Minimum Age Limit For Participating In Savings And Retirement Plan

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Minimum Qualified Service Required To Participate In Savings And Retirement Plan

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Percentage Of Controlling Interest

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Share Based Compensation Arrangement Plan Expiration

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Amount of discretionary contributions made by an employer to a defined contribution plan.

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Percentage of employees' gross pay for which the employer contributes a matching contribution to a defined contribution plan.

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Percentage employer matches of the employee's percentage contribution matched.

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Maximum percentage of employee gross pay the employee may contribute to a defined contribution plan.

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Amount of contributions made to multiemployer plans by the employer. A multiemployer plan is a pension or postretirement benefit plan to which two or more unrelated employers contribute where assets contributed by one participating employer may be used to provide benefits to employees of other participating employers.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 715
-SubTopic 80
-Section 50
-Paragraph 11
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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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The maximum number of shares (or other type of equity) originally approved (usually by shareholders and board of directors), net of any subsequent amendments and adjustments, for awards under the equity-based compensation plan. As stock or unit options and equity instruments other than options are awarded to participants, the shares or units remain authorized and become reserved for issuance under outstanding awards (not necessarily vested).

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The difference between the maximum number of shares (or other type of equity) authorized for issuance under the plan (including the effects of amendments and adjustments), and the sum of: 1) the number of shares (or other type of equity) already issued upon exercise of options or other equity-based awards under the plan; and 2) shares (or other type of equity) reserved for issuance on granting of outstanding awards, net of cancellations and forfeitures, if applicable.

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Gross number of share options (or share units) granted during the period.

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Employee Benefit Plans - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Feb. 29, 2016	Feb. 28, 2015	Feb. 28, 2014	Jan. 28, 2016
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Granted (in shares)	2,478,719
Number of shares available for grants	2,300,000
Multi-employer plan contribution expense	$ 0.3	$ 0.3	$ 0.1
Minimum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage of controlling interest	50.00%
Two Thousand Twelve Equity Compensation Plan
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Number of shares that may be granted			3,000,000
Number of shares available for grants	1,000,000
Two Thousand Twelve Equity Compensation Plan \| Maximum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expiration of Stock option under the plan	10 years
Two Thousand Sixteen Equity Compensation Plan
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Number of shares that may be granted				6,000,000
Granted (in shares)	700,000
Two Thousand Sixteen Equity Compensation Plan \| Maximum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expiration of Stock option under the plan	10 years
401 (k) Retirement Plan
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Minimum age for retirement saving plan	18 years
Minimum days of service required to participate in retirement savings plan	30 days
Maximum percentage of eligible compensation by employee	50.00%
Maximum employer match on employee's contribution	33.00%
Employer matching contribution on employee's salary percentage	6.00%
Employer discretionary contribution	$ 0.9	$ 1.1	$ 0.9