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Employee Retirement Plans
12 Months Ended
Sep. 28, 2013
Employee Retirement Plans  
Employee Retirement Plans

16. Employee Retirement Plans

Defined Contribution Plans

        The Company has a defined contribution plan which meets the requirements of section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code. All regular full-time U.S. employees of the Company who are at least eighteen years of age and work a minimum of 36 hours per week are eligible to participate in the plan. The plan allows employees to defer a portion of their salary on a pre-tax basis and the Company contributes 50% of amounts contributed by employees up to 6% of their salary. Company contributions to the plan were $5.2 million, $4.4 million, and $2.7 million, for fiscal years 2013, 2012, and 2011, respectively.

        In conjunction with the Van Houtte acquisition, the Company also has several Canadian Group Registered Retirement Savings Plans ("GRRSP") and a Deferred Profit Sharing Plan ("DPSP"). Under these plans, employees can contribute a certain percentage of their salary and the Company can also make annual contributions to the plans. Company contributions to the Canadian plans were $1.4 million, $1.0 million and $0.8 million for fiscal years 2013, 2012, and 2011, respectively.

Defined Benefit Plans

        The Company has a supplementary defined benefit retirement plan and a supplementary employee retirement plan (collectively the "Plans") for certain management employees in the Canada segment. The cost of the Plans is calculated according to actuarial methods that encompass management's best estimate regarding the future evolution of salary levels, the age of retirement of salaried employees and other actuarial factors. These Plans are not funded and there are no plan assets. Future benefits will be paid from the funds of the Company.

        The projected benefit obligation was $1.4 million and $1.1 million as of September 28, 2013 and September 29, 2012, which is classified in other long-term liabilities. Net periodic pension expense (income) was $0.3 million, $(0.1) million and $0.5 million for fiscal years 2013, 2012, and 2011, respectively.