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Significant Operating and Nonoperating Items

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Significant Operating and Nonoperating Items
6 Months Ended
Jun. 27, 2014
Significant Operating and Nonoperating Items  
Significant Operating and Nonoperating Items
SIGNIFICANT OPERATING AND NONOPERATING ITEMS
Other Operating Charges
During the three months ended June 27, 2014, the Company incurred other operating charges of $201 million. These charges consisted of $89 million due to the Company's productivity and reinvestment program and $66 million due to the integration of our German bottling and distribution operations. The Company also recorded a loss of $25 million as a result of the restructuring and transition of the Company's Russian juice operations to an existing joint venture with an unconsolidated bottling partner. In addition, a charge of $21 million was incurred due to the write-down of receivables related to sales of concentrate to our bottling partner in Venezuela as a result of limited government-approved exchange rate conversion mechanisms. Refer to Note 11 for additional information on the Company's productivity, integration and restructuring initiatives. Refer to Note 15 for the impact these charges had on our operating segments.
During the six months ended June 27, 2014, the Company recorded other operating charges of $329 million. These charges consisted of $175 million due to the Company's productivity and reinvestment program and $108 million due to the integration of our German bottling and distribution operations. In addition, the Company recorded a loss of $25 million as a result of the restructuring and transition of the Company's Russian juice operations to an existing joint venture with an unconsolidated bottling partner. The Company also incurred a charge of $21 million due to the write-down of receivables related to sales of concentrate to our bottling partner in Venezuela as a result of limited government-approved exchange rate conversion mechanisms. Refer to Note 11 for additional information on the Company's productivity, integration and restructuring initiatives. Refer to Note 15 for the impact these charges had on our operating segments.
During the three months ended June 28, 2013, the Company incurred other operating charges of $132 million. These charges primarily consisted of $113 million due to the Company's productivity and reinvestment program and $20 million due to the integration of our German bottling and distribution operations. Refer to Note 11 for additional information on the Company's productivity, integration and restructuring initiatives. Refer to Note 15 for the impact these charges had on our operating segments.
During the six months ended June 28, 2013, the Company incurred other operating charges of $253 million. These charges consisted of $215 million due to the Company's productivity and reinvestment program and $41 million primarily due to the integration of our German bottling and distribution operations. Refer to Note 11 for additional information on the Company's productivity, integration and restructuring initiatives. Refer to Note 15 for the impact these charges had on our operating segments.
Other Nonoperating Items
Equity Income (Loss) — Net
During the three and six months ended June 27, 2014, the Company recorded net charges of $6 million and $33 million, respectively, in the line item equity income (loss) — net. During the three and six months ended June 28, 2013, the Company recorded net charges of $3 million and $42 million, respectively, in the line item equity income (loss) — net. These charges represent the Company's proportionate share of unusual or infrequent items recorded by certain of our equity method investees, including charges incurred by an equity method investee due to the devaluation of the Venezuelan bolivar. Refer to Note 15 for the impact these items had on our operating segments.
Other Income (Loss) — Net
During the three months ended June 27, 2014, the Company recorded a charge of $140 million primarily due to the derecognition of intangible assets as a result of refranchising certain territories in North America to three of its unconsolidated bottling partners. Refer to Note 2 for more information related to this charge and Note 15 for the impact this charge had on our operating segments.
During the six months ended June 27, 2014, the Company recorded a charge of $140 million primarily due to the derecognition of intangible assets as a result of refranchising certain territories in North America to three of its unconsolidated bottling partners. The Company also incurred a charge of $226 million due to the expansion of the Venezuelan government's currency conversion markets. Refer to Note 2 for more information related to the North America refranchising, Note 1 for more information related to the charge due to the change in Venezuelan exchange rates and Note 15 for the impact these charges had on our operating segments.
During the three and six months ended June 28, 2013, the Company recorded a loss of $144 million related to the then pending merger of four of its Japanese bottling partners. In 2012, the four bottlers announced their intent to merge as Coca-Cola East Japan Bottling Company, Ltd. ("CCEJ"), a publicly traded entity, through a share exchange. The merger was approved by the respective bottlers' shareowners in March 2013, and the transaction received final regulatory approval in May 2013. The terms of the merger agreement include the issuance of new shares of one of the publicly traded bottlers in exchange for 100 percent of the outstanding shares of the remaining three bottlers according to an agreed upon share exchange ratio. Based on the closing price of the shares on June 28, 2013, the value of the shares that the Company received in exchange for its investments in two of the non-publicly traded bottlers was less than the carrying value of those investments. As a result, we were required to write down the carrying value of these investments to their implied fair value, resulting in a loss. The merger was completed effective July 1, 2013.
During the three and six months ended June 28, 2013, the Company also recorded a gain of $139 million due to Coca-Cola FEMSA, an equity method investee, issuing additional shares of its own stock during the period at a per share amount greater than the carrying value of the Company's per share investment. Accordingly, the Company is required to treat this type of transaction as if the Company sold a proportionate share of its investment in Coca-Cola FEMSA. Refer to Note 15 for the impact this gain had on our operating segments.
In addition to the items above, during the six months ended June 28, 2013, the Company recorded a charge of $140 million in the line item other income (loss) — net due to the Venezuelan government announcing a currency devaluation. As a result of this devaluation, the Company remeasured the net assets related to its operations in Venezuela. Refer to Note 1 for more information related to this charge and Note 15 for the impact this charge had on our operating segments.