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Trade Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses
12 Months Ended
Feb. 01, 2025
Payables and Accruals [Abstract]  
Trade Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses

5.  Trade Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses

Trade accounts payable and accrued expenses consist of the following:

(in thousands of dollars)

    

February 1, 2025

    

February 3, 2024

Trade accounts payable

$

601,175

$

562,408

Accrued expenses:

 

 

Taxes, other than income

 

48,161

 

58,063

Salaries, wages and employee benefits

 

78,542

 

84,522

Liability to customers

 

47,184

 

61,039

Interest

 

7,281

 

3,726

Rent

 

1,433

 

1,778

Other

 

11,247

 

11,009

$

795,023

$

782,545

Supplier Finance Program

The Company has a supplier finance program, whereby participating suppliers have the option of payment in advance of an invoice due date, which is paid by certain administering banks, on the basis of invoices that the Company has confirmed as valid and approved. The Company agrees to pay the administering bank the stated amount of confirmed invoices from its designated suppliers on the Company’s standard payment terms or on the original due dates of the invoices, as applicable. The Company’s suppliers are not required to participate in the supplier finance program.

The early payment transactions between the Company’s supplier and the administering bank are subject to an agreement between those parties, and the Company does not participate in any financial aspect of the agreement between the Company’s supplier and the administering bank. The Company has not pledged assets or any other security for the committed payment to the administering bank. The Company or the administering bank may terminate the agreement upon at least 30 days’ notice.

A reconciliation of the amount of obligations confirmed under the program that remain unpaid by the Company is presented below:

(in thousands of dollars)

Fiscal 2024

Fiscal 2023

Confirmed obligations outstanding under the program

$

1,599

$

1,791

Invoices confirmed during the year

20,742

24,125

Confirmed invoices paid during the year

(20,957)

(24,317)

Confirmed obligations outstanding at the end of the year

$

1,384

$

1,599