CHANGE IN CONTROL AGREEMENT
FOR
ERNEST R. JOHNSON

        This Agreement is entered into this 15th day of November, 2002, by and between Cutter & Buck Inc. (the "Company") and ERNEST R. JOHNSON ("Executive"). Executive is an at-will employee of the Company. The parties wish to provide Executive with severance benefits if Executive's employment is terminated in connection with a change in control of the Company. The Company is willing to provide such benefits if Executive enters into the Company's form of Confidentiality and Non-Competition Agreement for executive officers.

        NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing recitals and the covenants and conditions contained herein, the parties hereby agree as follows:

        1.     CHANGE IN CONTROL.

        (a)   If, within the period commencing 90 days prior to the date of occurrence (the "Event Date") of a Control Event and ending on the date eighteen (18) months after the Event Date (the "Window"), the Company terminates Executive's employment (other than for Cause) or Executive resigns for Good Reason, the Company shall pay to Executive the Severance Payment in immediately available funds. If the termination occurs prior to the Control Event, the Severance Payment is due on the twentieth business day following the Event Date; if the termination occurs on or subsequent to the Event Date, the Severance Payment is due on the twentieth business day following the date of termination (the "Termination Date").

        (b)   The Severance Payment shall be equal to 150% of Executive's annual base salary as of the Termination Date. If the Termination Date occurs during the Window but prior to the Control Event, the Severance Payment shall be reduced by the sum of any severance payments previously received by Executive from the Company (but not below zero).

        (c)   Each of the following shall constitute a "Control Event":

        (1)   the acquisition of Common Stock of the Company (the "Common Stock") by any "Person" (as such term is defined in the Rights Agreement dated as of November 20, 1998 between the Company and Mellon Investor Services LLC (the "Rights Plan"), together with all Affiliates and Associates (as such terms are defined in the Rights Plan) of such Person, such that such Person becomes, after the date of this Agreement, the Beneficial Owner (as defined in the Rights Plan) of twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, but shall not include any such acquisition by (i) the Company, (ii) any subsidiary of the Company, (iii) any employee or director of the Company as of the date hereof, or (iv) any employee benefit plan of the Company or of any subsidiary of the Company or any Person or entity organized, appointed or established by the Company for or pursuant to the terms of any such employee benefit plan; or

        (2)   the consummation of any merger, consolidation, reorganization or other transaction providing for the conversion or exchange of twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock into securities of any Person, or cash, or property, or a combination of any of the foregoing; or

        (3)   the consummation of any sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; or

        (4)   individuals who, as of the date hereof, constitute the Company's Board of Directors (the "Incumbent Board") cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the Company's Board of Directors; provided, however, that any individual becoming a director subsequent to the date hereof whose election, or nomination for the election by the Company's shareholders, was approved by a vote of at least a majority of the directors then


 

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