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Registration No. ____________
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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HUFFY CORPORATION
(Exact name of issuer as specified in its Charter)
Ohio 31-0326270
(State of Incorporation) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
225 Byers Road, Miamisburg, Ohio 45342
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
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HUFFY CORPORATION
MASTER DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
(Full Title of the Plan )
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Nancy A. Michaud, Secretary
Huffy Corporation
225 Byers Road
Miamisburg, Ohio 45342
(937) 866-6251
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Securities to be Amount to be Proposed Maximum Proposed Maximum Amount of
Registered Registered Offering Price Per Share Aggregate Offering Registration Fee*
Price
Interest in Deferred $3,500,000 $1.00 $3,500,000 $10,325
Compensation Plan
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Approximate date of proposed commencement of sales hereunder:
As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement
* Amount of Registration Fee calculated by multiplying Amount to be Registered
by .00295.
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PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The information specified in Part I of Form S-8 is set forth in a
single document, entitled "Prospectus," which constitutes a part of the Section
10(a) Prospectus to which this Registration Statement relates but which is not
filed herewith.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.
Huffy Corporation (the "Registrant") hereby states that the documents
listed in (a) through (c) below are incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement, and further states that all documents subsequently filed
by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, prior to the filing of a post-effective
amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which
deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof
from the date of filing such documents.
(a) The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K as amended for the
year ended December 31, 1997.
(b) All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of
the Securities and Exchange Act since December 31, 1997.
ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.
Not applicable.
ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.
Not applicable.
ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
The Registrant's Code of Regulations (the "Code") provides for
indemnification of any person who served or serves as a director, officer,
employee or agent of the Registrant, or who served or serves at the request of
the Registrant as a director, trustee, officer, employee or agent of another
corporation, domestic or foreign, non-profit or for profit, partnership, joint
venture, trust, or other enterprise, against any and all losses, liabilities,
damages, and expenses, including attorneys' fees, judgements, fines, Employee
Retirement Income Security Act excise taxes or penalties, and amounts
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paid in settlement incurred by such person in connection with any claim, action,
suit or proceeding, including any action or suit by or in the right of the
Registrant (whether threatened, pending or completed, and whether civil,
criminal, administrative, or investigative, including appeals), by reason of any
act or omission to act a such director, trustee, officer, employee or agent, to
the full extent permitted by Ohio law including, without limitation, the
provisions of Section 1701.13 of the Ohio Revised Code, as the same exists or
may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the
extent that such amendment permits the Registrant to provide broader
indemnification rights than said law permitted the Registrant to provide prior
to such amendment).
Pursuant to Section 1701.13(E) of the Ohio Revised Code, the Registrant is
permitted to indemnify any director, officer, employee or agent of the
Registrant against costs and expenses incurred in connection with any action,
suit or proceeding brought against any such person by reason for his having
served the Registrant in such capacity, provided that he meets certain "good
faith" tests provided by law, and provided further that, with respect to suits
brought on behalf of the Registrant, he is not adjudged to be liable for
negligence or misconduct unless the relevant court finds indemnification to be
nevertheless appropriate in view of all the circumstances.
The Code further provides, consistent with Section 1701.13(E)(5)(a) of the Ohio
Revised Code, for all expenses, including attorneys' fees, incurred by a
director in defending the action, suit or proceeding to be paid by the
Registrant as they are incurred, in advance of the final disposition of the
action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the
director in which he agrees to do both of the following:
(a) Repay such amount if it is proved by clear and convincing evidence
in a court of competent jurisdiction that his or her action or failure
to act involved an act or omission undertaken with deliberate intent to
cause injury to the Registrant or undertaken with reckless disregard
for the best interests of the Registrant;
(b) Reasonably cooperate with the Registrant concerning the action,
suit, or proceeding.
In addition, the Code provides that the indemnification provided by the Code
shall not be exclusive of, and shall be in addition to, any rights to which a
director or officer seeking indemnification may be entitled under, among other
things, any agreement. Pursuant to the foregoing, the Registrant has entered
into indemnification agreements with its directors and officers which provides
that the Registrant shall indemnify the director or officer if he was or is, or
is threatened to be made, a party to any threatened, pending or completed
action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative (including, without limitation, any action threatened or
instituted, without limitation, any action threatened or instituted by or in the
right of the Registrant), by reason of the fact that he is or was a director,
officer, employee or agent of the Registrant, or is or was serving at the
request of the Registrant as a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent of
another corporation (domestic or foreign, non-profit or for profit),
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, partnership, joint
venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including, without
limitation, attorneys' fees, filing fees, court reporters' fees, transcript
costs and investigative costs), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement
actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection
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with such action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a manner
he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the bests interests of the
Registrant, and with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, he had no
reasonably cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. If the director or officer
claims indemnification under the agreement, he shall be presumed, in respect of
any act or omission giving rise to such claim for indemnity, to have acted in
good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the
bests interests of the Registrant, and with respect to any criminal matter, to
have had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful, and the
termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement or
conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of
itself, rebut such presumption.
The indemnity agreement also provides that the Registrant will not indemnify an
officer or director in respect of any claim, issue or matter asserted in any
completed action or suit instituted by or in the right of the Registrant to
procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he is or was a
director, officer, employee or agent of the Registrant, or is or was serving at
the request of the Registrant as a director, trustee, officer, employee or agent
of another corporation (domestic or foreign, non-profit or for profit),
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, as to which claim, issue
or matter he shall have been adjudged to be liable for acting with reckless
disregard for the bests interests of the Registrant in the performance of his
duty to the Registrant, unless and only to the extent that the Court of Common
Pleas of Montgomery County, Ohio or the court in which such action or suit was
brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of
liability, but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is
fairly and reasonably entitled to such indemnity as such court of Common Pleas
or such other court shall deem proper.
In addition, the Registrant has purchased insurance policies which provide
coverage for the acts and omissions of the Registrant's directors and officers
in certain situations.
ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.
Not applicable.
ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.
Exhibit No. Description
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4 Master Deferred Compensation Plan
5, 23.1 Opinion of Dinsmore & Shohl as to the legality of the
securities being registered
23.2 Consent of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, independent certified
public accountants
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ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS.
A. The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
1. To file, during any period in which offers or sales
are being made, a post-effective amendment to this
Registration Statement to include any material
information with respect to the plan of distribution
not previously disclosed in the Registration
Statement or any material change to such information
in the Registration Statement.
2. That, for the purpose of determining any liability
under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-
effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.
3. To remove from registration by means of a post-
effective amendment any of the securities being
registered which remain unsold at the termination of
the offering.
B. The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for
purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act
of 1933, each filing of the registrant's annual report
pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to section
15(d) of the Securities Exchange of 1934) that is incorporated
by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to
be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that
time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.
C. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers
and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the
foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the
event that a claim for indemnification against such
liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of
expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense
of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the
securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by
controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it
is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be
governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, 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 Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Miamisburg, State of Ohio on August 28, 1998.
HUFFY CORPORATION
By: /s/ NANCY A. MICHAUD
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Nancy A. Michaud, Vice President -
General Counsel and Secretary
SIGNATURE
/s/ **
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Don R. Graber, Chairman of the Board,
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Director
(Principal executive officer)
/s/ **
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Thomas A. Frederick, Vice President - Finance,
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
(Principal financial officer)
/s/ **
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Timothy G. Howard, Vice President - Controller
(Principal accounting officer)
DIRECTORS:
/s/ **
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W. Anthony Huffman
/s/ **
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Linda B. Keene
** Indicates Nancy A. Michaud has the power of attorney to sign on each
individual's behalf.
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DIRECTORS:
/s/ **
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Jack D. Michaels
/s/ **
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Donald K. Miller
/s/ **
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James F. Robeson
/s/ **
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Patrick W. Rooney
/s/ **
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Thomas C. Sullivan
/s/ **
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Joseph P. Viviano
** Indicates Nancy A. Michaud has the power of attorney to sign on each
individual's behalf.
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit No. Description
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4 Master Deferred Compensation Plan
5, 23.1 Opinion of Dinsmore & Shohl as to the legality of the
securities being registered.
23.2 Consent of KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, independent
certified public accountants
24 Power of Attorney
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