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Allocated Share-based Compensation Expense - stock-based

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Represents the expense for performance-based cash awards that vest over a three year period subsequent to issuance and are accounted for as liability awards.

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Represents the expense recognized during the period arising from equity-based compensation arrangements (for example, shares of stock, unit, stock options or other equity instruments) with employees, directors and certain consultants qualifying for treatment as employees.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SAB Topic 14.F)
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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
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The number of grants made during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)(2)(iii)(1)
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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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Gross number of share options (or share units) granted during the period.

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The number of employees affected by the modification of an equity-based compensation plan.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
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-Paragraph 2
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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=96867065&loc=d3e5070-113901

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Weighted average per share amount at which grantees can acquire shares of common stock by exercise of options.

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For net-share settlement of share-based awards when the employer settles employees' income tax withholding obligations, this element represents the number of shares the employees use to repay the employer.

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STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION (Narrative) (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions	1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2017 employee shares	Sep. 30, 2017 USD ($) shares	Oct. 01, 2016 USD ($) shares	Sep. 30, 2017 USD ($) $ / shares shares	Oct. 01, 2016 USD ($) $ / shares shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Allocated share-based compensation expense \| $		$ 2.9	$ 2.5	$ 11.5	$ 22.0
Options outstanding, granted (in shares)				2,625,716	1,095,823
Weighted average fair value per share of options granted (in usd per share) \| $ / shares				$ 35.99	$ 30.73
Performance-based incentive expense \| $		$ 1.1	1.4	$ 0.8	$ 2.6
Restricted Stock
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based compensation arrangement by share-based payment award, grants in period (in shares)				112,049	118,477
Performance Shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based compensation arrangement by share-based payment award, grants in period (in shares)				324,034	82,787
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based compensation arrangement by share-based payment award, grants in period (in shares)				28,741	28,632
Diamond Foods, Inc.
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Allocated share-based compensation expense - stock-based \| $			$ 0.3		$ 15.4
Diamond Foods, Inc. \| Cash compensation expense
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Allocated share-based compensation expense - cash-based \| $					$ 1.0
Common Stock \| Restricted Stock
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Number of shares repurchased to cover withholding taxes payable by employees upon vesting of awards		1,300	436	42,499	92,181
Former CEO
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Allocated share-based compensation expense \| $				$ 3.4
Trasformation Plan, Performance Awards
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Options outstanding, granted (in shares)	1,630,588
Trasformation Plan, Performance Awards \| Performance Shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based compensation arrangement by share-based payment award, grants in period (in shares)	250,169
Number of employees \| employee	150