As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 23, 2017

Registration No. 333-            

 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

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FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

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AVNET, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

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AVNET DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

(Full title of the plan)

 

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Michael J. O’Neill

Senior Vice President, General Counsel

and Chief Legal Officer

Avnet, Inc.

2211 South 47th Street

Phoenix, Arizona 85034

(480) 643-2000

(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:  

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed by Avnet, Inc., a New York corporation (the “Registrant”, or the “Corporation”), relating to $50,000,000 of deferred compensation obligations, which are unsecured obligations of the Registrant to pay deferred compensation in the future (the “Deferred Compensation Obligations”) in accordance with the terms of the Avnet Deferred Compensation Plan (As Amended and Restated Effective Generally as of January 1, 2009), as amended (the “Plan”). Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Registrant’s Form S-8 Registration Statement previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 30, 1998 (File No. 333-45267), registering $50,000,000 of Deferred Compensation Obligations under the Plan, are herein incorporated by reference to the extent not modified or superseded hereby or by any subsequently filed document that is incorporated by reference herein or therein.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

 

Item 8. Exhibits

 

See Exhibit Index below.  

 

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SIGNATURES

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 Phoenix, State of Arizona, on August 23, 2017.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby authorizes and appoints each of William J. Amelio and Michael J. O’Neill his or her attorneys-in-fact, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments to this S-8 registration statement, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact, or their substitute, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed on August 23, 2017 by the following persons in the capacities indicated:

 

EXHIBIT INDEX