CBRL 8-K re October 2000 sales trends/earnings guidance  (0388532.DOC;2)



UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION


Washington, D.C. 20549






FORM 8-K




CURRENT REPORT


PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934



Date of Report (date of earliest event reported):   October 25, 2002




CBRL GROUP, INC.



           

Tennessee

0-25225

      

        62-1749513

(State or Other Jurisdiction

       (Commission File Number)

    (I.R.S. Employer

      of Incorporation)

       

 

     

               Identification No.)



305 Hartmann Drive, Lebanon, Tennessee 37087


 (615) 444-5533








Item 7.  Financial Statements and Exhibits.


(a)

Financial Statements.  None.


(b)

Pro Forma Financial Information.  None.


(c)

Exhibits.  


99.1

Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings.


99.2

Statement Under Oath of Principal Financial Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings.


Item 9.  Regulation FD Disclosure.


On October 25, 2002, the Chief Executive Officer, Michael A. Woodhouse, and Chief Financial Officer, Lawrence E. White, of the Registrant delivered to the Secretary of the Securities and Exchange Commission in accordance with SEC Order No. 4-460 statements under oath regarding facts and circumstances relating to the Annual Report of the Registrant on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 2, 2002. Copies of the statements are attached as Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2.










SIGNATURE


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


Dated:  October 25, 2002

CBRL GROUP, INC.



By:  /s/James F. Blackstock

Name: James F. Blackstock

                               

Title:  

Senior Vice President, General

Counsel and Secretary













Exhibit Index



Exhibit Number

Description

  

99.1

Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings.

  

99.2

Statement Under Oath of Principal Financial Officer Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings.



EXHIBIT 99.1


STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER  REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS


I, Michael A. Woodhouse, principal executive officer, state and attest that:


(1)

To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of CBRL Group, Inc. (the “Company”), and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:


no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and


no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).


(1)

I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company’s Audit Committee.


(2)

In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before the date of this statement, is a “covered report”:


Annual Report on Form 10-K of CBRL Group, Inc. filed with the Commission on October 25, 2002;


all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy materials of CBRL Group, Inc. filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and


any amendments to any of the foregoing.



Date:  October 25, 2002

/s/Michael A. Woodhouse


Michael A. Woodhouse,

President & CEO


Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of October, 2002.


/s/Noel Tippett

7-18-04


Notary Public

My Commission Expires




EXHIBIT 99.2


STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS


I, Lawrence E. White, principal financial officer, state and attest that:


(1)

To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of CBRL Group, Inc. (the “Company”), and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:


no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and


no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).


(1)

I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company’s Audit Committee.


(2)

In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before the date of this statement, is a “covered report”:


Annual Report on Form 10-K of CBRL Group, Inc. filed with the Commission on October 25, 2002;


all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy materials of CBRL Group, Inc. filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and


any amendments to any of the foregoing.



Date: October 25, 2002

/s/Lawrence E. White


Lawrence E. White,

Sr. Vice President & CFO


Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of October, 2002.


/s/Noel Tippett

7-18-04


Notary Public

My Commission Expires