PENSION PLANS

The Company’s net periodic benefit pension cost was comprised of the following components (in millions):



	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	October 3, 2015			September 27, 2014			October 3, 2015			September 27, 2014
Service cost	$	2.7		$	0.6		$	7.4		$	1.8
Interest cost	2.9			1.9			8.3			5.9
Expected return on plan assets	(2.8		)	(2.2		)	(8.0		)	(6.7		)
Amortization of prior service cost and net actuarial loss	1.0			0.6			3.0			1.7
Net periodic benefit cost	$	3.8		$	0.9		$	10.7		$	2.7

The estimated net actuarial loss and prior service cost for defined benefit pension plans that will be amortized from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss into net periodic benefit cost during the 2015 fiscal year is $4.6 million and $0.2 million, respectively.

For the three months ended October 3, 2015 and September 27, 2014, the Company contributed $0.8 million and $0.9 million, respectively, to defined benefit pension plans. For the nine months ended October 3, 2015 and September 27, 2014, the Company contributed $2.3 million and $2.0 million, respectively, to defined benefit pension plans. The Company expects to make total contributions of $3.3 million in 2015. The Company contributed a total of $3.1 million in fiscal 2014. The assumptions used in the valuation of the Company’s pension plans and in the target investment allocation have remained the same as those disclosed in the Company’s 2014 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 4, 2015.