Exhibit 10.1


 


Execution Copy




 


 





 


 


$30,000,000


 


REVOLVING
CREDIT AGREEMENT


 


among


 


B&G FOODS,
INC.,

as Borrower


 


The Several
Lenders

from Time to Time Parties Hereto,


 


LEHMAN
BROTHERS INC.,

as Arranger


 


THE BANK OF
NEW YORK,

as Documentation Agent


 


FLEET NATIONAL
BANK,

a Bank of America company,

as Syndication Agent


 


And


 


LEHMAN
COMMERCIAL PAPER INC.,

as Administrative Agent


 


Dated as of
October 14, 2004


 




 





 





















 


TABLE
OF CONTENTS


 


	
  SECTION
  1.   DEFINITIONS

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  1.1  
  Defined Terms

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  1.2   Other Definitional Provisions

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION
  2.   AMOUNT AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS; LETTERS OF CREDIT

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.1   Revolving Credit Commitments;
  Swing Line Commitment

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.2   Procedure for Borrowing;
  Swing Line Loans; Refunding of Swing Line Loans

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.3   Repayment of Loans;
  Evidence of Debt

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.4   Commitment Fees, etc

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.5   Termination or Reduction of
  Revolving Credit Commitments

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.6   Optional Prepayments

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.7   Conversion and Continuation
  Options

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.8   Minimum Amounts and Maximum
  Number of Eurodollar Tranches

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.9   Interest Rates and Payment
  Dates

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.10   Computation of Interest
  and Fees

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.11   Inability to Determine
  Interest Rate

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.12   Pro Rata Treatment and Payments

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.13   Requirements of Law

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.14   Taxes

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.15   Indemnity

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.16  
  Illegality

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.17   Change of Lending Office

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.18   Substitution of Lenders

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.19  
  L/C Commitment

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.20   Procedure for Issuance of
  Letter of Credit

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.21   Fees and Other Charges

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.22   L/C Participations

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.23   Reimbursement Obligation
  of the Borrower

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.24   Obligations Absolute

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.25   Letter of Credit Payments

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  2.26  
  Applications

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION
  3.   REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.1   Financial Condition

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.2   No Change

  	
   

  



 


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  3.3   Corporate Existence;
  Compliance with Law

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.4   Corporate Power;
  Authorization; Enforceable Obligations

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.5  
  No Legal Bar

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.6   No Material Litigation

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.7   No Default

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.8   Ownership of Property; Liens

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.9   Intellectual Property

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.10   Taxes

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.11   Federal Regulations

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.12  
  Labor Matters

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.13   ERISA

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.14   Investment Company Act;
  Other Regulations

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.15  
  Subsidiaries

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.16  
  Use of Proceeds

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.17   Environmental Matters

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.18   Accuracy of Information, etc

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.19   Security Documents

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.20  
  Solvency

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  3.21   Senior Indebtedness

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 4.   CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  4.1   Conditions to Initial
  Extension of Credit

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  4.2   Conditions to Each
  Extension of Credit

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 5.   AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  5.1   Financial Statements

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  5.2   Certificates; Other Information

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  5.3   Payment of Obligations

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  5.4   Conduct of Business and
  Maintenance of Existence, etc

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  5.5   Maintenance of Property;
  Insurance

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  5.6   Inspection of Property;
  Books and Records; Discussions

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  5.7  
  Notices

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  5.8   Environmental Laws

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  5.9   Additional Collateral, etc

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  5.10   Further Assurances

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 6.   NEGATIVE COVENANTS

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  6.1   Financial Condition Covenants

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  6.2   Limitation on Indebtedness

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  6.3   Limitation on Liens

  	
   

  



 


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  6.4   Limitation on Fundamental
  Changes

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  6.5   Limitation on Disposition
  of Property

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  6.6   Limitation on Restricted
  Payments

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  6.7   Limitation on Capital
  Expenditures

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  6.8   Limitation on Investments

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  6.9   Limitation on Optional
  Payments and Modifications of Debt Instruments, etc

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  6.10   Limitation on Transactions
  with Affiliates

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  6.11   Limitation on Sales and
  Leasebacks

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  6.12   Limitation on Changes in
  Fiscal Periods

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  6.13   Limitation on Negative
  Pledge Clauses

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  6.14   Limitation on Restrictions
  on Subsidiary Distributions

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  6.15   Limitation on Lines of Business

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 7.   EVENTS OF DEFAULT

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 8.   THE ADMINISTRATIVE
  AGENT; THE ARRANGER; THE OTHER AGENTS

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  8.1  
  Appointment

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  8.2   Delegation of Duties

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  8.3   Exculpatory Provisions

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  8.4   Reliance by Administrative
  Agent

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  8.5  
  Notice of Default

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  8.6   Non-Reliance on
  Administrative Agent and Other Lenders

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  8.7  
  Indemnification

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  8.8   Administrative Agent in Its
  Individual Capacity

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  8.9   Successor Administrative Agent

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  8.10   Authorization to Release
  Liens; Other Actions Relating to Security Documents

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  8.11   The Arranger; the Other Agents

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SECTION 9.   MISCELLANEOUS

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.1   Amendments and Waivers

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.2  
  Notices

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.3   No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.4   Survival of Representations
  and Warranties

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.5   Payment of Expenses

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.6   Successors and Assigns;
  Participations and Assignments

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.7   Adjustments; Set-off

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.8  
  Counterparts

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.9  
  Severability

  	
   

  



 


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  9.10  
  Integration

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.11  
  GOVERNING LAW

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.12   Submission To
  Jurisdiction; Waivers

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.13  
  Acknowledgments

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.14  
  Confidentiality

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.15   Release of Collateral
  Security and Guarantee Obligations

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.16   Accounting Changes

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.17   Delivery of Lender Addenda

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  9.18   WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL

  	
   

  



 


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  ANNEXES:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
  A

  	
  Pricing Grid

  	
   

  
	
  B

  	
  Existing
  Letters of Credit

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SCHEDULES:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  3.4

  	
  Consents, Authorizations, Filings and
  Notices

  	
   

  
	
  3.9

  	
  Intellectual Property Claims

  	
   

  
	
  3.15

  	
  Subsidiaries

  	
   

  
	
  3.19(a)-1

  	
  UCC Filing Jurisdictions

  	
   

  
	
  3.19(a)-2

  	
  UCC Financing Statements to Remain on File

  	
   

  
	
  6.2(d)

  	
  Existing Indebtedness

  	
   

  
	
  6.3(f)

  	
  Existing
  Liens

  	
   

  
	
  6.10

  	
  Transactions
  with Affiliates

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  EXHIBITS:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  A

  	
  Form of Guarantee and Collateral Agreement

  	
   

  
	
  B

  	
  Form of Compliance Certificate

  	
   

  
	
  C

  	
  Form of Closing Certificate

  	
   

  
	
  E

  	
  Form of Assignment and Acceptance

  	
   

  
	
  F

  	
  Form of Legal Opinion of Dechert LLP

  	
   

  
	
  G-1

  	
  Form of Revolving Credit Note

  	
   

  
	
  G-2

  	
  Form of Swing Line Note

  	
   

  
	
  H

  	
  Form of Exemption Certificate

  	
   

  
	
  I

  	
  Form of
  Lender Addendum

  	
   

  
				



 


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REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of
October 14, 2004, among B&G FOODS, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”),
the several banks and other financial institutions or entities from time to
time parties to this Agreement (the “Lenders”), LEHMAN BROTHERS INC., as
sole advisor, sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner (in such capacity, the “Arranger”),
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Documentation Agent (in such capacity, the “Documentation
Agent”), FLEET NATIONAL BANK, a Bank of America company, as Syndication
Agent (in such capacity, the “Syndication Agent”), and LEHMAN COMMERCIAL
PAPER INC., as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative
Agent”).


 


W
I  T  N  E  S  S  E  T  H:


 


WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the
Lenders make a revolving credit facility available to the Borrower for general
corporate purposes of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (as defined below) in
the ordinary course of business; and


 


WHEREAS, the Lenders are willing to make such
revolving credit facility available upon and subject to the terms and
conditions herein set forth;


 


NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the above
premises and the agreements hereinafter set forth, the parties hereto hereby
agree as follows:


 


SECTION 1.  DEFINITIONS


 


1.1   Defined Terms.  As used in this Agreement, the terms listed
in this Section 1.1 shall have the respective meanings set forth in this
Section 1.1.


 


“Acquired
Property”: as defined in the definition of Consolidated EBITDA.


 


“Adjustment
Date”:  as defined in the Pricing
Grid.


 


“Administrative
Agent”:  as defined in the preamble
hereto.


 


“Affiliate”:  as to any Person, any other Person which,
directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common
control with, such Person.  For purposes
of this definition, “control” of a Person means the power, directly or
indirectly, either to (a) vote 10% or more of the securities having ordinary
voting power for the election of directors (or persons performing similar
functions) of such Person or (b) direct or cause the direction of the
management and policies of such Person, whether by contract or otherwise.


 


“Agents”:  the collective reference to the
Administrative Agent, the Other Agents and, for purposes of Section 8, each
Issuing Lender.


 


“Aggregate
Exposure”:  with respect to any
Lender at any time, an amount equal to the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit
Commitment then in effect or, if the Revolving Credit Commitments have been
terminated, the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Extensions of Credit then
outstanding.


 


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“Aggregate
Exposure Percentage”:  with respect
to any Lender at any time, the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of such Lender’s
Aggregate Exposure at such time to the sum of the Aggregate Exposures of all
Lenders at such time.


 


“Agreement”:  this Revolving Credit Agreement, as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.


 


“Alternative Currency”:  any currency which as of the time of any
issuance or renewal, as applicable, of a Permitted Foreign Currency Letter of
Credit is freely tradeable and convertible into Dollars and has been approved
as an “Alternative Currency” for the purposes of this Agreement by the Foreign
Currency L/C Issuing Lender.


 


“Applicable
Margin”:  2.00% in the case of Base
Rate Loans and 3.00% in the case of Eurodollar Loans, provided that after the
first Adjustment Date occurring after the completion of two fiscal quarters of
the Borrower after the Closing Date, the Applicable Margin will be determined
pursuant to the Pricing Grid.


 


“Application”:  an application, in such form as the
applicable Issuing Lender may specify from time to time, requesting such
Issuing Lender to open a Letter of Credit.


 


“Approved
Fund”:  with respect to any Lender
that is a fund that invests in commercial loans, any other fund that invests in
commercial loans and is managed or advised by the same investment advisor as such
Lender or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor.


 


“Arranger”:  as defined in the preamble hereto.


 


“Assignee”:  as defined in Section 9.6(c).


 


“Assignment
and Acceptance”:  each Assignment and
Acceptance, substantially in the form of Exhibit E, executed and delivered
pursuant to Section 9.6.


 


“Assignor”:  as defined in Section 9.6(c).


 


“Attributable
Debt”:  in respect of a sale and
leaseback transaction, at the time of determination, the present value of the
obligation of the lessee for net rental payments during the remaining term of
the lease included in such sale and leaseback transaction including any period
for which such lease has been extended or may, at the option of the lessor, be
extended.  Such present value shall be
calculated using a discount rate equal to the rate of interest implicit in such
transaction, determined in accordance with GAAP; provided, however,
that if such sale and leaseback transaction results in a Capital Lease Obligation,
the amount of Attributable Debt represented thereby will be determined in
accordance with the definition of “Capital Lease Obligations.”


 


“Available
Revolving Credit Commitment”:  as to
any Lender at any time, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (a) such
Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect over (b) such Lender’s
Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding;


 


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provided,
that in calculating any Lender’s Revolving Extensions of Credit for the purpose
of determining such Lender’s Available Revolving Credit Commitment pursuant to
Section 2.4(a), the aggregate principal amount of Swing Line Loans then
outstanding shall be deemed to be zero.


 


“Base Rate”:  for any day, a rate per annum (rounded
upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to the greater of (a) the
Prime Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in
effect on such day plus 1⁄2 of 1%.  For
purposes hereof:  “Prime Rate”
shall mean the prime lending rate as set forth on the British Banking
Association Telerate Page 5 (or such other comparable page as may, in the
opinion of the Administrative Agent, replace such page for the purpose of
displaying such rate), as in effect from time to time.  Any change in the Base Rate due to a change
in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be effective as of
the opening of business on the effective day of such change in the Prime Rate
or the Federal Funds Effective Rate, respectively.


 


“Base Rate
Loans”:  Loans for which the
applicable rate of interest is based upon the Base Rate.


 


“Benefited
Lender”:  as defined in Section 9.7.


 


“Board”:  the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System of the United States (or any successor).


 


“Borrower”:  as defined in the preamble hereto.


 


“Borrowing
Date”:  any Business Day specified by
the Borrower as a date on which the Borrower requests the relevant Lenders to
make Loans hereunder.


 


“Business
Day”:  (i) for all purposes other
than as covered by clause (ii) below, a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or
other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required
by law to close and (ii) with respect to all notices and determinations in
connection with, and payments of principal and interest on, Eurodollar Loans,
any day which is a Business Day described in clause (i) and which is also a day
for trading by and between banks in Dollar deposits in the interbank eurodollar
market.


 


“Calculation Date”:  with respect to each Permitted Foreign
Currency Letter of Credit, during the period that such Permitted Foreign
Currency Letter of Credit is outstanding (i) the last Business Day of each
fiscal quarter, (ii) the date on which such Permitted Foreign Currency Letter
of Credit is to be issued or renewed by the Foreign Currency L/C Issuing
Lender, and (iii) the date on which any draft presented under such Permitted
Foreign Currency Letter of Credit is paid by the Foreign Currency L/C Issuing
Lender.


 


 “Capital Expenditures”:  for any period, with respect to any Person,
the aggregate of all expenditures by such Person and its Subsidiaries for the
acquisition or leasing (pursuant to a capital lease) of fixed or capital assets
or additions to equipment (including


 


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replacements,
capitalized repairs and improvements during such period) which should be
capitalized under GAAP on a consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its
Subsidiaries.


 


“Capital
Lease Obligations”:  as to any
Person, the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any
lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal
property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be
classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such
Person under GAAP, and, for the purposes of this Agreement, the amount of such
obligations at any time shall be the capitalized amount thereof at such time
determined in accordance with GAAP.


 


“Capital
Stock”:  any and all shares, interests,
participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of a
corporation (including corporate stock represented by the EIS and corporate
stock outstanding upon the separation of the EIS into the securities
represented thereby), any and all equivalent ownership interests in a Person
(other than a corporation) and any and all warrants, rights or options to
purchase any of the foregoing, but excluding any debt securities convertible
into, or exchangeable for, any of the foregoing.


 


“Cash
Equivalents”:  (a) marketable direct
obligations issued by, or unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States
government or issued by any agency thereof and backed by the full faith and
credit of the United States, in each case maturing within one year from the
date of acquisition; (b) certificates of deposit, time deposits, eurodollar
time deposits or overnight bank deposits having maturities of six months or
less from the date of acquisition issued by any Lender or by any commercial
bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any state
thereof having combined capital and surplus of not less than $500,000,000; (c)
commercial paper of an issuer rated at least A-2 by S&P or P-2 by Moody’s,
or carrying an equivalent rating by a nationally recognized rating agency, if
both of the two named rating agencies cease publishing ratings of commercial
paper issuers generally, and maturing within six months from the date of
acquisition; (d) repurchase obligations of any Lender or of any commercial bank
satisfying the requirements of clause (b) of this definition, having a term of
not more than 30 days with respect to securities issued or fully guaranteed or
insured by the United States government; (e) securities with maturities of one
year or less from the date of acquisition issued or fully guaranteed by any
state, commonwealth or territory of the United States, by any political
subdivision or taxing authority of any such state, commonwealth or territory or
by any foreign government, the securities of which state, commonwealth,
territory, political subdivision, taxing authority or foreign government (as
the case may be) are rated at least A by S&P or A by Moody’s; (f)
securities with maturities of six months or less from the date of acquisition
backed by standby letters of credit issued by any Lender or any commercial bank
satisfying the requirements of clause (b) of this definition; and (g) shares of
money market mutual or similar funds which invest exclusively in assets
satisfying the requirements of clauses (a) through (f) of this definition.


 


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“Closing
Date”: the date on which the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.1
shall have been satisfied or waived.


 


“Code”:  the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
from time to time.


 


“Collateral”:  all Property of the Loan Parties, now owned
or hereafter acquired, upon which a Lien is purported to be created by any
Security Document.


 


“Commitment
Fee Rate”:  1⁄2 of 1% per annum.


 


“Commonly
Controlled Entity”:  an entity,
whether or not incorporated, which is under common control with the Borrower
within the meaning of Section 4001 of ERISA or is part of a group that includes
the Borrower and that is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the
Code.


 


“Compliance
Certificate”:  a certificate duly
executed by a Responsible Officer substantially in the form of Exhibit B.


 


“Conduit
Financing Arrangement”:  as defined
in Section 2.14(d).


 


“Conduit
Lender”:  as defined in Section
2.14(d).


 


“Consolidated
Cash Flow”:  with respect to any
specified Person for any period, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for
such period plus, without duplication, the sum of (a) an amount equal to
any extraordinary loss plus any net loss realized by such Person or any of its
Subsidiaries in connection with an asset sale, to the extent such losses were
deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income, (b) provision for taxes
based on income or profits of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period,
to the extent that such provision for taxes was deducted in computing such
Consolidated Net Income, (c) the Consolidated Fixed Charges of such Person and
its Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent that such Consolidated Fixed
Charges were deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income, (d)
depreciation, amortization (including amortization of goodwill and other
intangibles but excluding amortization of prepaid cash expenses that were paid
in a prior period and including, without limitation, any Mark-to Market
Adjustment) and other non-cash expenses (excluding any such non-cash expense to
the extent that it represents an accrual of or reserve for cash expenses in any
future period or amortization of a prepaid cash expense that was paid in a
prior period) of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period to the extent
that such depreciation, amortization and other non-cash expenses were deducted
in computing such Consolidated Net Income, (e) if such period includes the
quarter ended September 27, 2003, $2,200,000, (f) fees and expenses related to
issuance of the Senior Notes, the EIS, the Senior Subordinated Notes and the
other transactions contemplated herein not to exceed $12,000,000 in the
aggregate actually incurred within three months of the Closing Date, (g)
charges incurred within 180 days of the Closing Date attributable to write-off
of bond discount and the write-off of deferred financing fees and costs,
relating to the pay-off of existing Indebtedness in an amount not to exceed
$18,200,000 and minus non-cash items increasing such Consolidated Net
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any Mark-to
Market Adjustment), other than the accrual of revenue in the ordinary course of
business, in each case, on a consolidated basis and determined in accordance
with GAAP.


 


“Consolidated
EBITDA”:  of any Person for any
period, Consolidated Net Income of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such
period plus, without duplication and to the extent reflected as a charge
in the statement of such Consolidated Net Income for such period, the sum of
(a) income tax expense, (b) Consolidated Interest Expense of such Person and
its Subsidiaries, amortization or writeoff of debt discount and debt issuance
costs and commissions, discounts and other fees and charges associated with
Indebtedness, (c) depreciation and amortization expense, (d) amortization of
intangibles (including, but not limited to, goodwill) and organization costs,
(e) any extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring expenses or losses (including,
whether or not otherwise includable as a separate item in the statement of such
Consolidated Net Income for such period, losses on sales of assets outside of
the ordinary course of business), (f) any other non-cash charges, (g) if such
period includes the quarter ended September 27, 2003, $2,200,000, (h) fees and
expenses related to issuance of the Senior Notes, the EIS, the Senior
Subordinated Notes and the other transactions contemplated herein not to exceed
$12,000,000 in the aggregate actually incurred within three months of the
Closing Date, and (i) charges incurred within 180 days of the Closing Date
attributable to the write-off of bond discount and the write-off of deferred
financing fees and costs, relating to the pay-off of existing Indebtedness in
an amount not to exceed $18,200,000, and minus, to the extent included
in the statement of such Consolidated Net Income for such period, the sum of
(a) interest income (except to the extent deducted in determining Consolidated
Interest Expense), (b) any extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring income or
gains (including, whether or not otherwise includable as a separate item in the
statement of such Consolidated Net Income for such period, gains on the sales
of assets outside of the ordinary course of business), and (c) any other
non-cash income, all as determined on a consolidated basis; provided,
that for purposes of calculating Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries for any period, (i) the Consolidated EBITDA of any Person or
assets constituting a division or a line of business (such person or assets an “Acquired
Property”) acquired by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries during such period
shall be included on a pro  forma basis for such period (assuming
the consummation of such acquisition and the incurrence or assumption of any
Indebtedness in connection therewith occurred on the first day of such period)
if the balance sheet of such Acquired Property as at the end of the period preceding
the acquisition of such Acquired Property and the related consolidated
statements of income and stockholders’ equity and of cash flows for the period
in respect of which Consolidated EBITDA is to be calculated (x) have been
previously provided to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and
(y) either (1) have been reported on without a qualification arising out
of the scope of the audit by independent certified public accountants of
nationally recognized standing or (2) have been found acceptable by the
Administrative Agent, (ii) the Consolidated EBITDA of any assets Disposed of by
the Borrower or its Subsidiaries during such period shall be excluded for such
period (assuming the consummation of such Disposition and the repayment of any
Indebtedness in connection therewith occurred on the first day of such period)
and (iii) in calculating the amount of the Consolidated EBITDA of any Acquired
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foregoing
clause (i) of this proviso, the pro forma expenses of the
Acquired Property for the relevant period shall be determined in accordance
with the Borrower’s customary practices and consistent with the methodology
used for acquisitions consummated in the fiscal year prior to the Closing Date.


 


“Consolidated
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio”:  with
respect to any specified Person for any period, the ratio of the Consolidated
Cash Flow of such Person for such period to the Consolidated Fixed Charges of
such Person for such period.  In the
event that the specified Person or any of its Subsidiaries incurs, assumes,
guarantees, repays, repurchases, redeems, defeases or otherwise discharges any
Indebtedness (other than ordinary working capital borrowings) or issues,
repurchases or redeems preferred stock subsequent to the commencement of the
period for which the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is being
calculated and on or prior to the date on which the event for which the
calculation of the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is made, then the
Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio will be calculated giving pro forma
effect to such incurrence, assumption, guarantee, repayment, repurchase,
redemption, defeasance or other discharge of Indebtedness, or such issuance,
repurchase or redemption of preferred stock, and the use of the proceeds
therefrom, as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable
four-quarter reference period.  In
addition, for purposes of calculating the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage
Ratio (a) acquisitions that have been made by the specified Person or any of
its Subsidiaries, including through mergers or consolidations, or any Person or
any of its Subsidiaries acquired by the specified Person or any of its Subsidiaries,
and including any related financing transactions and including increases in
ownership of Subsidiaries, during the four-quarter reference period or
subsequent to such reference period and on or prior to the calculation date
will be given pro forma effect as if they had occurred on the first day of the
four-quarter reference period, and Consolidated Cash Flow for such reference
period will be calculated on a pro forma basis in accordance with Regulation
S-X under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (b) the Consolidated Cash
Flow attributable to discontinued operations, as determined in accordance with
GAAP, and operations or businesses (and ownership interests therein) disposed
of prior to the calculation date, will be excluded, (c) the Consolidated Fixed
Charges attributable to discontinued operations, as determined in accordance
with GAAP, and operations or businesses (and ownership interests therein)
disposed of prior to the calculation date, will be excluded, but only to the
extent that the obligations giving rise to such Consolidated Fixed Charges will
not be obligations of the specified Person or any of its Subsidiaries following
the calculation date, (d) any Person that is a Subsidiary on the calculation
date will be deemed to have been a Subsidiary at all times during such
four-quarter period, (e) any Person that is not a Subsidiary on the calculation
date will be deemed not to have been a Subsidiary at any time during such
four-quarter period and (f) if any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest,
the interest expense on such Indebtedness will be calculated as if the rate in
effect on the calculation date had been the applicable rate for the entire
period (taking into account any Hedging Obligation applicable to such
Indebtedness if such Hedging Obligation has a remaining term as at the
calculation date in excess of twelve months).


 


“Consolidated
Fixed Charges”:  with respect to any
specified Person for any period, the sum, without duplication, of (a) the
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Person and its
Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued, including, without
limitation, amortization of debt issuance costs and original issue discount,
non-cash interest payments, the interest component of any deferred payment
obligations, the interest component of all payments associated with Capital
Lease Obligations, imputed interest with respect to Attributable Debt,
commissions, discounts and other fees and charges incurred in respect of letter
of credit or bankers’ acceptance financings, and net of the effect of all
payments made or received pursuant to Hedging Obligations in respect of
interest rates, plus (b) the consolidated interest expense of such
Person and its Subsidiaries that was capitalized during such period, plus
(c) any interest on Indebtedness of another Person that is guaranteed by such
Person or one of its Subsidiaries or secured by a Lien on assets of such Person
or one of its Subsidiaries, whether or not such guarantee or Lien is called
upon, plus (d) the product of (1) all dividends, whether paid or accrued
and whether or not in cash, on any series of preferred stock of such Person or
any of its Subsidiaries, other than dividends on Capital Stock payable solely
in Capital Stock of the Borrower (other than Disqualified Stock) or to the
Borrower or a Subsidiary of the Borrower, times (2) a fraction, the
numerator of which is one and the denominator of which is one minus the then
current combined federal, state and local statutory tax rate of such Person,
expressed as a decimal, in each case, determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP, minus (e) charges attributable to the
amortization of expenses relating to the issuance of the Senior Notes, the EIS,
the Senior Subordinated Notes and the other transactions contemplated herein,
incurred within 180 days of the Closing Date, minus (f) charges
incurred within 180 days of the Closing Date attributable to the write-off of
bond discount and the write-off of deferred financing fees and costs relating
to the pay-off of existing Indebtedness in an amount not to exceed $18,200,000.


 


“Consolidated
Interest Coverage Ratio”:  for any
period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries for such period to (b) Consolidated Interest Expense of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period payable in cash.


 


“Consolidated
Interest Expense”:  of any Person for
any period, (a) total interest expense (including that attributable to Capital
Lease Obligations) of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period with
respect to all outstanding Indebtedness of such Person and its Subsidiaries
(including, without limitation, all commissions, discounts and other fees and
charges owed by such Person with respect to letters of credit and bankers’
acceptance financing and net costs of such Person under Hedge Agreements in
respect of interest rates to the extent such net costs are allocable to such
period in accordance with GAAP, but excluding any deferred financing costs
relating to the incurrence of any Indebtedness) minus (b) the total interest
income of such Person for such period, determined in accordance with GAAP; provided
that (i) when the term “Consolidated Interest Expense” is used in the
calculation of the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio for any period,
Consolidated Interest Expense shall include, on a pro  forma
basis, interest expense in respect of any Indebtedness incurred in connection
with any acquisition of an Acquired Property during such period (assuming
incurrence of such Indebtedness at the beginning of such period) and shall
exclude, on a pro  forma basis, interest expense in respect of any
Indebtedness repaid in connection with a Disposition during such period
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(ii) (a) consolidated
interest expense for the four quarter period ending December 31, 2004
shall equal consolidated interest expense for the fiscal quarter ending
December 31, 2004 multiplied by 4, (b) consolidated interest
expense for the four quarter period ending March 31, 2005 shall equal the sum
of consolidated interest expense for the fiscal quarters ending December 31,
2004 and March 31, 2005 multiplied by 2 and (c) consolidated interest
expense for the four quarter period ending June 30, 2005 shall equal the sum of
consolidated interest expense for the fiscal quarters ending December 31, 2004,
March 31, 2005 and June 30, 2005 multiplied by 4/3.  Consolidated Interest Expense shall be
deemed to include all amounts characterized as of the Closing Date as interest
in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the Closing Date, whether or not such
payment is characterized as interest under GAAP thereafter.


 


“Consolidated
Leverage Ratio”:  as at the last day
of any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters, the ratio of (a)
Consolidated Total Debt on such day to (b) Consolidated EBITDA of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period.


 


“Consolidated
Net Income”:  of any Person for any
period, the consolidated net income (or loss) of such Person and its
Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance
with GAAP; provided, that in calculating Consolidated Net Income of the
Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries for any period, there shall be
excluded (a) the income (or deficit) of any Person accrued prior to the date it
becomes a Subsidiary or is merged into or consolidated with the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries, (b) the income (or deficit) of any Person (other than a
Subsidiary) in which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has an ownership
interest, except to the extent that any such income is actually received by the
Borrower or such Subsidiary in the form of dividends or similar distributions
and (c) the undistributed earnings of any Subsidiary to the extent that the
declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Subsidiary
is not at the time permitted by the terms of any Contractual Obligation (other
than under any Loan Document) or Requirement of Law applicable to such
Subsidiary.


 


“Consolidated
Senior Debt”:  all Consolidated Total
Debt other than the Senior Subordinated Notes.


 


“Consolidated
Senior Leverage Ratio”:  as of the
last day of any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters, the ratio of (a)
Consolidated Senior Debt on such day to (b) Consolidated EBITDA of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period.


 


“Consolidated
Total Debt”:  at any date, the
aggregate principal amount of all Funded Debt of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries at such date, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance
with GAAP.


 


“Continuing
Directors”:  the directors of the
Borrower on the Closing Date, after giving effect to the transactions
contemplated hereby, and each other director of the Borrower, if, in each case,
such other director’s nomination for election to the board of directors of the
Borrower is recommended by at least 50% of the then Continuing Directors.


 


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“Contractual
Obligation”:  as to any Person, any
provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument
or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of
its Property is bound.


 


“Control
Investment Affiliate”:  as to any
Person, any other Person that (a) directly or indirectly, is in control of, is
controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person and (b) is
organized by such Person primarily for the purpose of making equity or debt
investments in one or more companies. 
For purposes of this definition, “control” of a Person means the power,
directly or indirectly, to direct or cause the direction of the management and
policies of such Person whether by contract or otherwise.


 


“Default”:  any of the events specified in
Section 7, whether or not any requirement for the giving of notice, the
lapse of time, or both, has been satisfied.


 


“Derivatives
Counterparty”:  as defined in Section
6.6.


 


“Disposition”:  with respect to any Property, any sale,
lease, sale and leaseback, assignment, conveyance, transfer or other
disposition thereof; and the terms “Dispose” and “Disposed of”
shall have correlative meanings.


 


“Disqualified
Stock”:  any Capital Stock that, by
its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible, or for
which it is exchangeable, in each case, at the option of the holder of such
Capital Stock), or upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily
redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or redeemable
at the option of the holder of such Capital Stock, in whole or in part, on or
prior to the date that is 91 days after the date on which the Senior Notes
mature.  Notwithstanding the preceding
sentence, any Capital Stock that would constitute Disqualified Stock solely
because the holders of such Capital Stock have the right to require the
Borrower to repurchase such Capital Stock upon the occurrence of a change of
control or an asset sale will not constitute Disqualified Stock if the terms of
such Capital Stock provide that the Borrower may not repurchase or redeem any
such Capital Stock pursuant to such provisions unless such repurchase or
redemption is permitted under Section 6.6.


 


“Documentation
Agent”:  as defined in the preamble
hereto.


 


“Dollar Equivalent”:  at any time, as to any amount denominated in
an Alternative Currency, the equivalent amount in Dollars as determined on the
basis of the Exchange Rate for the purchase of Dollars with such Alternative
Currency as of the most recent Calculation Date.


 


“Dollars”
and “$”:  lawful currency of the
United States of America.


 


“Domestic
Subsidiary”:  any Subsidiary of the
Borrower organized under the laws of any jurisdiction within the United States
of America.


 


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“EIS”:
enhanced income securities which are the units of the Borrower comprised of
Senior Subordinated Notes and common stock, to be issued by the Borrower on the
Closing Date or thereafter pursuant to the terms of the Securities Holders
Agreement.


 


“EIS
Documentation”: the Securities Holders Agreement, the Senior Subordinated
Note Indenture and all other instruments, agreements and other documentation
entered into by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries in connection with the
issuance of the EIS, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.


 


“Environmental
Laws”:  any and all laws, rules,
orders, regulations, statutes, ordinances, enforceable guidelines, codes,
decrees, or other legally enforceable requirements (including, without
limitation, common law) of any international authority, foreign government, the
United States, or any state, local, municipal or other governmental authority,
regulating, relating to or imposing liability or standards of conduct
concerning protection of the environment or of human health, or employee health
and safety, as has been, is now, or may at any time hereafter be, in effect.


 


“Environmental
Permits”:  any and all permits,
licenses, approvals, registrations, notifications, exemptions and other
authorizations required under any Environmental Law.


 


“ERISA”:  the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974, as amended from time to time.


 


“Eurocurrency
Reserve Requirements”:  for any day,
the aggregate (without duplication) of the maximum rates (expressed as a
decimal fraction) of reserve requirements in effect on such day (including,
without limitation, basic, supplemental, marginal and emergency reserves) under
any regulations of the Board or other Governmental Authority having
jurisdiction with respect thereto dealing with reserve requirements prescribed
for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities”
in Regulation D of the Board) maintained by a member bank of the Federal
Reserve System.


 


“Eurodollar
Base Rate”:  with respect to each day
during each Interest Period pertaining to a Eurodollar Loan, the rate per annum
determined on the basis of the rate for deposits in Dollars for a period equal
to such Interest Period commencing on the first day of such Interest Period
appearing on Page 3750 of the Telerate screen as of 11:00 A.M., London time,
two Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period.  In the event that such rate does not appear
on Page 3750 of the Telerate screen (or otherwise on such screen), the “Eurodollar
Base Rate” for purposes of this definition shall be determined by reference
to such other comparable publicly available service for displaying eurodollar
rates as may be selected by the Administrative Agent.


 


“Eurodollar
Loans”:  Revolving Credit Loans the
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“Eurodollar
Rate”:  with respect to each day
during each Interest Period pertaining to a Eurodollar Loan, a rate per annum
determined for such day in accordance with the following formula (rounded
upward to the nearest 1/100th of 1%):


 




	
  Eurodollar
  Base Rate

  
	
  1.00- Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements

  






 


“Eurodollar
Tranche”:  the collective reference
to Eurodollar Loans the then current Interest Periods with respect to all of
which begin on the same date and end on the same later date (whether or not
such Eurodollar Loans shall originally have been made on the same day).


 


“Event of
Default”:  any of the events
specified in Section 7, provided that any requirement for the giving of
notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been satisfied.


 


“Exchange Act”: the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.


 


“Exchange Rate”:  on any day, with respect to any Alternative
Currency, the spot rate at which Dollars are offered on such day by the Foreign
Currency L/C Issuing Lender in New York, New York (or such other location
selected by the Foreign Currency L/C Issuing Lender) for such Alternative
Currency.


 


“Excluded
Foreign Subsidiaries”:  any Foreign
Subsidiary in respect of which the pledge of all of the Capital Stock of such
Subsidiary as Collateral would, in the good faith judgment of the Borrower,
result in adverse tax consequences to the Borrower.


 


“Existing
Credit Agreement”:  the Amended and
Restated Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of August 21, 2003, among B&G
Foods Holdings Corp., B&G Foods, Inc., the several banks and other
financial institutions or entities from time to time parties thereto, Lehman
Brothers Inc., as sole advisor, sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner, Lehman
Commercial Paper Inc., as administrative agent, each of The Bank of New York
and CIT Lending Services Corporation, as co-documentation agent, and Fleet
National Bank, as syndication agent.


 


“Existing
Issuing Lender”:  The Bank of New
York, as issuer of the Existing Letters of Credit.


 


“Existing
Letters of Credit”: the letters of credit described in Annex B.


 


“Fair
Market Value”: the value that would be paid by a willing buyer to an
unaffiliated willing seller in a transaction not involving distress or
necessity of either party, determined in good faith by the board of directors
of the Borrower.


 


“Federal
Funds Effective Rate”:  for any day,
the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with
members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers, as
published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of
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which is a
Business Day, the average of the quotations for the day of such transactions
received by the Administrative Agent from three federal funds brokers of
recognized standing selected by it.


 


“Foreign
Currency L/C Issuing Lender”: with respect to any Permitted Foreign
Currency Letters of Credit, the issuer thereof that, at the time such Permitted
Foreign Currency Letter of Credit was issued, was the Issuing Lender hereunder.


 


“Foreign
Subsidiary”:  any Subsidiary of the
Borrower that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.


 


“Funded
Debt”:  as to any Person, all
Indebtedness of such Person of the types described in clauses (a) through (e)
of the definition of “Indebtedness” in this Section.


 


“Funding
Office”:  the office specified from
time to time by the Administrative Agent as its funding office by notice to the
Borrower and the Lenders.


 


“GAAP”:  generally accepted accounting principles in
the United States of America as in effect from time to time, except that for
purposes of Section 6.1, GAAP shall be determined on the basis of such
principles in effect on the date hereof and consistent with those used in the
preparation of the most recent audited financial statements referred to in
Section 3.1(b).


 


“Governmental
Authority”:  any nation or
government, any state or other political subdivision thereof and any entity
exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative
functions of or pertaining to government.


 


“Guarantee
and Collateral Agreement”:  the
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement to be executed and delivered by the Borrower
and each Subsidiary Guarantor, substantially in the form of Exhibit A, as the
same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.


 


“Guarantee
Obligation”:  as to any Person (the “guaranteeing
person”), any obligation of (a) the guaranteeing person or (b) another
Person (including, without limitation, any bank under any letter of credit), if
to induce the creation of such obligation of such other Person the guaranteeing
person has issued a reimbursement, counterindemnity or similar obligation, in
either case guaranteeing or in effect guaranteeing any Indebtedness, leases,
dividends or other obligations (the “primary obligations”) of any other
third Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or
indirectly, including, without limitation, any obligation of the guaranteeing
person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation
or any Property constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to
advance or supply funds (1) for the purchase or payment of any such primary
obligation or (2) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary
obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary
obligor, (iii) to purchase Property, securities or services primarily for the
purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of
the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (iv)


 


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otherwise to
assure or hold harmless the owner of any such primary obligation against loss
in respect thereof; provided, however, that the term Guarantee
Obligation shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or
collection in the ordinary course of business. 
The amount of any Guarantee Obligation of any guaranteeing person shall
be deemed to be the lower of (a) an amount equal to the stated or determinable
amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee Obligation
is made and (b) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be
liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee
Obligation, unless such primary obligation and the maximum amount for which
such guaranteeing person may be liable are not stated or determinable, in which
case the amount of such Guarantee Obligation shall be such guaranteeing person’s
maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by
the Borrower in good faith.


 


“Guarantors”:  the collective reference to the Subsidiary
Guarantors.


 


“Hedge
Agreements”:  with respect to any
Person or its Subsidiaries, all interest rate or currency swaps, caps or collar
agreements or similar arrangements entered into by such Person or its
Subsidiaries providing for protection against fluctuations in interest rates or
currency exchange rates or the exchange of nominal interest obligations, either
generally or under specific contingencies.


 


“Hedging
Obligations”:  with respect to any
specified Person, the obligations of such Person under Hedge Agreements.


 


“Indebtedness”:  of any Person at any date, without
duplication, (a) all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all
obligations of such Person for the deferred purchase price of Property or
services (other than an accrued expense, trade payables or any similar
obligation to trade creditors incurred in the ordinary course of such Person’s
business), (c) all obligations of such Person evidenced by notes, bonds,
debentures or other similar instruments, (d) all indebtedness created or
arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement with
respect to Property acquired by such Person (even though the rights and
remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default
are limited to repossession or sale of such Property), (e) all Capital
Lease Obligations of such Person, (f) all obligations of such Person,
contingent or otherwise, as an account party or applicant under acceptance,
letter of credit or similar facilities, (g) all obligations of such Person,
contingent or otherwise, to purchase, redeem, retire or otherwise acquire for
value any Capital Stock of such Person (other than pursuant to clause (k) of
this definition), (h) all Guarantee Obligations of such Person in respect of
obligations of the kind referred to in clauses (a) through (g) above; (i) all
obligations of the kind referred to in clauses (a) through (h) above secured by
(or for which the holder of such obligation has an existing right, contingent
or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on Property (including, without
limitation, accounts and contract rights) owned by such Person, whether or not
such Person has assumed or become liable for the payment of such obligation (provided
that, if such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such
obligation, the amount of Indebtedness constituted by such obligation shall be
deemed to be the lesser of (i) the stated amount thereof or (ii) the Fair
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of Section
7(e) only, all Hedging Obligations of such Person and (k) the liquidation value
of any preferred Capital Stock of such Person or its Subsidiaries held by any
Person other than such Person and its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries if such
preferred Capital Stock is mandatorily redeemable prior to the date which is 91
days after the Revolving Credit Termination Date.


 


“Indemnified
Liabilities”:  as defined in Section
9.5.


 


“Indemnitee”:  as defined in Section 9.5.


 


“Insolvency”:  with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the
condition that such Plan is insolvent within the meaning of Section 4245 of
ERISA.


 


“Insolvent”:  pertaining to a condition of Insolvency.


 


“Intellectual
Property”:  the collective reference
to all rights, priorities and privileges relating to intellectual property,
whether arising under United States, multinational or foreign laws or
otherwise, including, without limitation, copyrights, copyright licenses,
patents, patent licenses, trademarks, trademark licenses, technology, know-how
and processes, and all rights to sue at law or in equity for any infringement
or other impairment thereof, including the right to receive all proceeds and
damages therefrom.


 


“Interest
Payment Date”:  (a) as to any Base
Rate Loan, the last day of each March, June, September and December to occur
while such Base Rate Loan is outstanding and the final maturity date of such
Base Rate Loan, (b) as to any Eurodollar Loan having an Interest Period of
three months or less, the last day of such Interest Period, (c) as to any
Eurodollar Loan having an Interest Period longer than three months, each day
which is three months, or a whole multiple thereof, after the first day of such
Interest Period and the last day of such Interest Period and (d) as to any
Eurodollar Loan, the date of any repayment or prepayment made in respect
thereof.


 


“Interest
Period”:  as to any Eurodollar Loan,
(a) initially, the period commencing on the borrowing or conversion date, as
the case may be, with respect to such Eurodollar Loan and ending one, two,
three or six months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower in its notice of
borrowing or notice of conversion, as the case may be, given with respect
thereto; and (b) thereafter, each period commencing on the last day of the next
preceding Interest Period applicable to such Eurodollar Loan and ending one,
two, three or six months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower by irrevocable
notice to the Administrative Agent not less than three Business Days prior to
the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto; provided
that, all of the foregoing provisions relating to Interest Periods are subject
to the following:


 


(i)   if any Interest Period would otherwise end on a day
that is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next
succeeding Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to carry
such Interest


 


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Period into
another calendar month in which event such Interest Period shall end on the
immediately preceding Business Day;


 


(ii)   any Interest Period that would otherwise extend beyond
the Revolving Credit Termination Date shall end on the Revolving Credit
Termination Date;


 


(iii)   any Interest Period that begins on the last Business
Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically
corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period)
shall end on the last Business Day of a calendar month; and


 


(iv)   the Borrower shall select Interest Periods so as not
to require a payment or prepayment of any Eurodollar Loan during an Interest Period
for such Eurodollar Loan.


 


“Investments”:  as defined in Section 6.8.


 


“Issuing
Lender”:  the Existing Issuing Lender
and any other Lender selected by the Borrower, with the consent of such Lender
and the Administrative Agent, to act as Issuing Lender, in its capacity as
issuer of any Letter of Credit.


 


“L/C
Commitment”:  $10,000,000.


 


“L/C Fee
Payment Date”:  the last day of each
March, June, September and December and the last day of the Revolving Credit
Commitment Period.


 


“L/C
Obligations”:  at any time, an amount
equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired amount of the
then outstanding Letters of Credit and (b) the aggregate amount of drawings
under Letters of Credit that have not then been reimbursed pursuant to Section
2.23.


 


“L/C
Participants”:  the collective
reference to all the Lenders other than the relevant Issuing Lender.


 


“Lender
Addendum”:  with respect to any
initial Lender, a Lender Addendum, substantially in the form of Exhibit I, to
be executed and delivered by such Lender on the Closing Date as provided in
Section 9.17.


 


“Lenders”:  as defined in the preamble hereto.


 


“Letters of
Credit”:  as defined in Section
2.19(a).


 


“Lien”:  any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation,
assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge
or other security interest or any preference, priority or other security
agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever
(including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title retention


 


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agreement and
any capital lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the
foregoing).


 


“Loan”:  any loan made by any Lender pursuant to this
Agreement.


 


“Loan
Documents”:  this Agreement, the
Applications, the Security Documents and the Notes.


 


“Loan
Parties”:  the Borrower and each
Subsidiary of the Borrower which is a party to a Loan Document.


 


“Mark-to-Market
Adjustment”:  any non-cash expense or
income resulting from current or future mark-to-market accounting that the
Borrower may apply with respect to any EIS, shares of the Borrower’s Class A
common stock, shares of Borrower’s Class B common stock or the Borrower’s
Senior Subordinated Notes issued in connection with the original issuance of
EIS on the Closing Date or at any time thereafter.


 


“Material
Adverse Effect”:  a material adverse
effect on (a) the business, assets, property or financial condition of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or (b) the validity or enforceability
of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or the rights or remedies
of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders hereunder or thereunder.


 


“Material
Environmental Amount”:  an amount or
amounts payable by the Borrower and/or any of its Subsidiaries, in the
aggregate in excess of $2,000,000 in respect of any one occurrence, for:  costs to comply with any Environmental Law;
costs of any investigation, and any remediation, of any Material of Environmental
Concern; and compensatory damages (including, without limitation damages to
natural resources), punitive damages, fines, and penalties pursuant to any
Environmental Law.


 


“Materials
of Environmental Concern”:  any
gasoline or petroleum (including crude oil or any fraction thereof) or petroleum
products, polychlorinated biphenyls, urea-formaldehyde insulation, asbestos,
pollutants, contaminants, radioactivity, and any other substances or forces of
any kind, whether or not any such substance or force is defined as hazardous or
toxic under any Environmental Law, that is regulated pursuant to or could
reasonably be expected to give rise to liability under any Environmental Law.


 


“Moody’s”:  Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.


 


“Multiemployer
Plan”:  a Plan that is a
multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.


 


“New
Lenders”:  as defined in Section 9.1.


 


“New
Revolving Credit Commitments”:  as
defined in Section 9.1.


 


“New
Revolving Credit Loans”:  as defined
in Section 9.1.


 


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“Non-Excluded
Taxes”:  as defined in Section
2.14(a).


 


“Non-U.S.
Lender”:  as defined in Section
2.14(d).


 


“Notes”:  the collective reference to each promissory
note, if any, evidencing Loans.


 


“Obligations”:  the unpaid principal of and interest on
(including, without limitation, interest accruing after the maturity of the
Loans and Reimbursement Obligations and interest accruing after the filing of
any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency,
reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the Borrower, whether or not a
claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding)
the Loans, the Reimbursement Obligations and all other obligations and
liabilities of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or to any Lender or any
Qualified Counterparty or any Foreign Currency L/C Issuing Lender, whether
direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, or now
existing or hereafter incurred, which may arise under, out of, or in connection
with, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, the Letters of Credit, any
Specified Hedge Agreement, any Permitted Foreign Currency Letters of Credit or
any other document made, delivered or given in connection herewith or
therewith, whether on account of principal, interest, reimbursement
obligations, fees, indemnities, costs, expenses (including, without limitation,
all fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent or
to any Lender that are required to be paid by the Borrower pursuant hereto) or
otherwise; provided, that (i) obligations of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary under any Specified Hedge Agreement or in respect of any Permitted
Foreign Currency Letter of Credit shall be secured and guaranteed pursuant to
the Security Documents only to the extent that, and for so long as, the other
Obligations are so secured and guaranteed and (ii) any release of Collateral or
Guarantors or any waiver or modification of any other provision in the Loan
Documents regarding the Collateral effected in the manner permitted by this
Agreement shall not require the consent of holders of obligations under
Specified Hedge Agreements or in respect of Permitted Foreign Currency Letters
of Credit.


 


“Old
B&G Foods, Inc.”:  B&G Foods,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, existing immediately prior to the closing
hereunder.


 


“Other
Agents”:  the collective reference to
the Documentation Agent and the Syndication Agent.


 


“Other
Taxes”:  any and all present or
future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes,
charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or from the
execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this
Agreement or any other Loan Document.


 


“Participant”:  as defined in Section 9.6(b).


 


“Payment
Office”:  the office specified from
time to time by the Administrative Agent as its payment office by notice to the
Borrower and the Lenders.


 


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“PBGC”:  the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
established pursuant to Subtitle A of Title IV of ERISA (or any successor).


 


“Permitted
Acquisition”:  any acquisition by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of all of the Capital Stock of, or all or
substantially all of the assets constituting a business unit of, any other
Person so long as, with respect to any such acquisition, the following
conditions are satisfied:


 


(a)   no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing or would result from such acquisition;


 


(b)   the Borrower shall be in compliance with the financial
covenants set forth in Section 6.1, after giving pro  forma effect
to such acquisition as if it had occurred on the first day of the respective
periods measured by such covenants;


 


(c)   such acquisition shall be consistent with the Borrower’s
stated management strategy as in effect on the Closing Date, and the target of
such acquisition shall be in the same or a similar line of business as the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries;


 


(d)   unless such acquisition is consummated solely with the
proceeds of Capital Stock of the Borrower or in exchange for such Capital
Stock, the aggregate consideration for such acquisition shall not exceed
$50,000,000; provided, that the foregoing restriction in this paragraph
(d) shall not be applicable to any acquisition if the Consolidated Leverage
Ratio would be less than or equal to 5.50 to 1.0 after giving pro forma
effect to such acquisition as if it had occurred on the first day of the period
measured by the Consolidated Leverage Ratio;


 


(e)   the target of such acquisition either (i) shall have
had positive consolidated net income before interest, taxes, depreciation and
amortization, determined in accordance with GAAP (“EBITDA”) for the
period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of such target most recently ended prior
to the date of such acquisition, or (ii) shall have had positive pro  forma
EBITDA for such period (such pro  forma EBITDA to be determined in
accordance with the Borrower’s customary practices consistent with the
methodology used for acquisitions consummated in the fiscal year prior to the
Closing Date);


 


(f)   the Borrower shall have performed reasonable and
customary due diligence with respect to such acquisition and the target
thereof, including with respect to environmental matters;


 


(g)   the Borrower and/or the applicable Subsidiary shall
have obtained all material third party consents and approvals required in
connection with such acquisition;


 


(h)   environmental audits, if any, pro forma financial
statements, appraisals, if any, accounting reviews and material business due
diligence reports


 


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conducted by
the Borrower with respect to the business to be acquired shall have been
delivered to Administrative Agent not less than ten Business Days prior to
consummation of such acquisition;


 


(i)   the Borrower shall have reasonably determined that it
has adequate liquidity available for working capital; and


 


(j)   substantially all of the assets so acquired are located
in the United States or Canada or, if such acquisition is structured as a
purchase of stock, the Person so acquired is organized under the laws of a
state of the United States, and substantially all of the assets owned by such
Person are located in the United States or Canada; provided, that (i)
the Borrower may acquire the stock of a Person organized under the laws of a
state of the United States whose assets are located, in whole or in part, in
Puerto Rico or Canada, if such Person becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor and grants
a security interest in its assets as contemplated by Section 5.9 and (ii) the
Borrower may acquire the stock of any Person organized under the laws of Puerto
Rico or Canada, so long as the aggregate amount of Investments made pursuant to
this clause (ii), together with Investments made as permitted by Section
6.8(m), does not exceed $10,000,000.


 


“Permitted Foreign Currency Letter of
Credit”: any letter of credit denominated in a currency other than Dollars
issued to the Borrower by the Foreign Currency L/C Issuing Lender.


 


“Person”:  an individual, partnership, corporation,
limited liability company, business trust, joint stock company, trust,
unincorporated association, joint venture, Governmental Authority or other
entity of whatever nature.


 


“Plan”:  at a particular time, any employee pension
benefit plan within the meaning of Section 3(2) of ERISA and in respect of
which the Borrower or a Commonly Controlled Entity is (or, if such plan were
terminated at such time, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer”
as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.


 


“Pricing
Grid”:  the Pricing Grid attached as
Annex A.


 


“Principals”:
the members of management of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries as of the
Closing Date.


 


“Pro Forma
Balance Sheet”:  as defined in Section
3.1(a).


 


“Projections”:  as defined in Section 5.2(c).


 


“Property”:  any right or interest in or to property of
any kind whatsoever, whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or
intangible, including, without limitation, Capital Stock.


 


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“Qualified
Counterparty”:  with respect to any
Specified Hedge Agreement, any counterparty thereto that, at the time such
Specified Hedge Agreement was entered into, was a Lender or an affiliate of a
Lender.


 


“Recovery
Event”:  any settlement of or payment
in respect of any property or casualty insurance claim or any condemnation
proceeding relating to any asset of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.


 


“Refunded
Swing Line Loans”:  as defined in
Section 2.2.


 


“Refunding
Date”:  as defined in Section 2.2.


 


“Register”:  as defined in Section 9.6(d).


 


“Regulation
H”:  Regulation H of the Board as in
effect from time to time.


 


“Regulation
U”:  Regulation U of the Board as in
effect from time to time.


 


“Reimbursement
Obligation”:  the obligation of the
Borrower to reimburse the relevant Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 2.23 for
amounts drawn under Letters of Credit.


 


“Related
Parties”: any (a) controlling stockholder, 662/3%
(or more) owned Subsidiary, or immediate family member (in the case of an
individual) of any Principal, or (b) any trust, corporation, partnership,
limited liability company or other entity, the beneficiaries, stockholders,
partners, members, owners or Persons beneficially holding 662/3% or more controlling interest of which consist of
any one or more Principals and/or such other Persons referred to in the
immediately preceding clause (a).


 


“Reorganization”:  with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the
condition that such plan is in reorganization within the meaning of Section
4241 of ERISA.


 


“Reportable
Event”:  any of the events set forth
in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than those events as to which the thirty day
notice period is waived under subsections .27, .28, .29, .30, .31, .32, .34 or
..35 of PBGC Reg. § 4043.


 


“Required
Lenders”:  at any time, the holders
of more than 50% of the Total Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect or,
if the Revolving Credit Commitments have been terminated, the Total Revolving
Extensions of Credit then outstanding.


 


“Requirement
of Law”:  as to any Person, the
Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws or other organizational or governing
documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or regulation or
determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority, in
each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its Property or
to which such Person or any of its Property is subject.


 


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“Responsible
Officer”:  the chief executive
officer, president or chief financial officer of the Borrower, but in any
event, with respect to financial matters, the chief financial officer of the
Borrower.


 


“Restricted
Payments”:  as defined in Section
6.6.


 


“Revolving
Credit Commitment”:  as to any
Lender, the obligation of such Lender to make or participate in Loans and issue
or participate in Letters of Credit, in an aggregate principal and/or face
amount not to exceed the amount set forth under the heading “Revolving Credit
Commitment” opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1 to the Lender Addendum
delivered by such Lender, or, as the case may be, in the Assignment and
Acceptance pursuant to which such Lender became a party hereto, as the same may
be changed from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof.  The original amount of the Total Revolving
Credit Commitments is $30,000,000.


 


“Revolving
Credit Commitment Period”:  the
period from and including the Closing Date to the Revolving Credit Termination
Date.


 


“Revolving
Credit Loans”:  as defined in Section
2.1.


 


“Revolving
Credit Percentage”:  as to any Lender
at any time, the percentage which such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment
then constitutes of the Total Revolving Credit Commitments (or, at any time
after the Revolving Credit Commitments shall have expired or terminated, the
percentage which the aggregate principal amount of such Lender’s Revolving
Credit Loans then outstanding constitutes of the aggregate principal amount of
the Revolving Credit Loans then outstanding).


 


“Revolving
Credit Termination Date”:  October
14, 2009.


 


“Revolving
Extensions of Credit”:  as to any
Lender at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate principal
amount of all Revolving Credit Loans made by such Lender then outstanding, (b)
such Lender’s Revolving Credit Percentage of the L/C Obligations then
outstanding and (c) such Lender’s Revolving Credit Percentage of the aggregate
principal amount of Swing Line Loans then outstanding.


 


“S&P”:  Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services.


 


“SEC”:  the Securities and Exchange Commission (or
successors thereto or an analogous Governmental Authority).


 


“Security
Documents”:  the collective reference
to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement and all other security documents
hereafter delivered to the Administrative Agent granting a Lien on any Property
of any Person to secure the obligations and liabilities of any Loan Party under
any Loan Document.


 


“Securities
Holders Agreement”:  the Second
Amended and Restated Securities Holders Agreement, dated as of October 14,
2004, among the Sponsor, certain of the


 


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Borrower’s
existing stockholders, certain members of the Borrower’s board of directors and
the Borrower’s executive officers, as in effect on the Closing Date.


 


“Senior
Note Indenture”:  the Indenture,
dated as of October 14, 2004 entered into by the Borrower and certain of its
Subsidiaries and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, in connection with the
issuance of the Senior Notes, together with all instruments and other
agreements entered into by the Borrower or such Subsidiaries in connection
therewith, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from
time to time.


 


“Senior
Notes”:  the senior notes of the
Borrower issued from time to time pursuant to the Senior Note Indenture.


 


“Senior
Subordinated Note Indenture”:  the
Indenture, dated as of October 14, 2004, entered into by the Borrower and
certain of its Subsidiaries and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, in connection
with the issuance of the Senior Subordinated Notes, together with all
instruments and other agreements entered into by the Borrower or such
Subsidiaries in connection therewith, as the same may be amended, supplemented
or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with Section 6.9.


 


“Senior
Subordinated Notes”: the senior subordinated notes of the Borrower issued
from time to time pursuant to the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture.


 


“Single
Employer Plan”:  any Plan that is
covered by Title IV of ERISA, but which is not a Multiemployer Plan.


 


“Solvent”:  when used with respect to any Person, that,
as of any date of determination, (a) the amount of the “present fair saleable
value” of the assets of such Person will, as of such date, exceed the amount of
all “liabilities of such Person, contingent or otherwise”, as of such date, as
such quoted terms are determined in accordance with applicable federal and
state laws governing determinations of the insolvency of debtors, (b) the
present fair saleable value of the assets of such Person will, as of such date,
be greater than the amount that will be required to pay the liability of such
Person on its debts as such debts become absolute and matured, (c) such Person
will not have, as of such date, an unreasonably small amount of capital with
which to conduct its business, and (d) such Person will be able to pay its
debts as they mature.  For purposes of
this definition, (i) “debt” means liability on a “claim”, and (ii) “claim”
means any (x) right to payment, whether or not such a right is reduced to
judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured,
disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured or unsecured or (y) right to an
equitable remedy for breach of performance if such breach gives rise to a right
to payment, whether or not such right to an equitable remedy is reduced to
judgment, fixed, contingent, matured or unmatured, disputed, undisputed,
secured or unsecured.


 


“Specified
Change of Control”:  the occurrence
of (a) the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other
disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series
of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties or
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(as that term
is used in Section 13(d)(3) the Exchange Act other than a Principal or a
Related Party of a Principal, (b) the adoption of a plan relating to the
liquidation or dissolution of the Borrower, (c) the consummation of any
transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation), the
result of which is that any “person” (as defined above), other than the
Principals and their Related Parties, becomes the “beneficial owner” (as
defined in Rules 13(d)-3 and 13(d)-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or
indirectly, of more than 50% of the Voting Stock of the Borrower, measured by
voting power rather than number of shares, or (d) the first day on which a
majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Borrower are not
Continuing Directors.


 


“Specified
Hedge Agreement”:  any Hedge
Agreement entered into by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and any
Qualified Counterparty.


 


“Sponsor”:  Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co., L.P.


 


“Subsidiary”:  as to any Person, a corporation, partnership,
limited liability company or other entity of which shares of stock or other
ownership interests having ordinary voting power (other than stock or such
other ownership interests having such power only by reason of the happening of
a contingency) to elect a majority of the board of directors or other managers
of such corporation, partnership or other entity are at the time owned, or the
management of which is otherwise controlled, directly or indirectly through one
or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person.  Unless otherwise qualified, all references to
a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” in this Agreement shall refer to a
Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.


 


“Subsidiary
Guarantor”:  each Subsidiary of the
Borrower other than any Foreign Subsidiary.


 


“Swing Line
Commitment”:  the obligation of the
Swing Line Lender to make Swing Line Loans pursuant to Section 2.2 in an
aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed
$5,000,000.


 


“Swing Line
Lender”:  Lehman Commercial Paper
Inc., in its capacity as the lender of Swing Line Loans.


 


“Swing Line
Loans”:  as defined in Section
2.1(b).


 


“Swing Line
Participation Amount”:  as defined in
Section 2.2.


 


“Syndication
Agent”:  as defined in the preamble
hereto.


 


“Total
Revolving Credit Commitments”:  at
any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments of the
Lenders then in effect.


 


“Total
Revolving Extensions of Credit”:  at
any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Extensions of Credit of the
Lenders outstanding at such time.


 


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“Transactions
Services Agreement”: the amended and restated Transaction Services
Agreement, dated as of October 14, 2004 between Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill
& Co. Inc. and the Borrower, as in effect on the Closing Date.


 


“Transferee”:  as defined in Section 9.14.


 


“Type”:  as to any Loan, its nature as a Base Rate
Loan or a Eurodollar Loan.


 


“Wholly
Owned Subsidiary”:  as to any Person,
any other Person all of the Capital Stock of which (other than directors’
qualifying shares required by law) is owned by such Person directly and/or
through other Wholly Owned Subsidiaries.


 


“Wholly
Owned Subsidiary Guarantor”:  any
Subsidiary Guarantor that is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower.


 


1.2   Other
Definitional Provisions.  (a)  Unless
otherwise specified therein, all terms defined in this Agreement shall have the
defined meanings when used in the other Loan Documents or any certificate or
other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto.


 


(b)   As used herein and in the
other Loan Documents, and any certificate or other document made or delivered
pursuant hereto or thereto, accounting terms relating to the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries not defined in Section 1.1 and accounting terms partly defined in
Section 1.1, to the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings
given to them under GAAP.


 


(c)   The words “hereof”, “herein”
and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall
refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this
Agreement, and Section, Schedule and Exhibit references are to this Agreement
unless otherwise specified.


 


(d)   The meanings given to terms
defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural
forms of such terms.


 


SECTION 2.  AMOUNT
AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS; LETTERS OF CREDIT


 


2.1   Revolving
Credit Commitments; Swing Line Commitment.  (a)    Subject to the terms
and conditions hereof, each Lender severally agrees to make revolving credit
loans (“Revolving Credit Loans”) to the Borrower from time to time
during the Revolving Credit Commitment Period in an aggregate principal amount
at any one time outstanding which, when added to such Lender’s Revolving Credit
Percentage of the L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans then outstanding, does
not exceed the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment.  During the Revolving Credit Commitment Period
the Borrower may use the Revolving Credit Commitments by borrowing, prepaying
the Revolving Credit Loans in whole or in part, and reborrowing, all in
accordance with the terms and conditions hereof.  The Revolving Credit Loans may from time to
time be Eurodollar Loans or Base Rate Loans, as determined by the Borrower and
notified to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Sections 2.2 and 2.7, provided
that no Revolving Credit Loan shall be made as a Eurodollar Loan after the day
that is one month prior to the Revolving Credit Termination Date.


 


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(b)   Subject to the terms and
conditions hereof, the Swing Line Lender agrees to make available a portion of
the credit otherwise available to the Borrower under the Revolving Credit
Commitments from time to time during the Revolving Credit Commitment Period by
making swing line loans (“Swing Line Loans”) to the Borrower; provided
that (i) the aggregate principal amount of Swing Line Loans outstanding at any
time shall not exceed the Swing Line Commitment then in effect (notwithstanding
that the Swing Line Loans outstanding at any time, when aggregated with the
Swing Line Lender’s other outstanding Revolving Credit Loans hereunder, may
exceed the Swing Line Commitment then in effect) and (ii) the Borrower shall
not request, and the Swing Line Lender shall not make, any Swing Line Loan if,
after giving effect to the making of such Swing Line Loan, the aggregate amount
of the Available Revolving Credit Commitments would be less than zero.  During the Revolving Credit Commitment
Period, the Borrower may use the Swing Line Commitment by borrowing, repaying
and reborrowing, all in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof.  Swing Line Loans shall be Base Rate Loans
only.


 


(c)   The Borrower shall repay all
outstanding Loans on the Revolving Credit Termination Date.


 


2.2   Procedure
for Borrowing; Swing Line Loans; Refunding of Swing Line Loans.  (a)    The Borrower may
borrow Revolving Credit Loans under the Revolving Credit Commitments during the
Revolving Credit Commitment Period on any Business Day, provided that
the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice (which
notice must be received by the Administrative Agent prior to 12:00 Noon, New
York City time, (i) three Business Days prior to the requested Borrowing Date,
in the case of Eurodollar Loans, or (ii) one Business Day prior to the
requested Borrowing Date, in the case of Base Rate Loans), specifying (A) the
amount and Type of Revolving Credit Loans to be borrowed, (B) the requested
Borrowing Date and (C) in the case of Eurodollar Loans, the length of the
initial Interest Period therefor.  Any
Revolving Credit Loans made on the Closing Date shall initially be Base Rate
Loans and may be converted to Eurodollar Loans pursuant to Section 2.7.  Each borrowing under the Revolving Credit
Commitments shall be in an amount equal to (x) in the case of Base Rate Loans,
$1,000,000 or a whole multiple thereof (or, if the then aggregate Available
Revolving Credit Commitments are less than $1,000,000, such lesser amount) and
(y) in the case of Eurodollar Loans, $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of
$1,000,000 in excess thereof, provided, that the Swing Line Lender may
request, on behalf of the Borrower, borrowings under the Revolving Credit
Commitments which are Base Rate Loans in other amounts pursuant to Section
2.2(c).  Upon receipt of any such notice
from the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender
thereof.  Each Lender will make the amount
of its pro  rata share of each borrowing of Revolving Credit Loans
available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Borrower at the
Funding Office prior to 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the Borrowing Date
requested by the Borrower in funds immediately available to the Administrative
Agent.  Such borrowing will then be made
available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent in like funds as received
by the Administrative Agent.


 


(b)   Whenever the Borrower desires
that the Swing Line Lender make Swing Line Loans it shall give the Swing Line
Lender irrevocable telephonic notice confirmed promptly in writing (which
telephonic notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender not later than 1:00
P.M., New York City time, on the proposed Borrowing Date), specifying (i) the


 


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amount to be borrowed and (ii) the requested
Borrowing Date (which shall be a Business Day during the Revolving Credit
Commitment Period).  Each borrowing under
the Swing Line Commitment shall be in an amount equal to $100,000 or a whole
multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. 
Not later than 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the Borrowing Date
specified in a notice in respect of Swing Line Loans, the Swing Line Lender shall
make available to the Administrative Agent at the Funding Office an amount in
immediately available funds equal to the amount of the Swing Line Loan to be
made by the Swing Line Lender.  The
Administrative Agent shall make the proceeds of such Swing Line Loan available
to the Borrower on such Borrowing Date in immediately available funds.


 


(c)   The Swing Line Lender, at any
time and from time to time in its sole and absolute discretion may, on behalf
of the Borrower (which hereby irrevocably directs the Swing Line Lender to act
on its behalf), on one Business Day’s notice given by the Swing Line Lender no
later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, request each Lender to make, and
each Lender hereby agrees to make, a Revolving Credit Loan, in an amount equal
to such Lender’s Revolving Credit Percentage of the aggregate amount of the
Swing Line Loans (the “Refunded Swing Line Loans”) outstanding on the
date of such notice, to repay the Swing Line Lender.  Each Lender shall make the amount of such
Revolving Credit Loan available to the Administrative Agent at the Funding
Office in immediately available funds, not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City
time, one Business Day after the date of such notice.  The proceeds of such Revolving Credit Loans
shall be immediately made available by the Administrative Agent to the Swing
Line Lender for application by the Swing Line Lender to the repayment of the
Refunded Swing Line Loans.


 


(d)   If prior to the time a
Revolving Credit Loan would have otherwise been made pursuant to Section
2.2(c), one of the events described in Section 7(f) shall have occurred and be
continuing with respect to the Borrower or if for any other reason, as
determined by the Swing Line Lender in its sole discretion, Revolving Credit
Loans may not be made as contemplated by Section 2.2(c), each Lender shall, on
the date such Revolving Credit Loan was to have been made pursuant to the
notice referred to in Section 2.2(c) (the “Refunding Date”), purchase
for cash an undivided participating interest in the then outstanding Swing Line
Loans by paying to the Swing Line Lender an amount (the “Swing Line
Participation Amount”) equal to (i) such Lender’s Revolving Credit
Percentage times (ii) the sum of the aggregate principal amount of Swing
Line Loans then outstanding which were to have been repaid with such Revolving
Credit Loans.


 


(e)   Whenever, at any time after
the Swing Line Lender has received from any Lender such Lender’s Swing Line
Participation Amount, the Swing Line Lender receives any payment on account of
the Swing Line Loans, the Swing Line Lender will distribute to such Lender its
Swing Line Participation Amount (appropriately adjusted, in the case of
interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lender’s
participating interest was outstanding and funded and, in the case of principal
and interest payments, to reflect such Lender’s pro  rata portion
of such payment if such payment is not sufficient to pay the principal of and
interest on all Swing Line Loans then due); provided, however,
that in the event that such payment received by the Swing Line Lender is
required to be returned, such Lender will return to the Swing Line Lender any
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(f)   Each Lender’s obligation to
make the Revolving Credit Loans referred to in Section 2.2(c) and to purchase
participating interests pursuant to Section 2.2(d) shall be absolute and
unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including, without
limitation, (i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right
which such Lender or the Borrower may have against the Swing Line Lender, the
Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (ii) the occurrence or
continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the failure to satisfy any
of the other conditions specified in Section 4; (iii) any adverse change in the
condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower; (iv) any breach of this Agreement
or any other Loan Document by the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other
Lender; or (v) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether
or not similar to any of the foregoing.


 


2.3   Repayment of
Loans; Evidence of Debt.  (a)    The
Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for
the account of the appropriate Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each
Loan of such Lender on the Revolving Credit Termination Date (or such earlier date
on which the Loans become due and payable pursuant to Section 7).  The Borrower hereby further agrees to pay
interest on the unpaid principal amount of the Loans from time to time
outstanding from the date hereof until payment in full thereof at the rates per
annum, and on the dates, set forth in Section 2.9.


 


(b)   Each Lender shall maintain in
accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing
indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan of such
Lender from time to time, including the amounts of principal and interest
payable and paid to such Lender from time to time under this Agreement.


 


(c)   The Administrative Agent, on
behalf of the Borrower, shall maintain the Register pursuant to Section 9.6(d),
and a subaccount therein for each Lender, in which shall be recorded (i) the
amount of each Loan made hereunder and any Note evidencing such Loan, the Type
thereof and each Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any
principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the
Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iii) both the amount of any sum received
by the Administrative Agent hereunder from the Borrower and each Lender’s share
thereof.


 


(d)   The entries made in the
Register and the accounts of each Lender maintained pursuant to Section 2.3(b)
shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be prima  facie
evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations of the Borrower
therein recorded; provided, however, that the failure of any Lender
or the Administrative Agent to maintain the Register or any such account, or
any error therein, shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the
Borrower to repay (with applicable interest) the Loans made to the Borrower by
such Lender in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.


 


(e)   The Borrower agrees that,
upon the request to the Administrative Agent by any Lender, the Borrower will
execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note of the Borrower evidencing
any Revolving Credit Loans or Swing Line Loans, as the case may be, of such
Lender, substantially in the forms of Exhibit G-1 and G-2, respectively, with
appropriate insertions as to date and principal amount; provided that
delivery of such notes shall not be a condition precedent to the making of the
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2.4   Commitment Fees, etc.  (a)  The Borrower agrees to pay to
the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a commitment fee for
the period from and including the Closing Date to the last day of the Revolving
Credit Commitment Period, computed at the Commitment Fee Rate on the average
daily amount of the Available Revolving Credit Commitment of such Lender during
the period for which payment is made, payable quarterly in arrears on the last
day of each March, June, September and December and on the Revolving Credit
Termination Date (or any earlier date of termination of the Revolving Credit
Commitments), commencing on the first of such dates to occur after the date
hereof.


 


(b)   The Borrower agrees to pay to
the Agents the fees in the amounts and on the dates agreed to in writing by the
Borrower and the Agents prior to the Closing Date.


 


2.5   Termination
or Reduction of Revolving Credit Commitments.  The Borrower shall have the right, upon not
less than three Business Days’ notice to the Administrative Agent (which shall
promptly notify each Lender thereof), to terminate the Revolving Credit
Commitments or, from time to time, to reduce the amount of the Revolving Credit
Commitments; provided that no such termination or reduction of Revolving
Credit Commitments shall be permitted if, after giving effect thereto and to
any prepayments of the Revolving Credit Loans and/or Swing Line Loans made on
the effective date thereof, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit would
exceed the Total Revolving Credit Commitments. 
Any such reduction shall be in an amount equal to $1,000,000, or a whole
multiple thereof, and shall reduce permanently the Revolving Credit Commitments
then in effect.


 


2.6   Optional Prepayments.  The Borrower may at any time and from time to
time prepay the Loans, in whole or in part, without premium or penalty (except
as otherwise provided herein), upon irrevocable notice delivered to the
Administrative Agent at least three Business Days prior thereto in the case of
Eurodollar Loans and at least one Business Day prior thereto in the case of
Base Rate Loans, which notice shall specify the date and amount of prepayment
and whether the prepayment is of Eurodollar Loans or Base Rate Loans; provided,
that if a Eurodollar Loan is prepaid on any day other than the last day of the
Interest Period applicable thereto, the Borrower shall also pay any amounts
owing pursuant to Section 2.15.  Upon
receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each
relevant Lender thereof.  If any such
notice is given, the amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable
on the date specified therein, together with (except in the case of prepayments
of Base Rate Loans) accrued interest to such date on the amount prepaid.  Partial prepayments of Revolving Credit Loans
shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple
thereof, and partial prepayments of Swing Line Loans shall be in an aggregate
principal amount of $100,000 or a whole multiple thereof.


 


2.7   Conversion
and Continuation Options.  (a)    The
Borrower may elect from time to time to convert Eurodollar Loans to Base Rate
Loans by giving the Administrative Agent at least two Business Days’ prior
irrevocable notice of such election, provided that any such conversion
of Eurodollar Loans may only be made on the last day of an Interest Period with
respect thereto.  The Borrower may elect,
from time to time, to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Loans by giving the
Administrative Agent at least three Business Days’ prior irrevocable notice of
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Period therefor); provided
that no Base Rate Loan may be converted into a Eurodollar Loan (i) when
any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative
Agent has or the Required Lenders have determined in its or their sole
discretion not to permit such conversions or (ii) after the date that is one
month prior to the Revolving Credit Termination Date.  Upon receipt of any such notice the
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender thereof.


 


(b)   Any Eurodollar Loan may be
continued as such upon the expiration of the then current Interest Period with
respect thereto by the Borrower giving irrevocable notice to the Administrative
Agent, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the term “Interest Period”
set forth in Section 1.1, of the length of the next Interest Period to be
applicable to such Revolving Credit Loans; provided that no Eurodollar
Loan may be continued as such (i) when any Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing and the Administrative Agent has or the Required Lenders have
determined in its or their sole discretion not to permit such continuations or
(ii) after the date that is one month prior to the Revolving Credit Termination
Date, and provided, further, that if the Borrower shall fail to
give any required notice as described above in this paragraph or if such
continuation is not permitted pursuant to the preceding proviso such Revolving
Credit Loans shall be automatically converted to Base Rate Loans on the last
day of such then expiring Interest Period. 
Upon receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly
notify each relevant Lender thereof.


 


2.8   Minimum
Amounts and Maximum Number of Eurodollar Tranches.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
this Agreement, all borrowings, conversions, continuations and optional
prepayments of Eurodollar Loans hereunder and all selections of Interest
Periods hereunder shall be in such amounts and be made pursuant to such
elections so that, (a) after giving effect thereto, the aggregate principal
amount of the Eurodollar Loans comprising each Eurodollar Tranche shall be
equal to $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (b)
no more than ten Eurodollar Tranches shall be outstanding at any one time.


 


2.9   Interest Rates
and Payment Dates.  (a)    Each
Eurodollar Loan shall bear interest for each day during each Interest Period
with respect thereto at a rate per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate
determined for such day plus the Applicable Margin.


 


(b)   Each Base Rate Loan shall
bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable
Margin.


 


(c)   (i)    If
all or a portion of the principal amount of any Loan or Reimbursement
Obligations shall not be paid when due (whether at the stated maturity, by
acceleration or otherwise), all outstanding Loans and Reimbursement Obligations
(whether or not overdue) shall bear interest at a rate per annum that is equal
to (x) in the case of Loans, the rate that would otherwise be applicable
thereto pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section plus 2% and
(y) in the case of Reimbursement Obligations, the rate applicable to Base Rate
Loans plus 2%, and (ii) if all or a portion of any interest payable on
any Loans and Reimbursement Obligations (whether or not overdue) or any
commitment fee or other amount payable hereunder shall not be paid when due
(whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), such overdue
amount shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the rate then
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Loans plus 2%, in each case, with
respect to clauses (i) and (ii) above, from the date of such non-payment until
such amount is paid in full (after as well as before judgment).


 


(d)   Interest shall be payable in
arrears on each Interest Payment Date, provided that interest accruing
pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section shall be payable from time to time on
demand.


 


2.10   Computation of
Interest and Fees.  (a)    Interest,
fees and commissions payable pursuant hereto shall be calculated on the basis
of a 360-day year for the actual days elapsed, except that, with respect to
Base Rate Loans the rate of interest on which is calculated on the basis of the
Prime Rate, the interest thereon shall be calculated on the basis of a 365- (or
366-, as the case may be) day year for the actual days elapsed.  The Administrative Agent shall as soon as
practicable notify the Borrower and the relevant Lenders of each determination
of a Eurodollar Rate.  Any change in the
interest rate on a Loan resulting from a change in the Base Rate or the
Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements shall become effective as of the opening of
business on the day on which such change becomes effective.  The Administrative Agent shall as soon as
practicable notify the Borrower and the relevant Lenders of the effective date
and the amount of each such change in interest rate.


 


(b)   Each determination of an
interest rate by the Administrative Agent pursuant to any provision of this
Agreement shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and the Lenders in
the absence of manifest error.  The
Administrative Agent shall, at the request of the Borrower, deliver to the
Borrower a statement showing the quotations used by the Administrative Agent in
determining any interest rate pursuant to Section 2.10(a).


 


2.11   Inability
to Determine Interest Rate.  If
prior to the first day of any Interest Period:


 


(a)   the Administrative Agent shall have determined (which
determination shall be conclusive and binding upon the Borrower) that, by
reason of circumstances affecting the relevant market, adequate and reasonable
means do not exist for ascertaining the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest
Period, or


 


(b)   the Administrative Agent shall have received notice
from the Required Lenders that the Eurodollar Rate determined or to be
determined for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the
cost to such Lenders (as conclusively certified by such Lenders) of making or
maintaining their affected Revolving Credit Loans during such Interest Period,


 


the
Administrative Agent shall give telecopy or telephonic notice thereof to the
Borrower and the relevant Lenders as soon as practicable thereafter.  If such notice is given (x) any Eurodollar
Loans requested to be made on the first day of such Interest Period shall be
made as Base Rate Loans, (y) any Revolving Credit Loans that were to have
been converted on the first day of such Interest Period to Eurodollar Loans shall
be continued as Base Rate Loans and (z) any outstanding Eurodollar Loans shall
be converted, on the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect
thereto, to Base Rate Loans.  Until such
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Administrative
Agent, no further Eurodollar Loans shall be made or continued as such, nor
shall the Borrower have the right to convert Revolving Credit Loans to
Eurodollar Loans.


 


2.12   Pro Rata
Treatment and Payments.  (a)    Each
borrowing by the Borrower of Revolving Credit Loans hereunder and any reduction
of the Revolving Credit Commitments of the Lenders shall be made pro  rata
according to the respective Revolving Credit Percentages of the Lenders.  Other than with respect to any substituted
Lender in accordance with Section 2.18, each payment in respect of principal or
interest in respect of the Revolving Credit Loans, each payment in respect of
commitment fees payable hereunder shall be applied to the amounts of such obligations
owing to the Lenders pro  rata according to the respective amounts
then due and owing to the Lenders.  Each
payment in respect of Reimbursement Obligations in respect of any Letter of
Credit shall be made to the Issuing Lender that issued such Letter of Credit.


 


(b)   All payments (including
prepayments) to be made by the Borrower hereunder, whether on account of
principal, interest, fees or otherwise, shall be made without setoff or
counterclaim and shall be made prior to 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the
due date thereof to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders,
at the Payment Office, in Dollars and in immediately available funds.  Any payment made after 12:00 Noon, New York
City time, on any Business Day shall be deemed to have been made on the next
succeeding Business Day.  The
Administrative Agent shall distribute such payments to the Lenders promptly
upon receipt in like funds as received. 
If any payment hereunder (other than payments on the Eurodollar Loans)
becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall
be extended to the next succeeding Business Day.  If any payment on a Eurodollar Loan becomes
due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, the maturity thereof shall
be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless the result of such
extension would be to extend such payment into another calendar month, in which
event such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business
Day.  In the case of any extension of any
payment of principal pursuant to the preceding two sentences, interest thereon
shall be payable at the then applicable rate during such extension.


 


(c)   Unless the Administrative
Agent shall have been notified in writing by any Lender prior to a borrowing
that such Lender will not make the amount that would constitute its share of
such borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent
may assume that such Lender is making such amount available to the
Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such
assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount.  If such amount is not made available to the
Administrative Agent by the required time on the Borrowing Date therefor, such
Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent, on demand, such amount with
interest thereon at a rate equal to the daily average Federal Funds Effective
Rate for the period until such Lender makes such amount immediately available
to the Administrative Agent.  A
certificate of the Administrative Agent submitted to any Lender with respect to
any amounts owing under this paragraph shall be conclusive in the absence of
manifest error.  If such Lender’s share
of such borrowing is not made available to the Administrative Agent by such Lender
within three Business Days of such Borrowing Date, the Administrative Agent
shall also be entitled to recover such amount with interest thereon at the rate
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(d)   Unless the Administrative
Agent shall have been notified in writing by the Borrower prior to the date of
any payment due to be made hereunder that the Borrower will not make such
payment to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may assume that
the Borrower is making such payment, and the Administrative Agent may, but
shall not be required to, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to
the Lenders their respective pro  rata shares of a corresponding amount.  If such payment is not made to the
Administrative Agent by the Borrower within three Business Days of such due
date, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover, on demand, from
each Lender to which any amount which was made available pursuant to the
preceding sentence, such amount with interest thereon at a rate per annum equal
to the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate.  Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the
rights of the Administrative Agent or any Lender against the Borrower.


 


2.13   Requirements of Law.  (a)    If the adoption of
or any change in any Requirement of Law or in the interpretation or application
thereof or compliance by any Lender with any request or directive (whether or
not having the force of law) from any central bank or other Governmental
Authority made subsequent to the date hereof:


 


(i)   shall subject any Lender to any tax of any kind
whatsoever with respect to this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any
Application or any Eurodollar Loan made by it, or change the basis of taxation
of payments to such Lender in respect thereof (except for Non-Excluded Taxes
covered by Section 2.14 and changes in the rate of tax on the overall net
income of such Lender);


 


(ii)   shall impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve,
special deposit, compulsory loan or similar requirement against assets held by,
deposits or other liabilities in or for the account of, advances, loans or
other extensions of credit by, or any other acquisition of funds by, any office
of such Lender that is not otherwise included in the determination of the
Eurodollar Rate hereunder; or


 


(iii)   shall impose on such Lender any other condition;


 


and the result
of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender, by an amount
which such Lender deems to be material, of making, converting into, continuing
or maintaining Eurodollar Loans or issuing or participating in Letters of
Credit, or to reduce any amount receivable hereunder in respect thereof, then,
in any such case, the Borrower shall promptly pay such Lender, upon its demand,
any additional amounts necessary to compensate such Lender for such increased
cost or reduced amount receivable.  If
any Lender becomes entitled to claim any additional amounts pursuant to this
Section, it shall promptly notify the Borrower (with a copy to the
Administrative Agent) of the event by reason of which it has become so
entitled.


 


(b)   If any Lender shall have
determined that the adoption of or any change in any Requirement of Law
regarding capital adequacy or in the interpretation or application thereof or
compliance by such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender with any
request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the
force of law) from any Governmental Authority made subsequent to the date
hereof shall have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or
such corporation’s capital as a consequence of its obligations hereunder to a
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for such adoption, change or compliance
(taking into consideration such Lender’s or such corporation’s policies with
respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed by such Lender to be material,
then from time to time, after submission by such Lender to the Borrower (with a
copy to the Administrative Agent) of a written request therefor, the Borrower
shall pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate
such Lender or such corporation for such reduction.


 


(c)   A certificate as to any
additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section submitted by any Lender to
the Borrower setting out in reasonable detail the method of determination of
such additional amounts (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) shall be
conclusive in the absence of manifest error. 
The obligations of the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall survive
the termination of this Agreement and the payment of amounts payable hereunder.


 


2.14   Taxes.  (a)    All
payments made by the Borrower under this Agreement shall be made free and clear
of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any present or
future income, stamp or other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees,
deductions or withholdings, now or hereafter imposed, levied, collected,
withheld or assessed by any Governmental Authority, excluding net income taxes
and franchise taxes (imposed in lieu of net income taxes) imposed on the
Administrative Agent or any Lender as a result of a present or former
connection between the Administrative Agent or such Lender and the jurisdiction
of the Governmental Authority imposing such tax or any political subdivision or
taxing authority thereof or therein (other than any such connection arising
solely from the Administrative Agent’s or such Lender’s having executed,
delivered or performed its obligations or received a payment under, or
enforced, this Agreement or any other Loan Document).  If any such non-excluded taxes, levies,
imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions or withholdings (“Non-Excluded
Taxes”) are required to be withheld from any amounts payable to the
Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder, the amounts so payable to the
Administrative Agent or such Lender shall be increased to the extent necessary
to yield to the Administrative Agent or such Lender (after payment of all
Non-Excluded Taxes and Other Taxes) interest or any such other amounts payable
hereunder at the rates or in the amounts specified in this Agreement, provided,
however, that the Borrower shall not be required to increase any such
amounts payable to any Lender with respect to any Non-Excluded Taxes (i) that
are attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the requirements of
paragraph (d) or (e) of this Section or (ii) that are United States withholding
taxes imposed on amounts payable to such Lender at the time such Lender becomes
a party to this Agreement, except to the extent that such Lender’s assignor (if
any) was entitled, at the time of assignment, to receive additional amounts
from the Borrower with respect to such Non-Excluded Taxes pursuant to Section
2.14(a).


 


(b)   In addition, the Borrower
shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance
with applicable law.


 


(c)   Whenever any Non-Excluded
Taxes or Other Taxes are payable by the Borrower, as promptly as possible
thereafter the Borrower shall send to the Administrative Agent for the account
of the Administrative Agent or relevant Lender, as the case may be, a certified
copy of an original official receipt received by the Borrower showing payment
thereof.  If the Borrower fails to pay
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taxing authority or fails to remit to the
Administrative Agent the required receipts or other required documentary
evidence, the Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
for any incremental taxes, interest or penalties that may become payable by the
Administrative Agent or any Lender as a result of any such failure.  The agreements in this Section 2.14 shall
survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all
other amounts payable hereunder.


 


(d)   Each Lender (or Transferee)
that is not a citizen or resident of the United States of America, a
corporation, partnership or other entity created or organized in or under the
laws of the United States of America (or any jurisdiction thereof), or any
estate or trust that is subject to federal income taxation regardless of the
source of its income (a “Non-U.S. Lender”) shall deliver to the Borrower
and the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of a Participant or a Lender
participating in a conduit financing arrangement, as defined in Section 7701(1)
of the Code and the regulations thereunder (a “Conduit Financing Arrangement”)
(such Lender, a “Conduit Lender”), also to the Lender from which the
related participation shall have been purchased or from which the designation
of such Conduit Lender was made, as the case may be) two copies of either U.S.
Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, Form W-8ECI or Form W-8IMY, or, in the
case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming exemption from U.S. federal withholding tax
under Section 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code with respect to payments of “portfolio
interest” a statement substantially in the form of Exhibit H and a Form W-8BEN
or Form W-8IMY, or any subsequent versions thereof or successors thereto
properly completed and duly executed by such Non-U.S. Lender claiming complete
exemption from, or a reduced rate of, U.S. federal withholding tax on all
payments by the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents.  Such forms shall be delivered
by each Non-U.S. Lender on or before the date it becomes a party to this
Agreement (or, in the case of any Participant, on or before the date such
Participant purchases the related participation).  In addition, each Non-U.S. Lender shall
deliver such forms promptly upon the obsolescence or invalidity of any form
previously delivered by such Non-U.S. Lender. 
Each Non-U.S. Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower at any time it
determines that it is no longer in a position to provide any previously
delivered certificate to the Borrower (or any other form of certification
adopted by the U.S. taxing authorities for such purpose).  Notwithstanding any other provision of this
paragraph, a Non-U.S. Lender shall not be required to deliver any form pursuant
to this paragraph that such Non-U.S. Lender is not legally able to
deliver.  If any Non-U.S. Lender provides
a Form W-8IMY, such Non-U.S. Lender must also attach the additional
documentation that must be transmitted with Form W-8IMY, including the
appropriate forms described in this Section 2.14(d).  A Conduit Lender shall provide two copies of
the appropriate withholding statements for all participants and parties to a
potential Conduit Financing Arrangement to the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent on or before the date of commencement of the potential Conduit Financing
Arrangement.


 


(e)   A Lender that is entitled to
an exemption from or reduction of non-U.S. withholding tax under the law of the
jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located, or any treaty to which such
jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments under this Agreement shall
deliver to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time
or times prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower,
such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law
as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced
rate, provided that such Lender is legally entitled to complete, execute
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completion, execution or submission would not
materially prejudice the legal position of such Lender.


 


(f)   If the Administrative Agent
or any Lender receives a refund in respect of Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes
paid by the Borrower, which in the good faith judgment of such Lender is
allocable to such payment, it shall promptly pay such refund, together with any
other amounts paid by the Borrower in connection with such refunded
Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes, to the Borrower, net of all out-of-pocket
expenses of such Lender incurred in obtaining such refund, provided, however,
that the Borrower agrees to promptly return such refund to the Administrative
Agent or the applicable Lender, as the case may be, if it receives notice from
the Administrative Agent or applicable Lender that the Administrative Agent or
such Lender is required to repay such refund.


 


(g)   No Conduit Lender or other
participant in a potential Conduit Financing Arrangement shall be entitled to
receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.14 than the financing entity
(as defined in Treas. Reg. § 1.881-3(a)(2)) would be entitled to receive
pursuant to Section 2.14.


 


2.15   Indemnity.  The Borrower agrees to indemnify each Lender
for and to hold each Lender harmless from any loss or expense that such Lender
may reasonably sustain or incur as a consequence of (a) default by the
Borrower in making a borrowing of, conversion into or continuation of
Eurodollar Loans after the Borrower has given a notice requesting the same in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, (b)  default by the Borrower in making any
prepayment after the Borrower has given a notice thereof in accordance with the
provisions of this Agreement or (c) the making of a prepayment or conversion of
Eurodollar Loans on a day that is not the last day of an Interest Period with
respect thereto.  Such indemnification
may include an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of
interest that would have accrued on the amount so prepaid or converted, or not
so borrowed, converted or continued, for the period from the date of such
prepayment or conversion or of such failure to borrow, convert or continue to
the last day of such Interest Period (or, in the case of a failure to borrow,
convert or continue, the Interest Period that would have commenced on the date
of such failure) in each case at the applicable rate of interest for such
Revolving Credit Loans provided for herein (excluding, however, the Applicable
Margin included therein, if any) over (ii) the amount of interest (as
reasonably determined by such Lender) that would have accrued to such Lender on
such amount by placing such amount on deposit for a comparable period with
leading banks in the interbank eurodollar market.  A certificate as to any amounts payable
pursuant to this Section submitted to the Borrower by any Lender shall be
conclusive in the absence of manifest error. 
This covenant shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the
payment of the Revolving Credit Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.


 


2.16   Illegality.  Notwithstanding any other provision herein,
if the adoption of or any change in any Requirement of Law or in the
interpretation or application thereof shall make it unlawful for any Lender to
make or maintain Eurodollar Loans as contemplated by this Agreement, (a) the
commitment of such Lender hereunder to make Eurodollar Loans, continue
Eurodollar Loans as such and convert Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Loans shall forthwith
be canceled and (b) such Lender’s Revolving Credit Loans then outstanding as
Eurodollar Loans, if any, shall be converted automatically to Base Rate Loans
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current Interest Periods with
respect to such Revolving Credit Loans or within such earlier period as
required by law.  If any such conversion
of a Eurodollar Loan occurs on a day which is not the last day of the then
current Interest Period with respect thereto, the Borrower shall pay to such
Lender such amounts, if any, as may be required pursuant to Section 2.15.


 


2.17   Change of Lending
Office.  Each Lender agrees that,
upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 2.13,
2.14(a) or 2.16 with respect to such Lender, it will, if requested by the
Borrower, use reasonable efforts (subject to overall policy considerations of
such Lender) to designate another lending office for any Loans affected by such
event with the object of avoiding the consequences of such event; provided,
that such designation is made on terms that, in the sole judgment of such
Lender, cause such Lender and its lending office(s) to suffer no economic,
legal or regulatory disadvantage, and provided, further, that
nothing in this Section shall affect or postpone any of the obligations of the
Borrower or the rights of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.13, 2.14(a) or 2.16.


 


2.18   Substitution of
Lenders.  Upon the receipt by the
Borrower from any Lender (an “Affected Lender”) of a claim under Section
2.13, 2.14 or 2.16, the Borrower may: (a) request one more of the other Lenders
to acquire and assume all or part of such Affected Lender’s Loans,
Reimbursement Obligations and Revolving Credit Commitment; or (b) replace such
Affected Lender by designating another Lender or a financial institution that
is willing to acquire such Loans and Reimbursement Obligations and assume such
Revolving Credit Commitment;  provided
that (i) such replacement does not conflict with any Requirement of Law, (ii)
no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such
replacement, (iii) the Borrower shall repay (or the replacement bank or
institution shall purchase, at par) all Loans and Reimbursement Obligations, accrued
interest and other amounts owing to such replaced Lender prior to the date of
replacement (including all amounts then owing to such replaced Lender pursuant
to Sections 2.13, 2.14 and 2.16), (iv) the Borrower shall be liable to such
replaced Lender under Section 2.15 if any Eurodollar Loan owing to such
replaced Lender shall be prepaid (or purchased) other than on the last day of
the Interest Period relating thereto, (v) the replacement bank or institution,
if not already a Lender, shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent, and (vi) the replaced Lender shall be obligated to make such replacement
in accordance with the provisions of Section 9.6 (provided that the
Borrower or replacement Lender shall be obligated to pay the registration and
processing fee).


 


2.19   L/C Commitment.  (a)  Subject
to the terms and conditions hereof, each Issuing Lender, in reliance on the
agreements of the other Lenders set forth in Section 2.22(a), agrees to issue
letters of credit (the letters of credit issued on and after the Closing Date,
together with the Existing Letters of Credit, collectively, the “Letters of
Credit”) for the account of the Borrower on any Business Day during the
Revolving Credit Commitment Period in such form as may be approved from time to
time by such Issuing Lender; provided that no Issuing Lender shall have
any obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if, after giving effect to such
issuance, (i) the L/C Obligations would exceed the L/C Commitment or (ii)
the aggregate amount of the Available Revolving Credit Commitments would be
less than zero.  Each Letter of Credit
shall (i) be denominated in Dollars and (ii) expire no later than the earlier
of (x) the first anniversary of its date of issuance and (y) the date which is
five Business Days prior to the Revolving Credit Termination Date, provided
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renewal thereof for additional
one-year periods (which shall in no event extend beyond the date referred to in
clause (y) above).


 


(b)        No Issuing Lender shall at any time be obligated to issue
any Letter of Credit hereunder if such issuance would conflict with, or cause
such Issuing Lender or any L/C Participant to exceed any limits imposed by, any
applicable Requirement of Law.


 


2.20   Procedure
for Issuance of Letter of Credit. 
The Borrower may from time to time request that an Issuing Lender issue
a Letter of Credit by delivering to such Issuing Lender at its address for
notices specified herein an Application therefor, completed to the reasonable
satisfaction of such Issuing Lender, and such other certificates, documents and
other papers and information as such Issuing Lender may reasonably request with
respect to the requested Letter of Credit. 
Upon receipt of any Application, an Issuing Lender will process such
Application and the certificates, documents and other papers and information
delivered to it in connection therewith in accordance with its customary
procedures and shall promptly issue the Letter of Credit requested thereby (but
in no event shall any Issuing Lender be required to issue any Letter of Credit
earlier than three Business Days after its receipt of the Application therefor
and all such other certificates, documents and other papers and information
relating thereto) by issuing the original of such Letter of Credit to the
beneficiary thereof or as otherwise may be agreed to by such Issuing Lender and
the Borrower.  Promptly after issuance by
an Issuing Lender of a Letter of Credit, such Issuing Lender shall furnish a
copy of such Letter of Credit to the Borrower. 
Each Issuing Lender shall promptly furnish to the Administrative Agent,
which shall in turn promptly furnish to the Lenders, notice of the issuance of
each Letter of Credit issued by it (including the amount thereof).


 


2.21   Fees and Other Charges.  (a)    The Borrower will
pay a fee on the aggregate drawable amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit
at a per annum rate equal to the Applicable Margin then in effect with respect
to Revolving Credit Loans that are Eurodollar Loans, shared ratably among the
Lenders and payable quarterly in arrears on each L/C Fee Payment Date after the
issuance date.  In addition, the Borrower
shall pay to each Issuing Lender for its own account a fronting fee on the
aggregate drawable amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit issued by it in
an amount to be agreed upon from time to time between such Issuing Lender and
the Borrower, payable quarterly in arrears on each L/C Fee Payment Date after
the Issuance Date.


 


(b)   In addition to the foregoing
fees, the Borrower shall pay or reimburse each Issuing Lender for such normal
and customary costs and expenses as are incurred or charged by such Issuing
Lender in issuing, negotiating, effecting payment under, amending or otherwise
administering any Letter of Credit.


 


2.22   L/C Participations.  (a)    Each
Issuing Lender irrevocably agrees to grant and hereby grants to each L/C
Participant, and, to induce each Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit
hereunder, each L/C Participant irrevocably agrees to accept and purchase and
hereby accepts and purchases from each Issuing Lender, on the terms and
conditions hereinafter stated, for such L/C Participant’s own account and risk
an undivided interest equal to such L/C Participant’s Revolving Credit
Percentage in each Issuing Lender’s obligations and rights under and in respect
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of each draft paid by such
Issuing Lender thereunder.  Each L/C
Participant unconditionally and irrevocably agrees with each Issuing Lender
that, if a draft is paid under any Letter of Credit by such Issuing Lender for
which such Issuing Lender is not reimbursed in full by the Borrower in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement, such L/C Participant shall pay to
such Issuing Lender upon demand at such Issuing Lender’s address for notices
specified herein an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s Revolving Credit
Percentage of the amount of such draft, or any part thereof, that is not so
reimbursed.


 


(b)   If any amount required to be
paid by any L/C Participant to an Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 2.22(a) in
respect of any unreimbursed portion of any payment made by such Issuing Lender
under any Letter of Credit is paid to such Issuing Lender within three Business
Days after the date such payment is due, such L/C Participant shall pay to such
Issuing Lender on demand an amount equal to the product of (i) such amount,
times (ii) the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate during the period
from and including the date such payment is required to the date on which such
payment is immediately available to such Issuing Lender, times (iii) a fraction
the numerator of which is the number of days that elapse during such period and
the denominator of which is 360.  If any
such amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant pursuant to Section
2.22(a) is not made available to such Issuing Lender by such L/C Participant
within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, such Issuing
Lender shall be entitled to recover from such L/C Participant, on demand, such
amount with interest thereon calculated from such due date at the rate per
annum applicable to Base Rate Loans.  A
certificate of such Issuing Lender submitted to any L/C Participant with
respect to any such amounts owing under this Section shall be conclusive in the
absence of manifest error.


 


(c)   Whenever, at any time after
an Issuing Lender has made payment under any Letter of Credit and has received
from any L/C Participant its pro  rata share of such payment in
accordance with Section 2.22(a), such Issuing Lender receives any payment
related to such Letter of Credit (whether directly from the Borrower or
otherwise, including proceeds of collateral applied thereto by such Issuing
Lender), or any payment of interest on account thereof, such Issuing Lender
will distribute to such L/C Participant its pro  rata share
thereof; provided, however, that in the event that any such
payment received by such Issuing Lender shall be required to be returned by
such Issuing Lender, such L/C Participant shall return to such Issuing Lender
the portion thereof previously distributed by such Issuing Lender to it.


 


(d)   Each Lender’s obligation to
purchase, pursuant to Section 2.22(a), such Lender’s Revolving Credit
Percentage in each Issuing Lender’s obligations and rights under and in respect
of each Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender hereunder shall be
absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance,
including, without limitation, (i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment,
defense or other right which such Lender or the Borrower may have against such
Issuing Lender, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever;
(ii) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the
failure to satisfy any of the other conditions specified in Section 4; (iii)
any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower or
any other Loan Party; (iv) any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document by the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Lender; or (v) any
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2.23   Reimbursement
Obligation of the Borrower.  The
Borrower agrees to reimburse each Issuing Lender on each date on which such
Issuing Lender notifies the Borrower of the date and amount of a draft
presented under any Letter of Credit and paid by such Issuing Lender (but in
any event no such reimbursement shall be required before the date on which Base
Rate Loans would be made (or the procedure specified in Section 2.22 would
become applicable) as described in the last two sentences of this Section) for
the amount of (a) such draft so paid and (b) any taxes, fees, charges or other
costs or expenses incurred by such Issuing Lender in connection with such
payment (the amounts described in the foregoing clauses (a) and (b) in respect
of any drawing, collectively, the “Payment Amount”).  Each such payment shall be made to such
Issuing Lender at its address for notices specified herein in lawful money of
the United States of America and in immediately available funds.  Interest shall be payable on each Payment
Amount from the date of the applicable drawing until payment in full at the
rate set forth in (i) until the second Business Day following the date of
the applicable drawing, Section 2.9(b) and (ii) thereafter, Section
2.9(c).  Each drawing under any Letter of
Credit shall (unless an event of the type described in clause (i) or (ii) of
Section 7(f) shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the
Borrower, in which case the procedures specified in Section 2.22 for funding by
L/C Participants shall apply) constitute a request by the Borrower to the
Administrative Agent for a borrowing pursuant to Section 2.2 of Base Rate Loans
in the amount of such drawing.  The
Borrowing Date with respect to such borrowing shall be the first date on which
a borrowing of Revolving Credit Loans could be made, pursuant to Section 2.2,
if the Administrative Agent had received a notice of such borrowing at the time
of such drawing under such Letter of Credit.


 


2.24   Obligations Absolute.  The Borrower’s obligations under Sections
2.19 through 2.25 shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all
circumstances and irrespective of any setoff, counterclaim or defense to
payment that the Borrower may have or have had against any Issuing Lender, any
L/C Participant, any beneficiary of a Letter of Credit or any other
Person.  The Borrower also agrees that
each Issuing Lender and the L/C Participant shall not be responsible for, and
the Borrower’s Reimbursement Obligations under Section 2.23 shall not be
affected by, among other things, the validity or genuineness of documents or of
any endorsements thereon, even though such documents shall in fact prove to be
invalid, fraudulent or forged, or any dispute between or among the Borrower and
any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit or any other party to which such Letter
of Credit may be transferred or any claims whatsoever of the Borrower against
any beneficiary of such Letter of Credit or any such transferee.  No Issuing Lender or L/C Participant shall be
liable for any error, omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch
or delivery of any message or advice, however transmitted, in connection with
any Letter of Credit, except for errors or omissions found by a final and
nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted
from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Issuing Lender.  The Borrower agrees that any action taken or
omitted by an Issuing Lender under or in connection with any Letter of Credit
issued by it or the related drafts or documents, if done in the absence of
gross negligence or willful misconduct and in accordance with the standards or
care specified in the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York, shall
be binding on the Borrower and shall not result in any liability of such
Issuing Lender or any L/C Participant to the Borrower.


 


2.25   Letter of Credit
Payments.  If any draft shall be
presented for payment under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Lender
shall promptly notify the Borrower of the date and amount thereof.  The responsibility of the relevant Issuing
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connection with any draft
presented for payment under any Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender
shall, in addition to any payment obligation expressly provided for in such
Letter of Credit, be limited to determining that the documents (including each
draft) delivered under such Letter of Credit in connection with such
presentment are substantially in conformity with such Letter of Credit.


 


2.26   Applications.  To the extent that any provision of any
Application related to any Letter of Credit is inconsistent with the provisions
of Sections 2.19 through 2.25, the provisions of Sections 2.19 through 2.25
shall apply; provided, however, that any term, condition or
provision of any Application which is in addition to, or the subject matter of
which is not in, part of or covered by, the provisions of Sections 2.19 through
2.25 shall not be considered as being or deemed to be in conflict with or
inconsistent with the provisions of Sections 2.19 through 2.25.


 


SECTION
3.  REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES


 


To induce the Agents and the Lenders to enter
into this Agreement and to make the Loans and to issue or participate in
Letters of Credit, the Borrower hereby represents and warrants to each Agent
and each Lender that:


 


3.1   Financial Condition.  (a)  The unaudited pro  forma
consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated
Subsidiaries as at July 3, 2004 (including the notes thereto) (the “Pro
Forma Balance Sheet”), copies of which have heretofore been furnished to
each Lender, has been prepared giving effect (as if such events had occurred on
such date) to (i) the Loans to be made hereunder, if any, on the Closing
Date and the use of proceeds thereof and (ii) the payment of fees and
expenses in connection with the foregoing. 
The Pro Forma Balance Sheet has been prepared based on the best
information available to the Borrower as of the date of delivery thereof, and
presents fairly on a pro forma basis the estimated financial condition of
Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at July 3, 2004, assuming that
the events specified in the preceding sentence had actually occurred at such
date.


 


(b)   The audited consolidated
balance sheets of the Borrower as at December 29, 2001, December 28, 2002 and
January 3, 2004, and the related consolidated statements of income and of cash
flows for the fiscal years ended on such dates, reported on by and accompanied
by an unqualified report from KPMG LLP, present fairly the consolidated
financial condition of the Borrower as at such date, and the consolidated
results of its operations and its consolidated cash flows for the respective
fiscal years then ended.  The unaudited
consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower as at July 3, 2004, and the related
unaudited consolidated statements of income and cash flows for the twenty-six
week period ended on such date, present fairly the consolidated financial
condition of Borrower as at such date, and the consolidated results of its
operations and its consolidated cash flows for the twenty-six week period then
ended (subject to normal year-end audit adjustments).  All such financial statements, including the
related schedules and notes thereto, have been prepared in accordance with GAAP
applied consistently throughout the periods involved (except as approved by the
aforementioned firm of accountants and disclosed therein and subject, in the
case of the financial statements as of and for the period ended July 3, 2004,
to normal year end audit adjustments and the absence of notes).  The Borrower and its Subsidiaries do not have
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liabilities and liabilities for taxes, or any
long-term leases or unusual forward or long-term commitments, including,
without limitation, any interest rate or foreign currency swap or exchange
transaction or other obligation in respect of derivatives, that are not
reflected in the most recent financial statements referred to in this
paragraph.  During the period from
January 3, 2004, to and including the date hereof there has been no Disposition
by the Borrower of any material part of its business or Property.


 


3.2   No Change.  Since January 3, 2004, there has been no
development or event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.


 


3.3   Corporate
Existence; Compliance with Law. 
Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (a) is duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
organization, (b) has the corporate or business trust power and authority, and
the legal right, to own and operate its Property, to lease the Property it
operates as lessee and to conduct the business in which it is currently
engaged, (c) is duly qualified as a foreign corporation or business trust and
in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease
or operation of Property or the conduct of its business requires such
qualification and (d) is in compliance with all Requirements of Law except, in
the case of each of the foregoing clauses (c) and (d), to the extent that the
failure to comply therewith could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect.


 


3.4   Corporate
Power; Authorization; Enforceable Obligations.  Each Loan Party has the corporate or business
trust power and authority, and the legal right, to make, deliver and perform
the Loan Documents to which it is a party and, in the case of the Borrower, to
borrow and obtain other extensions of credit hereunder.  Each Loan Party has taken all necessary
corporate action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of the
Loan Documents to which it is a party and, in the case of the Borrower, to
authorize the borrowings and other extensions of credit on the terms and conditions
of this Agreement.  No consent or
authorization of, filing with, notice to or other act by or in respect of, any
Governmental Authority or any other Person is required in connection with the
borrowings and other extensions of credit hereunder or with the execution,
delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of
the other Loan Documents, except (i) consents, authorizations, filings and
notices described in Schedule 3.4, which consents, authorizations, filings and
notices have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, (ii) the
filings referred to in Section 3.19 and (iii) consents, notices and filings
which the failure to make or obtain could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.  Each Loan
Document has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of each Loan Party
party thereto.  This Agreement
constitutes, and each other Loan Document upon execution will constitute, a
legal, valid and binding obligation of each Loan Party party thereto,
enforceable against each such Loan Party in accordance with its terms, except
as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether
enforcement is sought by proceedings in equity or at law).


 


3.5   No Legal Bar.  The execution, delivery and performance of
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the issuance of Letters of Credit,
borrowings hereunder and the use of the proceeds thereof will not violate any
Requirement of Law or any Contractual Obligation of the Borrower or any of its
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creation or imposition of any
Lien on any of their respective properties or revenues pursuant to any
Requirement of Law or any such Contractual Obligation (other than the Liens
created by the Security Documents).  No Requirement
of Law or Contractual Obligation applicable on the Closing Date to the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.


 


3.6   No Material Litigation.  No litigation, investigation or proceeding of
or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority is pending or, to the
knowledge the Borrower, threatened by or against the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries or against any of their respective properties or revenues (a) with
respect to any of the Loan Documents or any of the transactions contemplated
hereby or thereby, or (b) that could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.


 


3.7   No Default.  Neither the Borrower nor any of its
Subsidiaries is in default under or with respect to any of its Contractual
Obligations in any respect that could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.  No Default or Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing.


 


3.8   Ownership of
Property; Liens.  Each of the
Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries has title in fee simple to, or a valid
leasehold interest in, all its real property, subject only to Liens and other
matters permitted by Section 6.3, and good title to, or a valid leasehold or
other property interest in, all its other Property, and none of such Property
is subject to any Lien except as permitted by Section 6.3.


 


3.9   Intellectual Property.  To the knowledge of the Borrower, the
Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries owns, or is licensed to use, all
Intellectual Property necessary and material for the conduct of its business as
currently conducted.  To the knowledge of
the Borrower, except as indicated on Schedule 3.9, no material claim has been
asserted and is pending by any Person alleging that the use of any Intellectual
Property by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries infringes on the intellectual
property rights of any Person in any material respect nor does the Borrower
know of any valid basis for any such claim.


 


3.10   Taxes.  Each of the Borrower and each of its
Subsidiaries has filed or caused to be filed all Federal, state and other
material tax returns that are required to be filed and has paid all taxes shown
to be due and payable on said returns or on any assessments made against it or
any of its Property and all other taxes, fees or other charges imposed on it or
any of its Property by any Governmental Authority (other than any the amount or
validity of which are currently being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and with respect to which reserves in conformity with GAAP have
been provided on the books of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, as the case may
be); and as of the Closing Date no tax Lien has been filed, and, to the
knowledge of the Borrower, no claim is being asserted, with respect to any such
tax, fee or other charge.


 


3.11   Federal Regulations.  No part of the proceeds of any Loans and no
Letters of Credit will be used for “purchasing” or “carrying” any “margin stock”
within the respective meanings of each of the quoted terms under Regulation U
as now and from time to time hereafter in effect or for any purpose that
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requested by any Lender or the
Administrative Agent, the Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and
each Lender a statement to the foregoing effect in conformity with the
requirements of FR Form G-3 or FR Form U-1 referred to in Regulation U.


 


3.12   Labor Matters.  There are no strikes or other labor disputes
against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries pending or, to the knowledge of
the Borrower, threatened that (individually or in the aggregate) could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.  Hours worked by and payment made to employees
of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries have not been in violation of the Fair
Labor Standards Act or any other applicable Requirement of Law dealing with
such matters that (individually or in the aggregate) could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. 
All payments due from the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries on account
of employee health and welfare insurance that (individually or in the
aggregate) could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect if
not paid have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of the Borrower
or the relevant Subsidiary.


 


3.13   ERISA.  Neither a Reportable Event nor an “accumulated
funding deficiency” (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section
302 of ERISA) has occurred during the five-year period prior to the date on
which this representation is made or deemed made with respect to any Plan, and
each Plan has complied in all material respects with the applicable provisions
of ERISA and the Code.  No termination of
a Single Employer Plan has occurred, and no Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan
has arisen, during such five-year period. 
The present value of all accrued benefits under each Single Employer
Plan (based on those assumptions used to fund such Plans) did not, as of the
last annual valuation date prior to the date on which this representation is
made or deemed made, exceed the value of the assets of such Plan allocable to
such accrued benefits by more than $2,000,000. 
Neither the Borrower nor any Commonly Controlled Entity has had a
complete or partial withdrawal from any Multiemployer Plan that has resulted or
could reasonably be expected to result in a material liability under ERISA, and
neither the Borrower nor any Commonly Controlled Entity would become subject to
any liability under ERISA if the Borrower or any such Commonly Controlled
Entity were to withdraw completely from all Multiemployer Plans as of the
valuation date most closely preceding the date on which this representation is
made or deemed made that could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.  No such Multiemployer
Plan is in Reorganization or Insolvent as of the Closing Date.


 


3.14   Investment
Company Act; Other Regulations. 
No Loan Party is an “investment company”, or a company “controlled” by
an “investment company”, within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended.  No Loan Party is
subject to regulation under any Requirement of Law (other than Regulation X of
the Board) which limits its ability to incur Indebtedness.


 


3.15   Subsidiaries.  (a)  The Subsidiaries listed on
Schedule 3.15 constitute all the Subsidiaries of the Borrower at the date
hereof.  Schedule 3.15 sets forth as of
the Closing Date the name and jurisdiction of incorporation of each Subsidiary
and, as to each such Subsidiary, the percentage of each class of Capital Stock
owned by any Loan Party.


 


(b)   Except as disclosed in the
Borrower’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended, as filed on October
7, 2004 and as contained in the Securities Holders Agreement,


 


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there are no
outstanding subscriptions, options, warrants, calls, rights or other agreements
or commitments (other than stock options granted to employees or directors and
directors’ qualifying shares) of any nature relating to any Capital Stock of
the Borrower or any Subsidiary.


 


3.16   Use of Proceeds.  The proceeds of the Loans shall be used (i)
to refinance certain existing Indebtedness of the Borrower, (ii) to finance the
working capital needs of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary
course of business, and (iii) for Permitted Acquisitions.  The Letters of Credit shall be used for the
working capital needs of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.


 


3.17   Environmental Matters.  Other than exceptions to any of the
following that could not, individually and in the aggregate, reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:


 


(a)   the Borrower and its Subsidiaries:  (i) are, and within the period of all
applicable statutes of limitation have been, in compliance with all applicable
Environmental Laws; (ii) hold all Environmental Permits (each of which is in
full force and effect) required for any of their current operations or for any
property owned, leased, or otherwise operated by any of them; (iii) are, and
within the period of all applicable statutes of limitation have been, in
compliance with all of their Environmental Permits; and (iv) reasonably believe
that:  each of their Environmental
Permits will be timely renewed and complied with; any additional Environmental
Permits that may be required of any of them will be timely obtained and
complied with; and compliance with any Environmental Law that is or is expected
to become applicable to any of them will be timely attained and maintained.


 


(b)   Materials of Environmental Concern are not present at,
on, under, in, or about any real property now or, to the knowledge of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries, formerly owned, leased or operated by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or, to the knowledge of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries, at any other location (including, without limitation, any
location to which Materials of Environmental Concern have been sent for re-use
or recycling or for treatment, storage, or disposal) which could reasonably be
expected to (i) give rise to liability of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries under any applicable Environmental Law or otherwise result in
costs to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or (ii) interfere with the
Borrower’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ continued operations.


 


(c)   There is no judicial, administrative, or arbitral
proceeding (including any notice of violation or alleged violation) under or
relating to any Environmental Law to which the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries is, or to the knowledge of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
will be, named as a party that is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries, threatened.


 


(d)   Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has
received any written request for information, or been notified that it is a
potentially responsible party under or relating to the federal Comprehensive
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Liability Act
or any similar Environmental Law, or with respect to any Materials of
Environmental Concern.


 


(e)   Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has
entered into or agreed to any consent decree, order, or settlement or other
agreement, or is subject to any judgment, decree, or order or other agreement, in
any judicial, administrative, arbitral, or other forum for dispute resolution,
relating to compliance with or liability under any Environmental Law.


 


(f)   Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has
assumed or retained, by contract, any liabilities of any kind, fixed or
contingent, known or unknown, under any Environmental Law or with respect to
any Material of Environmental Concern.


 


3.18   Accuracy of
Information, etc.  No written
statement or written information (other than projections) contained in this
Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other document, certificate or
written statement furnished to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders or any
of them, by or on behalf of any Loan Party for use in connection with the
transactions contemplated by or pursuant to this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents, contained as of the date such statement, information, document or
certificate was so furnished, any untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements
contained herein or therein not misleading. 
The projections and pro forma financial information contained in the
materials referenced above are based upon good faith estimates and assumptions
believed by management of the Borrower to be reasonable at the time made, it
being recognized by the Lenders that such financial information as it relates
to future events is not to be viewed as fact and that actual results during the
period or periods covered by such financial information may differ from the
projected results set forth therein by a material amount.


 


3.19   Security Documents.  The Guarantee and Collateral Agreement is
effective to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of
the Lenders, a legal, valid and enforceable security interest in the Collateral
described therein and proceeds thereof. 
In the case of the Pledged Stock described in the Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement, when any stock certificates representing such Pledged
Stock are delivered to the Administrative Agent together with stock powers
endorsed to the Administrative Agent or in blank, and in the case of the other
Collateral described in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, when financing
statements in appropriate form are filed in the offices specified on Schedule
3.19(a)-1, (which financing statements have been duly completed and delivered
to the Administrative Agent) and such other filings as are specified on
Schedule 3 to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement (all of which filings have
been duly completed), the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement shall constitute a
fully perfected Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and
interest of the Loan Parties in such Collateral and the proceeds thereof, as
security for the Obligations (as defined in the Guarantee and Collateral
Agreement), in each case prior and superior in right to any other Person
(except, in the case of Collateral other than Pledged Stock, Liens permitted by
Section 6.3).  Schedule 3.19(a)-2 lists
each UCC Financing Statement (other than any naming the Administrative Agent as
secured party) that (i) names any Loan Party as debtor and (ii) will remain on
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3.20   Solvency.  The Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries
are, and after giving effect to the incurrence of all Indebtedness and
obligations being incurred in connection herewith and therewith will be and
will continue to be, Solvent.


 


3.21   Senior Indebtedness.  The Obligations constitute “Senior Debt” of
the Borrower under and as defined in the Senior Subordinated Note
Indenture.  The obligations of each
Subsidiary Guarantor under the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement constitute
“Senior Debt” of such Subsidiary Guarantor under and as defined in the Senior
Subordinated Note Indenture.


 


SECTION 4.  CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT


 


4.1   Conditions
to Initial Extension of Credit. 
The agreement of each Lender to make its initial extension of credit on
or after the Closing Date is subject to the satisfaction, prior to or
concurrently with the making of any extensions of credit on the Closing Date,
of the following conditions precedent:


 


(a)   Loan Documents. 
The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) this Agreement,
executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the Borrower and
(ii) the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, executed and delivered by a
duly authorized officer of the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor.


 


(b)   Issuance of the EIS and Other Indebtedness.  The Borrower shall have received gross
proceeds of at least $240,000,000 from the issuance of its Senior Notes, at
least $260,869,575 from the issuance of the EIS (which includes $124,300,000
from the issuance of the Senior Subordinated Notes), and $22,800,000 from the
issuance of Senior Subordinated Notes (not part of the EIS) in each case, on
terms satisfactory to the Lenders.  The
capital structure of each Loan Party shall be as set forth in the S-1 filed on
September 15, 2004 with the SEC.


 


(c)   Pro Forma Balance Sheet; Financial Statements.  The Lenders shall have received and be
satisfied (in form and substance) with the Pro Forma Balance Sheet and the
financial statements described in Section 3.1.


 


(d)   Approvals. 
All governmental and third party approvals reasonably necessary in the
discretion of the Administrative Agent in connection with the financing
contemplated hereby and the continuing operations of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries shall have been obtained and be in full force and effect; all
applicable waiting periods shall have expired without any action being taken or
threatened by any competent authority which would restrain, prevent or
otherwise impose adverse conditions on the financing contemplated hereby; and
the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of a Responsible
Officer to the foregoing effect, which certificate shall also either (i)
certify that no such approvals are required or (ii) have attached to it copies
of any such required approvals.


 


(e)   Related Agreements.  The Administrative Agent shall have received (in a form
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent), true and correct copies,


 


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certified as
to authenticity by the Borrower, of the Senior Note Indenture, the EIS
Documentation and such other documents or instruments as may be reasonably
requested by the Administrative Agent.


 


(f)   Fees. 
The Arranger and the Administrative Agent shall have received all fees
required to be paid, and all expenses for which invoices have been presented
(including reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel to the
Administrative Agent), on or before the Closing Date.  All such amounts will be paid from the issuance of the Senior
Notes  and will be
reflected in the funding instructions given by the Borrower to the
Administrative Agent on or before the Closing Date.


 


(g)   Business Plan. 
The Administrative Agent shall have received satisfactory business
projections for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for fiscal years 2004-2008.


 


(h)   Lien Searches. 
The Administrative Agent shall have received the results of a recent
lien search in each relevant jurisdiction with respect to the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries, and such search shall reveal no liens on any of the assets of the
Borrower or its Subsidiaries except for liens permitted by Section 6.3 or liens
to be discharged on or prior to the Closing Date pursuant to documentation
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.


 


(i)   Closing Certificate.  The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of
each Loan Party, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit
C, with appropriate insertions and attachments.


 


(j)   Legal Opinions. 
The Administrative Agent shall have received the following executed
legal opinions:


 


(i)   the legal opinion of Dechert
LLP, counsel to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, substantially in the form of
Exhibit F; and


 


(ii)   the legal opinion of Lisman,
Webster, Kirkpatrick & Leckerling, P.C., which opinion shall be in form and
substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.


 


Each such
legal opinion shall cover such other matters incident to the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement as the Administrative Agent may reasonably
require.


 


(k)   Pledged Stock; Stock Power .  The Administrative Agent shall have received
the certificates representing the shares of Capital Stock pledged pursuant to
the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, together with an undated stock power
for each such certificate executed in blank by a duly authorized officer of the
pledgor thereof.


 


(l)   Filings, Registrations and Recordings.  Each document (including, without
limitation, any Uniform Commercial Code financing statement) required by
the Security Documents or under law or reasonably requested by the
Administrative Agent to be filed, registered or recorded in order to create in
favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a perfected
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superior in
right to any other Person (other than with respect to Liens and other matters
expressly permitted by Section 6.3), shall be in proper form for filing,
registration or recordation.


 


(m)   Insurance. 
The Administrative Agent shall have received insurance certificates
satisfying the requirements of Section 5.3 of the Guarantee and Collateral
Agreement.


 


(n)   Leverage Ratio. 
As of the Closing Date, the ratio of the Borrower’s Consolidated Total
Debt to the Borrower’s pro  forma Consolidated EBITDA for the four
consecutive fiscal quarters ended July 3, 2004 shall not be greater than 5.35
to 1.0.  The Lenders shall have received
a certificate from the Borrower containing all information and calculations
necessary for determining compliance with the foregoing requirement.


 


(o)   Termination of Existing Credit Agreement.  The Administrative Agent shall have received
evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that the Existing Credit
Agreement shall be simultaneously terminated, all amounts thereunder shall be
simultaneously paid in full and arrangements satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent shall have been made for the termination (or assignment to the
Administrative Agent) of Liens and security interests granted in connection
therewith.


 


(p)   Solvency. 
The Lenders shall have received a Solvency Certificate executed by the
chief financial officer of the Borrower which shall document the solvency of
each Loan Party after giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby.


 


(q)   Merger. 
The merger of Old B&G Foods, Inc. with and into B&G Foods
Holdings Corp. shall have become effective by the filing of a Certificate of
Merger with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, and B&G Foods
Holdings Corp. shall have filed an amendment to its certificate of
incorporation with the Secretary of the State of Delaware effectively changing
its name to B&G Foods, Inc.


 


(r)   Existing Subordinated Notes.  The Borrower shall have accepted for
purchase all validly tendered 95/8% Senior
Subordinated Notes due August 1, 2007 and the supplemental indentures with
respect to such notes shall have become operative.


 


4.2   Conditions
to Each Extension of Credit. 
The agreement of each Lender to make any extension of credit requested
to be made by it on any date (including, without limitation, its initial
extension of credit) is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions
precedent:


 


(a)   Representations and Warranties.  Each of the representations and warranties
made by any Loan Party in or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan
Document shall be true and correct on and as of such date as if made on and as
of such date (unless stated to relate to an earlier date, in which case such
representations and warranties shall be true and correct as of such earlier
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(b)   No Default. 
No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on
such date or after giving effect to the making of the extensions of credit
requested to be made on such date.


 


(c)   Senior Debt. 
A Responsible Officer of the Borrower shall have certified in writing to
the Administrative Agent that the incurrence of Indebtedness represented by the
requested extension of credit is permitted under the Senior Subordinated Notes
Indenture.


 


Each
borrowing by and issuance of a Letter of Credit on behalf of the Borrower
hereunder shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower as of
the date of such extension of credit that the conditions contained in this
Section 4.2 have been satisfied.


 


SECTION 5.  AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS


 


The Borrower hereby agrees that, so long as
the Revolving Credit Commitments remain in effect, any Letter of Credit remains
outstanding or any Loan or other amount is owing to any Lender or any Agent
hereunder, the Borrower shall and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to:


 


5.1   Financial Statements.  Furnish to the Administrative Agent and each
Lender:


 


(a)   as soon as available, but in any event within 90
days or, after fiscal year end 2005, such earlier date as required by the SEC,
after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a copy of the audited
consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as
at the end of such year and the related audited consolidated statements of
income and of cash flows for such year, setting forth in each case in
comparative form the figures as of the end of the previous year, reported on
without a “going concern” or like qualification or exception, or qualification
arising out of the scope of the audit, by KPMG, L.L.P. or other independent
certified public accountants of nationally recognized standing;


 


(b)   as soon as available, but in any event not later than
45 days or, after fiscal year end 2005, such earlier date as required by the
SEC, after the end of each of the first three quarterly periods of each fiscal
year of the Borrower, the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower
and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such quarter and the related
unaudited consolidated statements of income and of cash flows for such quarter
and the portion of the fiscal year through the end of such quarter, setting
forth in each case in comparative form the figures as of the end of and for the
corresponding period in the previous year, certified by a Responsible Officer
as being fairly stated in all material respects (subject to normal year-end
audit adjustments); and


 


(c)   as soon as available, but in any event not later than
45 days after the end of each month occurring during each fiscal year of the
Borrower (other than the third, sixth, ninth and twelfth such month), the
unaudited consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as
at the end of such month and the related unaudited consolidated statements of
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through the
end of such month, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures
as of the end of and for the corresponding period in the previous year,
certified by a Responsible Officer as being fairly stated in all material
respects (subject to normal year-end audit adjustments);


 


all such
financial statements to be complete and correct in all material respects and to
be prepared in reasonable detail and in accordance with GAAP applied
consistently throughout the periods reflected therein and with prior periods
(except as approved by such accountants or officer, as the case may be, and
disclosed therein).


 


5.2   Certificates;
Other Information.  Furnish to
the Administrative Agent and each Lender, or, in the case of clause (g), to the
relevant Lender:


 


(a)   concurrently with the delivery of the financial
statements referred to in Section 5.1(a), a certificate of the independent
certified public accountants reporting on such financial statements stating
that in making the examination necessary therefor no knowledge was obtained of
any Default or Event of Default, except as specified in such certificate;


 


(b)   concurrently with the delivery of any financial
statements pursuant to Section 5.1, (i) a certificate of a Responsible Officer
stating that, to the best of such Responsible Officer’s knowledge, each Loan
Party during such period has observed or performed all of its covenants and
other agreements, and satisfied every condition, contained in this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party to be observed, performed
or satisfied by it, and that such Responsible Officer has obtained no knowledge
of any Default or Event of Default except as specified in such certificate and
(ii) in the case of quarterly or annual financial statements, (x) a Compliance
Certificate containing all information and calculations necessary for
determining compliance by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries with the provisions
of this Agreement referred to therein as of the last day of the fiscal quarter
or fiscal year of the Borrower, as the case may be, and (y) to the extent not
previously disclosed to the Administrative Agent, a listing of any Intellectual
Property acquired by any Loan Party since the date of the most recent list
delivered pursuant to this clause (y) (or, in the case of the first such list
so delivered, since the Closing Date);


 


(c)   as soon as available, and in any event no later than 45
days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a detailed consolidated
budget for the following fiscal year (including a projected consolidated
balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the end of the
following fiscal year, and the related consolidated statements of projected
cash flow, projected changes in financial position and projected income), and,
as soon as available, significant revisions, if any, of such budget and
projections with respect to such fiscal year (collectively, the “Projections”),
which Projections shall in each case be accompanied by a certificate of a
Responsible Officer stating that such Projections are based on reasonable
estimates, information and assumptions and that such Responsible Officer has no
reason to believe that such Projections are incorrect or misleading in any
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(d)   within 45 days after the end of each fiscal quarter of
the Borrower, a narrative discussion and analysis of the financial condition
and results of operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal
quarter and for the period from the beginning of the then current fiscal year
to the end of such fiscal quarter, as compared to the portion of the
Projections covering such periods and to the comparable periods of the previous
year;


 


(e)   within five days after the same are sent, copies of all
financial statements and reports that the Borrower sends to the holders of any
class of its debt securities or public equity securities and, within five days
after the same are filed, copies of all financial statements and reports that
the Borrower may make to, or file with, the SEC;


 


(f)   as soon as possible and in any event within 5 days of
obtaining knowledge thereof:  (i)  a description of any development, event, or
condition that, individually or in the aggregate with other developments,
events or conditions, could reasonably be expected to result in the payment by
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, in the aggregate, of a Material
Environmental Amount; and (ii)  any
notice that any governmental authority may deny any application for an
Environmental Permit sought by, or revoke or refuse to renew any Environmental
Permit held by, the Borrower which could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect; and


 


(g)   promptly, such additional financial and other
information as any Lender may from time to time reasonably request.


 


5.3   Payment of Obligations.  Pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy at or
before maturity or before they become delinquent, as the case may be, all its
material obligations of whatever nature, except where the amount or validity
thereof is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings
and reserves in conformity with GAAP with respect thereto have been provided on
the books of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, as the case may be.


 


5.4   Conduct
of Business and Maintenance of Existence, etc.  (a)  (i)  Preserve,
renew and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and (ii) take
all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges and franchises
necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except, in each
case, as otherwise permitted by Section 6.4 and except, in the case of clause
(ii) above, to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (b) comply with all Contractual
Obligations and Requirements of Law except to the extent that failure to comply
therewith could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.


 


5.5   Maintenance
of Property; Insurance.  (a)
Keep all Property and systems useful and necessary in its business in good working
order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and (b) maintain with
financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance on all its
Property in at least such amounts and against at least such risks (but
including in any event public liability, product liability and business
interruption) as are usually insured against in the same general area by
companies engaged in the same or a similar business.


 


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5.6   Inspection
of Property; Books and Records; Discussions.  (a) Keep proper books of records and account in which full, true
and correct entries in conformity with GAAP and all Requirements of Law shall
be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and
activities and (b) permit representatives of any Lender upon reasonable notice
to visit and inspect any of its properties and examine and make abstracts from
any of its books and records at any reasonable time and as often as may
reasonably be desired and to discuss the business, operations, properties and
financial and other condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries with
officers and employees of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and with its
independent certified public accountants.


 


5.7   Notices.  Promptly give notice to the Administrative
Agent and each Lender of:


 


(a)   the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default;


 


(b)   any (i) default or event of default under any
Contractual Obligation of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii)
litigation, investigation or proceeding which may exist at any time between the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and any Governmental Authority, that in
either case, if not cured or if adversely determined, as the case may be, could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;


 


(c)   any litigation or proceeding affecting the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries in which the amount involved is $2,000,000 or more and
not covered by insurance or in which injunctive or similar relief is sought;


 


(d)   the following events, as soon as possible and in any
event within 30 days after the Borrower knows or has reason to know
thereof:  (i) the occurrence of any
Reportable Event with respect to any Plan, a failure to make any required
contribution to a Plan, the creation of any Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan
or any withdrawal from, or the termination, Reorganization or Insolvency of,
any Multiemployer Plan or (ii) the institution of proceedings or the taking of
any other action by the PBGC or the Borrower or any Commonly Controlled Entity
or any Multiemployer Plan with respect to the withdrawal from, or the
termination, Reorganization or Insolvency of, any Plan that in any case under
clause (i) or (ii) may reasonably be expected to result in liability of more
than $2,000,000;


 


(e)   any amendment or other modification of any of the
documents described in Section 6.9; and


 


(f)   any development or event that has had or could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.


 


Each notice
pursuant to this Section shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible
Officer setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and stating
what action the Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary proposes to take with
respect thereto.


 


5.8   Environmental Laws.  (a)  Comply in all material
respects with, and ensure compliance in all material respects by all tenants
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Environmental Laws, and obtain
and comply in all material respects with and maintain, and ensure that all
tenants and subtenants obtain and comply in all material respects with and
maintain, any and all licenses, approvals, notifications, registrations or
permits required by applicable Environmental Laws.


 


(b)   Conduct and complete all
investigations, studies, sampling and testing, and all remedial, removal and
other actions required under Environmental Laws and promptly comply in all
material respects with all lawful orders and directives of all Governmental Authorities
regarding Environmental Laws, or contest such orders and directives by
appropriate legal means.


 


5.9   Additional Collateral,
etc.  (a)  With
respect to any Property acquired after the Closing Date by the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries (other than (v) any real property (or interest therein),
(w) any Intellectual Property to the extent creation of a security interest
therein would be contractually prohibited, (x) any Property described in
paragraph (b) of this Section, (y) any Property subject to a Lien expressly
permitted by Section 6.3(g) and (z) Property acquired by a Foreign Subsidiary)
as to which the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, does not
have a perfected Lien, promptly (i) execute and deliver to the Administrative
Agent such amendments to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or such other
documents as the Administrative Agent deems necessary or advisable to grant to
the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a security interest
in such Property and (ii) take all actions necessary or advisable to grant to
the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a perfected first
priority security interest in such Property (subject to Liens permitted by
Section 6.3), including without limitation, the filing of Uniform Commercial
Code financing statements in such jurisdictions as may be required by the
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or by law or as may be requested by the
Administrative Agent.


 


(b)   With respect to any new
Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than a Foreign Subsidiary) created or
acquired after the Closing Date (which, for the purposes of this paragraph,
shall include any existing Subsidiary that ceases to be a Foreign Subsidiary),
by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, promptly (i) execute and deliver to
the Administrative Agent such amendments to the Guarantee and Collateral
Agreement as the Administrative Agent deems necessary or advisable to grant to
the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a perfected first
priority security interest in the Capital Stock of such new Subsidiary that is
owned by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) deliver to the
Administrative Agent the certificates representing such Capital Stock, together
with undated stock powers, in blank, executed and delivered by a duly
authorized officer of the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as the case may be,
(iii) cause such new Subsidiary (A) to become a party to the Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement and (B) to take such actions reasonably necessary or
advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders a
perfected first priority security interest in the Collateral described in the
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement with respect to such new Subsidiary (subject
to Liens and other matters permitted by Section 6.3 and excluding real property
and any interests therein, and Intellectual Property to the extent creation of
a security interest therein would be contractually prohibited), including,
without limitation, the filing of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements
in such jurisdictions as may be required by the Guarantee and Collateral
Agreement or by law or as may be requested by the Administrative Agent, and
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Administrative Agent
legal opinions covering matters consistent with those covered by the opinions
delivered by Dechert LLP or the applicable local counsel, as the case may be,
on the Closing Date relating to the matters described above, which opinions
shall be in form and substance, and from counsel, reasonably satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent.


 


(c)   With respect to any new
Foreign Subsidiary created or acquired after the Closing Date by the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries, promptly (i) execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent such amendments to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement
as the Administrative Agent deems necessary or advisable in order to grant to
the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a perfected first
priority security interest in the Capital Stock of such new Subsidiary that is
owned by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (provided that in no
event shall more than 65% of the total outstanding voting Capital Stock of any
such new Subsidiary which is an Excluded Foreign Subsidiary be required to be
so pledged), (ii) deliver to the Administrative Agent the certificates
representing such Capital Stock, together with undated stock powers, in blank,
executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the Borrower or such
Subsidiary, as the case may be, and take such other action as may be necessary
or, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, desirable to perfect the Lien
of the Administrative Agent thereon, and (iii) if requested by the
Administrative Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent legal opinions
relating to the matters described above, which opinions shall be in form and
substance, and from counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent.


 


5.10   Further Assurances.  From time to time execute and deliver, or
cause to be executed and delivered, such additional instruments, certificates
or documents, and take all such actions, as the Administrative Agent may reasonably
request, for the purposes of implementing or effectuating the provisions of
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, or of more fully perfecting or
renewing the rights of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect to
the Collateral (or with respect to any additions thereto or replacements or
proceeds thereof or with respect to any other property or assets hereafter
acquired by the Borrower or any Subsidiary which may be deemed to be part of
the Collateral) pursuant hereto or thereto. 
Upon the exercise by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of any
power, right, privilege or remedy pursuant to this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents which requires any consent, approval, recording, qualification or
authorization of any Governmental Authority, the Borrower will execute and
deliver, or will cause the execution and delivery of, all applications,
certifications, instruments and other documents and papers that the
Administrative Agent or such Lender may be required to obtain from the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries for such governmental consent, approval, recording,
qualification or authorization.


 


5.11  
Post-Closing Bond Redemption.


 


Within one
Business Day of the Closing Date, call for redemption, and deposit the proceeds
necessary therefor with the trustee with respect to, all 95/8%
Senior Subordinated Notes due August 1, 2007, then outstanding.


 


SECTION 6.  NEGATIVE
COVENANTS


 


The Borrower hereby agrees that, so long as
the Revolving Credit Commitments remain in effect, any Letter of Credit remains
outstanding or any Loan or other amount is owing


 


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to any Lender or the Agents hereunder, the
Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly
or indirectly:


 


6.1   Financial
Condition Covenants.


 


(a)   Consolidated Leverage
Ratio.  Permit the Consolidated
Leverage Ratio as at the last day of any period of four consecutive fiscal
quarters of the Borrower ending with any fiscal quarter commencing with the
fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2004, to exceed 6.00 to 1.00.


 


(b)   Consolidated Senior
Leverage Ratio.  Permit the
Consolidated Senior Leverage Ratio as at the last day of any period of four
consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending with any fiscal quarter
commencing with the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2004, to exceed
3.75 to 1.00.


 


(c)   Consolidated Interest
Coverage Ratio.  Permit the
Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio for any period of four consecutive fiscal
quarters of the Borrower ending with any fiscal quarter commencing with the
fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2004, to be less than 1.35 to 1.00.


 


6.2   Limitation on
Indebtedness.  Create, incur,
assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:


 


(a)   Indebtedness of any Loan Party pursuant to any Loan
Document;


 


(b)   Indebtedness of the Borrower to any Subsidiary and of
any Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary;


 


(c)   Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Capital
Lease Obligations) secured by Liens permitted by Section 6.3(g) in an aggregate
principal amount not to exceed $20,000,000 at any one time outstanding;


 


(d)   Indebtedness outstanding on the Closing Date and listed
on Schedule 6.2(d) and any refinancings, refundings, renewals or extensions
thereof (without any increase in the principal amount thereof or any shortening
of the maturity of any principal amount thereof);


 


(e)   Guarantee Obligations made in the ordinary course of
business by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of obligations of the
Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor;


 


(f)   (i) 
Indebtedness of the Borrower in respect of the Senior Notes in an
aggregate principal amount not to exceed $240,000,000, (ii) Guarantee
Obligations of any Subsidiary Guarantor in respect of such Indebtedness and
(iii) Indebtedness of the Borrower that refinances the Senior Notes and
Guarantee Obligations of any Subsidiary Guarantor in respect of such
refinancing Indebtedness; provided, that (A) the maturity date of such
refinancing Indebtedness shall be no earlier than six months after the
Revolving Credit Termination Date, (B) the terms of such refinancing
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taken as a
whole, shall not be materially less favorable to the Borrower and the
Subsidiary Guarantors than the terms of the Senior Notes and (C) the principal
amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of
Senior Notes refinanced thereby;


 


(g)   (i) 
Indebtedness of the Borrower in respect of the Senior Subordinated Notes
in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $165,800,000, (ii) Guarantee
Obligations of any Subsidiary Guarantor in respect of such Indebtedness; provided
that, in the case of any Subsidiary Guarantor, such Guarantee
Obligations are subordinated to the obligations of such Subsidiary Guarantor
under the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement to the same extent as the
obligations of the Borrower in respect of the Senior Subordinated Notes are
subordinated to the Obligations and (iii) Indebtedness of the Borrower that
refinances Senior Subordinated Notes and Guarantee Obligations of any
Subsidiary Guarantor in respect of such refinancing Indebtedness; provided,
that (A) such refinancing Indebtedness and Guarantee Obligations shall be
subordinated to the obligations of the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors
under the Loan Documents to the same extent as the obligations of the Borrower
and the Subsidiary Guarantors in respect of the Senior Subordinated Notes are
subordinated, (B) the maturity date of such refinancing Indebtedness shall be
no earlier than six months after the Revolving Credit Termination Date, (C) the
terms of such refinancing Indebtedness, taken as a whole, shall not be
materially less favorable to the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors than
the terms of the Senior Subordinated Notes and (D) the principal amount of such
refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of the Senior
Subordinated Notes refinanced thereby;


 


(h)   Indebtedness of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries
incurred to finance the acquisition (including, without limitation, by way of
merger) of Capital Stock of any Person engaged in, or assets used or useful in,
a business permitted pursuant to Section 6.14; provided that the Fixed
Charge Coverage Ratio for the Borrower’s most recently ended four full fiscal
quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately
preceding the date on which such Indebtedness is incurred would have been at
least 1.75:1.00, determined on a pro forma basis (including a pro forma
application of the net proceeds therefrom), as if such Indebtedness had been
incurred at the beginning of such four-quarter period;


 


(i)   Indebtedness secured by Liens permitted by Section
6.3(l); provided, that the aggregate principal amount of such
Indebtedness, plus the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by
Section 6.2(c), shall not at any time exceed $20,000,000;


 


(j)   Indebtedness of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries
arising from the honoring by a bank or other financing institution of a check,
draft or similar instrument inadvertently drawn against insufficient funds in
the ordinary course of business;


 


(k)   Indebtedness of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries
arising from agreements providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase
price or similar obligations, in each case, incurred in connection with the
disposition of any business, assets or a Subsidiary, other than the guaranties
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or any portion
of such business, assets or Subsidiary for the purpose of financing such
acquisition; provided, however, that: (i) such Indebtedness is
not reflected on the balance sheet of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
(contingent obligations referred to in a footnote to financing statements and
not otherwise reflected on the balance sheet will not be deemed to be reflected
on such balance sheet for purposes of this clause (i)) and (ii) the
maximum assumable liability in respect of all such Indebtedness shall at no
time exceed the gross proceeds including non-cash proceeds (the Fair Market
Value of such non-cash proceeds being measured at the time received and without
giving effect to any subsequent changes in value) actually received by the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries in connection with such disposition;


 


(l)   subordinated Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not to
exceed $2,000,000 issued to directors, officers or employees of the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the redemption or purchase of
Capital Stock that is not secured by any assets of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, does not require cash payments prior to the stated maturity of
the Senior Notes and contains subordination terms reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent;


 


(m)   Indebtedness of the Borrower in the form of Senior
Subordinated Notes in connection with the issuance of EIS or, if there are no
EIS outstanding on the date of such issuance, the issuance of Borrower’s Class
A common stock, (and in each case, the incurrence of the related guarantees in
respect of such Senior Subordinated Notes by the Guarantors), provided  that
(i) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time
of such issuance or would be caused thereby, (ii) the ratio of the aggregate
principal amount of such Senior Subordinated Notes over the number of
additional shares of the Borrower’s Class A common stock issued
contemporaneously therewith shall not exceed (A) the equivalent ratio with
respect to the EIS outstanding immediately prior to such issuance, or (B) if
there are no EIS outstanding immediately prior to such issuance, the equivalent
ratio with respect to the EIS outstanding on the Closing Date, and (iii) the
Borrower uses the proceeds of such issuance solely to repurchase shares of
Class B common stock issued on or before the Closing Date from holders thereof
in accordance with the Securities Holders Agreement;


 


(n)   Indebtedness of the Borrower consisting of outstanding
Permitted Foreign Currency Letters of Credit, the Dollar Equivalent of which
shall not exceed $1,000,000 in aggregate principal amount as of the most recent
Calculation Date; and


 


(o)   other unsecured Indebtedness, not included in clauses
(a) through (n) above, not to exceed $20,000,000 in an aggregate principal
amount (or accreted value, as applicable) at any time outstanding.


 


6.3   Limitation on Liens.  Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any
Lien upon any of its Property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except
for:


 


(a)   Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or
claims that are not yet delinquent or that are being contested in good faith by
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promptly
instituted and diligently concluded; provided that any reserve or other
appropriate provision as is required in conformity with GAAP has been made
therefor;


 


(b)   Liens imposed by law, such as carriers’,
warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s, landlord’s or other
like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business which are not overdue for
a period of more than 30 days or that are being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings;


 


(c)   Liens (other than any Lien imposed by ERISA or any rule
or regulation promulgated thereunder) incurred or deposits made in the ordinary
course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment
insurance, and other types of social security;


 


(d)   Liens to secure the performance of statutory
obligations, surety or appeal bonds, performance bonds, deposits to secure the
performance of bids, trade contracts, government contracts, warranty
requirements, leases or licenses or other obligations of a like nature or
incurred in the ordinary course of business (including, without limitation,
landlord Liens on leased real property);


 


(e)    survey
exceptions, easements or reservations of, or rights of others for, licenses,
rights-of-way, sewers, electric lines, telegraph and telephone lines and other
similar purposes, or zoning or other restrictions as to the use of real
property that were not incurred in connection with Indebtedness and that do not
in the aggregate materially adversely affect the value of said properties or
materially impair their use in the operation of the business of such Person;


 


(f)   Liens in existence on the date hereof listed on
Schedule 6.3(f), securing Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.2(d), provided
that no such Lien is spread to cover any additional Property after the Closing
Date and that the amount of Indebtedness secured thereby is not increased;


 


(g)   Liens securing Indebtedness of the Borrower or any
other Subsidiary incurred pursuant to Section 6.2(c) to finance the acquisition
of fixed or capital assets, provided that (i) such Liens shall be
created substantially simultaneously with the acquisition of such fixed or
capital assets, (ii) such Liens do not at any time encumber any Property other
than the Property financed by such Indebtedness and (iii) the amount of
Indebtedness secured thereby is not increased;


 


(h)   Liens created pursuant to the Security Documents;


 


(i)   any interest or title of a lessor under any lease
entered into by the Borrower or any other Subsidiary in the ordinary course of
its business and covering only the assets so leased;


 


(j)   judgment liens which would not create any Event of
Default;


 


(k)   licenses of Intellectual Property in the ordinary
course of business;


 


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(l)   liens on fixed assets existing at the time such fixed
assets are acquired in connection with a Permitted Acquisition and not created
in contemplation thereof;


 


(m)   deposits in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$1,000,000 made in the ordinary course of business to secure liability to
insurance carriers;


 


(n)   Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities to
secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods in
the ordinary course of business and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary
course of business;


 


(o)   Liens upon specific items of inventory or other goods
and proceeds of any Person securing such Person’s obligations in respect of
bankers’ acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person to
facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or other goods;


 


(p)   leases or subleases granted to third Persons not
interfering with the ordinary course of business of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries;


 


(q)   deposits, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $250,000
at any one time outstanding, made in the ordinary course of business to secure
liability to the Borrower’s insurance carriers;


 


(r)   Liens on assets of a Subsidiary of the Borrower that is
not a Guarantor securing Indebtedness of that Subsidiary; provided that
such Indebtedness was permitted to be incurred by Section 6.2;


 


(s)   Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention,
consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;


 


(t)   Liens securing Indebtedness of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary incurred pursuant to Section 6.2(h) to finance the acquisition
(including, without limitation, by way of merger) of Capital Stock of any
Person; provided that (i) such Liens shall be created substantially
simultaneously with the acquisition of such Capital Stock, (ii) such Liens do
not at any time encumber any Property other than the Capital Stock of such
acquired Person and (iii) the amount of Indebtedness secured thereby does not
exceed $30,000,000; and


 


(u)   Liens not otherwise permitted by this Section 6.3, so
long as neither (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the
obligations secured thereby nor (ii) the aggregate Fair Market Value
(determined as of the date such Lien is incurred) of the assets subject thereto
exceeds $10,000,000 at any one time.


 


6.4   Limitation on
Fundamental Changes.  Enter into
any merger, consolidation or amalgamation, or liquidate, wind up or dissolve
itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution), or Dispose of all or
substantially all of its Property or business, except that:


 


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(a)   any Subsidiary may be merged or consolidated with or
into the Borrower (provided that the Borrower shall be the continuing or
surviving corporation) or with or into any Subsidiary Guarantor (provided
that such Subsidiary Guarantor shall be the continuing or surviving
corporation); and


 


(b)   any Subsidiary may Dispose of any or all of its assets
(upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to the Borrower or any Subsidiary
Guarantor.


 


6.5   Limitation
on Disposition of Property. 
Dispose of any of its Property (including, without limitation,
receivables and leasehold interests), whether now owned or hereafter acquired,
or, in the case of any Subsidiary, issue or sell any shares of such Subsidiary’s
Capital Stock to any Person, except:


 


(a)   the Disposition of obsolete or worn out property in the
ordinary course of business;


 


(b)   the sale of inventory in the ordinary course of
business;


 


(c)   Dispositions permitted by Section 6.4(b);


 


(d)   the sale or issuance of any Subsidiary’s Capital Stock
to the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor;


 


(e)   the Disposition of other assets in any fiscal year of
the Borrower that contributed, in the aggregate, not more than 20% of
Consolidated EBITDA for the prior fiscal year; provided that (i) in the
case of each such Disposition, the Borrower shall be in pro  forma
compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 6.1 after giving
effect to such Disposition (determined on the assumption that such Disposition
and the repayment of any Indebtedness resulting therefrom had occurred on the
first day of the relevant period measured by such covenants) and (ii) in the
case of any such Disposition yielding net cash proceeds of $1,000,000 or more,
the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of a Responsible
Officer to the effect set forth in the foregoing clause (i) and showing
calculations thereof; and


 


(f)   any Disposition constituting a Recovery Event.


 


6.6   Limitation on
Restricted Payments.  Declare or
pay any dividend (other than dividends payable solely in common stock of the
Person making such dividend) on, or make any payment on account of, or set
apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase,
redemption, defeasance, retirement or other acquisition of, any Capital Stock
of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, whether now or hereafter outstanding, or
make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly,
whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary, or enter into any derivatives or other transaction with any
financial institution, commodities or stock exchange or clearinghouse (a “Derivatives
Counterparty”) obligating the Borrower or any Subsidiary to make payments
to such Derivatives Counterparty as a result of any change in market value of
any such Capital Stock (collectively, “Restricted Payments”), except:
(a) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower or any
Subsidiary Guarantor; and (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has
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continuing or would result
therefrom, the Borrower may make Restricted Payments if at the time such
Restricted Payment is made, such Restricted Payment is permitted to be made
under the Senior Note Indenture as in effect on the date hereof; provided that
the Borrower may make the Restricted Payments set forth in subsections
4.07(b)(1), 4.07(b)(4), 4.07(b)(9), 4.07(b)(10) and 4.07(b)(13) of the Senior
Note Indenture regardless of whether a Default or Event of Default exists.


 


6.7   Limitation
on Capital Expenditures.  Make
or commit to make any Capital Expenditure, except (a) Capital Expenditures of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business not exceeding
$11,000,000 for any fiscal year; provided, that (i) any such amount, if
not so expended in the fiscal year for which it is permitted, may be carried
over for expenditure in the next succeeding fiscal year and (ii) Capital
Expenditures made pursuant to this clause during any fiscal year shall be
deemed made, first, in respect of amounts permitted for such fiscal year
as provided preceding this proviso above and second, in respect of
amounts carried over from the prior fiscal year pursuant to subclause (i) above
and (b) Capital Expenditures made with the proceeds of settlement or payment in
respect of any property or casualty insurance claim, or any condemnation
proceeding relating to any asset of the Borrower or its subsidiaries.


 


6.8   Limitation on
Investments.  Make after the
Closing Date any advance, loan, extension of credit (by way of guaranty or
otherwise) or capital contribution to, or purchase any Capital Stock, bonds,
notes, debentures or other debt securities of, or any assets constituting an
ongoing business from, or make any other investment in, any other Person (all
of the foregoing, “Investments”), except:


 


(a)   extensions of trade credit in the ordinary course of
business;


 


(b)   investments in Cash Equivalents;


 


(c)   Investments arising in connection with the incurrence
and lending of Indebtedness permitted by Sections 6.2(b) and (e);


 


(d)   loans and advances to employees of the Borrower or any
Subsidiaries of the Borrower in the ordinary course of business (including,
without limitation, for travel, entertainment and relocation expenses) in an
aggregate amount for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries not to exceed $2,000,000
at any one time outstanding;


 


(e)   Permitted Acquisitions;


 


(f)   Investments (other than those relating to the
incurrence of Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.8(c)) by the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries in the Borrower or any Person that, prior to such
investment, is a Subsidiary Guarantor;


 


(g)   any Investments received (i) in compromise or
resolution of (x) obligations of trade creditors or customers that were
incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, including pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar
arrangement upon the bankruptcy or insolvency of any trade creditor or


 


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customer or
(y) litigation, arbitration or other disputes with Persons who are not
Affiliates; or (ii) in satisfaction of judgments;


 


(h)   loans by the Borrower in an aggregate principal amount
not exceeding $3,000,000 to employees of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries to
finance the sale of the Borrower’s Capital Stock by the Borrower to such
employees;


 


(i)   receivables owing to the Borrower or any Subsidiary if
created or acquired in the ordinary course of business and payable or
dischargeable in accordance with customary trade terms;


 


(j)   any Investment in any Person to the extent such
Investment consists of prepaid expenses, negotiable instruments held for
collection and lease, utility and workers’ compensation, performance and other
similar deposits made in the ordinary course of business by the Borrower of any
of its Subsidiaries;


 


(k)   Investments obtained as consideration for a Disposition
of property permitted under Section 6.5 in an aggregate amount not to exceed
25% of the total aggregate consideration received from all Dispositions of
property permitted under Section 6.5 during the term hereof;


 


(l)    Investments
consisting of Specified Hedging Obligations; and


 


(m)   other Investments in any Person having an aggregate
Fair Market Value (measured on the date each such Investment was made and
without giving effect to subsequent changes in value), when taken together with
all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (m) that are at the time
outstanding, not to exceed $10,000,000; provided that if an Investment
made pursuant to this clause (m) is made in any Person that is not a Subsidiary
at the date of the making of such Investment and such Person becomes a
Subsidiary after such date, such Investment will thereafter be deemed to have
been made pursuant to clause (f) above and shall cease to have been made
pursuant to this clause (m).


 


6.9   Limitation
on Optional Payments and Modifications of Debt Instruments, etc.  (a)  Except as permitted by
Section 6.2(g), make or offer to make any optional or voluntary payment,
prepayment, repurchase or redemption of, or otherwise voluntarily or optionally
defease, the Senior Subordinated Notes or any Indebtedness that refinances the
Senior Subordinated Notes, or segregate funds for any such payment, prepayment,
repurchase, redemption or defeasance, or enter into any derivative or other
transaction with any Derivatives Counterparty obligating the Borrower or any
Subsidiary to make payments to such Derivatives Counterparty as a result of any
change in market value of the Senior Subordinated Notes or any Indebtedness
that refinances the Senior Subordinated Notes, (b) amend, modify or otherwise
change, or consent or agree to any amendment, modification, waiver or other
change to, any of the terms of the Senior Subordinated Notes or the Senior
Subordinated Note Indenture or the indenture or instruments governing any
Indebtedness that refinances the Senior Subordinated Notes (other than any such
amendment, modification, waiver or other change which (i) would extend the
maturity or reduce the amount of any payment of principal thereof, reduce the
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extend the date for payment of
interest thereon or relax any covenant or other restriction applicable to the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and (ii) does not involve the payment of a
consent fee), (c) designate any Indebtedness (other than the Obligations and
Indebtedness under the Senior Note Indenture) as “Designated Senior
Indebtedness” for the purposes of the Senior Note Indenture or the indenture or
instruments governing any Indebtedness that refinances the Senior Subordinated
Notes or (d) amend its certificate of incorporation in any manner materially
adverse to the Lenders.


 


6.10   Limitation
on Transactions with Affiliates. 
Enter into any transaction, including, without limitation, any purchase,
sale, lease or exchange of Property, the rendering of any service or the
payment of any management, advisory or similar fees, with any Affiliate (other
than the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor) unless such transaction is
(a) otherwise permitted under this Agreement, (b) in the ordinary course
of business of the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, and
(c) upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to the Borrower or
such Subsidiary, as the case may be, than it would obtain in a comparable arm’s
length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate.  Notwithstanding the foregoing (i) so long as
no Default or Event of Default shall be in existence, the Borrower may pay
transaction fees to the Sponsor or any affiliates thereof pursuant to the
Transactions Services Agreement in connection with Permitted Acquisitions, divestitures
and financings made by a Loan Party in an amount not to exceed 1% of the total
transaction value of such Permitted Acquisitions, divestitures and financings,
as applicable, and (ii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may enter into the
transactions and make the payments set forth on Schedule 6.10.


 


6.11   Limitation
on Sales and Leasebacks.  Enter
into any sale and leaseback transaction; provided that the Borrower or
any Subsidiary may enter into a sale and leaseback transaction if:


 


(a)    the Borrower or
such Subsidiary, as applicable, could have (i) incurred Indebtedness in an
amount equal to the Attributable Debt relating to such sale and leaseback
transaction under Section 6.2 and (ii) incurred a Lien to secure such
Indebtedness pursuant to Section 6.3;


 


(b)   the gross cash proceeds of that sale and leaseback
transaction are at least equal to the Fair Market Value of the property that is
the subject of that sale and leaseback transaction; and


 


(c)   the transfer of assets in that sale and leaseback
transaction is permitted by Section 6.5.


 


6.12   Limitation
on Changes in Fiscal Periods. 
Permit the fiscal year of the Borrower to end on a day other than the
Saturday nearest to December 31 or change the Borrower’s method of determining
fiscal quarters.


 


6.13   Limitation
on Negative Pledge Clauses. 
Enter into or suffer to exist or become effective any agreement that
prohibits or limits the ability of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to
create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its Property or
revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, to secure the Obligations
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any guarantor, its obligations
under the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, other than (a) this Agreement and
the other Loan Documents, (b) any agreements governing any purchase money Liens
or Capital Lease Obligations otherwise permitted hereby (in which case, any
prohibition or limitation shall only be effective against the assets financed
thereby), (c) customary non-assignment provisions in licenses or sublicenses by
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business (in which
case such prohibition or limitation shall only be effective against the
Intellectual Property subject thereto), (d) customary provisions in joint
venture agreements and similar agreements that restrict transfers of assets of,
or equity interests in, such joint venture, (e) agreements governing
Indebtedness permitted by Sections 6.2(h) and (i) (in which case such
prohibition or limitation shall be effective only against the property acquired
thereby) and (f) agreements entered into by a Subsidiary that is not a
Guarantor governing Liens permitted by Section 6.3(q) or the Indebtedness
secured thereby (in which case such prohibition or limitation shall only be
effective against the assets of such Subsidiary subject to such Lien).


 


6.14   Limitation
on Restrictions on Subsidiary Distributions.  Enter into or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual
encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Subsidiary to (a) make
Restricted Payments in respect of any Capital Stock of such Subsidiary held by,
or pay or subordinate any Indebtedness owed to, the Borrower or any other
Subsidiary, (b) make Investments in the Borrower or any other Subsidiary or (c) transfer
any of its assets to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary, except for such
encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of (i) any
restrictions existing under the Loan Documents, (ii) any restrictions existing
under the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture and any agreements governing
Indebtedness permitted by Sections 6.2(g), to the extent such restrictions are
no more restrictive than those in the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture, (iii)
any restrictions existing under the Senior Note Indenture and any agreements
governing Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.2(f), to the extent such
restrictions are no more restrictive than those in the Senior Note Indenture,
(iv) any restrictions with respect to a Subsidiary imposed pursuant to an
agreement that has been entered into in connection with the Disposition of all
or substantially all of the Capital Stock or assets of such Subsidiary, (v)
customary net worth provisions contained in real property leases entered into
in by any Loan Party so long as such net worth provisions would not reasonably
be expected to impair materially the ability of the Loan Parties to meet their
ongoing obligations under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents,
and (vi) with respect to clause (c) only, (i) customary non-assignment
provisions in licenses or sublicenses by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in
the ordinary course of business (in which case such prohibition or limitation
shall only be effective against the Intellectual Property subject thereto),
(ii) customary provisions in joint venture agreements and similar agreements
that restrict transfers of assets of, or equity interests in, such joint
venture, (iii) agreements governing Indebtedness permitted by Sections 6.2(h)
and (i) (in which case such prohibition or limitation shall be effective only
against the property acquired thereby), (iv) agreements entered into by a
Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor governing Liens permitted by Section 6.3(q)
or the Indebtedness secured thereby (in which case such prohibition or
limitation shall only be effective against the assets of such Subsidiary
subject to such Lien) and (v) any agreements governing any purchase money Liens
or Capital Lease Obligations otherwise permitted hereby (in which case, any
prohibition or limitation shall only be effective against the assets financed
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6.15   Limitation on
Lines of Business.  Enter into
any business, either directly or through any Subsidiary, except for those
businesses in which the Borrower and its Subsidiaries are engaged on the date
of this Agreement or that are reasonably related thereto.


 


SECTION 7.  EVENTS
OF DEFAULT


 


If any of the following events shall occur
and be continuing:


 


(a)   The Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any
Loan or Reimbursement Obligation when due in accordance with the terms hereof;
or the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or Reimbursement
Obligation, or any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Loan
Document, within five days after any such interest or other amount becomes due
in accordance with the terms hereof; or


 


(b)   Any representation or warranty made or deemed made by
any Loan Party herein or in any other Loan Document or that is contained in any
certificate, document or financial or other written statement furnished by it
at any time under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan
Document shall prove to have been inaccurate in any material respect on or as
of the date made or deemed made or furnished; or


 


(c)   Any Loan Party shall default in the observance or
performance of any agreement contained in clause (i) or (ii) of Section 5.4(a)
(with respect to the Borrower only), Section 5.7(a) or Section 6, or Section
5.6 of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement; or


 


(d)   Any Loan Party shall default in the observance or
performance of any other agreement contained in this Agreement or any other
Loan Document (other than as provided in paragraphs (a) through (c) of this
Section), and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days;
or


 


(e)   The Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall (i)
default in making any payment of any principal of any Indebtedness (including,
without limitation, any Guarantee Obligation, but excluding the Loans and
Reimbursement Obligations) on the scheduled or original due date with respect
thereto; or (ii) default in making any payment of any interest on any such
Indebtedness beyond the period of grace, if any, provided in the instrument or
agreement under which such Indebtedness was created; or (iii) default in the
observance or performance of any other agreement or condition relating to any
such Indebtedness or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing,
securing or relating thereto, or any other event shall occur or condition
exist, the effect of which default or other event or condition is to cause, or
to permit the holder or beneficiary of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent
on behalf of such holder or beneficiary) to cause, with the giving of notice if
required, such Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity or (in
the case of any such Indebtedness constituting a Guarantee Obligation) to
become payable; provided, that a default, event or condition described
in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph (e) shall not at any time
constitute an Event of Default unless, at such time, one or more defaults,
events or conditions of the type described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of
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Indebtedness
the outstanding principal amount of which exceeds in the aggregate $10,000,000;
or


 


(f)   (i) The Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall
commence any case, proceeding or other action (A) under any existing or future
law of any jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or relief of debtors, seeking to have an order for
relief entered with respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or
insolvent, or seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, winding-up,
liquidation, dissolution, composition or other relief with respect to it or its
debts, or (B) seeking appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian,
conservator or other similar official for it or for all or any substantial part
of its assets, or the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall make a general
assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or (ii) there shall be
commenced against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries any case, proceeding
or other action of a nature referred to in clause (i) above that (A) results in
the entry of an order for relief or any such adjudication or appointment or (B)
remains undismissed, undischarged or unbonded for a period of 60 days; or (iii)
there shall be commenced against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries any
case, proceeding or other action seeking issuance of a warrant of attachment,
execution, distraint or similar process against all or any substantial part of
its assets that results in the entry of an order for any such relief that shall
not have been vacated, discharged, or stayed or bonded pending appeal within 60
days from the entry thereof; or (iv) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
shall take any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval
of, or acquiescence in, any of the acts set forth in clause (i), (ii), or (iii)
above; or (v) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall generally not,
or shall be unable to, or shall admit in writing its inability to, pay its
debts as they become due; or


 


(g)   (i) Any Person shall engage in any “prohibited
transaction” (as defined in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the
Code) involving any Plan, (ii) any “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined
in Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived, shall exist with respect to
any Plan or any Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan shall arise on the assets of
the Borrower or any Commonly Controlled Entity, (iii) a Reportable Event shall
occur with respect to, or proceedings shall commence to have a trustee
appointed (or a trustee shall be appointed) to administer, or to terminate, any
Single Employer Plan, which Reportable Event or commencement of proceedings or
appointment of a trustee is, in the reasonable opinion of the Required Lenders,
likely to result in the termination of such Plan for purposes of Title IV of
ERISA, (iv) any Single Employer Plan shall terminate for purposes of Title IV
of ERISA, (v) the Borrower or any Commonly Controlled Entity shall, or in the
reasonable opinion of the Required Lenders is likely to, incur any liability in
connection with a withdrawal from, or the Insolvency or Reorganization of, a
Multiemployer Plan or (vi) any other similar event or condition shall occur or
exist with respect to a Plan other than in the ordinary course of business; and
in each case in clauses (i) through (vi) above, such event or condition,
together with all other such events or conditions, if any, could, in the sole
judgment of the Required Lenders, reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect; or


 


(h)   One or more judgments or decrees shall be entered
against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries involving for the Borrower and
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liability (not
paid or fully covered by insurance as to which the relevant insurance company
has acknowledged coverage) of $10,000,000 or more, and all such judgments or
decrees shall not have been vacated, discharged, stayed or bonded pending
appeal within 30 days from the entry thereof; or


 


(i)   Any of the Security Documents shall cease, for any
reason, to be in full force and effect, or any Loan Party or any Affiliate of
any Loan Party shall so assert, or any Lien created by any of the Security
Documents shall cease to be enforceable and of the same effect and priority
purported to be created thereby; or


 


(j)   The guarantee contained in Section 2 of the Guarantee
and Collateral Agreement shall cease, for any reason, to be in full force and
effect or any Loan Party or any Affiliate of any Loan Party shall so assert; or


 


(k)   (i) a “Change of Control” as defined in the Senior Note
Indenture or the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture shall occur or (ii) a
Specified Change of Control shall occur; or


 


(l)   The Senior Subordinated Notes or the guarantees thereof
shall cease, for any reason, to be validly subordinated to the Obligations or
the obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors under the Guarantee and Collateral
Agreement, as the case may be, as provided in the Senior Subordinated Note
Indenture, or any Loan Party, any Affiliate of any Loan Party, the trustee in
respect of the Senior Subordinated Notes or the holders of at least 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the Senior Subordinated Notes shall so assert;


 


then, and in
any such event, (A) if such event is an Event of Default specified in clause
(i) or (ii) of paragraph (f) above with respect to the Borrower,
automatically the Revolving Credit Commitments shall immediately terminate and
the Loans hereunder (with accrued interest thereon) and all other amounts owing
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including, without
limitation, all amounts of L/C Obligations, whether or not the beneficiaries of
the then outstanding Letters of Credit shall have presented the documents
required thereunder) shall immediately become due and payable, and (B) if such
event is any other Event of Default, either or both of the following actions
may be taken:  (i) with the consent of
the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the
Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Borrower
declare the Revolving Credit Commitments to be terminated forthwith, whereupon
the Revolving Credit Commitments shall immediately terminate; and (ii) with the
consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent may, or upon the
request of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall, by notice to
the Borrower, declare the Loans hereunder (with accrued interest thereon) and
all other amounts owing under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents
(including, without limitation, all amounts of L/C Obligations, whether or not
the beneficiaries of the then outstanding Letters of Credit shall have
presented the documents required thereunder) to be due and payable forthwith,
whereupon the same shall immediately become due and payable.  With respect to all Letters of Credit with
respect to which presentment for honor shall not have occurred at the time of
an acceleration pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall at such time
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the aggregate
then undrawn and unexpired amount of such Letters of Credit.  Amounts held in such cash collateral account
shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to the payment of drafts drawn
under such Letters of Credit, and the unused portion thereof after all such
Letters of Credit shall have expired or been fully drawn upon, if any, shall be
applied to repay other obligations of the Borrower hereunder and under the
other Loan Documents.  After all such
Letters of Credit shall have expired or been fully drawn upon, all
Reimbursement Obligations shall have been satisfied and all other obligations
of the Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall have been
paid in full, the balance, if any, in such cash collateral account shall be
returned to the Borrower (or such other Person as may be lawfully entitled
thereto).


 


SECTION 8.  THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT; THE ARRANGER; THE OTHER AGENTS


 


8.1   Appointment.  Each Lender hereby irrevocably designates
and appoints the Administrative Agent as the Administrative Agent of such
Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and each Lender
irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent, in such capacity, to take such
action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly
delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms of this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably
incidental thereto.   Notwithstanding
any provision to the contrary elsewhere in this Agreement, the Administrative
Agent shall have no duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set
forth herein, or any fiduciary relationship with any Lender, and no implied
covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities
shall be read into this Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist
against the Administrative Agent.


 


8.2   Delegation of Duties.  The Administrative Agent may execute any of
its duties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents by or through
agents or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel
concerning all matters pertaining to such duties.  The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the
negligence or misconduct of any agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with
reasonable care.


 


8.3   Exculpatory Provisions.  Neither the Administrative Agent nor any of
its officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or affiliates
shall be (i) liable for any action lawfully taken or omitted to be taken by it
or such Person under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan
Document (except to the extent that any of the foregoing are found by a final
and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have
resulted from its or such Person’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct)
or (ii) responsible in any manner to any of the Lenders for any recitals,
statements, representations or warranties made by any Loan Party or any officer
thereof contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document or in any
certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for
in, or received by the Administrative Agent under or in connection with, this
Agreement or any other Loan Document or for the value, validity, effectiveness,
genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document or for any failure of any Loan Party a party thereto to perform its
obligations hereunder or thereunder. 
The Administrative Agent shall not be under any obligation to any Lender
to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the
agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Agreement or any other Loan
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8.4   Reliance by
Administrative Agent.  The
Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in
relying, upon any instrument, writing, resolution, notice, consent,
certificate, affidavit, letter, telecopy, telex or teletype message, statement,
order or other document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and
correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons
and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including, without limitation,
counsel to the Loan Parties), independent accountants and other experts
selected by the Administrative Agent. 
The Administrative Agent may deem and treat the payee of any Note as the
owner thereof for all purposes unless a written notice of assignment,
negotiation or transfer thereof shall have been filed with the Administrative
Agent.  The Administrative Agent shall
be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document unless it shall first receive such advice
or concurrence of the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all
Lenders) as it deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified to its
satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense (other
than any liability or expense arising from its gross negligence or willful
misconduct) that may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to
take any such action.  The
Administrative Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in
refraining from acting, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents in
accordance with a request of the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this
Agreement, all Lenders), and such request and any action taken or failure to
act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders and all future
holders of the Loans and L/C Obligations.


 


8.5   Notice of Default.  The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed
to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of
Default hereunder unless the Administrative Agent has received notice from a
Lender or the Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing such Default or
Event of Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default”.  In the event that the Administrative Agent
receives such a notice, the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to
the Lenders.  The Administrative Agent
shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as
shall be reasonably directed by the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by
this Agreement, all Lenders); provided that unless and until the
Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative
Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from
taking such action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it
shall deem advisable in the best interests of the Lenders.


 


8.6   Non-Reliance
on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders.  Each Lender expressly acknowledges that neither the
Administrative Agent nor any of its officers, directors, employees, agents,
attorneys-in-fact or affiliates have made any representations or warranties to
it and that no act by the Administrative Agent hereafter taken, including any
review of the affairs of a Loan Party or any affiliate of a Loan Party, shall
be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by the Administrative
Agent to any Lender.  Each Lender
represents to the Administrative Agent that it has, independently and without
reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender, and based on such
documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal
of and investigation into the business, operations, property, financial and
other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their affiliates
and made its own decision to make its Revolving Credit Loans hereunder and
enter into this Agreement.  Each Lender
also represents that it will, independently and without reliance upon the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents and
information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own
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decisions in taking or not
taking action under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to make
such investigation as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business,
operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the
Loan Parties and their affiliates. 
Except for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be
furnished to the Lenders by the Administrative Agent hereunder, the
Administrative Agent shall have no duty or responsibility to provide any Lender
with any credit or other information concerning the business, operations,
property, condition (financial or otherwise), prospects or creditworthiness of
any Loan Party or any affiliate of a Loan Party that may come into the
possession of the Administrative Agent or any of its officers, directors,
employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or affiliates.


 


8.7   Indemnification.  The Lenders agree to indemnify the
Administrative Agent in its capacity as such (to the extent not reimbursed by
the Borrower and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so),
ratably according to their respective Aggregate Exposure Percentages in effect
on the date on which indemnification is sought under this Section (or, if
indemnification is sought after the date upon which the Revolving Credit
Commitments shall have terminated and the Loans shall have been paid in full,
ratably in accordance with such Aggregate Exposure Percentages immediately
prior to such date), from and against any and all liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements of any kind whatsoever that may at any time (including, without
limitation, at any time following the payment of the Loans) be imposed on,
incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent in any way relating to
or arising out of, the Revolving Credit Commitments, this Agreement, any of the
other Loan Documents or any documents contemplated by or referred to herein or
therein or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or any action taken
or omitted by the Administrative Agent under or in connection with any of the
foregoing; provided that no Lender shall be liable for the payment of
any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties,
actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements that are found by a
final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have
resulted from the Administrative Agent’s gross negligence or willful
misconduct.  The agreements in this
Section shall survive the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable
hereunder.


 


8.8   Administrative
Agent in Its Individual Capacity. 
The Person serving as the Administrative Agent and its affiliates may
make loans to, accept deposits from and generally engage in any kind of
business with any Loan Party as though the Person serving as the Administrative
Agent were not the Administrative Agent hereunder.  With respect to its Loans made or renewed by it and with respect
to any Letter of Credit issued or participated in by it, the Person serving as
the Administrative Agent shall have the same rights and powers under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents as any Lender and may exercise the same
as though it were not the Administrative Agent, and the terms “Lender” and
“Lenders” shall include the Person serving as the Administrative Agent in its
individual capacity.


 


8.9   Successor
Administrative Agent.  The
Administrative Agent may resign as Administrative Agent upon 10 days’ written
notice to the Lenders and the Borrower. 
If the Administrative Agent shall resign as Administrative Agent under
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, then the Required Lenders shall
appoint from among the Lenders a successor Administrative Agent for the
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Event of Default under Section
7(a) or Section 7(f) with respect to the Borrower shall have occurred and be
continuing) be subject to approval by the Borrower (which approval shall not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed), whereupon such successor Administrative
Agent shall succeed to the rights, powers and duties of the Administrative
Agent, and the term “Administrative Agent” shall mean such successor
Administrative Agent effective upon such appointment and approval, and the
former Administrative Agent’s rights, powers and duties as Administrative Agent
shall be terminated, without any other or further act or deed on the part of
such former Administrative Agent or any of the parties to this Agreement or any
holders of the Loans.  If no successor
Administrative Agent has accepted appointment as Administrative Agent by the
date that is 10 days following a retiring Administrative Agent’s notice of
resignation, the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation shall nevertheless
thereupon become effective, and the Lenders shall assume and perform all of the
duties of the Administrative Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the
Required Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent as provided for
above.  After any retiring
Administrative Agent’s resignation as Administrative Agent, the provisions of
this Section 8 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to
be taken by it while it was Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents.


 


8.10   Authorization
to Release Liens; Other Actions Relating to Security Documents.  The Administrative Agent is hereby
irrevocably authorized by each of the Lenders to release any Lien covering any
Property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that is the subject of a
Disposition which is permitted by this Agreement or which has been consented to
in accordance with Section 9.1 of this Agreement.


 


8.11   The Arranger; the
Other Agents.  None of the
Arranger or the Other Agents, in their respective capacities as such, shall
have any duties or responsibilities, or incur any liability, under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents.


 


SECTION 9.  MISCELLANEOUS


 


9.1   Amendments and Waivers.  Neither this Agreement or any other Loan
Document, nor any terms hereof or thereof, may be amended, supplemented or
modified except in accordance with the provisions of this Section 9.1.  Subject to the provisions of the immediately
following sentence, the Required Lenders and each Loan Party party to the
relevant Loan Document may, or (with the written consent of the Required
Lenders) the Administrative Agent and each Loan Party party to the relevant
Loan Document may, from time to time, (a) enter into written amendments,
supplements or modifications hereto and to the other Loan Documents (including
amendments and restatements hereof or thereof) for the purpose of adding any
provisions to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or changing in any
manner the rights of the Lenders or of the Loan Parties hereunder or thereunder
or (b) waive, on such terms and conditions as may be specified in the instrument
of waiver, any of the requirements of this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents or any Default or Event of Default and its consequences; provided,
however, that no such waiver and no such amendment, supplement or
modification shall (i) forgive the principal amount or extend the final
scheduled date of maturity of any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation, or reduce
the stated rate of any interest or fee payable hereunder or extend the
scheduled date of any payment thereof or modify the definition of Interest Period
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amount or extend the expiration
date of the Revolving Credit Commitment of any Lender, in each case without the
consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; (ii) amend, modify or waive
any provision of this Section or reduce any percentage specified in the
definition of Required Lenders, consent to the assignment or transfer by the
Borrower of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents, release all or substantially all of the Collateral or
release all or substantially all of the Guarantors from their guarantee
obligations under the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, in each case without
the consent of all Lenders; (iii) amend, modify or waive any provision of
Section 8 without the consent of the Administrative Agent; (iv) amend, modify
or waive any provision of Section 2.12 without the consent of each Lender
directly affected thereby; (v) amend, modify, or waive any provision of
Sections 2.19 through 2.26 without the consent of the Issuing Lenders, or of
Section 2.1(b) or Section 2.2(b)-(f) without the consent of the Swing Line
Lender or (vi) extend the expiration date of any Letter of Credit to a date
later than the fifth Business Day prior to the Revolving Credit Termination
Date without the consent of each Lender (including the Issuing Lender) unless
such Letter of Credit has been cash collateralized or backstopped in a manner
reasonably acceptable to the relevant Issuing Lender.  Any such waiver and any such amendment, supplement or
modification shall apply equally to each of the Lenders and shall be binding
upon the Loan Parties, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and all future
holders of the Loans and L/C Obligations. 
In the case of any waiver, the Loan Parties, the Lenders and the
Administrative Agent shall be restored to their former position and rights
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and any Default or Event of
Default waived shall be deemed to be cured and not continuing; but no such
waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default, or
impair any right consequent thereon. 
Any such waiver, amendment, supplement or modification shall be effected
by a written instrument signed by the parties required to sign pursuant to the
foregoing provisions of this Section; provided, that delivery of an
executed signature page of any such instrument by facsimile transmission shall
be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart thereof.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, this
Agreement may be amended (or amended and restated) with the written consent of
the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent and each Loan Party to each
relevant Loan Document (x) to add one or more additional credit facilities to
this Agreement and to permit the extensions of credit from time to time
outstanding thereunder and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof
(collectively, the “Additional Extensions of Credit”) to share ratably
in the benefits of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the
Revolving Extensions of Credit and the accrued interest and fees in respect
thereof and (y) to include appropriately the Lenders holding such credit facilities
in any determination of the Required Lenders; provided, that  no Lender shall be required to make or
participate in such Additional Extensions of Credit without the consent of such
Lender in its sole discretion.


 


In addition to the
foregoing, and notwithstanding the first paragraph of this Section 10.1, this
Agreement and any other Loan Document may be amended (or amended and restated)
with the consent of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
providing commitments therefor, but without the consent of the other Lenders,
to increase the Revolving Credit Commitments (the “New Revolving Credit
Commitments”) in an aggregate principal amount of up to $30,000,000; so
long as (i) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
and (ii) the Borrower is in pro forma compliance with the financial covenants
set forth in Section 6.1 with respect to the most recently completed fiscal
quarter for which financial statements are then available.  No Lenders will be required to commit to provide
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the
New Revolving Credit Commitments.  The
proceeds of the New Revolving Credit Commitments will be used for Permitted
Acquisitions or for general corporate purposes.  On the date of effectiveness of any such New Revolving Credit
Commitments, each of the existing Lenders shall assign to each of the lenders
providing New Revolving Credit Commitments (the “New Lenders”) and each
of the New Lenders shall purchase from each of the Lenders, at the principal
amount therefor (together with accrued interest), such interests in the
Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on such effective date as shall be necessary
in order that, after giving effect to all such assignments and purchases, such
Revolving Credit Loans will be held by existing Lenders and New Lenders ratably
in accordance with their Revolving Credit Commitments after giving effect to
the addition of the New Revolving Credit Commitments and each New Revolving
Credit Commitment shall be deemed for all purposes a Revolving Credit
Commitment and each Revolving Credit Loan made thereunder (a “New Revolving
Credit Loan”) shall be deemed, for all purposes to be a Revolving Credit
Loan and each New Lender shall become a Lender with respect to the New
Revolving Loan Commitment and all matters relating thereto.


 


9.2   Notices.  All notices, requests and demands to or upon
the respective parties hereto to be effective shall be in writing (including by
telecopy), and, unless otherwise expressly provided herein, shall be deemed to
have been duly given or made when delivered, or three Business Days after being
deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, or, in the case of telecopy notice,
when received, addressed (a) in the case of the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent, as follows and (b) in the case of the Lenders, as set forth in an
administrative questionnaire delivered to the Administrative Agent or on
Schedule I to the Lender Addendum to which such Lender is a party or, in the
case of a Lender which becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to an
Assignment and Acceptance, in such Assignment and Acceptance or (c) in the case
of any party, to such other address as such party may hereafter notify to the
other parties hereto:


 


	
  The Borrower:

  	
  B&G Foods, Inc.

  Four Gatehall Drive, Suite 110

  Parsippany, NJ 07054

  Attention: Chief Financial Officer

  Telecopy: 973-630-6550

  Telephone: 973-401-6500

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
  The Administrative Agent:

  	
  Lehman Commercial Paper Inc.

  745 Seventh Avenue

  New York, New York 10019

  Attention: Craig Malloy

  Telecopy: (646) 758-4617

  Telephone: (212) 526-7150

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Issuing Lender:

  	
  As notified by such Issuing Lender to the Administrative Agent and
  the Borrower

  



 


provided
that any notice, request or demand to or upon the Administrative Agent or any
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9.3   No Waiver;
Cumulative Remedies.  No failure
to exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of the Administrative Agent
or any Lender, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under the
other Loan Documents shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or
partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude
any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right,
remedy, power or privilege.  The rights,
remedies, powers and privileges herein provided are cumulative and not
exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.


 


9.4   Survival
of Representations and Warranties.  All representations and warranties made hereunder, in the other
Loan Documents and in any document, certificate or statement delivered pursuant
hereto or in connection herewith shall survive the execution and delivery of
this Agreement and the making of the extensions of credit hereunder.


 


9.5   Payment of Expenses.  The Borrower agrees (a) to pay or reimburse
the Administrative Agent for all its reasonable out-of-pocket costs and
expenses incurred in connection with the syndication of the Revolving Credit
Commitments through the Closing Date (other than fees payable to syndicate
members) and with the development, preparation and execution of, and any
amendment, supplement or modification to, this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents and any other documents prepared in connection herewith or therewith,
and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby,
including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and disbursements and other
charges of counsel to the Administrative Agent and the charges of Intralinks,
(b) to pay or reimburse each Lender including, without limitation, the Issuing
Lender and the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent for all their
costs and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement or preservation
of any rights under this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any such other
documents, including, without limitation, the fees and disbursements of counsel
(including the allocated fees and disbursements and other charges of in-house
counsel) to each Lender and of counsel to the Administrative Agent, (c) to pay,
and indemnify and hold harmless each Lender and the Administrative Agent from,
any and all recording and filing fees and any and all liabilities with respect
to, or resulting from any delay in paying, stamp, excise and other taxes, if
any, which may be payable or determined to be payable in connection with the
execution and delivery of, or consummation or administration of any of the
transactions contemplated by, or any amendment, supplement or modification of,
or any waiver or consent under or in respect of, this Agreement, the other Loan
Documents and any such other documents, and (d) to pay, and indemnify and hold
harmless each Lender, each Agent, their respective affiliates, and their respective
officers, directors, trustees, employees, advisors, agents and controlling
persons (each, an “Indemnitee”) from and against, any and all other
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments,
suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever with
respect to the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance and administration
of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any such other documents,
including, without limitation, any of the foregoing relating to the use of
proceeds of the Loans or the use of the Letters of Credit or the violation of,
noncompliance with or liability under, any Environmental Law applicable to the
operations of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any of the Properties and
the fees and disbursements and other charges of legal counsel in connection
with claims, actions or proceedings by any Indemnitee against the Borrower
hereunder (all the foregoing in this clause (d), collectively, the “Indemnified
Liabilities”), provided, that the Borrower shall have no obligation
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with respect to Indemnified
Liabilities to the extent such Indemnified Liabilities are found by a final and
nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted
from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee.  No Indemnitee, in the absence of the gross
negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee, shall be liable for any
damages arising from the use by unauthorized persons of information or other
materials sent through electronic, telecommunications or other information
transmission systems that are intercepted by such persons.  Without limiting the foregoing, and to the
extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower agrees not to assert and to
cause its Subsidiaries not to assert, and hereby waives and agrees to cause its
Subsidiaries so to waive, all rights for contribution or any other rights of
recovery with respect to all claims, demands, penalties, fines, liabilities,
settlements, damages, costs and expenses of whatever kind or nature, under or
related to Environmental Laws, that any of them might have by statute or
otherwise against any indemnitee.  All
amounts due under this Section shall be payable not later than 30 days after
written demand therefor.  Statements
payable by the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall be submitted with
reasonable supporting detail to the Borrower’s chief financial officer, at the
address of the Borrower set forth in Section 9.2, or to such other Person or
address as may be hereafter designated by the Borrower in a written notice to
the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify each Lender).  The agreements in this Section shall survive
repayment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.


 


9.6   Successors
and Assigns; Participations and Assignments.  (a)  This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to
the benefit of the Borrower, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent, all future
holders of the Loans and their respective successors and assigns, except that
the Borrower may not assign or transfer any of its rights or obligations under
this Agreement or any other Loan Document without the prior written consent of
the Administrative Agent and each Lender (and any attempted such assignment or
transfer without such consents shall be null and void).


 


(b)   Any Lender may, without the
consent of the Borrower, in accordance with applicable law, at any time sell to
one or more banks, financial institutions or other entities (each, a “Participant”)
participating interests in any Revolving Credit Loan owing to such Lender, the
Revolving Credit Commitment of such Lender or any other interest of such Lender
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. 
In the event of any such sale by a Lender of a participating interest to
a Participant, such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement to the other
parties to this Agreement shall remain unchanged, such Lender shall remain
solely responsible for the performance thereof, such Lender shall remain the
holder of any such Revolving Credit Loan or any Reimbursement Obligation for
all purposes under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall continue to deal solely and
directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and
obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.  In no event shall any Participant under any
such participation have any right to approve any amendment or waiver of any
provision of any Loan Document, or any consent to any departure by any Loan
Party therefrom and each Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce any Loan
Document and approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of
the Loan Documents, except that a selling Lender may agree that, without the
Participant’s consent, such selling Lender will not agree to any amendment,
waiver or consent to any provisions of the Loan Documents to the extent that
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Reimbursement
Obligations or any fees payable hereunder, release all or substantially all of
the Collateral, release all or substantially all of the Guarantors from their
guarantee obligations under the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, or postpone
the date of the final maturity of the Loans, in each case to the extent subject
to such participation.  The Borrower
agrees that if amounts outstanding under this Agreement are due or unpaid, or
shall have been declared or shall have become due and payable upon the
occurrence of an Event of Default, each Participant shall, to the maximum
extent permitted by applicable law, be deemed to have the right of setoff in
respect of its participating interest in amounts owing under this Agreement to
the same extent as if the amount of its participating interest were owing
directly to it as a Lender under this Agreement, provided that, in
purchasing such participating interest, such Participant shall be deemed to
have agreed to share with the Lenders the proceeds thereof as provided in
Section 9.7(a) as fully as if it were a Lender hereunder.  The Borrower also agrees that each
Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.13, 2.14 and 2.15
with respect to its participation in the Revolving Credit Commitments and the
Loans and Reimbursement Obligations outstanding from time to time as if it were
a Lender; provided that, in the case of Section 2.14, such Participant
shall have complied with the requirements of said Section and provided, further,
that no Participant shall be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to
any such Section than the transferor Lender would have been entitled to receive
in respect of the amount of the participation transferred by such transferor
Lender to such Participant had no such transfer occurred.


 


(c)   Any Lender (an “Assignor”)
may, in accordance with applicable law and upon written notice to the
Administrative Agent, at any time and from time to time assign to any Lender or
any affiliate or Approved Fund or Control Investment Affiliate thereof or, with
the consent of each Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender, the Administrative
Agent and the Borrower (which, in each case, shall not be unreasonably withheld
or delayed), to an additional bank, financial institution or other entity (an “Assignee”)
all or any part of its rights and obligations under this Agreement pursuant to
an Assignment and Acceptance, executed by such Assignee and such Assignor (and,
where the consent of the Borrower or any other Person is required pursuant to
the foregoing provisions, by the Borrower and each such other Person) and
delivered to the Administrative Agent for its acceptance and recording in the
Register; provided that no such assignment to an Assignee (other than
any Lender or any affiliate or Approved Fund thereof) shall be in an aggregate
principal amount of less than $3,000,000 (other than in the case of an
assignment of all of a Lender’s interests under this Agreement), unless (i)
otherwise agreed by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent or (ii) such
assignment is one of two or more assignments being made simultaneously to
affiliated Assignees, the sum of the aggregate principal amounts of which is at
least $3,000,000.  Upon such execution,
delivery, acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date
determined pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, (x) the Assignee thereunder
shall be a party hereto and, to the extent provided in such Assignment and
Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder with a
Revolving Credit Commitment and/or Loans and other interests as set forth
therein, and (y) the Assignor thereunder shall, to the extent provided in such
Assignment and Acceptance, be released from its obligations under this
Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all of an
Assignor’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Assignor shall
cease to be a party hereto except as to Sections 2.13, 2.14, 2.16 and 9.5 in
respect of the period prior to such effective date).  Notwithstanding any provision of this Section, the consent of the
Borrower shall not be required for any assignment that occurs at any time when
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(d)   The Administrative Agent
shall, on behalf of the Borrower, maintain at its address referred to in
Section 9.2 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to it and a
register (the “Register”) for the recordation of the names and addresses
of the Lenders and the Revolving Credit Commitment of, and principal amount of
the Revolving Extensions of Credit owing to, each Lender from time to
time.  The entries in the Register shall
be conclusive, in the absence of manifest error, and the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is
recorded in the Register as the owner of the Revolving Extensions of Credit and
any Notes evidencing the Loans recorded therein for all purposes of this
Agreement.  Any assignment of any Loan,
whether or not evidenced by a Note, shall be effective only upon appropriate
entries with respect thereto being made in the Register (and each Note shall
expressly so provide).  Any assignment
or transfer of all or part of a Loan evidenced by a Note shall be registered on
the Register only upon surrender for registration of assignment or transfer of
the Note evidencing such Loan, accompanied by a duly executed Assignment and
Acceptance; thereupon one or more new Notes in the same aggregate principal
amount shall be issued to the designated Assignee, and the old Notes shall be
returned by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower marked “canceled”.  The Register shall be available for
inspection by the Borrower or any Lender (with respect to any entry relating to
such Lender’s Revolving Extensions of Credit) at any reasonable time and from
time to time upon reasonable prior notice.


 


(e)   Upon its receipt of an
Assignment and Acceptance executed by an Assignor and an Assignee (and, in any
case where the consent of any other Person is required by Section 9.6(c), by
each such other Person) together with payment to the Administrative Agent of a
registration and processing fee of $3,500 (except that no such registration and
processing fee shall be payable (y) in connection with an assignment by or to
Lehman Commercial Paper Inc. or any Affiliate thereof or (z) in the case of an
Assignee which is already a Lender or is an affiliate or Approved Fund of a
Lender or a Person under common management with a Lender), the Administrative
Agent shall (i) promptly accept such Assignment and Acceptance and (ii) on the
effective date determined pursuant thereto record the information contained
therein in the Register and give notice of such acceptance and recordation to
the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower.  On or prior to such effective date, the
Borrower, at its own expense, upon request, shall execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent (in exchange for the Note of the assigning Lender) a new
Note to the order of such Assignee in an amount equal to the Revolving Credit
Commitment acquired by it pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if
the Assignor has retained a Revolving Credit Commitment, upon request, a new
Note to the order of the Assignor in an amount equal to the Revolving Credit
Commitment retained by it hereunder. 
Such new Note or Notes shall be dated the Closing Date and shall
otherwise be in the form of the Note replaced thereby.


 


(f)   For avoidance of doubt, the
parties to this Agreement acknowledge that the provisions of this Section
concerning assignments of Loans and Notes relate only to absolute assignments
and that such provisions do not prohibit assignments creating security
interests, including, without limitation, any pledge or assignment by a Lender
of any Loan or Note to any Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with applicable
law.


 


(g)   Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained herein, any Lender (a “Granting Lender”) may
grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an “SPC”), identified as
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Borrower, the option
to provide to the Borrower all or any part of any Loan that such Granting
Lender would otherwise be obligated to make to the Borrower pursuant to this
Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a
commitment by any SPC to make any Loan, (ii) if an SPC elects not to
exercise such option or otherwise fails to provide all or any part of such
Loan, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Loan pursuant to the
terms hereof and (iii) the Granting Lender’s and the Borrower’s
obligations under this Agreement to the other parties to this Agreement shall
remain unchanged, the Granting Lender shall remain solely responsible for the
performance thereof, and the Borrower, the Lenders and the Agents shall
continue to deal solely and directly with such Granting Lender in connection
with such Granting Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents.  The making of a
Loan by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Revolving Credit Commitment of the
Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Loan were made by such
Granting Lender.  Each party hereto
hereby agrees that no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment
obligation under this Agreement (all liability for which shall remain with the
Granting Lender).  In furtherance of the
foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the
termination of this Agreement) that, prior to the date that is one year and one
day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other
indebtedness of any SPC, it will not institute against, or join any other
person in instituting against, such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization,
arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings under the laws of the United
States or any state thereof.  In
addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 9.6(g), any
SPC may (A) with notice to, but without the prior written consent of, the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent and without paying any processing fee
therefor, assign all or a portion of its interests in any Loans to the Granting
Lender, or with the prior written consent of the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld) to any
financial institutions providing liquidity and/or credit support to or for the
account of such SPC to support the funding or maintenance of Loans, and
(B) disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating
to its Loans to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any
surety, guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC; provided
that non-public information with respect to the Borrower may be disclosed only
with the Borrower’s consent which will not be unreasonably withheld.  In the event that the consent of all or any
portion of the Lenders is required pursuant to any provision of any Loan
Document at a time when any Loan is held by any SPC, such SPC and the Granting
Lender that would otherwise have been obligated to make such Loan shall agree
between themselves as to which of them shall be entitled to grant or withhold
any consent applicable to such Loan, but such Granting Lender shall communicate
with the Administrative Agent and the Borrower as to the giving or withholding
of such consent, and the parties to the Loan Documents shall be entitled to
rely conclusively on the advice by such Granting Lender as to whether such
consent is being granted or withheld. 
This paragraph (g) may not be amended without the written consent of any
SPC with Loans outstanding at the time of such proposed amendment.


 


9.7   Adjustments; Set-off.  (a)  Except to the extent that
this Agreement provides for payments to be allocated to a particular Lender and
except to the extent that Section 2.18 of this Agreement provides for payments
to a substituted Lender, if any Lender (a “Benefited Lender”) shall at
any time receive any payment of all or part of the Obligations owing to it, or
receive any collateral in respect thereof (whether voluntarily or
involuntarily, by set-off, pursuant to events or proceedings of the nature
referred to in Section 7(f), or otherwise), in a greater proportion than any
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of such other Lender’s
Obligations, such Benefited Lender shall purchase for cash from the other
Lenders a participating interest in such portion of each such other Lender’s
Obligations, or shall provide such other Lenders with the benefits of any such
collateral, as shall be necessary to cause such Benefited Lender to share the
excess payment or benefits of such collateral ratably with each of the Lenders;
provided, however, that if all or any portion of such excess
payment or benefits is thereafter recovered from such Benefited Lender, such
purchase shall be rescinded, and the purchase price and benefits returned, to
the extent of such recovery, but without interest.


 


(b)   In addition to any rights and
remedies of the Lenders provided by law, each Lender shall have the right,
without prior notice to the Borrower, any such notice being expressly waived by
the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law, upon any amount
becoming due and payable by the Borrower hereunder (whether at the stated
maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), to set off and appropriate and apply
against such amount any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand,
provisional or final), in any currency, and any other credits, indebtedness or
claims, in any currency, in each case whether direct or indirect, absolute or
contingent, matured or unmatured, at any time held or owing by such Lender or
any branch or agency thereof to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower.  Each Lender agrees promptly to notify the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent after any such setoff and application
made by such Lender, provided that the failure to give such notice shall
not affect the validity of such setoff and application.


 


9.8   Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed by one or
more of the parties to this Agreement on any number of separate counterparts,
and all of said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one
and the same instrument.  Delivery of an
executed signature page of this Agreement or of a Lender Addendum by facsimile
transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart
hereof.  A set of the copies of this
Agreement signed by all the parties shall be lodged with the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent.


 


9.9   Severability.  Any provision of this Agreement that is
prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction,
be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without
invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render
unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.


 


9.10   Integration.  This Agreement and the other Loan Documents
represent the entire agreement of the Borrower, the Agents, the Arranger and
the Lenders with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof, and there
are no promises, undertakings, representations or warranties by the Arranger,
any Agent or any Lender relative to subject matter hereof or thereof not
expressly set forth or referred to herein or in the other Loan Documents.


 


9.11  
GOVERNING LAW. 
THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS
AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.


 


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9.12   Submission
To Jurisdiction; Waivers.  The
Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally:


 


(a)   submits for itself and its Property in any legal action
or proceeding relating to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which
it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect
thereof, to the non-exclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the State
of New York, the courts of the United States of America for the Southern
District of New York, and appellate courts from any thereof;


 


(b)   consents that any such action or proceeding may be
brought in such courts and waives any objection that it may now or hereafter
have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in any such court or that
such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not
to plead or claim the same;


 


(c)   agrees that service of process in any such action or
proceeding may be effected by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified
mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to the
Borrower at its address set forth in Section 9.2 or at such other address of
which the Administrative Agent shall have been notified pursuant thereto;


 


(d)   agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to
effect service of process in any other manner permitted by law or shall limit
the right to sue in any other jurisdiction; and


 


(e)   waives, to the maximum extent not prohibited by law,
any right it may have to claim or recover in any legal action or proceeding
referred to in this Section any special, exemplary, punitive or consequential
damages.


 


9.13   Acknowledgments.  The Borrower hereby acknowledges that:


 


(a)   it has been advised by counsel in the negotiation,
execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents;


 


(b)   neither the Arranger, any Agent nor any Lender has any
fiduciary relationship with or duty to the Borrower arising out of or in
connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and the
relationship between the Arranger, the Agents and the Lenders, on the one hand,
and the Borrower, on the other hand, in connection herewith or therewith is
solely that of debtor and creditor; and


 


(c)   no joint venture is created hereby or by the other Loan
Documents or otherwise exists by virtue of the transactions contemplated hereby
among the Arranger, the Agents and the Lenders or among the Borrower and the
Lenders.


 


9.14   Confidentiality.  Each of the Agents and the Lenders agrees to
keep confidential all non-public information provided to it by any Loan Party
pursuant to this Agreement that is designated by such Loan Party as confidential;
provided that nothing herein shall prevent any Agent or any Lender from
disclosing any such information (a) to the Arranger, any Agent, any other
Lender or any affiliate or Approved Fund of any thereof, (b) to any


 


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Participant, or Assignee, or
pledgee of interests hereunder (each, a “Transferee”) or prospective
Transferee that agrees to comply with the provisions of this Section, (c) to
any of its employees, directors, agents, attorneys, accountants and other
professional advisors who are, or are expected to be, engaged in evaluating,
approving, structuring or administering this Agreement or otherwise on a
“need-to-know basis” if reasonably incidental to the administration of this
Agreement (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made
will be informed of the confidential nature of such information and instructed
to keep such information confidential), (d) to any financial institution that
is a direct or indirect contractual counterparty in swap agreements or such
contractual counterparty’s professional advisor (so long as such contractual
counterparty or professional advisor to such contractual counterparty agrees to
be bound by the provisions of this Section), (e) upon the request or demand of
any Governmental Authority (including, without limitation, bank regulatory
authorities) having jurisdiction over it, (f) in response to any order of any
court or other Governmental Authority (including, without limitation, bank regulatory
authorities) or as may otherwise be required pursuant to any Requirement of
Law, (g) in connection with any litigation or similar proceeding, (h) that has
been publicly disclosed other than in breach of this Section, (i) to the
National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any similar organization or
any nationally recognized rating agency that requires access to information
about a Lender’s investment portfolio in connection with ratings issued with
respect to such Lender or (j) in connection with the exercise of any remedy
hereunder or under any other Loan Document.


 


9.15   Release
of Collateral Security and Guarantee Obligations.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein or in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, upon request of
the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall (without notice to or vote or
consent of any Lender) take action having the effect of releasing any
Collateral and/or guarantee obligations provided for in the Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement to the extent necessary to permit consummation, by the
relevant Person in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents, of any transaction not prohibited hereunder.


 


9.16   Accounting Changes.  In the event that any “Accounting Change”
(as defined below) shall occur and such change results in a change in the
method of calculation of financial covenants, standards or terms in this
Agreement, then the Borrower and the Administrative Agent agree to enter into
negotiations in order to amend such provisions of this Agreement so as to
equitably reflect such Accounting Change with the desired result that the
criteria for evaluating the Borrower’s financial condition shall be the same
after such Accounting Change as if such Accounting Change had not been
made.  Until such time as such an
amendment shall have been executed and delivered by the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders, all financial covenants,
standards and terms in this Agreement shall continue to be calculated or construed
as if such Accounting Change had not occurred. 
“Accounting Change” refers to any change in accounting principles
required by the promulgation of any rule, regulation, pronouncement or opinion
by the Financial Accounting Standards Board of the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants or, if applicable, the SEC.


 


9.17   Delivery of Lender
Addenda.  Each initial Lender
shall become a party to this Agreement by delivering to the Administrative
Agent a Lender Addendum duly executed by such Lender, the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent.


 


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9.18  
WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL.  THE BORROWER, THE AGENTS AND THE LENDERS
HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION
OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AND FOR ANY
COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN.


 


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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have
caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their proper and
duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.


 


 


	
   

  	
  B&G FOODS, INC.

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  By:

  	
  /s/ Robert C. Cantwell

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
  Robert C. Cantwell

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
  Executive Vice President of
  Finance

  
						



 


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  LEHMAN COMMERCIAL PAPER INC.,

  as Administrative Agent

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  By:

  	
  /s/ Francis Chang

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
  Francis Chang

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
  Authorized Signatory

  
						



 


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  FLEET NATIONAL BANK,

  a Bank of America company,

  as Syndication Agent

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  By:

  	
  /s/ Jana L. Baker

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
  Jana L. Baker

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
  Vice President

  
						



 


 


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  THE BANK OF NEW YORK,

  as Documentation Agent

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  By:

  	
  /s/ Tracy L. Cooper

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  	
  Tracy L. Cooper

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  	
  Assistant Vice President

  
						



 


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ANNEX A


 


PRICING GRID
FOR REVOLVING CREDIT LOANS


 




	
  Consolidated Leverage

  Ratio

  	
   

  	
  Applicable
  Margin

  for Eurodollar Loans

  	
   

  	
  Applicable
  Margin

  for Base Rate Loans

  	
   

  
	
  Greater than or equal to 5.00 to 1.00

  	
   

  	
  3.00

  	
  %

  	
  2.00

  	
  %

  
	
  Less than 5.00 to 1.00, but greater than or
  equal to 4.50 to 1.00

  	
   

  	
  2.75

  	
  %

  	
  1.75

  	
  %

  
	
  Less than 4.50 to 1.00, but greater than or
  equal to 4.00 to 1.00

  	
   

  	
  2.50

  	
  %

  	
  1.50

  	
  %

  
	
  Less than 4.00 to 1.00

  	
   

  	
  2.25

  	
  %

  	
  1.25

  	
  %

  






 


Changes in the
Applicable Margin with respect to Loans resulting from changes in the
Consolidated Leverage Ratio shall become effective on the date (the “Adjustment
Date”) on which financial statements are delivered to the Lenders pursuant
to Section 5.1 (but in any event not later than the 45th day after the end of
each of the first three quarterly periods of each fiscal year or the 90th day
after the end of each fiscal year, as the case may be) and shall remain in
effect until the next change to be effected pursuant to this paragraph.  If any financial statements referred to
above are not delivered within the time periods specified above, then, until
such financial statements are delivered, the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as at
the end of the fiscal period that would have been covered thereby shall for the
purposes of this Pricing Grid be deemed to be greater than 5.00 to 1.00.  In addition, at all times while an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Consolidated Leverage Ratio
shall for the purposes of this Pricing Grid be deemed to be greater than 5.00
to 1.00.  Each determination of the
Consolidated Leverage Ratio pursuant to this Pricing Grid shall be made with
respect to the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending
at the end of the period covered by the relevant financial statements.


 






















 


ANNEX B


 


EXISTING LETTERS OF CREDIT


 


	
  Ref. No.

  	
   

  	
  Amount

  	
   

  	
  Beneficiary

  	
   

  
	
  00039783

  	
   

  	
  71,753

  	
   

  	
  Liberty
  Mutual Insurance Company

  	
   

  



 






















 


SCHEDULE 3.4


 


CONSENTS,
AUTHORIZATIONS, FILINGS AND NOTICES


 






















 


SCHEDULE 3.9


 


INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY CLAIMS


 






















 


SCHEDULE 3.15


 


SUBSIDIARIES


 






















 


SCHEDULE 3.19(a)-1


 


UCC FILING
JURISDICTIONS


 






















 


SCHEDULE 3.19(a)-2


 


UCC FINANCING
STATEMENTS TO REMAIN ON FILE


 






















 


SCHEDULE 6.2(d)


 


EXISTING
INDEBTEDNESS


 






















 


SCHEDULE 6.3(f)


 


EXISTING LIENS


 






















 


SCHEDULE 6.10


 


TRANSACTIONS
WITH AFFILIATES