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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 24, 1998
Registration No. _______
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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BESTFOODS
(Exact name of issuer in its Charter)
700 Sylvan Avenue
Delaware International Plaza 36-2385545
(State of Incorporation) Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 (I.R.S. Employer
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) Identification No.)
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1993 STOCK AND PERFORMANCE PLAN
(Full Title of the Plan)
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Name and Address of Agent for Service:
HANES A. HELLER, Esq.
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Bestfoods
International Plaza
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632
Tel. No. (201) 894-4000
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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Proposed Proposed
maximum maximum Amount
Title of securities offering aggregate of
to be Amount to be price offering registration
registered registered per share price fee
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Common Stock, $.25 per share 14,000,000 shares(1)(2) $57.4525(3) $804,335,000 $237,279
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(1) This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement No.
33-49847 registers additional shares of the Registrant's Common Stock
issuable pursuant to the same plan for which Registration Statement
33-49847 is currently effective. A registration fee of $94,482.42 was
paid July 29, 1993 upon the filing of Registration Statement No.
33-49847 for 7,500,000 shares of Common Stock registered thereunder.
Accordingly, pursuant to Instruction E on Form S-8, the registration
fee is being paid with respect to the additional securities only.
(2) Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement also covers such additional number of shares of
Common Stock as may be issuable by reason of the operation of the
anti-dilution provisions of the 1993 Stock and Performance Plan in the
event of stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.
(3) Estimated solely for the purposes of calculation of the registration
fee pursuant to Rule 457 and based on the average of the high and low
prices of the Common Stock on April 21, 1998 as reported for New York
Stock Exchange-Composite Transactions and divided by two in order to
adjust for the Company's two-for-one stock split to shareholders of
record on March 31, 1998, to be distributed on April 24, 1998.
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INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
The contents of the Registrant's Form S-8 Registration Statement filed
on July 29, 1993, Registration No. 33-49847 are incorporated herein by
reference.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Company
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing this post-effective amendment on Form S-8 and has duly
caused this post-effective amendment to its Registration Statement to be signed
on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Bergen County,
State of New Jersey, on April 24, 1998.
BESTFOODS
By: /s/Charles R. Shoemate, Chairman
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Charles R. Shoemate, Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated,
on the 24th day of April, 1998.
Signature Title
/s/Charles R. Shoemate
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(Charles R. Shoemate) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
/s/Bernard H. Kastory
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(Bernard H. Kastory) Senior Vice President - Finance and
Administration
/s/Rainer H. Mimberg
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(Rainer H. Mimberg) Vice President - Finance and Comptroller
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(Theodore H. Black) Director
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(Clateo Castellini) Director
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(Alfred C. DeCrane, Jr.) Director
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(William C. Ferguson) Director
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(Robert J. Gillespie) Director
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(Ellen R. Gordon) Director
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(George V. Grune) Director
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(Leo I. Higdon, Jr.) Director
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(Richard G. Holder) Director
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(Eileen S. Kraus) Director
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(Alain Labergere) Director
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(Henrique de Campos Meirelles) Director
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(William S. Norman) Director
*By /s/Hanes A. Heller
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(Hanes A. Heller)
Attorney-in-Fact
