Registration No.33-54137
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 9, 1994
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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Post-Effective Amendment No. 1
to
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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DOSKOCIL COMPANIES INCORPORATED
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 13-2535513
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
2601 Northwest Expressway
Suite 1000W
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73112
(405) 879-5500
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area
code, of registrant's principal executive offices)
Darian B. Andersen, Esq.
Secretary and Corporate Counsel
2601 Northwest Expressway
Suite 1000W
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73112
(405) 879-5500
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including
area code, of agent for service)
Copy to:
J. Gregory Milmoe, Esq.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
919 Third Avenue
New York, New York 10022
(212) 735-3000
DOSKOCIL COMPANIES INCORPORATED
Post-Effective Amendment No. 1
to the Registration Statement on Form S-3
(File No. 33-54137)
This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement
(the "Registration Statement") on Form S-3 (File No. 33-54137) of
Doskocil Companies Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), is being filed for the purpose of removing from
registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the shares
of the Company's Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (the "Common
Stock"), which were not sold pursuant to the exercise of rights to
acquire such shares which were distributed to holders of record of
Common Stock and warrants to purchase Common Stock as of September 29,
1994. The offering of the shares of Common Stock (the "Rights
Offering") expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on October 19,
1994. Of the 5,555,556 shares of Common Stock offered in the Rights
Offering, 1,043,689 shares remain unsold.
In compliance with the undertaking set forth in Item 17 of the
Registration Statement, the Company hereby withdraws from registration
the 1,043,689 shares of Common Stock which were registered by the
Company's Registration Statement but not sold in the Rights Offering.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it
meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly
caused this post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement to
be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized,
in the City of Oklahoma City, State of Oklahoma, on November 9, 1994.
DOSKOCIL COMPANIES INCORPORATED
By: /s/ Bryant P. Bynum
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Name: Bryant P. Bynum
Title: Vice President--Planning
and Corporate Finance
and Treasurer
