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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May&nbsp;12, 2005



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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: 10pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B></DIV>



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<P align="center" style="font-size: 24pt"><B>NASH-FINCH COMPANY</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"><B>Delaware</B><BR>
(State or other jurisdiction of<BR>
incorporation or organization)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>41-0431960</B><BR>
(I.R.S. Employer<BR>
Identification No.)</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>7600 France Avenue South<BR>
Minneapolis, Minnesota</B><BR>
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>55435</B><BR>
(Zip Code)</TD>
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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>NASH-FINCH COMPANY 2000 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN</B>



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Full title of the plan)



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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Kathleen McDermott</B></DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel</B></DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Nash Finch Company</B></DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>7600 France Avenue South</B></DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Minneapolis, MN 55435</B></DIV>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>(952)&nbsp;832-0534</B></DIV>


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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:<BR>
Immediately upon the filing of this Registration Statement</B>



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


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    <TD nowrap align="center"><B>registered (1)</B></TD>
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                    <TD valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Common Stock, par
value $1.66-2/3 per
share
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    <TD align="right" valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">1,004,000</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">(3)</TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">35.55</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">(4)</TD>
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<TD align="right" valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">35,692,200</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">(4)</TD>
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    <TD nowrap valign="top" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">(3)</TD>
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    <TD width="3%" nowrap align="left">(1)&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>This Registration Statement also includes common stock purchase rights, which are attached to
all shares of Common Stock issued, pursuant to the terms of the Registrant&#146;s Stockholder
Rights Agreement.</TD>
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    <TD width="3%" nowrap align="left">(2)&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration
Statement includes an indeterminate number of additional shares as may be issuable as a result
of anti-dilution provisions described in the above-referenced plan.</TD>
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    <TD width="3%" nowrap align="left">(3)&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Of the 1,004,000 shares being registered, 1,000,000 are additional shares approved for
issuance under the 2000 Stock Incentive Plan, and 4,000 shares have been carried forward into
the 2000 Stock Incentive Plan from the Nash-Finch Company 1994 Stock Incentive Plan. The
shares carried forward were previously registered on Form S-8 Registration Statement No.
33-54487 and the registration fee paid in connection therewith ($23) is carried forward and
applied to this registration.</TD>
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    <TD width="3%" nowrap align="left">(4)&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>The offering price has been estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the
registration fee and calculated pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act based on the
average between the high and low sales prices of the Registrant&#146;s Common Stock on May&nbsp;10, 2005
as quoted on the Nasdaq National Market System.</TD>
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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>PART II</B>



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



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>EXPLANATORY NOTE </U>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this Registration Statement is filed to
register an additional 1,004,000 shares of common stock, par value $1.66-2/3 per share, of
Nash-Finch Company (&#147;Nash Finch&#148;) issuable under the Nash Finch 2000 Stock Incentive Plan (the
&#147;2000 Plan&#148;). Of these shares, 1,000,000 represent an increase approved by the Board of Directors
and stockholders of Nash Finch in the number of shares reserved for issuance under the 2000 Plan
(to a total of 2,100,000 shares), and 4,000 represent shares that were reserved for issuance in
connection with incentive awards made under the Nash Finch 1994 Stock Incentive Plan, were not used
in connection with such awards, and became available for future issuance under the 2000 Plan
pursuant to the terms of that Plan. The aggregate amount of such shares carried forward into the
2000 Plan from the 1994 Stock Incentive Plan is 484,377, of which all but the 4,000 shares
currently being registered were previously registered in connection with the 2000 Plan.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to General Instruction E, the contents of Nash Finch&#146;s Registration Statements on
Form S-8, File Nos. 333-51508 and 333-110098, including periodic reports that Nash Finch filed, or
will file, after the filing of such Registration Statements to maintain current information about
Nash Finch, are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement.

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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Nash-Finch Company 2000 Stock Incentive Plan (as amended February&nbsp;22, 2005).</TD>
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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 of 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 City of Minneapolis, State of Minnesota, on May&nbsp;10, 2005.


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    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ Ron Marshall
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    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Ron Marshall&nbsp;</TD>
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Ron Marshall and
Kathleen McDermott, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with
full powers of substitution, for and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all
capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this
Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes
as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorney-in-fact and agent or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue thereof.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has
been signed effective May&nbsp;10, 2005 by the following persons in the capacities indicated.

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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Ron Marshall
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ LeAnne M. Stewart</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Ron Marshall
Chief Executive Officer<BR>
(Principal Executive Officer) and Director
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">LeAnne M. Stewart<BR>
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer<BR>
(Principal Financial Officer)</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Mark A. Sorensen
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<TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Mark
A. Sorensen<BR>
Vice President and Corporate Controller<BR>
(Principal Accounting Officer)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">John H. Grunewald, Director</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Carole F. Bitter
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ Laura Stein</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Carole F. Bitter, Director
</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Laura Stein, Director</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Richard A. Fisher
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ William R. Voss</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">William R. Voss, Director</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ Jerry L. Ford
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">/s/ William H. Weintraub</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 1px">
    <TD valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Jerry L. Ford, Director
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">William H. Weintraub, Director</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Opinion of John Haveman.
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Filed herewith electronically.</TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">10.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Nash-Finch Company 2000
Stock incentive Plan (as
amended February&nbsp;22, 2005)
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Filed herewith electronically.</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Ernst &#038; Young LLP.
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Filed herewith electronically.</TD>
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</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of John Haveman.
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Included in Exhibit&nbsp;5.1.</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 12, 2005
Registration No. 333-_____
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
NASH-FINCH COMPANY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
41-0431960
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
7600 France Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
55435
(Zip Code)
NASH-FINCH COMPANY 2000 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
(Full title of the plan)
Kathleen McDermott
Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel
Nash Finch Company
7600 France Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55435
(952) 832-0534
(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:
Immediately upon the filing of this Registration Statement
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of securities to be
Amount to be
Proposed maximum
Proposed maximum
Amount of
registered (1)
registered (2)
offering price per unit
aggregate offering price
registration fee
Common Stock, par
value $1.66-2/3 per
share
1,004,000
(3)
$
35.55
(4)
$
35,692,200
(4)
$
4,201
(3)
(1)
This Registration Statement also includes common stock purchase rights, which are attached to
all shares of Common Stock issued, pursuant to the terms of the Registrant's Stockholder
Rights Agreement.
(2)
In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration
Statement includes an indeterminate number of additional shares as may be issuable as a result
of anti-dilution provisions described in the above-referenced plan.
(3)
Of the 1,004,000 shares being registered, 1,000,000 are additional shares approved for
issuance under the 2000 Stock Incentive Plan, and 4,000 shares have been carried forward into
the 2000 Stock Incentive Plan from the Nash-Finch Company 1994 Stock Incentive Plan. The
shares carried forward were previously registered on Form S-8 Registration Statement No.
33-54487 and the registration fee paid in connection therewith ($23) is carried forward and
applied to this registration.
(4)
The offering price has been estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the
registration fee and calculated pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act based on the
average between the high and low sales prices of the Registrant's Common Stock on May 10, 2005
as quoted on the Nasdaq National Market System.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART II
Item 8. Exhibits
SIGNATURES
INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Opinion and Consent of John Haveman
2000 Stock Incentive Plan
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED
IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, this Registration Statement is filed to
register an additional 1,004,000 shares of common stock, par value $1.66-2/3 per share, of
Nash-Finch Company ("Nash Finch") issuable under the Nash Finch 2000 Stock Incentive Plan (the
"2000 Plan"). Of these shares, 1,000,000 represent an increase approved by the Board of Directors
and stockholders of Nash Finch in the number of shares reserved for issuance under the 2000 Plan
(to a total of 2,100,000 shares), and 4,000 represent shares that were reserved for issuance in
connection with incentive awards made under the Nash Finch 1994 Stock Incentive Plan, were not used
in connection with such awards, and became available for future issuance under the 2000 Plan
pursuant to the terms of that Plan. The aggregate amount of such shares carried forward into the
2000 Plan from the 1994 Stock Incentive Plan is 484,377, of which all but the 4,000 shares
currently being registered were previously registered in connection with the 2000 Plan.
Pursuant to General Instruction E, the contents of Nash Finch's Registration Statements on
Form S-8, File Nos. 333-51508 and 333-110098, including periodic reports that Nash Finch filed, or
will file, after the filing of such Registration Statements to maintain current information about
Nash Finch, are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement.
Item 8. Exhibits.
Exhibit
No.
Description
5.1
Opinion and Consent of John Haveman.
10.1
Nash-Finch Company 2000 Stock Incentive Plan (as amended February 22, 2005).
23.1
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.
23.3
Consent of John Haveman (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to this Registration Statement).
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SIGNATURES
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 of 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 City of Minneapolis, State of Minnesota, on May 10, 2005.
NASH-FINCH COMPANY
By:
/s/ Ron Marshall
Ron Marshall
Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Ron Marshall and
Kathleen McDermott, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with
full powers of substitution, for and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all
capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this
Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes
as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorney-in-fact and agent or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue thereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has
been signed effective May 10, 2005 by the following persons in the capacities indicated.
/s/ Ron Marshall
/s/ LeAnne M. Stewart
Ron Marshall
Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer) and Director
LeAnne M. Stewart
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
/s/ Mark A. Sorensen
/s/ Allister P. Graham
Mark
A. Sorensen
Vice President and Corporate Controller
(Principal Accounting Officer)
Allister P. Graham, Chairman
/s/ John H. Grunewald
John H. Grunewald, Director
/s/ Carole F. Bitter
/s/ Laura Stein
Carole F. Bitter, Director
Laura Stein, Director
/s/ Richard A. Fisher
/s/ William R. Voss
Richard A. Fisher, Director
William R. Voss, Director
/s/ Jerry L. Ford
/s/ William H. Weintraub
Jerry L. Ford, Director
William H. Weintraub, Director
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
No.
Item
Method of Filing
5.1
Opinion of John Haveman.
Filed herewith electronically.
10.1
Nash-Finch Company 2000
Stock incentive Plan (as
amended February 22, 2005)
Filed herewith electronically.
23.1
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.
Filed herewith electronically.
23.3
Consent of John Haveman.
Included in Exhibit 5.1.
24.1
Power of Attorney.
Included on the signature page
to this Registration Statement.