14.	GOVERNMENT INCENTIVES

In September 2013 the Company announced its plans to relocate its corporate headquarters and distribution operations from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to southern New Jersey (the “Project”). The Company completed the relocation of its corporate headquarters in January 2015 and completed the relocation of its distribution operations in August 2015. To partially offset the costs of these relocations, the Board of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (“NJEDA”) approved the Company for an incentive package of up to $40,000,000 in benefits under the Grow New Jersey Assistance Program (“Grow NJ”) in the form of transferrable income tax credits over a ten-year period from the State of New Jersey. The Company’s Grow NJ award required a minimum capital investment of $20,000,000 with the total potential award being equal to the total eligible capital investment in the Project and subject to an overall award limit of $40,000,000. The award provides annually over a ten-year period up to $7,000 per eligible new full-time job, as defined under Grow NJ, with a requirement that at least 100 eligible jobs were created and subject to an annual award limit of $4,000,000.

In September 2015 the Company confirmed to NJEDA that it had submitted all documentation required to qualify for the Company’s Grow NJ award, including certification of over 600 eligible jobs and over $50,000,000 in capital investment, including building construction costs of the landlord for the Company’s newly constructed distribution center in Florence, New Jersey. The Grow NJ award will be earned on an annual basis over the ten-year period, subject to the $4,000,000 annual award limit, with a full annual award in fiscal 2015, and requires an annual compliance report that includes certification of average annual employment figures after the end of each fiscal year. After the end of the ten-year Grow NJ award earnings period there is a five-year compliance period during which the Company must maintain the average of its annual eligible jobs certified during the preceding ten years or a pro-rata amount up to one-tenth of the previously awarded income tax credits would be subject to recapture and repayment to the State of New Jersey annually during the five-year compliance period. The Company believes the likelihood of any recapture and repayment is remote.

The annual benefit from the Grow NJ award available to the Company is expected to significantly exceed the Company’s annual income tax liability to the State of New Jersey. In order to maximize the realizable value of the incentive package, in December 2013 the Company entered into an agreement with a third party to sell 75% or more of the annual income tax credits awarded to the Company. The Company recognizes its Grow NJ award on an annual basis for each fiscal year based on the realizable value of the award earned and expected to be received, primarily from the sale of the income tax credits, net of any associated costs. The Grow NJ award earned is reflected in the Company’s consolidated financial statements as a reduction to the costs incurred by the Company in connection with the relocations. The expected realizable amount of the Grow NJ award is included in the consolidated balance sheet in short-term deferred income taxes.

For fiscal 2015 the Company’s Grow NJ award of $3,600,000 (net of valuation allowance) was recognized during the third and fourth quarters of fiscal 2015, which represented the measurement period for the Company’s fiscal 2015 required average employment certification. In May 2016 the Company received $3,600,000 cash proceeds, net of costs, from the receipt and subsequent sale of the $4,000,000 tax credit certificate earned for fiscal 2015. For fiscal 2016 the Company’s Grow NJ award of $3,251,000 (net of valuation allowance) was recognized ratably during the fiscal year and is expected to be converted to a receivable and collected in fiscal 2017 upon sale of the income tax credits. During fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2015 the Company recognized $3,251,000 and $3,600,000, respectively, of cost reduction related to the Grow NJ award, of which $3,189,000 and $2,852,000 is included in the consolidated statements of operations, including reductions of cost of goods sold of $2,287,000 and $1,846,000, respectively, and reductions of selling, general and administrative expenses of $902,000 and $1,006,000, respectively. Additionally $810,000 and $748,000 is included in the consolidated balance sheets as of January 28, 2017 and January 30, 2016, respectively, as a reduction to overhead in inventory.