Employee Benefit Plans

9 Months Ended

Sep. 28, 2012

Employee Benefit Plans

11. Employee Benefit Plans

The net periodic pension cost for the U.K. defined benefit pension plan includes the following components (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	September 28, 2012			September 30, 2011			September 28, 2012			September 30, 2011
Components of the net periodic pension cost:
Interest cost	$	343		$	377		$	1,028		$	1,134
Expected return on plan assets		(315	)		(393	)		(943	)		(1,182	)
Amortization of actuarial loss		98			56			293			169
Net periodic pension cost	$	126		$	40		$	378		$	121

The net periodic pension cost for the Japan defined benefit pension plan for the three and nine months ended September 28, 2012 and September 30, 2011 was not material.