v2.4.0.6

Short-term Borrowings and Long-term Debt (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 29, 2012
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Debt [Table Text Block] |
|  | 2012 |  | 2011
Short-term Borrowings |  |  |  |
Current maturities of long-term debt |  | $ | 10 |  |  | $ | 315 |
Current portion of fair value hedge accounting adjustment (See Note 12) |  | — |  |  | 5 |
|  | $ | 10 |  |  | $ | 320 |
Long-term Debt |  |  |  |
Senior Unsecured Notes |  | $ | 2,750 |  |  | $ | 3,012 |
Unsecured Revolving Credit Facility, expires March 2017 |  | — |  |  | — |
Capital lease obligations (See Note 11) |  | 170 |  |  | 279 |
|  | 2,920 |  |  | 3,291 |
Less current maturities of long-term debt |  | (10 | ) |  | (315 | )
Long-term debt excluding long-term portion of hedge accounting adjustment |  | 2,910 |  |  | 2,976 |
Long-term portion of fair value hedge accounting adjustment (See Note 12) |  | 22 |  |  | 21 |
Long-term debt including hedge accounting adjustment |  | $ | 2,932 |  |  | $ | 2,997 |
Debt Instrument [Line Items] |
Annual maturities of short-term borrowings and long-term debt excluding capital lease obligations and derivative instrument adjustments | The annual maturities of short-term borrowings and long-term debt as of December 29, 2012, excluding capital lease obligations of $170 million and fair value hedge accounting adjustments of $22 million, are as follows:
Year ended: |
2013 | $ | — |
2014 | 56 |
2015 | 250 |
2016 | 300 |
2017 | — |
Thereafter | 2,150 |
Total | $ | 2,756 |
Senior Unsecured Notes [Member] |
Debt Instrument [Line Items] |
Senior Unsecured Notes issued that remain outstanding | The following table summarizes all Senior Unsecured Notes issued that remain outstanding at December 29, 2012:
|  |  |  |  |  | Interest Rate
Issuance Date(a) |  | Maturity Date |  | Principal Amount (in millions) |  | Stated |  | Effective(b)
April 2006 |  | April 2016 |  | $ | 300 |  |  | 6.25% |  | 6.03%
October 2007 |  | March 2018 |  | $ | 600 |  |  | 6.25% |  | 6.38%
October 2007 |  | November 2037 |  | $ | 600 |  |  | 6.88% |  | 7.29%
August 2009 |  | September 2015 |  | $ | 250 |  |  | 4.25% |  | 4.44%
August 2009 |  | September 2019 |  | $ | 250 |  |  | 5.30% |  | 5.59%
August 2010 |  | November 2020 |  | $ | 350 |  |  | 3.88% |  | 4.01%
August 2011 |  | November 2021 |  | $ | 350 |  |  | 3.75% |  | 3.88%
September 2011 |  | September 2014 |  | $ | 56 |  |  | 2.38% |  | 2.89%
(a) | Interest payments commenced approximately six months after issuance date and are payable semi-annually thereafter.
(b) | Includes the effects of the amortization of any (1) premium or discount; (2) debt issuance costs; and (3) gain or loss upon settlement of related treasury locks and forward-starting interest rate swaps utilized to hedge the interest rate risk prior to the debt issuance. Excludes the effect of any swaps that remain outstanding as described in Note 12.

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