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Third-Party Production Payments | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 28, 2024
Deferred Costs, Capitalized, Prepaid, and Other Assets Disclosure [Abstract] |
Third Party Production Payments | I. Third-Party Production Payments During each of the years ended December 28, 2024 and December 30, 2023, the Company brewed, fermented, and packaged approximately 74%, of its domestic volume at Company-owned breweries. In the normal course of its business, the Company has historically entered into various production arrangements with other brewing companies. Pursuant to these arrangements, the Company generally supplies raw materials and packaging to those brewing companies and incurs conversion fees for labor at the time the liquid is produced and packaged. The Company currently has brewing and packaging services agreements with subsidiaries of City Brewing Company, LLC (“City Brewing”). During 2024 and 2023, City Brewing supplied approximately 26% and 22%, respectively, of the Company’s annual domestic shipment volume. In accordance with the brewing and packaging services agreement, the Company has made payments to City Brewing which were principally used for capital improvements at City Brewing facilities. These payments are being expensed over the terms of the agreements and the remaining net book value of these third-party production prepayments was $14.5 million at December 28, 2024. Currently, certain of these packaging and service agreements expire on December 31, 2025 and others on December 31, 2028. The Company has the contractual right to extend its agreements with City Brewing beyond the current termination dates on an annual basis through December 31, 2035. These City Brewing agreements include a minimum capacity availability commitment by City Brewing and the Company is obligated to meet annual minimum volume commitments and is subject to contractual shortfall fees, if these annual minimum volume commitments are not met. In January of 2024, the Company and City Brewing entered into a Loan and Security agreement at which time payment of $20 million was made by the Company to City Brewing. Repayment of the note receivable plus an agreed investment return for a combined total of $22.4 million shall be repaid to the Company subject to annual repayment limits. As of December 28, 2024, the balance of the note receivable was $16.7 million and the final maturity date is December 31, 2028. In December of 2024, the Company announced an amendment and restatement in its entirety of an existing production agreement with a third-party supplier, Rauch North America Inc (‘Rauch’). This amendment adjusted the existing production agreement to better match the Company’s future capacity requirements and resulted in increased production flexibility and more favorable termination rights to the Company in exchange for a $26 million cash payment to Rauch which was paid on December 23, 2024. As a result of the payment, the Company recorded a pre-tax contract settlement expense of $26 million in the fourth quarter of 2024. The amended and restated Rauch agreement includes quarterly minimum payments that total $4.1 million annually at zero volume and a termination fee of $5 million with 12 months written notice. The initial term of the agreement expires on December 31, 2031 with provisions to extend. At current production volume projections, the Company believes that it will fall short of its future annual volume commitments under the City Brewing and Rauch agreements and will incur shortfall fees. The Company expenses the shortfall fees during the contractual period when such fees are incurred as a component of cost of goods sold. During 2024 and 2023, the Company recorded $13.0 million and $9.5 million, respectively, in shortfall fees. At current volume projections, the Company anticipates that it will recognize approximately $30 million of shortfall fees in the future with $14 million forecasted to be expensed in 2025 and the remainder expected to be expensed primarily in 2026. As of December 28, 2024, if volume for the remaining term of the production arrangements was zero, the total contractual shortfall fees, with advance notice as specified in the related contractual agreements, would total approximately $37 million with $27 million due in 2025 and $10 million due in future years thereafter. The Company has regular discussions with its third-party production suppliers related to its future capacity needs and the terms of its contracts. Changes to volume estimates, future amendments or cancellations of existing contracts could accelerate or change total shortfall fees expected to be incurred.

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