As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 19, 2003
Registration No. 33-86672
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT
TO
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
C&D TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 13-331459
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(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
incorporation or organization)
1400 Union Meeting Road
Blue Bell, Pennsylvania 19422
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(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
CHARTER POWER SYSTEMS, INC.
STOCK OPTION PLAN
(Full title of plan)
Linda R. Hansen
Vice President and General Counsel
C&D Technologies, Inc.
1400 Union Meeting Road
Blue Bell, Pennsylvania 19422-0858
(Name and address of agent for service)
(215) 619-7817
(Telephone number, including area code,
of agent for service)
Copy to:
John W. Kauffman, Esquire
Duane Morris LLP
4200 One Liberty Place
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-7396
(215) 979-1000
DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
Pursuant to a Form S-8 Registration Statement (File No. 33-86672) (the
"Registration Statement") filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
November 23, 1994, C&D Technologies, Inc. (the "Company"), formerly known as
Charter Power Systems, Inc., registered 1,400,000 shares of its common stock, as
calculated on a post-split basis, to be reserved for issuance under the Charter
Power Systems, Inc. Stock Option Plan. As of October 31, 2003, a total of
260,420 shares of common stock of the shares registered under the Registration
Statement were sold.
Pursuant to the undertakings included in Item 9 of the Registration
Statement and as required by Item 512 of Regulation S-K of the Securities Act of
1933, the Company hereby deregisters and removes from registration the 1,139,580
shares registered under Registration Statement that remain unsold.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 478
thereunder, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe
that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused
this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
on November 19, 2003.
C&D TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
By:/s/ Stephen E. Markert, Jr.
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Stephen E. Markert, Jr.,
Vice President - Finance and Chief
Financial Officer