SCHEDULE 13D
Amendment No. 0
Jamesway Corporation
Common Stock
Cusip # 470737107
Filing Fee: Yes
Cusip # 470737107
Item 1: Reporting Person - FMR Corp. - (Tax ID: 04-2507163)
Item 4: PF
Item 6: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Item 7: 775,447
Item 8: None
Item 9: 1,178,001
Item 10: None
Item 11: 1,178,001
Item 13: 9.82%
Item 14: HC
PREAMBLE
The filing of this Schedule 13D is not, and should not be
deemed to be, an admission that such Schedule 13D is required to
be filed. See the discussion under Item 2.
Item 1. Security and Issuer.
This statement relates to shares of the Common Stock, $0.01
par value (the "Shares") of Jamesway Corporation, a New York
corporation (the "Company"). The principal executive offices of
the Company are located at 40 Hartz Way, Secaucus, NJ 07096-1526.
Item 2. Identity and Background.
This statement is being filed by FMR Corp., a Massachusetts
Corporation ("FMR"). FMR is a holding company one of whose
principal assets is the capital stock of a wholly-owned
subsidiary, Fidelity Management & Research Company ("Fidelity"),
which is also a Massachusetts corporation. Fidelity is an
investment advisor which is registered under Section 203 of the
Investment Advisors Act of 1940 and which provides investment
advisory services to more than 30 investment companies which are
registered under Section 8 of the Investment Company Act of 1940
and serves as investment advisor to certain other funds which are
generally offered to limited groups of investors (the "Fidelity
Funds"). Fidelity Management Trust Company ("FMTC"), a wholly-
owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and a bank as defined in Section
3(a)(6) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, serves as trustee
or managing agent for various private investment accounts,
primarily employee benefit plans and serves as investment adviser
to certain other funds which are generally offered to limited
groups of investors (the "Accounts"). Various directly or
indirectly held subsidiaries of FMR are also engaged in
investment management, venture capital asset management,
securities brokerage, transfer and shareholder servicing and real
estate development. The principal offices of FMR, Fidelity, and
FMTC are located at 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts
02109.
Members of the Edward C. Johnson 3d family are the
predominant owners of Class B shares of common stock representing
approximately 49% of the voting power of FMR Corp. Mr. Johnson
3d owns 12% and Abigail Johnson owns 24.5% of the aggregate
outstanding voting of FMR Corp. The Johnson family group and all
other Class B shareholders have entered into a shareholders'
voting agreement under which all Class B shares will be voted in
accordance with the majority vote of Class B shares.
Accordingly, through their ownership of voting common stock and
the execution of shareholders' voting agreement, members of the
Johnson family may be deemed, under the Investment Company Act of
1940, to form a controlling group with respect to FMR Corp.
The Shares to which this statement relates are owned
directly by one of the Fidelity Funds, and one of the Accounts.
The name, residence or business address, principal
occupation or employment and citizenship of each of the executive
officers and directors of FMR are set forth in Schedule A hereto.
Within the past five years, none of the persons named in
this Item 2 or listed on Schedule A has been convicted in any
criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar
misdemeanors) or has been a party to any civil proceeding and as
a result thereof was or is subject to any judgment, decree or
final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or
mandating activities subject to federal or state securities laws
or finding any violations with respect to such laws.
Item 3. Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration.
The Fidelity Fund which owns shares to which this statement
relates, received 564,554 Shares of Common Stock pursuant to the
Company's plan of reorganization filed under Chapter 11 of the
United States Bankruptcy Code (the "Plan"). The Account, which
owns shares to which this statement relates, received 775,447
Shares of Common Stock pursuant ot the Plan. The Shares were
received as a distribution in partial exchange for the Company
bank debt and trade claims. Proceeds from 162,000 Shares sold
aggregated $554,812. The attached Schedule B sets forth Shares
purchased and/or sold.
Item 4. Purpose of Transaction.
The Fidelity Fund and Account acquired the shares through
conversion of trade claims and bank debt to equity in the
Company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding. The Fidelity Fund
and Account hold the shares for investment purposes.
Fidelity and FMTC, respectively, intend to review
continuously the equity position of the Fidelity Fund and Account
in the Company. Depending upon future evaluations of the
business prospects of the Company and upon other developments,
including, but not limited to, general economic and business
conditions and money market and stock market conditions, Fidelity
and FMTC may determine to increase or decrease the equity
interest in the Company by acquiring additional Shares, or by
disposing of all or a portion of the Shares.
Neither Fidelity nor FMTC has any present plan or proposal
which relates to or would result in (i) an extraordinary
corporate transaction, such as a merger, reorganization,
liquidation, or sale of transfer of a material amount of assets
involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (ii) any change
in the Company's present Board of Directors or management, (iii)
any material changes in the Company's present capitalization or
dividend policy or any other material change in the Company's
business or corporate structure, (iv) any change in the Company's
charter or by-laws, or (v) the Company's common stock becoming
eligible for termination of its registration pursuant to Section
12(g)(4) of the 1934 Act.
Item 5. Interest in Securities of Issuer.
(a) FMR beneficially owns, through Fidelity, as investment
advisor to the Fidelity Funds, 402,554 Shares, or approximately
3.35% of the outstanding Shares of the Company, and through FMTC,
the managing agent for the Accounts, 775,447 Shares, or
approximately 6.46% of the outstanding Shares of the Company.
Neither FMR, Fidelity, FMTC, nor any of its affiliates nor, to
the best knowledge of FMR, any of the persons name in Schedule A
hereto, beneficially owns any other Shares. The combined
holdings of FMR, Fidelity, and FMTC, are 1,178,001 Shares, or
approximately 9.82% of the outstanding Shares of the Company.
(b) FMR, through is control of Fidelity, investment advisor
to the Fidelity Funds, and the Funds each has sole power to
dispose of the Shares. Neither FMR nor Mr. Johnson has the sole
power to vote or direct the voting of the 402,554 Shares owned
directly by the Fidelity Funds, which power resides with the
Funds' Boards of Trustees. Fidelity carries out the voting of
the Shares under written guidelines established by the Funds'
Board of Trustees. FMR, through its control of FMTC, investment
manager to the Accounts, and the Accounts each has sole
dispositive power over 775,447 Shares and sole power to vote or
to direct the voting of 775,447 Shares, and no power to vote or
to direct the voting of 0 Shares owned by the Accounts.
(c) Except as set forth in Schedule B, neither FMR, or any
of its affiliates, nor, to the best knowledge of FMR, any of the
persons named in Schedule A hereto has effected any transaction
in Shares during the past sixty (60) days.
Item 6. Contract, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships
With Respect to Securities of the Issuer.
Neither FMR nor any of its affiliates nor, to the best
knowledge of FMR, any of the persons named in Schedule A hereto
has any joint venture, finder's fee, or other contract or
arrangement with any person with respect to any securities of the
Company.
Item 7. Material to be Filed as Exhibits.
Not Applicable.
This statement speaks as of its date, and no inference
should be drawn that no change has occurred in the facts set
forth herein after the date hereof.
Signature
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, I certify that the information set forth in this
statement is true, complete and correct.
FMR Corp.
DATE: August 24, 1995 By: /s/Arthur
Loring
Arthur Loring
Vice President-Legal
SCHEDULE A
The name and present principal occupation or employment of
each executive officer and director of FMR Corp. are set forth
below. The business address of each person is 82 Devonshire
Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109, and the address of the
corporation or organization in which such employment is conducted
is the same as his business address. All of the persons listed
below are U.S. citizens.
POSITION WITH
PRINCIPAL
NAME FMR CORP. OCCUPATION
Edward C. Johnson 3d President,
Chairman of the
Director, CEO Board and CEO, FMR
Chairman &
Mng. Director
J. Gary Burkhead Director President-Fidelity
Caleb Loring, Jr. Director, Director, FMR
Mng. Director
James C. Curvey Director, Sr. V.P., FMR
Sr. V.P.
William L. Byrnes Vice Chairman Vice Chairman, FIL
Director & Mng.
Director
Robert C. Pozen Sr. V.P. & Gen'l Sr. V.P. & Gen'l
Counsel Counsel, FMR
Mark Peterson Exec. Exec.
V.P.-Management V.P.-Management
Resources Resources, FMR
Denis McCarthy Sr. Vice Pres. - Vice Pres., Chief
Chief Financial Financial Officer,
Officer FMR
SCHEDULE B
Jamesway Corporation
One Account sold Shares. The transactions were made for cash in
open market transactions or with other investment companies with
the same or an affiliated investment advisor.
SHARES PRICE
100,000 $3.26
62,000 3.74
