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EXIT OR DISPOSAL ACTIVITIES (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2013
Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract] |
Schedule of Restructuring and Related Costs [Table Text Block] | Specific exit or disposal efforts that were ongoing during either the thirteen weeks ended March 31, 2013 or the thirteen weeks ended March 25, 2012 included the following:
|  |  |  |  | Administrative |  |  |
|  | Facility Closures(a) |  | Integration(b) |  | Total
|  | (In thousands, except positions eliminated)
Earliest implementation date |  | October 2008 |  | January 2010 |  |  |
Latest expected completion date |  | September 2014 |  | September 2012 |  |  |
Positions eliminated |  |  | 2,410 |  |  | 480 |  |  | 2,890
Costs incurred and expected to be incurred: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Employee-related costs |  | $ | 2,492 |  | $ | 864 |  | $ | 3,356
Asset impairment costs |  |  | 13,249 |  |  | 36,896 |  |  | 50,145
Inventory valuation costs |  |  | 344 |  |  | — |  |  | 344
Other exit or disposal costs |  |  | 15,208 |  |  | 4,112 |  |  | 19,320
Total exit or disposal costs |  | $ | 31,293 |  | $ | 41,872 |  | $ | 73,165
Costs incurred since earliest implementation date: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Employee-related costs |  | $ | 2,492 |  | $ | 864 |  | $ | 3,356
Asset impairment costs |  |  | 13,249 |  |  | 36,896 |  |  | 50,145
Inventory valuation costs |  |  | 344 |  |  | — |  |  | 344
Other exit or disposal costs |  |  | 12,707 |  |  | 4,112 |  |  | 16,819
Total exit or disposal costs |  | $ | 28,792 |  | $ | 41,872 |  | $ | 70,664
|  | Thirteen Weeks Ended March 31, 2013 |  | Thirteen Weeks Ended March 25, 2012
|  |  |  |  | Administrative |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Administrative |  |  |
|  | Facility Closures |  | Integration |  | Total |  | Facility Closures |  | Integration |  | Total
|  | (In thousands)
Employee-related costs |  | $ | — |  | $ | — |  | $ | — |  | $ | 78 |  | $ | — |  | $ | 78
Asset impairment costs |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 960 |  |  | 382 |  |  | 1,342
Other exit or disposal costs |  |  | 484 |  |  | — |  |  | 484 |  |  | 1,543 |  |  | — |  |  | 1,543
Total exit or disposal costs |  | $ | 484 |  | $ | — |  | $ | 484 |  | $ | 2,581 |  | $ | 382 |  | $ | 2,963
(a) |  | Significant facilities closed included one processing plant in 2008, two processing plants in 2009, two processing plants in the transition period and one processing plant in 2011. The transition period began September 27, 2009 and ended December 27, 2009 and resulted from the Company’s change in its fiscal year end from the Saturday nearest September 30 each year to the last Sunday in December of each year.
(b) |  | Company management implemented certain activities to integrate the administrative functions of the Company into those of JBS USA. These included the closures of administrative offices in Georgia and Texas.
Schedule Of Restructuring Reserve Reconciliation Activity [Table Text Block] | The following table sets forth activity that was recorded through the Company’s accrued exit or disposal cost accounts during the thirteen weeks ended March 31, 2013 and March 25, 2012:
|  |  |  |  |  | Accrued |  |  |  |
|  | Accrued |  | Inventory |  |  |  |
|  | Severance |  | Charges |  | Total
|  | (In thousands)
Balance at December 30, 2012 |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 808 |  |  | $ | 808 |
Accruals |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Payment /Disposal |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Adjustments |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Balance at March 31, 2013 |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 808 |  |  | $ | 808 |
Balance at December 25, 2011 |  | $ | 90 |  |  | $ | 793 |  |  | $ | 883 |
Accruals |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Payment /Disposal |  |  | (147 | ) |  |  | (136 | ) |  |  | (283 | )
Adjustments |  |  | 78 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 78 |
Balance at March 25, 2012 |  | $ | 21 |  |  | $ | 657 |  |  | $ | 678 |
Schedule Of Restructuring Costs Included In Statement Of Income [Table Text Block] | Exit or disposal costs were included on the following lines in the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income:
|  | Thirteen Weeks Ended
|  | March 31, 2013 |  | March 25, 2012
|  | (In thousands)
Cost of sales |  | $ | — |  | $ | 78
Administrative restructuring charges |  |  | 484 |  |  | 2,885
Total exit or disposal costs |  | $ | 484 |  | $ | 2,963
Schedule Of Operating and Administrative Restructuring Charges Indirectly Related To Operations [Table Text Block] | Components of administrative restructuring charges are summarized below:
|  | Thirteen Weeks Ended
|  | March 31, 2013 |  | March 25, 2012
|  | (In thousands)
Asset impairment costs (Note 6. Property, Plant and Equipment) |  | $ | — |  | $ | 1,342
Loss on egg sales and flock depletion expensed as incurred |  |  | — |  |  | 455
Other restructuring costs |  |  | 484 |  |  | 1,088
Total administrative restructuring charges |  | $ | 484 |  | $ | 2,885

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