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Employee Benefit Plans | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 29, 2014
Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract] |
Employee Benefit Plans [Text Block] | Employee Benefit Plans The company maintains an unfunded Arrow supplemental executive retirement plan ("SERP") under which the company will pay supplemental pension benefits to certain employees upon retirement. Additionally, as part of the company's acquisition of Wyle Electronics ("Wyle") in 2000, the company acquired a defined benefit plan from Wyle which provided retirement benefits for certain employees. Benefits under this plan were frozen as of December 31, 2000. The components of the net periodic benefit costs for the Arrow SERP and Wyle benefit plan are as follows:
|  | Quarter Ended
|  | March 29, 2014 |  | March 30, 2013
Components of net periodic benefit costs: |  |  |  |
Service cost |  | $ | 333 |  |  | $ | 532 |
Interest cost |  | 2,205 |  |  | 1,967 |
Expected return on plan assets |  | (1,756 | ) |  | (1,629 | )
Amortization of net loss |  | 821 |  |  | 1,147 |
Amortization of prior service cost |  | 11 |  |  | 11 |
Net periodic benefit costs |  | $ | 1,614 |  |  | $ | 2,028 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for pension and other postretirement benefits. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 715 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2235017 + Details
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