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RETIREMENT PLANS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
Postemployment Benefits [Abstract]  
RETIREMENT PLANS RETIREMENT PLANS
401(k) plan and other defined contribution plans
The Company maintains a defined contribution retirement plan for eligible employees under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code. Participants can make voluntary contributions up to the Internal Revenue Service limit of $23,000 ($30,500 for employees 50 years old or over) for 2024. The Company’s United Kingdom-based subsidiary, Lifetime Brands Europe Limited, maintains a defined contribution pension plan.
Retirement benefit obligations
The Company assumed retirement benefit obligations, which are paid to certain former executives of a business acquired in 2006. The obligations under the agreements with these former executives are unfunded and amounted to $4.7 million at December 31, 2024 and $5.6 million at December 31, 2023.
The discount rate used to calculate the retirement benefit obligations was 5.35% at December 31, 2024 and 4.66% at December 31, 2023. The retirement benefit obligations are included in accrued expenses and other long-term liabilities.
The Company expects to recognize less than $0.1 million of actuarial losses included in accumulated other comprehensive loss in net periodic benefit cost in 2025.
Expected benefit payments for each of the next five fiscal years and in the aggregate for the five fiscal years thereafter are as follows (in thousands):
Year ending December 31,
2025$354 
2026351 
2027347 
2028342 
2029337 
2030 through 20341,592