Common use of Equitable Consideration Clause in Contracts

Equitable Consideration. The Executive agrees that the Executive’s services hereunder are of a special, unique, extraordinary and intellectual character and the Executive’s position with the Company places the Executive in a position of confidence and trust with the customers, suppliers and employees of the Company. The Executive and the Company agree that in the course of employment hereunder, the Executive has and will continue to develop a personal relationship with the Company’s customers, and a knowledge of these customers’ affairs and requirements as well as confidential and proprietary information developed by the Company after the date of this Agreement. The Executive acknowledges that the Company’s relationships with its established clientele may therefore be placed in the Executive’s hands in confidence and trust. The Executive consequently agrees that it is reasonable and necessary for the protection of the goodwill, confidential and proprietary information, and legitimate business interests of the Company that the Executive make the covenants contained herein, that the covenants are a material inducement for the Company to employ or continue to employ the Executive and to enter into this Agreement, that the covenants are given as an integral part of and incident to this Agreement, and that the covenants will not prevent the Executive from earning a livelihood in the Executive’s chosen business, do not impose an undue hardship on the Executive, and will not injure the public.