EXHIBIT 10.1

DREYER’S GRAND ICE CREAM, INC.

SECOND AMENDMENT

Dated as of September 26, 2001

To

Note Purchase Agreements
Dated June 6, 1996

      Re:   $15,000,000 7.68% Series A Senior Notes Due 2002
$15,000,000 8.06% Series B Senior Notes Due 2006
$20,000,000 8.34% Series C Senior Notes Due 2008

 

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Second Amendment To Note Purchase Agreements

     This Second Amendment dated as of September 26, 2001 (the or this “Second
Amendment”) to the Note Purchase Agreements dated June 6, 1996 is between
Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and each
of the institutions which is a signatory to this Second Amendment (collectively,
the “Noteholders”).

Recitals:

        A.    The Company and each of the Noteholders have heretofore entered
into separate and several Note Purchase Agreements each dated June 6, 1996 and
the First Amendment dated as of November 17, 1998 (collectively, the “Note
Agreements;” capitalized terms used herein shall have the respective meanings
ascribed thereto in the Note Agreements unless herein defined or the context
shall otherwise require). The Company has heretofore issued $50,000,000
aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes consisting of its $15,000,000 7.68%
Series A Senior Notes due 2002, $15,000,000 8.06% Series B Senior Notes due 2006
and $20,000,000 8.34% Series C Senior Notes due 2008 (collectively the “Notes”)
pursuant to the Note Agreements. The Noteholders are, collectively, the holders
of at least 51 % of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes.           B.
   The Company and the Noteholders now desire to amend the Note Agreements in
the respects, but only in the respects, hereinafter set forth.           C.   
All requirements of law have been fully complied with and all other acts and
things necessary to make this Second Amendment a valid, legal and binding
instrument according to its terms for the purposes herein expressed have been
done or performed.

     NOW, THEREFORE, upon the full and complete satisfaction of the conditions
precedent to the effectiveness of this Second Amendment set forth in Section 3.1
hereof, and for good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of
which is hereby acknowledged, the Company and the Noteholders do hereby agree as
follows:

Section 1. Amendments

1.1    Section 8.3 of the Note Agreements shall be and is hereby amended by the
addition of the following sentence:        Notwithstanding the foregoing
provisions of this Section 8.3 the Company shall be permitted to make payments
to the Noteholders on (but not before or after) September 26, 2001 in the
amounts set forth in Section 3.1 (b) of this Second Amendment which payments
shall satisfy in full the Company’s obligations for interest, principal and Make
Whole Amounts in respect of the Payment of the Series A Notes due on June 1,
2002 and the Required Prepayment of the Series B Notes due on June 1, 2002.

 

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Section 2. Representations and Warranties of the Company

2.1.    To induce the Noteholders to execute and deliver this Second Amendment,
the Company represents and warrants to the Noteholders that (which
representations and warranties shall survive the execution and delivery of this
Second Amendment):

        (a)    this Second Amendment has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company and constitutes the legal, valid and binding
obligation, contract and agreement of the Company enforceable against it in
accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws or equitable principles
relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally;           (b)    the Note
Agreements, as amended by this Second Amendment, constitute the legal, valid and
binding obligations, contracts and agreements of the Company enforceable against
it in accordance with their respective terms, except as enforcement may be
limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws or
equitable principles relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally;  
        (c)    the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this
Second Amendment (i) has been duly authorized by all requisite action on the
part of the Company, (ii) does not require the consent or approval of any
governmental or regulatory body or agency, and (iii) will not (A) violate
(1) any provision of law, statute, rule or regulation or its articles of
incorporation or bylaws, (2) any order of any court or any rule, regulation or
order of any other agency or government binding upon it, or (3) any provision of
any material indenture, agreement or other instrument to Which it is a party or
by which its properties or assets are or may be bound, or (B) result in a breach
or constitute (alone or with due notice or lapse or both) a default under any
indenture, agreement or other instrument referred to in clause (iii)(A)(3) of
this Section 2. 1 (c);           (d)    as of the date hereof and after giving
effect to this Second Amendment, no Default or Event of Default has occurred
which is continuing; and           (e)    all the representations and warranties
contained in Section 5 of the Note Agreements are true and correct in all
material respects with the same force and effect as if made by the Company on
and as of the date hereof.

Section 3. Conditions to Effectiveness of This Second Amendment.

3.1.    This Second Amendment shall become effective as of September 26, 2001
upon the satisfaction in full of each of the following conditions:

        (a)    executed counterparts of this Second Amendment, duly executed by
the Company and each Noteholder, shall have been delivered to the Noteholders;

 

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        (b)    each Noteholder shall have received from the Company a wire
transfer in the amount set forth opposite its name below:

         
The Prudential Insurance Company of America:
  $ 4,699,643.46  
Pruco Life Insurance Company:
  $ 580,854.81  
Transamerica Life Insurance and Annuity Company
  $ 2,271,443.86  

        (c)    (i) the representations and warranties of the Company set forth
in Section 2 hereof shall be true, correct and complete on and with respect to
the date hereof and (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing on the date hereof or would result from this Second Amendment
becoming effective in accordance with the terms hereof, and the Noteholders
shall have received an Officer’s Certificate certifying to the effects set forth
in clauses (i) and (ii) above; and

     Upon receipt of all of the foregoing, this Second Amendment shall become
effective.

Section 4. Miscellaneous

4.1.    This Second Amendment shall be construed in connection with and as part
of each of the Note Agreements, and except as modified and expressly amended by
this Second Amendment, all terms, conditions, and covenants contained in the
Note Agreements and the Notes are hereby ratified and shall be and remain in
full force and effect.   4.2.    Any and all notices, requests, certificates and
other instruments executed and delivered after the execution and delivery of
this Second Amendment may refer to the Note Agreements without making specific
reference to this Second Amendment but nevertheless all such references shall
include this Second Amendment unless the context otherwise requires.   4.3.   
The descriptive headings of the various Sections or parts of this Second
Amendment are for convenience only and shall not affect the meaning or
construction of any of the provisions hereof.   4.4.    This Second Amendment
shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, and the rights of the
parties shall be governed by, the law of the State of California excluding
choice-of-law principles of the law of such State which would require the
application of the laws of a jurisdiction other than such State.   4.5    The
execution hereof by you shall constitute a contract between us for the uses and
purposes hereinabove set forth, and this Second Amendment may be executed in any
number of counterparts, each executed counterpart constituting an original, but
all together only one agreement.

 

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Second Amendment to
be duly executed and delivered by their respective officers thereunto duly
authorized as of the date first written above.

     
 
 
DREYER’S GRAND ICE CREAM, INC.

     
 
 
By: /s/ William C. Collett
 
 

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Name: William C. Collett
 
 

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Title: Treasurer
 
 

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      Percentage of Principal of Notes Held   Noteholders:

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            66.7%
  THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY
OF AMERICA

     
 
 
By: /s/ Joseph Y. Alouf
 
 

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Name: Joseph Y. Alouf
 
 

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Title: Senior Vice President
 
 

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              3.3%
 
PRUCO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

     
 
 
By: /s/ Joseph Y. Alouf
 
 

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Name: Joseph Y. Alouf
 
 

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Title: Senior Vice President
 
 

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             30%
  TRANSAMERICA LIFE INSURANCE AND
ANNUITY COMPANY

     
 
 
By: /s/ Bill Henricksen
 
 

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Name: William Henricksen
 
 

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Title: Vice President
 
 

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