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COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Products Corporation currently leases manufacturing, executive, research and development, and sales facilities and various types of equipment under operating and capital lease agreements. Rental expense was $19.8 million, $16.2 million and $17.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively. Minimum rental commitments under all noncancelable leases, including those pertaining to idled facilities, are presented below.
Minimum Rental Commitments
 
Total
 
2014
 
2015
 
2016
 
2017
 
2018
 
Thereafter
Capital leases
 
$
7.3

 
$
3.4

 
$
2.2

 
$
1.4

 
$
0.3

 
$

 
$

Operating leases
 
78.8

 
28.7

 
13.4

 
9.5

 
6.4

 
4.7

 
16.1


The Company is involved in various routine legal proceedings incidental to the ordinary course of its business. The Company believes that the outcome of all pending legal proceedings in the aggregate is not reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition and/or its results of operations. However, in light of the uncertainties involved in legal proceedings generally, the ultimate outcome of a particular matter could be material to the Company’s operating results for a particular period depending on, among other things, the size of the loss or the nature of the liability imposed and the level of the Company’s income for that particular period.
As previously announced, on October 8, 2009, the Company consummated its voluntary exchange offer in which, among other things, Revlon, Inc. issued to stockholders who elected to exchange shares (other than MacAndrews & Forbes) 9,336,905 shares of its Preferred Stock in exchange for the same number of shares of Revlon, Inc. Class A Common Stock tendered in the Exchange Offer (the “Exchange Offer”). During 2009, several class action lawsuits were brought against the Company, Revlon, Inc.’s then directors and MacAndrews & Forbes (collectively, “Defendants”) related to the 2009 Exchange Offer. Plaintiffs in each of these actions sought, among other things, an award of damages and the costs and disbursements of such actions, including a reasonable allowance for the fees and expenses of each such plaintiff’s attorneys and experts.
On June 21, 2012, without admitting any liability, Revlon, Inc., Revlon, Inc.’s then directors and MacAndrews & Forbes (collectively, “Defendants”) entered into a binding Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Fidelity Management & Research Company (“FMR Co.”) and its investment advisory affiliates, all of which are direct or indirect subsidiaries of FMR LLC (collectively, “Fidelity”), which through various funds and management agreements controlled the largest block of shares to participate in the Exchange Offer, to settle potential claims Fidelity could have had as a potential member of the classes that plaintiffs sought to certify in the pending actions.
Fidelity executed the MOU on behalf of 6,111,879 shares (the “Fidelity Controlled Shares”) out of the 6,933,526 shares (the “Fidelity Shares”) of the Company’s Class A Common Stock that Fidelity exchanged in the Exchange Offer, and pursuant to the terms of the MOU, the remaining 821,647 shares agreed on July 12, 2012, to participate in the settlement. As part of the settlement, Fidelity agreed, among other things, to accept a cash payment from Defendants of $22.5 million (the “Fidelity Settlement Amount”), which amount was paid from insurance proceeds in July 2012, in exchange for Fidelity’s opting out with respect to the Fidelity Shares of any purported class action related to the Exchange Offer and Fidelity’s release of all related potential claims. On July 20, 2012, Fidelity and the Defendants executed a final Stipulation and Settlement Agreement (the “Stipulation”) the terms of which are substantively identical to the terms of the MOU. The Stipulation superseded the MOU. In addition, on July 17, 2012, the Defendants entered into a binding MOU with two additional stockholders who collectively exchanged 310,690 shares in the Exchange Offer, the terms of which are substantively identical to the settlement with Fidelity and called for the payment of $1 million, in the aggregate, to the two stockholders. In August 2012, Defendants and the two additional stockholders executed a final Stipulation and Settlement Agreement which superseded, and was substantively identical to, the MOU. The $1 million payment was paid from insurance proceeds in August 2012.
In the second quarter of 2012, the Company recorded a charge and corresponding income from insurance proceeds related to Revlon Inc.’s estimated allocable portion of the Fidelity Settlement Amount and the additional $1 million payment, which resulted in no impact to the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income for the year ended December 31, 2012.
The Defendants also agreed with Fidelity and the two additional stockholders (together, the “settling stockholders”) that, in the event a settlement was reached with the purported class action plaintiffs, or an award of damages was issued following a trial in any of the actions, and that settlement amount or damage award exceeded the settlement amounts on a per share basis received by the settling stockholders, the settling stockholders would each receive additional consideration subject to certain parameters. The agreements with the settling stockholders were not subject to court approval and had no effect on the actions other than to exclude the settling stockholders from any certified class.
Although the Company continued to believe that it had meritorious defenses to the asserted claims in the actions, the Defendants and plaintiffs agreed to the terms of a settlement and on October 8, 2012, which at the time was pending approval from the courts to which it was presented, executed the settlement agreements to resolve all claims in all of the actions (the “Settlement”).
The Settlement provided that the Defendants would make net cash payments totaling approximately $9.2 million to settle all of the actions, and full and complete releases would be provided to Defendants from all plaintiffs. In addition, when it was approved by the courts, the Settlement resulted in additional payments to the settling stockholders totaling approximately $4.2 million, of which approximately $4 million was paid to Fidelity.
In the second quarter of 2012, the Company recorded a charge of $6.7 million with respect to the Company’s then-estimated costs of resolving the actions, including the Company’s estimate at that time of additional payments to be made to the settling stockholders. In addition to the charge of $6.7 million it recorded in the second quarter of 2012, the Company recorded an additional charge of $2.2 million in the third quarter of 2012 in connection with payments to be made by the Company as a result of the Settlement and the additional payments to be made to the settling stockholders, for a total charge of $8.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2012. This charge is included within SG&A expenses in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income for the year ended December 31, 2012.
The class action settlement was conditioned, and became effective, upon final approval of the derivative action settlement and final dismissal of the actions pending outside of the Delaware Court of Chancery. The derivative action settlement was approved by the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware on April 30, 2013. In early May 2013, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware dismissed the purported class action filed by John Garofalo, and in late July 2013, the Supreme Court of New York, New York County dismissed the Sullivan action. The entire settlement of all the actions noted above became effective thirty days after dismissal of the Sullivan action. In August 2013, a payment of $8.9 million, representing the Company's allocable portion of the settlement amount, was made to settle all amounts owed by the Company in connection with the settlement agreements.
Revlon, Inc. agreed with the staff of the SEC (or the “Commission”) on the terms of a proposed settlement of an investigation relating to certain disclosures made by Revlon, Inc. in its public filings in 2009 in connection with the 2009 Exchange Offer. On June 13, 2013, the Commission approved such settlement and Revlon, Inc. entered into the settlement without admitting or denying the findings set forth therein and, pursuant to its terms, Revlon, Inc., among other things, paid a civil penalty of $850,000. The settlement amount was previously accrued in the fourth quarter of 2012 within SG&A expenses and accrued expenses and other in Revlon, Inc.'s Consolidated Financial Statements.
In September 2013, Revlon, Inc. received a final payment of approximately $1.8 million of insurance proceeds in connection with matters related to the 2009 Exchange Offer. These proceeds were recorded as a gain within SG&A expenses in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income for the year ended December 31, 2013.