Registration No. 333-            

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 9, 2006

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UNITED STATES

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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NU SKIN ENTERPRISES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

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Delaware		87-0565309
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

75 West Center Street

Provo, UT 84601

(Address, including zip code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

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Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. 2006 Stock Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

 

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M. Truman Hunt

President and Chief Executive Officer

NU SKIN ENTERPRISES, INC.

75 West Center Street

Provo, Utah 84601

(801) 345-6000

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

 

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Copies to:

 

Nolan S. Taylor, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP 170 South Main Street, Suite 900 Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 (801) 933-7360		D. Matthew Dorny Chief Legal Officer Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. 75 West Center Street Provo, UT 84601 (801) 345-6000

 

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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

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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
Class A Common Stock, par value $.001 per share		6,000,000 shares		$16.24		$97,824,932.50		$10,467.27

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(1)

Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement also relates to such additional number of shares available for issuance under the plan as may be required pursuant to the plan in the event of a stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar event, or as otherwise provided for in the plan.

(2)

Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(h)(1) and (c). The proposed maximum aggregate offering price has been calculated as follows: options to purchase 308,500 shares have been granted with an approximate weighted average exercise price of $17.58; the proposed maximum offering price per share for the remainder of the 5,691,500 shares that are being registered herein but remain unisssued is based upon the average of the high and low prices of the Class A Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on August 3, 2006.

 

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PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

Item 1. Plan Information.

Information required by Item 1 to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 adopted under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the Note to Part I of Form S-8.

Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.

Information required by Item 2 to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 adopted under the Securities Act and the Note to Part I of Form S-8.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents, which have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) by Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. (the “Company”), are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement, as of their respective dates:

 

(a)

the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as amended, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005;

 

(b)

the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as amended, for the quarter ended March 31, 2006;

 

(c)

the Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on February 10, 2006, April 18, 2006, and June 1, 2006, as amended on June 22, 2006; and

 

(c)

the description of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, par value $.001 per share, as contained in the Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on November 6, 1996, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the respective dates of filing of such documents.

 

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Item 4. Description of Securities.

Not applicable.

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Not applicable.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Indemnification

The registrant is incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware. Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law provides that a Delaware corporation may indemnify persons who were, are or are threatened to be made parties to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of such corporation), by reason of the fact that such person is or was an officer, director, employee or agent of such corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the corporation’s best interests and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was illegal. The registrant’s certificate of incorporation and bylaws provide for the indemnification of the registrant’s officers and directors to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law. The registrant believes that such indemnification is necessary to attract and retain qualified persons as directors and officers. The registrant has also entered into separate indemnification agreements with certain of its directors and executive officers.

Liability Insurance

Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law also permits a Delaware corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of its directors and officers. The registrant’s bylaws permit the registrant to purchase such insurance on behalf of its directors and officers.

Limitation of Liability

Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law permits a Delaware corporation to provide in its certificate of incorporation that a director of the corporation shall not be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duties as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of a director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders; (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law; (iii) for improper payment of dividends or redemptions of shares or stock purchases; or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derives an improper personal benefit. The registrant’s certificate of incorporation provides for, to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, elimination or limitation of liability of its directors to the registrant or its stockholders for breach of fiduciary duty as a director.

 

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Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.

 

Exhibit Number		Description
4.1		Specimen Form of Stock Certificate for Class A Common Stock (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-90716)).
4.2		Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-12073)).
4.3		Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003).
4.4		Certificate of Designation, Preferences and Relative Participating, Optional, and Other Special Rights of Preferred Stock and Qualification, Limitations and Restrictions Thereof (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to the registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004).
4.5		Amended and Restated Bylaws (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-12073)).
5.1		Opinion of Dorsey & Whitney LLP.
23.1		Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent registered public accounting firm.
23.2		Consent of Dorsey & Whitney LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1 to this Registration Statement).
24.1		Power of Attorney (included with the signatures in Part II of this registration statement).

Item 9. Undertakings.

(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended;

 

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(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective Registration Statement; and

(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement;

Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the

 

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registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

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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 Provo, State of Utah, on August 9, 2006.

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints M. Truman Hunt, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this 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 attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully 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 by the following persons in the capacities indicated on August 9, 2006.

 

/s/ Blake M. Roney Blake M. Roney				Chairman of the Board of Directors
/s/ M. Truman Hunt M. Truman Hunt				President and Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Ritch N. Wood Ritch N. Wood				Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
/s/ Sandra N. Tillotson Sandra N. Tillotson				Director

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/s/ Daniel W. Campbell Daniel W. Campbell				Director
/s/ E. J. “Jake” Garn E.J. “Jake” Garn				Director
/s/ Paula F. Hawkins Paula F. Hawkins				Director
/s/ Andrew D. Lipman Andrew D. Lipman				Director
/s/ Jose Ferreira, Jr. Jose Ferreira, Jr.				Director
/s/ D. Allen Andersen D. Allen Andersen				Director
/s/ Patricia Negrón Patricia Negrón				Director

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Exhibit Index to

Form S-8

Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc.

 

Exhibit Number		Description
4.1		Specimen Form of Stock Certificate for Class A Common Stock (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-90716)).
4.2		Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-12073)).
4.3		Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003).
4.4		Certificate of Designation, Preferences and Relative Participating, Optional, and Other Special Rights of Preferred Stock and Qualification, Limitations and Restrictions Thereof (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to the registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004).
4.5		Amended and Restated Bylaws (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-12073)).
5.1		Opinion of Dorsey & Whitney LLP.
23.1		Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent registered public accounting firm.
23.2		Consent of Dorsey & Whitney LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1 to this Registration Statement).
24.1		Power of Attorney (included with the signatures in Part II of this registration statement).