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EXHIBIT 4.4.1
RALPHS GROCERY COMPANY
Issuer,
and
UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK,
Trustee
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FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Dated as of ________, 1995
______________________
10-1/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2002
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This FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE to the Indenture (as defined
below) (the "First Supplemental Indenture") is dated as of _________, 1995, and
is made by and between Ralphs Grocery Company, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), and United States Trust Company of New York (the "Trustee").
RECITALS
A. Pursuant to an Indenture dated July 29, 1992 (the
"Indenture") between the Company and the Trustee, the Company issued
$300,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of 10-1/4% Senior Subordinated Notes
due 2002.
B. Capitalized terms used herein without definition
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
C. The Company has entered into a definitive Agreement
and Plan of Merger whereby Food 4 Less Supermarkets, Inc. will be merged with
and into Ralphs Supermarkets, Inc. ("RSI"), and immediately thereafter the
Company, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of RSI, will merge with and into
RSI and RSI will change its name to Ralphs Grocery Company (together, the
"Merger").
D. The Merger is a transaction subject to the
requirements of Section 801 of the Indenture. In order to permit the Merger
under the Indenture, the Company must amend or supplement Section 801 thereof
which limits the ability of the Company to consolidate or merge with any other
person unless certain conditions are satisfied. The primary purpose of this
First Supplemental Indenture is to permit the Merger and to eliminate
substantially all of the restrictive covenants in the Indenture.
E. Section 902 of the Indenture provides that with the
consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities, by Act of such Holders delivered to the Company and the
Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee
may enter into one or more indentures supplemental thereto for the purpose of
adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the
provisions of the Indenture, including Section 801 thereof.
F. The Holders of not less than a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities having given their consent by Act
delivered to the Company and the Trustee, and the Company having been duly
authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, having received an Opinion
of Counsel stating that the execution of this First Supplemental Indenture is
authorized and permitted by the Indenture, execute and deliver this First
Supplemental Indenture pursuant to Article 9 of the Indenture.
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G. All of the conditions and requirements necessary to
make this First Supplemental Indenture, when duly executed and delivered, a
valid, binding agreement, enforceable in accordance with its terms, have been
performed and fulfilled.
NOW, THEREFORE, it is agreed as follows:
1. Pursuant to Section 902 of the Indenture and having
received the requisite consents required thereby, the Indenture is amended as
follows:
a. The covenant entitled "Limitation on
Indebtedness", set forth in Section 1007 of the Indenture, is hereby deleted in
its entirety.
b. The covenant entitled "Limitation on
Restricted Payments", set forth in Section 1008 of the Indenture, is hereby
deleted in its entirety.
c. The covenant entitled "Transactions with
Affiliates", set forth in Section 1009 of the Indenture, is hereby deleted in
its entirety.
d. The covenant entitled "Limitation on Liens
Securing Subordinated Indebtedness", set forth in Section 1010 of the
Indenture, is hereby deleted in its entirety.
e. The covenant entitled "Restrictions on
Preferred Stock of Subsidiaries", set forth in Section 1012 of the Indenture,
is hereby deleted in its entirety.
f. The covenant entitled "Limitation on
Dividends and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries", set forth in
Section 1013 of the Indenture, is hereby deleted in its entirety.
g. Section 801(iii) of the Indenture under the
covenant entitled "Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms" is
hereby deleted in its entirety.
h. The following definition is hereby added to
Section 101 of the Indenture:
"New Credit Facility" means the senior bank facility pursuant
to which Bankers Trust Company has agreed, subject to certain
conditions, to provide up to $1,075 million of financing under the
Loan Agreement dated __________, 1995.
i. The following sentence is hereby added to the
definition of "1992 Credit Agreement", set forth in Section 101 of the
Indenture:
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"The New Credit Facility shall be deemed to constitute a
refinancing of the credit facility under the 1992 Credit Agreement."
2. This First Supplemental Indenture shall be effective
as of the date hereof upon consummation of the Merger.
3. This instrument may be executed in any number of
counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same
instrument, and any of the parties hereto may execute the instrument by signing
such counterpart.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this First
Supplemental Indenture to be signed and acknowledged by their respective
officers thereunto duly authorized and their respective corporate seals to be
hereunto duly affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above
written.
RALPHS GROCERY COMPANY
[Seal]
Attest:
________________________ ______________________________
By:
Its:
UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
[Seal]
Attest:
________________________ ______________________________
By:
Its:
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