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This excerpt taken from the GPS DEF 14A filed Apr 7, 2009. Expense Reimbursement and Other Benefits We also pay for or reimburse directors for travel expenses related to attending Board, committee, and approved Company business meetings, and approved educational seminars. Additionally, we provide non-employee directors access to office space and administrative support for Company business from time to time. We occasionally invite spouses to accompany directors to Board-related events, for which we pay or reimburse travel expenses. These travel expenses are reported as compensation to the director and are grossed up to cover taxes. In addition, directors and their spouses are eligible to receive discounts on our merchandise in accordance with the Gap Inc. corporate employee merchandise discount policy. In January 2006, we established The Gap, Inc. Supplemental Deferred Compensation Plan (SDCP) whereby highly compensated employees, including executive officers, and non-employee directors may elect to defer receipt of certain eligible income. The SDCP allows eligible employees to defer a percentage of their salary and bonus on a pre-tax basis, and allows non-employee directors to defer their retainers and meeting fees. The deferred amounts are indexed to the participants choice of approved investment funds. Non-employee director deferrals are not matched and above-market or preferential interest rate options are not available on deferred compensation.
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Table of ContentsThe Non-Employee Director Retirement Plan is an unfunded deferred compensation plan that provides for annual benefits if a non-employee director has served on the Board for five consecutive years and is still a director at age 72. In fiscal 1996, the Board of Directors terminated this plan for future directors. Mr. Bellamy is the only current director who may be eligible for plan benefits, assuming he meets the requirements of the plan, including remaining on the Board until age 72. In that event, he would receive an annual benefit payment equal to $27,000. The duration of these annual payments would equal the number of years that he served on the Board. If Mr. Bellamy dies before the maximum payment period expires, payments would continue for the life of his surviving spouse, or until the end of the maximum payment period, whichever is sooner. Directors are eligible to participate in our Gift Match Program available to all employees, under which we match contributions to eligible nonprofit organizations, up to certain annual limits. In fiscal 2008, Mr. Murphy, our Chairman and CEO, had an annual matching limit of $100,000, and Mr. Donald G. Fisher and Mrs. Doris F. Fisher (who is not standing for reelection), as founders of the Company, had annual matching limits of $25,000. The annual limit for other non-employee directors was $15,000 under the Gift Match Program. Employee directors are also eligible to participate in our Board Service Program that matches nonprofit board service by Senior Director or above level employees with contributions to eligible nonprofit organizations, up to an annual limit of $10,000. This excerpt taken from the GPS DEF 14A filed Apr 16, 2008. Expense Reimbursement and Other Benefits We also pay for or reimburse directors for travel expenses related to attending Board, committee, and approved Company business meetings, and approved educational seminars. Additionally, we provide non-employee directors access to office space and administrative support for Company business from time to time. We occasionally invite spouses to accompany directors to Board related events, for which we pay or reimburse travel expenses. These travel expenses are reported as compensation to the director and are grossed up to cover taxes. In addition, directors and their immediate families are eligible to receive discounts on our merchandise in accordance with The Gap, Inc. corporate employee merchandise discount policy. In January 2006, we established The Gap, Inc. Supplemental Deferred Compensation Plan (SDCP) whereby highly compensated employees, including executive officers, and non-employee directors may elect to defer receipt of certain eligible income. The SDCP allows eligible employees to defer a percentage of their salary and bonus on a pre-tax basis, and allows non-employee directors to defer their retainers and meeting fees. The deferred amounts are indexed to the participants choice of approved investment funds, including a notional Gap Stock Fund based on the performance of the Companys common stock. Non-employee director deferrals are not matched and, in fiscal 2007, above-market or preferential interest rate options were no longer available on deferred compensation. The Non-Employee Director Retirement Plan is an unfunded deferred compensation plan that provides for annual benefits if a non-employee director has served on the Board for five consecutive years and is still a director at age 72. In fiscal 1996, the Board of Directors terminated this plan for future directors. Mr. Bellamy is the only current director who may be eligible for plan benefits, assuming
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Table of Contentshe meets the requirements of the plan, including remaining on the Board until age 72. In that event, he would receive an annual benefit payment equal to $27,000. The duration of these annual payments would equal the number of years that he served on the Board. If Mr. Bellamy dies before the maximum payment period expires, payments would continue for the life of his surviving spouse, or until the end of the maximum payment period, whichever is sooner. This excerpt taken from the GPS DEF 14A filed Apr 26, 2007. Expense Reimbursement and Other Benefits We also pay for or reimburse directors for travel expenses related to attending Board, committee, and approved Company business meetings, and approved educational seminars. Additionally, we provide non-employee directors access to office space and administrative support for Company business from time to time. We occasionally invite spouses to accompany directors to Board related events, for which we pay or reimburse travel expenses. These travel expenses are reported as compensation to the director and are grossed up to cover taxes. In addition, directors and their immediate families are eligible to receive discounts on our merchandise in accordance with The Gap, Inc. corporate employee merchandise discount policy. In January 2006, we established The Gap, Inc. Supplemental Deferred Compensation Plan (SDCP) whereby highly compensated employees, including executive officers, and non-employee directors may elect to defer receipt of certain eligible income. The SDCP replaced the Executive Deferred Compensation Plan, which was frozen as to new contributions on December 31, 2005, and the Non-employee Director Deferred Compensation Plan, which was terminated on September 27, 2005. The SDCP allows eligible employees and non-employee directors to defer a percentage of their salary and bonus (for non-employee directors, retainers and meeting fees) on a pre-tax basis. The deferred amounts are indexed to the participants choice of approved investment funds, including a notional Gap Stock Fund based on the performance of the Companys common stock. Non-employee director deferrals are not matched and, in fiscal 2007, no above-market or preferential interest rate options will be available on deferred compensation. The Non-Employee Director Retirement Plan is an unfunded deferred compensation plan that provides for annual benefits if a non-employee director has served on the Board for five consecutive years and is still a director at age 72. In fiscal 1996, the Board of Directors terminated this plan for future directors. Mr. Bellamy is the only current director who may be eligible for plan benefits, assuming
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Table of Contentshe meets the requirements of the plan, including remaining on the Board until age 72. In that event, he would receive an annual benefit payment equal to $27,000. The duration of these annual payments would equal the number of years that he served on the Board. If Mr. Bellamy dies before the maximum payment period expires, payments would continue for the life of his surviving spouse, or until the end of the maximum payment period, whichever is sooner. | EXCERPTS ON THIS PAGE:
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