Exhibit 10.3
UNIFI, INC.’S
STOCK OPTION GRANTS
UNDER THE 2008 UNIFI, INC. LONG TERM INCENTIVE PLAN
     THIS OPTION GRANT (“Agreement”) effective the ___day of
                    , by and between UNIFI, INC., a New York corporation,
(hereinafter called the “Corporation”), and                     , a key employee
(hereinafter called the “Optionee”) of the Corporation.
WITNESSETH:
     WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of Unifi, Inc. adopted, effective April 30,
2008, subject to the approval of the shareholders of the Corporation, the 2008
Unifi, Inc. Long Term Incentive Plan (“Plan”) which was approved by the
shareholders of the Corporation at their Annual Meeting held on October 29,
2008; and
     WHEREAS, the Plan is incorporated into and forms a part of this Agreement
and the Optionee has been selected by the Compensation Committee of the Board of
Directors (“Committee”), consisting of three directors who satisfy the
requirements of an outside director, as set forth in the Plan, to receive a
stock option (“Option”) under the Plan;
     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises hereinafter set
forth, and for other good and valuable consideration, it is agreed by and
between the parties as follows:
     Section 1. Grant of Option. The Corporation granted effective [insert]
(“Date of Grant”) to Optionee the right, privilege, and option to purchase
[insert] shares of Unifi, Inc. Common Stock, $.10 par value (“Option Shares”) in
the manner and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth. The Option is
intended to constitute an incentive stock option as that term is used in Code
§422. If, as a result of the Option granted hereunder, the aggregate fair market
value (“FMV”) (determined as of the time the Option is granted) of the stock,
with respect to which the incentive stock options are exercisable for the first
time by the Optionee during any calendar year under this and all other incentive
stock option plans (as defined by §422 of the Code, as amended) of the
Corporation, would exceed $100,000.00 any excess amount will be treated as
non-qualified stock options.
     Section 2. Exercise Price. The exercise price for the Option granted under
Section 1 of this Agreement shall be [insert] per share, the FMV of said stock
on the Date of Grant, as defined in Section 12 of this Agreement.
     Section 3. Time of Exercise. The Option Shares granted under Section 1 of
this agreement shall vest and become exercisable on the date that the closing
price of the Corporation’s common stock on the New York Stock Exchange shall
have been at least [insert] per share for thirty (30) consecutive trading days.
There shall be no fractional shares. After the Option becomes exercisable as set
forth above it shall continue to be exercisable with respect to the Option
Shares until the Option expires.

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     Section 4. Method of Exercise. This Option shall be exercised by written
notice directed to the Chief Financial Officer or General Counsel of the
Corporation or other Officer as hereafter designated by the Committee
(“Designated Officer”) at the Corporation’s principal office in Greensboro,
North Carolina, or at such other office as the Corporation may designate. Such
notice shall (a) set forth the number of full shares which are being exercised,
(b) be signed by the person exercising the Option, (c) be accompanied by a
certified or other check acceptable to the Corporation made payable to the order
of the Corporation for the full purchase price of such shares or by a
certificate or certificates of Unifi, Inc. common stock acceptable to the
Designated Officer, the fair market value of which on the New York Stock
Exchange at the close of business on the date said notice is received by the
Corporation, shall equal or exceed the Option price, said certificate or
certificates being duly endorsed, and (d) be accompanied by a signed investment
representation letter as provided in Section 9 hereof. Such exercise shall be
effective only when said properly executed notice accompanied by check or stock
certificates, as referred to above, are received by the Designated Officer. The
certificate or certificates for the shares issued upon the exercise of an Option
or part thereof and any shares delivered to the Corporation under subparagraph
(c) of this Section 4, in excess of the Option price shall be issued or
reissued, as the case may be, with or without restrictive legend, as determined
by the Designated Officer, in the name of the person exercising the Option, and
shall be delivered to such person. All shares issued as provided herein, will be
fully paid and non-assessable.
     Section 5. Withholding. Optionee, upon the exercise of an Option granted to
him under this Agreement, shall pay to the Corporation in cash the amount of any
tax or other amount required by any governmental authority to be withheld and
paid over by the Corporation to such authority for the account of such Optionee.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Optionee may satisfy this obligation in whole
or in part, and any other local, state or federal income tax obligations
resulting from the exercise or the surrender of an Option, by electing to
deliver to the Corporation shares owned by the Optionee at the time of the
exercise or surrender, or to have the Corporation withhold shares from the
shares to which the Optionee is entitled. The number of shares to be delivered
or withheld shall have a fair market value as of the date the amount of tax to
be withheld is determined, those being withheld being as nearly equal to (but
not exceeding) the amount of such obligation being satisfied as possible.
     Section 6. Termination of Option. Except as herein otherwise stated, the
Option to the extent not heretofore exercised shall terminate upon the first to
occur of the following dates:

  (A)  
The expiration of three months from the Optionee’s date of termination with the
Corporation, except if such termination be by reason of death or permanent and
total disability, or cause;
    (B)  
In the event of the death of the Optionee, the Administrator of the deceased
Optionee’s estate, the Executor under his Last Will and Testament, or the person
or persons to whom the stock option shall have been validly transferred by such
Executor or Administrator pursuant to the Last Will and Testament or the
Intestacy Succession Laws shall have the right within twelve (12) months of the
date of the Optionee’s death, but not beyond the [insert] expiration date of the
Option, to exercise such Option to the extent exercisable by the Optionee at the

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date of his death;
    (C)  
In the event of the termination of the Optionee’s employment due to retirement
with the consent of the Board of Directors, or permanent and total disability,
the Optionee shall have the right within twelve (12) months from his date of
termination, but not beyond [insert], the expiration date of such Option, to
exercise such Option to the extent exercisable on such date of termination;
    (D)  
In the event the Optionee’s employment with the Corporation is terminated for
cause, the Optionee’s date of termination.
    (E)  
[insert], being the expiration of ten years from the grant of this Option.

     Section 7. Reclassification, Consolidation, or Merger. If and to the extent
that the number of issued shares of common stock of the Corporation shall be
increased or reduced by change in par value, split, reclassification,
distribution of a dividend payable in stock, or the like, the number of shares
subject to Option and the Option Price per share shall be proportionately
adjusted.
     If the Corporation is reorganized or consolidated or merged with another
corporation, Optionee shall be entitled to receive Options covering shares of
such reorganized, consolidated, or merged company in the same proportion, at an
equivalent price, and subject to the same conditions. For purposes of the
preceding sentence, the excess of the aggregate fair market value of the shares
subject to the Option immediately after the reorganization, consolidation, or
merger over the aggregate Option Price of such shares shall not be more than the
excess of the aggregate fair market value of all shares subject to the Option
immediately before such reorganization, consolidation, or merger over the
aggregate Option Price of such shares, and the new Option or assumption of the
old Option shall not give Optionee additional benefits which he did not have
under the old Option, or deprive him of benefits which he had under the old
option.
     Section 8. Restrictive Legend. At the sole and absolute discretion of the
Designated Officer, the certificates issued under this Option, upon exercise
thereof by the Optionee, may carry such restrictive legend as the Designated
Officer shall determine to be appropriate.
     Section 9. Purchase For Investment. By accepting this Option, the Optionee
agrees that any shares of common stock purchased upon the exercise of this
Option shall be acquired for investment and not for distribution, and that each
notice of exercise of any portion of this Option shall be accompanied by the
following representation in writing signed by him or such other person as may be
exercising this Option under the provisions of Section 6 hereof:
I hereby warrant and represent that the shares being acquired by me pursuant
hereto are being acquired by me with my own funds for investment for my own
account and not with a view to offer for sale, or for sale in connection with,
the distribution or transfer thereof. I further warrant and represent that I am
not participating in or have a direct or

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indirect participation in the distribution or transfer of such shares, nor am I
participating in or have a participation in the direct or indirect underwriting
of any such distribution or transfer of the shares.
     Section 10. Listing of Shares. The Optionee acknowledges and represents
that Optionee has been advised by the Corporation that the shares issued under
this Option may be restricted shares (not registered under the Securities and
Exchange Act of 1933, as amended), and the Optionee covenants, agrees, warrants
and represents that prior to any proposed sale, pledge, hypothecation, gift or
transfer, for value or otherwise, of any or all of the shares or any interest
therein (Transfer), the Optionee shall:

  (A)  
give written notice to the Corporation expressing his or her desire to affect a
Transfer and describe in detail such proposed Transfer;
    (B)  
furnish the Corporation with written opinion of counsel reasonably acceptable to
the Designated Offer that the proposed Transfer may be effected without
registration under the Federal Securities Act of 1933 as then in force or any
similar statute then in force (“the ‘33 Act”) and applicable State Security
laws;
    (C)  
deliver to the Corporation such other information in relation to the proposed
Transfer as the Corporation may request.

The Corporation thereafter, if, in the opinion of its general counsel, such
proposed transfer can be made without registration under the ‘33 Act and
applicable State law, shall notify its transfer agent to reissue said stock in
accordance with the requested transfer without a restrictive legend.
     If, in the opinion of the Corporation’s general counsel, the transfer
cannot be made without registration under the Act and/or applicable State
securities law, the Corporation shall promptly notify Optionee in writing, and
the transfer shall not be made unless such registration is then in effect.
     Section 11. Rights Prior to Exercise of the Option. This Option is
non-transferable by the Optionee, except in the event of his death, as provided
in Section 6 above, and during his or her lifetime is exercisable only by the
Optionee. Optionee shall have no right as a Shareholder with respect to the
Option Shares until payment of the Exercise Price, and delivery to the Optionee
of such shares as herein provided.
     Section 12. Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the terms listed
below shall be defined as follows:

  (A)  
Fair Market Value. Fair Market Value. The Fair Market Value (“FMV”) of Unifi,
Inc. Common Stock on [insert] is [insert] per share, being the average of the
high and low prices of such stock on the New York Stock Exchange on that date.

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  (B)  
Cause. The term “Cause” means, except as provided in an individual agreement or
by the Committee, a vote of the Board resolving that the Optionee should be
dismissed as a result of (i) any material breach by the Optionee of any
agreement to which the Optionee and the Corporation are parties, (ii) any act
(other than Retirement) or omission to act by the Optionee which may have a
material and adverse effect on the business of the Corporation or any related
company or on the Optionee’s ability to perform services for the Corporation or
any related company, including, without limitation, the commission of any crime
(other than ordinary traffic violations), or (iii) any material misconduct or
neglect of duties by the Optionee in connection with the business or affairs of
the Corporation or any related company.
    (C)  
Change in Control. In the event of a change in control of the Corporation while
the Optionee is still an employee of the Corporation, any non-vested and/or
non-exercisable increments of the Option, as provided in Section 3 hereof, shall
immediately vest and be exercisable. For purposes of this Agreement, a change in
control of the Corporation shall be deemed to have occurred if:(i) there shall
be consummated (x) any consolidation or merger of the Corporation in which the
Corporation is not the continuing or surviving corporation or pursuant to which
shares of the Corporation’s Common Stock would be converted into cash,
securities or other property, other than a merger of the Corporation in which
the holders of the Corporation’s Common Stock immediately prior to the merger
have the same proportionate ownership of common stock of the surviving
corporation immediately after the merger, or (y) any sale, lease, exchange or
other transfer other than to a subsidiary (in one transaction or a series of
related transactions) of all, or substantially all, of the assets of the
Corporation; or (ii) the Shareholders of the Corporation approved any plan or
proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Corporation; or (iii) any
person (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), shall become the
beneficial owner (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of
twenty percent (20%) or more of the Corporation’s outstanding Common Stock; or
(iv) during any period of two consecutive years, individuals who at the
beginning of such period constitute the entire Board of Directors shall cease
for any reason to constitute a majority thereof unless the election, or the
nomination for election by the Corporation’s Shareholders, of each new Director
was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the Directors then still in
office who were Directors at the beginning of the period.
    (D)  
Date of Termination. The Optionee’s “Date of Termination” shall be the first day
occurring on or after [insert] on which the Optionee’s employment with the
Corporation and all related companies terminates for any reason; provided that a
termination of employment shall not be deemed to occur by reason of a transfer
of the Optionee between the Corporation and a related company or between two
related companies; and further provided that the Optionee’s employment shall not
be considered terminated while the Optionee is on a leave of absence from the

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Corporation or a related company approved by the Optionee’s employer. If, as a
result of a sale or other transaction, the Optionee’s employer ceases to be a
related company (and the Optionee’s employer is or becomes an entity that is
separate from the Corporation), the occurrence of such transaction shall be
treated as the Optionee’s Date of Termination caused by the Optionee being
discharged by the employer.
    (E)  
Disability. Except as otherwise provided by the Committee, the Optionee shall be
considered to have a “Disability” during the period in which the Optionee is
unable, by reason of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment, to
engage in any substantial gainful activity, which condition, in the opinion of a
physician selected by the Committee, is expected to have a duration of not less
than 120 days.
    (F)  
Retirement. “Retirement” of the Optionee shall mean the occurrence of the
Optionee’s Date of Termination after age 57 with the approval of the Committee.
    (G)  
Plan Definitions. Except where the context clearly implies or indicates the
contrary, a word, term, or phrase used in the Plan is similarly used in this
Agreement.

     Section 13. SEC Rules and Regulations. The Option granted to the Optionee,
by the Board of Directors under this Agreement, is intended to meet the
eligibility requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”)
proposed new Rule 16b-3 issued October 1995, entitled “Transactions Between an
Issuer and its Directors or Officers”. Dependent upon future actions of the SEC,
the Option may not be exempt under Rule 16b-3 and, therefore, may be subject to
Rule 16b, the so-called “Short Swing Profit Rule”, which provides for the
disgorgement of any profits realized by the Optionee, as an insider, from the
purchase and sale (or sale and purchase) of any of the Corporation’s common
stock within a six month period. The Corporation recommends that the Optionee
consult with counsel prior to exercising an Option.
     Section 14. Heirs and Successors. This Agreement shall be binding upon, and
inure to the benefit of, the Corporation and its successors and assigns, and
upon any person acquiring, whether by merger, consolidation, purchase of assets
or otherwise, all or substantially all of the Corporation’s assets and business.
Subject to the terms of the Plan, any benefits distributable to the Optionee
under this Agreement that are not distributed at the time of the Optionee’s
death shall be distributed at the time and in the form determined in accordance
with the provisions of this Agreement and the Plan, to the beneficiary
designated by the Optionee in writing filed with the Committee in such form and
at such time as the Committee shall require. If a deceased Optionee fails to
designate a beneficiary, or if the designated beneficiary of the deceased
Optionee dies before the Optionee or before complete distribution of the
benefits due under this Agreement, the amounts to be distributed under this
Agreement shall be distributed to the legal representative or representatives of
the estate of the last to die of the Optionee and the beneficiary.

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     Section 15. Amendments. The Board of Directors of the Corporation, or the
Committee, may at any time, prior to the termination date, amend this Agreement
provided that no amendment may, in the absence of written consent of change by
the Optionee, adversely affect the rights of the Optionee under any Option
granted prior to the date such amendment is adopted.
     Section 16. Administration. The authority to manage and control the
operation and administration of this Agreement shall be vested in the Committee,
and the Committee shall have all powers with respect to this Agreement as it has
with respect to the Plan. Any interpretation of the Agreement by the Committee
and any decision made by it with respect to the Agreement are final and binding.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Agreement to be duly
executed by its Officers, and the Optionee has hereunto set his hand and seal.

                  UNIFI, INC.    
 
           
 
  BY:    
 
Optionee    
 
           
 
       
 
  (Seal) 

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