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Significant Operating and Nonoperating Items

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Significant Operating and Nonoperating Items
3 Months Ended
Mar. 28, 2014
Significant Operating and Nonoperating Items  
Significant Operating and Nonoperating Items
SIGNIFICANT OPERATING AND NONOPERATING ITEMS
Other Operating Charges
During the three months ended March 28, 2014, the Company incurred other operating charges of $128 million. These charges consisted of $86 million due to the Company's productivity and reinvestment program and $42 million due to the Company's other restructuring and integration initiatives, including 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 three months ended March 29, 2013, the Company incurred other operating charges of $121 million. These charges primarily consisted of $102 million due to the Company's productivity and reinvestment program and $21 million due to the Company's other restructuring and integration initiatives, including 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 months ended March 28, 2014, and March 29, 2013, the Company recorded net charges of $27 million and $39 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 March 28, 2014, the Company recorded a charge of $226 million in the line item other income (loss) — net due to the expansion of the Venezuelan government's currency conversion markets. Refer to Note 1 for more information related to this charge and Note 15 for the impact this charge had on our operating segments.
During the three months ended March 29, 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.