REDEEMABLE NONCONTROLLING INTERESTS

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

11.

REDEEMABLE NONCONTROLLING INTERESTS

In connection with the Company’s business operations in Central America, the Company entered into an agreement with a non-affiliated joint venture partner that contains both a put option for its partner and a call option for the Company, requiring or allowing the Company, in certain circumstances, to purchase the remaining interest in such entity at a price based on predetermined earnings multiples. Each of these options is triggered upon the occurrence of specified events and/or upon the passage of time. The put right may be exercised on varying dates causing the Company to purchase the partner’s equity interest (the “Redemption Amount”) based on a formula defined in the joint venture agreement. The noncontrolling interest is classified as a redeemable equity interest in mezzanine (or temporary) equity on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets.

The Company allocates income and losses to the noncontrolling interest holder based on the applicable membership interest percentage. After applying those provisions, the Company calculates the redemption amount at each reporting period and records the amount, if any, by which the redemption amount exceeds the book value as a charge against income (loss) available to common shareholders. As of September 30, 2012 the carrying value of the Company’s redeemable noncontrolling interest exceeded the fair value of the amount the Company could be required to pay to redeem the noncontrolling interest at the date of exercise of either the put or call option. Accordingly, the carrying value is presented on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheet.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2011, the Company paid approximately $0.7 million in exchange for the outstanding 4.6% noncontrolling interest in a Canadian joint venture increasing the Company’s interest in that joint venture to 100%.

- Definition

The entire disclosure for noncontrolling interest in consolidated subsidiaries, which could include the name of the subsidiary, the ownership percentage held by the parent, the ownership percentage held by the noncontrolling owners, the amount of the noncontrolling interest, the location of this amount on the balance sheet (when not reported separately), an explanation of the increase or decrease in the amount of the noncontrolling interest, the noncontrolling interest share of the net Income or Loss of the subsidiary, the location of this amount on the income statement (when not reported separately), the nature of the noncontrolling interest such as background information and terms, the amount of the noncontrolling interest represented by preferred stock, a description of the preferred stock, and the dividend requirements of the preferred stock.

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