The Company is engaged from time-to-time in routine legal proceedings incidental to its business. The Company does not believe that these routine legal proceedings, taken as a whole, will have a material impact on its business or financial condition. While the ultimate effect of such actions cannot be predicted with certainty, management believes that their outcome will not result in an adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position, operating results or liquidity.

The Company subleases property at certain locations and for 2023, 2022 and 2021, received rental income of $3.8 million, $3.9 million and $4.4 million, respectively. In the event of customer default, the Company would be responsible for fulfilling these lease obligations. Future payment obligations under these leases are disclosed in Note 10. Contingencies related to credit risk and collectability are disclosed in Note 2.

Unions represent approximately 7% of SpartanNash’s Associates. These Associates are covered by collective bargaining agreements (“CBAs”). The facilities covered by CBAs, the unions representing the covered Associates and the expiration dates for each existing CBA are provided in the following table:


Distribution Center Locations	Union Locals	Expiration Dates
Lima, Ohio Warehouse	IBT 908	January 2025
Lima, Ohio Drivers	IBT 908	January 2025
Bellefontaine, Ohio GTL Truck Lines, Inc.	IBT 908	February 2025
Bellefontaine, Ohio General Merchandise Service Division	IBT 908	February 2025
Norfolk, Virginia	IBT 822	April 2025
Columbus, Georgia	IBT 528	September 2025
Grand Rapids, Michigan	IBT 406	April 2026
Landover, Maryland	IBT 639	February 2027

The Company contributes to the Central States Southeast and Southwest Pension Fund (the “Central States Plan” or the “Plan”), a multi-employer pension plan, in accordance with provisions in place in collective bargaining agreements covering its supply chain operations in Bellefontaine and Lima, Ohio and Grand Rapids, Michigan. This Plan provides retirement benefits to participants based on their service to contributing employers. The benefits to participants under the Plan are paid from assets held in trust for that purpose. An equal number of Trustees are appointed by a combination of contributing employers the applicable union(s); however, no representative of SpartanNash is currently serving as a trustee of the Plan. The trustees are responsible for determining the level of benefits to be provided to participants, as well as for such matters as the investment of the assets held in trust and the overall administration of the plan. The Central States Plan implemented a rehabilitation plan on March 25, 2008.

The Company's contributions to the Central States Plan are established by each applicable collective bargaining agreement and vary by location. However, required contributions may increase based on the funded status of the Plan and legal requirements. On January 12, 2023, the Central States Plan received approximately $35.8 billion in Special Financial Assistance ("SFA"), inclusive of interest, which is designed to alleviate the risk of insolvency of the Plan. On March 31, 2023, in accordance with the Pension Protection Act ("PPA"), the plan actuary certified that the Plan was considered to be in "critical" zone status for the plan year beginning January 1, 2023. Due to the receipt of the SFA, the Central States Plan has stated that it expects it "will be funded well into the future". Despite the expectations of the Plan, the Company views the Plan's solvency as an ongoing risk factor.

The risk of participating in a multi-employer pension plan is different from the risk associated with single-employer plans in the following respects:

Based on the most recent information available to the Company, management believes that the value of assets held in trust to pay benefits covers the present value of actuarial accrued liabilities in the Central States Plan. Management is not aware of any significant change in funding levels in the Plan since December 30, 2023. Due to uncertainty regarding future factors that could trigger a withdrawal liability, as well as the absence of specific information regarding matters such as the Plan’s current financial situations, we are unable to determine with certainty the current amount of the Plan’s funding and/or SpartanNash’s current potential withdrawal liability exposure in the event of a future withdrawal from the Plan. Any adjustment for withdrawal liability would be recorded when it is probable that a liability exists and can be reasonably determined.