Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Pensions

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Pensions
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2017
Pensions [Abstract]  
Pensions

NOTE 11 – PENSIONS



The Company’s U.K. based subsidiary Austin Taylor maintained a defined benefit pension plan for its employees through March 31, 2016.  The Company does not provide any other post-retirement benefits to its employees.  Components of net periodic benefit of the pension plans for the three and six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016 were:





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Three Months Ended June 30

 

Six Months Ended June 30



 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

Service cost

 

$

 -

 

$

 -

 

$

 -

 

$

 -

Interest cost

 

 

 -

 

 

 -

 

 

 -

 

 

26,000 

Expected return on assets

 

 

 -

 

 

 -

 

 

 -

 

 

(24,000)

Settlement benefit

 

 

 -

 

 

 -

 

 

 -

 

 

(43,000)

Net periodic pension benefit

 

$

 -

 

$

 -

 

$

 -

 

$

(41,000)















The Company settled all its obligations under this pension plan in the first quarter of 2016. The Company had contributed $650,000 toward the settlement of the pension into annuities in 2015, which resulted in the recognition of $1,222,000 of pension settlement costs in the income statement in the fourth quarter of 2015.  The Company contributed an additional $68,000 toward the settlement in the first quarter of 2016, which resulted in a benefit of $43,000 recorded within operating expenses.  As a result of the final settlement of all of its pension obligations, in the first quarter of 2016, the Company recorded $4,148,000 in pension liability adjustment gains previously recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income within operating expenses in the consolidated statement of income.