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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 4, 2014

Registration Statement File No. 333-05131
Registration Statement File No. 333-191538
 
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
 
Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-05131
Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 Registration Statement No. 333-191538


UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 

ZALE CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 

Delaware
75-0675400
(State or other jurisdiction of
(I.R.S. Employer Identification
incorporation or organization)
Number)

 
901 West Walnut Hill Lane
Irving, Texas 75038-1003
(972) 580-4000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
 of registrant’s principal executive offices)
 

Bridgett Zeterberg
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Zale Corporation
901 West Walnut Hill Lane
Irving, Texas 75038-1003
(972) 580-4000
 (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
 

Copies to:
 
Eric L. Schiele
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Worldwide Plaza
825 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10019-7475
(212) 474-1000
 

Not applicable. 
(Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public)
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
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(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment relates to the following Registration Statements of Zale Corporation (the “Company”) on Form S-3 (collectively, the “Registration Statements”):

 
1.
Registration Statement No. 333-05131, pertaining to the registration of 8,016,750 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”) of the Company, as previously filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on June 4, 1996 and amended on June 21, 1996 and July 24, 1996; and
     
 
2.
Registration Statement No. 333-191538, pertaining to the registration of 11,064,684 shares of Common Stock, as previously filed with the Commission on October 2, 2013 and amended on October 24, 2013.

On May 29, 2014, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of February 19, 2014 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, Signet Jewelers Limited, a Bermuda corporation (“Signet”), and Carat Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Signet (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”), with the Company surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Signet.

As a result of the Merger, the Company has terminated all offerings of the Company’s securities pursuant to the Registration Statements.  In accordance with undertakings made by the Company in the Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, the Company hereby removes from registration all of such securities of the Company registered but unsold under the Registration Statements, if any.  The Registration Statements are hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities.


 
 

 
 
 
 


SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statements to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Irving, State of Texas, on this 4th day of June, 2014.

 
  ZALE CORPORATION  
       
  By:  /s/  Thomas A. Haubenstricker  
   
Thomas A. Haubenstricker
  
   
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer