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CONTINGENCIES
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
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 $26.6 million, $19.8 million and $16.2 million for 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively. Minimum rental commitments under all noncancelable leases, including those pertaining to idled facilities, are presented below.
Minimum Rental Commitments
 
Total
 
2015
 
2016
 
2017
 
2018
 
2019
 
Thereafter
Capital leases
 
$
7.7

 
$
3.7

 
$
2.7

 
$
1.0

 
$
0.2

 
$
0.1

 
$

Operating leases
 
146.2

 
25.7

 
20.1

 
16.0

 
13.8

 
11.9

 
58.7


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, in October 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.
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 in October 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”).
In 2012, the Company recorded a charge of $8.9 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. This charge was included within SG&A expenses in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive (Loss) Income for 2012.
The class action settlement was conditioned, and became effective in August 2013, upon final approval of the derivative action settlement and final dismissal of the actions pending outside of the Delaware Court of Chancery. 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. In June 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 (Loss) Income for 2013.