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        <div style="text-align: center;">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 5, 2020</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 14pt;">UNITED STATES</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 14pt;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</div>
      <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;">WASHINGTON, DC 20549</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;">FORM S-8</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center;">REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>
      <div style="text-align: center;">UNDER</div>
      <div style="text-align: center;">THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold;"><u>JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC.</u></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">Wisconsin</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">39-1536083</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">(State or other jurisdiction of Incorporation or organization)</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">555 Main Street</div>
              <div style="text-align: center;">Racine, Wisconsin</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">53403</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">(Address of principal executive offices)</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">(Zip Code)</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><u>JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC. 2020 LONG-TERM STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN</u></div>
      <div style="text-align: center;">(Full title of the plan)</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">Helen P. Johnson-Leipold</div>
              <div style="text-align: center;">Chairman and Chief Executive Officer</div>
              <div style="text-align: center;">Johnson Outdoors Inc.</div>
              <div style="text-align: center;">555 Main Street</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">Copy to:</div>
              <div>&#160;</div>
              <div style="text-align: center;">Eric P. Hagemeier, Esq.</div>
              <div style="text-align: center;">Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">Racine, Wisconsin 53403</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">1000 North Water Street</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">(Name and address of agent for service)</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">Suite 1700</div>
              <div style="text-align: center;">Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">262-631-6600</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">414-298-1000</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">(Telephone number, including area code of agent for service)</div>
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      <div>Indicate by check mark whether the restraint is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company.&#160; See the definitions of &#8220;large accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;accelerated
        filer,&#8221; &#8220;smaller reporting company,&#8221; and &#8220;emerging growth company&#8221;&#160; in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.</div>
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              <div>Large accelerated filer&#160; &#9744;</div>
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              <div>Accelerated filer &#9746;</div>
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              <div>Non-accelerated filer&#160;&#160; (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) &#9744;</div>
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              <div>Smaller reporting company &#9744;</div>
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              <div>Emerging growth company &#9744;</div>
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      <div>If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the
        Securities Act.&#160; &#9744;</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center;">CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</div>
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              <div style="text-indent: -9pt; margin-left: 9pt;">Title of Securities</div>
              <div style="text-indent: -9pt; margin-left: 9pt;">to be Registered</div>
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              <div>Amount to be </div>
              <div>Registered</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">Proposed maximum </div>
              <div style="text-align: center;">offering price</div>
              <div style="text-align: center;">per share</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">Proposed maximum </div>
              <div style="text-align: center;">aggregate offering</div>
              <div style="text-align: center;"> price</div>
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            <td valign="bottom" colspan="1" style="vertical-align: bottom; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 1%; border-top: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">&#160;</td>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">Amount of </div>
              <div style="text-align: center;">Registration</div>
              <div style="text-align: center;"> fee</div>
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              <div style="text-indent: -9pt; margin-left: 9pt;">Class A Common Stock, $0.05 par value per share</div>
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              <div style="text-align: center;">500,000 shares (1)</div>
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              <div>$</div>
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              <div>66.725</div>
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              <div>(2)</div>
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              <div>$</div>
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              <div>33,362,500</div>
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              <div>(2)</div>
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              <div>$</div>
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              <div>4,330.45</div>
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              <div>(2)</div>
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              <div>Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;Securities Act&#8221;), this Registration Statement also covers any additional shares of Class A Common Stock which become issuable under the Johnson Outdoors Inc. 2020
                Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan (the &#8220;Plan&#8221;) by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or any similar transaction effected without the receipt of any consideration by Johnson Outdoors Inc. (the &#8220;Registrant&#8221;) which
                results in an increase in the number of the outstanding shares of the Registrant&#8217;s Class A Common Stock.</div>
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            <td style="width: 45pt; vertical-align: top;">(2)</td>
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              <div>For the purpose of computing the registration fee, the Registrant has used $66.725 as the average of the high and low prices of the Class A Common Stock as reported on April 30, 2020 on the NASDAQ Global Select Market<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller;"> SM</sup> for
                the offering price per share, in accordance with Rules 457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act.&#160; The actual offering price will be determined in accordance with the terms of the Plan.</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center;">PART II - INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE</div>
      <div style="text-align: center;">REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>
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              <td style="width: 36pt; vertical-align: top;">Item 3.</td>
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                <div><u>Incorporation of Documents by Reference</u>.</div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 36pt;"> <br>
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      <div style="text-indent: 36pt;">The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#8220;Commission&#8221;) pursuant to section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#8220;Exchange Act&#8221;),
        are incorporated herein by reference:</div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 36pt;">(a)&#160;&#160; <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788329/000114036119022062/form10k.htm">The Registrant&#8217;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 27, 2019</a>.</div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 36pt;">(b)&#160;&#160; <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788329/000114036120001962/form10q.htm">All other reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal
          year covered by the Annual Report on Form 10&#8209;K referred to in paragraph (a) above.</a></div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 36pt;">(c)&#160;&#160; <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788329/000114036119022062/ex4_1.htm">The description of the Registrant&#8217;s Class A Common Stock contained in the registration statement filed pursuant to section 12
          of the Exchange Act and all amendments thereto or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.</a></div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 36pt;">All reports and other documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of 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 herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.</div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 36pt;">Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes hereof to the extent that a statement contained in any other
        subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.&#160; Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a
        part hereof.</div>
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                <div style="text-align: left;">Item 4.</div>
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                <div style="text-align: left;"><u>Description of Securities</u>.</div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 36pt;">Not applicable.</div>
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            <td style="width: 36pt; vertical-align: top;">Item 5.</td>
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              <div><u>Interests of Named Experts and Counsel</u>.</div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 36pt;">Not applicable.</div>
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            <td style="width: 36pt; vertical-align: top;">Item 6.</td>
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              <div><u>Indemnification of Directors and Officers</u>.</div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 36pt;">The Registrant&#8217;s directors and officers are entitled to certain statutory rights to be indemnified by the Registrant against certain liabilities and expenses, provided the director or officer is either successful in
        the defense of such litigation or is otherwise determined not to have engaged in willful misconduct, knowingly violated a criminal law, failed to deal fairly with the Registrant or its shareholders in connection with a matter in which the director
        or officer had a material conflict of interest or derived an improper personal benefit in the performance of his or her duties to the Registrant.</div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 36pt;">Article Ten of the Registrant&#8217;s Amended and Restated By&#8209;Laws also contains provisions entitling directors and officers of the Registrant to indemnification against certain liabilities and expenses.&#160; The Registrant&#8217;s
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            <td style="width: 36pt; vertical-align: top;">Item 8.</td>
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              <div style="color: #000000;">Articles of Incorporation of the Company as amended through February 17, 2000. (Filed as Exhibit 3.1(a) to the Company&#8217;s Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2000 and incorporated herein by reference.)</div>
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            <td style="width: 6%; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
              <div><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788329/000104216710000260/ex32jout201010k.htm">4.2</a></div>
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            <td style="width: 94%; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
              <div style="color: #000000;">Bylaws of the Company as amended and restated through December 6, 2010. (Filed as Exhibit 3.2 to the Company&#8217;s Form 10-K for the year ended October 1, 2010 and incorporated herein by reference.)</div>
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            <td style="width: 6%; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);">
              <div><a href="ex5_1.htm">5.1</a></div>
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            <td style="width: 94%; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);">
              <div>Opinion of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. as to the legality of the Class A Common Stock being registered.</div>
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            <td style="width: 6%; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
              <div><a href="ex23_1.htm">23.1</a></div>
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            <td style="width: 94%; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
              <div>Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.</div>
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            <td style="width: 6%; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);">
              <div><a href="ex5_1.htm">23.2</a></div>
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            <td style="width: 94%; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);">
              <div>Consent of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. (included in its opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1 hereto).</div>
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              <div><a href="#POWEROFATTORNEY">24</a></div>
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              <div><a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/788329/000114036120000601/nc10005440x1_def14a.htm#tAPPA">99.1</a></div>
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              <div>Johnson Outdoors Inc. 2020 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan <font style="color: #000000;">(Filed as Appendix A to the Company&#8217;s </font>Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 10, 2020
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            <td style="width: 6%; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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              <div><font style="color: #000000;">Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (Performance Based) under the Johnson Outdoors Inc. </font>2020 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan.</div>
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            <td style="width: 6%; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);">
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            <td style="width: 94%; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(204, 238, 255);">
              <div><font style="color: #000000;">Form of Restricted Stock Agreement under the Johnson Outdoors Inc. </font>2020 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan.</div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 36pt;">1.&#160;&#160; The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes as follows:</div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 108pt;">(i)&#160;&#160; To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.</div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 108pt;">(ii)&#160;&#160; To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent post&#8209;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 Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act
        of 1933, as amended, if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the &#8220;Calculation of Registration Fee&#8221; table in the Registration Statement.</div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 72pt;">(b)&#160;&#160; That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, each such post&#8209;effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
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      <div style="text-indent: 36pt;">2.&#160;&#160; The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, each filing of the Registrant&#8217;s annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or
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        provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and is, therefore, unenforceable.&#160; In the event
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        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 Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.</div>
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      <div style="text-indent: 36pt;">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 for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
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        substitution and resubstitution for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all
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        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 either said attorney-in-fact and agent or his or her substitute may lawfully do
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 5, 2020
Registration No. 333-________
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Wisconsin
39-1536083
(State or other jurisdiction of Incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
555 Main Street
Racine, Wisconsin
53403
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)
JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC. 2020 LONG-TERM STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
(Full title of the plan)
Helen P. Johnson-Leipold
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Johnson Outdoors Inc.
555 Main Street
Copy to:
Eric P. Hagemeier, Esq.
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.
Racine, Wisconsin 53403
1000 North Water Street
(Name and address of agent for service)
Suite 1700
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
262-631-6600
414-298-1000
(Telephone number, including area code of agent for service)
Indicate by check mark whether the restraint is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company.  See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated
        filer," "smaller reporting company," and "emerging growth company"  in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer  ☐
Accelerated filer ☒
Non-accelerated filer   (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) ☐
Smaller reporting company ☐
Emerging growth company ☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the
        Securities Act.  ☐
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Securities
to be Registered
Amount to be
Registered
Proposed maximum
offering price
per share
Proposed maximum
aggregate offering
price
Amount of
Registration
fee
Class A Common Stock, $0.05 par value per share
500,000 shares (1)
$
66.725
(2)
$
33,362,500
(2)
$
4,330.45
(2)
(1)
Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), this Registration Statement also covers any additional shares of Class A Common Stock which become issuable under the Johnson Outdoors Inc. 2020
                Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan (the "Plan") by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or any similar transaction effected without the receipt of any consideration by Johnson Outdoors Inc. (the "Registrant") which
                results in an increase in the number of the outstanding shares of the Registrant's Class A Common Stock.
(2)
For the purpose of computing the registration fee, the Registrant has used $66.725 as the average of the high and low prices of the Class A Common Stock as reported on April 30, 2020 on the NASDAQ Global Select Market
SM
for
                the offering price per share, in accordance with Rules 457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act.  The actual offering price will be determined in accordance with the terms of the Plan.
PART II - INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3.
Incorporation of Documents by Reference
.
The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") pursuant to section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"),
        are incorporated herein by reference:
(a)
The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 27, 2019
.
(b)
All other reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal
          year covered by the Annual Report on Form 10‑K referred to in paragraph (a) above.
(c)
The description of the Registrant's Class A Common Stock contained in the registration statement filed pursuant to section 12
          of the Exchange Act and all amendments thereto or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.
All reports and other documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of 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 herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.
Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes hereof to the extent that a statement contained in any other
        subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.  Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a
        part hereof.
Item 4.
Description of Securities
.
Not applicable.
Item 5.
Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
.
Not applicable.
Item 6.
Indemnification of Directors and Officers
.
The Registrant's directors and officers are entitled to certain statutory rights to be indemnified by the Registrant against certain liabilities and expenses, provided the director or officer is either successful in
        the defense of such litigation or is otherwise determined not to have engaged in willful misconduct, knowingly violated a criminal law, failed to deal fairly with the Registrant or its shareholders in connection with a matter in which the director
        or officer had a material conflict of interest or derived an improper personal benefit in the performance of his or her duties to the Registrant.
Article Ten of the Registrant's Amended and Restated By‑Laws also contains provisions entitling directors and officers of the Registrant to indemnification against certain liabilities and expenses.  The Registrant's
        Amended and Restated By‑Laws are incorporated herein by reference in Exhibit 4.4.
Directors and officers of the Registrant are covered by directors' and officers' liability insurance under which they are insured (subject to certain exceptions and limitations specified in the policy) against expenses
        and liabilities arising out of proceedings to which they are parties by reason of being or having been directors or officers.
Item 7.
Exemption from Registration Claimed
.
Not applicable.
Item 8.
Exhibits
.
4.1
Articles of Incorporation of the Company as amended through February 17, 2000. (Filed as Exhibit 3.1(a) to the Company's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2000 and incorporated herein by reference.)
4.2
Bylaws of the Company as amended and restated through December 6, 2010. (Filed as Exhibit 3.2 to the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended October 1, 2010 and incorporated herein by reference.)
5.1
Opinion of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. as to the legality of the Class A Common Stock being registered.
23.1
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2
Consent of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. (included in its opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1 hereto).
24
Power of Attorney (included on the signature page hereto).
99.1
Johnson Outdoors Inc. 2020 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan
(Filed as Appendix A to the Company's
Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 10, 2020
                and incorporated herein by reference
.)
99.2
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (Performance Based) under the Johnson Outdoors Inc.
2020 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan.
99.3
Form of Restricted Stock Agreement under the Johnson Outdoors Inc.
2020 Long-Term Stock Incentive Plan.
Item 9.
Undertakings
.
1.   The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes as follows:
(a)   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, as amended.
(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 Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act
        of 1933, as amended, if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the 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 (1)(a)(i) and (1)(a)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post‑effective amendment by those paragraphs is
        contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.
(b)   That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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.
(c)   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.
2.   The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or
        section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) 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.
3.   Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 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 Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
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 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 City of Racine, State of Wisconsin, on May 5, 2020.
JOHNSON OUTDOORS INC.
BY
/s/ Helen P. Johnson-Leipold
Helen P. Johnson-Leipold, Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Helen P. Johnson-Leipold and David W. Johnson, and each of them individually, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
        substitution and resubstitution for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and 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 and
        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 either said attorney-in-fact and agent or his or her substitute may lawfully do
        or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Helen P. Johnson-Leipold
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive
May 5, 2020
Helen P. Johnson-Leipold
Officer and Director (Principal
Executive Officer)
/s/ David W. Johnson
Vice President and Chief Financial
May 5, 2020
David W. Johnson
Officer (Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer)
/s/ Thomas F. Pyle, Jr.
Vice Chairman of the Board and Director
December 5, 2019
Thomas F. Pyle, Jr.
/s/ Terry E. London
Director
December 5, 2019
Terry E. London
/s/ John M. Fahey, Jr.
Director
December 5, 2019
John M. Fahey, Jr.
/s/ Edward F. Lang, III
Director
December 5, 2019
Edward F. Lang, III
/s/ Katherine Button Bell
Director
December 5, 2019
Katherine Button Bell
/s/ Richard Sheahan
Director
December 5, 2019
Richard ("Casey") Sheahan
/s/ Edward Stevens
Director
December 5, 2019
Edward Stevens
/s/ William D. Perez
Director
December 5, 2019
William D. Perez