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INCENTIVE COMPENSATION (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 29, 2013
INCENTIVE COMPENSATION [Abstract] |
Schedule of Awards |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Estimated |  |
Award |  |  |  | Award |  |  |  | Vesting |  |  |  | Forfeiture |  | Settlement
Type |  | Benefit Plan |  | Quantity |  | Grant Date |  | Condition |  | Vesting Date |  | Rate |  | Method
RSA |  | Employment Agreement |  | 100,000 |  | January 14, 2011 |  | Service |  | January 3, 2013 |  | - | % |  | Stock
RSA |  | Employment Agreement |  | 100,000 |  | January 14, 2011 |  | Service |  | January 3, 2014 |  | - | % |  | Stock
RSA |  | LTIP |  | 72,675 |  | August 27, 2012 |  | Service |  | April 27, 2014 |  | - | % |  | Stock
RSU |  | LTIP |  | 608,561 |  | February 4, 2013 |  | Service |  | December 31, 2014 |  | 9.6559 | % |  | Stock
RSA |  | LTIP |  | 15,000 |  | February 25, 2013 |  | Service |  | February 24, 2015 |  | - | % |  | Stock
RSA |  | LTIP |  | 15,000 |  | February 25, 2013 |  | Service |  | February 24, 2016 |  | - | % |  | Stock
RSU |  | LTIP |  | 206,933 |  | February 26, 2013 |  | Service |  | December 31, 2014 |  | - | % |  | Stock
Schedule of Compensation Cost and Income Tax Benefit |
|  | Thirteen Weeks Ended |  | Thirty-Nine Weeks Ended
|  | September 29, 2013 |  | September 23, 2012 |  | September 29, 2013 |  | September 23, 2012
|  | (In thousands)
Share-based compensation costs: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Cost of goods sold |  | $ | 102 |  | $ | - |  | $ | 255 |  | $ | -
Selling, general and administrative expenses |  |  | 711 |  |  | 166 |  |  | 2,160 |  |  | 464
Total |  | $ | 813 |  | $ | 166 |  | $ | 2,415 |  | $ | 464
Income tax benefit |  | $ | 151 |  | $ | - |  | $ | 488 |  | $ | -
Schedule of Restricted Share and Restricted Stock Unit Activity |
|  | Thirty-Nine Weeks Ended
|  | September 29, 2013 |  | September 23, 2012
|  |  |  |  | Weighted Average |  |  |  | Weighted Average
|  | Number |  | Grant Date Fair Value |  | Number |  | Grant Date Fair Value
|  | (In thousands, except weighted average fair values)
RSAs: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Outstanding at beginning of period |  | 273 |  |  | $ | 6.54 |  | 200 |  | $ | 7.10
Granted |  | 30 |  |  |  | 8.72 |  | - |  |  | -
Vested |  | (100 | ) |  |  | 7.10 |  | - |  |  | -
Outstanding at end of period |  | 203 |  |  | $ | 6.59 |  | 200 |  | $ | 7.10
RSUs: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Outstanding at beginning of period |  | - |  |  | $ | - |  | - |  | $ | -
Granted |  | 815 |  |  |  | 8.82 |  | - |  |  | -
Forfeited |  | (72 | ) |  |  | 8.89 |  | - |  |  | -
Outstanding at end of period |  | 743 |  |  | $ | 8.81 |  | - |  | $ | -

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