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Employee Benefit Plans
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 27, 2014
Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]  
Employee Benefit Plans [Text Block]
Employee Benefit Plans

The company maintains an unfunded Arrow supplemental executive retirement plan ("SERP") under which the company will pay supplemental pension benefits to certain employees upon retirement. Additionally, as part of the company's acquisition of Wyle in 2000, the company acquired a defined benefit plan from Wyle which provided retirement benefits for certain employees.  Benefits under this plan were frozen as of December 31, 2000. The components of the net periodic benefit costs for the Arrow SERP and Wyle benefit plan are as follows:
 
 
Quarter Ended
 
Nine Months Ended
 
 
September 27,
2014
 
September 28,
2013
 
September 27,
2014
 
September 28,
2013
Components of net periodic benefit costs:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Service cost
 
$
333

 
$
532

 
$
999

 
$
1,596

Interest cost
 
2,205

 
1,967

 
6,615

 
5,901

Expected return on plan assets
 
(1,756
)
 
(1,629
)
 
(5,268
)
 
(4,887
)
Amortization of net loss
 
821

 
1,147

 
2,463

 
3,441

Amortization of prior service cost
 
11

 
11

 
33

 
33

Net periodic benefit costs
 
$
1,614

 
$
2,028

 
$
4,842

 
$
6,084