Document:

<PAGE>   1
                                                                   EXHIBIT 10.25

                           STATER BROS. HOLDINGS INC.
                               PHANTOM STOCK PLAN

1.      PURPOSE.

        The purpose of the Stater Bros. Holdings Inc. Phantom Stock Plan (the
"Plan") is to provide additional incentive compensation to a select group of
management and highly compensated employees who contribute conspicuously by
their ability, industry and ingenuity to the management and successful operation
of Stater Bros. Holdings Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company") and its
subsidiaries. Such additional compensation shall be provided by periodic awards
to Participants (hereinafter defined) of units of hypothetical shares of the
Company's Common Stock and the payment to Participants, at specified times, of
the Established Value (hereinafter defined) which includes changes in fair
market value of the Company's Common Stock.

2.      DEFINITIONS.

        As used herein, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the
following words and expressions shall have the meaning respectively provided:

        (a) "Affiliated Company" means any company in which the Company owns at
least eighty percent (80%) of the total outstanding stock of all classes of
stock in the company and at least eighty percent (80%) of the total combined
voting power of all classes of company stock entitled to vote.

        (b) "Award" means the written agreement of the Company to pay additional
compensation under the Plan to certain individuals selected pursuant to Section
4, such compensation to be in the amounts determined in accordance with Sections
5 through 11.

        (c) "Benefit Commencement Date" means the date determined in accordance
with Section 7.1.

        (d) "Board of Directors" means the Board of Directors of the Company.

        (e) "Change in Control" shall mean and include any of the following:

             (1) the purchase or other acquisition by any person, entity or
group of persons, within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 ("Act"), or any comparable successor provisions, of
beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the
Act) of fifty percent (50%) or more of either the outstanding shares of common
stock or the combined voting power of the Company's then outstanding voting
securities entitled to vote generally;

                                       1
<PAGE>   2

             (2) the approval by the stockholders of the Company of a
reorganization, merger, or consolidation, in each case, with respect to which
persons who were stockholders of the Company immediately prior to such
reorganization, merger or consolidation do not, immediately thereafter, own more
than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power entitled to vote generally
in the election of directors of the reorganized, merged or consolidated the
Company's then outstanding securities;

             (3) a liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or,

             (4) the sale of fifty percent (50%) or more of the assets of the
Company.

        (f) "Change in Control Benefit Commencement Date" means the date
determined in accordance with Section 7.2.

        (g) "Change in Control Established Value" means the value as determined
in accordance with Section 6.3.

        (h) "Committee" means the Compensation Committee of the Board of
Directors, which shall administer the Plan.

        (i) "Common Stock" means the Class A Common Stock of the Company, $.01
par value, as specified in the Company's Certificate of Incorporation on the
date hereof, and any common or preferred stock resulting from adjustments
provided in Section 14.

        (j) "Company" means Stater Bros. Holdings Inc., a Delaware corporation.

        (k) "Effective Date" means the date set forth in the Award as the
effective date of the Award.

        (l) "Eligible Employee" means any management or highly compensated
employee (within the meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974) regularly employed by an Employer, but specifically
excluding any existing shareholder of the Company or any partner of La Cadena
Investments.

        (m) "Employer" means the Company and each Affiliated Company.

        (n) "Established Value" means the value as determined in accordance with
Section 6.2.

        (o) "Fair Market Value" of a share of Common Stock as of a particular
determination date means the value of a share of Common Stock determined by the
Board of Directors from time to time, in its reasonable discretion as of such
determination date, but no less than initially at the time of any Share Units
award or purchase and once each calendar year in the month of December. In
making any determination of Fair Market Value, the Board of Directors may
consult with an investment banking firm or firms and may take into consideration
the following:

<PAGE>   3

             (1) the nature of the Company's business and the history of its
business since its inception;

             (2) the economic outlook in general, the state and regional
economic outlook and specifically for the areas in which the Company conducts
its business and the condition and outlook of the Company's specific industry in
particular;

             (3) the book value of the Common Stock and the financial condition
of the Company;

             (4) the Company's earnings from both an historical and projected
basis;

             (5) the earning capacity of the Company;

             (6) the extent to which the Company has goodwill or other
intangible value; and

             (7) the market price or value of companies engaged in the similar
business to the extent such information is available to the Board of Directors.

        (p) "Normal Retirement Age" means 65 years of age.

        (q) "Participant" means any Eligible Employee selected by the Chairman
or Chief Executive Officer of the Company, the Committee and the Board of
Directors pursuant to Section 4.1 to receive the grant of an Award.

        (r) "Plan" means the Stater Bros. Holdings Inc. Phantom Stock Plan.

        (s) "Retirement" shall mean a Participant's termination of employment
with the Employer at or after Normal Retirement Age if the Participant has
completed at least fifteen (15) years of employment with the Employer.

        (t) "Share Unit" means, subject to the provisions of Section 14, the
equivalent of a fractional share of Common Stock determined in accordance with
Section 6.2.

        (u) "Stated Value" means the initial value assigned to a Share Unit as
of the Effective Date of the Award.

        (v) "Termination of Employment" shall occur when, prior to a Change in
Control, a Participant is no longer employed by any Employer.

        (w) "Total Permanent Disability" shall mean permanent and total
disability as defined in Section 22(e)(3) of the Code.

<PAGE>   4

3.      ADMINISTRATION OF THE PLAN.

        3.1 Administrator. The Plan shall be administered by the Committee, who
shall have complete discretion and authority to interpret and construe the Plan
and any Awards issued thereunder, decide all questions of eligibility and
benefits (including underlying factual determinations), and adjudicate all
claims and disputes.

        3.2 Administrative Rules. The Committee may (a) adopt, amend and rescind
rules and regulations relating to the Plan; (b) determine the terms and
provisions of the respective Awards, including provisions defining or otherwise
relating to (i) the duration of the Awards and (ii) the effect of approved
leaves of absence on the rights to benefits under the Plan; (c) construe the
provisions of the Plan and the respective Awards; and (d) make all
determinations necessary or advisable for administering the Plan. Any such
actions by the Committee shall be consistent with the provisions of the Plan.
The Committee may correct any defect or supply any omission or reconcile any
inconsistency in the Plan or in any Award in the manner and to the extent it
shall deem expedient to carry the Plan or Award into effect, and it shall be the
sole and final judge of such expediency. The determination of the Committee on
the matters referred to in this Section 3.2 shall be final, binding, and
conclusive on all interested parties.

4.      ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION.

        4.1 Eligibility and Grant of Awards. Awards may be granted to any
Eligible Employee. Subject to the express provisions of the Plan, the Chairman
of the Board or Chief Executive Officer of the Company must first recommend, in
his or her sole discretion, which Eligible Employees shall be granted Awards.
Both the Committee and the Board of Directors must then approve such
recommendation, and upon such approval such Eligible Employees shall become
Participants herein and shall be granted such Awards as shall be determined by
the Committee. The number of units awarded shall be assigned a stated value
determined by the Committee using the initial stated value of a Share Unit of
$20.00 per unit and increasing or decreasing such stated value on a pro rata
basis by increases or decreases in the Fair Market Value of the Company's Common
Stock from October 1, 2000 to the Effective Date of the Award. Each Award
granted pursuant to the Plan shall be evidenced by an agreement substantially in
the form set forth following the end of this Plan, executed by the Company and
sent to the Eligible Employee to whom the Award is granted, shall specify the
number of Share Units awarded to the Eligible Employee and shall incorporate
such terms as are required by the Plan and as the Committee shall deem necessary
or desirable. Subject to the requirements for vesting and unless otherwise
specified in the agreement granting the Award, the specified number of Share
Units shall be deemed credited as of the month and day of the Effective Date of
the Award.

        4.2 Effect of Adoption. The adoption of the Plan shall not be deemed to
give any person a right to be granted an Award under the Plan.

<PAGE>   5

5.      CREDITS TO ACCOUNTS.

        5.1 Credits - General; Bookkeeping. The Committee shall establish a
memorandum bookkeeping account with respect to each Participant which shall
include the Stated Value and the Fair Market Value of the Company's Common Stock
at the time of the Award or Purchase of Share Units. The number of Share Units
awarded to each Participant from time to time shall be credited to the
Participant's account, such credits to include Awards made pursuant to Section
4.1; amounts required to be credited to the account of such Participant pursuant
to Section 5.2; and Share Units purchased by a Participant pursuant to Section
5.4.

        5.2 Additional Credits. Whenever the Company pays any dividends (other
than in Common Stock) upon issued and outstanding Common Stock, or shall make
any distribution (other than in Common Stock) with respect thereto, the Company
may or may not, in its sole and absolute discretion, credit to the account of a
Participant a number of Share Units determined by using the "fair value" of any
dividend (or other distribution) made by the Company with respect to a share of
its Common Stock and applying the formula set forth below. In the case of a cash
dividend or distribution, the "fair value" thereof shall be the amount of such
cash, and, in the case of any other dividend or distribution, the "fair value"
thereof shall be such amount as shall be determined in good faith by the
Committee. The number of Share Units to be credited to each Participant shall be
determined by the following formula:

<TABLE>
<S>              <C>   <C>                   <C>   <C>                  <C>   <C>
Fair Value of    x     Stated Value of a     x     Total Number of      =     Amount of
the dividend           Share Unit +                Share Units held           Share Units
per share of           --------------------        by Participant             to be credited
Common Stock           Fair Market Value
                       of one share of
                       Common Stock
</TABLE>

If the Company pays any dividend or distribution upon its issued and outstanding
Common Stock when such dividend or distribution is payable in additional shares
of such Common Stock, the Company may or may not, in its sole and absolute
discretion, credit to the account of a Participant a number of Share Units
determined by the following formula:

<TABLE>
<S>              <C>   <C>                   <C>   <C>                  <C>   <C>
Amount of        x     Stated Value of a     x     Total Number of      =     Amount of
additional             Share Unit +                Share Units held           Share Units
shares                 --------------------        by Participant             to be credited
of Common              Fair Market Value
Stock issued           of one share of
per share of           Common Stock
Common Stock
</TABLE>

Any such additional Share Units credited to a Participant shall vest as
specified in Section 6.1.

        5.3 Cessation of Credits. There shall be no further credits to the
account or accounts of a Participant after his or her Termination of Employment
or a Change in Control; provided, however, that a Participant shall be entitled
to be paid any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to Section 6.

<PAGE>   6

        5.4 Participant Contributions. Prior to December 31 of each year, a
Participant may purchase additional Share Units, but only in a dollar amount not
to exceed the dollar amount of any bonus awarded to the Participant by the
Company for the immediately preceding fiscal year of the Company. The number of
Share Units which may be purchased pursuant to this Section 5.4 shall be
determined in the manner specified in Section 4.1 for Grants of Awards and shall
be evidenced by an Agreement substantially in the form attached hereto executed
by the Company and specifying the number of Share Units purchased by a
Participant.

6.      VESTING; VALUATION OF ACCOUNTS.

        6.1 Vesting. Except as provided in Section 5.4, Participants shall vest
in their respective accounts on the fifth (5th) anniversary of the Effective
Date of the Award or as otherwise approved by the Company, except that upon a
Participant's Retirement, Total Permanent Disability or death prior to the fifth
(5th) anniversary of the Effective Date of the Award, such Participant shall
vest in his/her account, on the following basis prorated to the date of
Retirement, Total Permanent Disability or death: twenty percent (20%) on the
first (1st) anniversary of the Effective Date of the Award, twenty percent (20%)
on the second (2nd) anniversary of the Effective Date of the Award, twenty
percent (20%) on the third (3rd) anniversary of the Effective Date of the Award,
twenty percent (20%) on the fourth (4th) anniversary of the Effective Date of
the Award, and twenty percent (20%) on the fifth (5th) anniversary of the
Effective Date of the Award or as otherwise approved by the Company.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, all Participants will be one hundred percent
(100%) vested upon any Change in Control. If a Participant voluntarily
terminates his/her employment or if Participant is terminated for cause (as
hereinafter defined) prior to the fifth (5th) anniversary of the Effective Date
of the Award, he/she shall not vest, in whole or in part, in his/her respective
account and such Participant shall not be entitled to any payment under the
Plan. The Committee reserves the right to modify the vesting of any account upon
the death or disability of a Participant.

        6.2 Established Value. Upon a Participant's Retirement, Total Permanent
Disability or death, the "Established Value" of the total number of vested Share
Units credited to his or her account shall be determined. If such event occurs
within two (2) years from the Effective Date of the Award, the determination of
Established Value shall be made by multiplying the total number of Share Units
credited to such Participant's account at the time of determination by the
difference between (i) the Stated Value of a Share Unit and (ii) the current
value of such Share Unit calculated by increasing the Stated Value by the
percentage increase in the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock from the
Effective Date to the date of a Participant's Retirement, Total Permanent
Disability or death. If such event occurs after two (2) years from the Effective
Date of the Award, the Established Value shall be determined by increasing or
decreasing the Stated Value by the percentage increase in the Fair Market Value
of a share of Common Stock from the Effective Date to the date of a
Participant's Retirement, Total Permanent Disability or death and multiplying
such amount by the number of Share Units credited to the Participant's account.

        6.3 Change in Control Established Value. As of the day immediately
preceding the closing of a Change in Control, the "Change in Control Established
Value" of the total number of

<PAGE>   7

Share Units credited to the accounts of all Participants shall be determined.
The Change in Control Established Value of a Participant's account shall equal
the product of the number of Share Units credited to such Participant's account
at the time of determination (whether or not then vested) multiplied by the then
current value of one Share Unit. The current value of a Share Unit shall be
determined by increasing or decreasing the Stated Value by the percentage
increase in the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock from the Effective
Date to the date of determination.

        6.4 No Segregation of Assets. The Employer shall not segregate any
assets in connection with or as a result of the determination of the Established
Value or the Change in Control Established Value with respect to any
Participant. The rights of a Participant to benefits under this Plan shall be
solely those of a general, unsecured creditor of the Employer.

        6.5 Payments. Payment of the amount equal to the Established Value or
Change in Control Established Value of a Participant's account shall be made by
the Company or the applicable Employer, in the sole discretion of the Board of
Directors of the Company and the Board of Directors of such Employer, only in
cash upon the terms and at the times provided in Sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and
24 below. A Participant shall only be entitled to the Established Value or the
Change in Control Established Value of his or her account, as is appropriate. If
a Benefit Commencement Date (as defined in Section 7.1) occurs before a Change
in Control Benefit Commencement Date (as defined in Section 7.2), then the
Participant's benefits under the Plan shall be governed by the amount of the
Established Value of his or her account, which amount shall be paid at the time
and in the manner hereinafter provided. Should a Change in Control Benefit
Commencement Date occur prior to a Benefit Commencement Date, then a
Participant's benefits hereunder shall be governed by the Change in Control
Established Value of his or her account, which amount shall be payable at the
times and in the manner hereinafter provided.

7.      COMMENCEMENT OF PAYMENT.

        7.1 Benefit Commencement Date. The date on which payment of a
Participant's Established Value shall commence ("Benefit Commencement Date")
shall be the ninetieth (90th) day following the Retirement, Total Permanent
Disability or death of such Participant. The Company, in its sole discretion,
may authorize an earlier date for the Benefit Commencement Date.

        7.2 Change in Control Benefit Commencement Date. The payment of the
Change in Control Established Value of a Participant's account shall be made
("Change in Control Benefit Commencement Date") on the day immediately preceding
the closing of a Change in Control.

8.      METHOD OF PAYMENT.

        8.1 Established Value. Payments of the Established Value of a
Participant's account, at the option of the Company or the applicable Employer,
shall be made in (i) a lump sum or (ii) in equal annual installments over a five
(5) year period from the Benefit Commencement Date provided that such payments
shall not violate the provisions or covenants of any bank credit

<PAGE>   8

agreement, the Indenture dated August 6, 1999 with respect to the Company's 10_%
Senior Notes due 2006 or any other agreements then in effect to which the
Company is a party. Such payments shall be sufficient to amortize the
Participant's Established Value plus interest computed at the then prevailing
prime rate of the Bank of America over such five (5) year period.

        8.2 Change in Control Established Value. Payment of the Change in
Control Established Value of a Participant's account shall be made in a single
lump sum.

9.      RECIPIENT OF BENEFITS.

        (a) Except as is provided in Section 9(c) below, payments under the Plan
shall be made to the Participant if the Participant is then living.

        (b) In the event of the Participant's death, the benefits payable under
the Plan shall be paid to the beneficiary or beneficiaries designated by the
Participant in accordance with Section 10 below or as otherwise provided in such
Section 10.

        (c) Whenever and as often as any person entitled to benefits hereunder
shall be under a legal disability, or in the sole judgment of the Committee
shall otherwise be unable to apply such payments in furtherance of his or her
own interests and advantage, the Committee, in the exercise of its discretion,
may direct all or any portion of such payments to be made in any one or more of
the following ways:

                (i)     Directly to such person;

                (ii)    To the guardian of his or her person, or of his or her
                        estate; or

                (iii)   To his or her spouse or to any other person, to be
                        expended for his or her benefit.

The decision of the Committee as to the recipient or recipients of Plan benefits
shall, in each case, be final, binding and conclusive upon all persons that are
interested hereunder, and the Committee shall not be obligated to see to the
proper application or expenditure of any payment so made. Any payment made
pursuant to the power herein conferred upon the Committee shall operate as a
complete discharge of the obligations of the Committee and of the Company, to
the extent of the amounts so paid.

10.     BENEFICIARY DESIGNATION.

        Each Participant must, on a form provided for that purpose, signed and
filed with the Company at any time prior to complete distribution of amounts
payable under the Plan, designate a beneficiary (or beneficiaries) or his or her
estate to receive the benefits, if any, which may be payable in event of his or
her death, pursuant to any of the provisions of the Plan, and each such
designation may be revoked by such Participant by signing and filing with the
Company a new designation of beneficiary form prior to such complete
distribution. As a condition to any

<PAGE>   9

married Participant naming a person other than his or her spouse as beneficiary,
the Committee may, in its discretion, require the consent of such spouse. If a
deceased Participant failed to name a beneficiary in the manner above
prescribed, or if the beneficiary or beneficiaries named by a deceased
Participant predecease the Participant, the benefits payable hereunder with
respect to such Participant as of the date of his or her death shall be paid, in
the discretion of the Committee either to (i) a person otherwise designated by
such Participant as a beneficiary for purposes of the Plan, (ii) all or any one
or more of the persons comprising the group consisting of the Participant's
spouse, the Participant's descendants, the Participant's parents, or the
Participant's heirs-at-law, and the Committee may pay the entire amount to any
member of such group or apportion such amount among any two (2) or more of them
in such shares as the Committee, in its sole discretion, shall determine, or
(iii) the estate of such Participant. In any of such cases, the Committee, in
its sole discretion, may direct that payment be paid in a lump sum. Any payment
made to any person pursuant to the power and discretion conferred upon the
Committee hereunder shall operate as a complete discharge of all obligations
under the Plan with respect to such deceased Participant and shall not be
subject to review by anyone, but shall be final, binding and conclusive on all
persons ever interested hereunder.

11.     WITHHOLDING OF TAXES.

        The amounts payable to a Participant under the Plan shall be reduced by
any amount which the Company or the applicable Employer is required to withhold
with respect to such payments under the then applicable provisions of the
Internal Revenue Code, and state or local income tax laws.

12.     NOTICES; ABANDONMENT OF BENEFITS.

        12.1 Address of Recipients. The Participant and other persons entitled
to benefits under the Plan shall file with the Company from time to time in
writing the Participant's or such persons' mailing address and each change of
address. Any check representing payment and any communication addressed to the
Participant or other person entitled to benefits under the Plan at his or her
last address filed with the Company, or if no such address has been filed, then
at his or her last address as indicated on the records of the Company, shall be
deemed to have been delivered to such person on the date on which such check or
communication is deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid.

        12.2 Notice to Participants and Abandonment. If the Company, for any
reason, is in doubt as to whether payments made pursuant to the Plan are being
received by the person entitled thereof, it shall, by registered mail addressed
to the person concerned, at such person's address last known to the Company,
notify such person that (i) all unmailed and future payments shall be henceforth
withheld until he or she provides the Company with evidence that he or she is
still living and provides the Company with his or her proper mailing address,
and (ii) his or her right to any payment under the Plan shall be canceled if, at
the expiration of four (4) years from the date of such mailing, he or she shall
not have provided the Company with evidence of his or her continued life and his
or her proper mailing address. If, upon expiration of four years from the date
of such mailing, the Company shall not have received the requested information,
such

<PAGE>   10

persons shall be deemed to have abandoned forever his or her right to any
benefits provided under the Plan.

13.     RESTRICTIONS ON ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES.

        13.1 Continued Employment. The grant of an Award to an Eligible Employee
pursuant to the Plan shall not give the Eligible Employee any right to be
retained in the employ of the Employer and the right and power of the Employer
to dismiss or discharge any Eligible Employee is specifically reserved.

        13.2 No Property Rights. The grant of an Award to an Eligible Employee
pursuant to the Plan shall not be deemed the grant of a property interest in any
assets of the Company or the Employer. Subject to Section 6, such grant is
merely intended to evidence a general obligation of the Company to comply with
the terms and conditions of the Plan and make payments in accordance therewith
from the assets of the Company which are available for the satisfaction of
obligations to creditors.

        13.3 No Rights as a Shareholder. A Participant shall have no dividend,
voting, or any other rights as a shareholder with respect to any Share Units.

14.     ADJUSTMENTS UPON CHANGES IN CAPITALIZATION.

        Except in the case in which a Participant's account is automatically
credited with additional Share Units in accordance with Section 5.2, in the
event of any change in the number of outstanding shares of the Common Stock
effective without receipt of consideration therefor by the Company, by reason of
a stock dividend or split, combination, exchange of shares or other
recapitalization, merger in which the Company is the surviving corporation or
other similar corporate change, then if the Committee shall determine, in its
sole discretion, that such change equitably requires an adjustment (a) in the
number or kind of Share Units then held in a Participant's account, or (b) in
the number of Share Units that may be awarded to any one (1) Eligible Employee,
or (c) in computations based upon Common Stock, the number of shares thereof, or
the Fair Market Value thereof, such adjustment shall be made by the Committee
and shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes of the Plan.

15.     AMENDMENT OR TERMINATION.

        The Board of Directors may, from time to time, amend, modify, change,
suspend, or terminate, in whole or in part, any or all provisions of the Plan,
except that no amendment, modification, change, suspension, or termination may
affect any right of any Participant, without his or her consent, who has been
granted an Award pursuant to the Plan, with respect to any vested benefit that
has accrued thereunder prior to the effective date of such amendment,
modification, change, suspension, or termination.

<PAGE>   11

16.     ASSIGNMENT.

        No right or interest to or in any Award, payment or benefit to a
Participant shall be assignable by such Participant except by will or the laws
of descent and distribution. No right, benefit or interest of a Participant
hereunder shall be subject to anticipation, alienation, sale, assignment,
encumbrance, charge, pledge, hypothecation or set off in respect of any claim,
debt or obligation, or to execution, attachment, levy or similar process, or
assignment by operation of law. Any attempt, voluntarily or involuntarily, to
effect any action specified in the immediately preceding sentences shall, to the
full extent permitted by law, be null, void and of no effect; provided, however,
that this provision shall not preclude a Participant from designating one or
more Beneficiaries to receive any amount that may be payable to such Participant
under the Plan after his or her death and shall not preclude the legal
representatives of the Participant's estate from assigning any right hereunder
to the person or persons entitled thereto under his or her will, or, in the case
of intestacy, to the person or persons entitled thereto under the laws of
intestacy applicable to his or her estate.

17.     INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL.

        As partial consideration for the Company's making of an Award, each
Participant shall hold in confidence all information and knowledge which the
Participant has relating to the manner and amount of his or her participation in
the Plan.

18.     NOTICES.

        Whenever any notice is required or permitted hereunder, such notice;
must be in writing and personally delivered or sent by mail, overnight delivery,
or facsimile. Any notice required or permitted to be delivered hereunder shall
be deemed to be delivered on the date on which it is personally delivered or
sent by facsimile, or, whether actually received or not, on the first business
day after sent by overnight delivery, and the third business day after it is
deposited in the United States mail, certified or registered, postage prepaid,
addressed to the person who is to receive it at the address which such person
has theretofore specified by written notice and delivered in accordance
herewith. The Company or a Participant may change, at any time and from time to
time, by written notice to the other, the address which it, he or she had
theretofore specified for receiving notices. Until changed in accordance
herewith, the Company and each Participant shall specify as its, his and her
address for receiving notices, the address set forth in the letter agreement
pertaining to the Award to which such notice relates.

19.     CAPITAL STRUCTURE.

        This Plan and the Awards granted hereunder shall have no effect on the
Company's capital structure, and shall not affect the right of the Company or
any Affiliated Company to reclassify, recapitalize, or otherwise change its debt
or capital structure, or to merge, consolidate, convey any or all of its assets,
dissolve, liquidate, wind up, or otherwise reorganize.

<PAGE>   12

20.     OTHER BENEFITS.

        Amounts paid under the Plan shall not be considered as part of a
Participant's salary or compensation under any other employee benefit plan, or
otherwise used for the calculation of any other pay, allowance, pension or other
benefits, unless expressly provided by such other employee benefit plan or
required by applicable law.

21.     INUREMENT OF RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS.

        The rights and obligations under the Plan and any related agreements
shall inure to the benefit of, and shall be binding upon the Company, its
successors and assigns, and the Participants and their respective beneficiaries
and legal representatives.

22.     ARBITRATION.

        Any controversy, dispute or claim hereunder shall be settled by binding
arbitration in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American
Arbitration Association, using a single arbitrator. Judgment upon any award
rendered by such arbitrator may be entered in any court having jurisdiction
thereof. The arbitration shall be conducted in the City and State of the
Company's principal executive office. In connection with arbitration conducted
in accordance herewith, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its
reasonable attorney's fees and costs. The arbitrator shall be deemed to possess
the powers to issue mandatory orders and restraining orders in connection with
such arbitration; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall be
construed so as to deny the Company the right and power to seek and obtain
injunctive relief in a court of equity for any breach or threatened breach by a
Participant of any of his or her covenants contained herein or in any Award
agreement.

23.     ENTIRE AGREEMENT.

        This Plan and any Award agreement constitute the entire agreement
between the Company and the Participants concerning the subject matter hereof,
and supersedes all other agreements, whether written or oral, pursuant to such
subject matter. Any amendment or modification hereto must be made in accordance
with the provisions of Section 15.

24.     PAYMENTS LIMITED TO DEDUCTIBLE AMOUNT.

        Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no amounts shall be
payable hereunder to the extent that the same would not be deductible by the
Company for federal income tax purposes (whether pursuant to Internal Revenue
Code Sections 162(m), 280G, or otherwise).

25.     TAX TREATMENT.

        The Employer is not responsible for, and makes no representation or
warranty whatsoever in connection with the tax treatment hereunder and each
Participant should consult his or her own tax advisor.

<PAGE>   13

26.     ADOPTION OF PLAN.

        The Plan shall be effective as of June 27, 2000, the date the Board of
Directors of the Company adopted the Plan.

27.     GENERAL.

        27.1 Laws Governing. The substantive laws of the State of California
shall govern the validity, construction, enforcement, and interpretation of the
Plan and Awards, unless otherwise specified therein.

        27.2 Good Faith Determinations. No member of the Committee or the Board
of Directors shall be liable, with respect to the Plan or any Award, for any
act, whether of commission or omission, taken by any other member or by any
officer, agent, or employee of the Employer or the Company, nor, expecting
circumstances involving his or her own bad faith, for anything done or omitted
to be done by himself or herself.

        27.3 Effect of Headings. Section headings contained in the Plan are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction of the Plan.

        27.4 Invalid Provisions. If any provision of the Plan or any Award
granted hereunder is held to be illegal, invalid, or unenforceable under present
or future laws effective during the term of the Plan, (1) such provision shall
be fully severable; (2) the Plan or such Award shall be construed and enforced
as if such illegal, invalid, or unenforceable provision had never comprised a
part of the Plan or such Award; and (3) the remaining provisions of the Plan or
such Award shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be affected by
the illegal, invalid, or unenforceable provision or severance from the Plan or
such Award. Furthermore, in lieu of such illegal, invalid, or unenforceable
provision there shall be added automatically as part of the Plan or such Award a
provision as similar terms to such illegal, invalid, or unenforceable provision
as is possible and still be legal, valid, and enforceable.

        27.5 Set-Off. The Company shall be entitled, at its option and not in
lieu of any other remedies to which it may be entitled, to set off any amounts
due the Company or any affiliate of the Company against any amount due and
payable by the Company or any affiliate of the Company to a Participant pursuant
to this Plan or otherwise.

        27.6 Waivers. No waiver of any term or condition hereof shall be binding
unless it is in writing and signed by the Committee and the affected
Participant. The waiver by any party of a breach of any provision of this Plan
shall not operate or be construed as a Waiver of any subsequent breach by any
party.

[END OF PHANTOM STOCK PLAN]

<PAGE>   14

                           STATER BROS. HOLDINGS INC.

                          PHANTOM STOCK AWARD AGREEMENT

        THIS PHANTOM STOCK AWARD AGREEMENT ("Agreement"), made and entered into
on the date set forth in Annex A hereto, between Stater Bros. Holdings Inc., a
Delaware corporation (herein called the "Employer"), and the individual named in
Annex A hereto (such individual being herein called "Participant").

                              W I T N E S S E T H:

        WHEREAS, the Participant is employed by the Employer in a key position
and the Employer desires Participant to remain in its service, and to give
Participant added incentive to advance the interests of the Employer through the
Stater Bros. Holdings Inc. Phantom Stock Plan (the "Plan"), and desires to grant
Participant a Phantom Stock Award ("Award") under terms and conditions
established by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of Stater
Bros. Holdings Inc. (the "Committee").

        NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of these premises, the parties agree
that the following shall constitute the Agreement between the Employer and
Participant:

        1. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Employer
grants to the Participant an Award of the number of Share Units (within the
meaning of the Plan) specified in Annex A hereto, such award to be payable as
provided in the Plan and as set forth in Annex A.

        2. The rights under this Award shall not be transferable except by will
or by the laws of descent and distribution. During the Participant's lifetime
this Agreement shall be payable only to Participant. No assignment or transfer
of this Agreement, whether voluntary or involuntary, by operation of law or
otherwise, except a transfer by will or by the laws of descent or distribution,
shall vest in the assignee or transferee any interest or right whatsoever in
this Agreement.

        3. The Participant shall not be deemed a stockholder of the Employer
with respect to any of the Share Units subject to this Agreement. This Agreement
shall not confer on Participant any right to continue in the service of the
Employer, or any of its affiliates, or affect their right to terminate
Participant's service at any time, and nothing contained herein shall be deemed
a waiver or modification of any provision contained in any agreement between
Participant and the Employer or any parent or subsidiary thereof. This Agreement
shall not affect the right of the Employer or any parent or subsidiary thereof
to reclassify, recapitalize or otherwise change its capital or debt structure or
to merge, consolidate, convey any or all of its assets, dissolve, liquidate,
wind up or otherwise reorganize.

        4. Any question concerning the interpretation of this Agreement, any
adjustments required to be made under the Plan and any controversy which may
arise under this Agreement shall be determined by the Committee in its sole
discretion.

<PAGE>   15

        5. The Employer's address for purposes of notices under the Plan is:

                           Stater Bros. Holdings Inc.
                           21700 Barton Road
                           P.O. Box 150
                           Colton, CA 92324

        6. The Participant's address for purposes of notices under the Plan is
as set forth in Annex A hereto.

        7. The terms of this Award are governed by and supplemented by the terms
of the Plan, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and made a part
hereof as if fully set forth herein. In the case of any inconsistency between
the terms of this Agreement and the terms of this Plan, the terms of the Plan
shall govern. Any matter that is not addressed by this Agreement but that is
addressed by the Plan shall be governed by the Plan.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Employer has caused this Agreement to be
executed on the day and year specified in Annex A hereto, and the Participant
has hereunto set his/her hand.

                                      ------------------------------------------
                                      Participant

                                      Stater Bros. Holdings Inc.,
                                      a Delaware corporation

                                      By:
                                         ---------------------------------------
                                      Jack H. Brown
                                      Its:  Chairman of the Board, President
                                            and Chief Executive Officer

<PAGE>   16

                                     ANNEX A
                                       TO
                           STATER BROS. HOLDINGS INC.
                          PHANTOM STOCK AWARD AGREEMENT

Date of Agreement: August __, 2000; Effective Date: October 1, 2000

Name of Participant: ___________________________________________________________

Stated Value of one Share Unit: $20.00

Number of Share Units awarded under this Agreement:_____________________________

Fair Market Value of one Share of Common Stock: To be determined as of October
1, 2000

Address of Participant (for purpose of notices under the Plan):

                     ------------------------------------------

                     ------------------------------------------

                     ------------------------------------------

This Phantom Stock Award shall be paid in cash upon the terms and conditions and
on the payment dates described below: Share Units shall become vested on the
fifth (5th) anniversary of the Effective Date of the Award or as otherwise
approved by the Company, except that upon a Participant's Retirement, Total
Permanent Disability or death prior to the fifth (5th) anniversary of the
Effective Date of the Award, such Participant shall vest in his/her account, on
the following basis prorated to the date of Retirement, Total Permanent
Disability or death: twenty percent (20%) on the first (1st) anniversary of the
Effective Date of the Award, twenty percent (20%) on the second (2nd)
anniversary of the Effective Date of the Award, twenty percent (20%) on the
third (3rd) anniversary of the Effective Date of the Award, twenty percent (20%)
on the fourth (4th) anniversary of the Effective Date of the Award, and twenty
percent (20%) on the fifth (5th) anniversary of the Effective Date of the Award
or as otherwise approved by the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all
Participants will be one hundred percent (100%) vested upon any Change in
Control. If a Participant voluntarily terminates his/her employment or if
Participant is terminated for cause (as defined in the Plan) prior to the fifth
(5th) anniversary of the Effective Date of the Award, he/she shall not vest, in
whole or in part, in his/her respective account and such Participant shall not
be entitled to any payment under the Plan. The Established Value of each Share
Unit shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of the Plan and all
payments due under this Award shall be made as determined by the Company or the
appropriate Employer pursuant to the Plan.<PAGE>   1
                                                                     Exhibit 4.2

                            WESTLINKS RESOURCES LTD.

                                      AND

                                REPRESENTATIVES'

                               WARRANT AGREEMENT

     REPRESENTATIVES' WARRANT AGREEMENT dated as of _______________ , 2000 by
and between WESTLINKS RESOURCES LTD., (the "Company") and Merit Capital
Associates, Inc. and Spencer Edwards, Inc. (collectively the "Representatives").

                                  WITNESSETH:

     WHEREAS, the Company proposes to issue to the Representatives up to 200,000
warrants (each a "Representatives' Warrant") each to purchase one share of the
Company's no par value common stock, (the "Common Stock").

     WHEREAS, the Representatives have agreed, pursuant to the underwriting
agreement (the "Underwriting Agreement") dated _______________ , 2000 by and
between the Representatives and the Company, to act as the Representatives in
connection with the Company's proposed public offering (the "Public Offering")
of 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock and 1,000,000 common stock purchase warrants
(the "Offering Securities"); and

     WHEREAS, the Representatives' Warrants to be issued pursuant to this
Agreement will be issued on the Firm Closing Date (as such term is defined in
the Underwriting Agreement) by the Company to the Representatives in
consideration for, and as part of, the Representatives' compensation in
connection with the Representatives' acting as the Representatives pursuant to
the Underwriting Agreement and in such amounts as the Representatives shall
advise the Company in writing;

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, the payment by the
Representatives to the Company of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), the agreements
herein set forth and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as
follows:

     1.  Grant.  The Holder (as defined in Section 3 below) is hereby granted
the right to purchase, at any time from _______________ , 2001 until 5:00 p.m.,
New York time, _______________ , 2005:

          (a)  up to 100,000 shares of Common Stock, at an initial purchase
     price (subject to adjustment as provided in Section 8 hereof) (the "Primary
     Securities") of $________ per share of Common Stock subject to the terms
     and conditions of this Agreement; and

          (b)  such number of shares of Common Stock as shall equal ten per cent
     (10%) of the number of shares of Common Stock issued upon exercise of the
     common stock purchase warrants forming a part of the Offering Securities at
     an initial purchase price (subject to adjustment as provided in Section 8
     hereof) (the "Secondary Securities") of $________ per share of Common Stock
     subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

The securities issuable upon exercise of the Representatives' Warrant, including
the Primary Securities and the Secondary Securities, are sometimes referred to
collectively and individually herein as the "Representatives' Securities."

                                       1
<PAGE>   2

     2.  Warrant Certificates. The warrant certificate (the "Representatives'
Warrant Certificate") to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be in the
form set forth in the attached Warrant Certificate and is made a part hereof,
with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions, and other variations
as required or permitted by this Agreement.

     3.  Exercise of Representatives' Warrant.

         The Representatives' Warrant is exercisable during the term set forth
in Section 1 hereof payable by certified or cashier's check or money order in
lawful money of the United States. Upon surrender of the Representatives'
Warrant Certificate with the annexed Form of Election to Purchase duly executed,
together with payment of the Purchase Price (as hereinafter defined) for the
Representatives' Securities (and such other amounts, if any, arising pursuant to
Section 4 hereof) at the Company's principal office, the registered holder of a
Representatives' Warrant Certificate ("Holder" or "Holders") shall be entitled
to receive a certificate or certificates for the Representatives' Securities so
purchased. The purchase rights represented by each Representatives' Warrant
Certificate are exercisable at the option of the Holder or Holders thereof, in
whole or in part as to Representatives' Securities. The Representatives' Warrant
may be exercised to purchase all or any part of the Representatives' Securities
represented thereby and any partial exercise hereof shall be for such quantity
of Primary Securities or Secondary Securities or combination thereof as Holder
shall designate in each Election to Purchase. In the case of the purchase of
less than all the Representatives' Securities purchasable on the exercise of the
Representatives' Warrant represented by a Representatives' Warrant Certificate,
the Company shall cancel the Representatives' Warrant Certificate represented
thereby upon the surrender thereof and shall execute and deliver a new
Representatives' Warrant Certificate of like tenor for the balance of the
Representatives' Securities purchasable thereunder.
<PAGE>   3
     4.  Issuance of Certificates. Upon the exercise of the Representatives'
Warrant and payment of the Purchase Price therefor, the issuance of certificates
representing the Representatives' Securities or other securities, properties or
rights underlying such Representatives' Warrant, shall be made forthwith (and in
any event within five (5) business days thereafter) without further charge to
the Holder thereof, and such certificates shall (subject to the provisions of
Sections 5 and 7 hereof) be issued in the name of, or in such names as may be
directed by, the Holder thereof; provided, however, that the Company shall not
be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer
involved in the issuance and delivery of any such certificates in a name other
than that of the Holder, and the Company shall not be required to issue or
deliver such certificates unless or until the person or persons requesting the
issuance thereof shall have paid to the Company the amount of such tax or shall
have established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid.
The Representatives' Warrant Certificates and the certificates representing the
Representatives' Securities or other securities, property or rights (if such
property or rights are represented by certificates) shall be executed on behalf
of the Company by the manual or facsimile signature of the then present Chairman
or Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors or President or Vice President of the
Company, attested to by the manual or facsimile signature of the then present
Secretary or Assistant Secretary or Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer of the
Company. The Representatives' Warrant Certificates shall be dated the date of
issuance thereof by the Company upon initial issuance, transfer or exchange.

     5.  Restriction On Transfer of Representatives' Warrant. The Holder of a
Representatives' Warrant Certificate (and its Permitted Transferee, as defined
below), by its acceptance thereof, covenants and agrees that until
_______________ , 2005, the Representatives' Warrant may not be sold,
transferred, assigned, hypothecated or otherwise disposed of, in whole or in
part, except to officers and partners of the Representatives (but not
directors), or any Public Offering selling group member and their respective
officers and partners, ("Permitted Transferees"). Thereafter the
Representatives' Warrant may be transferred, assigned, hypothecated or otherwise
disposed of in compliance with applicable law.

     6.  Purchase Price.

         (a) Initial and Adjusted Purchase Price. Except as otherwise provided
in Section 8 hereof, the initial purchase price of the Representatives'
Securities is set forth in

                                       3
<PAGE>   4
Section 1. The adjusted purchase price shall be the price which shall result
from time to time from any and all adjustments of the initial purchase price in
accordance with the provisions of Section 8 hereof.

         (b)  Purchase Price. The term "Purchase Price" herein shall mean the
initial purchase price or the adjusted purchase price, depending upon the
context.

     7.  Registration Rights.

         (a)  Registration Under the Securities Act of 1933 as amended ("Act").
The Representatives' Warrant may have not been registered under the Act. The
Representatives' Warrant Certificates may bear the following legend:

         "The securities represented by this certificate have not been
registered under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act"), and may not be offered
for sale or sold except pursuant to (i) an effective registration statement
under the Act, or (ii) an opinion of counsel, if such opinion and counsel shall
be reasonably satisfactory to counsel to the issuer, that an exemption from
registration under the Act is available."

         (b)  Demand Registration. (1) At any time commencing on the first
anniversary of and expiring on the fifth anniversary of the effective date of
the Company's Registration Statement relating to the Public Offering (the
"Effective Date"), the Holders of a Majority (as hereinafter defined) in
interest of the Representatives' Warrant, or the Majority in interest of the
Representatives' Securities (assuming the exercise of all of the
Representatives' Warrant) shall have the right, exercisable by written notice to
the Company, to have the Company prepare and file with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), on one (1) occasion, a registration
statement on Form S-1 or SB-2 or other appropriate form, and such other
documents, including a prospectus, as may be necessary in the opinion of both
counsel for the Company and counsel for the Holders, in order to comply with the
provisions of the Act, so as to permit a public offering and sale, of the
Representatives' Securities by such Holders and any other Holders of the
Representatives' Warrant and/or the Representatives' Securities who notify the
Company within fifteen (15) business days after receipt of the notice described
in Section 7(b)(2).

              (2)  The Company covenants and agrees to give written notice of
any registration request under this Section 7(b) by any Holders to all other
registered Holders of the Representatives' Warrant and the Representatives'
Securities within ten (10) calendar days from the date of the receipt of any
such registration request.

              (3)  For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Majority" in
reference to the Holders of the Representatives' Warrant or Representatives'
Securities, shall mean in excess of fifty percent (50%) of the then outstanding
Representatives' Warrant or

                                       4
<PAGE>   5
Representatives' Securities that (i) are not held by the Company, an affiliate,
officer, creditor, employee or agent thereof or any of their respective
affiliates, members of their family, persons acting as nominees or in
conjunction therewith, or (ii) have not been resold to the public pursuant to a
registration statement filed with the Commission under the Act.

              (4)  The Company shall have no obligation to prepare and file a
registration statement pursuant to this Section 7(b) if, within twenty (20) days
after the Company receives such a demand for registration, the Company agrees,
or insiders who own individually more than 5% of the Company's outstanding
Common Stock agree, to purchase the Holder's Warrants and/or Warrant Shares from
the requesting Holders at a price equal to the difference between the Exercise
Price then in effect and the then current market price of the Company's Common
Stock. The market price of the Company's Common Stock shall be the average of
the closing asked prices for the Company's Common Stock during the ten (10)
business days period preceding such request.

         (c)  Piggyback Registration. (1) If, at any time within the period
commencing on the first anniversary and expiring on the sixth anniversary of the
Effective Date, the Company should file a registration statement with the
Commission under the Act (other than in connection with a merger or other
business combination transaction or pursuant to Form S-8), it will give written
notice at least twenty (20) calendar days prior to the filing of each such
registration statement to the Representatives and to all other Holders of the
Representatives' Warrant and/or the Representatives' Securities of its intention
to do so. If a Representatives or other Holders of the Representatives' Warrant
and/or the Representatives' Securities notify the Company within fifteen (15)
calendar days after receipt of any such notice of its or their desire to include
any Representatives' Securities in such proposed registration statement, the
Company shall afford the Representatives and such Holders of the
Representatives' Warrant and/or Representatives' Securities the opportunity to
have any such Representatives' Securities registered under such registration
statement. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7(c)(1) and the
provisions of Section 7(d), the Company shall have the right at any time after
it shall have given written notice pursuant to this Section 7(c)(1)
(irrespective of whether a written request for inclusion of any such securities
shall have been made) to elect not to file any such proposed registration
statement, or to withdraw the same after the filing but prior to the effective
date thereof.

              (2)  If the managing underwriter of an offering to which the above
piggyback rights apply, in good faith and for valid business reasons, objects to
such rights, such objection shall preclude such inclusion.

         (d)  Covenants of the Company With Respect to Registration. In
connection with any registrations under Sections 7(b) and 7(c) hereof, the
Company covenants and agrees as follows:

                                       5
<PAGE>   6
              (1)  The Company shall use its best efforts to file a registration
statement within thirty (30) calendar days of receipt of any demand therefor
pursuant to Section 7(b); provided, however, that the Company shall not be
required to produce audited or unaudited financial statements for any period
prior to the date such financial statements are required to be filed in a report
on Form 10-K or Form 10-Q (or Form 10-KSB or Form 10-QSB), as the case may be.
The Company shall use its best efforts to have any registration statement
declared effective at the earliest possible time, and shall furnish each Holder
desiring to sell Representatives' Securities such number of prospectuses as
shall reasonably be requested.

              (2)  The Company shall maintain the effectiveness of the
registration statement for a period of time equal to the lesser of 9 months or
until such time as all of the Warrant Shares have been sold pursuant to the
registration statement.

              (3)  The Company shall pay all costs (excluding fees and expenses
of Holders' counsel and any underwriting discounts or selling fees, expenses or
commissions), fees and expenses in connection with any registration statement
filed pursuant to Sections 7(b) and 7(c) hereof including, without limitation,
the Company's legal and accounting fees, printing expenses, blue sky fees and
expenses.

              (4)  The Company will use its best efforts to qualify or register
the Representatives' Securities included in a registration statement for
offering and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of such states as
reasonably are requested by the Holders, provided that the Company shall not be
obligated to execute or file any general consent to service of process or to
qualify as a foreign corporation to do business under the laws of any such
jurisdiction.

              (5)  The Company shall indemnify the Holders of the
Representatives' Securities to be sold pursuant to any registration statement
and each person, if any, who controls such Holders within the meaning of Section
15 of the Act or Section 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the
"Exchange Act"), against all loss, claim, damage, expense or liability
(including all expenses reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or
defending against any claim whatsoever) to which any of them may become subject
under the Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise, arising from such registration
statement, but only to the same extent and with the same effect as the
provisions pursuant to which the Company has agreed to indemnify the
Representatives contained in Section 8 of the Underwriting Agreement.

              (6)  The Holders of the Representatives' Securities to be sold
pursuant to a registration statement, and their successors and assigns, shall
indemnify the Company, its officers and directors and each person, if any, who
controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Act or Section
20(a) of the Exchange Act, against all loss, claim, damage or expense or
liability to which they may become subject under the Act, the Exchange Act or
otherwise, arising from information furnished by or on behalf of such Holders,
or their successors or assigns, for specific inclusion in such registration
statement to the same extent and with the same effect as the provisions
contained in Section 8 of the Underwriting Agreement pursuant to which the
Representatives have agreed to indemnify the Company.

                                       6
<PAGE>   7
              (7)   Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed as
requiring the Holders to exercise their Representatives' Warrant prior to the
initial filing of any registration statement or the effectiveness thereof,
provided that such Holders have made arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the
Company to pay the exercise price from the proceeds of such offering.

              (8)   The Company shall furnish to each Representatives for the
offering, if any, such documents as such Representatives may reasonably require.

              (9)   The Company shall as soon as practicable after the effective
date of the registration statement, and in any event within 15 months
thereafter, make "generally available to its security holders" (within the
meaning of Rule 158 under the Act) an earnings statement (which need not be
audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Act and covering a period of at
least 12 consecutive months beginning after the effective date of the
registration statement.

              (10)  The Company shall deliver promptly to each Holder
participating in the offering requesting the correspondence described below and
any managing Representatives copies of all correspondence between the Commission
and the Company, its counsel or auditors with respect to the registration
statement and permit each Holder and Representatives to do such investigation,
upon reasonable advance notice, with respect to information contained in or
omitted from the registration statement as it deems reasonably necessary to
comply with applicable securities laws or rules of the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD"). Such investigation shall include access to
books, records and properties and opportunities to discuss the business of the
Company with its officers and independent auditors, all to such reasonable
extent and at such reasonable times and as often as any such Holder shall
reasonably request.

              (11)  The Company shall enter into an underwriting agreement with
the managing underwriter selected for such underwriting by Holders holding a
Majority of the Representatives' Securities requested to be included in such
underwriting, provided, however that such managing underwriter shall be
reasonably acceptable to the Company, except that in connection with an offering
for which the Holders have piggyback rights, the Company shall have the sole
right to select the managing underwriter or underwriters. Such underwriting
agreement shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Company, a Majority
of such Holders (in respect of a registration under Section 7(b) only) and such
managing underwriter, and shall contain such representations, warranties and
covenants by the Company and such other terms as are customarily contained in
agreements of that type. The Holders shall be parties to any underwriting
agreement relating to an underwritten sale of their Representatives' Securities.
Such Holders shall not be required to make any representations or warranties to
or agreements with the Company or the underwriters except as they may relate to
such Holders and their intended methods of distribution.

                                       7
<PAGE>   8
     8.  Adjustments to Purchase Price and Number of Securities.
         (a)  Computation of Adjusted Purchase Price. Except as hereinafter
provided, in case the Company shall at any time after the date hereof issue or
sell any shares of Common Stock (other than the issuances referred to in Section
8(g) hereof), including shares held in the Company's treasury, for a
consideration per share representing a discount greater than 10% to the "Market
Price" (as defined in Section 8(a)(6) hereof) per share of Common Stock on the
date such sale is approved by the Company, or without consideration, such as
pursuant to a stock split or stock dividend, then forthwith upon approval of any
such issuance or sale, the Purchase Price of the Common Stock shall (until
another such issuance or sale) be reduced to the price (calculated to the
nearest full cent) determined by dividing (i) the sum of (x) the total number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such issue or sale
multiplied by the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such issue or
sale, and (y) the consideration, if any, received by the Company upon such issue
or sale, by (ii) the total number of shares of Stock outstanding immediately
after such issue or sale provided, however, that in no event shall the Purchase
Price be adjusted pursuant to this computation to an amount in excess of the
Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such computation, except in the
case of a combination of outstanding shares of Common Stock, as provided by
Section 8(c) hereof.

         For the purposes of this Section 8, the term "Purchase Price" shall
mean the Purchase Price of the Common Stock forming a part of the
Representatives' Securities set forth in Section 6 hereof, as adjusted from time
to time pursuant to the provisions of this Section 8.
         For the purposes of any computation to be made in accordance with this
Section 8(a), the following provisions shall be applicable:

              (1)  In case of the issuance or sale of shares of Common Stock (or
of other securities deemed hereunder to involve the issuance or sale of shares
of Common Stock) for a consideration part or all of which shall be cash, the
amount of the cash consideration therefor shall be deemed to be the amount of
cash received by the Company for such shares (or, if shares of Common Stock are
offered by the Company for subscription, the subscription price, or, if such
securities shall be sold to Representatives or dealers for public offering
without a subscription offering, the initial public offering price) before
deducting therefrom any compensation paid or discount allowed in the sale,
underwriting or purchase thereof by Representatives or dealers or others
performing similar services, or any expenses incurred in connection therewith.

              (2)  In case of the issuance or sale (otherwise than as a dividend
or other distribution on any stock of the Company, and otherwise than on the
exercise of options, rights or warrants or the conversion or exchange of
convertible or exchangeable securities) of shares of Common Stock (or of other
securities deemed hereunder to involve the issuance or sale

                                       8
<PAGE>   9
of shares of Common Stock) for a consideration part or all of which shall be
other than cash, the amount of the consideration therefor other than cash shall
be deemed to be the value of such consideration as determined in good faith by
the Board of Directors of the Company.

              (3)  Shares of Common Stock issuable by way of dividend or other
distribution on any stock of the Company shall be deemed to have been issued
immediately after the opening of business on the day following the record date
for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or other
distribution and shall be deemed to have been issued without consideration.

              (4)   The reclassification of securities of the Company other than
shares of Common Stock into securities including shares of Common Stock shall be
deemed to involve the issuance of such shares of Common Stock for a
consideration other than cash immediately prior to the close of business on the
date fixed for the determination of security holders entitled to receive such
shares, and the value of the consideration allocable to such shares of Common
Stock shall be determined as provided in Section 8(a)(2).

              (5)  The number of shares of Common Stock at any one time
outstanding shall include the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock issued
or issuable (subject to readjustment upon the actual issuance thereof) upon the
exercise of options, rights or warrants and upon the conversion or exchange of
convertible or exchangeable securities.

              (6)  As used herein in the phrase "Market Price" at any date shall
be deemed to be the last reported sale price, or, in the case no such reported
sale takes place on such day, the average of the last reported sales prices for
the last three (3) trading days, in either case as officially reported by the
principal securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted to
trading, or, if the Common Stock is not listed or admitted to trading on any
national securities exchange, the average closing bid price as furnished by the
NASD through the NASD Automated Quotation System ("NASDAQ") or similar
organization if NASDAQ is no longer reporting such information, or if the Common
Stock is not quoted on NASDAQ, as determined in good faith by resolution of the
Board of Directors of the Company, based on the best information available to
it.
         (b)  Options, Rights, Warrant and Convertible and Exchangeable
Securities. Except in the case of the Company issuing rights to subscribe for
shares of Common Stock distributed to all the stockholders of the Company and
Holders of Representatives' Warrant pursuant to Section 8(i) hereof, if the
Company shall at any time after the date hereof issue options, rights or
warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock, or issue any securities convertible
into or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock (other than the issuances
referred to in Section 8(g) hereof), (i) for a consideration per share
representing a discount greater than 10% to the Market Price (including the
issuance thereof without consideration such as pursuant to a stock split or
stock by way of dividend or other distribution), or (ii) without consideration,
the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to the issuance of such
                                       9
<PAGE>   10
options, rights or warrants, or such convertible or exchangeable securities, as
the case may be, shall be reduced to a price determined by making a computation
in accordance with the provisions of Section 8(a) hereof, provided that:

              (1)  The aggregate maximum number of shares of Common Stock
issuable or that may become issuable under such options, rights or warrants
(assuming exercise in full even if not then currently exercisable or currently
exercisable in full) shall be deemed to be issued and outstanding at the time
such options, rights or warrants were issued, and for a consideration equal to
the minimum purchase price per share provided for in such options, rights or
warrants at the time of issuance, plus the consideration (determined in the same
manner as consideration received on the issue or sale of shares in accordance
with the terms of the Representatives' Warrant), if any, received by the Company
for such options, rights or warrants; provided, however, that upon the
expiration or other termination of such options, rights or warrants, if any
thereof shall not have been exercised, the number of shares of Common Stock
deemed to be issued and outstanding pursuant to this Section 8(b)(1) (and for
the purposes of Section 8(a)(5) hereof) shall be reduced by such number of
shares as to which options, warrants and/or rights shall have expired or
terminated unexercised, and such number of shares shall no longer be deemed to
be issued and outstanding, and the Purchase Price then in effect shall forthwith
be readjusted and thereafter be the price which it would have been had
adjustment been made on the basis of the issuance only of shares actually issued
or issuable upon the exercise of those options, rights or warrants as to which
the exercise rights shall not be expired or terminated unexercised.

              (2)  The aggregate maximum number of shares of Common Stock
issuable upon conversion or exchange of any convertible or exchangeable
securities (assuming conversion or exchange in full even if not then currently
convertible or exchangeable in full) shall be deemed to be issued and
outstanding at the time of issuance of such securities, and for a consideration
equal to the consideration (determined in the same manner as consideration
received on the issue or sale of shares of Common Stock in accordance with the
terms of the Representatives' Warrant) received by the Company for such
securities, plus the minimum consideration, if any, receivable by the Company
upon the conversion or exchange thereof; provided, however, that upon the
expiration or other termination of the right to convert or exchange such
convertible or exchangeable securities (whether by reason or redemption or
otherwise), the number of shares deemed to be issued and outstanding pursuant to
this Section 8(b)(2) (and for the purpose of Section 8(a)(5) hereof) shall be
reduced by such number of shares as to which the conversion or exchange rights
shall have expired or terminated unexercised, and such number of shares shall no
longer be deemed to be issued and outstanding and the Purchase Price then in
effect shall forthwith be readjusted and thereafter be the price which it would
have been had adjustment been made on the basis of the issuance only of the
shares actually issued or issuable upon the conversion or exchange of those
convertible or exchangeable securities as to which the conversion or exchange
rights shall not have expired or terminated unexercised.

                                       10
<PAGE>   11
              (3)  If any change shall occur in the price per share provided for
in any of the options, rights or warrants referred to in Section 8(b)(1), or in
the price per share at which the securities referred to in Section 8(b)(2) are
convertible or exchangeable, and if a change in the Purchase Price has not
occurred by reason of the event giving rise to the change in the price per share
of such other options, rights, warrants, or convertible or exchangeable
securities, such options, rights or warrants or conversion or exchange rights,
as the case may be, to the extent not theretofore exercised, the shall be deemed
to have expired or terminated on the date when such price change became
effective in respect of shares not theretofore issued pursuant to the exercise
or conversion or exchange thereof, and the Company shall be deemed to have
issued upon such date new options, rights or warrants or convertible or
exchangeable securities at the new price in respect of the number of shares
issuable upon the exercise of such options, rights or warrants or the conversion
or exchange of such convertible or exchangeable securities.

         (c)  Subdivision and Combination. In case the Company shall at any time
subdivide or combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock, the Purchase Price
shall forthwith be proportionately decreased in the case of a subdivision or
increased in the case of combination.

         (d)  Adjustment in Number of Securities. Upon each adjustment of the
Purchase Price pursuant to the provisions of this Section 8, the number of
Representatives' Securities issuable upon the exercise of the Representatives'
Warrant shall be adjusted to the nearest whole share by multiplying a number
equal to the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such adjustment by
the number of Representatives' Securities issuable upon exercise of the
Representatives' Warrant immediately prior to such adjustment and dividing the
product so obtained by the adjusted Purchase Price.

         (e)  Definition of Common Stock. For the purpose of this Agreement, the
term "Common Stock" shall mean the class of stock designated as Common Stock in
the Certificate of Incorporation, of the Company as it may be amended as of the
date hereof.
         (f)  Reclassification, Merger or Consolidation. The Company will not
merge, reorganize or take any other action which would terminate the
Representatives' Warrant without first making adequate provision for the
Representatives' Warrant. In case of any reclassification or change of the
outstanding shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the outstanding
warrants (other than a change in par value to no par value, or from nor par
value to par value, or as a result of a subdivision or combination), or in case
of any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company with, or
merger of the Company into, another corporation (other than a consolidation or
merger in which the Company is the continuing corporation and which does not
result in any reclassification or change of the outstanding Common Stock except
a change as a result of a subdivision or combination of such shares or a change
in par value, as aforesaid), or in the case of a sale or conveyance to another
corporation or other entity of the property of the

                                       11
<PAGE>   12
Company as an entirety or substantially as an entirety, the Holders of each
Representatives' Warrant then outstanding or to be outstanding shall have the
right thereafter (until the expiration of such Representatives' Warrant) to
purchase, upon exercise of such Representatives' Warrant, the kind and number of
shares of stock and other securities and property receivable upon such
reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance as if the
Holders were the owner of the shares of Common Stock underlying the
Representatives' Warrant immediately prior to any such events at a price equal
to the product of (x) the number of shares issuable upon exercise of the
Representatives' Warrant and (y) the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior
to the record date for such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger,
sale or conveyance, as if such Holders had exercised the Representatives'
Warrant. In the event of a consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance of
property, the corporation formed by such consolidation or merger, or acquiring
such property, shall execute and deliver to the Holders a supplemental
Representatives' warrant agreement to such effect. Such supplemental
Representatives' warrant agreement shall provide for adjustments which shall be
identical to the adjustment provided for in this Section 8. The provisions of
this Section 8(f) shall similarly apply to successive consolidations or mergers.

         (g)  No Adjustment of Purchase Price in Certain Cases. No adjustment of
the Purchase Price shall be made unless the adjustment first meets the
threshold described in paragraph 8(a), and no adjustment shall be made:

              (1)  Upon the issuance or sale of (i) the Representatives' Warrant
or the securities underlying the Representatives' Warrant, (ii) the securities
sold pursuant to the Public Offering (including those sold upon exercise of the
Representatives' over-allotment option), or (iii) the shares issuable pursuant
to the options, warrants, rights, stock purchase agreements or convertible or
exchangeable securities outstanding or in effect on the date hereof or pursuant
to any compensatory stock plan as described in the prospectus relating to the
Public Offering, or (iv) "restricted securities" as that term is defined in Rule
144 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for not less than
50% of Market Price.

              (2)  If the amount of said adjustments shall aggregate less than
two ($.02) cents for one (1) share of Common Stock; provided, however, that in
such case any adjustment that would otherwise be required then to be made shall
be carried forward and shall be made at the time of and together with the next
subsequent adjustment which, together with any adjustment so carried forward,
shall aggregate at least two ($.02) cents for one (1) share of Common Stock. In
addition, Registered Holders shall not be entitled to cash dividends paid by the
Company prior to the exercise of any warrant or warrants held by them.

     9.  Exchange and Replacement of Warrant Certificates. Each Representatives'
Warrant Certificate is exchangeable without expense, upon the surrender thereof
by the registered Holders at the principal executive office of the Company, for
a new Representatives' Warrant Certificate of like tenor and date representing
in the aggregate the right to purchase the same number of Representatives'
Securities in such denominations as shall be designated by the Holders thereof
at the time of such surrender.

                                       12
<PAGE>   13
     10.  Loss, Theft, etc. of Certificates Upon receipt by the Company of
evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of the loss, theft, destruction or
mutilation of any Representatives' Warrant Certificate, and, in case of loss,
theft or destruction, of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to it,
and reimbursement to the Company of all reasonable expenses incidental thereto,
and upon surrender and cancellation of the Representatives' Warrant
Certificates, if mutilated, the Company will make and deliver a new
Representatives' Warrant Certificate of like tenor, in lieu thereof.

     11.  Elimination of Fractional Interests. The Company shall not be required
to issue certificates representing fractions of shares of Common Stock upon the
exercise of the Representatives' Warrant, nor shall it be required to issue
scrip or pay cash in lieu of fractional interests; provided, however, that if a
Holder exercises all Representatives' Warrant held of record by such Holder the
fractional interests shall be eliminated by rounding any fraction to the nearest
whole number of shares of Common Stock or other securities, properties or
rights.

     12.  Reservation and Listing of Securities. The Company shall at all times
reserve and keep available out of its authorized shares of Common Stock, solely
for the purpose of issuance upon the exercise of the Representatives' Warrant,
such number of shares of Common Stock or other securities and properties or
rights as shall be issuable upon the exercise thereof. The Company covenants and
agrees that, upon exercise of Representatives' Warrant and payment of the
Purchase Price therefor, all the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such
exercise shall be duly and validly issued, fully paid, non-assessable and not
subject to the preemptive rights of any stockholder. As long as the
Representatives' Warrant shall be outstanding, the Company shall use its best
efforts to cause the Common Stock to be listed (subject to official notice of
issuance) on all securities exchanges on which the Common Stock issued to the
public in connection herewith may then be listed or quoted.

     13.  Notices to Representatives' Warrant Holders. Nothing contained in this
Agreement shall be construed as conferring upon the Holders the right to vote or
to consent or to receive notice as a stockholder in respect of any meetings of
stockholders for the election of directors or any other matter, or as having any
rights whatsoever as a stockholder of the Company. If, however, at any time
prior to the expiration of the Representatives' Warrant and their exercise, any
of the following events shall occur:

         (a)  the Company shall take a record of the holders of its shares of
Common Stock for the purpose of entitling them to receive a dividend or
distribution payable otherwise than in cash, or a cash dividend or distribution
payable otherwise than out of current or retained earnings, as indicated by the
accounting treatment of such dividend or distribution on the books of the
Company; or

                                       13
<PAGE>   14
         (b)  the Company shall offer to all the holders of its Common Stock any
additional shares of capital stock of the Company or securities convertible into
or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of the Company, or any option, right
or warrant to subscribe therefor; or

         (c)  a dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company (other
than in connection with a consolidation or merger) or a sale of all or
substantially all of its property, assets and business as an entirety shall be
proposed; then, in any one or more of said events, the Company shall give
written notice of such event at least fifteen (15) calendar days prior to the
date fixed as a record date or the date of closing the transfer books for the
determination of the stockholders entitled to such dividend, distribution,
convertible or exchangeable securities or subscription rights, or entitled to
vote on such proposed dissolution, liquidation, winding up or sale. Such notice
shall specify such record date or the date of closing the transfer books, as the
case may be. Failure to give such notice or any defect therein shall not affect
the validity of any action taken in connection with the declaration or payment
of any such dividend, or the issuance of any convertible or exchangeable
securities, or subscription rights, options or warrants, or any proposed
dissolution, liquidation, winding up or sale.

     14.  Notices. All notices, requests, consents and other communications
hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly made when
delivered, or five days after being mailed by registered or certified mail,
return receipt requested:

         (a)  If to the registered Holders of the Representatives' Warrant, to
the address of such Holders as shown on the books of the Company; or

         (b)  If to the Company to the address shown in the Underwriting
Agreement or to such other address as the Company may designate by notice to the
Holders.

     15.  Supplements and Amendments. The Company and the Representatives may
from time to time supplement or amend this Agreement without the approval of any
Holders of Representatives' Warrant Certificates (other than the
Representatives) in order to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision contained herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any
provisions herein, or to make any other provision in regard to matters or
questions arising hereunder which the Company and the Representatives may deem
necessary or desirable and which the

                                       14
<PAGE>   15
Company and the Representatives deem shall not adversely affect the interests of
the Holders of Representatives' Warrant Certificates.

     16.  Successors. All the covenants and provisions of this Agreement shall
be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Company, the Representatives,
the Holders and their respective successors and assigns hereunder.

     17.  Termination. This Agreement shall terminate at the close of business
five years from the date hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
indemnification provisions of Section 7 shall survive such termination until the
close of business on the expiration of any applicable statue of limitations.

     18.  Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction. This Agreement and each
Representatives' Warrant Certificate issued hereunder shall be deemed to be a
contract made under the laws of the State of New York and for all purposes shall
be construed in accordance with the laws of said state without giving effect to
the rules of said state governing the conflicts of laws.

     19.  Entire Agreement; Modification. This Agreement (including the
Underwriting Agreement, to the extent portions thereof are referred to herein)
contains the entire understanding between the parties hereto with respect to the
subject matter hereof and thereof. This Agreement may not be modified or amended
except by a writing duly signed by the Company and the Holders of a Majority in
Interest of the Representatives' Securities (for this purpose, treating all then
outstanding Representatives' Warrants as if they had been exercised).

     20.  Severability. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held to be
invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect
any other provision of this Agreement.

     21.  Captions. The caption headings of the Sections of this Agreement are
for convenience of reference only and are not intended, nor should they be
construed as, a part of this Agreement and shall be given no substantive effect.

     22.  Benefits of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be
construed to give to any person or corporation other than the Company and the
Representatives and any other registered Holders of the Representatives' Warrant
Certificates or Representatives' Securities any legal or equitable right, remedy
or claim under this Agreement; and this Agreement shall be for the sole and
exclusive benefit of the Company and the Representatives and any other Holders
of the Representatives' Warrant Certificates or Representatives' Securities.

     23.  Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts and each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to
be an original, and such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.

                                       15
<PAGE>   16
     24.  Binding Effect. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the
benefit of the Company, the Representatives and their respective successors and
assigns and the Holders from time to time of the Representatives' Warrant
Certificates or any of them.

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

                                    WESTLINKS RESOURCES LTD.

                                    By:
                                        -------------------------------------
                                        Chief Executive Officer

                                    Merit Capital Associates, Inc., for itself
                                    and as Representatives of the Several
                                    Underwriters listed On Schedule A

                                    By:
                                        -------------------------------------
                                        Chief Executive Officer

                                    Spencer Edwards, Inc., for itself and as
                                    Representatives of the Several Underwriters
                                    listed on Schedule A

                                    By:
                                        -------------------------------------
                                        Chief Executive Officer

                                       16
<PAGE>   17

                                   SCHEDULE A

                                       TO

                       REPRESENTATIVES' WARRANT AGREEMENT

                                    BETWEEN

                            WESTLINKS RESOURCES LTD.

                                      AND

                         MERIT CAPITAL ASSOCIATES, INC.

                                      AND

                             SPENCER EDWARDS, INC.

REPRESENTATIVES

Merit Capital Associates, Inc.
Spencer Edwards, Inc.

UNDERWRITERS:

                                       17

Source: [{"source": "alea-institute/alea-institute/kl3m-data-edgar-agreements/train-00018-of-00352.parquet"}, [{"source": "alea-institute/alea-institute/kl3m-data-edgar-agreements/train-00018-of-00352.parquet"}]]