DAYTON HUDSON CORP
10-Q, 1999-12-10
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Dayton Hudson Corporation
DIRECTOR STOCK OPTION PLAN OF 1995
(As amended and restated effective September 8, 1999)


ARTICLE I
Establishment of the Plan

    1.1  The name of this plan shall be "The Dayton Hudson Corporation Director Stock Option Plan of 1995" (hereinafter called the "Plan").

    1.2  The purpose of the Plan is to advance the interim performance and long-term growth of the Company by offering long-term incentives, in addition to current compensation and other benefits, to outside directors of the Company.


ARTICLE II
Definitions

    2.1  Award.  An "Award" is used at times in the Plan to refer to the act of granting a Stock Option under the Plan.

    2.2  Board.  "Board" is the Board of Directors of the Company.

    2.3  Code.  "Code" is the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, as now in force or as hereafter amended.

    2.4  Company.  "Company" is Dayton Hudson Corporation, a Minnesota corporation, and any successor thereof.

    2.5  Date of Grant.  "Date of Grant" in 1995 shall be the date of the Company's Annual Shareholder's meeting. Each year thereafter, Date of Grant shall be the second Wednesday in the month of April.

    2.6  Fair Market Value.  "Fair Market Value" of a share of Company common stock on any date is 100% of the mean between the high and low prices for such stock as reported for such stock on the New York Stock Exchange Composite Transactions Listing ("Composite Listing") on such date, or in the absence of such report 100% of the mean between the high and low prices of such stock on the New York Stock Exchange on such date or, if no sale has been recorded on the Composite Listing or made on such Exchange on such date, then on the last preceding date on which any such sale shall have been made in the order of primacy above indicated.

    2.7  Participant.  A "Participant" is a member of the Board who is not an employee of Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

    2.8  Plan Committee.  The "Plan Committee" is the Committee referenced in Article VI hereof.

    2.9  Plan Year.  The "Plan Year" shall be a fiscal year of the Company falling within the term of this Plan except for the first year of the Plan, for which the Plan Year shall commence as of the effective date of the Plan and terminate as of February 3, 1996.

    2.10  Relevant Change Adjustments.  Appropriate adjustments in the number of shares and in the Stock Option price per share designated in Section 2.11 of this Article II, may be made by the Plan Committee, in its discretion except as provided in Section 7.6 hereof, to give effect to adjustments made in the number of shares of Company common stock through a merger, consolidation, recapitalization, reclassification, combination, spin-off, common stock dividend, stock split, or other relevant change.

    2.11  Stock Option.  A "Stock Option" is a right accruing in a Participant to purchase from the Company one share of the Company's $.3333 par value common stock at the Fair Market Value of such share of common stock on the Date of Grant of the Stock Option, and containing the terms and conditions set forth or allowed under Article VI hereof. Such Stock Option shall be a Non-Qualified Stock Options that are not intended to qualify under Section 422 of the Code.

    2.12  Subsidiary Corporation.  For purposes of this Plan, the term "Subsidiary" or "Subsidiary Corporation" means any corporation (other than the Company) in an unbroken chain of corporations beginning with the Company, in which each of the corporations other than the last corporation in the unbroken chain owns stock possessing fifty percent or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in such chain as determined at the point in time when reference is made to such "Subsidiary" or "Subsidiary Corporation" in this Plan.

    2.13  Change in Control.  A "Change in Control" shall be deemed to have occurred if:


ARTICLE III
Granting of Stock Options

    3.1  Automatic Grant of Stock Options.  Each year on the Date of Grant each Participant shall, without any Plan Committee action, automatically be granted Stock Options, the number of which will be determined by dividing $100,000 by the Fair Market Value on the Date of Grant.

    3.2  Notification to Participants and Delivery of Documents.  As soon as practicable after the Award, the Participant shall receive a Stock Option exercisable for purchase of one share of the Company's $.3333

2 par value common stock for each Stock Option granted to the Participant pursuant to this Plan or indicating the aggregate of such grant, which Stock Option shall be in conformity with the provisions of Article IV hereof.


ARTICLE IV
Stock Options

    4.1  Stock Option.  The Stock Option shall be evidenced by Stock Option agreements in such form and not inconsistent with the Plan as the Plan Committee shall in its sole discretion approve from time to time, which agreements shall specify the number of shares to which they pertain and the purchase price of such shares and shall, but without limitation, contain in substance the following terms and conditions:

    4.2  Change in Control.  In the event of a Change in Control, all outstanding Stock Options granted under the Plan shall accelerate and will be exercisable in full for a period of two hundred ten (210) days after the Change in Control; provided that no Stock Option shall be exercisable by a Participant after the termination date of the Stock Option.


ARTICLE V
Shares of Stock Subject to the Plan

    5.1  The total number of shares that may be available for issuance under all Stock Options granted pursuant to the Plan shall not exceed in the aggregate 300,000 shares (which reflects the three-for-one split on July 17, 1996 of the 100,000 shares initially reserved) of the Company's $.3333 par value common stock. Stock Options which are forfeited for any reason or are not distributed or are covered by Stock Options that lapse or are canceled before exercise, shall (unless the Plan shall have been terminated) again be available in the same relative amounts for other Stock Option grants under the Plan.


ARTICLE VI
Administration of the Plan

    6.1  The Plan will be administered by a committee of two or more members of the Board appointed from time to time by the Board. Each member of the committee shall be a "non-employee director" as that term is defined under Rule 16b-3, promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any successor statute or regulation comprehending the same subject matter.

    6.2  The Plan Committee shall have and exercise all of the powers and responsibilities granted expressly or by implication to it by the provisions of the Plan. Subject to and as limited by such provisions, the Plan Committee may from time to time enact, amend and rescind such rules, regulations and procedures with respect to the administration of the Plan as it deems appropriate or convenient. Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of this Plan, the Plan Committee shall have no discretion with respect to the granting of Stock Options to any Participant or to alter or amend any terms, conditions and eligibility requirements of a Stock Option granted or to be granted to any Participant under this Plan, it being understood that the granting and terms, conditions and eligibility requirements of such Stock Options are governed solely by the provisions set forth in this Plan pertaining thereto.

    6.3  All questions arising under the Plan or any Stock Option agreement, or any rule, regulation or procedure adopted by the Plan Committee shall be determined by the Plan Committee, and its determination thereof shall be conclusive and binding upon all parties.

    6.4  Any action required or permitted to be taken by the Plan Committee under the Plan shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of a quorum of the members of the Plan Committee. A majority of all members of the Plan Committee shall constitute a "quorum" for Plan Committee business. The Plan Committee may act by written determination instead of by affirmative vote at a meeting, provided that any written determination shall be signed by all members of the Plan Committee, and any such written determination shall be as fully effective as a majority vote of a quorum at a meeting.

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ARTICLE VII
General Provisions

    7.1  Amendment or Termination.  The Board may at any time amend, suspend, discontinue or terminate the Plan; provided, however, that no amendment by the Board shall, without further approval of the shareholders of the Company:


No action taken pursuant to this Section 7.1 of the Plan shall, without the consent of a Participant, alter or impair any Stock Options which have been previously granted to a Participant. Provisions relating to Stock Options may not be amended more often than once every six months other than to comport with changes in the Code or the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or the rules thereunder

    7.2  Non-Alienation of Rights and Benefits.  Except as expressly provided herein, no right or benefit under the Plan shall be subject to anticipation, alienation, sale, assignment, pledge, encumbrance or charge and any attempt to anticipate, alienate, sell, assign, pledge, encumber or charge the same shall be void. No right or benefit hereunder shall in any manner be liable for or subject to the debts, contracts, liabilities or torts of the person entitled to such right or benefit. If any Participant or beneficiary hereunder should become bankrupt or attempt to anticipate, alienate, sell, assign, pledge, encumber or charge any right or benefit hereunder, then such right or benefit shall, in the sole discretion of the Plan Committee, cease and in such event the Company may hold or apply the same or any or no part thereof for the benefit of the Participant or beneficiary, his/her spouse, children or other dependents or any of them in any such manner and in such proportion as the Plan Committee in its sole discretion may deem proper.

    7.3  No Rights as Shareholder.  The granting of Stock Option(s) under the Plan shall not entitle a Participant or any other person succeeding to his/her rights, to any dividend, voting or other right as a shareholder of the Company unless and until the issuance of a stock certificate to the Participant or such other person pursuant to the provisions of the Plan and then only subsequent to the date of issuance thereof.

    7.4  Government Regulations.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan seemingly to the contrary, the obligation of the Company with respect to Stock Options granted under the Plan shall at all times be subject to any and all applicable laws, rules, and regulations and such approvals by any government agencies as may be required or deemed by the Board or Plan Committee as reasonably necessary or appropriate for the protection of the Company.

    In connection with any sale, issuance or transfer hereunder, the Participant acquiring the shares shall, if requested by the Company give assurances satisfactory to counsel of the Company that the shares are being acquired for investment and not with a view to resale or distribution thereof and assurances in respect of such other matters as the Company may deem desirable to assure compliance with all applicable legal requirements.

    7.5  Effective Date.  Subject to the approval of this Plan by the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares present and entitled to vote at the Company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be

5 held May 24, 1995 and any necessary approval being obtained from any department, board or agency of the United States or states having jurisdiction, the Plan shall be effective as of May 24, 1995.

    7.6  Reorganization.  In case the Company is merged or consolidated with another corporation, or in case the property or stock of the Company is acquired by another corporation, or in case of a separation, reorganization or liquidation of the Company, the Plan Committee or a comparable committee of any corporation assuming the obligations of the Company hereunder, shall either:


    7.7  Withholding Taxes, etc.  All distributions under the Plan shall be subject to any required withholding taxes and other withholdings and, in case of distributions in Company common stock, the Participant or other recipient may, as a condition precedent to the delivery of the common stock, be required to pay to the Company the excess, if any, of the amount of required withholding over the withholdings, if any, from any distributions in cash under the Plan. No distribution under the Plan shall be made in fractional shares of the Company's common stock, but the proportional market value thereof shall be paid in cash.

    7.8  General Restriction.  Each Stock Option shall be subject to the requirement that, if at any time the Board shall determine, in its discretion, that the listing, registration or qualification of the shares subject to such Stock Option upon any securities exchange or under any state or Federal Law, or the consent or approval of any government regulatory body, is necessary or desirable as a condition of, or in connection with the granting of such Stock Option or the issue or purchase of shares thereunder, such Stock Option may not be exercised in whole or in part unless such listing, registration, qualification, consent or approval shall have been effected or obtained free of any conditions not acceptable to the Board.

    7.9  Use of Proceeds.  The proceeds derived from the sale of the stock pursuant to Stock Options granted under the Plan shall constitute general funds of the Company.

    7.10  Headings.  The headings of the Articles and their subparts in this Plan are for convenience of reading only and are not meant to be of substantive significance and shall not add to or detract from the meaning of such Article or subpart to which it refers.

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Dayton Hudson Corporation DIRECTOR STOCK OPTION PLAN OF 1995 (As amended and restated effective September 8, 1999)
ARTICLE I Establishment of the Plan
ARTICLE II Definitions
ARTICLE III Granting of Stock Options
ARTICLE IV Stock Options
ARTICLE V Shares of Stock Subject to the Plan
ARTICLE VI Administration of the Plan
ARTICLE VII General Provisions



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