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Postretirement Plans (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Oct. 04, 2025
Summary of Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets Related Pension and Other Postretirement Benefit Plan | The following summarizes the company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets related pension and other postretirement benefit plan accounts at October 4, 2025 compared to accounts at December 28, 2024 (amounts in thousands):
|  | October 4, 2025 |  |  | December 28, 2024 |
Noncurrent benefit asset |  | $ | 6,630 |  |  | $ | 6,869 |
Current benefit liability |  | $ | 703 |  |  | $ | 703 |
Noncurrent benefit liability |  | $ | 5,245 |  |  | $ | 5,511 |
AOCI, net of tax |  | $ | 485 |  |  | $ | (257 | )
Summary of Total Cost and Employer Contributions | The Flowers Foods, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan covers substantially all the company’s employees who have completed certain service requirements. The total cost and employer contributions were as follows (amounts in thousands):
|  | For the Twelve Weeks Ended |  |  | For the Forty Weeks Ended |
|  | October 4, 2025 |  |  | October 5, 2024 |  |  | October 4, 2025 |  |  | October 5, 2024 |
Total cost and employer contributions |  | $ | 8,099 |  |  | $ | 7,603 |  |  | $ | 27,360 |  |  | $ | 25,720 |
Pension plans |
Components of Net Periodic Benefit / Cost | The net periodic pension cost for the company’s plans include the following components (amounts in thousands):
|  | For the Twelve Weeks Ended |  |  | For the Forty Weeks Ended |
|  | October 4, 2025 |  |  | October 5, 2024 |  |  | October 4, 2025 |  |  | October 5, 2024 |
Service cost |  | $ | 140 |  |  | $ | 169 |  |  | $ | 467 |  |  | $ | 561 |
Interest cost |  |  | 268 |  |  |  | 272 |  |  |  | 893 |  |  |  | 906 |
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | (318 | ) |  |  | (370 | ) |  |  | (1,061 | ) |  |  | (1,234 | )
Amortization of prior service cost |  |  | 6 |  |  |  | 13 |  |  |  | 20 |  |  |  | 44 |
Amortization of net loss |  |  | — |  |  |  | 9 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 32 |
Total net periodic pension cost |  | $ | 96 |  |  | $ | 93 |  |  | $ | 319 |  |  | $ | 309 |

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