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    <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Registration No.
333-____&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></div>
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STATES</font></div>
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AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div>
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D.C. 20549</font></div>
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S-8</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">REGISTRATION
STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</font></div>
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      COMPANY</font></div>
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      name of registrant as specified in its
charter)</font></div>
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      incorporation)</font></div>
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              <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;Tennant
      Company</font></div>
              <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><font size="2" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Profit Sharing and Employee Stock Ownership Plan, as
      Amended</font></div>
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              <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><font style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">Heidi
      M. Hoard</font></div>
              <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><font size="2" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary</font></div>
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              <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><font size="2" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">701
      North Lilac Drive</font></div>
              <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><font size="2" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">P.O. Box 1452</font></div>
              <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><font size="2" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Minneapolis, MN 55440</font></div>
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by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See
definition of &#8220;large accelerated filer,&#8221; &#8220;accelerated filer&#8221; and &#8220;smaller
reporting company&#8221; in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.</font></div>
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FEE</font></div>
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                <div align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">In
      addition, 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.</font></div>
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                <div align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Estimated
      solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to
      Rules 457(c) and (h)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, based on the
      average of the high and low sale prices per share of the registrant&#8217;s
      Common Stock on March&#160;2,&#160;&#160;2009, as reported on the New York
      Stock Exchange.</font></div>
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I</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">PART
I-INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font id="TAB1" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt"></font>The documents containing the
information specified in Part I of Form S-8 have been or will be sent or given
to participants as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities
Act.</font></div>
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II</font></div>
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REQUIRED IN THE</font></div>
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STATEMENT</font></div>
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3.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Incorporation
of Documents by Reference.</font></div>
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filed (File No. 1-16191) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
&#8220;Commission&#8221;) pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the &#8220;Exchange
Act&#8221;) are, as of their respective dates, incorporated by reference in this
registration statement:</font></div>
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Annual Report on Form 10-K of Tennant Company (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) for the fiscal
year ended December&#160;31, 2007 (which incorporates by reference certain
portions of the Company&#8217;s&#160;&#160;definitive proxy statement for the
Company&#8217;s 2008 Annual Meeting of Shareholders);</font></div>
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other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since
the end of the fiscal year covered by the Annual Report referred to in (a)
above; and</font></div>
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Annual Report on Form 11-K for the Tennant Company Profit Sharing and Employee
Stock Ownership Plan as amended, as filed with the Commission on June 27,
2008.</font></div>
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description of the Company&#8217;s common stock contained in a registration statement
filed pursuant to the Exchange Act, together with any amendments or reports
filed for the purpose of updating that description.</font></div>
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Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act
after the date of this registration statement and before the filing of a
post-effective amendment that indicates that all shares of common stock offered
have been sold, or that deregisters all shares of common stock then remaining
unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in, and to be a part of,
this registration statement from the date of filing of those
documents.</font></div>
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incorporated, or deemed to be incorporated, by reference herein shall be deemed
to be modified or superseded for purposes of this registration statement to the
extent that a statement contained herein or incorporated herein by reference or
in any other subsequently filed document that is or is deemed to be incorporated
by reference herein modifies or supersedes that statement.&#160;&#160;Any
statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified
or superseded, to constitute a part of this registration statement.</font></div>
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Counsel and Secretary of the Company, beneficially owns shares of the Company&#8217;s
common stock having a fair market value of approximately $59,501.82 as
of&#160;&#160;March 2, 2009.</font></div>
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of Directors and Officers.</font></div>
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By-Laws provides that the Company shall indemnify its directors and officers to
the full extent required by Minnesota Statutes, Section 302A.521, or by other
provisions of law.&#160;&#160;Section 302A.521 requires the Company to indemnify
a person made or threatened to be made a party to a proceeding by reason of the
former or present official capacity of the person with respect to the Company
against judgments, penalties, fines (including, without limitation, excise taxes
assessed against the person with respect to an employee benefit plan),
settlements, and reasonable expenses, including attorneys&#8217; fees and
disbursements, incurred by the person in connection with the proceeding, if
certain criteria are met.&#160;&#160;These criteria, all of which must be met by
the person seeking indemnification, are:</font></div>
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person has not been indemnified by another organization for the same judgments,
penalties, fines, settlements, and expenses;</font></div>
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person must have acted in good faith;</font></div>
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improper personal benefit was obtained by the person and, if applicable, certain
statutory conflict-of-interest provisions have been satisfied;</font></div>
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the case of a criminal proceeding, the person had no reasonable cause to believe
that the conduct was unlawful; and</font></div>
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person acted in a manner he or she reasonably believed was in the best interests
of the corporation or, in certain limited circumstances, not opposed to the best
interests of the corporation.</font></div>
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indemnification is made by the members of the Company&#8217;s board of directors, or a
committee thereof, who are at the time not parties to the proceedings under
consideration, by special legal counsel, by the shareholders who are not parties
to the proceedings or by a court.</font></div>
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Articles of Incorporation provides that no director shall be personally liable
to the Company or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary
duty as director, except:</font></div>
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breach of the director&#8217;s duty of loyalty to the Company or its
shareholders;</font></div>
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or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law;</font></div>
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stock repurchases and other distributions made in violation of Minnesota law or
for violations of the Minnesota securities laws;</font></div>
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transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit;
or</font></div>
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act or omission occurring before the effective date of the provision in the
Company&#8217;s Restated Articles of Incorporation limiting such
liability.</font></div>
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availability of equitable remedies, such as an action to enjoin or rescind a
transaction involving a breach of fiduciary duty, although, as a practical
matter, equitable relief may not be available.&#160;&#160;Nor does this Article
limit the liability of directors for violations of, or relieve them from the
necessity of complying with, federal securities laws.</font></div>
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from Registration Claimed.</font></div>
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              <div align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Pursuant
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      Revenue Service (&#8220;IRS&#8221;) for a determination letter that the Plan is
      qualified under Section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and will
      submit any amendments thereto to the IRS in a timely manner and will make
      all changes required by the IRS in order to qualify the
    Plan.</font></div>
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Exhibit&#160;5).</font></div>
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      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
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      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&#160;424(b)
      if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more
      than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth
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      change to such information in the registration
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paragraphs&#160;(A)(1)(i) and (A)(1)(ii) do not apply if the registration
statement is on Form&#160;S-8 and the information required to be included in a
post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with
or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission by the registrant
pursuant to Section&#160;13 or Section&#160;15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration
statement.</font></div>
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      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
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      securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
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registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability
under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant&#8217;s annual report
pursuant to Section&#160;13(a) or Section&#160;15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan&#8217;s
annual report pursuant to Section&#160;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
herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic">bona fide</font>
offering thereof.</font></div>
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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 Company has been advised
that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of
1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable.&#160;&#160;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 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
issue.</font></div>
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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 Minneapolis, State of
Minnesota, on March 5,&#160;&#160;2009.</font></div>
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Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the
following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.</font></div>
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to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"><br></div>
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          <tr>
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            </td>
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          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td valign="top" width="8%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
      </font></td>
            <td valign="top" width="49%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
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            <td valign="top" width="23%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
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              <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">Incorporated
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            </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td valign="top" width="8%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
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            <td valign="top" width="49%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
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            <td valign="top" width="23%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
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          </tr>
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          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td valign="top" width="8%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
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            <td valign="top" width="49%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
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            <td valign="top" width="23%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
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          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td valign="top" width="8%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
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            <td valign="top" width="49%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
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            <td valign="top" width="23%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
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            <td valign="top" width="8%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
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            <td valign="top" width="49%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
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form_s8.htm
Registration No.
333-____
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
_____________
FORM
S-8
REGISTRATION
STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
TENNANT
      COMPANY
(Exact
      name of registrant as specified in its
charter)
Minnesota
41-0572550
(State
      or other jurisdiction
of
      incorporation)
(IRS
      Employer
Identification
      No.)
701
      North Lilac Drive
P.O.
      Box 1452
Minneapolis,
      Minnesota
55440
(Address
      of principal executive offices)
(Zip
      Code)
Tennant
      Company
Profit Sharing and Employee Stock Ownership Plan, as
      Amended
(Full title of
      the plan)
Heidi
      M. Hoard
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Tennant Company
701
      North Lilac Drive
P.O. Box 1452
Minneapolis, MN 55440
(Name and
      address of agent for service)
(763)
      540-1200
(Telephone
      number, including area code, of agent for
  service)
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See
definition of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller
reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large
      accelerated filer
Accelerated
      filer
ü
Non-accelerated
      filer
(Do
      not check if a smaller reporting company)
Smaller
      reporting company
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION
FEE
Title of
      Securities to be Registered
Amount to be
      Registered (1)
Proposed
      Maximum Offering Price Per Share (2)
Proposed
      Maximum Aggregate Offering Price (2)
Amount of
      Registration Fee
Common Stock,
      par value $.375 per share
750,000
      shares
$9.43
$7,072,500
$277.95
(1)
In
      addition, 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.
(2)
Estimated
      solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to
      Rules 457(c) and (h)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, based on the
      average of the high and low sale prices per share of the registrant's
      Common Stock on March 2,  2009, as reported on the New York
      Stock Exchange.
PART
I
PART
I-INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS
The documents containing the
information specified in Part I of Form S-8 have been or will be sent or given
to participants as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities
Act.
PART
II
INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE
REGISTRATION
STATEMENT
Item
3.                      Incorporation
of Documents by Reference.
The following documents previously
filed (File No. 1-16191) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange
Act") are, as of their respective dates, incorporated by reference in this
registration statement:
(a)           The
Annual Report on Form 10-K of Tennant Company (the "Company") for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2007 (which incorporates by reference certain
portions of the Company's  definitive proxy statement for the
Company's 2008 Annual Meeting of Shareholders);
(b)           All
other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act since
the end of the fiscal year covered by the Annual Report referred to in (a)
above; and
(c)           The
Annual Report on Form 11-K for the Tennant Company Profit Sharing and Employee
Stock Ownership Plan as amended, as filed with the Commission on June 27,
2008.
(d)           The
description of the Company's common stock contained in a registration statement
filed pursuant to the Exchange Act, together with any amendments or reports
filed for the purpose of updating that description.
In addition, all documents filed by the
Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act
after the date of this registration statement and before the filing of a
post-effective amendment that indicates that all shares of common stock offered
have been sold, or that deregisters all shares of common stock then remaining
unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in, and to be a part of,
this registration statement from the date of filing of those
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 of this registration statement to the
extent that a statement contained herein or incorporated herein by reference or
in any other subsequently filed document that is or is deemed to be incorporated
by reference herein modifies or supersedes that statement.  Any
statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified
or superseded, to constitute a part of this registration statement.
Item
4.                      Description
of Securities.
Not Applicable.
Item
5.                      Interests
of Named Experts and Counsel.
Heidi M. Hoard, Vice President, General
Counsel and Secretary of the Company, beneficially owns shares of the Company's
common stock having a fair market value of approximately $59,501.82 as
of  March 2, 2009.
1
Item
6.                      Indemnification
of Directors and Officers.
Article VI of the Company's Restated
By-Laws provides that the Company shall indemnify its directors and officers to
the full extent required by Minnesota Statutes, Section 302A.521, or by other
provisions of law.  Section 302A.521 requires the Company to indemnify
a person made or threatened to be made a party to a proceeding by reason of the
former or present official capacity of the person with respect to the Company
against judgments, penalties, fines (including, without limitation, excise taxes
assessed against the person with respect to an employee benefit plan),
settlements, and reasonable expenses, including attorneys' fees and
disbursements, incurred by the person in connection with the proceeding, if
certain criteria are met.  These criteria, all of which must be met by
the person seeking indemnification, are:
(a)           the
person has not been indemnified by another organization for the same judgments,
penalties, fines, settlements, and expenses;
(b)           the
person must have acted in good faith;
(c)           no
improper personal benefit was obtained by the person and, if applicable, certain
statutory conflict-of-interest provisions have been satisfied;
(d)           in
the case of a criminal proceeding, the person had no reasonable cause to believe
that the conduct was unlawful; and
(e)           the
person acted in a manner he or she reasonably believed was in the best interests
of the corporation or, in certain limited circumstances, not opposed to the best
interests of the corporation.
The determination as to eligibility for
indemnification is made by the members of the Company's board of directors, or a
committee thereof, who are at the time not parties to the proceedings under
consideration, by special legal counsel, by the shareholders who are not parties
to the proceedings or by a court.
Article VIII of the Company's Restated
Articles of Incorporation provides that no director shall be personally liable
to the Company or its shareholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary
duty as director, except:
(a)           any
breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Company or its
shareholders;
(b)           acts
or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law;
(c)           dividends,
stock repurchases and other distributions made in violation of Minnesota law or
for violations of the Minnesota securities laws;
(d)           any
transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit;
or
(e)           any
act or omission occurring before the effective date of the provision in the
Company's Restated Articles of Incorporation limiting such
liability.
Article VIII does not affect the
availability of equitable remedies, such as an action to enjoin or rescind a
transaction involving a breach of fiduciary duty, although, as a practical
matter, equitable relief may not be available.  Nor does this Article
limit the liability of directors for violations of, or relieve them from the
necessity of complying with, federal securities laws.
Item
7.                      Exemption
from Registration Claimed.
Not Applicable.
2
Item
8.                      Exhibits.
Exhibit
Description
4.1
Restated
      Articles of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3i to
      the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended
      June 30, 2006).
4.2
Certificate
      of Designation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the
      Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
      December 31, 2006).
4.3
Amended
      and Restated By-Laws (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3ii to the
      Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December
      31, 1999).
4.4
Rights
      Agreement, dated as of November 10, 2006, between the Company and Wells
      Fargo Bank, N.A., as Rights Agent (incorporated by reference to
      Exhibit 1 to Form 8-A dated November 14,
  2006).
5
Opinion
      of Heidi M. Hoard.
Pursuant
      to Item 8(b) of Form S-8, the Company will submit the Plan to the Internal
      Revenue Service ("IRS") for a determination letter that the Plan is
      qualified under Section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and will
      submit any amendments thereto to the IRS in a timely manner and will make
      all changes required by the IRS in order to qualify the
    Plan.
23.1
Consent
      of Heidi M. Hoard (included in
Exhibit 5).
23.2
Consent
      of KPMG LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting
  Firm.
23.3
Consent
      of McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting
      Firm.
24
Powers
      of Attorney.
99
Tennant
      Company Profit Sharing and Employee Stock Ownership Plan, as amended and
      restated effective January 1, 2008.
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
3
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)
      if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more
      than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth
      in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective
      registration statement; and
(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-8 and the information required to be included in a
post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with
or furnished to the Securities and Exchange 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
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 Section 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
herein, 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 Company has been advised
that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of
1933 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 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
issue.
4
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 Minneapolis, State of
Minnesota, on March 5,  2009.
TENNANT COMPANY
By
/s/ Heidi M.
Hoard
Heidi M.
Hoard
Its Vice
President, General Counsel and Secretary
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 date indicated.
Signature
Title
/s/ H. Chris
      Killingstad
President and
      Chief Executive Officer
H. Chris Killingstad
(Principal
      Executive Officer)
/s/ Thomas
      Paulson
Vice President
      and Chief Financial Officer
Thomas Paulson
(Principal
      Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
H. Chris
      Killingstad
)
William F. Austen
)
Jeffrey A.
      Balagna
)
Carol S.
      Eicher
)
A majority of
      the Board of Directors*
James T.
      Hale
)
David
      Mathieson
)
Edwin L.
      Russell
)
Stephen G.
      Shank
)
Steven A.
      Sonnenberg
)
*       Heidi
M. Hoard, by signing his name hereto, hereby signs this document on behalf of
each of the above-named officers or directors of the registrant under powers of
attorney executed by those persons.
By
/s/ Heidi M.
Hoard
Heidi M. Hoard
Attorney-in-Fact
Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, the Administrator has 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 March
5,  2009.
TENNANT COMPANY PROFIT SHARING
AND
EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN, AS
AMENDED
By:  TENNANT
COMPANY
By
/s/ H. Chris
Killingstad
H.
Chris Killingstad
President
and Chief Executive Officer
INDEX
TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit
Description
Method of Filing
4.1
Restated
      Articles of Incorporation
Incorporated
      by Reference
4.2
Certificate
      of Designation
Incorporated
      by Reference
4.3
Amended
      and Restated By-Laws
Incorporated
      by Reference
4.4
Rights
      Agreement, dated as of November 10, 2006, between the Company and Wells
      Fargo Bank, N.A., as Rights Agent
Incorporated
      by Reference
5
Opinion
      of Heidi M. Hoard
Filed
      Electronically
23.1
Consent
      of Heidi M. Hoard (included in Exhibit 5)
23.2
Consent
      of KPMG LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Filed
      Electronically
23.3
Consent
      of McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting
      Firm
Filed
      Electronically
24
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