UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C.  20549

 


 

FORM S-8

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under

The Securities Act of 1933

 

WINMARK CORPORATION

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

Minnesota

41-1622691

(State or Other Juris-

(I.R.S. Employer

diction of Incorporation

Identification Number)

or Organization)

 

 

4200 Dahlberg Drive, Suite 100

Minneapolis, MN 55422-4837

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

 

Winmark Corporation Stock Option Plan for Nonemployee Directors

(Full Title of the Plan)

 

Catherine P. Heaven, Esq.

4200 Dahlberg Drive, Suite 100

Minneapolis, Minnesota  55422-4837

(763) 520-8500

(Name, Address and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

 

Copies to:

Daniel A. Yarano, Esq.

Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

200 South Sixth Street, Suite 4000

Minneapolis, Minnesota  55402-1425

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 


Title of Securities
to be Registered

 


Amount to be
Registered(1)

 


Proposed Maximum
Offering Price
Per Share(2)

 

Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price(2)

 


Amount of
Registration Fee

 

 Common Stock issuable upon exercise of options granted under the Nonemployee Director Stock Option Plan :

 

100,000 shares

 

$

18.25

 

$

1,825,000

 

$

56.03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

56.03

 

 

(1)                                  In addition, pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan described herein and any additional securities which may become issuable pursuant to anti-dilution provisions of the plan.

 

(2)                                  Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(h) solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee and based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Registrant’s Common Stock on May 23, 2007.

 

 




The purpose of this Registration Statement is to register additional shares for issuance under the Registrant’s Stock Option Plan for Nonemployee Directors. The contents of the Registrant’s Registration Statements on Form S-8, Reg. No. 33-85972 and 333-120489 are incorporated herein by reference.

SIGNATURES

The Registrant. 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-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Minneapolis and State of Minnesota, on the 24th day of May, 2007.

 

WINMARK CORPORATION

 

(the “Registrant”)

 

 

 

 

 

By

/s/ Catherine P. Heaven

 

 

Catherine P. Heaven, General Counsel

 

 

                Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

(Power of Attorney)

Each of the undersigned constitutes and appoints John L. Morgan and Brett D. Heffes his/her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting alone, with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him/her and in his/her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Form S-8 Registration Statement of Winmark Corporation relating to the Company’s Stock Option Plan for Nonemployee Directors and any or all amendments or post-effective amendments to the Form S-8 Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

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Signature

 

Title

 

Date

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ John L. Morgan

 

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive

 

May 24, 2007

John L. Morgan

 

Officer (principal executive officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Brett D. Heffes

 

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

 

May 24, 2007

Brett D. Heffes

 

(principal financial officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Gary Stofferahn

 

Principal Accounting Officer

 

May 24, 2007

Gary Stofferahn

 

(principal accounting officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Kirk A. MacKenzie

 

Vice Chairman and Director

 

May 24, 2007

Kirk A. MacKenzie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ William D. Dunlap, Jr.

 

Director

 

May 24, 2007

William D. Dunlap, Jr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Jenele C. Grassle

 

Director

 

May 24, 2007

Jenele C. Grassle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Paul C. Reyelts

 

Director

 

May 24, 2007

Paul C. Reyelts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Mark L. Wilson

 

Director

 

May 24, 2007

Mark L. Wilson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Dean B. Phillips

 

Director

 

May 24, 2007

Dean B. Phillips

 

 

 

 

 

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

 

 

WINMARK CORPORATION

 

 

Form S-8 Registration Statement

 

 

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

 

Exhibit

 

 

Number

 

Exhibit Description

 5

 

Opinion and consent of counsel regarding securities under the Plan

23.1

 

Consent of counsel (See Exhibit 5)

23.2

 

Consent of current independent registered public accounting firm

23.3

 

Consent of former independent registered public accounting firm

24

 

Power of attorney (See Signature Page)

 

 

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