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Selected Quarterly Financial Data (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 29, 2012
Quarterly Financial Information Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Quarterly Financial Information | The unaudited quarterly financial data for the fiscal years ended December 29, 2012 and December 31, 2011 are presented below. All quarters included below were comprised of 13 weeks.
Quarterly data for fiscal 2012: | Successor
In thousands | Fourth Quarter Ended December 29, 2012 |  | Third Quarter Ended September 29, 2012 |  | Second Quarter Ended June 30, 2012 |  | First Quarter Ended March 31, 2012
Operating Data: |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net sales | $ | 273,651 |  |  | $ | 290,097 |  |  | $ | 296,244 |  |  | $ | 295,171 |
Gross profit | 45,666 |  |  | 51,974 |  |  | 46,419 |  |  | 53,187 |
Net income (loss) | (15,033 | ) |  | 1,354 |  |  | (12,094 | ) |  | (265 | )
Quarterly data for fiscal 2011: | Successor |  | Predecessor
In thousands | Fourth Quarter Ended December 31, 2011 |  | Third Quarter Ended October 1, 2011 |  | Second Quarter Ended July 2, 2011 |  | Two Months Ended April 2, 2011 |  | One Month Ended January 28, 2011
Operating Data: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net sales | $ | 291,937 |  |  | $ | 315,498 |  |  | $ | 296,457 |  |  | $ | 199,037 |  |  | $ | 84,606 |
Gross profit | 48,097 |  |  | 48,989 |  |  | 48,612 |  |  | 24,708 |  |  | 16,075 |
Net income (loss) | (21,421 | ) |  | (9,188 | ) |  | (9,399 | ) |  | (36,104 | ) |  | (18,120 | )
Net income (loss) attributable to Polymer Group, Inc | (21,421 | ) |  | (9,188 | ) |  | (9,399 | ) |  | (36,163 | ) |  | (18,203 | )

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the quarterly financial data in the annual financial statements. The disclosure includes financial information for each fiscal quarter for the current and previous year, including revenues, gross profit, income (loss) before extraordinary items and cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle and earnings per share data. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 270 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (a)-(j) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=20225539&loc=d3e1280-108306 + Details
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