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Related-Party Transactions
3 Months Ended
Sep. 26, 2015
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related-Party Transactions
10. Related-Party Transactions

Transaction and Advisory Fee Agreement

The Company is a party to an advisory fee agreement pursuant to which affiliates of The Blackstone Group and Wellspring Capital Management provide certain strategic and structuring advice to the Company and certain monitoring, advising, and consulting services. The advisory fee agreement generally provides for the payment by the Company of certain fees, and the reimbursement of out of pocket expenses. The annual advisory fee is the greater of $2.5 million or 1.5% of the Company’s consolidated EBITDA (as defined in the advisory fee agreement) for the immediately preceding fiscal year. For the three-month periods ended September 26, 2015 and September 27, 2014, the annual payment and reimbursements to affiliates of Blackstone and Wellspring totaled $5.0 million and $4.4 million, respectively.

Subsequent to September 26, 2015, the agreement was amended to provide that the advisory agreement will terminate no later than the second anniversary of the initial closing date of the IPO.

Other

The Company leases a distribution facility from an entity owned by an officer of the Company. The lease generally provides that the Company will bear the cost of property taxes. Total rent and taxes paid to the officer’s company totaled $0.1 million for the three-month period ended September 26, 2015, compared to $0.1 million for the three-month period ended September 27, 2014.

The Company does business with certain other affiliates of The Blackstone Group. In the three-month period ended September 26, 2015, the Company recorded sales of $6.7 million to certain of these affiliate companies. In the three-month period ended September 26, 2015, the Company recorded no purchases from affiliate companies. In the three-month period ended September 27, 2014, the Company recorded sales of $7.2 million to certain of these affiliate companies. In the three-month period ended September 27, 2014, the Company recorded purchases of $0.7 million from certain of these affiliate companies. The Company does not conduct a material amount of business with affiliates of Wellspring Capital Management.

As of September 26, 2015, an affiliate of The Blackstone Group held $18.1 million of the outstanding $735.0 million Term Facility. The Company paid approximately $0.3 million in interest related to the three-month period ended September 26, 2015, to this affiliate pursuant to the terms of the Term Facility. The Company paid approximately $0.5 million in interest related to the three-month period ended September 27, 2014, to this affiliate pursuant to the terms of the Term Facility. See Note 5, Debt, for a discussion of the Term Facility.