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EXIT OR DISPOSAL ACTIVITIES (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 29, 2013
EXIT OR DISPOSAL ACTIVITIES [Abstract] |
Schedule of Exit or Disposal Efforts |
|  | Facility Closures(a) |  | Administrative 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 |  |  | 15,878 |  |  | 37,362 |  |  | 53,240
Inventory valuation costs |  |  | 344 |  |  | - |  |  | 344
Other exit or disposal costs |  |  | 15,206 |  |  | 4,112 |  |  | 19,318
Total exit or disposal costs |  | $ | 33,920 |  | $ | 42,338 |  | $ | 76,258
Costs incurred since earliest implementation date: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Employee-related costs |  | $ | 2,492 |  | $ | 864 |  | $ | 3,356
Asset impairment costs |  |  | 15,878 |  |  | 37,362 |  |  | 53,240
Inventory valuation costs |  |  | 344 |  |  | - |  |  | 344
Other exit or disposal costs |  |  | 13,749 |  |  | 4,112 |  |  | 17,861
Total exit or disposal costs |  | $ | 32,463 |  | $ | 42,338 |  | $ | 74,801
|  | Thirteen Weeks Ended September 29, 2013 |  | Thirteen Weeks Ended September 23, 2012
|  | Facility Closures |  | Administrative Integration |  | Total |  | Facility Closures |  | Administrative Integration |  | Total
|  | (In thousands)
Asset impairment costs |  | $ | 2,629 |  | $ | 466 |  | $ | 3,095 |  | $ | - |  | $ | - |  | $ | -
Other exit or disposal costs |  |  | 563 |  |  | - |  |  | 563 |  |  | 805 |  |  | 1,993 |  |  | 2,798
Total exit or disposal costs |  | $ | 3,192 |  | $ | 466 |  | $ | 3,658 |  | $ | 805 |  | $ | 1,993 |  | $ | 2,798
|  | Thirty-Nine Weeks Ended September 29, 2013 |  | Thirty-Nine Weeks Ended September 23, 2012
|  | Facility Closures |  | Administrative Integration |  | Total |  | Facility Closures |  | Administrative Integration |  | Total
|  | (In thousands)
Employee-related costs |  | $ | - |  | $ | - |  | $ | - |  | $ | 78 |  | $ | - |  | $ | 78
Asset impairment costs |  |  | 2,629 |  |  | 466 |  |  | 3,095 |  |  | 960 |  |  | 382 |  |  | 1,342
Other exit or disposal costs |  |  | 1,527 |  |  | - |  |  | 1,527 |  |  | 2,737 |  |  | 1,993 |  |  | 4,730
Total exit or disposal costs |  | $ | 4,156 |  | $ | 466 |  | $ | 4,622 |  | $ | 3,775 |  | $ | 2,375 |  | $ | 6,150
(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 Accrued Exit or Disposal Cost Accounts Activity |
|  | Accrued Severance |  | Accrued Inventory Charges |  | Total
|  | (In thousands)
Balance at December 30, 2012 |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | 808 |  |  | $ | 808 |
Accruals |  |  | - |  |  |  | - |  |  |  | - |
Payment /Disposal |  |  | - |  |  |  | (808 | ) |  |  | (808 | )
Adjustments |  |  | - |  |  |  | - |  |  |  | - |
Balance at September 29, 2013 |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | - |
Balance at December 25, 2011 |  | $ | 90 |  |  | $ | 793 |  |  | $ | 883 |
Accruals |  |  | - |  |  |  | 151 |  |  |  | 151 |
Payment /Disposal |  |  | (155 | ) |  |  | (136 | ) |  |  | (291 | )
Adjustments |  |  | 78 |  |  |  | - |  |  |  | 78 |
Balance at September 23, 2012 |  | $ | 13 |  |  | $ | 808 |  |  | $ | 821 |
Schedule of Exit or Disposal Costs |
|  | Thirteen Weeks Ended |  | Thirty-Nine Weeks Ended
|  | September 29, 2013 |  | September 23, 2012 |  | September 29, 2013 |  | September 23, 2012
|  | (In thousands)
Cost of sales |  | $ | - |  | $ | 151 |  | $ | - |  | $ | 229
Administrative restructuring charges |  |  | 3,658 |  |  | 2,647 |  |  | 4,622 |  |  | 5,921
Total exit or disposal costs |  | $ | 3,658 |  | $ | 2,798 |  | $ | 4,622 |  | $ | 6,150
Schedule of Components of Administrative Restructuring Charges |
|  | Thirteen Weeks Ended |  | Thirty-Nine Weeks Ended
|  | September 29, 2013 |  | September 23, 2012 |  | September 29, 2013 |  | September 23, 2012
|  | (In thousands)
Asset impairment costs (Note 6. Property, Plant and Equipment) |  | $ | 3,095 |  | $ | - |  | $ | 3,095 |  | $ | 1,342
Loss on egg sales and flock depletion expensed as incurred |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | 509
Other restructuring costs |  |  | 563 |  |  | 2,647 |  |  | 1,527 |  |  | 4,070
Total administrative restructuring charges |  | $ | 3,658 |  | $ | 2,647 |  | $ | 4,622 |  | $ | 5,921

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