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Outstanding Shares Of Company Distributed To Stockholders Of Former Parent, Percentage

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Separation Related Adjustments [Member]

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Represents the number of the company shares distributed by former parent company to the former Parent company stockholders in a spinoff transaction

No definition available.

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Amount charged to advertising expense for the period, which are expenses incurred with the objective of increasing revenue for a specified brand, product or product line.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 720
-SubTopic 35
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6420018&loc=d3e36677-107848

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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