11.	GOVERNMENT INCENTIVES

In fiscal 2015 the Company completed the relocation of its corporate headquarters and distribution operations from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to southern New Jersey. 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 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 be created and subject to an annual award limit of $4,000,000.

The Grow NJ award 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 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 deferred income taxes. As of May 5, 2018, the Company had recorded a deferred tax asset of $2,829,000 related to the NJ Grow award earned in fiscal 2017, the cash proceeds of which it expects to receive in the second quarter of fiscal 2018. In April 2017 the Company received $3,251,000 cash proceeds, net of costs, from the receipt and subsequent sale of the $3,612,000 tax credit certificate earned for fiscal 2016. During the first quarter of fiscal 2018 and fiscal 2017 the Company recognized $710,000 and $718,000, respectively, of cost reduction related to the Grow NJ award, of which $715,000 and $713,000, respectively, is included in the consolidated statements of operations, including reductions of cost of goods sold of $518,000 and $514,000, respectively, and reductions of selling, general and administrative expenses of $197,000 and $199,000, respectively. Additionally, $771,000 and $776,000, is included in the consolidated balance sheets as of May 5, 2018 and February 3, 2018, respectively, as a reduction to overhead in inventory.