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MULTI-EMPLOYER PENSION PLANS (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Feb. 02, 2019
Collective Bargaining Agreements |
MULTI-EMPLOYER PENSION PLANS |
Schedule of multi-employer pension plans |
|  | Expiration Date |  | Most Significant Collective |
|  | of Collective |  | Bargaining Agreements(1) |
|  | Bargaining |  | (not in millions) |
Pension Fund |  | Agreements |  | Count |  | Expiration |
SO CA UFCW Unions & Food Employers Joint Pension Trust Fund |  | March 2019 to June 2020 |  | 2 |  | March 2019 to June 2020 |
UFCW Consolidated Pension Plan |  | January 2019 (2) to August 2022 |  | 8 |  | February 2019 to August 2021 |
Desert States Employers & UFCW Unions Pension Plan |  | October 2020 to February 2022 |  | 1 |  | October 2020 |
Sound Retirement Trust (formerly Retail Clerks Pension Plan) |  | April 2019 to April 2020 |  | 3 |  | May 2019 to August 2019 |
Rocky Mountain UFCW Unions and Employers Pension Plan |  | January 2019 (2) to February 2019 |  | 1 |  | January 2019 (2) |
Oregon Retail Employees Pension Plan |  | August 2018 (2) to April 2022 |  | 3 |  | August 2018 (2) to June 2019 |
Bakery and Confectionary Union & Industry International Pension Fund |  | July 2018 (2) to July 2022 |  | 4 |  | August 2019 to June 2021 |
Retail Food Employers & UFCW Local 711 Pension |  | June 2017 (2) to April 2020 |  | 1 |  | March 2019 |
Denver Area Meat Cutters and Employers Pension Plan |  | January 2019 (2) to February 2019 |  | 1 |  | January 2019 (2) |
United Food & Commercial Workers Intl Union — Industry Pension Fund |  | February 2019 to August 2022 |  | 2 |  | April 2019 to March 2021 |
Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Plan |  | April 2019 to July 2021 |  | 5 |  | April 2019 to July 2021 |
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Consolidated Pension Fund |  | September 2019 to September 2022 |  | 3 |  | September 2019 to September 2022 |
| (1) |  | This column represents the number of significant collective bargaining agreements and their expiration date for each of the Company’s pension funds listed above. For purposes of this table, the “significant collective bargaining agreements” are the largest based on covered employees that, when aggregated, cover the majority of the employees for which we make multi-employer contributions for the referenced pension fund.
| (2) |  | Certain collective bargaining agreements for each of these pension funds are operating under an extension.
Multi-employer pension funds |
MULTI-EMPLOYER PENSION PLANS |
Schedule of multi-employer pension plans |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | FIP/RP |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  | Pension Protection |  | Status |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | EIN / Pension |  | Act Zone Status |  | Pending/ |  | Multi-Employer Contributions |  | Surcharge |
Pension Fund |  | Plan Number |  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | Implemented |  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | Imposed (5) |
SO CA UFCW Unions & Food Employers Joint Pension Trust Fund(1) (2) |  | 95-1939092 - 001 |  | Yellow |  | Yellow |  | Implemented |  | $ | 71 |  | $ | 66 |  | $ | 60 |  | No |
Desert States Employers & UFCW Unions Pension Plan(1) |  | 84-6277982 - 001 |  | Green |  | Green |  | No |  |  | 19 |  |  | 18 |  |  | 18 |  | No |
Sound Retirement Trust (formerly Retail Clerks Pension Plan)(1) (3) |  | 91-6069306 – 001 |  | Green |  | Green |  | Implemented |  |  | 23 |  |  | 20 |  |  | 18 |  | No |
Rocky Mountain UFCW Unions and Employers Pension Plan(1) |  | 84-6045986 - 001 |  | Green |  | Green |  | No |  |  | 20 |  |  | 19 |  |  | 16 |  | No |
Oregon Retail Employees Pension Plan(1) |  | 93-6074377 - 001 |  | Green |  | Green |  | No |  |  | 9 |  |  | 9 |  |  | 8 |  | No |
Bakery and Confectionary Union & Industry International Pension Fund(1) |  | 52-6118572 - 001 |  | Red |  | Red |  | Implemented |  |  | 11 |  |  | 11 |  |  | 10 |  | No |
Retail Food Employers & UFCW Local 711 Pension(1) |  | 51-6031512 - 001 |  | Yellow |  | Yellow |  | Implemented |  |  | 10 |  |  | 10 |  |  | 9 |  | No |
Denver Area Meat Cutters and Employers Pension Plan (9) |  | 84-6097461 - 001 |  | Green |  | Green |  | No |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 3 |  | No |
United Food & Commercial Workers Intl Union — Industry Pension Fund(1)(4) |  | 51-6055922 - 001 |  | Green |  | Green |  | No |  |  | 32 |  |  | 33 |  |  | 37 |  | No |
Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Plan |  | 91-6145047 - 001 |  | Green |  | Green |  | No |  |  | 34 |  |  | 34 |  |  | 33 |  | No |
Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Plan (7) |  | 36-6044243 - 001 |  | Red |  | Red |  | Implemented |  |  | 18 |  |  | 492 |  |  | 23 |  | No |
UFCW Consolidated Pension Plan(1) |  | 58-6101602 – 001 |  | Green |  | Green |  | No |  |  | 55 |  |  | 201 |  |  | 34 |  | No |
IBT Consolidated Pension Plan(1) (6) (7) |  | 82-2153627 - 001 |  | N/A |  | N/A |  | No |  |  | 37 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  | No |
Other (8) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 19 |  |  | 41 |  |  | 20 |  |  |
Total Contributions |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | $ | 358 |  | $ | 954 |  | $ | 289 |  |  |
| (1) |  | The Company's multi-employer contributions to these respective funds represent more than 5% of the total contributions received by the pension funds.
| (2) |  | The information for this fund was obtained from the Form 5500 filed for the plan's year-end at March 31, 2018 and March 31, 2017.
| (3) |  | The information for this fund was obtained from the Form 5500 filed for the plan's year-end at September 30, 2017 and September 30, 2016.
| (4) |  | The information for this fund was obtained from the Form 5500 filed for the plan's year-end at June 30, 2017 and June 30, 2016.
| (5) |  | Under the Pension Protection Act, a surcharge may be imposed when employers make contributions under a collective bargaining agreement that is not in compliance with a rehabilitation plan. As of February 2, 2019, the collective bargaining agreements under which the Company was making contributions were in compliance with rehabilitation plans adopted by the applicable pension fund.
| (6) |  | The information for this fund was obtained from the Form 5500 filed for the plan's first year beginning February 20, 2017 and year-end December 31, 2017.
| (7) |  | In 2017, the Company ratified a new contract with the IBT that provided certain local unions to withdraw from this pension fund and form the IBT consolidated pension fund.
| (8) |  | The increase in 2017, compared to 2018 and 2016, in the "Other" funds is due primarily to withdrawal settlement payments for certain multi-employer funds in 2017.
| (9) |  | As of June 30, 2016, the Denver Area Meat Cutters and Employers Pension Plan merged with the Rocky Mountain UFCW Unions and Employers Pension Plan. The final Form 5500 for this plan was for the period of January 1, 2016 through June 30, 2016 (the date of the Merger). Prior to the merger, the Company's multi-employer contributions to this fund represented more than 5% of the total contributions received by the pension fund.

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