Commitments And Contingencies

12 Months Ended

Dec. 29, 2012

Commitments And Contingencies [Abstract]

Commitments And Contingencies

NOTE L - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

The Company leases administrative facilities and/or manufacturing and warehouse space for its CAD segment operations in Rhode Island, U.S., the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and China. The CAD segment also leases a  retail facility in the United Kingdom. The Company's COG segment leases administrative and warehouse facilities in Florida and Colorado. All leases expire prior to the end of 2026.  Real estate taxes, insurance, and maintenance expenses are generally obligations of the Company. It is expected that in the ordinary course of business, leases that expire will be renewed or replaced by leases on other properties; thus, it is anticipated that future minimum lease commitments will not be less than the amounts shown for 2013.  Rent expense for leased facilities was approximately $3.9  million, $3.5 million and $3.5 million in 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively. At December 29, 2012, future minimum lease payments under all such non-cancelable leases, including renewal options the Company believes it will exercise, were approximately:

(THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS)	2013		2014		2015		2016		2017		Thereafter		Total
	$	3,758	$	3,102	$	2,874	$	2,605	$	1,603	$	13,337	$	27,279

The Company was named as one of approximately ninety defendants in a contribution suit brought by CCL/Unilever relating to the J.M. Mills Landfill Site (the “Site”), which is part of the Peterson/Puritan Superfund Site in Cumberland, Rhode Island. These complaints alleged that the Company was liable under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ("CERCLA") for contribution for Site investigation costs. The Company has reached settlement of the case and paid a settlement amount of approximately $0.2 million in 2010.

The Company expects that the Federal Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") will select a remedy for the Site in 2013.  At that time, the EPA will initiate an administrative process (the "Special Notice Process") pursuant to CERCLA whereby the EPA will request that those entities that the EPA contends arranged for the disposal of hazardous materials at the Site (the PRPs), undertake the selected remedy at the Site. The EPA contends that the Company is a PRP at the Site. During the Special Notice Process, the Company and the other PRPs will engage in negotiations with the EPA regarding the remedy, and among themselves regarding the contribution of each PRP to overall remediation costs. Neither the cost of the remedy nor the identity of all PRPs is known at this time. Therefore it is not possible to assess the outcome of the Special Notice Process as it may relate to the Company's contribution to remediation costs.

The Company is involved in various other litigation and legal matters that have arisen in the ordinary course of business. To its knowledge, management believes that the ultimate resolution of any of those existing matters will not have a material adverse effect on the Company's consolidated financial position or results of operations.