payment of Permitted Tax Distributions shall not be subject to thisSection 9.12.

9.13Compliance with ERISA. Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, each Borrower and Guarantor shall, and shall with respect to any Plan cause each of its ERISA Affiliates, to: (a) maintain each Plan in compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other Federal and State law; (b) cause each Plan which is qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code to maintain such qualification; (c) not terminate any Plan so as to incur any material liability to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (d) not allow or suffer to exist anynon-exempt “prohibited transaction” (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code) which would be reasonably likely to subject Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate to a material tax or penalty or other liability on prohibited transactions imposed under Section 4975 of the Code or ERISA; (e) make all required contributions to any Plan under Section 302 of ERISA, Section 412 of the Code or the terms of such Plan; (f) not allow or suffer to exist any “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived, with respect to any Plan; or (g) allow or suffer to exist any occurrence of a “reportable event” (as defined in Section 4043(c) of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, except for any such event with respect to which notice has been waived pursuant to applicable regulations) or any other event or condition which presents a material risk of termination by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation of any Plan that is a single employer plan, which termination could reasonably be expected to result in any material liability to any Borrower or Guarantor.

9.14Fiscal Year. Each Borrower and Guarantor shall, for financial reporting purposes, cause its fiscal year, and the fiscal year of each of its Subsidiaries (including any Foreign Subsidiary) to end on the last Saturday of December of each calendar year (except for53-week years). In no event shall any Borrower or Guarantor thereafter change its fiscal year.

9.15Change in Business. Each Borrower and Guarantor shall not engage in any business other than the Permitted Business.

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9.16Limitation of Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries. Each Borrower and Guarantor (other than Parent) shall not, directly, or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist any encumbrance or restriction which prohibits or materially limits the ability of any Subsidiary of such Borrower or Guarantor to (a) pay dividends or make other distributions or pay any Indebtedness owed to such Borrower or Guarantor or any Subsidiary of such Borrower or Guarantor, (b) make loans or advances to such Borrower or Guarantor or any Subsidiary of such Borrower or Guarantor, (c) transfer any of its properties or assets to such Borrower or Guarantor or any Subsidiary of such Borrower or Guarantor, or (d) create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any lien upon any of its property, assets or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than encumbrances and restrictions arising under (i) applicable law, (ii) this Agreement or the Term Loan Agreement, (iii) customary provisions restricting subletting or assignment of any lease (or hypothecation thereof) governing a leasehold interest of such Borrower or Guarantor or any Subsidiary of such Borrower or Guarantor, (iv) customary restrictions on dispositions of real property interests found in reciprocal easement agreements of such Borrower or Guarantor or any Subsidiary of such Borrower or Guarantor, (v) any agreement relating to permitted Indebtedness incurred by a Subsidiary of such Borrower or Guarantor prior to the date on which such Subsidiary was acquired by such Borrower or such Guarantor and outstanding on such acquisition date, (vi) the extension or continuation of contractual obligations in existence on the date hereof and otherwise permitted hereunder;provided, that, any such encumbrances or restrictions contained in such extension or continuation are no less favorable to Agent and Lenders than those encumbrances and restrictions under or pursuant to the contractual obligations so extended or continued, (vii) any agreement related to an otherwise permitted refinancing of Indebtedness permitted under the terms of this Agreement, and (viii) Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under the terms of this Agreement with terms no more restrictive than those set forth herein.

9.17[Reserved].

9.18Credit Card Agreements. Each Borrower shall (a) observe and perform in all material respects all material terms, covenants, conditions and provisions of the Credit Card Agreements to be observed and performed by it at the times set forth therein; and (b) not do or permit, suffer or refrain from doing anything, as a result of which there could be a default or breach of any of the terms of the Credit Card Agreements and at all times maintain in full force and effect the Credit Card Agreements and not terminate, cancel, surrender, modify, amend, waive or release any of the Credit Card Agreements, or consent to or permit to occur any of the foregoing; except, that, any Borrower may terminate or cancel any of the Credit Card Agreements in the ordinary course of the business of such Borrower;provided, that, such Borrower shall give Agent not less than ten (10) days prior written notice of its intention to so terminate or cancel any of the Credit Card Agreements; (c) not enter into any new Credit Card Agreements with any new Credit Card Issuer unless (i) Agent shall have received not less than ten (10) days prior written notice of the intention of such Borrower to enter into such agreement (together with such other information with respect thereto as Agent may reasonably request) and (ii) such Borrower delivers, or causes to be delivered to Agent, subject toSection 9.31, a Credit Card Acknowledgment in favor of Agent, (d) give Agent prompt written notice of any Credit Card Agreement or material amendment or other material modification of any Credit Card Agreement entered into by such Borrower after the date hereof, together with a true, correct and complete copy thereof and such other information with respect thereto as Agent may reasonably request; (e) furnish to Agent, promptly upon the request of Agent, such material information and evidence as Agent may require from time to time concerning the observance, performance and compliance by such Borrower or the other party or parties thereto with the terms, covenants or provisions of the Credit Card Agreements, and (f) not

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modify in any material respect any payment instruction given by Agent to any Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor provided for in any Credit Card Acknowledgment to the extent given in accordance with the terms thereof or otherwise direct the remittance of payments under any Credit Card Agreement to any account other than the Blocked Accounts.

9.19License Agreements.

(a) Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, Borrower shall (i) promptly and faithfully observe and perform all of the material terms, covenants, conditions and provisions of the material License Agreements to which it is a party to be observed and performed by it, at the times set forth therein, if any, (ii) not do, permit, suffer or refrain from doing anything that could reasonably be expected to result in a default under or breach of any of the terms of any material License Agreement, (iii) not cancel, surrender, modify, amend, waive or release any material License Agreement in any material respect or any term, provision or right of the licensee thereunder in any material respect, or consent to or permit to occur any of the foregoing except as permitted pursuant toSection 9.19(b) below, (iv) give Agent prompt written notice of any material License Agreement (other than Promotional Agreements or licenses by a Borrower, Guarantor or any of their Subsidiaries to a private label manufacturer entered into in the ordinary course of business for the production of Inventory on behalf of a Borrower or “click through” licenses to website hosts or providers in connection withon-line purchasing or licenses to a Borrower by a customer to use such customer’s trademarks or service marks for purposes of goods or services provided by such Borrower to or for such customer or licenses for commercially available off the shelf software) entered into by any Borrower, Guarantor or any of their Subsidiaries after the date hereof, together with (A) either (x) a description of such License Agreement listing the Intellectual Property subject thereto, the name and address of the parties thereto, the term of the license arrangement and the products and territory subject to such license, or (y) a true, correct and complete copy of such License Agreement, and (B) such other information with respect thereto as Agent may reasonably request (subject to any obligation of confidentiality contained therein), (v) give Agent prompt written notice of any notice of default sent to another party to a material License Agreement by Borrower of any material breach of any obligation, or any default, by any party under any material License Agreement, and deliver to Agent (promptly upon the receipt thereof by Borrower in the case of a notice to Borrower and concurrently with the sending thereof in the case of a notice from Borrower) a copy of each notice of default and every other notice and other communication received or delivered by Borrower in connection with any material License Agreement which relates to the right of Borrower to continue to use the property subject to such License Agreement, and (vi) furnish to Agent, promptly upon the request of Agent, such information and evidence as Agent may reasonably require from time to time concerning the observance, performance and compliance by Borrower or the other party or parties thereto with the material terms, covenants or provisions of any material License Agreement.

(b) Except as could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, each Borrower will either exercise any option to renew or extend the term of each material License Agreement to which it is a party in such manner as will cause the term of such material License Agreement to be effectively renewed or extended for the period provided by such option.

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9.20Foreign Assets Control Regulations, Etc. None of the requesting or borrowing of the Loans or the requesting or issuance, extension or renewal of any Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds of any thereof will violate the Trading With the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. §1 et seq., as amended) (the “Trading With the Enemy Act”) or any of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 C.F.R., Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) (the “Foreign Assets Control Regulations”) or any enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto (including, but not limited to (a) Executive order 13224 of September 21, 2001 Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism (66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (2001)) (the “Executive Order”) and (b) the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (PublicLaw 107-56). None of Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries or other Affiliates is or will become a “blocked person” as described in the Executive Order, the Trading with the Enemy Act or the Foreign Assets Control Regulations or engages or will engage in any dealings or transactions, or be otherwise associated, with any such “blocked person”.

9.21After Acquired Real Property. If any Borrower or Guarantor hereafter acquires fee simple title to any Real Property, such Real Property and related fixtures or other property is adjacent to, contiguous with or necessary or related to or used in connection with any Real Property then subject to a mortgage in favor of Agent, or if such Real Property is not adjacent to, contiguous with or related to or used in connection with such Real Property, then if such Real Property, at any location (or series of adjacent, contiguous or related locations, and regardless of the number of parcels) has a fair market value in an amount equal to or greater than $1,000,000 (or if a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, then regardless of the fair market value of such assets), and excluding any Real Property subject to a lien permitted underSections 9.8(e) and9.8(l) hereof, without limiting any other rights of Agent or any Lender, or duties or obligations of any Borrower or Guarantor, promptly as reasonably practical upon Agent’s request, such Borrower or Guarantor shall execute and deliver to Agent a mortgage, deed of trust or deed to secure debt, as Agent may determine, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent and in form appropriate for recording in the real estate records of the jurisdiction in which such Real Property or other property is located granting to Agent a first lien and mortgage on and security interest in such Real Property, fixtures or other property (except for liens permitted underSection 9.8 hereof) or as otherwise consented to in writing by Agent) and such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may reasonably require in connection therewith.

9.22Costs and Expenses. Borrowers and Guarantors shall pay to Agent on demand all costs, expenses and filing fees paid or payable in connection with the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery, recording, syndication, administration, collection, liquidation, enforcement and defense of the Obligations, Agent’s rights in the Collateral, this Agreement, the other Financing Agreements and all other documents related hereto or thereto, including any amendments, supplements or consents which may hereafter be contemplated (whether or not executed) or entered into in respect hereof and thereof, including: (a) all costs and expenses of filing or recording (including UCC and PPSA financing statement filing fees, if applicable); (b) costs and expenses and fees for insurance premiums, environmental audits, title insurance premiums, surveys, assessments, engineering reports and inspections, appraisal fees and search fees, background checks, costs and expenses of remitting loan proceeds, collecting checks and other items of payment, and establishing and maintaining the Blocked Accounts, together with Agent’s customary charges and fees with respect thereto; (c) charges, fees or expenses charged by any Issuing Bank in connection with any Letter of Credit; (d) costs and expenses of preserving and protecting the Collateral; (e) costs and expenses paid or incurred in connection with obtaining

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payment of the Obligations, enforcing the security interests and liens of Agent, selling or otherwise realizing upon the Collateral, and otherwise enforcing the provisions of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements or defending any claims made or threatened against Agent or any Lender arising out of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including preparations for and consultations concerning any such matters); (f) after an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, reasonable attorneys’ fees of any Lender incurred in connection with obtaining payment of the Obligations, enforcing the security interests and liens of Agent, selling or otherwise realizing upon the Collateral, and otherwise enforcing the provisions of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements or defending any claims made or threatened against Agent or any Lender arising out of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including preparations for and consultations concerning any such matters); (g) allout-of-pocket expenses and costs heretofore and from time to time hereafter incurred by Agent during the course of periodic field examinations of the Collateral and such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s operations,plus a per diem charge at Agent’s then standard rate for Agent’s examiners in the field and office for no more than two (2) periodic field exams during a consecutive twelve (12) month period;provided, that, unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing or a Material Adverse Effect has occurred, only one (1) periodic field exam will be conducted at the Borrowers’ expense during such consecutive twelve (12) month period unless Excess Availability is less than the greater of (x) 20% of the Borrowing Cap and (y) $20,000,000 at any time during such period, in which case one (1) additional field exam in such twelve (12) month period as Agent may request shall be at Borrowers’ expense; and (h) the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel (including legal assistants) to Agent in connection with any of the foregoing. Additionally, there shall be no limitation on the number or frequency of field exams if an Event of Default or a Material Adverse Effect has occurred and is continuing, and the Borrowers shall be responsible for the costs and expenses of any such field exams conducted while an Event of Default or a Material Adverse Effect has occurred and is continuing.

9.23Further Assurances.

(a) In the case of the formation or acquisition by a Borrower or Guarantor of any Subsidiary (other than a Foreign Subsidiary) after the date hereof, as to any such Subsidiary, (i) the Borrower or Guarantor forming such Subsidiary shall cause any such Subsidiary to execute and deliver to Agent, the following (each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent), (A) a Guaranty pursuant to which such Subsidiary gives an absolute and unconditional guarantee of the payment of the Obligations or a joinder or assumption agreement to an existing Guaranty, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, (B) a security agreement substantially in the form of the security provisions herein granting to Agent a first security interest and lien (except as otherwise consented to in writing by Agent) upon all of the assets of any such Subsidiary to the extent such assets constitute Collateral hereunder and subject to and in accordance with the terms hereof, (C) a joinder to the Intercreditor Agreement acknowledging the lien priorities granted thereby and (D) such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with the documents referred to above in order to make such Subsidiary a party to this Agreement as a “Borrower” (to the extent directly or indirectly wholly owned by Parent) or as a “Guarantor” as Agent may determine, including, but not limited to, supplements and amendments hereto, a Borrower Joinder Agreement with respect to a Subsidiary that is to become a party hereto as a “Borrower”, an assumption agreement with respect to an existing Guaranty, an authorization to file UCC and PPSA financing statements, Collateral Access

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Agreements (subject to the requirements ofSection 9.2 hereof) and other consents, waivers, acknowledgments and other agreements from third persons which Agent may deem necessary or desirable in order to permit, protect and perfect its security interests in and liens upon the assets purchased, corporate resolutions and other organization and authorizing documents of such Person, and favorable opinions of counsel to such person and (ii) the Borrower or Guarantor forming such Subsidiary shall (A) execute and deliver to Agent, a supplement to this Agreement to which it is a party, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, granting to Agent a pledge of and lien on all of the issued and outstanding shares of Capital Stock of any such Subsidiary (but no more than 65% of the Voting Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary) with the lien priority required by the Financing Agreements, and (B) deliver the original stock certificates evidencing such shares of Capital Stock (or such other evidence as may be issued in the case of a limited liability company), together with stock powers with respect thereto duly executed in blank (or the equivalent thereof in the case of a limited liability company in which such interests are certificated, or otherwise take such actions as Agent shall require with respect to Agent’s security interests therein).

(b) In the case of an acquisition of assets (other than Capital Stock and Real Property) by a Borrower or Guarantor after the date hereof, Agent shall have received, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, (i) evidence that Agent has valid and perfected security interests in and liens upon all purchased assets to the extent such assets constitute Collateral hereunder and subject to and in accordance with the terms hereof, and (ii) subject toSection 9.2 hereof, all Collateral Access Agreements and other consents, waivers, acknowledgments and other agreements from third persons which Agent may deem necessary or desirable in order to permit, protect and perfect its security interests in and liens upon the assets purchased, (iii) in the case of a Material Permitted Acquisition, at the option of Agent, the agreement of the seller consenting to the collateral assignment by the Borrower or Guarantor purchasing such assets of all rights and remedies and claims for damages of such Borrower or Guarantor relating to the Collateral (including, without limitation, any bulk sales indemnification) under the agreements, documents and instruments relating to such acquisition and (iv) such other agreements, documents and instruments as Agent may require in connection with the documents referred to above, including, but not limited to, supplements and amendments hereto, corporate resolutions and other organization and authorizing documents and favorable opinions of counsel to such person.

(c) At the request of Agent at any time and from time to time, Borrowers and Guarantors shall, at their expense, duly execute and deliver, or cause to be duly executed and delivered, such further agreements, documents and instruments, and do or cause to be done such further acts as may be necessary or proper to evidence, perfect, maintain and enforce the security interests and the priority thereof in the Collateral and to otherwise effectuate the provisions or purposes of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements. Agent may at any time and from time to time request a certificate from an officer of any Borrower or Guarantor representing that all conditions precedent to the making of Revolving Loans and providing Letters of Credit contained herein are satisfied. In the event of such request by Agent, Agent and Lenders may, at Agent’s option, cease to make any further Revolving Loans or provide any further Letters of Credit until Agent has received such certificate and, in addition, Agent has determined that such conditions are satisfied.

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(d) The Borrowers will cause any Person guaranteeing Term Loan Obligations to contemporaneously become a Guarantor of the Obligations in accordance withSection 9.23(a).

9.24Permitted Payments of Indebtedness. No Borrower and no Guarantor will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, make, directly or indirectly, any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, Securities or other property) of or in respect of principal of or interest on any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness between any Borrower or Guarantor and Indebtedness permitted underSections 9.9(j),9.9(k), or9.9(m), or any payment or other distribution (whether in cash, Securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Indebtedness, except:

(a) payment of Indebtedness created under the Financing Agreements;

(b) payment of regularly scheduled interest (including, for the avoidance of doubt, regularly scheduled interest payments required under the Term Loan Agreement) and principal payments as and when due in respect of any Indebtedness permitted underSection 9.9, other than (i) payments in respect of subordinated Indebtedness prohibited by the subordination provisions thereof and (ii) payments of principal outstanding under the Term Loan Agreement;

(c) refinancings of Indebtedness to the extent permitted bySection 9.9(p);

(d) payment of secured Indebtedness permitted underSection 9.9(b) that becomes due as a result of any sale or transfer of, or casualty, condemnation or taking with respect to, the property or assets securing such Indebtedness;

(e) optional prepayments of Indebtedness (other than with respect to Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness);provided, that (i) the Required Conditions are satisfied and (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing as of the date of such prepayment;

(f) the repurchase, redemption or defeasance of the Convertible Notes; provided that such repurchase, redemption or defeasance is funded solely with (i) the cash proceeds of a substantially concurrent equity contribution received by Parent from the holders of its Capital Stock and/or (ii) amounts on deposit in the Convertible Notes Escrow that were previously funded with the cash proceeds of an equity contribution received by Parent from the holders of its Capital Stock;

(g) optional prepayments of Permitted Subordinated Indebtedness (subject to the terms of an intercreditor subordination agreement in form and substance acceptable to Agent in its sole reasonable discretion) so long as (i) the Required Conditions are satisfied and (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing as of the date of such prepayment;

(h) mandatory prepayments of principal outstanding under the Term Loan Agreement to the extent required under Section 2.2(b) of the Term Loan Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon and any prepayment premiums required in connection therewith; and

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(i) payments of principal outstanding under the Term Loan Agreement as required under Section 2.2(a) of the Term Loan Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date;provided that (i) pro forma Liquidity is equal to or greater than $10,000,000 calculated as of the date of such payment both prior to and after giving effect to such payment, on a pro forma basis using the most recent calculation of the Borrowing Base immediately prior to such payment and (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing as of the date of such payment.

9.25Commodity Exchange Act Keepwell Provisions. Each Qualified ECP Guarantor hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to provide such funds or other support as may be needed from time to time by each other Borrower or Guarantor in order for each such other Borrower or Guarantor to honor its obligations under this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements including Hedge Obligations (provided, however, that each Qualified ECP Guarantor shall only be liable under thisSection 9.25 for the maximum amount of such liability that can be hereby incurred without rendering its obligations under thisSection 9.25, or otherwise under this Agreement or any other Financing Agreement, voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, and not for any greater amount). The obligations of each Qualified ECP Guarantor under thisSection 9.25 shall remain in full force and effect until all Obligations are paid in full to the Lenders and Agent, and all of the Lenders’ Revolving Commitments are terminated. Each Qualified ECP Guarantor intends that thisSection 9.25 constitute, and thisSection 9.25 shall be deemed to constitute, a “keepwell, support, or other agreement” for the benefit of each other Borrower and each other Guarantor for all purposes of Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

9.26Disbursement Cash Management Systems. Each of Borrowers, Guarantors and each of their Subsidiaries will maintain Chase as its principal depository bank for its disbursement business, including for the maintenance of operating, administrative, cash management, collection activity and other deposit accounts for the conduct of its disbursement business.

9.27Amendments to Term Loan Documents. The Borrowers and the Guarantors will not amend, waive, modify or supplement or consent to any amendment, waiver, modification or supplement of any Term Loan Documents, if such amendment, waiver or other modification would contravene any provision of the Intercreditor Agreement.

9.28Valor Merger. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, no provision of this Agreement shall prohibit the consummation of the Valor Merger in accordance with the terms of the Valor Merger Agreement on the Closing Date.

9.29Parent Holding Company Status. With respect to Parent, engage in any business or activity, hold any assets or incur any Indebtedness or other liabilities, other than (i) its ownership of the Capital Stock in the Borrowers, intercompany notes permitted hereunder, cash and Cash Equivalents, notes of officers, directors and employees permitted hereunder, and all other assets incidental to its ownership of Capital Stock in the Borrowers, or related to the management of its investment in the other Loan Parties, (ii) maintaining its corporate existence, (iii) participating in Tax, accounting, corporate, housekeeping and other administrative activities as a holding company or as a member of the consolidated group of companies including the Loan Parties, (iv) executing, delivering and performing its rights and obligations under the Financing Agreements, the Term

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Loan Documents and any documents and agreements governing any Permitted Acquisitions or Investments permitted hereunder to which it is a party, including, for the avoidance of doubt (and to the extent permitted hereunder and otherwise in accordance herewith), the formation, maintenance, merger, amalgamation, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution of a Subsidiary in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or Investment permitted hereunder, (v) making any Permitted Distribution hereunder and any other payments permitted to be made by Parent pursuant toSection 9.12 hereunder, (vi) purchasing or acquiring Capital Stock of the Borrowers, (vii) making capital contributions to the other Loan Parties, (viii) executing, delivering and performing its rights and obligations under any employment agreements and any documents related thereto, (ix) the buyback and sales of equity from or to officers, directors, managers and employees of Parent and its Subsidiaries and other persons in accordance withSection 9.11, (xiii) transactions expressly described in this Agreement as involving Parent and permitted under this Agreement, (xiv) retaining employees and consultants, (xv) making filings, (xvi) issuing financial statements, (xvii) administering employee benefit and other equity programs, (xviii) maintaining directors and officers insurance, (xviii) issuing and selling Capital Stock and accepting capital contributions (to the extent otherwise permitted under this Agreement), (xix) opening bank accounts, (xx) engaging counsel, auditors and financial advisors, and (xxi) activities incidental to the business or activities described in clauses (i)-(xx) above.

9.30Post-Closing Equity Contribution and Fundamental Change Company Notice.

(a) On or prior to January 31, 2020 (or such later date that Agent may agree to in its sole discretion) (the “Post-Closing Equity Contribution Deadline”), the Permitted Holders shall have contributed (or caused to be contributed), directly or indirectly, cash equity contributions (the “Post-Closing Equity Contribution”) to Ultimate Parent or Parent (in the form of (i) common equity or(ii) pay-in-kind preferred equity reasonably satisfactory to Agent) in an aggregate amount of not less than $60,000,000. The proceeds of the Post-Closing Equity Contribution shall be deposited and maintained in either (i) the Convertible Notes Escrow or (ii) another Deposit Account reasonably acceptable to the Agent and the Term Loan Agent that is subject to a Deposit Account Control Agreement, and such proceeds may be used to redeem, convert or otherwise repurchase or repay the Convertible Notes (or to fund the Convertible Notes Escrow for such purposes), or, after the Convertible Notes have been redeemed in full, for other general corporate purposes.

(b) Parent shall deliver a Fundamental Change Company Notice (as defined in the Convertible Note Indenture) with respect to the Valor Merger to all holders of Convertible Notes and the trustee under the Convertible Note Indenture not later than the date that is twenty days following the Closing Date. Such Fundamental Change Company Notice shall (i) provide that the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (as defined in the Convertible Note Indenture) shall be the date that is 35 calendar days following the date of the Fundamental Change Company Notice and (ii) otherwise be in accordance with the terms of the Convertible Note Indenture.

9.31Post-Closing Obligations. Borrowers shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Agent each of the agreements, documents, instruments and other items set forth onSchedule 9.31 hereto, in each case within the periods provided for therein (subject, in each case, to Agent’s right to extend such period in its sole discretion).

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SECTION 10.     EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

10.1Events of Default. The occurrence or existence of any one or more of the following events are referred to herein individually as an “Event of Default”, and collectively as “Events of Default”:

(a) (i) any Borrower fails to make any principal payment (including any payment required under Section 2.9(c)) after the same becomes due and payable, or any Borrower fails to pay any of the other Obligations (other than with respect to principal payments) within two (2) Business Days after the same becomes due and payable, (ii) any Borrower or Guarantor fails to perform any of the covenants contained inSections 9.7,9.8,9.9,9.10,9.11,9.12,9.27,9.29,9.30, or9.31 of this Agreement (iii) any Borrower or Guarantor fails to perform any of the covenants contained inSections 9.1(a),9.2,9.3,9.4,9.5,9.13,9.16,9.18,9.20,9.22,9.25, or9.26 of this Agreement and such failure shall continue for five (5) Business Days;provided, that, such five (5) Business Day period shall not apply in the case of: (A) any failure to observe any such covenant which is not capable of being cured at all or within such five (5) Business Day period or which has been the subject of a prior failure within a six (6) month period or (B) an intentional breach by Borrower or any Guarantor of any such covenant or (iv) any Borrower or Guarantor fails to perform any of the terms, covenants, conditions or provisions contained in this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements other than those described inSections 10.1(a)(i) and10.1(a)(ii) above andSection 10.1(m) below and such failure shall continue unremedied for thirty (30) days after the earlier of (C) notice thereof from the Agent or (D) any Borrower’s or Guarantor’s knowledge of such breach;

(b) any representation or warranty made by any Borrower or Guarantor to Agent or any Secured Party in this Agreement, the other Financing Agreements or any other written agreement, schedule, confirmatory assignment or otherwise shall when made or deemed made be false or misleading in any material respect;

(c) any Guarantor revokes or terminates or attempts to revoke or terminate any guarantee in favor of Agent or any Lender;

(d) any judgment for the payment of money is rendered against any Borrower or Guarantor in excess of $2,500,000 in the aggregate (to the extent not covered by insurance) and shall remain undischarged or unvacated for a period in excess of thirty (30) days or execution shall at any time not be effectively stayed, or any judgment other than for the payment of money, or injunction, attachment, garnishment or execution is rendered against any Borrower or Guarantor which would result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(e) [Reserved];

(f) any Borrower or Guarantor makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, makes or sends notice of a bulk transfer or calls a meeting of its creditors or principal creditors in connection with a moratorium or adjustment of the Indebtedness due to them;

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(g) a case or proceeding under the bankruptcy laws of the United States of America now or hereafter in effect or under any insolvency, reorganization, receivership, readjustment of debt, dissolution or liquidation law or statute of any jurisdiction now or hereafter in effect (whether at law or in equity) is filed against any Borrower or Guarantor or all or any substantial part of its properties and such petition or application is not dismissed within sixty (60) days after the date of its filing or any Borrower or Guarantor by corporate action shall file any answer admitting or not contesting such petition or application or indicates its consent to, acquiescence in or approval of, any such action or proceeding or the relief requested is granted sooner;

(h) a case or proceeding under the bankruptcy laws of the United States of America now or hereafter in effect or under any insolvency, reorganization, receivership, readjustment of debt, dissolution or liquidation law or statute of any jurisdiction now or hereafter in effect (whether at a law or equity) is filed by any Borrower or Guarantor or for all or any substantial part of its property;

(i) any default in respect of the Term Loan Obligations or any other Indebtedness of any Borrower or Guarantor, the effect of which default is to cause, or to permit the holder or beneficiary of such Indebtedness to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity (other than Indebtedness owing to Agent and Lenders hereunder), in any case in an amount in excess of $2,500,000, which default continues for more than the applicable cure period, if any, with respect thereto;provided that (x) this clause shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness, if such sale or transfer is permitted hereunder and (y) any such default (other than a default in respect of the Term Loan Obligations) is unremedied and is not waived by the holders of such Indebtedness prior to any termination of all of the Revolving Commitments and acceleration of all of the Loans pursuant to thisSection 10.1;

(j) any material provision hereof or of any of the other Financing Agreements shall for any reason cease to be valid, binding and enforceable with respect to any party hereto or thereto (other than Agent) in accordance with its terms, or any such party shall challenge the enforceability hereof or thereof, or shall assert in writing, or take any action or fail to take any action based on the assertion that any provision hereof or of any of the other Financing Agreements has ceased to be or is otherwise not valid, binding or enforceable in accordance with its terms, or any security interest provided for herein or in any of the other Financing Agreements shall cease to be a valid and perfected first priority (subject only to Permitted Encumbrances and Liens permitted underSection 9.8(s)) security interest in any of the Collateral purported to be subject thereto (except as expressly otherwise permitted herein or therein);

(k) an ERISA Event shall occur which results in liability of any Borrower or Guarantor in an amount which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

(l) any Change of Control;

(m) fails at any time to comply withSection 6.7(b) of this Agreement;

(n) any Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor (i) withholds payment of amounts otherwise payable to any Borrower or Guarantor to fund a reserve account or otherwise hold as collateral, or shall require any Borrower or Guarantor to pay funds into a reserve account or for such Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor to otherwise hold as collateral, or any

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Borrower or Guarantor shall provide a letter of credit to or in favor of such Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor such that in the aggregate all of such funds in the reserve account, other amounts held as collateral and the amount of such letters of credit shall exceed an aggregate for all Borrowers and Guarantors of $1,000,000, or (ii) shall debit or deduct any amounts from any Deposit Account of any Borrower or Guarantor or (iii) shall send notice to a Borrower or Guarantor that it is ceasing to make or suspending payments to such Borrower or Guarantor of amounts due or to become due to any Borrower or Guarantor or (iv) shall send notice to any Borrower that it is terminating its arrangements with such Borrower or Guarantor or such arrangements, except where (A) the loss of services by a Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor would not result innon-payment of amounts due to any Borrower or could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect or (B) such Borrower or Guarantor shall have entered into arrangements with another Credit Card Issuer or Credit Card Processor, as the case may be, within forty-five (45) days after the date of any such notice; [or]

(o) the Intercreditor Agreement shall for any reason, except to the extent permitted by the terms thereof, cease to be in full force and effect and valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with its terms against any Borrower, any Guarantor, the Term Loan Agent, any Term Loan Lender, or any other party thereto, or shall be repudiated by any of them, or cease to establish the relative lien priorities required or purported thereby, or any Borrower, any Guarantor, the Term Loan Agent, any Term Loan Lender, or any of their respective Affiliates shall so state in writing; or

(p) the Equity Commitment Letter shall for any reason cease to be in full force and effect and valid, binding and enforceable in accordance with its terms against Tributum before the funding of the full Convertible Notes Repurchase Amount into the Convertible Notes Escrow.

10.2Remedies.

(a) At any time an Event of Default exists or has occurred and is continuing, Agent and Lenders shall have all rights and remedies provided in this Agreement, the other Financing Agreements, the UCC, PPSA, and other applicable law, all of which rights and remedies may be exercised without notice to or consent by any Borrower or Guarantor, except as such notice or consent is expressly provided for hereunder or required by applicable law. All rights, remedies and powers granted to Agent and Lenders hereunder, under any of the other Financing Agreements, the UCC, PPSA or other applicable law, are cumulative, not exclusive and enforceable, in Agent’s discretion, alternatively, successively, or concurrently on any one or more occasions, and shall include, without limitation, the right to apply to a court of equity for an injunction to restrain a breach or threatened breach by any Borrower or Guarantor of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements. Subject toSection 12 hereof, Agent may, and at the direction of the Required Lenders shall, at any time or times, proceed directly against any Borrower or Guarantor to collect the Obligations without prior recourse to the Collateral.

(b) Without limiting the foregoing, at any time an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Agent may, in its discretion, and upon the direction of the Required Lenders, shall (i) accelerate the payment of all Obligations and demand immediate payment thereof to Agent, for itself and the benefit of the Secured Parties (provided, that, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default described inSections 10.1(g) and10.1(h), all Obligations shall automatically

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become immediately due and payable), (ii) with or without judicial process or the aid or assistance of others, enter upon any premises on or in which any of the Collateral may be located and take possession of the Collateral or complete processing, manufacturing and repair of all or any portion of the Collateral, (iii) require any Borrower or Guarantor, at Borrowers’ expense, to assemble and make available to Agent any part or all of the Collateral at any place and time designated by Agent, (iv) collect, foreclose, receive, appropriate, setoff and realize upon any and all Collateral, (v) remove any or all of the Collateral from any premises on or in which the same may be located for the purpose of effecting the sale, foreclosure or other disposition thereof or for any other purpose, (vi) sell, lease, transfer, assign, deliver or otherwise dispose of any and all Collateral (including entering into contracts with respect thereto, public or private sales at any exchange, broker’s board, at any office of Agent or elsewhere) at such prices or terms as Agent may deem reasonable, for cash, upon credit or for future delivery, with the Agent having the right to purchase the whole or any part of the Collateral at any such public sale, all of the foregoing being free from any right or equity of redemption of any Borrower or Guarantor, which right or equity of redemption is hereby expressly waived and released by Borrowers and Guarantors and/or (vii) give notice of sole control or any other instruction under any Deposit Account Control Agreement, (viii) terminate this Agreement. If any of the Collateral is sold or leased by Agent upon credit terms or for future delivery, the Obligations shall not be reduced as a result thereof until payment therefor is finally collected by Agent. If notice of disposition of Collateral is required by law, ten (10) days prior notice by Agent to Administrative Borrower designating the time and place of any public sale or the time after which any private sale or other intended disposition of Collateral is to be made, shall be deemed to be reasonable notice thereof and Borrowers and Guarantors waive any other notice. In the event Agent institutes an action to recover any Collateral or seeks recovery of any Collateral by way of prejudgment remedy, each Borrower and Guarantor waives the posting of any bond which might otherwise be required. At any time an Event of Default exists or has occurred and is continuing, upon Agent’s request, Borrowers will either, as Agent shall specify, furnish cash collateral to the Issuing Bank to be used to secure and fund Agent’s reimbursement obligations to the Issuing Bank in connection with any Letter of Credit Obligations or furnish cash collateral to Agent for the Letter of Credit Obligations. Such cash collateral shall be in the amount equal to one hundred five (105%) percent of the amount of the Letter of Credit Obligations plus the amount of any fees and expenses payable in connection therewith through the end of the latest expiration date of such Letter of Credit Obligations. Agent shall have no obligation toclean-up or otherwise prepare the Collateral for sale. Agent and each Lender shall use reasonable care with respect to the Collateral in its possession or under its control.The Agent shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody and preservation of Collateral in its possession if such Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to that which the Agent accords its own property. Neither Agent nor any Lender shall have any other duty as to any Collateral in its possession or control or in the possession or control of any agent or nominee of Agent or such Lender, or any income thereon or as to the preservation of rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining thereto.

(c) At any time or times that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Agent may, in its discretion, and upon the direction of the Required Lenders, Agent shall, enforce the rights of any Borrower or any Guarantor against any Account Debtor, secondary obligor or other obligor in respect of any of the Accounts or other Receivables. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Agent may, in its discretion, and upon the direction of the Required Lenders, Agent shall, at such time or times (i) notify any or all Account Debtors, secondary obligors or other obligor in respect thereof that the Receivables have been assigned to Agent and

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that Agent has a security interest therein and Agent may direct any or all Account Debtors, secondary obligors and other obligors to make payment of Receivables directly to Agent, (ii) extend the time of payment of, compromise, settle or adjust for cash, credit, return of merchandise or otherwise, and upon any terms or conditions, any and all Receivables or other obligations included in the Collateral and thereby discharge or release the Account Debtor or any secondary obligors or other obligors in respect thereof without affecting any of the Obligations, (iii) demand, collect or enforce payment of any Receivables or such other obligations, but without any duty to do so, and Agent and Lenders shall not be liable for any failure to collect or enforce the payment thereof nor for the negligence of its agents or attorneys with respect thereto and (iv) take whatever other action Agent may deem necessary or desirable for the protection of its interests and the interests of Lenders. At any time that an Event of Default exists or has occurred and is continuing, at Agent’s request, all invoices and statements sent to any Account Debtor shall state that the Accounts and such other obligations have been assigned to Agent and are payable directly and only to Agent and any Borrower shall deliver to Agent such originals of documents evidencing the sale and delivery of goods or the performance of services giving rise to any Accounts as Agent may require. In the event any Account Debtor returns Inventory when an Event of Default exists or has occurred and is continuing, Borrower shall, upon Agent’s request, hold the returned Inventory in trust for Agent, segregate all returned Inventory from all of its other property, dispose of the returned Inventory solely according to Agent’s instructions, and not issue any credits, discounts or allowances with respect thereto without Agent’s prior written consent.

(d) To the extent that applicable law imposes duties on Agent or any Lender to exercise remedies in a commercially reasonable manner (which duties cannot be waived under such law), each Borrower and Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that it is not commercially unreasonable for Agent or any Lender (i) to fail to incur expenses reasonably deemed significant by Agent or any Lender to prepare Collateral for disposition or otherwise to complete raw material or work in process into finished goods or other finished products for disposition, (ii) to fail to obtain third party consents for access to Collateral to be disposed of, or to obtain or, if not required by other law, to fail to obtain consents of any Governmental Authority or other third party for the collection or disposition of Collateral to be collected or disposed of, (iii) to fail to exercise collection remedies against Account Debtors, secondary obligors or other Persons obligated on Collateral or to remove liens or encumbrances on or any adverse claims against Collateral, (iv) to exercise collection remedies against Account Debtors and other Persons obligated on Collateral directly or through the use of collection agencies and other collection specialists, (v) to advertise dispositions of Collateral through publications or media of general circulation, whether or not the Collateral is of a specialized nature, (vi) to contact other Persons, whether or not in the same business as any Borrower or Guarantor, for expressions of interest in acquiring all or any portion of the Collateral, (vii) to hire one or more professional auctioneers to assist in the disposition of Collateral, whether or not the collateral is of a specialized nature, (viii) to dispose of Collateral by utilizing Internet sites that provide for the auction of assets of the types included in the Collateral or that have the reasonable capability of doing so, or that match buyers and sellers of assets, (ix) to dispose of assets in wholesale rather than retail markets, (x) to disclaim disposition warranties, such as title, possession or quiet enjoyment, (xi) to purchase insurance or credit enhancements to insure Agent or Lenders against risks of loss, collection or disposition of Collateral or to provide to Agent or Lenders a guaranteed return from the collection or disposition of Collateral, or (xii) to the extent deemed appropriate by Agent, to obtain the services of other brokers, investment bankers, consultants and other professionals to assist Agent in the collection or disposition of any

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of the Collateral. Each Borrower and Guarantor acknowledges that the purpose of this Section is to providenon-exhaustive indications of what actions or omissions by Agent or any Lender would not be commercially unreasonable in the exercise by Agent or any Lender of remedies against the Collateral and that other actions or omissions by Agent or any Lender shall not be deemed commercially unreasonable solely on account of not being indicated in this Section. Without limitation of the foregoing, nothing contained in this Section shall be construed to grant any rights to any Borrower or Guarantor or to impose any duties on Agent or Lenders that would not have been granted or imposed by this Agreement or by applicable law in the absence of this Section. Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, may comply with any applicable state or federal law requirements in connection with a disposition of the Collateral and compliance will not be considered to adversely affect the commercial reasonableness of any sale of the Collateral.

(e) For the purpose of enabling Agent to exercise the rights and remedies hereunder, each Borrower and Guarantor hereby grants to Agent, to the extent licensable and to the extent that the same would not conflict with or, under applicable law and the terms of such agreement, result in the invalidity or breach of any agreements (other than any agreement between any Borrower or any Guarantor) or otherwise result in the revocation, cancellation, abandonment, infringement, unenforceability, misappropriation or dilution or impair the validity or enforceability, of any rights in any Intellectual Property forming the subject thereof (including rights to Intellectual Property which is the subject of Promotional Agreements), an irrevocable,non-exclusive license (exercisable upon the occurrence of and during the continuation of an Event of Default) without payment of royalty or other compensation to Borrower or any other Guarantor, to use, license or sublicense any of the trademarks, service-marks, trade names, business names, trade styles, designs, logos and other source of business identifiers and other Intellectual Property and General Intangibles included in the Collateral, wherever the same may be located, including in such license reasonable access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer programs used for the compilation or printout thereof.

(f) Agent may apply the cash proceeds of Collateral actually received by Agent from any sale, lease, foreclosure or other disposition of the Collateral to payment of the Obligations, in whole or in part and in such order as Agent may elect, whether or not then due. Borrower and Guarantors shall remain liable to Agent and Lenders for the payment of any deficiency with interest at the highest rate provided for herein and all costs and expenses of collection or enforcement, including attorneys’ fees and expenses.

(g) Without limiting the foregoing, (i) Agent and Lenders may, at Agent’s option, and upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, at the direction of the Required Lenders, Agent and Lenders shall, without notice, terminate any provision of this Agreement providing for any future Revolving Loans to be made by Agent and Lenders or Letters of Credit to be issued by Issuing Bank, and (ii) upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, Agent may, at its option, establish such Reserves as Agent determines without limitation or restriction, notwithstanding anything to the contrary provided herein.

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10.3Borrowers’ and Guarantors’ Obligations Upon Default. Upon the request of Agent after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, each Borrower and Guarantor will:

(a) assemble and make available to Agent the Collateral and all books and records relating thereto at any place or places specified by Agent, whether at a Borrower’s or Guarantor’s premises or elsewhere;

(b) permit Agent, by Agent’s representatives and agents, to enter, occupy and use any premises where all or any part of the Collateral, or the books and records relating thereto, or both, are located, to take possession of all or any part of the Collateral or the books and records relating thereto, or both, to remove all or any part of the Collateral or the books and records relating thereto, or both, and to conduct sales of the Collateral, without any obligation to pay the Borrower or Guarantor for such use and occupancy.

10.4Grant of Intellectual Property License. For the purpose of enabling the Agent to exercise the rights and remedies under thisSection 10 at such time as Agent shall be lawfully entitled to exercise such rights and remedies, each Borrower and Guarantor hereby (a) grants to Agent, for the benefit of Agent and the Lenders, to the extent licensable and to the extent that the same would not conflict with or, under applicable law and the terms of such agreement, result in the invalidity or breach of any agreements (other than any agreement between any Borrower or any Guarantor) or otherwise result in the revocation, cancellation, abandonment, infringement, unenforceability, misappropriation or dilution or impair the validity or enforceability, of any rights in any Intellectual Property forming the subject thereof (including rights to Intellectual Property which is the subject of Promotional Agreements), an irrevocable, nonexclusive license (exercisable without payment of royalty or other compensation to any Borrower or Guarantor) to use, license or sublicense any Intellectual Property rights now owned or hereafter acquired by such Borrower or Guarantor, and wherever the same may be located, and including in such license access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer software and programs used for the compilation or printout thereof and (b) irrevocably agrees that Agent may sell any of such Borrower’s or Guarantor’s Inventory directly to any person, including without limitation persons who have previously purchased the Borrower’s or Guarantor’s Inventory from such Borrower or Guarantor and in connection with any such sale or other enforcement of Agent’s rights under this Agreement, may sell Inventory which bears any trademark owned by or licensed to such Borrower or Guarantor and any Inventory that is covered by any copyright owned by or licensed to such Borrower or Guarantor and Agent may finish any work in process and affix any trademark owned by or licensed to such Borrower or Guarantor and sell such Inventory as provided herein.

SECTION 11.     JURY TRIAL WAIVER; OTHER WAIVERS AND CONSENTS; GOVERNING LAW

11.1Governing Law; Choice of Forum; Service of Process; Jury Trial Waiver.

(a) The validity, interpretation and enforcement of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements and any dispute arising out of the relationship between the parties hereto, whether in contract, tort, equity or otherwise, shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of New York but excluding any principles of conflicts of law or other rule of law that would cause the application of the law of any jurisdiction other than the laws of the State of New York.

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(b) Borrowers, Guarantors, Agent, Lenders and Issuing Bank irrevocably consent and submit to thenon-exclusive jurisdiction of the State of New York and the State and Federal courts located in the Borough of Manhattan, County of New York, State of New York and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York whichever Agent may elect, and waive any objection based on venue or forum non conveniens with respect to any action instituted therein arising under this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements or in any way connected with or related or incidental to the dealings of the parties hereto in respect of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements or the transactions related hereto or thereto, in each case whether now existing or hereafter arising, and whether in contract, tort, equity or otherwise, and agree that any dispute with respect to any such matters shall be heard only in the courts described above (except that Agent and Lenders shall have the right to bring any action or proceeding against any Borrower or Guarantor or its or their property in the courts of any other jurisdiction which Agent deems necessary or appropriate in order to realize on the Collateral or to otherwise enforce its rights against any Borrower or Guarantor or its or their property).

(c) Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby waives personal service of any and all process upon it and consents that all such service of process may be made by certified mail (return receipt requested) directed to its address set forth herein and service so made shall be deemed to be completed five (5) days after the same shall have been so deposited in the U.S. mails, or, at Agent’s option, by service upon any Borrower or Guarantor (or Administrative Borrower on behalf of such Borrower or Guarantor) in any other manner provided under the rules of any such courts. Within thirty (30) days after such service, such Borrower or Guarantor shall appear in answer to such process, failing which such Borrower or Guarantor shall be deemed in default and judgment may be entered by Agent against such Borrower or Guarantor for the amount of the claim and other relief requested.

(d) BORROWERS, GUARANTORS, AGENT, LENDERS AND ISSUING BANK EACH HEREBY WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER FINANCING AGREEMENTS OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH OR RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THE DEALINGS OF THE PARTIES HERETO IN RESPECT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER FINANCING AGREEMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED HERETO OR THERETO IN EACH CASE WHETHER NOW EXISTING OR HEREAFTER ARISING, AND WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, EQUITY OR OTHERWISE. BORROWERS, GUARANTORS, AGENT, LENDERS AND ISSUING BANK EACH HEREBY AGREES AND CONSENTS THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE DECIDED BY COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY AND THAT ANY BORROWER, ANY GUARANTOR, AGENT, ANY LENDER OR ISSUING BANK MAY FILE AN ORIGINAL COUNTERPART OF A COPY OF THIS AGREEMENT WITH ANY COURT AS WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF THE CONSENT OF THE PARTIES HERETO TO THE WAIVER OF THEIR RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.

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binding on Agent, such Lender and Issuing Bank, that the losses were the result of acts or omissions constituting gross negligence or willful misconduct. In any such litigation, Agent, Lenders and Issuing Bank shall be entitled to the benefit of the rebuttable presumption that it acted in good faith and with the exercise of ordinary care in the performance by it of the terms of this Agreement. Each Borrower and Guarantor: (i) certifies that neither Agent, any Lender, Issuing Bank nor any representative, agent or attorney acting for or on behalf of Agent, any Lender or Issuing Bank has represented, expressly or otherwise, that Agent, Lenders and Issuing Bank would not, in the event of litigation, seek to enforce any of the waivers provided for in this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements and (ii) acknowledges that in entering into this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements, Agent, Lenders and Issuing Bank are relying upon, among other things, the waivers and certifications set forth in thisSection 11.1 and elsewhere herein and therein.

11.2Waiver of Notices. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby expressly waives demand, presentment, protest and notice of protest and notice of dishonor with respect to any and all Instruments and Chattel Paper, included in or evidencing any of the Obligations or the Collateral, and any and all other demands and notices of any kind or nature whatsoever with respect to the Obligations, the Collateral and this Agreement, except such as are expressly provided for herein. No notice to or demand on any Borrower or Guarantor which Agent or any Lender may elect to give shall entitle such Borrower or Guarantor to any other or further notice or demand in the same, similar or other circumstances. Each Borrower and Guarantor hereby waives notice of the time and place of any public sale or the time after which any private sale or other disposition of all or any part of the Collateral may be made. To the extent such notice may not be waived under applicable law, any notice made shall be deemed reasonable if sent to the Borrowers and Guarantors, addressed as set forth inSection 13.3, at least ten days prior to (i) the date of any such public sale or (ii) the time after which any such private sale or other disposition may be made.

11.3Collateral Waivers. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, each Borrower and Guarantor waives all claims, damages, and demands against Agent or any Lender arising out of the repossession, retention or sale of the Collateral, except such as arise solely out of the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of Agent or such Lender as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction. To the extent it may lawfully do so, each Borrower and Guarantor absolutely and irrevocably waives and relinquishes the benefit and advantage of, and covenants not to assert against Agent or any Lender, any valuation, stay, appraisal, extension, moratorium, redemption or similar laws and any and all rights or defenses it may have as a surety now or hereafter existing which, but for this provision, might be applicable to the sale of any Collateral made under the judgment, order or decree of any court, or privately under the power of sale conferred by this Agreement, or otherwise.

11.4Amendments and Waivers.

(a) Except as provided in Section 2.4(c)(i) (with respect to any increase in the Revolving Commitments), neither this Agreement nor any other Financing Agreement nor any terms hereof or thereof may be amended, waived, discharged or terminated unless such amendment, waiver, discharge or termination is in writing signed by Agent and the Required Lenders or at Agent’s option, by Agent with the authorization or consent of the Required Lenders, and as to amendments to any of the Financing Agreements (other than with respect to any provision

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ofSection 12 hereof), by any Borrower and such amendment, waiver, discharge or termination shall be effective and binding as to all Lenders and Issuing Bank only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; except, that, no such amendment, waiver, discharge or termination shall:

(i) reduce the interest rate or any fees hereunder or extend the time of payment of principal, interest or any fees or reduce the principal amount hereunder of any Loan or Letters of Credit, in each case without the consent of each Lender directly affected thereby;

(ii) release a material portion of the Collateral (except as expressly permitted or required hereunder or under any of the other Financing Agreements or applicable law and except as permitted underSection 12.11(b) hereof), without the consent of Agent and all of Lenders;

(iii) reduce any percentage specified in the definition of Required Lenders without the consent of Agent and all of Lenders;

(iv) consent to the assignment or transfer by any Borrower or Guarantor of any of their rights and obligations under this Agreement, without the consent of Agent and all of Lenders;

(v) amend the definition of Borrowing Base or any component definition thereof if as a result thereof the amounts available to be borrowed by any Borrower would be increased, without the consent of Agent and all Revolving Lenders,provided, that the foregoing shall not limit the discretion of Agent to change, establish or eliminate any Reserves;

(vi) amend, modify or waive any provision ofSection 6.4, without the consent of Agent and all of the Lenders;

(vii) except as authorized pursuant toSection 12.15, subordinate the Obligations hereunder or the liens granted hereunder or under the other Financing Agreements, to any other Indebtedness or lien, as the case may be (except for the liens permitted inSection 9.8 hereof having priority by operation of law), without the consent of Agent and all of Lenders;

(viii) amend, modify or waive any terms of thisSection 11.4 hereof, without the consent of Agent and all of Lenders; or

(ix) increase the advance rates constituting part of the Borrowing Base, without the consent of Agent and all of Revolving Lenders.

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained inSection 11.4(a) above, Agent may, in its discretion and without the consent of the any Lenders, amend or otherwise modify the Borrowing Base, the Reserves or any of their respective components which amendments or modifications have the effect of increasing the Borrowing Base, decreasing the Reserves or otherwise increasing the amounts available for borrowing hereunder to the extent that such amendment or modification is made to undo changes made after the date hereof and restore the Borrowing Base, Reserves or other components thereof back to a level or standard, as applicable, that exists on the date hereof if the reason for such reduction or increase established after the date hereof no longer exists, as determined by Agent.

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(c) Agent, Lenders and Issuing Bank shall not, by any act, delay, omission or otherwise be deemed to have expressly or impliedly waived any of its or their rights, powers and/or remedies unless such waiver shall be in writing and signed as provided herein. Any such waiver shall be enforceable only to the extent specifically set forth therein. A waiver by Agent, any Lender or Issuing Bank of any right, power and/or remedy on any one occasion shall not be construed as a bar to or waiver of any such right, power and/or remedy which Agent, any Lender or Issuing Bank would otherwise have on any future occasion, whether similar in kind or otherwise.

(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained inSection 11.4(a) above, in connection with any amendment, waiver, discharge or termination, in the event that any Lender whose consent thereto is required shall fail to consent or fail to consent in a timely manner (such Lender being referred to herein as a “Non-Consenting Lender”), but the consent of any other Lenders to such amendment, waiver, discharge or termination that is required are obtained, if any, then Chase shall have the right, but not the obligation, at any time thereafter, and upon the exercise by Chase of such right, suchNon-Consenting Lender shall have the obligation, to sell, assign and transfer to Chase or such Eligible Transferee as Chase may specify, the Commitment of such Non-Consenting Lender and all rights and interests of suchNon-Consenting Lender pursuant theretoprovided, that, if Chase does not exercise such right, and Administrative Borrower presents an Eligible Transferee and requests in writing that Chase replace suchNon-Consenting Lender with such Eligible Transferee, then, subject to Chase’s consent rights as Agent contained in the within definition of “Eligible Transferee”, suchNon-Consenting Lender shall have the obligation, to sell, assign and transfer to such Eligible Transferee as Administrative Borrower has specified, the Commitment of suchNon-Consenting Lender and all rights and interests of suchNon-Consenting Lender pursuant thereto. Chase shall provide theNon-Consenting Lender with prior written notice of its intent to exercise its right under this Section, which notice shall specify the date on which such purchase and sale shall occur. Such purchase and sale shall be pursuant to the terms of an Assignment and Assumption (whether or not executed by theNon-Consenting Lender), except that on the date of such purchase and sale, Chase, or such Eligible Transferee specified by Chase, shall pay to theNon-Consenting Lender (except as Chase and suchNon-Consenting Lender may otherwise agree) the amount equal to: (i) the principal balance of the Revolving Loans held by theNon-Consenting Lender outstanding as of the close of business on the business day immediately preceding the effective date of such purchase and sale,plus (ii) amounts accrued and unpaid in respect of interest and fees payable to theNon-Consenting Lender to the effective date of the purchase (but in no event shall theNon-Consenting Lender be deemed entitled to any early termination fee). Such purchase and sale shall be effective on the date of the payment of such amount to theNon-Consenting Lender and the Commitment of theNon-Consenting Lender shall terminate on such date.

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Section 11.4. The consent of Issuing Bank shall be required for any amendment, waiver or consent affecting the rights or duties of Issuing Bank hereunder or under any of the other Financing Agreements, in addition to the consent of the Lenders otherwise required by this Section,provided, that, the consent of Issuing Bank shall not be required for any other amendments, waivers or consents. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained inSection 11.4(a) above, (i) in the event that Agent shall agree that any items otherwise required to be delivered to Agent as a condition of the initial Loans and Letters of Credit hereunder may be delivered after the date hereof, Agent may, in its discretion, agree to extend the date for delivery of such items or take such other action as Agent may deem appropriate as a result of the failure to receive such items as Agent may determine or may waive any Event of Default as a result of the failure to receive such items, in each case without the consent of any Lender and (ii) Agent may consent to any change in the type of organization, jurisdiction of organization or other legal structure of any Borrower, Guarantor or any of their Subsidiaries and amend the terms hereof or of any of the other Financing Agreements as may be necessary or desirable to reflect any such change, in each case without the approval of any Lender.

11.5Waiver of Counterclaims. Each Borrower and Guarantor waives all rights to interpose any claims, deductions, setoffs or counterclaims of any nature (other than compulsory counterclaims) in any action or proceeding with respect to this Agreement, the Obligations, the Collateral or any matter arising therefrom or relating hereto or thereto.

11.6Indemnification. Each Borrower and Guarantor shall, jointly and severally, indemnify and hold Agent, each Lender and Issuing Bank, and their respective officers, directors, agents, employees, advisors and counsel and their respective Affiliates (each such Person being an “Indemnitee”), harmless from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs or expenses (including attorneys’ reasonable fees and expenses) imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any of them in connection with any litigation, investigation, claim or proceeding commenced or threatened related to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery, enforcement, performance or administration of this Agreement, any other Financing Agreements, or any undertaking or proceeding related to any of the transactions contemplated hereby or any act, omission, event or transaction related or attendant thereto, including amounts paid in settlement, court costs, and the fees and expenses of counsel except that Borrowers and Guarantors shall not have any obligation under thisSection 11.6 to indemnify an Indemnitee with respect to a matter covered hereby resulting from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee (but without limiting the obligations of Borrowers or Guarantors as to any other Indemnitee). To the extent that the undertaking to indemnify, pay and hold harmless set forth in this Section may be unenforceable because it violates any law or public policy, Borrowers and Guarantors shall pay the maximum portion which it is permitted to pay under applicable law to Agent and Lenders in satisfaction of indemnified matters under this Section. To the extent permitted by applicable law, no Borrower or Guarantor shall assert, and each Borrower and Guarantor hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any of the other Financing Agreements or any undertaking or transaction contemplated hereby. Absent gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct, no Indemnitee referred to above shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed by it through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this

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Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements or the transaction contemplated hereby or thereby. All amounts due under this Section shall be payable upon demand. The foregoing indemnity shall survive the payment of the Obligations and the termination ornon-renewal of this Agreement. ThisSection 11.6 shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from anynon-Tax claim.

SECTION 12.     THE AGENT

12.1Appointment, Powers and Immunities. Each Secured Party irrevocably designates, appoints and authorizes Chase to act as Agent hereunder and under the other Financing Agreements, including the Intercreditor Agreement, with such powers as are specifically delegated to Agent by the terms of this Agreement and of the other Financing Agreements, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Agent (a) shall have no duties or responsibilities except those expressly set forth in this Agreement and in the other Financing Agreements, and shall not by reason of this Agreement or any other Financing Agreement be a trustee or fiduciary for any Secured Party; (b) shall not be responsible to Secured Parties for any recitals, statements, representations or warranties contained in this Agreement or in any of the other Financing Agreements, or in any certificate or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by any of them under, this Agreement or any other Financing Agreement, or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Financing Agreement or any other document referred to or provided for herein or therein or for any failure by any Borrower or any Guarantor or any other Person to perform any of its obligations hereunder or thereunder; and (c) shall not be responsible to Secured Parties for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it hereunder or under any other Financing Agreement or under any other document or instrument referred to or provided for herein or therein or in connection herewith or therewith, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a finalnon-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. Agent may employ agents and attorneys in fact and shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any such agents or attorneys in fact selected by it in good faith. Agent may deem and treat the payee of any note as the holder thereof for all purposes hereof unless and until the assignment thereof pursuant to an agreement (if and to the extent permitted herein) in form and substance satisfactory to Agent shall have been delivered to and acknowledged by Agent.

12.2Reliance by Agent. Agent shall be entitled to rely upon any certification, notice or other communication (including any thereof by telephone, telecopy, telex, telegram or cable) reasonably believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed or sent by or on behalf of the proper Person or Persons, and upon advice and statements of legal counsel, independent accountants and other experts selected by Agent. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or any other Financing Agreement, Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, hereunder or thereunder in accordance with instructions given by the Required Lenders or all of Lenders as is required in such circumstance, and such instructions of such Agents and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding on all Lenders.

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12.3Events of Default.

(a) Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default or other failure of a condition precedent to the Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit hereunder, unless and until Agent has actual knowledge or same and has received written notice from a Lender, or Borrower specifying such Event of Default or any unfulfilled condition precedent, and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default or Failure of Condition” (each a “Notice of Default or Failure of Condition”). In the event that Agent obtains actual knowledge or receives such a Notice of Default or Failure of Condition, Agent shall give prompt notice thereof to the Lenders. Agent shall (subject toSection 12.7) take such action with respect to any such Event of Default or failure of condition precedent as shall be directed by the Required Lenders to the extent provided for herein;provided, that, unless and until Agent shall have received such directions, Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to or by reason of such Event of Default or failure of condition precedent, as it shall deem advisable in the best interest of Lenders. Without limiting the foregoing, and notwithstanding the existence or occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default or any other failure to satisfy any of the conditions precedent set forth inSection 4 of this Agreement to the contrary, subject to the limitations set forth inSection 12.8, Agent may, but shall have no obligation to, continue to make Revolving Loans and Issuing Bank may, but shall have no obligation to, issue or cause to be issued any Letter of Credit for the ratable account and risk of Lenders from time to time if Agent reasonably and in good faith, believes making such Loans or issuing or causing to be issued such Letter of Credit is in the best interests of Lenders.

(b) Except with the prior written consent of Agent, no Secured Party may assert or exercise any enforcement right or remedy in respect of the Loans, Letter of Credit Obligations or other Obligations, as against any Borrower or Guarantor or any of the Collateral or other property of any Borrower or Guarantor.

12.4Chase in its Individual Capacity. At any time Chase is a Lender or Issuing Bank hereunder, as applicable, then with respect to its Revolving Commitments and the Loans made and Letters of Credit issued or caused to be issued by it (and any successor acting as Agent) hereunder from time to time, if any, so long as Chase shall be a Lender hereunder, it shall have the same rights and powers hereunder as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not acting as Agent, and the term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, unless the context otherwise indicates, include Chase in its individual capacity as Lender hereunder. Chase (and any successor acting as Agent) and its Affiliates may (without having to account therefor to any Lender) lend money to, make investments in and generally engage in any kind of business with Borrowers (and any of their Subsidiaries or Affiliates) as if it were not acting as Agent, and Chase and its Affiliates may accept fees and other consideration from any Borrower or Guarantor and any of its Subsidiaries and Affiliates for services in connection with this Agreement or otherwise without having to account for the same to Lenders.

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12.5Indemnification.

(a) Neither the Agent nor any of its Related Parties shall be (i) liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by such party, the Agent or any of its Related Parties under or in connection with this Agreement or the other Financing Agreements (x) with the consent of or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Agent shall believe in good faith to be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in the Financing Agreements) or (y) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct (such absence to be presumed unless otherwise determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final andnon-appealable judgment) or (ii) responsible in any manner to any of the Lenders for any recitals, statements, representations or warranties made by any Loan Party or any officer thereof contained in this Agreement or any other Financing Agreement or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Agent under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Financing Agreement or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Financing Agreement or for any failure of any Loan Party to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder.

(b) Lenders agree to indemnify Agent and Issuing Bank (to the extent not reimbursed by Borrowers hereunder and without limiting any obligations of Borrowers hereunder) ratably, in accordance with their Pro Rata Shares of Loans, for any and all claims of any kind and nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against Agent (including by any Lender) arising out of or by reason of any investigation in or in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any other Financing Agreement or any other documents contemplated by or referred to herein or therein or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (including the costs and expenses that Agent is obligated to pay hereunder) or the enforcement of any of the terms hereof or thereof or of any such other documents,provided, that, no Lender shall be liable for any of the foregoing to the extent it arises from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party to be indemnified as determined by a finalnon-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. The foregoing indemnity shall survive the payment of the Obligations and the termination ornon-renewal of this Agreement.

12.6Non-Reliance on Agent and Other Lenders. Each Secured Party agrees that it has, independently and without reliance on Agent or any other Secured Party, and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis of Borrowers and Guarantors and has made its own decision to enter into this Agreement and that it will, independently and without reliance upon Agent or any other Secured Party, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own analysis and decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements. Agent shall not be required to keep itself informed as to the performance or observance by any Borrower or Guarantor of any term or provision of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements or any other document referred to or provided for herein or therein or to inspect the properties or books of any Borrower or Guarantor. Agent will use reasonable efforts to provide Lenders with any information received by Agent from any Borrower or Guarantor which is required to be provided to Lenders or deemed to be requested by Lenders hereunder and with a copy of any Notice of Default or Failure of Condition received by Agent from any Borrower or any Lender;provided, that, Agent shall not be liable to any Lender for any failure to do so, except to the extent that such failure is attributable to Agent’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a finalnon-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. Except for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to Lenders by Agent or deemed requested by Lenders hereunder (including the documents provided for inSection 12.10 hereof), Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any other credit or other information concerning the affairs, financial condition or business of any Borrower or Guarantor that may come into the possession of Agent.

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12.7Failure to Act. Except for action expressly required of Agent hereunder and under the other Financing Agreements, Agent shall in all cases be fully justified in failing or refusing to act hereunder and thereunder unless it shall receive further assurances to its satisfaction from Lenders of their indemnification obligations underSection 12.5 hereof against any and all liability and expense that may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action.

12.8Additional Loans. Agent shall not make any Revolving Loans or Issuing Bank provide any Letter of Credit to any Borrower on behalf of Revolving Lenders intentionally and with actual knowledge that such Revolving Loans or Letters of Credit would cause the aggregate amount of the total outstanding Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit to such Borrower to exceed the Borrowing Base, without the prior consent of the Required Lenders, except, that, Agent may make such additional Revolving Loans or Issuing Bank may provide such additional Letters of Credit on behalf of Revolving Lenders, intentionally and with actual knowledge that such Revolving Loans or Letters of Credit will cause the total outstanding Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit to exceed the Borrowing Base, as Agent may deem necessary or advisable in its discretion,provided, that: (a) the total principal amount of the additional Revolving Loans or additional Letters of Credit to any Borrower which Agent may make or provide after obtaining such actual knowledge that the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Loans equal or exceed the Borrowing Bases of Borrowers,plus the amount of Special Agent Advances made pursuant toSections 12.11(a)(i) and(ii) hereof then outstanding, shall not exceed the aggregate amount equal to ten (10%) percent of the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts and shall not cause the total principal amount of the Revolving Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations to exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts and (b) no such additional Revolving Loan or Letters of Credit shall be outstanding more than ninety (90) days after the date such additional Revolving Loan or Letters of Credit is made or issued (as the case may be), except as the Required Lenders may otherwise agree. Each Revolving Lender shall be obligated to pay Agent the amount of its Pro Rata Share of any such additional Revolving Loans or Letters of Credit.

12.9Concerning the Collateral and the Related Financing Agreements. Each Secured Party authorizes and directs Agent to enter into this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement and the other Financing Agreements. Each Secured Party agrees that any action taken by Agent or Required Lenders in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement or the other Financing Agreements and the exercise by Agent or Required Lenders of their respective powers set forth therein or herein, together with such other powers that are reasonably incidental thereto, shall be binding upon all of the Secured Parties.

12.10Field Audit, Examination Reports and other Information; Disclaimer by Lenders. By signing this Agreement, each Lender:

(a) is deemed to have requested that Agent furnish such Lender (and Agent agrees that it will furnish to such Lender), promptly after it becomes available, a copy of each field audit or examination report and report with respect to the Borrowing Base prepared or received by Agent (each field audit or examination report and report with respect to the Borrowing Base being referred to herein as a “Report” and collectively, “Reports”), appraisals with respect to the Collateral and financial statements with respect to Parent and its Subsidiaries received by Agent;

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(b) expressly agrees and acknowledges that Agent (i) does not make any representation or warranty as to the accuracy of any Report, appraisal or financial statement or (ii) shall not be liable for any information contained in any Report, appraisal or financial statement;

(c) expressly agrees and acknowledges that the Reports are not comprehensive audits or examinations, that Agent or any other party performing any audit or examination will inspect only specific information regarding Borrowers and Guarantors and will rely significantly upon Borrowers’ and Guarantors’ books and records, as well as on representations of Borrowers’ and Guarantors’ personnel; and

(d) agrees to keep all Reports confidential and strictly for its internal use in accordance with the terms ofSection 13.5 hereof, and not to distribute or use any Report in any other manner.

12.11Collateral Matters.

(a) Agent may, at its option, from time to time, at any time on or after an Event of Default and for so long as the same is continuing or upon any other failure of a condition precedent to the Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit hereunder, make such disbursements and advances (“Special Agent Advances”) which Agent, in its sole discretion, (i) deems necessary or desirable either to preserve or protect the Collateral or any portion thereof or (ii) to enhance the likelihood or maximize the amount of repayment by Borrowers and Guarantors of the Loans and other Obligations,provided, that, (A) the aggregate principal amount of the Special Agent Advances pursuant toclauses (i) and(ii) hereof outstanding at any time,plus the then outstanding principal amount of the additional Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit which Agent may make or provide as set forth inSection 12.8 hereof, shall not exceed the amount equal to ten (10%) percent of the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts, (B) the aggregate principal amount of the Special Agent Advances pursuant toclauses (i) and(ii) hereof outstanding at any time,plus the then total outstanding principal amount of the Revolving Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations, shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts, except at Agent’s option,provided, that, to the extent that the aggregate principal amount of Special Agent Advancesplus the then total outstanding principal amount of the Revolving Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts the Special Agent Advances that are in excess of the Borrowing Cap shall be for the sole account and risk of Agent and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth below, no Lender shall have any obligation to provide its share of such Special Agent Advances in excess of the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts, and (C) no such Special Agent Advances made pursuant to thisclause (ii) shall be outstanding more than ninety (90) days after the date such Special Agent Advance is made, except as Required Lenders may otherwise agree, or (iii) to pay any other amount chargeable to any Borrower or Guarantor pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements consisting of (A) costs, fees and expenses and (B) payments to Issuing Bank in respect of any Letter of Credit Obligations. The Special Agent Advances shall be repayable on demand and together with all interest thereon shall constitute Obligations secured by the Collateral. Special Agent Advances shall not constitute Revolving Loans but shall otherwise constitute Obligations

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hereunder. Interest on Special Agent Advances shall be payable at the interest rate then applicable to ABR Loans and shall be payable on demand. Without limitation of its obligations pursuant toSection 6.11, each Lender agrees that it shall make available to Agent, upon Agent’s demand, in immediately available funds, the amount equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of each such Special Agent Advance. If such funds are not made available to Agent by such Lender, such Lender shall be deemed a Defaulting Lender and Agent shall be entitled to recover such funds, on demand from such Lender together with interest thereon for each day from the date such payment was due until the date such amount is paid to Agent at the NYFRB Rate for each day during such period (as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or at Agent’s option based on the arithmetic mean determined by Agent of the rates for the last transaction in overnight Federal funds arranged prior to 9:00 a.m. (New York City time) on that day by each of the three leading brokers of Federal funds transactions in New York City selected by Agent) and if such amounts are not paid within three (3) days of Agent’s demand, at the highest interest rate provided for inSection 3.1 hereof applicable to ABR Loans.

(b) Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize Agent, at its option and in its discretion to release any security interest in, mortgage or lien upon, any of the Collateral (i) upon Payment in Full, or (ii) constituting property being sold or disposed of if Administrative Borrower or any Borrower or Guarantor certifies to Agent that the sale or disposition is made in compliance withSection 9.6 hereof (and Agent may rely conclusively on any such certificate, without further inquiry), or (iii) constituting property in which any Borrower or Guarantor did not own an interest at the time the security interest, mortgage or lien was granted or at any time thereafter, or (iv) having a value in the aggregate in any twelve (12) month period of less than $1,000,000, and to the extent Agent may release its security interest in and lien upon any such Collateral pursuant to the sale or other disposition thereof, such sale or other disposition shall be deemed consented to by Lenders, or (v) if required or permitted under the terms of any of the other Financing Agreements, including any intercreditor agreement, or (vi) approved, authorized or ratified in writing by all of Lenders. Except as provided above, Agent will not release any security interest in, mortgage or lien upon, any of the Collateral without the prior written authorization of all of Lenders. Upon request by Agent at any time, Lenders will promptly confirm in writing Agent’s authority to release particular types or items of Collateral pursuant to this Section. In no event shall the consent or approval of Issuing Bank to any release of Collateral be required. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to require the consent of any Bank Product Provider to any release of Collateral or termination of security interests in any Collateral.

(c) Without any manner limiting Agent’s authority to act without any specific or further authorization or consent by the Required Lenders, each Lender agrees to confirm in writing, upon request by Agent, the authority to release Collateral conferred upon Agent under this Section. Agent shall (and is hereby irrevocably authorized by Lenders to) execute such documents as may be necessary to evidence the release of the security interest, mortgage or liens granted to Agent upon any Collateral to the extent set forth above;provided, that, (i) Agent shall not be required to execute any such document on terms which, in Agent’s opinion, would expose Agent to liability or create any obligations or entail any consequence other than the release of such security interest, mortgage or liens without recourse or warranty and (ii) such release shall not in any manner discharge, affect or impair the Obligations or any security interest, mortgage or lien upon (or obligations of any Borrower or Guarantor in respect of) the Collateral retained by such Borrower or Guarantor.

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(d) Agent shall have no obligation whatsoever to any Secured Party or any other Person to investigate, confirm or assure that the Collateral exists or is owned by any Borrower or Guarantor or is cared for, protected or insured or has been encumbered, or that any particular items of Collateral meet the eligibility criteria applicable in respect of the Revolving Loans or Letters of Credit hereunder, or whether any particular Reserves are appropriate, or that the liens and security interests granted to Agent pursuant hereto or any of the Financing Agreements or otherwise have been properly or sufficiently or lawfully created, perfected, protected or enforced or are entitled to any particular priority, or to exercise at all or in any particular manner or under any duty of care, disclosure or fidelity, or to continue exercising, any of the rights, authorities and powers granted or available to Agent in this Agreement or in any of the other Financing Agreements, it being understood and agreed that in respect of the Collateral, or any act, omission or event related thereto, subject to the other terms and conditions contained herein, Agent may act in any manner it may deem appropriate, in its discretion, given Agent’s own interest in the Collateral as a Lender and that Agent shall have no duty or liability whatsoever to any other Lender or Issuing Bank.

12.12Agency for Perfection. Each Secured Party hereby appoints Agent and each other Secured Party as agent and bailee for the purpose of perfecting the security interests in and liens upon the Collateral of Agent in assets which, in accordance with Article 9 of the UCC can be perfected only by possession (or where the security interest of a secured party with possession has priority over the security interest of another secured party) and Agent and each Secured Party hereby acknowledges that it holds possession of any such Collateral for the benefit of Agent as secured party. Should any Secured Party obtain possession of any such Collateral, such Lender shall notify Agent thereof, and, promptly upon Agent’s request therefor shall deliver such Collateral to Agent or in accordance with Agent’s instructions.

12.13Successor Agent. Agent may resign as Agent upon thirty (30) days’ notice to Lenders and Administrative Borrower. If Agent resigns under this Agreement, the Required Lenders shall appoint from among the Lenders a successor agent for Lenders. If no successor agent is appointed prior to the effective date of the resignation of Agent, Agent may appoint, after consulting with Lenders and Parent, a successor agent from among the Lenders. Upon the acceptance by the Lender so selected of its appointment as successor agent hereunder, such successor agent shall succeed to all of the rights, powers and duties of the retiring Agent and the term “Agent” as used herein and in the other Financing Agreements shall mean such successor agent and the retiring Agent’s appointment, powers and duties as Agent shall be terminated. After any retiring Agent’s resignation hereunder as Agent, the provisions of thisSection 12 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted by it while it was Agent under this Agreement. If no successor agent has accepted appointment as Agent by the date which is thirty (30) days after the date of a retiring Agent’s notice of resignation, the retiring Agent’s resignation shall nonetheless thereupon become effective and Lenders shall perform all of the duties of Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor agent as provided for above.

12.14Other Agent Designations. Agent may at any time and from time to time determine that a Lender may, in addition, be a“Co-Agent”, “Syndication Agent”, “Documentation Agent” or similar designation hereunder and enter into an agreement with such Lender to have it so identified for purposes of this Agreement. Any such designation shall be effective upon written notice by Agent to Administrative Borrower of any such designation. Any Lender that is so

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designated as aCo-Agent, Syndication Agent, Documentation Agent or such similar designation by Agent shall have no right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements other than those applicable to all Lenders as such. Without limiting the foregoing, the Lenders so identified shall not have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any Lender and no Lender shall be deemed to have relied, nor shall any Lender rely, on a Lender so identified as aCo-Agent, Syndication Agent, Documentation Agent or such similar designation in deciding to enter into this Agreement or in taking or not taking action hereunder.

12.15Intercreditor Agreement. Each Lender, in its capacity as a Lender and in its capacity as a Bank Product Provider, as applicable, and each other Secured Party, by its acceptance of the benefits of the Collateral Documents creating Liens to secure the Obligations:

(a) acknowledges that it has received a copy of the Intercreditor Agreement and is satisfied with the terms and provisions thereof;

(b) authorizes and instructs Agent to (i) enter into the Intercreditor Agreement, as Agent and on behalf of such Secured Party, (ii) to exercise all of Agent’s rights and to comply with all of its obligations under the Intercreditor Agreement and to take all other actions necessary to carry out the provisions and intent thereof and (iii) to take actions on its behalf in accordance with the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement;

(c) agrees that it will be bound by and will take no actions contrary to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement as if it was a signatory thereto;

(d) consents to the treatment of Liens to be provided for under the Intercreditor Agreement and in furtherance thereof authorizes the Agent to subordinate the liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations (other than liens on ABL Priority Collateral (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement)) in accordance with the terms set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement;

(e) authorizes and directs Agent to execute and deliver, in each case on behalf of such Secured Party and without any further consent or authorization from such Secured Party, any amendments, supplements or other modifications of the Intercreditor Agreement that the Borrowers may from time to time request to give effect to any incurrence, amendment, or refinancing of any Indebtedness incurred pursuant toSection 9.9(t); and

(f) agrees that no Secured Party shall have any right of action whatsoever against Agent as a result of any action taken by Agent pursuant to thisSection 12.15 or in accordance with the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement.

12.16Posting of Communications.

(a) The Borrowers agree that the Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, make any Communications available to the Lenders and the Issuing Bank by posting the Communications on IntraLinks^™, DebtDomain, SyndTrak, ClearPar or any other electronic system chosen by the Agent to be its electronic transmission system (the “Approved Electronic Platform”).

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(b) Although the Approved Electronic Platform and its primary web portal are secured with generally-applicable security procedures and policies implemented or modified by the Agent from time to time (including, as of the Closing Date, a user ID/password authorization system) and the Approved Electronic Platform is secured through aper-deal authorization method whereby each user may access the Approved Electronic Platform only on adeal-by-deal basis, each of the Lenders, the Issuing Bank and each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the distribution of material through an electronic medium is not necessarily secure, that the Agent is not responsible for approving or vetting the representatives or contacts of any Lender that are added to the Approved Electronic Platform, and that there may be confidentiality and other risks associated with such distribution. Each of the Lenders, the Issuing Bank and each Borrower hereby approves distribution of the Communications through the Approved Electronic Platform and understands and assumes the risks of such distribution.

(c) THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM AND THE COMMUNICATIONS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. THE APPLICABLE PARTIES (AS DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE COMMUNICATIONS, OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM AND THE COMMUNICATIONS. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY THE APPLICABLE PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS OR THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGENT, ANY ARRANGER OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE RELATED PARTIES (COLLECTIVELY, “APPLICABLE PARTIES”) HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO ANY LOAN PARTY, ANY LENDER, ANY ISSUING BANK OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSSES OR EXPENSES (WHETHER IN TORT, CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF ANY LOAN PARTY’S OR THE AGENT’S TRANSMISSION OF COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH THE INTERNET OR THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM.

“Communications” means, collectively, any notice, demand, communication, information, document or other material provided by or on behalf of any Loan Party pursuant to any Financing Agreement or the transactions contemplated therein which is distributed by the Agent, any Lender or Issuing Bank by means of electronic communications pursuant to this Section, including through an Approved Electronic Platform.

(d) Each Lender and Issuing Bank agrees that notice to it (as provided in the next sentence) specifying that Communications have been posted to the Approved Electronic Platform shall constitute effective delivery of the Communications to such Lender for purposes of the Financing Agreements. Each Lender and Issuing Bank agrees (i) to notify the Agent in writing (which could be in the form of electronic communication) from time to time of such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s (as applicable) email address to which the foregoing notice may be sent by electronic transmission and (ii) that the foregoing notice may be sent to such email address.

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(e) Each of the Lenders, Issuing Bank and each Borrower agrees that the Agent may, but (except as may be required by applicable law) shall not be obligated to, store the Communications on the Approved Electronic Platform in accordance with the Agent’s generally applicable document retention procedures and policies.

(f) Nothing herein shall prejudice the right of the Agent, any Lender or Issuing Bank to give any notice or other communication pursuant to any Financing Agreement in any other manner specified in such Financing Agreement.

SECTION 13.     TERM OF AGREEMENT; MISCELLANEOUS

13.1Term.

(a) This Agreement and the other Financing Agreements shall become effective as of the date set forth on the first page hereof and shall continue in full force and effect for a term ending on the Maturity Date, unless sooner terminated pursuant to the terms hereof. In addition, Borrowers may terminate this Agreement at any time upon ten (10) days prior written notice to Agent (which notice shall be irrevocable) and Agent may, at its option, and shall at the direction of Required Lenders, terminate this Agreement at any time upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default. Upon the Maturity Date or any other effective date of termination of the Financing Agreements, Borrowers shall pay all amounts and take all other actions necessary to cause Payment in Full to occur. All such payments required to cause Payment in Full to occur in respect of the Obligations and cash collateral shall be remitted by wire transfer in Federal funds to the Agent Payment Account or such other bank account of Agent, as Agent may, in its discretion, designate in writing to Administrative Borrower for such purpose. Interest shall be due until and including the next Business Day, if the amounts so paid by Borrowers to the Agent Payment Account or other bank account designated by Agent are received in such bank account later than 12:00 noon, New York City time.

(b) No termination of the Revolving Commitments, this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements shall relieve or discharge any Borrower or Guarantor of its respective duties, obligations and covenants under this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements until all Obligations have been fully and finally discharged and paid, and Agent’s continuing security interest in the Collateral and the rights and remedies of Agent and Lenders hereunder, under the other Financing Agreements and applicable law, shall remain in effect until all such Obligations (other than indemnities and contingent Obligations which survive the termination of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements) have been fully and finally discharged and paid and Lenders have no further obligations hereunder (following which all security interests and liens shall be released). Accordingly, each Borrower and Guarantor waives any rights it may have under the UCC to demand the filing of termination statements with respect to the Collateral and Agent shall not be required to send such termination statements to Borrowers or Guarantors, or to file them with any filing office, unless and until this Agreement and all Commitments of all Lenders shall have been terminated in accordance with its terms and all Obligations (other than indemnities and contingent Obligations which survive the termination of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements) paid and satisfied in full in immediately available funds. Upon such termination, Agent will contemporaneously provide (assuming Agent has received written notice a reasonable amount of time prior to such termination) an appropriate payoff instrument, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent, which shall, among other things, give Borrowers and Guarantors authority to file appropriateUCC-3 termination statements.

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13.2Interpretative Provisions.

(a) All terms used herein which are defined in Article 1, Article 8 or Article 9 of the UCC shall have the meanings given therein unless otherwise defined in this Agreement.

(b) All references to the plural herein shall also mean the singular and to the singular shall also mean the plural unless the context otherwise requires.

(c) All references to any Borrower, Guarantor, Agent and Lenders pursuant to the definitions set forth in the recitals hereto, or to any other Person herein, shall include their respective successors and assigns.

(d) The words “hereof”, “herein”, “hereunder”, “this Agreement” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not any particular provision of this Agreement and as this Agreement now exists or may hereafter be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed, restated or replaced.

(e) The word “including” when used in this Agreement shall mean “including, without limitation” and the word “will” when used in this Agreement shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”.

(f) A Default or an Event of Default shall continue or be continuing until such Default or Event of Default is waived in accordance withSection 11.4 or is cured in a manner satisfactory to Agent; provided that, such Event of Default is capable of being cured as determined by Agent.

(g) All references to the term “good faith” used herein when applicable to Agent or any Lender shall mean, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in the UCC, honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned. Borrowers and Guarantors shall have the burden of proving any lack of good faith on the part of Agent or any Lender alleged by any Borrower or Guarantor at any time.

(h) Any accounting term used in this Agreement shall have, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, the meaning customarily given in accordance with GAAP, and all financial computations hereunder shall be computed unless otherwise specifically provided herein, in accordance with GAAP as consistently applied and using the same method for inventory valuation as used in the preparation of the financial statements of Parent most recently received by Agent prior to the date hereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in GAAP or any interpretations or other pronouncements by the Financial Accounting Standards Board or otherwise, the term “unqualified opinion” as used herein to refer to opinions or reports provided by accountants shall mean an opinion or report that is unqualified and also does not include any explanation, supplemental comment or other comment concerning the ability of the applicable Person to continue as a going concern or the scope of the audit.

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(i) In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including”, the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding” and the word “through” means “to and including”.

(j) Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, (i) references herein to any agreement, document or instrument shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, modifications, supplements, extensions, renewals, restatements or replacements with respect thereto, but only to the extent the same are not prohibited by the terms hereof or of any other Financing Agreement, and (ii) references to any statute or regulation are to be construed as including all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, recodifying, supplementing or interpreting the statute or regulation.

(k) The captions and headings of this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement.

(l) This Agreement and other Financing Agreements may use several different limitations, tests or measurements to regulate the same or similar matters. All such limitations, tests and measurements are cumulative and shall each be performed in accordance with their terms.

(m) This Agreement and the other Financing Agreements are the result of negotiations among and have been reviewed by counsel to Agent and the other parties, and are the products of all parties. Accordingly, this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements shall not be construed against Agent or Lenders merely because of Agent’s or any Lender’s involvement in their preparation.

13.3Notices.

(a) Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone or Electronic Systems (and subject in each case to paragraph (b) below), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by facsimile, as follows:

If to any Borrower or Guarantor:

Valor Acquisition, LLC

c/o Vintage Capital Management

4705 S. Apopka Vineland Road, Suite 206

Orlando, FL 32819

Attention: Brian Kahn

Facsimile: (208)728-8007

Email: bkahn@vintcap.com

in each case, with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Valor Acquisition, LLC

c/o Franchise Group, Inc.

1716 Corporate Landing Pkwy

Virginia Beach, VA 23454

Attn: Michael Piper, Chief Financial Officer

Email: Msp@libtax.com

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If to Agent or Issuing Bank:

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

237 Park Avenue, 7^th Floor

New York, New York 10017

Attn: James Knight, Vitamin Shoppe Credit Officer

Facsimile: (917)464-7000

Email: james.a.knight@jpmorgan.com

All such notices and other communications (i) sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received, (ii) sent by facsimile shall be deemed to have been given when sent,provided that if not given during normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next Business Day of the recipient, or (iii) delivered through Electronic Systems or Approved Electronic Platforms, as applicable, to the extent provided in paragraph (b) below shall be effective as provided in such paragraph;provided,further, that notices of Default or Event of Default may only be given as set forth in clause (i) above.

(b) Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by using Electronic Systems or Approved Electronic Platforms, as applicable, or pursuant to procedures approved by the Agent;provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices pursuant to Article II unless otherwise agreed by the Agent and the applicable Lender. Each of the Agent and the Administrative Borrower (on behalf of the Loan Parties) may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by Electronic Systems or Approved Electronic Platforms, as applicable, pursuant to procedures approved by it;provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications. Unless the Agent otherwise proscribes, all such notices and other communications (i) sent to ane-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, returne-mail or other written acknowledgement),provided that if not given during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient, and (ii) posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient, at itse-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i), of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor;provided that, for both clauses (i) and (ii) above, if such notice,e-mail or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next Business Day of the recipient.

(c) Any party hereto may change its address, facsimile number ore-mail address for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto.

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13.4Partial Invalidity. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not invalidate this Agreement as a whole, but this Agreement shall be construed as though it did not contain the particular provision held to be invalid or unenforceable and the rights and obligations of the parties shall be construed and enforced only to such extent as shall be permitted by applicable law.

13.5Confidentiality.

(a) Agent, each Lender and Issuing Bank shall use all reasonable efforts to keep confidential, and shall use reasonable efforts to cause its agents (including accountants, auditors and filed examiners) to keep confidential, in accordance with its customary procedures for handling confidential information and safe and sound lending practices, anynon-public information supplied to it by any Borrower pursuant to this Agreement,provided, that, nothing contained herein shall limit the disclosure of any such information: (i) to the extent required by statute, rule, regulation, subpoena or court order, (ii) to bank examiners and other regulators, auditors and/or accountants, in connection with any litigation to which Agent, such Lender or Issuing Bank is a party, (iii) to any Lender or Participant (or prospective Lender or Participant) or Issuing Bank or to any Affiliate of any Lender so long as such Lender, Participant (or prospective Lender or Participant), Issuing Bank or Affiliate shall have been instructed to treat such information as confidential in accordance with thisSection 13.5, or (iv) to counsel for Agent, any Lender, Participant (or prospective Lender or Participant). Agent and Lenders shall not publicly disclose consummation of this Agreement prior to a public disclosure of the same by Ultimate Parent, Parent or any of their respective Affiliates.

(b) In the event that Agent, any Lender or Issuing Bank receives a request or demand to disclose any confidential information pursuant to any subpoena or court order, Agent or such Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be, agrees (i) to the extent permitted by applicable law or if permitted by applicable law, to the extent Agent or such Lender or Issuing Bank determines in good faith that it will not create any risk of liability to Agent or such Lender or Issuing Bank, Agent or such Lender or Issuing Bank will promptly notify Administrative Borrower of such request so that Administrative Borrower may seek a protective order or other appropriate relief or remedy and (ii) if disclosure of such information is required, disclose such information and, subject to reimbursement by Borrowers of Agent’s or such Lender’s or Issuing Bank’s expenses, cooperate with Administrative Borrower in the reasonable efforts to obtain an order or other reliable assurance that confidential treatment will be accorded to such portion of the disclosed information which Administrative Borrower so designates, to the extent permitted by applicable law or if permitted by applicable law, to the extent Agent or such Lender or Issuing Bank determines in good faith that it will not create any risk of liability to Agent or such Lender or Issuing Bank.

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Lender or Issuing Bank to return any materials furnished by a Borrower or Guarantor to Agent, a Lender or Issuing Bank or prevent Agent, a Lender or Issuing Bank from responding to routine informational requests in accordance with the Code of Ethics for the Exchange of Credit Information promulgated by The Robert Morris Associates or other applicable industry standards relating to the exchange of credit information. The obligations of Agent, Lenders and Issuing Bank under thisSection 13.5 shall supersede and replace the obligations of Agent, Lenders and Issuing Bank under any confidentiality letter signed prior to the date hereof or any other arrangements concerning the confidentiality of information provided by any Borrower or Guarantor to Agent or any Lender.

(d) Agent and Lenders may share with their respective Affiliates any information relating to the Credit Facility and Borrowers and Guarantors. Agent and Lenders may disclose information relating to the Credit Facility to Gold Sheets and other similar bank trade publications with such information to consist of deal terms and other information customarily found in such publications. In addition, Agent and Lenders and their respective Affiliates may otherwise use the corporate names, logos and other insignia of Borrowers and Guarantors in “tombstones” or other advertisements or public statements or other marketing materials of Agent and Lenders and their respective Affiliates.

13.6Successors. This Agreement, the other Financing Agreements and any other document referred to herein or therein shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by Agent, Secured Parties, Borrowers, Guarantors and their respective successors and assigns, except that no Borrower may assign its rights under this Agreement, the other Financing Agreements and any other document referred to herein or therein without the prior written consent of Agent and Lenders. Any such purported assignment without such express prior written consent shall be void. No Secured Party may assign its rights and obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of Agent, except as provided inSection 13.7 below. The terms and provisions of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements are for the purpose of defining the relative rights and obligations of Borrowers, Guarantors, Agent and Secured Parties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby and there shall be no third party beneficiaries of any of the terms and provisions of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements.

13.7Assignments; Participations.

(a) Each Lender may, with the prior written consent of Agent as required pursuant to the within definition of “Eligible Transferee”, assign all or, if less than all, a portion equal to at least $5,000,000 in the aggregate for the assigning Lender, of such rights and obligations under this Agreement to one or more Eligible Transferees (but not including for this purpose any assignments in the form of a participation), each of which assignees shall become a party to this Agreement as a Lender by execution of an Assignment and Assumption;provided, that, (i) such transfer or assignment will not be effective until recorded by Agent on the Register and (ii) Agent shall have received for its sole account payment of a processing fee from the assigning Lender or the assignee in the amount of $5,000.

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(b) Agent, acting for this purpose as any agent of the Borrowers, shall maintain at one of its offices a register of the names and addresses of the Lenders, the Lender’s Revolving Commitment and Pro Rata Share of the Aggregate Revolving Commitment Amounts and the principal amount of the Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). Agent shall also maintain a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to and accepted by it and shall modify the Register to give effect to each Assignment and Assumption. The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and any Borrowers, Guarantors, Agent and Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by Administrative Borrower and any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice

(c) Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and to the other Financing Agreements and, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations (including, without limitation, the obligation to participate in Letter of Credit Obligations) of a Lender hereunder and thereunder and the assigning Lender shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under this Agreement but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits ofSections 3.4,3.5 and11.6).

(d) By execution and delivery of an Assignment and Assumption, the assignor and assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided in such Assignment and Assumption, the assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements or the execution, legality, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements furnished pursuant hereto, (ii) the assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of any Borrower, Guarantor or any of their Subsidiaries or the performance or observance by any Borrower or Guarantor of any of the Obligations; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements, together with such other documents and information it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such Assignment and Assumption, (iv) such assignee will, independently and without reliance upon the assigning Lender, Agent and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements, (v) such assignee appoints and authorizes Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements as are delegated to Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, and (vi) such assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements are required to be performed by it as a Lender. Agent and Lenders may furnish any information concerning any Borrower or Guarantor in the possession of Agent or any Lender from time to time to assignees and Participants.

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(e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other entities in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements (including, all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans owing to it and its participation in the Letter of Credit Obligations, without the consent of Agent or the other Lenders);provided, that, (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, its Commitment hereunder) and the other Financing Agreements shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations, and Borrowers, Guarantors, the other Lenders and Agent shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Financing Agreements, and (iii) the Participant shall not have any rights under this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements (the Participant’s rights against such Lender in respect of such participation to be those set forth in the agreement executed by such Lender in favor of the Participant relating thereto) and all amounts payable by any Borrower or Guarantor hereunder shall be determined as if such Lender had not sold such participation. Each Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.3 and 3.5 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 3.5(f) (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 3.5(f) shall be delivered to the participating Lender)) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to this Section;provided that such shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 3.3 and 3.5, with respect to any participation, than its participating Lender would have been entitled to receive, except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Change in Law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as anon-fiduciary agent of the Borrowers, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under the Financing Agreements (the “Participant Register”);provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any commitments, loans, letters of credit or its other obligations under any Financing Agreement) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such commitment, loan, letter of credit or other obligation is in registered form underSection 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Agent (in its capacity as Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.

(f) Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent or prohibit any Lender from pledging its Loans hereunder to a Federal Reserve Bank in support of borrowings made by such Lenders from such Federal Reserve Bank;provided, that, no such pledge shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee for such Lender as a party hereto.

(g) Borrowers and Guarantors shall assist Agent or any Lender permitted to sell assignments or participations under thisSection 13.7 in whatever manner reasonably necessary in order to enable or effect any such assignment or participation, including (but not limited to) the execution and delivery of any and all agreements, notes and other documents and instruments as shall be requested and the delivery of informational materials, appraisals or other documents for,

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and the participation of relevant management in meetings and conference calls with, potential Lenders or Participants. Borrowers shall certify the correctness, completeness and accuracy, in all material respects, of all descriptions of Borrowers and Guarantors and their affairs provided, prepared or reviewed by any Borrower or Guarantor that are contained in any selling materials and all other information provided by it and included in such materials.

(h) Any Lender that is an Issuing Bank may at any time assign all of its Commitments pursuant to thisSection 13.7. If such Issuing Bank ceases to be Lender, it may, at its option, resign as Issuing Bank and such Issuing Bank’s obligations to issue Letters of Credit shall terminate but it shall retain all of the rights and obligations of Issuing Bank hereunder with respect to Letters of Credit outstanding as of the effective date of its resignation and all Letter of Credit Obligations with respect thereto (including the right to require Revolving Lenders to make Revolving Loans or fund risk participations in outstanding Letter of Credit Obligations), shall continue.

13.8Entire Agreement. This Agreement, the other Financing Agreements, any supplements hereto or thereto, and any instruments or documents delivered or to be delivered in connection herewith or therewith represents the entire agreement and understanding concerning the subject matter hereof and thereof between the parties hereto, and supersede all other prior agreements, understandings, negotiations and discussions, representations, warranties, commitments, proposals, offers and contracts concerning the subject matter hereof, whether oral or written. In the event of any inconsistency between the terms of this Agreement and any schedule or exhibit hereto, the terms of this Agreement shall govern.

13.9USA Patriot Act. Each Lender subject to the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III ofPub.L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001) (the “Act”) hereby notifies Borrowers and Guarantors that pursuant to the requirements of the Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each Person or corporation who opens an account and/or enters into a business relationship with it, which information includes the name and address of Borrowers and Guarantors and other information that will allow such Lender to identify such Person in accordance with the Act and any other applicable law. Borrowers and Guarantors are hereby advised that any Loans or Letters of Credit hereunder are subject to satisfactory results of such verification.

13.10Counterparts, Etc. This Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement . Delivery of an executed counterpart of this Agreement or any of the other Financing Agreements by telefacsimile or other electronic method of transmission shall have the same force and effect as the delivery of an original executed counterpart of this Agreement or any of such other Financing Agreements. Any party delivering an executed counterpart of any such agreement by telefacsimile or other electronic method of transmission shall also deliver an original executed counterpart, but the failure to do so shall not affect the validity, enforceability or binding effect of such agreement.

13.11Restatement. The Existing Credit Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety by this Agreement.

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13.12Acknowledgment Regarding Any Supported QFCs. To the extent that the Financing Agreements provide support, through a guarantee or otherwise, for Hedge Agreements or any other agreement or instrument that is a QFC (such support “QFC Credit Support” and each such QFC a “Supported QFC”), the parties acknowledge and agree as follows with respect to the resolution power of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (together with the regulations promulgated thereunder, the “U.S. Special Resolution Regimes”) in respect of such Supported QFC and QFC Credit Support (with the provisions below applicable notwithstanding that the Financing Agreements and any Supported QFC may in fact be stated to be governed by the laws of the State of New York and/or of the United States or any other state of the United States):

In the event a Covered Entity that is party to a Supported QFC (each, a “Covered Party”) becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer of such Supported QFC and the benefit of such QFC Credit Support (and any interest and obligation in or under such Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support, and any rights in property securing such Supported QFC or such QFC Credit Support) from such Covered Party will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support (and any such interest, obligation and rights in property) were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. In the event a Covered Party or a BHC Act Affiliate of a Covered Party becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under the Financing Agreements that might otherwise apply to such Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support that may be exercised against such Covered Party are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and the Financing Agreements were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. Without limitation of the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that rights and remedies of the parties with respect to a Defaulting Lender shall in no event affect the rights of any Covered Party with respect to a Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support.

13.13Intercreditor Agreement. This Agreement and the other Financing Agreements are subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement in all respects and, in the event of any conflict between the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement and this Agreement, the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement shall govern. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the lien and security interest granted to the Agent or the Term Loan Agent, as applicable, pursuant to any Financing Agreement or Term Loan Document, and the exercise of any right or remedy in respect of the Collateral by the Agent or the Term Loan Agent, as applicable hereunder, under any other Financing Agreement, or under the Term Loan Agreement and any other agreement entered into in connection therewith are subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement and in the event of any conflict between the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, this Agreement, any other Financing Agreement, the Term Loan Agreement and any other agreement entered into in connection therewith, the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement shall govern and control with respect to the exercise of any such right or remedy or the Loan Parties’ covenants and obligations.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Agent, Lenders, Borrowers and Guarantors have caused these presents to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

BORROWERS:

VITAMIN SHOPPE INDUSTRIES LLC

By: /s/ Charles D. Knight

Name:	Charles D. Knight
Title:	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

VITAMIN SHOPPE MARINER, LLC

By: /s/ Charles D. Knight

Name:	Charles D. Knight
Title:	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

VITAMIN SHOPPE GLOBAL, LLC

By: /s/ Charles D. Knight

Name:	Charles D. Knight
Title:	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

VITAMIN SHOP FLORIDA, LLC

By: /s/ Charles D. Knight

Name:	Charles D. Knight
Title:	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

BETANCOURT SPORTS NUTRITION, LLC

By: /s/ Charles D. Knight

Name:	Charles D. Knight
Title:	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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VITAMIN SHOPPE PROCUREMENT SERVICES, LLC

By: /s/ Charles D. Knight

Name:	Charles D. Knight
Title:	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

GUARANTORS:

VALOR ACQUISITION, LLC (successor by merger to Vitamin Shoppe, Inc.)

By: /s/ Charles D. Knight

Name:	Charles D. Knight
Title:	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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AGENT:

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as Agent and Issuing Bank

By: /s/ James A. Knight

Name:	James A. Knight
Title:	Authorized Officer

LENDERS:

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as Agent and Issuing Bank

By: /s/ James A. Knight

Name:	James A. Knight
Title:	Authorized Officer

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Schedule 1

REVOLVING COMMITMENTS

(AS OF THE CLOSING DATE)

Lender	Revolving Commitment
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.	$	100,000,000.00
Total	$	100,000,000.00