Employee Benefit Plans

3 Months Ended

Mar. 29, 2014

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Employee Benefit Plans [Text Block]

Employee Benefit Plans

The company maintains an unfunded Arrow supplemental executive retirement plan ("SERP") under which the company will pay supplemental pension benefits to certain employees upon retirement. Additionally, as part of the company's acquisition of Wyle Electronics ("Wyle") in 2000, the company acquired a defined benefit plan from Wyle which provided retirement benefits for certain employees.  Benefits under this plan were frozen as of December 31, 2000. The components of the net periodic benefit costs for the Arrow SERP and Wyle benefit plan are as follows:

	Quarter Ended
	March 29, 2014			March 30, 2013
Components of net periodic benefit costs:
Service cost	$	333		$	532
Interest cost	2,205			1,967
Expected return on plan assets	(1,756		)	(1,629		)
Amortization of net loss	821			1,147
Amortization of prior service cost	11			11
Net periodic benefit costs	$	1,614		$	2,028