Employee Stock Purchase Plan of Charming Shoppes, Inc.

19-119 19-119 . . . Employee Stock Purchase Plan under which each employee can contribute from 1% to 10% of earnings through payroll deductions, and contributions are credited to account maintained on behalf of each employee by brokerage firm designated as custodian under Plan. So long as Plan is operated as "discount plan", corporation will sell shares directly to custodian at a price equal to lesser of 85% of fair market value of common stock at beginning of offering period or 85% of fair market value of common stock on purchase date. If Board designates Plan as a "matching plan", such discounted sales by corporation would be discontinued, but corporation instead would make matching contribution equal to 15% of employees' payroll contributions to be used by custodian to make market purchases of common stock at or promptly after purchase date (more...)