Foreign Currency and Other, Net

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

Transactions that are denominated in a currency other than an entity's functional currency are subject to changes in exchange rates with the resulting gains and losses recorded within current earnings. The Company includes these gains and losses related to intercompany loans and debt as well as other non-operating activities as a component of Other income (expense).

Amounts associated with these components for the respective periods are as follows:



In thousands	Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2014			Fiscal Year Ended December 28, 2013			Fiscal Year Ended December 29, 2012
Foreign currency gains (losses)	$	(35,558	)	$	(6,689	)	$	(3,433	)
Other non-operating income (expense)	8,475			(2,162		)	(1,701		)
Total	$	(27,083	)	$	(8,851	)	$	(5,134	)

Amounts included within other non-operating income (expense) are primarily related to fees associated with our accounts receivable factoring agreements. Other items include gains or losses on the sale of assets and other non-operating transactions.

On January 27, 2014, the Company entered into a series of foreign exchange forward contracts with a third-party financial institution used to minimize foreign exchange risk on the future consideration to be paid for the Providência Acquisition and the Mandatory Tender Offer. The primary financial instrument was related to the Providência Acquisition and consisted of a foreign exchange forward contract with an aggregate notional amount equal to the estimated purchase price. On June 11, 2014, the Company settled the primary financial instrument which provided $18.9 million of income realized at the date of acquisition. As the nature of this transaction is related to a non-operating notional amount, changes in fair value are included in other non-operating income (expense).

The remaining financial instruments relate to a series of options that expire between 1 year and 5 years associated with the Mandatory Tender Offer and the deferred portion of the consideration to be paid for the Providência Acquisition. Since inception, the Company recognized a loss of $5.3 million associated with the changes in fair value of the options. As the nature of these transactions are related to a non-operating notional amount, changes in fair value are included in other non-operating income (expense).

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The entire disclosure for foreign currency transactions and translation. This may include description of foreign currency transactions, foreign currency gains and losses, explanation of change in cumulative translation adjustment, description of effect of subsequent foreign currency exchange rate change, cumulative translation adjustment movement, foreign currency translation adjustment by component movement, translation adjustment for net investment hedge movement, adjustment for long-term intercompany transactions, schedule of long-term intercompany balances and any other foreign currency transactions and translation related items.

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