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                                                                   EXHIBIT 10.20



                                 TBC CORPORATION
                      EXECUTIVE DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN


         1. Definitions. As used herein, the following capitalized terms shall
have the meanings set forth below:

         "Company" means TBC Corporation.

         "Committee" means the Compensation Committee of the Company's Board of
Directors.

         "Compensation" means any salary or incentive compensation or bonus
payable to a Participant in cash for services rendered to the Company or a
subsidiary of the Company; provided, however, that in no event shall
Compensation include any severance or severance-related payments.

         "Effective Date" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.

         "Participant" means any officer or other key management employee of the
Company or a subsidiary of the Company designated by the Committee to be
eligible to participate in this Plan.

         "Plan" means this Executive Deferred Compensation Plan, as the same may
be amended from time to time.

         "Plan Year" means the period from the Effective Date until December 31,
1999 and thereafter each twelve month period beginning on January 1 of each
year.

         2. Effective Date. The effective date of this Plan (the "Effective
Date") shall be August 1, 1999.

         3. Purpose of the Plan. The purpose of this Plan is to provide
Participants with a method to defer the payment of all or any specified part of
the Compensation otherwise payable to them and to have such deferred
Compensation payable to them at a later date.

         The Plan is intended to be "unfunded and maintained primarily for the
purpose of providing deferred compensation to management or highly compensated
employees" and, thus, is exempt from parts 2 through 4 of Title I of the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

         4. Election to Defer. (a) A Participant may elect to defer payment of
all or any specified part of any Compensation payable to the Participant by
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form as may be from time to time prescribed by or acceptable to the Company (the
"Election") and delivering the same to the Secretary of the Company. For amounts
earned during the Plan Year in which an employee first becomes a Participant,
the Election shall be made no later than thirty days after becoming a
Participant. Any other Election shall be effective as of the first day of the
Plan Year following the date of the Election. In either event, an Election shall
apply only to Compensation payable for services rendered on or after the
effective date of the Election. A Participant's Election shall remain in effect
until terminated or changed as provided in this Plan.

         (b) Prior to the Effective Date, certain employees of the Company
entered into employment agreements with the Company which, among other things,
provide such employees with the right to elect to defer Compensation until a
date specified in such employment agreements (the "Prior Agreements"). The
provisions of the Prior Agreements shall remain in full force and effect until
amended in accordance with the terms thereof. If the Company and the employee
agree to amend any Prior Agreement to provide that the employee shall be
entitled to defer Compensation pursuant to this Plan, (i) the employee shall
automatically become a Participant as of the date of such amendment of the Prior
Agreement; (ii) the employee's election to defer Compensation pursuant to the
Prior Agreement shall thereafter be effective as an Election under this Plan;
and (iii) deferral of Compensation pursuant to the Prior Agreement shall cease;
and (iv) Compensation deferred pursuant to the terms of the Prior Agreement, as
adjusted for earnings in accordance with the provisions of the Prior Agreement,
will be credited to the employee's deferred Compensation account described in
Section 5 of this Plan and thereafter will earn interest and be paid as provided
in this Plan.

         (c) Once it is effective, a Participant's Election to defer
Compensation is irrevocable for the remainder of the then current Plan Year and
may be changed or terminated only effective as of the next succeeding Plan Year.
Such change or termination shall be made by completing a new Election and
delivering it to the Secretary of the Company prior to the beginning of the Plan
Year for which it is effective.

         5. Participant's Account. (a) The Company shall establish and maintain
a separate deferred Compensation account on its books for each Participant who
has elected to defer Compensation, and the Participant's deferred Compensation
shall be recorded in such account. The Company shall credit to such deferred
Compensation account, on a daily basis, interest on the amount then credited to
such account (including all previous credits to such account by operation of
this Subsection), computed at an annual rate which is equal to the average yield
for BBB Industrial Bonds, as published in the Standard & Poor's Corporate and
Government Bond Yield Index (or such similar index as the Committee shall from
time to time select) for the month last preceding the beginning of the then
current calendar quarter.

         (b) Each Participant's deferred Compensation account shall be solely a
memorandum account, and title to and beneficial ownership of the amounts
credited thereto shall at all times remain in the Company. The effect of any
Election under this Plan or any Prior Agreement is simply to create an unfunded
and unsecured promise to pay deferred Compensation to the Participant or the
Participant's beneficiary or estate pursuant to the terms of this Plan. Nothing
contained in this Plan or any Prior Agreement and no deferral of payment
pursuant to this Plan or any Prior Agreement shall by itself create or be
construed to create a trust or fiduciary relationship of any kind between the
Company and any Participant or the Participant's beneficiary or estate or any
other person.

         6. Payment of Deferred Compensation. (a) All amounts credited to or
held in the deferred Compensation account of a Participant shall be paid as
provided in this Section 6.

         (b) Unless otherwise determined by the Committee in accordance with
Subsection 6(j), no Participant shall be entitled to receive any part of the
amounts from time to time credited to the Participant's deferred Compensation
account until such time as the Participant is no longer employed by either the
Company or any subsidiary of the Company.

         (c) If a Participant's employment with the Company or a subsidiary is
terminated for any reason, including death or disability, the Company shall pay
all amounts credited to or held in the Participant's deferred Compensation
account as of the date of such termination ("Credited Amounts") to the
Participant or, in the event of the Participant's death, to the Participant's
beneficiary or beneficiaries designated by the Participant in accordance with
Subsection 6(i) or, in the event the Participant has not so designated a
beneficiary, to the Participant's estate.


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         (d) Unless a different manner of payment was selected as provided in
Subsection 6(e) below, the Credited Amounts shall be paid in full by the Company
(i) on or before the fourteenth day after the date of termination of the
Participant's employment, if such termination occurs on or prior to August 31 of
the year; or (ii) on the first business day of the calendar year following the
year in which the Participant's employment is terminated, if such employment is
terminated after August 31 of the year. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless a
different manner of payment is so selected, in the event that a Participant's
employment is terminated after August 31 of the year and the Participant dies
prior to the first business day of the following year, the Credited Amounts
shall be paid in full upon the earlier of (y) fourteen days after the date of
the Participant's death, or (z) the first business day of the calendar year
following the year in which the Participant's employment was terminated.

         (e) A Participant may, by giving written notice to the Secretary of the
Company (an "Installment Payment Notice"), elect to receive payment of all or
any part of the Credited Amounts then or thereafter credited to his or her
deferred Compensation account in three substantially equal annual installments,
payable on the first business day of each of the first three calendar years
following the year in which the Participant's employment with the Company or a
subsidiary is terminated. An Installment Payment Notice may accompany any
Election made by a Participant or may be delivered at any time thereafter;
provided, however, that unless otherwise agreed by the Committee, to be
effective, an Installment Payment Notice must be given no later than one year
prior to the date the Participant's employment by the Company or any subsidiary
is terminated.

         (f) A Participant may change or revoke any Installment Payment Notice
previously given by the Participant by giving written notice of such change or
revocation to the Secretary of the Company; provided, however, that unless
otherwise agreed by the Committee, to be effective, any such change or
revocation must be given no later than one year prior to the date the
Participant's employment by the Company or any subsidiary is terminated.

         (g) If a Participant has elected to receive payment of all or any part
of any Credited Amounts in three substantially equal annual installments as
provided in Subsection 6(e), such Credited Amounts shall be so paid by the
Company on the dates indicated in Subsection 6(e). Interest on the unpaid
balance of such Credited Amounts shall continue to accrue at the rate and in the
manner specified in Subsection 5(a) above. All such accrued and unpaid interest
shall be paid annually at the time each annual installment of the Credited
Amounts is paid.

         (h) Notwithstanding any Installment Payment Notice then in effect, if
at the time a Participant ceases to be employed by the Company or a subsidiary,
the Credited Amounts total less than $10,000, payment of the same shall be made
to the Participant in full at the time specified in Subsection 6(d).

         (i) If all of the payments required under this Section 6 shall not have
been made to a Participant prior to the Participant's death, any remaining
payments shall be made to the beneficiary or beneficiaries designated by the
Participant on the Election delivered to the Secretary of the Company or,
failing such written designation, to the Participant's estate. A Participant
may, by delivery of a revised Election to the Secretary of the Company prior to
the Participant's death, change the Participant's beneficiary or beneficiaries
to whom payments will be made if the Participant is not living at the time such
payments are due. No consent of any prior beneficiary shall be necessary to
effect any such change.

         (j) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, the Committee
may, in its sole discretion, make payment to a Participant of all or any portion
of the Participant's deferred Compensation account prior to the date of
termination of the Participant's employment with the Company or any subsidiary
if the Participant requests that the Committee make such payment and the
Participant demonstrates to the Committee that the Participant has incurred a
severe financial hardship resulting from an unexpected illness or accident of
the Participant or of a dependent (as defined in Section 152 (a) of the Internal
Revenue Code) of the Participant, loss of the Participant's property due to
casualty, or similar extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstances arising as a
result of events beyond the control of the Participant.

         7. Administration. This Plan shall be administered by the Committee.
The decision of the Committee shall be final and binding with respect to the
interpretation, construction, and application of this Plan. The Committee may
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the exercise of any power, authority, or discretion assigned to the Committee in
this Plan and, in any such case, the decision of the Board of Directors shall
have the same effect as a decision of the Committee. The Secretary of the
Company may delegate to any Assistant Secretary of the Company any or all of the
functions assigned to the Secretary in this Plan.

         8. Amendment or Termination. The Committee may amend or terminate this
Plan at any time. No amendment or termination of this Plan shall void an
agreement already in effect for the deferral of Compensation for services
rendered during the then current Plan Year or any preceding period, nor
adversely affect the right of any Participant or former Participant to payment
of amounts credited to the Participant's account prior to such amendment or
termination, and interest thereon shall continue to be credited to such account
and paid in accordance with Section 6 notwithstanding any such amendment or
termination.

         Notwithstanding the foregoing, no change in the manner of payment of
any Participant's Credited Amounts may be made without the consent of the
Participant, or the Participant's beneficiary or estate, as the case may be, if
the Participant is no longer living.

         9. Miscellaneous. (a) This Plan shall not confer upon any Participant
the right to continued employment with the Company or any of its subsidiaries or
affect in any way the right of the Company and its subsidiaries to terminate the
employment of any Participant at any time and for any reason.

         (b) Except in accordance with the provisions of Subsection 6(i) hereof,
no right or benefit under this Plan shall be subject to anticipation,
alienation, sale, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, or charge, and any attempt to
anticipate, alienate, sell, assign, pledge, encumber, or charge the same shall
be void.

         (c) This Plan shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon each
successor of the Company and its subsidiaries. All right and obligations imposed
upon a Participant and all rights granted to the Company and its subsidiaries
under this Plan shall be binding upon the Participant's heirs, legal
representatives, and successors.