S-1MEF

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 22, 2020

Registration No. 333-

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

Grocery Outlet Holding Corp.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   5411   47-1874201

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(Primary Standard Industrial

Classification Code Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

5650 Hollis Street

Emeryville, California 94608

(510) 845-1999

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

Pamela B. Burke

Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Secretary

Grocery Outlet Holding Corp.

5650 Hollis Street

Emeryville, California 94608

(510) 845-1999

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

 

 

With copies to:

William B. Brentani

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

2475 Hanover Street

Palo Alto, California 94304

Tel: (650) 251-5000

Fax: (650) 251-5002

 

Emily Roberts

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

1600 El Camino Real

Menlo Park, California 94025

Tel: (650) 752-2000

Fax: (650) 752-3622

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this registration statement.

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933 check the following box.  ☐

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☒ Registration No. 333-237755

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ☐

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.

 

Large accelerated filer      Accelerated filer  
Non-accelerated filer      Smaller reporting company  
     Emerging growth company  

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

 

 

Title of Each Class of
Securities to be Registered
  Amount
to be
Registered(1)
  Proposed Maximum
Offering Price Per
Share(2)
  Proposed Maximum
Aggregate Offering
Price(1)(2)
  Amount of
Registration Fee

Common stock, $0.001 par value per share

 

2,875,000

  $34.00   $97,750,000.00   $12,687.95

 

 

(1)

Represents only the additional number of shares of the registrant’s common stock being registered, and includes 375,000 additional shares of common stock that the underwriters have the option to purchase. Does not include the securities that the registrant previously registered on the Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (File No. 333-237755).

(2)

Calculated pursuant to Rule 457(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, for the purpose of determining the registration fee. The registrant previously registered securities with a proposed maximum aggregate offering price not to exceed $497,231,250.00 on the Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (File No. 333-237755), which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 22, 2020. In accordance with Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, an additional amount of securities having a proposed maximum aggregate offering price of $97,750,000.00 are hereby registered.

 

 

This Registration Statement shall become effective upon filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in accordance with Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act.

 

 

 


EXPLANATORY NOTE AND INCORPORATION OF

CERTAIN INFORMATION BY REFERENCE

Grocery Outlet Holding Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), is filing this Registration Statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. This Registration Statement relates to the public offering of securities contemplated by the Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (File No. 333-237755) (the “Prior Registration Statement”), which was declared effective by the Commission on April 22, 2020.

The Registrant is filing this Registration Statement for the sole purpose of increasing by 2,875,000 shares the number of shares of common stock offered by certain of the selling stockholders reflected in the Prior Registration Statement, 375,000 of which are subject to purchase upon exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares of the Registrant’s common stock. The additional shares that are being registered for sale are in an amount and at a price that together represents no more than 20% of the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the Calculation of Registration Fee table contained in the Prior Registration Statement. The information set forth in the Prior Registration Statement, and all exhibits to the Prior Registration Statement, are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement.

The required opinions and consents are listed on the Exhibit Index attached hereto and filed herewith.


EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Description

5.1†    Opinion of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 5.1 filed with Amendment No.  1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-237755) filed with the Commission on April 22, 2020)
23.1    Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP
23.2†    Consent of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1†    Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-237755) filed with the Commission on April 20, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference)

 

Previously filed.


Signatures

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, we have duly caused this registration statement on Form S-1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Emeryville, State of California, on April 22, 2020.

 

Grocery Outlet Holding Corp.
By:   /s/ Eric J. Lindberg, Jr.
  Name: Eric. J. Lindberg, Jr.
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on April 22, 2020.

 

Signature

  

Title

/s/ Eric J. Lindberg, Jr.

Eric J. Lindberg, Jr.

  

Chief Executive Officer and Director

(Principal Executive Officer)

*

Charles C. Bracher

  

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

(Principal Financial Officer)

*

Lindsay E. Gray

  

Vice President Corporate Controller

(Principal Accounting Officer)

*

Erik D. Ragatz

   Director, Chairman of the Board

*

Kenneth W. Alterman

   Director

*

John E. Bachman

   Director

*

Matthew B. Eisen

   Director

*

Mary Kay Haben

   Director

*

Thomas F. Herman

   Director

*

S. MacGregor Read, Jr.

   Director

*

Norman S. Matthews

   Director

*

Sameer Narang

   Director

*

Jeffrey York

   Director

 

*By:   /s/ Eric J. Lindberg, Jr.
  Name: Eric J. Lindberg, Jr.
  Title: Attorney-in-Fact
EX-23.1

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-1 of our report dated March 25, 2020, relating to the financial statements and financial statement schedule of Grocery Outlet Holding Corp., appearing in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. for the year ended December 28, 2019, incorporated by reference in Registration Statement No. 333-237755 on Form S-1. We also consent to the reference to us under the heading “Experts” in such Registration Statement.

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

San Francisco, California

April 22, 2020