EXHIBIT 10.28

KNOWLES ELECTRONICS HOLDINGS, INC.
VALUE ENHANCEMENT INCENTIVE PLAN

ARTICLE XII
ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSE

     Knowles Electronics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation, hereby
establishes this Value Enhancement Incentive Plan for the benefit of certain of
its Employees, and those of its Affiliates. The purpose of the Plan is to
provide a group of key management Employees with a bonus program which motivates
such Employees and rewards such Employees for increasing the enterprise value of
the Employer.

ARTICLE XIII
DEFINITIONS

     The following words and phrases as used herein shall have the following
meanings, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context.
Pronouns shall be interpreted so that the masculine pronoun shall include the
feminine and the singular shall include the plural:

     13.1 “Affiliate” means any corporation, organization, or entity which is
under common control with the Corporation or which is otherwise required to be
aggregated with the Corporation pursuant to paragraphs (b), (c), (m), or (o) of
Code Section 414.

     13.2 “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Corporation.

     13.3 “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

     13.4 “Committee” means the Compensation Committee of the Corporation which
is the administrative body responsible for the administration of the Plan.

     13.5 “Corporation” means Knowles Electronics Holdings, Inc., a Delaware
Corporation and any other business organization which succeeds to its business
and elects to continue the Plan.

     13.6 “Effective Date” means September 1, 2003.

     13.7 “Employee” means any person engaged by an Employer on the Effective
Date, or thereafter, to perform personal services in an employer/employee
relationship who receives compensation from such Employer.

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     13.8 “Employer” means the Corporation, and any corporation, organization,
or entity which is an Affiliate and (i) which adopts the Plan with the consent
of the Corporation; or (ii) which continues the Plan as a successor.

     13.9 “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended from time to time, or any successor thereto.

     13.10 “Initial Public Offering” means an initial public offering and sale
of the Corporation’s equity securities pursuant to an effective registration
statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

     13.11 “Liquidity Event” means the occurrence of:

               (i) an Initial Public Offering; or

               (ii) the Sale of the Corporation.

     13.12 “Participant” means an Employee who has been selected for
participation in the Plan as set forth in Article III.

     13.13 “Participation Agreement” means the acknowledgment signed by each
Participant confirming his participation in the Plan pursuant to its terms.

     13.14 “Plan” means the Knowles Electronics Holdings, Inc. Value Enhancement
Incentive Plan as set forth herein, together with any amendments hereto.

     13.15 “Value Enhancement Bonus” means the bonus payable to each Participant
pursuant to Article VI.

     13.16 “Value Enhancement Bonus Percentage” means each Participant’s
percentage interest in the Value Enhancement Bonus Pool as communicated to such
Participant.

     13.17 “Value Enhancement Bonus Pool” means the pool of funds which the
Corporation agrees to set aside, or cause to be set aside, out of the proceeds
resulting from the occurrence of a Liquidity Event. The value of the Value
Enhancement Bonus Pool shall be calculated pursuant to Addendum A attached
hereto.

     13.18 “Sale of the Corporation” means the sale of the Corporation, other
than an Initial Public Offering, in a single transaction or a series of
transactions, to a purchaser who is not affiliated with the Corporation pursuant
to which such purchaser acquires all or a material portion of the outstanding
capital stock (whether by merger, consolidation, recapitalization,
reorganization, purchase of the outstanding capital stock or otherwise) or all
or a material portion of the consolidated assets of the Corporation.

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ARTICLE XIV
PARTICIPATION AND AWARD OF
VALUE ENHANCEMENT BONUS PERCENTAGE

     14.1 Participation. The Employees eligible to participate in the Plan shall
be selected by the Committee in its sole and absolute discretion. Each Employee
so selected shall be deemed a “Participant”. Each employee who is selected to
participate in the Plan shall be notified thereof by the Committee. Each
Participant shall commence to participate in the Plan as of the Effective Date,
unless specifically provided otherwise in the award of a Value Enhancement Bonus
Percentage to a particular Employee, but only upon signing his Participation
Agreement and the Confidentiality/Non-Competition/Non-Solicitation Agreement
attached hereto as Addendum B.

     14.2 Award of Value Enhancement Bonus Percentage. The Committee shall
determine each Participant’s Value Enhancement Bonus Percentage based upon
guidelines established by the Board, or as otherwise determined in the
discretion of the Committee, and shall notify each Participant of his Value
Enhancement Bonus Percentage. The total of the Value Enhancement Bonus
Percentages awarded under the Plan may, or may not, total one hundred percent
(100%).

ARTICLE XV
BENEFITS UNDER THE PLAN

     15.1 Benefits. The benefit of each Participant under the Plan is equal to
such Participant’s Value Enhancement Bonus Percentage multiplied by the amount
of the Value Enhancement Bonus Pool resulting from the occurrence of a Liquidity
Event. The rights of Participants to any benefits under the Plan shall only come
into existence upon the occurrence of a Liquidity Event which results in an
amount being allocated to the Value Enhancement Bonus Pool pursuant to Addendum
A.

ARTICLE XVI
INELIGIBILITY FOR VALUE ENHANCEMENT BONUSES

     16.1 Ineligibility upon Termination of Employment Prior to Occurrence of a
Liquidity Event. A Participant shall only be entitled to his Value Enhancement
Bonus Percentage of the Value Enhancement Bonus Pool if the Participant is
employed by the Employer on the occurrence of a Liquidity Event. If a
Participant’s employment with the Employer is terminated prior to the occurrence
of a Liquidity Event for any reason whatsoever, including, but not limited to,
the termination of the Participant’s employment by the Employer for any reason,
with or without cause, the voluntary termination of employment by the
Participant for any reason, with or without cause, or the Participant’s death,
disability or retirement, the Participant shall not accrue any benefits under
the Plan and shall not be eligible to receive any benefits from the Plan and all
of the Employer’s obligations to the Participant under the Plan shall terminate
and cease immediately and no payments under the Plan shall be made to the
Participant.

     16.2 Forfeiture for Violation of
Confidentiality/Non-Competition/Non-Solicitation Agreement. Not withstanding the
other provisions of the Plan, if a Participant violates any

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provision of the Confidentiality/Non-Competition/Non-Solicitation Agreement
attached to the Plan as Addendum B (or the provisions of any other agreement
with the Employer or policy of the Employer similar to the Agreement set forth
on Addendum B), as determined in the sole discretion of the Committee, then the
Participant shall not accrue any benefits under the Plan and shall not be
eligible to receive any benefits from the Plan and all of the Participant’s
rights under the Plan shall be forfeited and all of the Employer’s obligations
to the Participant under the Plan shall terminate and cease immediately and no
payments under the Plan shall be made to Participant, and the Employer shall
have the right to recover from the Participant any payment previously made to
the Participant pursuant to the Plan.

ARTICLE XVII
DETERMINATION OF AMOUNT OF VALUE ENHANCEMENT
BONUS AMOUNTS AND PAYMENT OF VALUE ENHANCEMENT BONUSES

     17.1 Determination of amount of Value Enhancement Bonus. Upon the
occurrence of a Liquidity Event, each Participant shall be entitled to receive
from the Employer an amount equal to such Participant’s Value Enhancement Bonus
Percentage multiplied by the value of the Value Enhancement Bonus Pool which
results from the occurrence of such Liquidity Event.

     17.2 Payment of Value Enhancement Bonuses. All Value Enhancement Bonuses
payable under the Plan shall be paid to the Participants in a single sum payment
within thirty (30) days of the occurrence of the Liquidity Event giving rise to
such payment, or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter.

ARTICLE XVIII
VALUE ENHANCEMENT BONUS POOL

     18.1 Value Enhancement Bonus Pool. The amount of the Value Enhancement
Bonus Pool (before any payments from said pool pursuant to the Plan) resulting
from a Liquidity Event shall be determined pursuant to Addendum A attached
hereto. The Value Enhancement Bonus of a Participant shall be equal to the
Participant’s Value Enhancement Bonus Percentage multiplied by the amount of the
Value Enhancement Bonus Pool.

     18.2 Funding from General Assets. All payments from the Plan shall be from
the general assets of the Corporation or an Affiliate. To the extent that any
person acquires a right to receive a payment under the plan, such right shall be
no greater than the right of any unsecured general creditor of the Corporation
or an Affiliate.

     18.3 Bookkeeping Account. The Committee shall establish and maintain a
bookkeeping account on the Corporation’s records to record each Participant’s
potential interest in, and the activity of, the Value Enhancement Bonus Pool.
The establishment of this account is for the record keeping convenience of the
Corporation. Such account shall not result in any amounts being made available
to a Participant or otherwise set aside for a Participant in a funded plan
within the meaning of Part 3 of Title I of ERISA, or otherwise.

     18.4 Trust. The Corporation, in its sole discretion, may establish a
grantor Trust for the purpose of setting aside the benefits accrued under the
Plan; provided, however, such

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amounts shall continue to represent the general assets of the Employer and shall
be subject to the claims of the Employer’s general creditors.

ARTICLE XIX
PLAN ADMINISTRATION

     19.1 The Committee. This Plan shall be administered by the Committee in
accordance with such rules and regulations as the Committee may establish from
time to time, which are consistent with the provisions of this Plan.

     19.2 Authority of the Committee. The Committee shall have full power to
select Employees for participation in the Plan; to determine the Value
Enhancement Bonus Percentage to be awarded to each Participant; to construe and
interpret the Plan and any agreement or instrument entered into hereunder; to
establish, amend, or waive rules and regulations for the Plan’s administration
and to amend the Plan to the extent provided in Article IX. Further, the
Committee shall have full power to make any other determination which may be
necessary or advisable for the Plan’s administration.

     19.3 Decisions Binding. All determinations and decisions made by the
Committee pursuant to the provisions of the Plan shall be final, conclusive, and
binding on all persons, including Employees, Participants and their estates and
beneficiaries. All decisions of the Committee regarding the determination of
eligibility and entitlement to benefits under the Plan, the interpretation and
administration of the Plan, the review of claims under the Plan and any other
decisions of the Committee in carrying out its duties hereunder, shall be made
in the absolute discretion of the Committee.

ARTICLE XX
AMENDMENT

     20.1 Amendment by Committee. The Committee, by a written instrument duly
executed by its members, may (i) make any amendment which may be necessary or
desirable to ensure any compliance of the Plan under the Code or which may be
necessary to comply with the requirements of any applicable law or regulation,
and (ii) may make any other amendment to the Plan which in the Committee’s
discretion is necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of the Plan, as
long as the cost of such amendment to the Employer is not material in the
judgment of the Committee.

ARTICLE XXI
MISCELLANEOUS

     21.1 Unfunded Plan. This Plan is intended to be an unfunded bonus program
described in ERISA Reg. 2510.3-2(c) and therefore is intended to be exempt from
the provisions of Title I of ERISA.

     21.2 Costs of the Plan. All costs of implementing and administering the
Plan shall be borne by the Employer.

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     21.3 Nontransferability. Participants’ rights under the Plan may not be
sold, transferred, assigned, or otherwise alienated or hypothecated. In no event
shall the Employer make any payment under the Plan to any assignee or creditor
of a Participant or to any assignee or creditor of a Participant’s Beneficiary.

     21.4 Successors. All obligations of the Employer under the Plan shall be
binding upon and inure to the benefit of any successor to the Employer, whether
the existence of such successor is the result of a direct or indirect purchase,
merger, consolidation, or otherwise, of all or substantially all of the business
and/or assets of the Employer.

     21.5 Severability. In the event any provision of the Plan shall be held
illegal or invalid for any reason, the illegality or invalidity shall not affect
the remaining parts of the Plan, and the Plan shall be construed and enforced as
if the illegal or invalid provision had not been included.

     21.6 Applicable Law. To the extent not preempted by Federal law, the Plan
shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of
Illinois.

     21.7 Adoption by Affiliates. The Employers adopting the Plan are identified
by their signatures hereon or on a separate adoption page attached hereto. Any
Employer may, with the approval of the Board, adopt the Plan as to the whole of
its business or as to any one or more divisions or classifications of Employees
as permitted by law by resolution of its board of directors. Such Employer shall
give written notice of such adoption to the Board.

     21.8 No Employment Contract. The establishment of the Plan, the creation of
any account, or the payment of any benefit does not create in any Employee,
Participant or other party a right to continuing employment with the Employer or
an Affiliate.

     21.9 Fiscal Records and Reports. The fiscal records of the Plan are to be
maintained on the basis of the Plan Year.

     21.10 Headings. The headings contained in the Plan are for reference only,
and they do not in any manner limit or expand the terms and provisions of the
Plan.

     21.11 No Vested Interest. Except for the right to receive any benefit
properly payable under the Plan, no person shall have any right, title or
interest in or to the assets of the Employer because of the Plan.

     21.12 Limit on Liability. Nothing contained in the Plan shall impose on the
Employer, or any Board members, officers or employees of the Employer any
liability for the payment of benefits under this Plan other than liabilities
resulting from willful neglect or fraud. The liability of the Employer for
benefits shall be limited to the benefits provided under the Plan. Persons
entitled to benefits under the Plan shall look only to the Employer for payment.

     21.13 Taxes. The Employer shall have the right to deduct from all payments
made pursuant to the Plan amounts sufficient to satisfy any Federal, state, and
local tax withholding requirements.

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     21.14 Other Plans. Payments from the Plan shall be included in the
calculation of a Participant’s eligible compensation for purposes of other
employee benefit plans or programs of the Employer.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Knowles Electronics Holdings, Inc., has caused this
Plan to be executed on its behalf and its seal to be hereunto affixed and
attested by its officers hereunto duly authorized, as of December 12, 2003.

              KNOWLES ELECTRONICS HOLDINGS, INC.
      By:   /s/ John J. Zei         John J. Zei
        President and CEO

ADOPTION BY AFFILIATE:

Adopted this 12th day of December, 2003.     

              KNOWLES ELECTRONICS, LLC
      By:   /s/ John J. Zei         John J. Zei
        President and CEO   

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Knowles Electronics Holdings, Inc.
Value Enhancement Incentive Plan

Addendum A

Calculation of Amount of Value Enhancement Bonus Pool

     (1) The amount allocated to the Value Enhancement Bonus Pool (“Pool”) as a
result of the occurrence of a Liquidity Event, shall be determined as follows:

                  Proceeds from Liquidity Event

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  Allocation to Pool

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(1) If the Proceeds from the occurrence of the Liquidity Event do not equal at
least $212,000,000:
  $ 0  
 
           

 
(2) If the Proceeds from the occurrence of the Liquidity Event equal or exceed
$212,000,000, but are less than $275,000,000:
  $ 10,000,000  
 
           

 
(3) If the Proceeds from the occurrence of the Liquidity Event equal
$275,000,000:
  $ 12,650,000  
 
           

 
(4) If the Proceeds from the occurrence of the Liquidity Event exceed
$275,000,000, then in addition to the amount allocated to the Pool under
(3) above, there shall be allocated to the Pool an amount equal to 5% of the
Proceeds received in excess of $275,000,000 (the “Excess”) up to the point where
the Excess is sufficient to
       

(a)   redeem all of the Corporation’s
Preferred Stock outstanding as of the
occurrence of the Liquidity Event
($185,000,000), and   (b)   pay off all accrued but unpaid
dividends on the Corporation’s
Preferred stock outstanding as of the
occurrence of the Liquidity Event.

                 (2) For purposes of this Addendum A, the term “Proceeds” shall
mean all consideration (including, but not limited to, cash, equity, debt or
post-closing proceeds) that is received at or after the closing by the
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                    shareholder or Affiliate of the Corporation as a result of
the occurrence of a Liquidity Event.

                    (3) In the event of a Liquidity Event which results in the
sale of less than all of the Corporation’s capital stock (“Stock”) or assets
(“Assets”), then, for the purposes of the Plan, the dollar amounts set forth in
(a) above shall be multiplied by a fraction, of which (1) in the case of the
sale of Stock, the numerator is the number of shares of Stock sold pursuant to
said Sale and the denominator is the number of shares of Stock outstanding at
the date of said sale; and (2) in the case of the sale of Assets, the numerator
is the value of the Assets sold pursuant to said sale and the denominator is the
total value of the Corporation’s Assets at the date of said sale.

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Knowles Electronics Holdings, Inc.
Value Enhancement Incentive Plan

Addendum B

Confidentiality/Non-Competition/Non-Solicitation Agreement

     As consideration for participation in the Knowles Electronics Holdings,
Inc. Retention Incentive Plan, the undersigned Employee agrees as follows:

     1. Confidentiality and Ownership.

   (a) Information. The Employee acknowledges and agrees that the proprietary
information and data obtained by him while employed by the Corporation or any of
its Affiliates concerning the business or affairs of the Corporation or any
Affiliate (“Confidential Information”) are the property of the Corporation or
such Affiliate. Consequently, the Employee agrees that, except to the extent
required by applicable law, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation or orders of
courts or regulatory authorities, he shall not disclose to any unauthorized
person (which shall not include customers or suppliers to whom information is
provided in the ordinary course in the interests of promoting their business
relationships with the Corporation or any of its Affiliates) or use for his own
account any Confidential Information without the prior written consent of the
Board, unless and to the extent that the aforementioned matters become generally
known to and available for use by the public other than as a result of the
Employee’s acts or omissions to act. The Employee shall deliver to the
Corporation at the termination of the Employee’s employment, or at any other
time the Corporation may request, all memoranda, notes, plans, records, reports,
computer tapes and software and other documents and data (and copies thereof)
relating to the Confidential Information, Work Product (as defined below) and
the business of the Corporation or any Affiliate which he may then possess or
have under his control.

   (b) Inventions and Patents. The Employee agrees that all inventions,
innovations, improvements, developments, methods, designs, analyses, drawings,
reports, and all similar or related information which relates to the
Corporation’s or any of its Affiliates’ actual or anticipated business, research
and development or existing or future products or services and which are
conceived, developed or made by the Employee prior to the date hereof while
employed by the Corporation or any of its Affiliates (“Work Product”) belong to
the Corporation or such Affiliate. The Employee will promptly disclose such Work
Product to the Board and perform all actions reasonably requested by the Board
(whether during or after the Employee’s employment period) to establish and
confirm such ownership (including, without limitation, assignments, consents,
powers of attorney and other instruments).

 

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     2. Non-compete, Non-solicitation.

   (a) Non-Compete. The Employee acknowledges that in the course of his
employment with the Corporation and its Affiliates he has become familiar, and
he will become familiar, with the Corporation’s and its Affiliates’ trade
secrets and with other Confidential Information and that his services have been
and will be of special, unique and extraordinary value to the Corporation and
its Affiliates. Therefore, the Employee agrees that he shall not, during the
time he is employed by the Corporation and its Affiliates and for    months
thereafter, directly or indirectly own, operate, manage, control, participate
in, consult with, advise, engage in services for any competitor of the
Corporation or in any manner engage in any start up of a business (including by
himself or in association with any person, firm, corporate or other business
organization or through any other entity) in competition with the businesses of
the Corporation or its Affiliates as in existence or in process on the date of
termination of the Employee’s employment (the “Businesses”), within any state or
country in which the Corporation or any of its Affiliates makes sales. Nothing
herein shall prohibit the Employee from being a passive owner of not more than
2% of the outstanding stock or equity of an entity which is publicly traded, so
long as the Employee has no active participation in the business of such entity.

   (b) Non-Solicitation. During the time the Employee is employed by the
Corporation and its Affiliates and for    months thereafter, the Employee shall
not directly or indirectly through another entity (i) induce or attempt to
induce any employee of the Corporation or any Affiliate to leave the employ of
the Corporation or such Affiliate, or in any way interfere with the relationship
between the Corporation or any Affiliate and any employee thereof, including
without limitation, inducing or attempting to induce any union, employee or
group of employees to interfere with the business or operations of the
Corporation or its Affiliates, (ii) hire any person who was an employee of the
Corporation or any Affiliate at any time within the six month period prior to
the date the Employee employs or seeks to employ such person, or (iii) induce or
attempt to induce any supplier, distributor, franchisee, licensee or other
business relation of the Corporation or any Affiliate to cease doing business
with the Corporation or such Affiliate, or in any way interfere with the
relationship between any such customer, supplier, distributor, franchisee,
licensee or business relation and the Corporation or any Affiliate.

     3. In the event that the Employee’s employment is terminated by the
Corporation or an Affiliate for a reason described in Section 5.2 of the Plan,
any salary continuation or extension of coverage under the Corporation or
Affiliate’s medical plans otherwise due the Employee shall cease in the event
the Employee breaches any provisions of this Addendum B.

     4. The Employee agrees that: (i) the covenants set forth in this Addendum B
are reasonable in geographical and temporal scope and in all other respects,
(ii) the Corporation and its Affiliates would not have allowed the Employee to
participate in the Plan, but for the covenants of the Employee contained herein,
and (iii) the covenants contained herein have been made in order to induce the
Corporation and its affiliates to allow the Employee to participate in the Plan.

     5. If, at the time of enforcement of this Addendum B, a court shall hold
that the duration, scope or area restrictions stated herein are unreasonable
under circumstances then existing, the parties agree that the maximum duration,
scope or area reasonable under such circumstances shall

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be substituted for the stated duration, scope or area and that the court shall
be allowed to revise the restrictions contained herein to cover the maximum
period, scope and area permitted by law.

     6. The Employee recognizes and affirms that in the event of his breach of
any provision of this Addendum B, money damages would be inadequate and the
Corporation and its Affiliates would have no adequate remedy at law.
Accordingly, the Employee agrees that, in the event of a breach or a threatened
breach by the Employee of any of the provisions of this Addendum B, the
Corporation and its Affiliates, in addition and supplementary to other rights
and remedies existing in its favor, may apply to any court of law or equity or
competent jurisdiction for specific performance and/or injunctive or other
relief in order to enforce or prevent any violation so the provisions hereof
(without posting a bond or other security).

Signed:___________________________________________________________         
_____________________, 2003

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