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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549
       
FORM 8-K
       
CURRENT REPORT
       
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
       
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):  September 17, 2009
       
GERBER SCIENTIFIC, INC.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
       
       
Connecticut
1-5865
06-0640743
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)
(Commission File No.)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
       
       
83 Gerber Road West, South Windsor, Connecticut
  
06074
(Address of principal executive offices)
  
(Zip Code)
       
       
Registrant's Telephone Number, including area code: 860-644-1551
    
       
       
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changes since last report)
       
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Item 5.02
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
 
(e)    On September 17, 2009, the shareholders of Gerber Scientific, Inc. (the “Company”) voted at the Company’s 2009 annual meeting of shareholders to approve an amendment to the Gerber Scientific, Inc. 2006 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “Incentive Plan”) which increased the total number of shares of the Company’s common stock issuable pursuant to the Incentive Plan, excluding any shares related to awards granted under specified prior stock incentive plans, by 1,250,000 shares from a total of 3,000,000 shares to a total of 4,250,000 shares.  The Incentive Plan provides for the grant of stock options, restricted stock, stock units, stock appreciation rights, performance awards and other stock-based and cash-based awards to officers, directors and other employees of the Company and its subsidiaries.  The Board of Directors of the Company approved the foregoing amendment on July 17, 2009.
 
A copy of the Incentive Plan, including Section 4.1 as amended by the amendment described above, is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this report and is incorporated by reference in this Item 5.02.
 

Item 9.01      Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d)       The Company herewith files the following exhibit:

Exhibit No.
Description of Exhibit
10.1
Gerber Scientific, Inc. 2006 Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended
   
   

 
 
 

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


 
GERBER SCIENTIFIC, INC.
 
(Registrant)
    
   
   
Date:
September   23, 2009
By:
 /s/ William V. Grickis, Jr.
   
William V. Grickis, Jr.
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary (Duly Authorized Officer)
   


 
 
 

EXHIBIT INDEX
 

Exhibit No.
Description of Exhibit
10.1
Gerber Scientific, Inc. 2006 Omnibus Incentive Plan, as amended