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Restructuring Activities | 9 Months Ended
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Oct. 07, 2017
Restructuring And Related Activities [Abstract] |
Restructuring Activities | 4. RESTRUCTURING ACTIVITIES On August 10, 2016, we announced the launch of Project Centennial, a comprehensive business and operational review. We are evaluating opportunities to enhance revenue growth, streamline operations, improve efficiencies, and make investments that strengthen our competitive position and improve margins over the long term. We began Project Centennial with an evaluation of our brands, product mix, and organization structure. We then developed strategic priorities to help us capitalize on retail and consumer changes. The primary objective is to improve margins and profitably grow the top-line over time. These priorities are as follows: Reduce costs to fuel growth. The company is focusing on reducing costs in our purchased goods and services initiative and our supply chain optimization plan. Purchased goods and services operations will be centralized to create standardization, continuously improve, and develop consistent policies and specifications. Supply chain optimization intends to reduce operational complexity and capitalize on scale. This initiative includes, and will continue to include, consulting and other third-party costs as we finalize the organizational structure. We incurred $31.8 million for these non-restructuring consulting costs during the forty weeks ended October 7, 2017. Develop leading capabilities. Today, we report our financial results in either the DSD Segment or the Warehouse Segment. On May 3, 2017, the company announced an enhanced organizational structure designed to provide greater focus on the company’s strategic objectives, emphasize brand growth and innovation in line with a national branded food company, drive enhanced accountability, reduce costs, and strengthen long-term strategy. The new organizational structure will establish two BUs, Fresh Bakery and Specialty/Snacking, and realigns key leadership roles. The new structure also provides for centralized marketing, sales, supply chain, shared-services/administrative, and corporate strategy functions, each with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. The company intends to transition to the new structure over the next several months with full implementation expected to be completed at the beginning of fiscal 2019. We began relocating certain employees during the third quarter of fiscal 2017 as we transition to the enhanced organizational structure. Reorganization costs of $0.5 million for relocating employees were incurred during the third quarter of fiscal 2017 in the restructuring and related impairment charges line item on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. We anticipate incurring additional reorganization costs as we continue implementing the enhanced organizational structure. The current DSD and warehouse segmentation will remain until the new structure is in place. On July 17, 2017, the company commenced a voluntary employee separation incentive plan (the “VSIP”). The VSIP was implemented as part of our effort to restructure, streamline operations, and better position the company for profitable growth. The VSIP election period closed on September 25, 2017 and resulted in 323 employees accepting the offer. The separations began on September 7, 2017, with the remaining separations expected to occur primarily throughout the remainder of fiscal 2017. We recorded an aggregate charge of $29.0 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2017. Approximately 25% of this amount will be paid during the remainder of fiscal 2017, and the balance will be paid during the first quarter of fiscal 2018. These charges consist primarily of employee severance and benefits-related costs and are recorded in the restructuring and related impairment charges line item on our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. Reinvigorate core business. This objective is to invest in our brands to align brands to consumers to maximize our return on investment. We expect to incur significant incremental marketing costs annually for brand development. These costs will not be restructuring and will be recognized as incurred. Project Centennial also included a brand rationalization study to identify high-potential and established brands to focus on innovation and cash flow, respectively. The study, which concluded in our third quarter of fiscal 2017, changed the outlook for several brands and resulted in the recognition of an impairment on certain of these finite-lived and indefinite-lived intangible trademark assets in our third quarter of fiscal 2017. The total intangible asset impairment charges, which are recorded in the restructuring and related impairment charges line item in our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations, were $66.2 million. See Note 7, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets, for more information on these charges. Project Centennial is expected to be completed by our fiscal 2021. We were not able to estimate the timing or cost of these activities until this quarter. On August 9, 2017, the company announced the closure of a Warehouse Segment snack cake plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The bakery will close in November 2017. The closure costs were $4.4 million and consisted of $3.4 million for property, plant and equipment impairments and $1.0 million for employee termination benefits. These amounts are recorded in the restructuring and related impairment charges line item on our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. The company continues to explore additional opportunities to streamline our core operations but as of October 7, 2017, we cannot estimate the additional costs to be incurred for this initiative. Capitalize on product adjacencies. This initiative will focus on growing share in underdeveloped markets. Adjacencies are geographic and product categories that will allow us to leverage our competitive advantages. This can be done either organically with our high-potential brands or through strategic acquisitions. As of October 7, 2017, we cannot estimate how much this initiative will cost for restructuring. See Note 17, Segment Reporting, for the allocation of restructuring charges to each of our segments. The table below presents the components of costs associated with Project Centennial (amounts in thousands):
|  | For the Twelve Weeks Ended |  |  | For the Forty Weeks Ended |
|  | October 7, 2017 |  |  | October 7, 2017 |
Restructuring and related impairment charges: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Reorganization costs |  | $ | 516 |  |  | $ | 516 |
VSIP |  |  | 28,982 |  |  |  | 28,982 |
Impairment of assets |  |  | 69,651 |  |  |  | 69,651 |
Employee termination benefits |  |  | 1,400 |  |  |  | 1,400 |
Restructuring and related impairment charges (1) |  |  | 100,549 |  |  |  | 100,549 |
Project Centennial implementation costs (2) |  |  | 7,050 |  |  |  | 31,845 |
Total Project Centennial restructuring and implementation costs |  | $ | 107,599 |  |  | $ | 132,394 |
(1) | Presented on our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
(2) | Costs are recorded in the selling, distribution, and administrative expenses line item of our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
The table below presents the components of, and changes in, our restructuring accruals (amounts in thousands):
|  | VSIP |  |  | Employee termination benefits(1) |  |  | Impairment of assets(2) |  |  | Reorganization costs(3) |  |  | Total |
Liability balance at December 31, 2016 |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |
Charges |  |  | 28,982 |  |  |  | 1,400 |  |  |  | 69,651 |  |  |  | 516 |  |  |  | 100,549 |
Cash payments |  |  | (892 | ) |  |  | (147 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | (516 | ) |  |  | (1,555 | )
Non-cash settlements |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | (69,651 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | (69,651 | )
Liability balance (4) at October 7, 2017 |  | $ | 28,090 |  |  | $ | 1,253 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 29,343 |
(1) | Employee termination benefits are not related to the VSIP.
(2) | Asset impairments are a non-cash expense recorded as a reduction to intangible assets and property, plant, and equipment. These transactions did not impact the liability balance.
(3) | Reorganization costs include employee relocation expenses.
(4) | Recorded in the other accrued current liabilities line item of our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

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