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    Exhibit
10.4



     

     

    [DATE]

     

    Theodor
Baseler

    Ste.
Michelle Wine Estates Ltd.

    14111
N.E. 145th
St.

    Woodinville,
Washington  98072

     

    Dear
Ted:

     

    International
Wine & Spirits Ltd. (“the Company”), a wholly owned subsidiary of UST Inc.
(“UST”), is pleased to provide you with this letter agreement (the
"Agreement").  The Board of Directors of UST (the "Board of Directors"
or the "Board") considers it essential to the best interests of the Company and
the interests of UST's stockholders to foster the continuous employment of key
management personnel.  In addition, the Board recognizes that, as is
the case with many publicly held corporations, the possibility of a change in
control of UST may exist, and that the uncertainty and questions which may arise
among Company management as a result of the foregoing may cause the departure or
distraction of Company management personnel to the detriment of the Company and
of UST and its stockholders.

     

    In
order to induce you to remain in the employ of the Company, the Company and UST
agree that you shall receive the severance benefits set forth in this Agreement
in the event your employment with the Company is terminated under the
circumstances described below either prior to or subsequent to a "Change in
Control"  (as defined in Section 2).

     

    You
have an existing agreement with the Company and UST (“Existing Agreement”),
dated June 23, 2006 (the “Original Effective Date”), regarding the payment of
severance benefits to you. This Agreement amends and restates your Existing
Agreement, effective December 16, 2008, in
order to evidence formal compliance with section 409A of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended, and the guidance thereunder (the “Code”).

     

    
      	
              1.

            	
              Term
      of Agreement.  This Agreement shall commence on the
      Original Effective Date  and end on the third anniversary of
      such date; provided,
      however,
      that if a Change in Control, as defined in Section 2, shall have occurred
      during the term of this Agreement, this Agreement shall continue in effect
      for a period of not less than twenty-four (24) months beyond the month in
      which such Change in Control occurred.  Prior to a Change in
      Control, in no event shall the term of this Agreement extend beyond the
      date on which you cease to be an officer of the Company, UST or a
      subsidiary thereof, whether or not you continue to be an employee of the
      Company, UST or a subsidiary thereof; provided, however, if you cease to
      be an officer of the Company, UST or any subsidiary thereof for
      

            


    

     

     

    
      
         

      

      
         

        
          
 

      

      
         

      

    

     

     

    
      
        	 	Good
      Reason as defined herein, this Agreement shall continue in effect for a
      period of not less than thirty (30) days.  You acknowledge and
      agree that the non-renewal of the term of this Agreement shall not be
      considered a termination of employment hereunder for any purpose,
      including entitlement to severance payments or any other benefits provided
      for herein.
	 	 
	
                2.

              	
                Change
      in Control.  For purposes of this Agreement, a “Change in
      Control” shall be a change in control of UST and shall be deemed to have
      occurred if:

              


      

    

     

    (A)
any "person" (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act")), other than (1) UST or
any of its subsidiaries, (2) any "person" who on the date hereof is a director
or officer of UST, (3) any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under
an employee benefit plan of UST, (4) an underwriter temporarily holding
securities pursuant to an offering of such securities, or (5) any corporation
owned, directly or indirectly, by the stockholders of UST in substantially the
same proportions as their ownership of stock of UST (a "Person"), is or becomes
the "beneficial owner" (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act (a
"Beneficial Owner")), directly or indirectly, of securities of UST (not
including in the securities beneficially owned by such Person any securities
acquired directly from UST or its affiliates) representing 20% or more of the
combined  voting power of UST's then outstanding securities, excluding
any Person who becomes such a Beneficial Owner in connection with a transaction
described in clause (C)(1) below; or

     

    (B)
the following individuals cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the
number of directors of UST then serving: individuals who, on the date hereof,
constitute the Board and any new director (other than a director whose initial
assumption of office is in connection with an actual or threatened election
contest, including but not limited to a consent solicitation, relating to the
election of directors of UST) whose appointment or election by the Board or
nomination for election by UST's stockholders was approved or recommended by a
vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the directors then still in office who
either were directors on the date hereof or whose appointment, election or
nomination for election was previously so approved or recommended;
or

     

    (C)
there is consummated a merger or consolidation of UST or any direct or indirect
subsidiary of UST with any other corporation, other than (1) a merger or
consolidation which would result in the voting securities of UST outstanding
immediately prior to such merger or consolidation continuing to represent
(either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of
the surviving entity or any parent thereof), in combination with the ownership
of any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit
plan of UST or any subsidiary of UST,  more than 50% of the combined
voting power of the securities of UST or such surviving entity or any parent
thereof outstanding immediately after such merger or consolidation, or (2) a
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    effected
to implement a recapitalization of UST (or similar transaction) in which no
Person is or becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities
of UST (not including in the securities Beneficially Owned by such Person any
securities acquired directly from UST or its subsidiaries) representing 20% or
more of the combined voting power of UST's then outstanding securities;
or

     

    (D)
the stockholders of UST approve a plan of complete liquidation or dissolution of
UST or there is consummated an agreement for the sale or disposition by UST of
all or substantially all of UST's assets, other than a sale or disposition by
UST of all or substantially all of UST's assets to an entity,  more
than 50% of the combined voting power of the voting securities of which are
owned by stockholders of UST in substantially the same proportions as their
ownership of UST immediately prior to such sale; or

     

    (E)
any "person" (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act")), other than (1) UST or
any of its subsidiaries, (2) any "person" who on the date hereof is a director
or officer of UST or any of its subsidiaries, (3) any trustee or other fiduciary
holding securities under an employee benefit plan of UST or any of its
subsidiaries, (4) an underwriter temporarily holding securities pursuant to an
offering of such securities, or (5) any corporation owned, directly or
indirectly, by the stockholders of UST in substantially the same proportions as
their ownership of stock of UST (a "Person"), is or becomes the "beneficial
owner" (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act (a "Beneficial Owner")),
directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company (or any successor thereof)
representing 50% or more of the combined  voting power of the
Company's then outstanding securities or acquires all or substantially all of
the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries.  Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the separation of the Company from UST by establishment of a
corporate entity the shares of which are issued to stockholders of UST in
proportion to their holdings in UST shall not constitute a Change in Control as
defined herein.

     

    
      	
              3.

            	
              Termination
      of Employment.

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (a)

            	
              General.  You
      shall be entitled to the benefits provided in Section 4 upon the
      termination of your employment during the term of this Agreement prior to
      a Change in Control.  If any of the events described in Section
      2 constituting a Change in Control shall have occurred, you shall be
      entitled to the benefits provided in Section 5 upon the coincident or
      subsequent termination of your employment during the term of this
      Agreement or, as provided in Section 5, upon the Change in
      Control.  In the event your employment with the Company is
      terminated for any reason prior to a Change in Control and subsequently a
      Change in Control shall have occurred, you shall not be entitled to the
      benefits provided in Section 5, unless such termination occurs within
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        	 	 	Control
      and such termination is by you for Good Reason or the Company without
      Cause in anticipation or contemplation of such Change in
  Control.
	 	 	 
	
                 
      

              	
                (b)

              	
                Disability.  The
      Company will terminate your employment at the conclusion of a twelve (12)
      month period during which you continuously have a General Disability (as
      defined below), a 409A Disability (as defined below) or
      both.  In determining whether a disability is continuous for
      this purpose, a temporary return to work shall be disregarded (I) in the
      case of a General Disability, if it would be disregarded under the
      Company’s long-term disability plan for salaried employees, and (II) in
      the case of a 409A Disability, if it would be disregarded under the
      Company’s long-term disability plan for salaried employees and it may be
      disregarded under Treasury Regulation
      §1.409A-3(i)(4).

              


      

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (i)

            	
              You
      will be deemed to have a “General Disability” if, as a result of your
      incapacity due to physical or mental illness, you shall have been absent
      from the full-time performance of your duties with the Company for six (6)
      consecutive months, and within thirty (30) days after written notice of
      termination is given you shall not have returned to the full time
      performance of your duties.

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (ii)

            	
              You
      will be deemed to have a “409A Disability” if (A) you are unable to engage
      in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically
      determinable physical or mental impairment that can be expected to result
      in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less
      than 12 months, (B) you are, by reason of any medically determinable
      physical or mental impairment that can be expected to result in death or
      can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12
      months, receiving income replacement benefits for a period of not less
      than three (3) months under an accident and health plan covering Company
      employees; or (C) you are determined to be totally disabled by the Social
      Security Administration.

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (c)

            	
              Cause.
      The Company may terminate your employment hereunder for
      Cause.  For purposes of this Agreement, "Cause" shall mean (i)
      the willful and continuous  failure by you to substantially
      perform your duties hereunder (other than any such failure resulting from
      your incapacity due to physical or mental illness), which failure is not
      cured within thirty (30) business days after demand for substantial
      performance is delivered by the Company that specifically identifies the
      manner in which the Company believes you have willfully and continuously
      not substantially performed your duties; (ii) the willful engaging by you
      in misconduct which is materially injurious to the Company, monetarily or
      otherwise (including, but not limited to, your violation of the Company's
      Code of Corporate Responsibility); or (iii) the commission of an act or
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        	 	 	constitutes
      a material breach of this Agreement (including, but not limited to, the
      violation of your obligations under Sections 6, 7 or 8
      hereof).  For purposes of this subsection, no act, or failure to
      act, on your part shall be considered "willful" unless done, or omitted to
      be done, by you not in good faith and without reasonable belief that your
      action or omission was  legal, compliant with the Company's Code
      of Corporate Responsibility and in the best interest of the
    Company.
	 	 	 
	
                 
      

              	
                (d)

              	
                Good
      Reason.  You shall be entitled to terminate your
      employment for Good Reason.  For purposes of this Agreement,
      “Good Reason” shall mean, without your express written consent, (1) the
      occurrence prior to a Change in Control of any of the circumstances set
      forth in paragraphs (i) through (iv) below and (2) the occurrence on a
      Change in Control, in contemplation or anticipation of a Change in Control
      provided such termination occurs within thirty (30) days prior to the
      Change in Control, or following a Change in Control of any of the
      circumstances set forth in paragraphs (A) through (H) below, unless, in
      any case, such circumstances are fully corrected prior to the Date of
      Termination specified in Notice of Termination, as defined in Sections
      3(f) and 3(g), respectively, given in respect
      thereof.

              


      

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Good
      Reason Prior to a Change in
  Control.

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (i)

            	
              A
      diminution in title or status as an
officer;

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (ii)

            	
              Other
      than a Company-wide reduction, a reduction in your total target
      compensation as in effect on the date hereof or as the same may be
      increased from time to time; provided, however, in no event shall a
      reduction in your actual bonus under UST’s Incentive Compensation Plan
      that is based on performance against pre-established criteria be
      considered a reduction in your target
bonus;

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (iii)

            	
              The
      relocation (except for required travel on the Company’s business to an
      extent reasonably consistent with either your present business travel
      obligations or changes in the Company’s business) of your principal place
      of employment to a location more than fifty (50) miles from the Company’s
      principal executive offices in Woodinville, Washington or any other
      metropolitan area to which the Company’s principal executive offices are
      relocated, it
      being
      understood
      that a relocation of the Company’s principal executive offices that
      applies to all or substantially all personnel and not to you alone shall
      not constitute Good Reason hereunder;
or

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (iv)

            	
              Any
      purported termination of your employment which is not effected pursuant to
      a Notice of Termination satisfying the requirements of Subsection (f)
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              requirements
      of Subsection (c) hereof); for purposes of this Agreement, no such
      purported termination shall be effective.  Your right to
      terminate your employment pursuant to this Subsection (d) shall not be
      affected by your incapacity due to physical or mental
      illness.  Your continued employment shall not constitute consent
      to, or a waiver of rights with respect to, any circumstance constituting
      Good Reason hereunder; provided that the Company’s reassignment of your
      duties and responsibilities during a period of your incapacity due to
      physical or mental illness shall not under any circumstance constitute
      Good Reason hereunder.

            


    

     

    Good Reason
on or Following a Change in Control.

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (A)

            	
              The
      assignment to you of any duties inconsistent with the position in the
      Company that you held immediately prior to the Change in Control, or a
      significant adverse alteration in the nature or status of your
      responsibilities, including your reporting responsibilities, from those in
      effect immediately prior to such change; provided,
      however,
      that no such alteration in your reporting responsibilities alone shall be
      considered Good Reason hereunder prior to the date which is six (6) months
      following the date of the Change in
Control;

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (B)

            	
              A
      reduction by the Company in your annual base salary or target bonus as in
      effect on the date hereof or as the same may be increased from time to
      time; provided, however, in no event shall a reduction in your actual
      bonus under UST’s Incentive Compensation Plan that is based on performance
      against pre-established criteria be considered a reduction in your target
      bonus;

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (C)

            	
              The
      relocation of your principal place of employment to a location more than
      fifty (50) miles from the Woodinville, Washington metropolitan area (or,
      if different, the metropolitan area in which the Company’s principal
      executive offices are located immediately prior to the Change in Control)
      except for required travel on the Company’s business to an extent
      substantially consistent with your present business travel
      obligations;

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (D)

            	
              The
      failure by the Company to pay to you any portion of your current
      compensation except pursuant to an across-the-board compensation deferral
      similarly affecting all officers of the Company and all officers of any
      person whose actions resulted in a Change in Control or any person
      affiliated with the Company or such person, or to pay to you any portion
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        	 	 	of
      the Company, within seven (7) days of the date such compensation is
      due;
	 	 	 
	
                 
      

              	
                (E)

              	
                The
      failure by the Company or UST to continue in effect any compensation plan
      in which you participate immediately prior to the Change in Control which
      is material to your total compensation, including but not limited to the
      UST Inc. Retirement Income Plan for Salaried Employees, UST Inc.
      Employees’ Savings Plan, UST Inc. Officers’ Supplemental Retirement Plan,
      UST Inc. Incentive Compensation Plan and the 2005 UST Inc. Long-Term
      Incentive Plan, or any substitute plans adopted prior to the Change in
      Control, unless an equitable arrangement (embodied in an ongoing
      substitute or alternative plan) has been made with respect to such plan,
      or the failure by the Company to continue your participation therein (or
      in a substitute or alternative plan) on a basis not materially less
      favorable, both in terms of the amount of benefits provided and the level
      of your participation relative to other participants, as existed at the
      time of the Change in
Control;

              


      

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (F)

            	
              The
      failure by the Company to continue to provide you with benefits
      substantially similar to those enjoyed by you under any of
      the  life insurance, medical, health and accident, or disability
      plans in which you are participating at the time of the Change in Control,
      the taking of any action by the Company or UST which would directly or
      indirectly materially reduce any of such benefits or deprive you of any
      material fringe benefit enjoyed by you at the time of the Change in
      Control, or the failure by the Company to provide you with the number of
      paid vacation days to which you are entitled on the basis of years of
      service with the Company in accordance with the Company’s normal vacation
      policy in effect at the time of the Change in
  Control;

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (G)

            	
              The
      failure of the Company to obtain a satisfactory agreement from any
      successor to assume and agree to perform this Agreement, as contemplated
      in Section 9 hereof; or

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (H)

            	
              Any
      purported termination of your employment which is not effected pursuant to
      a Notice of Termination satisfying the requirements of Subsection (f)
      hereof (and, if applicable, the requirements of Subsection (c) hereof);
      for purposes of this Agreement, no such purported termination shall be
      effective.  Your right to terminate your employment pursuant to
      this Subsection (d) shall not be affected by your incapacity due to
      physical or mental illness.  Your continued employment shall not
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              to,
      or a waiver of rights with respect to, any circumstance constituting Good
      Reason hereunder.

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (e)

            	
              Employment
      by Affiliates.  For purposes of this Agreement, in no
      event shall a termination of your employment with the Company be deemed to
      occur as a result of your transfer to, or employment by, UST or any of its
      affiliates during the term of this
  Agreement.

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (f)

            	
              Notice
      of Termination.  Any purported termination of your
      employment by the Company or by you shall be communicated by written
      "Notice of Termination" to the other party hereto in accordance with this
      Section 3(f).  "Notice of Termination" shall mean a notice which
      shall indicate the specific termination provision in this Agreement relied
      upon and shall set forth in reasonable detail the facts and circumstances
      claimed to provide a basis for termination of your employment under the
      provision so
indicated.

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (g)

            	
              Date
      of Termination; Severance Start
  Date

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (i)

            	
              "Date
      of Termination" shall mean (A) if your employment is terminated for
      General Disability or 409A Disability, thirty (30) days after Notice of
      Termination is given (but not before the end of the twelve (12) month
      period specified in Subsection (b) above, and not if you have returned to
      the full-time performance of your duties for a period that breaks the
      period of continuous disability in accordance with Subsection (b) above),
      and (B) if your employment is terminated pursuant to Subsection (c) or (d)
      hereof or for any other reason (other than General Disability or 409A
      Disability), the date specified in the Notice of Termination (which, in
      the case of a termination pursuant to Subsection (c) hereof shall not be
      less than thirty (30) days, unless a shorter time is provided by the
      Company prior to the occurrence of a Change in Control, and in the case of
      a termination pursuant to Subsection (d) hereof shall not be less than
      fifteen (15) nor more than sixty (60) days, respectively, from the date
      such Notice of Termination is given). Notwithstanding
      the foregoing, following the occurrence of a Change in Control, if you
      reasonably believe in good faith the Company is not providing you with a
      benefit or payment to which you are entitled under the terms of this
      Agreement, you may notify the Company, within forty-five (45) days after
      the Date of Termination or, if any such payment or benefit is due after
      such 45-day period, within 45 days following such payment date, that a
      dispute exists concerning the termination and/or the amount of such
      payment or benefit.  In this event, the Company shall act within
      fifteen (15) days to restore fully the disputed benefits and payments (so
      that all benefits and payments are provided as of
  

            


    

     

     

    
      
         

      

      
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        	 	 	such
      date as would have been provided had there been no delay in providing such
      benefits and payments) and to continue to provide such benefits and
      payments as contemplated by this Agreement thereafter (provided, however,
      that in all events any payment or benefit shall not be paid or provided to
      you before the payment date set forth in this Agreement or any applicable
      document), but subject to termination and recapture from you of these
      disputed benefits and payments in accordance with the terms of a mutual
      written agreement of the parties, a binding arbitration award, or a final
      judgment, order or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction (which is
      not appealable or with respect to which the time for appeal therefrom has
      expired and no appeal has been perfected).
	 	 	 
	
                 
      

              	
                (ii)

              	
                “Severance
      Start Date” shall mean the date on which you incur a “separation from
      service” under section 409A(a)(2)(A)(i) of the
  Code.

              


      

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (h)

            	
              Release/Resignations.  As
      a condition and in consideration of the benefits provided under Section
      4(c) and Section 5 of this Agreement, you agree and covenant (i) to
      execute a general release, in the form attached hereto as Annex I (the
      "Release"), of any and all claims you may have or may believe you have
      against UST and/or its affiliates and their officers, directors,
      employees, agents or representatives and any of their successors and/or
      assigns; (ii) not to seek any recovery against UST and/or its affiliates
      and their officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives and
      any of their successors and/or assigns for any cause or reason related to
      or arising from your employment with the Company, UST or any
      of  their affiliates or the termination thereof, other than a
      failure or refusal of the Company to pay you (x) the benefits described in
      Section 4(c) of Section 5 hereof, and (y) the benefits to which you are
      entitled subsequent to your termination of employment pursuant to the
      terms of one or more of the employee benefit plans maintained by the
      Company or UST; and (iii) to cooperate fully with the Company, UST and
      their affiliates concerning reasonable requests for information about the
      business of the Company, UST or any of their affiliates or your
      involvement and participation therein, including, but not limited to, with
      respect to the defense or prosecution of any claims or actions in
      existence now or in the future as more particularly described in the
      Release.  The covenant set forth in clause (ii) of this Section
      3(h) includes, without limitation, seeking any recovery against the
      Company, UST, any of their affiliates or their officers, directors,
      employees, agents or representatives and any of their successors and/or
      assigns in any forum, including without limitation any court,
      administrative agency or otherwise.  In the event of your
      termination of employment under any of the circumstances described in
      Section 3, you further agree to resign all offices or directorships that
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              may
      hold with the Company, UST and any of their affiliates, as the case may
      be, in a form acceptable to the
Company.

            


    

     

    
      	
              4.

            	
              Severance
      Compensation Prior to a Change in Control.  Prior to a
      Change in Control, you shall be entitled to the following benefits,
      provided that such termination occurs during the term of this
      Agreement:

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (a)

            	
              If
      your employment is terminated by the Company for Cause or by you for any
      reason other than Good Reason, or if your employment terminates because of
      your death, the Company shall pay you your full base salary in accordance
      with the Company’s standard payroll practices through the Date of
      Termination at the rate in effect at the time Notice of Termination is
      given, and provide you with all other normal post-termination amounts (if
      any) to which you are entitled under the terms and conditions of any
      compensation or benefit plan maintained by  the Company or UST
      in which you participated as of the Date of Termination at the time such
      payments are due, and the Company shall have no further obligations to you
      under this Agreement.

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (b)

            	
              During
      any period that you fail to perform your full-time duties with the Company
      as a result of:

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (i)

            	
              a
      period of 409A Disability, you shall continue to receive your base salary
      in accordance with the Company’s standard payroll practices at the rate in
      effect at the commencement of any such period, together with any
      compensation payable to you under the Company’s short-term and long-term
      disability plans for salaried employees during such period and any benefit
      coverages customarily provided to disabled salaried employees, until your
      employment is terminated pursuant to Section 3(b) hereof;
    or

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (ii)

            	
              a
      period of General Disability, you shall receive any compensation payable
      to you under the Company’s short-term and long-term disability plans for
      salaried employees during such period, as well as any benefit coverages
      customarily provided to disabled salaried employees, until your employment
      is terminated pursuant to Section 3(b)
hereof.

            


    

     

    Thereafter
your benefits shall be determined under the Company's retirement, insurance and
other compensation programs then in effect in accordance with the terms of such
programs.

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (c)

            	
              If
      your employment is terminated by the Company (other than for Cause,
      General Disability, 409A Disability or death) or by you for Good Reason as
      defined in Section 3(d)(i) through (iv), then you shall be entitled to the
      benefits provided below, subject to your execution of a release described
      

            


    

     

     

    
      
         

      

      
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              in
      Section 3(h) and provided that such release becomes effective and has not
      been revoked in accordance with the terms
  thereof:

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (i)

            	
              the
      Company shall pay to you your full base salary through the Date of
      Termination at the rate in effect at the time Notice of Termination is
      given, no later than the fifth day following the Date of Termination; and
      shall provide you with all other normal post-termination amounts (if any)
      to which you are entitled under the terms and conditions of any
      compensation or benefit plan of the Company, at the time such payments are
      due;

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (ii)

            	
              to
      the extent that an annual bonus has not been paid to you in respect of
      any  fiscal year, the Company shall pay to you, in the
      immediately following fiscal year at the time that annual bonuses in
      respect of such initial fiscal year are regularly paid by the Company (but
      not later than 2-1⁄2 months after the end of such initial fiscal year), the
      product of (x) the actual annual bonus that you would have been entitled
      to under the UST Inc. Incentive Compensation Plan had you remained
      employed through the regular payment date and (y) a fraction, the
      numerator of which is the number of days that have elapsed in each such
      fiscal year through the Date of Termination, and the denominator of which
      is 365;

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (iii)

            	
              in
      lieu of any further salary and bonus payments to you for periods
      subsequent to the Date of Termination, the Company shall pay to you, in 24
      equal monthly installments, a severance payment equal to the product of
      (1) the sum of (A) your annual salary rate in effect immediately prior to
      the Date of Termination, and (B) an amount equal to seventy-five percent
      (75%) of the target annual bonus in effect as of the Date of Termination,
      and (2) the number two (2); these installments shall begin to be paid upon
      your Severance Start Date (in accordance with the Company’s standard
      payroll practices for severance pay), except in the event you are a
      “specified employee” on your Severance Start Date, as determined by the
      Company in accordance with rules established by the Company in writing in
      advance of the “specified employee identification date” that relates to
      your Severance Start Date or, if later, by December 31, 2008, such
      payments shall be delayed until the date that is six (6) months after your
      Severance Start Date, with the lump sum value of all payments that are so
      delayed paid on the date that is six (6) months after your Severance Start
      Date (if you die after your Severance Start Date but before payment of all
      twenty-four (24) installments, any remaining installments will be paid to
      your estate as a lump sum and without regard to any six-month delay that
      otherwise applies to specified employees).  For
  

            


    

     

     

    
      
         

      

      
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        	 	 	purposes
      of this Agreement, “specified employee” shall be defined as provided in
      section 409A(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Code and “specified employee
      identification date” shall be defined as provided in Treasury Regulation
      §1.409A-1(i);
	 	 	 
	
                 
      

              	
                (iv)

              	
                for
      a twenty-four (24) month period following the Date of Termination, the
      Company shall arrange to provide you with life insurance benefits
      substantially similar to those which you were receiving immediately prior
      to the Notice of Termination at a cost and level of benefits which are
      substantially similar to those you were receiving prior to the Date of
      Termination.  Benefits otherwise receivable by you pursuant to
      this paragraph (iv) shall be reduced to the extent comparable coverage is
      actually provided to you by another employer during the twenty-four (24)
      month period following your termination, and any such coverage actually
      provided to you by such employer shall be reported to the
      Company;

              


      

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (v)

            	
              the Company shall
      provide you with group health insurance coverage in accordance with
      Section 5(d) below.  Benefits otherwise receivable pursuant to
      this paragraph (v) shall be reduced to the extent comparable benefits are
      actually received by you from another employer during the twenty-four (24)
      month period following your termination, and any such benefits actually
      received by you from such employer shall be reported to the
      Company;

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (vi)

            	
              through the Date
      of Termination, you shall continue to accrue benefits under the UST Inc.
      Officers’ Supplemental Retirement Plan (“SOP”), UST Inc. Retirement Income
      Plan for Salaried Employees, UST Inc. Benefit Restoration Plan and the UST
      Inc. Excess Retirement Benefit Plan (together, the “Retirement Plans”) as
      in effect on the date hereof, notwithstanding any subsequent amendment
      thereto; provided, however, that in no event shall you accrue benefits
      under such Retirement Plans beyond the first anniversary of your last day
      of active employment.  In addition, regardless of your age and
      years of service as of the Date of Termination, you shall be deemed to be
      a Participant as such term is defined in the SOP; provided, however, that
      the benefits payable to you under the SOP will be determined based upon
      your actual age and service on your Date of Termination.  Any
      benefits due under the SOP or any other retirement plans (including any
      offset for payments under qualified plans) shall be payable in accordance
      with the terms of the SOP and any other retirement plans and will become
      payable at the time and in the form permitted under the SOP and any other
      retirement plans, as may be amended from time
    

            


    

     

     

    
      
         

      

      
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        	 	 	to time; however, in the event you are a
      “specified employee” on your Severance Start Date, as determined by the
      Company in accordance with rules established by the Company in writing in
      advance of the “specified employee identification date” that relates to
      your Severance Start Date or, if later, by December 31, 2008, any such
      payments (other than payments under the UST Inc.
      Retirement Income Plan for Salaried Employees) that are made on
      account of your “separation from service” within the meaning of section
      409A(a)(2)(A)(i) of the Code shall be delayed until the date that is six
      (6) months after your Severance Start Date, with the lump sum value of all
      payments that are so delayed paid on the date that is six (6) months after
      your Severance Start Date (if you die after your Severance Start Date but
      before such lump sum is paid, it will be paid to your estate without
      regard to any six-month delay that otherwise applies to specified
      employees);
      and
	 	 	 
	
                 
      

              	
                (vii)

              	
                UST shall extend
      to you the same indemnification arrangements as are generally provided to
      other similarly situated officers to the extent authorized by applicable
      law and in accordance with Article VIII of UST’s
      By-Laws.

              


      

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (d)

            	
              Except
      as provided in Section 4(c)(iv) or Section 5(d) hereof, you shall not be
      required to mitigate the amount of any payment provided for in this
      Section 4 by seeking other employment or otherwise, nor shall the amount
      of any payment or benefit provided for in this Section 4 be reduced by any
      compensation earned by you as the result of employment by another
      employer, by retirement benefits, by offset against any amount claimed to
      be owed by you to the Company, or
otherwise.

            


    

     

    
      	
              5.

            	
              Severance
      Compensation on, in Anticipation or Contemplation of or Following a Change
      in Control.  On or following a Change in Control, and in
      the event of a termination by you for Good Reason or by the Company
      without Cause that is made in anticipation or contemplation of and occurs
      within thirty (30) days prior to a Change in Control, you shall be
      entitled to the following benefits during a period of Disability, or upon
      termination of your employment, as the case may be, provided that such
      period or termination occurs during the term of this Agreement, or as
      otherwise provided below in subsection (e)(A) or (B) of this Section
      5:

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (a)

            	
              During
      any period that you fail to perform your full-time duties with the Company
      as a result of:

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (i)

            	
              a
      period of 409A Disability, you shall continue to receive your base salary
      in accordance with the Company’s standard payroll practices at the rate in
      effect at the commencement of any such period, together with any
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        	 	 	Company’s
      short-term and long-term disability plans for salaried employees during
      such period and any benefit coverages customarily provided to disabled
      salaried employees, until your employment is terminated pursuant to
      Section 3(b) hereof.
	 	 	 
	
                 
      

              	
                (ii)

              	
                a
      period of General Disability, you shall receive any compensation payable
      to you under the Company’s short-term and long-term disability plans for
      salaried employees during such period, as well as any benefit coverages
      customarily provided to disabled salaried employees, until your employment
      is terminated pursuant to Section 3(b)
hereof.

              


      

    

     

    Thereafter
your benefits shall be determined under the Company's retirement, insurance and
other compensation programs then in effect in accordance with the terms of such
programs.

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (b)

            	
              If
      your employment is terminated by reason of your death or by the Company
      for Cause or by you other than for Good Reason as defined in Section
      3(d)(A) through (H), the Company shall pay you your full base salary in
      accordance with the Company’s standard payroll practices through the Date
      of Termination at the rate in effect at the time Notice of Termination is
      given, and provide you with all other normal post-termination amounts (if
      any) to which you are entitled under the terms and conditions of any
      compensation or benefit plan of the Company at the time such payments are
      due, and the Company shall have no further obligations to you under this
      Agreement.

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (c)

            	
              If
      your employment is terminated by you for Good Reason as defined in Section
      3(d)(A) through (H), or by the Company other than for Cause, General
      Disability, 409A Disability or death, then, you shall be entitled to the
      benefits provided below, subject to your execution of a release described
      in Section 3(h) and provided that such release becomes effective and has
      not been revoked in accordance with the terms
  thereof:

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (i)

            	
              the
      Company shall pay to you your full base salary through the Date of
      Termination at the rate in effect at the time Notice of Termination is
      given, no later than the fifth day following the Date of Termination; and
      provide you with all other normal post-termination amounts (if any) to
      which you are entitled under the terms and conditions of any compensation
      or benefit plan of the Company at the time such payments are
      due;

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (ii)

            	
              to
      the extent that an annual bonus has not been paid to you in respect of
      any  fiscal year, the Company shall pay to you, in the
      immediately following fiscal year at the time that annual bonuses in
      respect of such initial fiscal year are regularly paid by the
    

            


    

     

     

    
      
         

      

      
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        	 	 	Company
      (but not later than 2-1⁄2 months after the end of such initial fiscal year),
      the product of (x) an amount equal to the target annual bonus in effect
      immediately preceding the Date of Termination or, if greater, such target
      in effect immediately prior to the Change in Control, and (y) a fraction,
      the numerator of which is the number of days that have elapsed in the
      fiscal year in which the Date of Termination occurs through the Date of
      Termination, and the denominator of which is 365;
	 	 	 
	
                 
      

              	
                (iii)

              	
                in
      lieu of any further salary and bonus payments to you for periods
      subsequent to the Date of Termination, the Company shall pay as severance
      pay to you an amount equal to the product of (1) the sum of (A) your
      annual salary rate in effect as of the Date of Termination or, if greater,
      such rate in effect immediately prior to the Change in Control, and (B) an
      amount equal to 100% of the target annual bonus in effect as of the Date
      of Termination or, if greater, such target in effect immediately prior to
      the Change in Control, and (2) the number two (2);  in the event
      your Severance Start Date occurs on or within two (2) years following an
      event that constitutes a  change in the ownership or effective
      control of the Company or in the ownership of a substantial portion of the
      assets of the Company within the meaning of section 409A(a)(2)(a)(vi) of
      the Code, except as set forth below with respect to status as a specified
      employee, such amount will be paid in a lump sum no later than the fifth
      day following your Severance Start Date; otherwise, except as set forth
      below with respect to status as a specified employee, such amount shall be
      paid in twenty-four (24) equal monthly installments that shall begin to be
      paid upon your Severance Start Date (in accordance with the Company’s
      standard payroll practices for severance pay); in
      either case, in the event you are a “specified employee” on your Severance
      Start Date, as determined by the Company in accordance with rules
      established by the Company in writing in advance of the “specified
      employee identification date” that relates to your Severance Start Date
      or, if later, by December 31, 2008, such payments shall be delayed until
      the date that is six (6) months after your Severance Start Date, with the
      lump sum value of all payments that are so delayed paid on the date that
      is six (6) months after your Severance Start Date (if you die after your
      Severance Start Date but before payment of the lump sum or all twenty-four
      (24) installments, any remaining amounts will be paid to your estate as a
      lump sum and without regard to any six-month delay that otherwise applies
      to specified employees);

              
	 	 	 
	 	
                (iv)

              	the
      Company also shall promptly reimburse you for all legal fees and expenses
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              (including
      all such fees and expenses, if any, incurred in contesting or disputing
      any such termination or in seeking to obtain or enforce any right or
      benefit provided by this Agreement.  To the extent that any such
      reimbursement does not qualify for exclusion from Federal income taxation,
      the Company will make the reimbursement only if (A) the corresponding
      expense is incurred by you during your lifetime (or by your estate on your
      behalf after your death and within ten years of such termination), and (B)
      the request for reimbursement is submitted no later than two months prior
      to the last day of the calendar year following the calendar year in which
      the expense was incurred so that the Company can make the reimbursement on
      or before the last day of the calendar year following the calendar year in
      which the expense was incurred.  The amount of expenses eligible
      for such reimbursement during a calendar year will not affect the amount
      of expenses eligible for such reimbursement in another calendar year, and
      the right to such reimbursement is not subject to liquidation or exchange
      for another benefit from the Company. The Company shall also promptly
      reimburse you for all legal fees and expenses incurred by you in
      connection with any tax audit or proceeding to the extent attributable to
      the application of section 4999 of the Code to any payment or benefits
      provided hereunder); each
      such  reimbursement shall be paid no later than the end of the
      calendar year next following the calendar year in which you or the Company
      remit to the Internal Revenue Service the taxes that are the subject of
      the audit or proceeding or, where as a result of the audit or proceeding
      no taxes are due or are remitted but other reimbursable expenses have been
      incurred, the end of the calendar year following the calendar year in
      which the audit is completed or there is a final and nonappealable
      settlement or other resolution of the proceeding. For purposes of the
      foregoing, in the event you are a “specified employee” on your Severance
      Start Date (as determined by the Company in accordance with rules
      established by the Company in writing in advance of the “specified
      employee identification date” that relates to your Severance Start Date
      or, if later, by December 31, 2008), and to the extent that any portion of
      the reimbursements described above in this paragraph (iv) relate to
      expenses that were triggered by your “separation from service” within the
      meaning of section 409A(a)(2)(A)(i) of the Code and such reimbursements
      constitute a “deferral of compensation” within the meaning of section 409A
      of the Code, such reimbursements shall be paid no earlier than the date
      that is six (6) months after your Severance Start Date (if you die after
      your Severance Start Date but before such reimbursements have been made,
      such reimbursements will be paid to your estate in a lump
  

            


    

     

     

    
      
         

      

      
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        	 	 	sum
      without regard to any six-month delay that otherwise applies to specified
      employees);
	 	 	 
	
                 
      

              	
                (v)

              	
                for
      a twenty-four (24) month period after such termination, the Company shall
      arrange to provide you with life insurance benefits substantially similar
      to those which you were receiving immediately prior to the Notice of
      Termination (as well as the group health coverage described in Section
      5(d) below), at a cost and level of benefits which are substantially
      similar to those you were receiving prior to the Date of
      Termination.  Benefits otherwise receivable by you pursuant to
      this paragraph (v) shall be reduced to the extent comparable coverage is
      actually provided to you by another employer during the twenty-four (24)
      month period following your termination, and any such  coverage
      actually provided to you by such employer shall be reported to the
      Company; and

              


      

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (vi)

            	
              Notwithstanding
      any subsequent amendment to the SOP, you shall be entitled to the benefits
      and treatment applicable to SOP accrued benefits in the event of a Change
      in Control in accordance with the terms of the SOP as in effect
      immediately preceding a Change in
Control.

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (d)

            	
              For
      a twenty-four (24) month period after the termination referenced in
      Section 4(c) or Section 5(c), the Company shall arrange to provide you
      with group health coverage substantially similar to that which you were
      receiving immediately prior to the Notice of
  Termination.

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (i)

            	
              If
      such coverage is provided under a self-insured medical reimbursement plan
      maintained by the Company (within the meaning of section 105(h) of the
      Code):

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (A)

            	
              there
      will be no charge to you for such coverage for any month that falls within
      the first six months following your Severance Start
  Date;

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (B)

            	
              the
      charge to you for each remaining month of coverage will equal the
      Company’s monthly COBRA charge for such coverage, and you will be required
      to pay such monthly charge in accordance with the Company’s standard COBRA
      premium payment requirements; and

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (C)

            	
              on
      the date that is six months following your Severance Start Date the
      Company will pay you a lump sum in cash equal to the product of (I) the
      Company’s monthly COBRA charge on the payment date for family coverage
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              Company’s
      group health plan, and (II) the difference between (a) the number
      twenty-four (24), and (b) the number of months of coverage provided under
      clause (A) above.

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (ii)

            	
              If
      such coverage is provided under a fully-insured medical reimbursement plan
      (within the meaning of section 105(h) of the Code), there will be no
      charge to you for such coverage.

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (e)

            	
              If
      any of the Total Payments (as defined below) will be subject to the tax
      (the "Excise Tax") imposed by section 4999 of the Code, the Company shall
      pay to you an additional amount (the "Gross-Up Payment") such that the net
      amount retained by you, after deduction of any Excise Tax on the Total
      Payments and any federal, state and local income and employment taxes and
      Excise Tax upon the Gross-Up Payment, shall be equal to the Total
      Payments.  The Gross-Up Payment will be paid to you or remitted
      by the Company to the appropriate tax authorities in a lump sum no later
      than the fifth day following the applicable date. For this purpose, the
      applicable date shall be – (A) in the case of that portion of the Total
      Payments that is payable upon a Change in Control, that is payable without
      the occurrence of your termination of employment and that is exempt from
      section 409A of the Code, the date of a Change in Control but not before
      January 1, 2009; (B) in the case of that portion of the Total Payments
      that is payable upon or as result of a Change in Control, that is payable
      without the occurrence of your termination of employment and that is
      subject to section 409A of the Code, the date you remit the specified
      taxes to the appropriate tax authorities (or, if the specified taxes are
      remitted by the Company, the date the taxes are due) but not before
      January 1, 2009; (C) in the case of that portion of the Total Payment that
      is payable upon your termination of employment and that is exempt from
      section 409A of the Code, your Date of Termination; and (D) in the case of
      that portion of the Total Payments that is payable upon your Severance
      Start Date and that is subject to section 409A of the Code, your Severance
      Start Date. However, notwithstanding provision (D) immediately above, in
      the event you are a “specified employee” on your Severance Start Date (as
      determined by the Company in accordance with rules established by the
      Company in writing in advance of the “specified employee identification
      date” that relates to your Severance Start Date or, if later, by December
      31, 2008), and to the extent that any portion of the Gross-Up Payment
      relates to Total Payments that were triggered by your “separation from
      service” within the meaning of section 409A(a)(2)(A)(i) of the Code,
      payment of such portion of the Gross-Up Payment which constitutes a
      “deferral of compensation” within the meaning of section 409A of the Code
      and is not deemed to be payable upon another permissible payment date
      under section 409A of the Code shall be delayed until the date that is six
      (6) months after your Severance Start Date (if you die after your
      

               

            


    

     

    
      
         

      

      
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                Severance Start Date but before the Gross-Up
      Payment is made, it will be paid to your estate as a lump sum and without
      regard to any six-month delay that otherwise applies to specified
      employees).  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
      Section 5(e), if it shall be determined that you are entitled to the
      Gross-Up Payment, but that the Parachute Value (as defined below) of the
      Total Payments does not equal or exceed 110% of the Safe Harbor Amount (as
      defined below), then except as provided by the full paragraph that
      immediately follows paragraph (iii) of this subsection (e), no Gross-Up
      Payment shall be made to you and the amounts payable to you under Section
      5(c) and (d) of this Agreement shall be reduced to the extent necessary to
      cause the Parachute Value of the Total Payments, in the aggregate, to be
      equal to the Safe Harbor Amount.  Any
      such reduction shall be applied under Section 5(c) and (d) as
      follows:

              

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (i)

            	
              first, for
      purposes of Section 5(d)(i)(A), there will be a charge to you for each
      month of coverage, applied on a month-to-month basis as necessary
      to cause the aggregate Parachute Value of the Total
      Payments to equal the Safe Harbor Amount, in an amount equal to the
      Company's monthly COBRA charge for such coverage, and you will be required
      to pay such monthly charge in accordance with the Company's standard COBRA
      premium payment
requirements;

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (ii)

            	
              second,
      for
      purposes of Section 5(c)(v), there will be a charge to you for each month
      of coverage, applied on a dollar-for-dollar basis as necessary to
      cause the aggregate Parachute Value of the Total
      Payments to equal the Safe Harbor Amount, in an amount equal to the
      premium paid by the Company for such coverage, and you will be required to
      pay such monthly charge to the Company at the same time as the Company is
      required to make payment of such premium to the insurance carrier;
      and

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (iii)

            	
              third, the amount payable under Section 5(c)(ii),
      the amount payable under Section 5(c)(iii), any additional SOP accrued
      benefit provided under Section 5(c)(vi), and the amount payable under
      Section 5(d)(i)(C) shall each be reduced, on a pro rata basis (based on
      the dollar amounts payable under Section 5(c)(ii), Section 5(c)(iii) and
      Section 5(d)(1)(C) and the amount of the additional SOP accrued benefit
      determined under Section 5(c)(vi) as of your Severance Start Date), as
      necessary to cause the aggregate Parachute Value of the Total
      Payments to equal the Safe Harbor
    Amount;

            


    

     

    However, solely to the
extent that the prior two sentences become applicable (determined before the
application of this paragraph) and in the event that the right to the Gross-Up
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    substantial risk of
forfeiture under section 409A of the Code, then you shall continue to be
entitled to the Gross-Up Payment, but the amounts payable to you under
Section 5(c) and (d) plus the Gross-Up Payment shall be reduced to the extent
necessary to cause the Parachute Value of the Total Payments, in the aggregate,
to be equal to the Safe Harbor Amount.  These
reductions generally shall be made in the order specified above, provided
however, that the amount of the Gross-Up Payment shall be added to the payments
specified in subsection (iii) above and shall also be subject to pro rata
reduction as specified in subsection (iii) based on the dollar amount of the
Gross-Up Payment.

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              [In
      the event that application of the above ordering rules results in the
      imposition upon you of an excise tax or penalty interest under section
      409A of the Code, the Company will pay you an additional payment (the
      “409A Gross-Up Payment”) in an amount equal to such excise tax and penalty
      interest plus all income and employment taxes on such excise tax and
      penalty interest, including, if the 409A Gross-Up Payment is a Total
      Payment, payment of any Gross-Up Payment on this payment.  For
      this purpose, all income taxes will be assumed to apply to you at the
      highest marginal rate in effect on the date the 409A Gross-Up Payment is
      made.  The 409A Gross-Up Payment shall be paid no later than the
      end of the calendar year next following the calendar year in which you
      remit the corresponding excise tax and penalty interest to the Internal
      Revenue Service.]

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (f)

            	
              For
      purposes of determining whether any of the Total Payments will be subject
      to the Excise Tax and the amount of such Excise Tax, (i) all payments or
      benefits received or to be received by you in connection with a Change in
      Control or the termination of your employment (whether payable pursuant to
      the terms of this Agreement or of any other plan, arrangement or agreement
      with the Company, UST or any of their affiliates or successors, any person
      whose actions result in a Change in Control or any person affiliated (or
      which, as a result of the completion of the transactions causing a Change
      in Control, will become affiliated) with the Company or UST or such person
      within the meaning of section 1504 of the Code (such payments or benefits,
      excluding the Gross-Up Payments, being hereinafter referred to as the
      "Total Payments")) shall be treated as "parachute payments" (within the
      meaning of section 280G(b)(2) of the Code) unless, in the opinion of tax
      counsel selected by the independent auditors of the Company (as of the
      date immediately prior to the Change in Control) and reasonably acceptable
      to you, such payments or benefits (in whole or in part) do not constitute
      parachute payments, including by reason of section 280G(b)(4)(A) of the
      Code; (ii) all "excess parachute payments" (within the meaning of section
      280G(b)(1) of the Code) shall be treated as subject to the Excise Tax,
      unless in the opinion of such tax counsel such excess parachute
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        	 	 	represent
      reasonable compensation for services actually rendered (within the meaning
      of section 280G(b)(4)(B) of the Code) in excess of the "base amount"
      (within the meaning of section 280G(b)(3) of the Code), or are not
      otherwise subject to the Excise Tax; and (iii) the value of any noncash
      benefits or any deferred payment or benefit shall be determined by the
      Company's independent auditors in accordance with the principles of
      sections 280G(d)(3) and (4) of the Code and the regulations promulgated
      thereunder.  For purposes of determining the amount of the
      Gross-Up Payment, you shall be deemed to pay federal income taxes at your
      applicable rate of federal income taxation in the calendar year in which
      the taxes upon which the Gross-Up Payment is made are due and state and
      local income and employment taxes at your applicable rate of taxation in
      your state and locality of residence on the date the taxes upon which the
      Gross-Up Payment is made are due, net of the maximum reduction in federal
      income taxes that could be obtained from deduction of such state and local
      taxes.  For purposes of this Agreement, (x) the term "Parachute
      Value" when applied to any payment shall mean the present value as of the
      date of the Change in Control of the portion of such payment that is
      treated as a "parachute payment" under section 280G(b)(2) of the Code, as
      determined by tax counsel for purposes of determining whether and to what
      extent the Excise Tax will apply to you and (y) the term "Safe Harbor
      Amount" shall mean 2.99 times your "base amount", within the meaning of
      section 280G(b)(3) of the Code.
	 	 	 
	
                 
      

              	
                (g)

              	
                In
      the event that the Excise Tax is subsequently determined to be less than
      the amount taken into account hereunder, you shall repay to the Company at
      the time that the amount of such reduction in Excise Tax is finally
      determined (subject to the last sentence of this subsection) the portion
      of the Gross-Up Payment attributable to such reduction (plus the portion
      of the Gross-Up Payment attributable to the Excise Tax and federal, state
      and local income and employment taxes imposed on the Gross-Up Payment
      being repaid by you if such repayment results in a reduction in Excise Tax
      or a federal, state and local income and employment taxes deduction) plus
      interest on the amount of such repayment at 120% of the applicable federal
      rate (as defined in section 1274(d) of the Code).  In the event
      that the Excise Tax is determined to exceed the amount taken into account
      hereunder (including by reason of any payment the existence or amount of
      which cannot be determined at the time of the Gross-Up Payment) or
      additional Total Payments are made to you after the application of any
      cutback as provided in Section 5(e) hereof, which additional Total
      Payments result in the cutback to the Safe Harbor Amount no longer being
      applicable, the Company shall pay you an additional amount equal to the
      gross-up payment in respect of such excess and the value of the Total
      Payments which were originally cutback and are subject to restoration
      hereunder (plus any interest payable with respect to such excess) within
      five (5) business days following the time that the amount of such excess
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        	 	 	restoration
      is finally determined; provided, however, that in the event you are a
      “specified employee” on your Severance Start Date (as determined by the
      Company in accordance with rules established by the Company in writing in
      advance of the “specified employee identification date” that relates to
      your Severance Start Date or, if later, December 31, 2008) and any such
      additional gross-up payment would be made prior to the date that is six
      (6) months after your Severance Start Date, and to the extent that payment
      of any portion of such additional gross-up payment that relates to Total
      Payments that were triggered by your “separation from service” within the
      meaning of section 409A(a)(2)(A)(i) of the Code, payment of such portion
      of the additional gross-up payment if such payment itself constitutes a
      “deferral of compensation” within the meaning of section 409A of the Code
      and is not deemed to be payable upon another permissible payment date
      under section 409A of the Code shall be delayed until the date that is six
      (6) months after your Severance Start Date (if you die after your
      Severance Start Date but before the additional gross-up payment is made,
      it will be paid to your estate as a lump sum and without regard to any
      six-month delay that otherwise applies to specified employees); and
      provided, further, that each additional gross-up payment required to be
      made by the Company to you and/or each repayment of a gross-up payment
      required to be made by you to the Company shall be paid no later than the
      end of the calendar year next following the calendar year in which you or
      the Company remit the corresponding taxes to the Internal Revenue
      Service.
	 	 	 
	
                 
      

              	
                (h)

              	
                Except
      as provided in Section 5(c)(v) or Section 5(d) hereof, you shall not be
      required to mitigate the amount of any payment provided for in this
      Section 5 by seeking other employment or otherwise, nor shall the amount
      of any payment or benefit provided for in this Section 5 be reduced by any
      compensation earned by you as the result of employment by another
      employer, by retirement benefits, by offset against any amount claimed to
      be owed by you to the Company, or
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              6.

            	
              Noncompetition.  You
      agree that you will not engage in any Competitive Activity during the
      one-year period following your termination of employment with the Company
      for any reason (or, where you receive payments pursuant to Section 4(c) or
      Section 5(c) hereof, then during the two-year period following your
      termination of employment with the Company).  For purposes of
      this Section, "Competitive Activity" shall mean activity, without the
      written consent of an authorized officer of UST, consisting of your
      participation in the management of, or acting as a consultant for or
      employee of, any business operation of any enterprise if such operation (a
      "Competitive Operation") is then in substantial and direct competition
      with any business operation of the Company, UST and/or any of their
      affiliates, any place in the world, as now or hereafter designated by the
      Board; provided,
      however,
      that no business operation may be designated as a business operation that
      is in substantial competition with UST and/or any of its
      

            


    

     

     

    
      
         

      

      
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        	 	affiliates
      unless the profits, sales or assets attributable to such business
      operation amount to at least ten percent (10%) of said business' total
      profits, sales or assets.  Competitive Activity shall not
      include (1) the mere ownership of up to five percent (5%) of the
      outstanding securities in any enterprise; or (2) the participation in the
      management of, or acting as a consultant for or employee of, any
      enterprise or any business operation thereof, other than in connection
      with a Competitive Operation of such enterprise, provided
      that you do not furnish advice with respect to inventions, processes,
      customers, methods of distribution, methods of manufacture, marketing or
      business strategy relating to any Competitive Operation of such
      enterprise, or the formation of a Competitive Operation.  For
      purposes of this section, a Competitive Operation shall not include an
      operation in which you and/or members of your immediate family hold a
      majority interest and which produces or distributes less than 15,000 cases
      per year.
	 	 
	
                7.

              	
                Confidentiality.  You agree not to
      disclose, either while employed by the Company or at any time thereafter,
      to any person not employed by the Company, or not engaged to render
      services to the Company, except with the prior written consent of an
      officer authorized to act in the matter by the Board, any confidential
      information of the Company or its affiliates obtained by you while in the
      employ of the Company, including, without limitation, information relating
      to any of the Company's or its affiliates' inventions, processes,
      formulae, plans, devices, compilations of information, methods of
      distribution, customers, client relationships, marketing strategies or
      trade secrets; provided, however, that this
      provision shall not preclude you from the use or disclosure of information
      known generally to the public or of information not considered
      confidential by persons engaged in the business conducted by the Company
      or from disclosure required by law or court order (and to your legal
      counsel in connection therewith).  The agreement herein made in
      this Section 7 shall be in addition to, and not in limitation or
      derogation of, any obligations otherwise imposed by law upon you in
      respect of confidential information and trade secrets of the Company or
      its
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              8.

            	
              Non-Solicitation.  You
      agree that you shall not solicit any person who is a customer of the
      businesses conducted by the Company or its affiliates, or any business in
      which you have been engaged on behalf of the Company or its affiliates at
      any time during the Term of this Agreement and for a two (2) year period
      thereafter on behalf of an employer affiliated with you or any business
      described in Section 6; or induce or attempt
      to persuade any employee of the Company, UST or any of  their
      affiliates to terminate his employment relationship in order to enter into
      employment with an employer affiliated with you or any business
      described in Section
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              9.

            	
              Successors:  Binding
      Agreement.

            


    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (a)

            	
              The
      Company and UST shall require any successor (whether direct or indirect,
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        	 	 	substantially
      all of the business and/or assets of the Company or UST to expressly
      assume and agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the
      same extent that the Company and UST would be required to perform it if no
      such succession had taken place.  Failure of the Company and/or
      UST to obtain such assumption and agreement prior to the effectiveness of
      any such succession shall be a breach of this Agreement and shall entitle
      you to compensation from the Company in the same amount and on the same
      terms to which you would be entitled hereunder if you terminate your
      employment for Good Reason following a Change in Control, except that for
      purposes of implementing the foregoing, the date on which any such
      succession becomes effective shall be deemed the Date of
      Termination.  As used in this Agreement, "Company" shall mean
      the Company as hereinbefore defined and any successor to its business
      and/or assets as aforesaid which assumes and agrees to perform this
      Agreement by operation of law, or otherwise.
	 	 	 
	
                 
      

              	
                (b)

              	
                This
      Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by your
      personal or legal representative, executors, administrators, successors,
      heirs, distributees, devisees and legatees.  If you should die
      while any amount would still be payable to you hereunder if you had
      continued to live, all such payments, unless otherwise provided herein,
      shall be paid in accordance with the terms of this Agreement to your
      devisee, legatee or other designee or, if there is no such designee, to
      your estate.

              


      

    

     

    
      	
              10.

            	
              Notice.  For
      the purpose of this Agreement, notices and all other communications
      provided for in the Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to
      have been duly given when delivered or mailed by United States certified
      or registered mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, addressed
      to the respective addresses set forth on the first page of this Agreement,
      provided that all notice to the Company shall be directed to the attention
      of the Board with a copy to the Secretary of the Company, or to such other
      address as either party may have furnished to the other in writing in
      accordance herewith, except that notice of change of address shall be
      effective only upon
receipt.

            


    

     

    
      	
              11.

            	
              Miscellaneous.  No
      provision of this Agreement may be modified, waived or discharged unless
      such waiver, modification or discharge is agreed to in writing and signed
      by you and such officer as may be specifically designated by the
      Board.  No waiver by either party hereto at any time of any
      breach by the other party hereto of, or compliance with, any condition or
      provision of this Agreement to be performed by such other party shall be
      deemed a waiver of similar or dissimilar provisions or conditions at the
      same or at any prior or subsequent time.  No agreements or
      representations, oral or otherwise, express or implied, with respect to
      the subject matter hereof have been made by either party which are not
      expressly set forth in this Agreement.  The validity,
      interpretation, construction and performance of this Agreement shall be
      governed by the laws of the State of Delaware without regard to its
      conflicts of law principles.  All references to
      

            


    

     

     

    
      
         

      

      
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        	 	sections
      of the Exchange Act or the Code shall be deemed also to refer to any
      successor provisions to such sections.  Any payments provided
      for hereunder shall be paid net of any applicable withholding required
      under federal, state or local law.  The obligations of the
      Company under Sections 4 and 5 and your obligations under Sections 6, 7
      and 8 shall survive the expiration of the term of this
  Agreement.
	 	 
	
                12.

              	
                Validity.  The
      invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Agreement shall
      not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision of this
      Agreement, which shall remain in full force and
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              13.

            	
              Counterparts.  This
      Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be
      deemed to be an original but all of which together will constitute one and
      the same instrument.

            


    

     

    
      	
              14.

            	
              Arbitration.  Any
      dispute or controversy arising under or in connection with this Agreement
      shall be settled exclusively by arbitration, conducted before a panel of
      three arbitrators in New York, New York, in accordance with the rules of
      the American Arbitration Association then in effect.  Judgment
      may be entered on the arbitrator's award in any court having jurisdiction;
      provided, however, that you shall be entitled to seek specific performance
      of your right to be paid until the Date of Termination during the pendency
      of any dispute or controversy arising under or in connection with the
      Agreement.

            


    

     

    
      	
              15.

            	
              Code
      Section 409A.  It is intended, and this Agreement will be
      so construed, that any amounts payable under this Agreement and the
      Company’s and your exercise of authority or discretion hereunder shall
      comply with the provisions of section 409A of the Code and the treasury
      regulations relating thereto so as not to subject you to the payment of
      interest and tax penalty which may be imposed under section 409A of the
      Code.  In furtherance of this intent, to the extent that any
      regulations or other guidance issued under section 409A of the Code would
      result in you being subject to the payment of such interest or tax
      penalty, the Company and you agree to amend this Agreement prior to
      January 1, 2009 in order to bring this Agreement into compliance with
      section 409A of the Code in a manner which has the least adverse effect on
      you.

            


    

     

    
      	
              16.

            	
              Entire
      Agreement.  This Agreement sets forth the entire
      agreement of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter contained
      herein and supersedes all prior agreements, promises, covenants,
      arrangements, communications, representations or warranties, whether oral
      or written, by any officer, employee or representative of any party
      hereto; including, without limitation, the Letter Agreement between you,
      the Company and UST, dated January 1, 1991, the Existing Agreement, and
      any addendums, amendments or modifications thereof; and any prior
      agreement of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter contained
      herein is hereby terminated and cancelled.  Notwithstanding the
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              indemnification
      by UST as an officer pursuant to: (a) applicable state law, with all
      exclusions and exceptions provided by such law to remain in full force and
      effect; (b) any indemnification agreement entered into between you and UST
      which shall remain in full force and effect; (c) any applicable director
      and officer insurance arrangements; and (d) in accordance with Article
      VIII of UST’s By-Laws.

            


    

     

    If
this letter sets forth our agreement on the subject matter hereof, kindly sign
and return to the Company the enclosed copy of this letter, which will then
constitute our agreement on this subject.

     

    UST
Inc. and International Wines & Spirits Ltd.

     

    
       

      
        
          
            
              
                	
                        By

                      	      
                        /s/ Gary B.
      Glass

                      	
                         

                      	 
      
	 
      	
                        Name: 
      Gary B. Glass

                      	 
      
	
                         

                      	
                        Title:    
      Vice President, General
      Counsel and Asst.
      Secty.

                      	 
      


              

            

          

        

      

       

      Agreed
to this 16th day

      of
December, 2008

       

       

      
        
          
            	
                             
      /s/ Theodor Basler

                  	 
      
	
                    Theodor
      Basler

                  	 
      


          

        

      



     

    
      
         

      

      
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    RELEASE
AGREEMENT

     

      THIS RELEASE, entered into this
[     ] day of
[              ]
by [Name],  residing at [                                                              ]
(hereinafter referred to as the "Employee").

     

    W
I T N E S S E T H:

     

      WHEREAS, the Employee, and UST Inc., a Delaware
corporation ("UST"), having its principal office in Greenwich, Connecticut,
entered into a letter agreement (the "Agreement") dated as of ________, 2006,
pursuant to Section 3(h) of which the Employee agreed and covenanted, to execute
a general release of any and all claims he may have or may believe he has
against UST, its affiliates and/or their respective officers, directors,
employees, agents and representatives; and

     

      WHEREAS, the employment of the Employee was
terminated as of
[           ];

     

      NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the benefits
to be provided to the Employee pursuant to the Agreement, it is agreed as
follows:

     

    1.           The
Employee voluntarily, knowingly and willingly releases and forever discharges
UST, its parents, subsidiaries and affiliates, together with their respective
past and present officers, directors, partners, shareholders, employees and
agents, and each of their predecessors, successors and assigns, from any and all
charges, complaints, claims, promises, agreements, controversies, causes of
action and demands of any nature whatsoever which against them the Employee or
his executors, administrators, successors or assigns ever had, now have or
hereafter can, shall or may have by reason of any matter, cause or thing
whatsoever arising prior to the time the Employee signs this
agreement.

     

    2.           The
release being provided by Employee in this agreement includes, but is not
limited to, any rights or claims relating in any way to the Employee's
employment relationship with UST, its parents, subsidiaries and affiliates, or
the termination thereof, or under any statute, including the federal Age
Discrimination in Employment Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the
Americans with Disabilities Act, or any other federal, state or local law or
judicial decision.  Notwithstanding the
foregoing,
Employee does not hereby release any rights in and to employee benefit plans
maintained by UST pursuant to the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA") in which Employee has a vested
interest as of the date of Employee's signature on this
Agreement.  Furthermore, nothing contained herein shall be deemed a
waiver of Employee's right to indemnification by UST as a corporate
officer/director pursuant to: (a) applicable state law,
with all exclusions and exceptions provided by such law to remain in full force
and effect; (b) any
indemnification agreement entered into between the Employee and UST; (c) any
applicable director and officer insurance arrangements; and (d) in accordance
with Article VIII of UST’s By-Laws.

     

    3.           By
signing this release agreement, the Employee represents that he has not and will
not in the future commence any action or proceeding arising out of the matters
released hereby, and that he will not seek or be entitled to any award of legal
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    his
behalf. This paragraph will not preclude Employee from filing an administrative
charge of discrimination, provided Employee does not seek any relief for
himself/herself in connection with such proceeding.

     

    4.           By
signing this release agreement, the Employee agrees to cooperate fully with UST
and its affiliates concerning reasonable requests for information about the
business of UST or any of its affiliates or your involvement and participation
therein; the defense or prosecution of any claims or actions now in existence or
which may be brought in the future against or on behalf of UST or any of its
affiliates which relate to events or occurrences that transpired while the
Employee was employed by UST and its affiliates; and in connection with any
investigation or review by any federal, state or local regulatory,
quasi-regulatory or self-governing authority (including, without limitation, the
Securities and Exchange Commission) as any such investigation or review relates
to events or occurrences that transpired while the Employee was so
employed.  The Employee's full cooperation shall include, but not be
limited to, being available to meet and speak with officers or employees of UST
or any of its affiliates and/or their counsel at reasonable times and locations,
executing accurate and truthful documents and taking such other actions as may
reasonably be requested by UST or any of its affiliates and/or their counsel to
effectuate the foregoing.  UST agrees to reimburse you for any
reasonable, out-of-pocket travel, hotel and meal expenses incurred in connection
with the Employee’s performance of obligations pursuant to this paragraph 5 for
which the Employee has obtained prior approval from UST.

     

    5.           The
Employee acknowledges that UST has hereby advised him to consult with an
attorney prior to signing this release agreement.  The Employee
represents that he has had the opportunity to review this agreement and,
specifically, the release in paragraph 1, with an attorney of his
choice.  The Employee also agrees that he has entered into this
agreement freely and voluntarily.

     

    6.           The
Employee acknowledges that he has been given at least twenty-one days to
consider the terms of this release agreement.  Furthermore, once he
has signed this release agreement, the Employee shall have seven additional days
from the date of signing this release agreement to revoke his consent
hereto.  The release agreement will not become effective until seven
days after the date the Employee has signed it, which will be the effective date
of this release agreement.

     

    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Employee has executed this
release agreement as of the date first set forth
above.

     

     

     

    
      
        
          	 
      	
                   

                	 
      
	 
      	
                  [Name]

                	 
      


        

      

    

     

     

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    WITNESS

     

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