Related-Party Transactions

6 Months Ended

Jul. 01, 2017

8.	Related-Party Transactions

We have a non-cancelable operating lease for our primary operating facility with a partnership in which Steven L. Berman, our Executive Chairman, and his family members, are partners. Based upon the terms of the lease, payments will be $1.6 million in fiscal 2017 and were $1.6 million in fiscal 2016. The lease with the partnership expires December 31, 2022. In the opinion of our Audit Committee, the terms and rates of this lease are no less favorable than those which could have been obtained from an unaffiliated party when the lease was renewed in fiscal 2016.

We are partner in a joint venture with one of our suppliers and own minority interests in three other suppliers. Each of these investments is accounted for according to the equity method. This includes a 33% minority equity interest in a supplier, which we purchased on January 27, 2017 for $10.0 million.