Retirement Plans

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

We have a noncontributory, unfunded retirement plan for certain officers and retirees in the United States. Certain of our foreign subsidiaries also have defined benefit pension plans covering substantially all of their respective employees.

The components of net periodic benefit cost, which are included in distribution, selling and administrative expenses, for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, were as follows:



	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2019		2018
Service cost	$	374	$	19
Interest cost	600		419
Recognized net actuarial loss	260		522
Net periodic benefit cost	$	1,234	$	960

Certain of our foreign subsidiaries have health and welfare plans covering substantially all of their respective employees. Our expense for these plans totaled $0.6 million and $0.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.