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        <footnote id="F1">Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated October 19, 2006, as subsequently amended, between Applica Incorported and affiliates of Harbinger Capital Partners, at the effective time of the merger contemplated therein, each outstanding share of Applica common stock was cancelled and converted into the right to receive $8.25 in cash, without interest.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, at the effective time of the merger, each stock option to purchase shares of Applica common stock that was outstanding and unexercised immediately prior to the effective time of the merger, whether or not vested, was cancelled and converted into the right to receive an amount in cash equal to the excess, if any, of $8.25 over the exercise price per share of such stock option.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">This option was granted pursuant to the issuer's stock option plan, which complies with the requirements for exemption set forth in Rule 16b-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.</footnote>
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