Leases

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

LEASES

The Company leases certain manufacturing and distribution facilities, administrative office space, semi-tractors, trailers, forklifts, and other equipment through operating leases with unrelated third parties. The operating leases have remaining terms of up to 12 years and some leases include options to purchase, terminate, or extend for one or more years. The options are included in the lease term when it is reasonably certain the option will be exercised. Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are recognized in lease expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term and not recorded on the Consolidated Balance Sheet.

The Company uses its incremental borrowing rate based on information available at lease inception in determining the present value of the lease payments. The Company applies a portfolio approach for determining the incremental borrowing rate based on applicable lease terms and the current economic environment.

Certain of the Company’s lease arrangements contain lease components (such as minimum rent payments) and non-lease components (such as common-area or other maintenance costs and taxes). The Company generally accounts for each component separately based on the estimated standalone price of each component. Some of the Company’s lease arrangements include rental payments that are adjusted periodically for an index rate. These leases are initially measured using the projected payments in effect at the inception of the lease. Certain of the Company’s leased semi-tractors, trailers, and forklifts include variable costs for usage or mileage. Such variable costs are expensed as incurred and included in the variable lease cost item noted in the table below. The Company’s lease agreements do not contain any significant residual value guarantees or restrictive covenants. The components of lease cost for the year ended December 31, 2019 were as follows:


(in thousands)
Operating lease cost	$	21,899
Short-term lease cost	2,611
Variable lease cost	1,781
Total lease cost	$	26,291

Rent expense for operating leases was $24.2 million and $15.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively.

Future minimum lease payments under operating leases as of December 31, 2019 were as follows:


(in thousands)
Year Ending December 31,
2020	$	26,764
2021	23,042
2022	17,031
2023	11,951
2024	10,477
Thereafter	33,077
Total future minimum lease payments ^(a)	122,342
Less: Interest	(20,801)
Present value of operating lease liabilities	$	101,541

^(a)Refer to the Company’s 2018 Annual Report on Form 10-K for disclosure of future minimum lease payments at December 31, 2018 under ASC Topic 840, the accounting standard applicable to leases prior to the adoption of Topic 842.

At December 31, 2019, the Company’s operating leases had a weighted-average remaining lease term of 6.6 years and a weighted-average discount rate of 5.5 percent.

Cash Flows

The initial right-of-use assets of $66.4 million were recognized as non-cash asset additions upon adoption of Topic 842. Additional right-of use assets of $50.5 million were recognized as non-cash asset additions that resulted from new operating lease obligations during the twelve months ended December 31, 2019, which includes $34.3 million of right-of-use assets from acquisitions. Cash paid for amounts included in the present value of operating lease obligations and included in cash flows from operations was $21.8 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2019.

Finance Leases

The Company has various leases classified as finance leases, which are included in fixed assets, net and long-term indebtedness on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. These leases were not material to the Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2019.

Lessor

The Company has various lease arrangements to lease office space and other real estate under which the Company is the lessor. These leases are classified as operating leases and income associated with these leases is not material.