As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 12, 2015

Registration No. 033-59497

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT

TO

 

FORM S-8

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

 

NATURE’S SUNSHINE PRODUCTS, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

2500 West Executive Parkway, Suite 100

Lehi, Utah 84043

(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)

 

 

(801) 341-7900

(Registrant’s telephone number including area code)

 

 

Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc. Tax Deferred Retirement Plan

(Full title of the plan)

 

 

Richard D. Strulson, Esq. Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc. 2500 West Executive Parkway, Suite 100 Lehi, Utah 84043 (801) 341-7304

Copy to: Samuel P. Gardiner, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP 136 South Main Street, Suite 1000 Salt Lake City, Utah 84101-1685 (801) 933-7360

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definition of “large accelderated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer	o	Accelerated filer	x
Non-accelerated filer	o (do not check if a smaller reporting company)	Smaller reporting company	o

 

 

 

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

 

Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc. (the “Registrant”) is filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to deregister under this registration statement certain of the Registrant’s common shares, no par value per share (the “Common Shares”), originally registered for issuance under the Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc. Tax Deferred Retirement Plan (the “Plan”) pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 22, 1995 (Registration No. 033-59497) (the “Registration Statement”).

 

The Common Shares are no longer offered as an investment option under the Plan. Pursuant to an undertaking made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement, the Registrant hereby removes from registration the Common Shares and associated interests that were previously registered under the Registration Statement and remain unsold as of the date hereof.

 

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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 Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Lehi, State of Utah, on the date indicated.

 

	NATURE’S SUNSHINE PRODUCTS, INC.
	By:	/s/ Stephen M. Bunker
Dated: June 12, 2015		Stephen M. Bunker, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

 

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

 

 

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The Plan. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the trustees (or other persons who administer the Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc. Tax Deferred Retirement Plan) have duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Lehi, and the State of Utah, on the date indicated.

 

	NATURE’S SUNSHINE PRODUCTS, INC.
Dated: June 12, 2015	By:	/s/ Stephen M. Bunker
		Stephen M. Bunker, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc., and Member of the Governing Board which is the Plan Administrator

 

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