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Transactions With Related Parties
12 Months Ended
Oct. 03, 2015
Related Party Transaction, Due from (to) Related Party [Abstract]  
Transactions With Related Parties
TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES
We have operating leases for two wastewater facilities with an entity owned by the Donald J. Tyson Revocable Trust (for which Mr. John Tyson, Chairman of the Company, is a trustee), Berry Street Waste Water Treatment Plant, LP (90% of which is owned by TLP), and the sisters of Mr. Tyson. Total payments of approximately $1 million in each of fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013 were paid to lease the facilities.
In fiscal 2014, we purchased real estate from JHT, LLC, for $0.5 million to build a new data center. The JHT, LLC (for which Mr. John Tyson is the manager), is owned 50% by the Donald J. Tyson Revocable Trust and 50% by the Randal W. Tyson Testamentary Trust.
As of October 3, 2015, the TLP, of which John Tyson and director Barbara Tyson are general partners, owned 70 million shares, or 99.985% of Class B stock and, along with the members of the Tyson family, owned 5.4 million shares of Class A stock, giving it control of approximately 70.64% of the total voting power of our outstanding voting stock. In fiscal 2013, as part of the Company's previously approved stock repurchase plan, we purchased one million shares of Class A stock from the TLP for $29.85 million or $29.85 per share.