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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">As Filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on August&nbsp;27, 2004

<DIV align="right" style="font-size: 10pt">Registration No.&nbsp;333-<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U></DIV>


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<P align="center" style="font-size: 14pt"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<P align="center" style="font-size: 18pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>

<div align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT<BR>
Under<BR>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>
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<P align="center" style="font-size: 24pt"><B>EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.</B>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>

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    <TD align="center" valign="top">(State or other jurisdiction of
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">(I.R.S. Employer</TD>
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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>8000 WEST FLORISSANT AVE.<BR>
St. Louis, Missouri 63136</B><BR>
(Address, including zip code, of registrant&#146;s principal executive offices)


<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>LIEBERT CORPORATION PROFIT SHARING PLAN</B><BR>
(Full title of the Plan)



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Harley M. Smith, Esq.<BR>
Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary<BR>
Emerson Electric Co.<BR>
8000 West Florissant Avenue<BR>
St. Louis, Missouri 63136<BR>
(314)&nbsp;553-2431</B><BR>
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,<BR>
including area code, of agent for service)



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Copies of all correspondence to:<BR>
J. Mark Klamer, Esq.<BR>
Bryan Cave LLP<BR>
211 North Broadway, Suite&nbsp;3600<BR>
St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2750<BR>
Tel (314)&nbsp;259-2000, Fax (314)&nbsp;259-2020</B>



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B>


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    <TD nowrap align="center"><B>Title of Each Class</B></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="center"><B>of Securities to be</B></TD>
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                    <TD style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:10px; text-indent:-10px">Common Stock and
Preferred Stock
Purchase
Rights<SUP>(2)(4)</SUP></DIV></TD>
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    <TD colspan="3" align="center" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">1,000,000 shares<SUP>(3)</SUP></TD>
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    <TD align="center" colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">$61.83</TD>
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    <TD align="center" colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">$61,830,000</TD>
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    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left">(1)</TD>
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    <TD>Estimated pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the
registration fee on the basis of the average of the high and the low
reported sales prices of a share of Registrant&#146;s Common Stock on August&nbsp;25, 2004, as reported by The New York Stock Exchange.</TD>
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    <TD>Each share of Common Stock issued, par value $0.50 (the &#147;Common Stock&#148;),
also represents one Preferred Stock Purchase Right. Preferred Stock
Purchase Rights currently cannot trade separately from the underlying
Common Stock and, therefore, do not carry a separate price or necessitate
an additional registration fee.</TD>
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    <TD>This Registration Statement also covers such additional shares as may be
issued pursuant to anti-dilution provisions.</TD>
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    <TD>Pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests to
be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan described herein.</TD>
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">This Registration Statement registers additional securities of the same class
as other securities for which a registration statement filed on this form
relating to the same employee benefit plan is effective. Consequently,
pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents of the Registration
Statement on Form S-8 filed by Emerson Electric Co. and the Liebert Corporation
Profit Sharing Plan, Registration No.&nbsp;033-34948, are incorporated by reference
into this Registration Statement. Any statement contained in a document
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated herein by reference shall be deemed
to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the
extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed
document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein
modifies or supersedes such statement.


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<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#000">PART I</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#001">Item&nbsp;1. Plan Information.</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#002">Item&nbsp;2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#003">PART II</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#004">Item&nbsp;3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#005">Item&nbsp;4. Description of Securities.</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#006">Item&nbsp;5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#007">Item&nbsp;6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#008">Item&nbsp;7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#009">Item&nbsp;8. Exhibits.</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD colspan="8"><A HREF="#010">Item&nbsp;9. Undertakings.</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#011">SIGNATURES</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><A HREF="#012">EXHIBIT INDEX</A></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><FONT size="2">&nbsp;<A HREF="c87867bexv5.htm">Opinion and Consent of Harley M. Smith, Esq.</A></FONT></TD></TR>
<TR><TD colspan="9"><FONT size="2">&nbsp;<A HREF="c87867bexv23w1.htm">Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm</A></FONT></TD></TR>
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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>PART I</B>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS</B></DIV>

<DIV align="left"><A NAME="001"></A></DIV>
<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Item&nbsp;1. Plan Information.</B>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Information required by Part&nbsp;I of the Form S-8 to be contained in the
Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this registration statement in
accordance with Rule&nbsp;428 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(&#147;Securities Act&#148;), and the Note to the instructions to Part&nbsp;I of Form S-8.

<DIV align="left"><A NAME="002"></A></DIV>
<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Item&nbsp;2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.</B>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Information required by Part&nbsp;I of the Form S-8 to be contained in the
Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this registration statement in
accordance with Rule&nbsp;428 under the Securities Act, and the Note to the
instructions to Part&nbsp;I of Form S-8.

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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>PART II</B>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B></DIV>

<DIV align="left"><A NAME="004"></A></DIV>
<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Item&nbsp;3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.</B>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The following documents filed by Emerson Electric Co. (the &#147;Registrant&#148;)
and by the Liebert Corporation Profit Sharing Plan (the &#147;Plan&#148;) pursuant to the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the &#147;1934 Act&#148;) (File No.&nbsp;001-00278) are
incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:


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    <TD>The Registrant&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K which contains audited
financial statements for the year ended September&nbsp;30, 2003;</TD>
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    <TD>The Registrant&#146;s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters
ended December&nbsp;31, 2003, March&nbsp;31, 2004 and June&nbsp;30, 2004;</TD>
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    <TD>The description of Registrant&#146;s Common Stock, which is contained in
the Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;10 as amended under cover of Form&nbsp;8
filed on January&nbsp;19, 1981;</TD>
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    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left">&#149;</TD>
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    <TD>The description of Registrant&#146;s Preferred Stock Purchase Rights
which is contained in the Registrant&#146;s 1934 Act Registration Statement
on Form 8-A filed on October&nbsp;6, 1998; and</TD>
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    <TD>The Annual Report of the Liebert Corporation Profit Sharing Plan on
Form 11-K for the fiscal year ended September&nbsp;30, 2003.</TD>
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All documents subsequently filed by Registrant and by the Liebert
Corporation Profit Sharing Plan pursuant to Sections&nbsp;13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d)
of the 1934 Act, prior to filing a post-effective amendment which indicates
that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities
then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing such
documents. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated herein by reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement
contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or
is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such
statement.


<DIV align="left"><A NAME="005"></A></DIV>
<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Item&nbsp;4. Description of Securities.</B>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All Securities to be offered are registered under Section&nbsp;12 of the 1934
Act.


<DIV align="left"><A NAME="006"></A></DIV>
<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Item&nbsp;5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.</B>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Harley M. Smith, the Registrant&#146;s Assistant General Counsel, whose opinion
is contained in Exhibit&nbsp;5, is paid a salary by the Registrant, owns shares of
the Registrant&#146;s Common Stock, holds options to purchase shares of such Common
Stock and participates in employee benefit plans of the Registrant.


<DIV align="left"><A NAME="007"></A></DIV>
<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Item&nbsp;6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.</B>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Registrant is a Missouri Corporation. Section&nbsp;351.355(1) of the
Revised Statutes of Missouri provides that a corporation may indemnify a
director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation in any threatened,
pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
administrative or investigative, other than an action by or in the right of the
corporation, against expenses, including attorneys&#146; fees, judgments, fines and
settlement


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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">amounts actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with
such action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a manner he
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
corporation and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause
to believe his conduct was unlawful. Section&nbsp;351.355(2) provides that the
corporation may indemnify any such person in any threatened, pending or
completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation against
expenses, including attorneys&#146; fees and settlement amounts actually and
reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of the
action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed
to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, except that
he may not be indemnified in respect of any claim, issue or matter in which he
has been adjudged liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his
duty to the corporation, unless, and only to the extent, authorized by the
court.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section&nbsp;351.355(3) provides that a corporation shall indemnify any such
person against expenses, including attorneys&#146; fees, actually and reasonably
incurred by him in connection with the action, suit or proceeding if he has
been successful in defense of such action, suit or proceeding and if such
action, suit or proceeding is one for which the corporation may indemnify him
under Section&nbsp;351.355(1) or (2). Section&nbsp;351.355(7) provides that a
corporation shall have the power to give any further indemnity to any such
person, in addition to the indemnity otherwise authorized under Section
351.355, provided such further indemnity is either (i)&nbsp;authorized, directed or
provided for in the articles of incorporation of the corporation or any duly
adopted amendment thereof or (ii)&nbsp;is authorized, directed or provided for in
any bylaw or agreement of the corporation which has been adopted by a vote of
the shareholders of the corporation, provided that no such indemnity shall
indemnify any person from or on account of such person&#146;s conduct which was
finally adjudged to have been knowingly fraudulent, deliberately dishonest or
willful misconduct.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;At the Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on February&nbsp;10, 1987, the
stockholders adopted indemnification agreements with the directors of the
Registrant and amendments to the bylaws of the Registrant which incorporate
indemnity provisions permitted by Section&nbsp;351.355(7) described above. The
agreements and amended bylaws provide that the Registrant will indemnify its
directors and officers against all expenses (including attorneys&#146; fees),
judgments, fines and settlement amounts, paid or incurred in any action or
proceeding, including any action by or on behalf of the Registrant, on account
of their service as a director or officer of the Registrant, any subsidiary of
the Registrant or any other company or enterprise when they are serving in such
capacities at the request of the Registrant, excepting only cases where (i)&nbsp;the
conduct of such person is adjudged to be knowingly fraudulent, deliberately
dishonest or willful misconduct, (ii)&nbsp;a final court adjudication shall
determine that such indemnification is not lawful, (iii)&nbsp;judgment is rendered
against such person for an accounting of profits made from a purchase or sale
of securities of the Registrant in violation of Section 16(b) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 or of any similar statutory law, or (iv)&nbsp;any remuneration
paid to such person is adjudicated to have been paid in violation of law. Such
person shall be indemnified only to the extent that the aggregate of losses to
be indemnified exceeds the amount of such losses for which the director or
officer is insured pursuant to any directors&#146; or officers&#146; liability insurance
policy maintained by the Registrant.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Article&nbsp;10 of the Registrant&#146;s Articles of Incorporation provides that the
liability of the Registrant&#146;s directors to the Corporation or any of its
shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director
shall be eliminated to the fullest extent permitted under the Missouri General
and Business Corporation Law. Any repeal or modification of Article&nbsp;10 by the
Registrant&#146;s shareholders shall not adversely affect any right or protection of
a director of the Registrant existing at the time of such repeal or
modification with respect to the acts or omissions occurring prior to such
repeal or modification.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Registrant maintains directors&#146; and officers&#146; liability insurance.


<DIV align="left"><A NAME="008"></A></DIV>
<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Item&nbsp;7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.</B>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not applicable.

<DIV align="left"><A NAME="009"></A></DIV>

<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Item&nbsp;8. Exhibits.</B>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Reference is made to the Exhibit index. The Registrant hereby undertakes
that it will submit or has submitted the Liebert Corporation Profit Sharing
Plan and any amendments thereto to the Internal Revenue Service (&#147;IRS&#148;) in a
timely manner and has made or will make all changes required by the IRS as
necessary in order to qualify such plan under Section&nbsp;401 of the Internal
Revenue Code.


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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Item&nbsp;9. Undertakings.</B>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(a)&nbsp;The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:



<P align="left" style="margin-left:3%; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:



<P align="left" style="margin-left:6%; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(i) To include any prospectus required by Section&nbsp;10(a)(3) of the
Securities Act of 1933;



<P align="left" style="margin-left:6%; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after
the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent
post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in
the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase
or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of
securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any
deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering
range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in
volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum
aggregate offering price set forth in the &#147;Calculation of Registration
Fee&#148; table in the effective registration statement;



<P align="left" style="margin-left:6%; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan
of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or
any material change to such information in the registration statement;


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<I>provided</I>, <I>however</I>, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply
if the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3, and the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the
Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the
registration statement.



<P align="left" style="margin-left:3%; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed
to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to
be the initial bona fide offering thereof.



<P align="left" style="margin-left:3%; font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(b)&nbsp;The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit
plan&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall
be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(c)&nbsp;Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers, and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer, or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit, or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer, or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and
will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.


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<DIV align="left"><A NAME="011"></A></DIV>
<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>SIGNATURES</B>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">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 the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri on
August&nbsp;26,
2004.

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<TR>
    <TD width="48%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="35%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3">EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.<BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">/s/ H.M. Smith</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2">H.M. Smith, Esq.&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2">Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated
on August&nbsp;26, 2004.

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    <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="30%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="20%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom">
    <TD nowrap align="left"><B>Signature</B><HR size="1" noshade></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center"><B>Title</B><HR size="1" noshade></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center"><B>Date</B><HR size="1" noshade></TD>
</TR>

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    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:10px; text-indent:-10px">/s/ David N. Farr  *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(David N. Farr)</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Chief Executive Officer and Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Charles F. Knight *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(Charles F. Knight)
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Chairman of the Board and Director</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>



<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Walter J. Galvin *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(Walter J. Galvin)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Executive Vice President and Chief<BR>
Financial Officer and Director<br>
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>


<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ James G. Berges *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(James G. Berges)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
President and Director</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>



<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Richard J. Schlueter *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(Richard J. Schlueter)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>




<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ August A. Busch  *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(August A. Busch, III)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ David C. Farrell *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(David C. Farrell)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Carlos Fernandez G. *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(Carlos Fernandez G.)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Arthur F. Golden *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(Arthur F. Golden)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>

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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD width="40%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="30%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="20%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom">
    <TD nowrap align="left"><B>Signature</B><HR size="1" noshade></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center"><B>Title</B><HR size="1" noshade></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center"><B>Date</B><HR size="1" noshade></TD>
</TR>

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<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Robert B. Horton *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(Robert B. Horton)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Gerald A. Lodge *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(Gerald A. Lodge)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Vernon R. Loucks *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(Vernon R. Loucks)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ John B. Menzer  *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(John B. Menzer)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Charles A. Peters  *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(Charles A. Peters)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Joseph W. Prueher *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(Joseph W. Prueher)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Rozanne L. Ridgway *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(Rozanne L. Ridgway)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" nowrap valign="top">/s/ Edward E. Whitacre *<BR>
<HR size="1" noshade>
(Edward E. Whitacre)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>

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<TABLE style="font-size: 10pt" cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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    <TD width="2%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="36%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="41%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="20%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">*By:</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ Harley M. Smith</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">August&nbsp;26, 2004</TD>
</TR>

<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top"><HR size="1" noshade>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD colspan="3" valign="top" align="left">Harley M. Smith, Attorney-In-Fact
Pursuant to Power of Attorney</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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</DIV>



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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">The Plan. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Plan
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of
Missouri, on August&nbsp;26, 2004.

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    <TD width="48%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="35%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3">LIEBERT CORPORATION PROFIT SHARING PLAN<BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>

<TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ken
W. Rolls</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2">Ken W. Rolls &nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2">Plan Administrator&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>


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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>EXHIBIT INDEX</B>


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    <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="3%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="92%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom">
    <TD nowrap align="left"><B>Exhibit</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center"><B>&nbsp;</B></TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom">
    <TD nowrap align="left"><B>Number</B><HR size="1" noshade></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center"><B>Description</B><HR size="1" noshade></TD>
</TR>

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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Restated Articles of Incorporation of Emerson Electric Co. (incorporated
by reference to Registrant&#146;s Form&nbsp;10-Q for the quarter ended March&nbsp;31,
2001, Exhibit&nbsp;3(a)).</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.2
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Bylaws of Emerson Electric Co., as amended through November&nbsp;6, 2001
(incorporated by reference to Registrant&#146;s 2001 Form&nbsp;10-K, Exhibit&nbsp;3(b)).</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.3
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Certificate of Designation, Preferences and Rights of Series&nbsp;B Junior
Participating Preferred Stock (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit
3(a)(ii) of Registrant&#146;s Form&nbsp;10-K for the fiscal year ended September&nbsp;30,
1998).</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.4
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Rights Agreement dated as of November&nbsp;1, 1998, between Emerson Electric
Co. and ChaseMellon Shareholder Services, L.L.C. (now Mellon Investor
Services LLC) (incorporated by reference to Registrant&#146;s Form&nbsp;8-A, dated
October&nbsp;6, 1998, Exhibit&nbsp;1).</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">5
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Opinion of Harley M. Smith, Esq.</TD>
</TR>

<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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Table of Contents
As Filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on August 27, 2004
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
MISSOURI
43-0259330
(State or other jurisdiction of
(I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)
Identification No.)
8000 WEST FLORISSANT AVE.
St. Louis, Missouri 63136
(Address, including zip code, of registrant's principal executive offices)
LIEBERT CORPORATION PROFIT SHARING PLAN
(Full title of the Plan)
Harley M. Smith, Esq.
Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary
Emerson Electric Co.
8000 West Florissant Avenue
St. Louis, Missouri 63136
(314) 553-2431
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
Copies of all correspondence to:
J. Mark Klamer, Esq.
Bryan Cave LLP
211 North Broadway, Suite 3600
St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2750
Tel (314) 259-2000, Fax (314) 259-2020
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Each Class
Amount
Proposed Maximum
Proposed Maximum
Amount of
of Securities to be
to be
Offering Price
Aggregate
Registration
Registered
Registered
Per Unit
(1)
Offering Price
(1)(2)
Fee
Common Stock and
Preferred Stock
Purchase
Rights
(2)(4)
1,000,000 shares
(3)
$61.83
$61,830,000
$7,834
(1)
Estimated pursuant to Rules 457(c) and 457(h) under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the
registration fee on the basis of the average of the high and the low
reported sales prices of a share of Registrant's Common Stock on August 25, 2004, as reported by The New York Stock Exchange.
(2)
Each share of Common Stock issued, par value $0.50 (the "Common Stock"),
also represents one Preferred Stock Purchase Right. Preferred Stock
Purchase Rights currently cannot trade separately from the underlying
Common Stock and, therefore, do not carry a separate price or necessitate
an additional registration fee.
(3)
This Registration Statement also covers such additional shares as may be
issued pursuant to anti-dilution provisions.
(4)
Pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of interests to
be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan described herein.
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This Registration Statement registers additional securities of the same class
as other securities for which a registration statement filed on this form
relating to the same employee benefit plan is effective. Consequently,
pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents of the Registration
Statement on Form S-8 filed by Emerson Electric Co. and the Liebert Corporation
Profit Sharing Plan, Registration No. 033-34948, are incorporated by reference
into this Registration Statement. Any statement contained in a document
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated herein by reference shall be deemed
to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the
extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed
document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein
modifies or supersedes such statement.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I
Item 1. Plan Information.
Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.
PART II
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
Item 4. Description of Securities.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Item 8. Exhibits.
Item 9. Undertakings.
SIGNATURES
EXHIBIT INDEX
Opinion and Consent of Harley M. Smith, Esq.
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Power of Attorney
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
Item 1. Plan Information.
Information required by Part I of the Form S-8 to be contained in the
Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this registration statement in
accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
("Securities Act"), and the Note to the instructions to Part I of Form S-8.
Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.
Information required by Part I of the Form S-8 to be contained in the
Section 10(a) prospectus is omitted from this registration statement in
accordance with Rule 428 under the Securities Act, and the Note to the
instructions to Part I of Form S-8.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The following documents filed by Emerson Electric Co. (the "Registrant")
and by the Liebert Corporation Profit Sharing Plan (the "Plan") pursuant to the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "1934 Act") (File No. 001-00278) are
incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:
•
The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K which contains audited
financial statements for the year ended September 30, 2003;
•
The Registrant's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters
ended December 31, 2003, March 31, 2004 and June 30, 2004;
•
The description of Registrant's Common Stock, which is contained in
the Registration Statement on Form 10 as amended under cover of Form 8
filed on January 19, 1981;
•
The description of Registrant's Preferred Stock Purchase Rights
which is contained in the Registrant's 1934 Act Registration Statement
on Form 8-A filed on October 6, 1998; and
•
The Annual Report of the Liebert Corporation Profit Sharing Plan on
Form 11-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2003.
All documents subsequently filed by Registrant and by the Liebert
Corporation Profit Sharing Plan pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d)
of the 1934 Act, prior to filing a post-effective amendment which indicates
that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities
then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this
Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing such
documents. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated herein by reference shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement
contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or
is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such
statement.
Item 4. Description of Securities.
All Securities to be offered are registered under Section 12 of the 1934
Act.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Harley M. Smith, the Registrant's Assistant General Counsel, whose opinion
is contained in Exhibit 5, is paid a salary by the Registrant, owns shares of
the Registrant's Common Stock, holds options to purchase shares of such Common
Stock and participates in employee benefit plans of the Registrant.
Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
The Registrant is a Missouri Corporation. Section 351.355(1) of the
Revised Statutes of Missouri provides that a corporation may indemnify a
director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation in any threatened,
pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
administrative or investigative, other than an action by or in the right of the
corporation, against expenses, including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines and
settlement
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amounts actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with
such action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a manner he
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
corporation and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause
to believe his conduct was unlawful. Section 351.355(2) provides that the
corporation may indemnify any such person in any threatened, pending or
completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation against
expenses, including attorneys' fees and settlement amounts actually and
reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of the
action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed
to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, except that
he may not be indemnified in respect of any claim, issue or matter in which he
has been adjudged liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his
duty to the corporation, unless, and only to the extent, authorized by the
court.
Section 351.355(3) provides that a corporation shall indemnify any such
person against expenses, including attorneys' fees, actually and reasonably
incurred by him in connection with the action, suit or proceeding if he has
been successful in defense of such action, suit or proceeding and if such
action, suit or proceeding is one for which the corporation may indemnify him
under Section 351.355(1) or (2). Section 351.355(7) provides that a
corporation shall have the power to give any further indemnity to any such
person, in addition to the indemnity otherwise authorized under Section
351.355, provided such further indemnity is either (i) authorized, directed or
provided for in the articles of incorporation of the corporation or any duly
adopted amendment thereof or (ii) is authorized, directed or provided for in
any bylaw or agreement of the corporation which has been adopted by a vote of
the shareholders of the corporation, provided that no such indemnity shall
indemnify any person from or on account of such person's conduct which was
finally adjudged to have been knowingly fraudulent, deliberately dishonest or
willful misconduct.
At the Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on February 10, 1987, the
stockholders adopted indemnification agreements with the directors of the
Registrant and amendments to the bylaws of the Registrant which incorporate
indemnity provisions permitted by Section 351.355(7) described above. The
agreements and amended bylaws provide that the Registrant will indemnify its
directors and officers against all expenses (including attorneys' fees),
judgments, fines and settlement amounts, paid or incurred in any action or
proceeding, including any action by or on behalf of the Registrant, on account
of their service as a director or officer of the Registrant, any subsidiary of
the Registrant or any other company or enterprise when they are serving in such
capacities at the request of the Registrant, excepting only cases where (i) the
conduct of such person is adjudged to be knowingly fraudulent, deliberately
dishonest or willful misconduct, (ii) a final court adjudication shall
determine that such indemnification is not lawful, (iii) judgment is rendered
against such person for an accounting of profits made from a purchase or sale
of securities of the Registrant in violation of Section 16(b) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 or of any similar statutory law, or (iv) any remuneration
paid to such person is adjudicated to have been paid in violation of law. Such
person shall be indemnified only to the extent that the aggregate of losses to
be indemnified exceeds the amount of such losses for which the director or
officer is insured pursuant to any directors' or officers' liability insurance
policy maintained by the Registrant.
Article 10 of the Registrant's Articles of Incorporation provides that the
liability of the Registrant's directors to the Corporation or any of its
shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director
shall be eliminated to the fullest extent permitted under the Missouri General
and Business Corporation Law. Any repeal or modification of Article 10 by the
Registrant's shareholders shall not adversely affect any right or protection of
a director of the Registrant existing at the time of such repeal or
modification with respect to the acts or omissions occurring prior to such
repeal or modification.
The Registrant maintains directors' and officers' liability insurance.
Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits.
Reference is made to the Exhibit index. The Registrant hereby undertakes
that it will submit or has submitted the Liebert Corporation Profit Sharing
Plan and any amendments thereto to the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") in a
timely manner and has made or will make all changes required by the IRS as
necessary in order to qualify such plan under Section 401 of the Internal
Revenue Code.
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Item 9. Undertakings.
(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the
Securities Act of 1933;
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after
the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent
post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in
the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase
or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of
securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any
deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering
range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in
volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum
aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration
Fee" table in the effective registration statement;
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan
of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or
any material change to such information in the registration statement;
provided
,
however
, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply
if the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3, and the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the
Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the
registration statement.
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed
to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to
be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.
(b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit
plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall
be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers, and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer, or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit, or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer, or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and
will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
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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 the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri on
August 26,
2004.
EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.
By:
/s/ H.M. Smith
H.M. Smith, Esq.
Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated
on August 26, 2004.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ David N. Farr  *
(David N. Farr)
Chief Executive Officer and Director
August 26, 2004
/s/ Charles F. Knight *
(Charles F. Knight)
Chairman of the Board and Director
August 26, 2004
/s/ Walter J. Galvin *
(Walter J. Galvin)
Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer and Director
August 26, 2004
/s/ James G. Berges *
(James G. Berges)
President and Director
August 26, 2004
/s/ Richard J. Schlueter *
(Richard J. Schlueter)
Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
August 26, 2004
/s/ August A. Busch  *
(August A. Busch, III)
Director
August 26, 2004
/s/ David C. Farrell *
(David C. Farrell)
Director
August 26, 2004
/s/ Carlos Fernandez G. *
(Carlos Fernandez G.)
Director
August 26, 2004
/s/ Arthur F. Golden *
(Arthur F. Golden)
Director
August 26, 2004
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Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Robert B. Horton *
(Robert B. Horton)
Director
August 26, 2004
/s/ Gerald A. Lodge *
(Gerald A. Lodge)
Director
August 26, 2004
/s/ Vernon R. Loucks *
(Vernon R. Loucks)
Director
August 26, 2004
/s/ John B. Menzer  *
(John B. Menzer)
Director
August 26, 2004
/s/ Charles A. Peters  *
(Charles A. Peters)
Director
August 26, 2004
/s/ Joseph W. Prueher *
(Joseph W. Prueher)
Director
August 26, 2004
/s/ Rozanne L. Ridgway *
(Rozanne L. Ridgway)
Director
August 26, 2004
/s/ Edward E. Whitacre *
(Edward E. Whitacre)
Director
August 26, 2004
*By:
/s/ Harley M. Smith
August 26, 2004
Harley M. Smith, Attorney-In-Fact
Pursuant to Power of Attorney
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The Plan. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Plan
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of
Missouri, on August 26, 2004.
LIEBERT CORPORATION PROFIT SHARING PLAN
By:
/s/   Ken
W. Rolls
Ken W. Rolls
Plan Administrator
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number
Description
4.1
Restated Articles of Incorporation of Emerson Electric Co. (incorporated
by reference to Registrant's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31,
2001, Exhibit 3(a)).
4.2
Bylaws of Emerson Electric Co., as amended through November 6, 2001
(incorporated by reference to Registrant's 2001 Form 10-K, Exhibit 3(b)).
4.3
Certificate of Designation, Preferences and Rights of Series B Junior
Participating Preferred Stock (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit
3(a)(ii) of Registrant's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30,
1998).
4.4
Rights Agreement dated as of November 1, 1998, between Emerson Electric
Co. and ChaseMellon Shareholder Services, L.L.C. (now Mellon Investor
Services LLC) (incorporated by reference to Registrant's Form 8-A, dated
October 6, 1998, Exhibit 1).
5
Opinion of Harley M. Smith, Esq.
23.1
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
23.2
Consent of Harley M. Smith, Esq. (contained in Exhibit 5)
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Power of Attorney