Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY)

AGREEMENTS WITH MESSRS. TEMARES, STARK AND FIORILLI

Messrs. Temares, Stark and Fiorilli, as well as some other executives of the Company, have employment agreements with the Company. The agreements with the three named executives provide for severance pay equal to three years’ salary if the Company terminates their employment (subject to reduction under certain circumstances) and one year’s severance pay if the executive voluntarily leaves the employ of the Company. These agreements also contain non-competition and confidentiality provisions.

Mr. Temares is a party to a supplemental executive retirement benefit agreement with the Company under which, if he remains employed by the Company through June 12, 2012 (the twentieth anniversary of his employment with the Company) or the earlier occurrence of a change of control of the Company, he is entitled to receive a supplemental retirement benefit on his retirement or other separation from service from the Company. The retirement benefit will be an annual amount equal to 50% of Mr. Temares’ annual base salary on the date of termination of employment for a period of 10 years, payable, in general, except as described below, in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll practices. In the event Mr. Temares is terminated without cause, his employment is terminated due to death or disability, or his retirement occurs within 12 months after the occurrence of change of control of the Company, he will receive the present value of such supplemental retirement benefit in a lump sum. Except in the case of Mr. Temares’ death, such lump sum payment will be made six months after the date of termination of employment, and, in the case of a retirement benefit payable over a ten-year period, any amount due

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prior to six months after the termination of employment will be paid in a lump sum on the date six months from the date of such termination of employment.