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Debt (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 28, 2013
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Private Placement Facilities |
|  | Amount of |  |  |  |  |
|  | Borrowing |  | Borrowing |  |
Date of Borrowing |  | Outstanding |  | Rate |  | Due Date
September 2, 2010 |  | $ | 100,000 |  | 3.79 | % |  | September 2, 2020
January 20, 2012 |  |  | 50,000 |  | 3.45 |  |  | January 20, 2024
January 20, 2012 (1) |  |  | 50,000 |  | 3.09 |  |  | January 20, 2022
December 24, 2012 |  |  | 50,000 |  | 3.00 |  |  | December 24, 2024
|  | $ | 250,000 |  |  |  |  |
(1) Annual repayments of approximately $7.1 million for this borrowing will commence on January 20, 2016.
Schedule of long-term debt |
|  |  | December 28, |  | December 29,
|  |  | 2013 |  | 2012
Private placement facilities |  | $ | 250,000 |  | $ | 250,000
U.S. trade accounts receivable securitization |  |  | 160,000 |  |  | -
Notes payable to banks at a weighted-average interest rate of 8.23% |  |  | 73 |  |  | 11,352
Butler Schein Animal Health Supply notes payable to banks (net of discount of |  |  |  |  |  |
| $0 million and $0.7 million) |  |  | - |  |  | 220,439
Various collateralized and uncollateralized loans payable with interest, |  |  |  |  |  |
| in varying installments through 2018 at interest rates ranging |  |  |  |  |  |
| from 2.4% to 5.41% |  |  | 44,091 |  |  | 21,178
Capital lease obligations (see Note 17) |  |  | 1,510 |  |  | 3,144
Total |  |  | 455,674 |  |  | 506,113
Less current maturities |  |  | (5,441) |  |  | (17,992)
| Total long-term debt |  | $ | 450,233 |  | $ | 488,121
Schedule of long-term debt maturities |
| 2014 | $ | 5,441 |
| 2015 |  | 3,223 |
| 2016 |  | 170,336 |
| 2017 |  | 17,801 |
| 2018 |  | 30,302 |
| Thereafter |  | 228,571 |
|  | Total | $ | 455,674 |

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