Comprehensive Income (Loss)

3 Months Ended

Apr. 30, 2011

Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Abstract]

9. Comprehensive Income (Loss)

The following illustrates the Company’s total comprehensive income (loss) for the thirteen weeks ended April 30, 2011 and May 1, 2010:


	Thirteen Weeks Ended
	April 30,		May 1,
	2011		2010
	(In thousands)
Net income (loss)	$	739	$	(4,368	)
Other comprehensive income (loss):
Translation adjustment		445		592
Change in pension and postretirement liabilities		235		(168	)

Comprehensive income (loss)	$	1,419	$	(3,944	)

The other components of comprehensive income (loss) reflect no income tax expense (benefit) for the periods presented as the Company continues to maintain a valuation allowance for substantially all of its deferred taxes due to insufficient positive evidence that the deferred tax assets would be realized in the future.

- Definition

This label may include the following: 1) the amount of income tax expense or benefit allocated to each component of other comprehensive income, including reclassification adjustments, 2) the reclassification adjustments for each classification of other comprehensive income and 3) the ending accumulated balances for each component of comprehensive income. Components of comprehensive income include: (1) foreign currency translation adjustments; (2) gains and losses on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (3) gains and losses on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (4) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (5) unrealized holding gains and losses on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (6) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (7) the net gain or loss and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

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