form11_k.htm
 
 



SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549



FORM 11-K






(Mark One)
[X]           ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2007

OR

[   ]
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from                                   to                                      


Commission file number 0-12016


A.           Full title of the plan and the address of the plan,
if different from that of the issuer named below:

INTERFACE, INC. SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT PLAN


B.           Name of issuer of the securities held pursuant to the plan and
the address of its principal executive office:


INTERFACE, INC.
2859 PACES FERRY ROAD, SUITE 2000
ATLANTA, GA  30339


 

 













Interface, Inc.
Savings and Investment Plan









Financial Statements and Supplemental Schedules
As of December 31, 2007 and 2006
and for the Years Ended December 31, 2007 and 2006



 

 


Interface, Inc.
Savings and Investment Plan



Contents
 
Page
 
       
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
1
 
       
Financial Statements
     
       
Statements of net assets available for benefits
 
2
 
       
Statements of changes in net assets available for benefits
 
3
 
       
Notes to financial statements
 
4-8
 
       
Signatures
 
9
 
       
Exhibit Index
 
10
 
       
Supplemental Schedule
     
       
Schedule of assets (held at end of year)
 
12
 





 

 



Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm


Plan Administrator and Trustee
Interface, Inc. Savings and Investment Plan
Atlanta, Georgia


We have audited the accompanying statements of net assets available for benefits of Interface, Inc. Savings and Investment Plan (Plan) as of December 31, 2007 and 2006, and the related statements of changes in net assets available for benefits for the years then ended.  These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plan’s management.  Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).  Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.  The Plan is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal controls over financial reporting.  Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Plan’s internal control over financial reporting.  Accordingly, we express no such opinion.  An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.  We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the net assets available for benefits of the Plan as of December 31, 2007 and 2006, and the changes in net assets available for benefits for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Our audits were performed for the purpose of forming an opinion on the basic financial statements taken as a whole.  The accompanying supplemental schedule of assets (held at end of year) is presented for the purpose of additional analysis and is not a required part of the basic financial statements but is supplementary information required by the Department of Labor’s Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.  This supplemental schedule is the responsibility of the Plan’s management.  The supplemental schedule has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in our audit of the basic financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole.

 
 
/s/ BDO Seidman, LLP
Atlanta, Georgia
June 26, 2008


 
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Interface, Inc.
Savings and Investment Plan

Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits


 
December 31,
 
2007
   
2006
 
             
Assets
           
Investments, at fair value
           
        Common and collective trust
  $ 16,564,594     $ 28,082,027  
Mutual funds
    58,287,529       69,538,137  
Interface, Inc. Stock Fund
    10,656,920       10,881,145  
TradeLink Investments – Self-Directed Brokerage
    302,316       327,260  
Participant loans
    2,435,179       3,884,982  
Cash and cash equivalents
    499       1,544  
                 
Total investments
    88,247,037       112,715,095  
                 
Receivables
               
Participant contributions
    149,601       201,432  
Employer contributions
    58,226       49,079  
                 
Total receivables
    207,827       250,511  
                 
Liabilities
               
Excess contributions payable
    (77,060 )     --  
                 
Net assets available for benefits at fair value
    88,377,804       112,965,606  
                 
Adjustment from fair value to contract value for
fully benefit-responsive investment contracts
    (98,485 )     240,744  
                 
Net assets available for benefits
  $ 88,279,319     $ 113,206,350  
 
See report of independent registered public accounting firm and accompanying notes to financial statements.
 


 
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Interface, Inc.
Savings and Investment Plan

Statements of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits

Year ended December 31,
 
2007
   
2006
 
             
Additions
           
             
Investment income:
           
   Interest and dividend income from mutual funds
  $ 3,265,945     $ 2,075,662  
Interest income from common and collective trust
    1,108,899       1,119,016  
Dividend income from Interface, Inc. stock fund
    57,795       --  
Interest income from participant loans
    248,552       243,750  
Net appreciation in fair value of Interface, Inc. stock fund
    1,995,655       5,562,046  
Net depreciation in contract value of common collective trust
    (339,229 )     --  
Net appreciation in fair value of mutual funds
    2,019,489       5,717,876  
                 
Total investment income
    8,357,106       14,718,350  
                 
Contributions:
               
Participant
    7,136,469       5,993,513  
Employer
    2,891,276       2,031,656  
Rollovers
    280,733       523,803  
                 
Total contributions
    10,308,478       8,548,972  
                 
Total additions
    18,665,584       23,267,322  
                 
Deductions
               
Benefits paid to participants
    10,344,091       11,298,551  
Administrative expenses
    52,280       39,386  
                 
Total deductions
    10,396,371       11,337,937  
                 
Net increase (decrease)
    8,269,213       11,929,385  
                 
Transfers to other qualified plans (Note 1)
    (33,196,244 )     --  
                 
Net assets available for benefits, beginning of year
    113,206,350       101,276,965  
                 
Net assets available for benefits, end of year
  $ 88,279,319     $ 113,206,350  
 
See report of independent registered public accounting firm and accompanying notes to financial statements.
 


 
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Interface, Inc.
Savings and Investment Plan

 
Notes to Financial Statements
 

1.        Description
of Plan
 
The following description of the Interface, Inc. Savings and Investment Plan ("Plan") provides only general information.  Participants should refer to Plan’s Summary Plan Description and Plan document for a more complete description of the Plan's provisions.
     
 
a.
General - The Plan is a defined contribution plan established on October 1, 1988 covering substantially all full-time employees of Interface, Inc. and adopting domestic subsidiaries (the “Company”) who have six months of service and are age eighteen or older.  The Plan also covers part-time employees of the Company who have twelve months of service and are age eighteen or older.  The Plan is subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
     
   
As of September 1, 2005, employees hired on or after this date are automatically enrolled in the Plan at a three percent contribution rate.  Effective January 1, 2007, employees hired prior to September 1, 2005 and who were not enrolled in the Plan were automatically enrolled at a three percent contribution rate.  Employees that do not want to participate in the Plan are required to elect out of the Plan.
     
   
On July 16, 2007, Interface, Inc. sold its Fabrics Group business segment (comprised of InterfaceFABRIC, Inc. and its related subsidiaries) to a third party.  As a result of this transaction, employees of the Fabrics Group ceased to be employees of subsidiaries of Interface, Inc., and the Interface, Inc. Administrative Committee agreed to transfer the Plan accounts, including outstanding loan balances, of those Fabrics Group employees who had account balances under the Plan to a newly established 401(k) plan of the purchaser, effective October 1, 2007.  Fabrics Group employees were not entitled to a distribution from the Plan as a result of the transfer.

 
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b.
Contributions - Each year, participants may contribute up to 40 percent of pretax annual compensation, as defined in the Plan, up to a maximum of $15,500 and $15,000 for 2007 and 2006, respectively.  Participants who have attained age 50 before the end of the plan year were eligible to make catch-up contributions of $5,000 for both 2007 and 2006.  Participants may also contribute amounts representing distributions from other qualified defined benefit or defined contribution plans.  Participants direct the investment of their contributions into various investment options offered by the Plan. The Plan currently offers a common and collective trust, a Company common stock fund, and twenty-one mutual funds as well as a self-directed brokerage account option as investment options for participants. Effective January 1, 2007, the Company contributes 50 percent of the first 6 percent (previously up to the first 4 percent) of base compensation that a participant contributes to the Plan. Employees of certain subsidiaries in the Fabrics Group also received an additional matching contribution of 25 percent of base compensation that a participant contributed to the Plan between 4 percent and 5 percent of compensation, which matching contributions ceased on July 15, 2007. Additional profit-sharing amounts may be contributed at the option of the Company’s Board of Directors in the form of cash or Company common stock.  No additional profit-sharing amounts were made by the Company to the Plan during the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2006. Contributions are subject to certain limitations.
     
 
c.
Participant Accounts - Each participant's account is credited with the participant's contribution and allocations of (a) the Company’s contributions, (b) Plan earnings, and charged with an allocation of certain administrative expenses. Allocations are based on participant account balances, as defined.  The benefit to which a participant is entitled is the benefit that can be provided from the participant's vested account.
     
 
d.
Vesting - Participants are immediately vested in their contributions plus actual earnings thereon. Vesting in the Company’s contribution portion of their accounts is based on years of continuous service.  A participant is 100 percent vested after five years of credited service beginning with 20 percent after year one.

 
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e.
Participant Loans - Participants may borrow from their accounts a minimum of $1,000 up to a maximum equal to the lesser of $50,000 or 50 percent of their account balance. The loans are secured by the balance in the participant’s account and bear interest at a rate commensurate with local prevailing rates as determined by the plan administrator on the date of the loan.  Interest rates are currently equal to the prime rate plus one percent. Principal and interest are paid ratably through payroll deductions.
     
 
f.
Payment of Benefits - On termination of service due to death, disability, retirement, or separation of service, a participant is eligible to receive a lump-sum amount equal to the value of the participant’s vested interest in his or her account.  Withdrawals from the Plan may also be made upon circumstances of financial hardship, in accordance with provisions specified in the Plan
     
 
g.
Forfeited Accounts - Forfeited nonvested accounts are used to reduce employer contributions. During the Plan years ended December 31, 2007 and 2006, forfeited amounts were not material to the financial statements.
     
 
h.
Administrative Expenses - The Company pays the majority of the Plan’s administrative expenses.  Fees recorded in the Plan for the 2007 and 2006 Plan years relate to recordkeeping fees and participant loans, and are charged directly to those participant accounts.
 
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2.     Summary of
Significant
Accounting
Policies
 
Basis of Accounting
 
The financial statements of the Plan are prepared under the accrual method of accounting.
     
   
Management Estimates
 
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.  Actual results could differ from those estimates.
 
 
As described in Financial Accounting Standards Board Staff Position, FSP AAG INV-1 and SOP 94-4-1, “Reporting of Fully Benefit-Responsive Investment Contracts Held by Certain Investment Companies Subject to the AICPA Investment Company Guide and Defined-Contribution Health and Welfare and Pension Plans” (the FSP), investment contracts held by a defined contribution plan are required to be reported at fair value.  However, contract value is the relevant measurement attribute for that portion of the net assets available for benefits of a defined contribution plan attributable to fully benefit-responsive investment contracts because contract value is the amount participants would receive if they were to initiate permitted transactions under the terms of the plan.  As required by the FSP, the statement of Net Assets Available for Benefits presents the fair value of the investment contracts as well as the adjustment of the fully benefit-responsive investment contracts from fair value to contract value.  The Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits is prepared on a contract value basis.
     
   
Investment Valuation and Income Recognition
 
The Plan’s investments are stated at fair value.  Quoted market prices are used to value investments.  Shares of the mutual funds are valued at the net asset value of shares held by the Plan at year end.  Common collective trusts are valued at contract value.  Participant loans are valued at their outstanding balances, which approximate fair value.  The  Company common stock fund is valued based upon the quoted market price for Interface, Inc. Class A Common Stock.
     
   
Purchases and sales of securities are recorded on a trade-date basis. Interest income is recorded on the accrual basis. Dividends are recorded on the ex-dividend date. 
     
   
Payment of Benefits
 
Benefits are recorded when paid.

 
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3.        Investments
 
The fair market value of individual investments that represent 5 percent or more of the Plan’s net assets are as follows:

 
December 31,
 
2007
   
2006
 
               
 
T. Rowe Price Stable Value Fund
(Common and collective trust)
  $ 16,564,594     $ 28,082,027  
 
T. Rowe Price Balanced Fund
    10,586,925       10,296,168  
 
T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund
    11,859,517       13,505,791  
 
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund
    14,619,111       18,780,071  
 
Interface, Inc. Stock Fund
    10,656,920       10,881,145  
 
Delaware Select Growth Fund
    *       6,626,337  
 
*Represents less than 5% of net assets available for benefits in the respective year.
 

4.  Related Party
          Transactions
 
Certain Plan investments are shares of mutual funds and units of a stable value fund managed by T. Rowe Price Trust Company.  T. Rowe Price Trust Company is a trustee as defined by the Plan and, therefore, these transactions qualify as party-in-interest.
   
 
At December 31, 2007 and 2006, the Plan held 652,998 and 765,200 shares, respectively, of common stock of Interface, Inc., the sponsoring employer.  The Plan also issues loans to participants, which are secured by the balances in the participants’ accounts.
   
5.  Plan
         Termination
 
Although it has not expressed any intent to do so, the Company has the right under the Plan to discontinue its contributions at any time, and to amend or terminate the Plan subject to the provisions of ERISA.  In the event of Plan termination, participants would become 100 percent vested in their employer contributions.
   
6.  Tax Status
 
The Internal Revenue Service has determined and informed the Company by a letter dated December 12, 2002, that the Plan and related trust are designed in accordance with applicable sections of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC).  The Plan has been amended since reviewing the determination letter.  However, the Plan administrator and the Plan’s tax counsel believe that the Plan is designed and is currently being operated in compliance with the applicable requirements of the IRC.
 
7.        Risks and
Uncertainties
 
The Plan invests in various investment securities.  Investment securities are exposed to various risks such as interest rate, market and credit risks.  Due to the level of risk associated with certain investment securities, it is at least reasonably possible that changes in the values of investment securities will occur in the near term and that such changes could materially affect participants’ account balances and the amounts reported in the Statement of Net Assets Available for Benefits.


 
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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the trustees (or other persons who administer the employee benefit plan) have duly caused this annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


 
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE OF THE
 
INTERFACE, INC. SAVINGS AND
 
INVESTMENT PLAN
   
   
   
Date:  June 26, 2008
By: __/s/William G. Reynolds____________________________________
 
William G. Reynolds, Member



 
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EXHIBIT INDEX



Exhibit No.
 
Document
     
23.1
 
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm




 
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SUPPLEMENTAL SCHEDULE


 
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Interface, Inc.
Savings and Investment Plan

Form  5500, Schedule H, Part IV, Line 4i
Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year)
December 31, 2007

 
     
Employer Identification Number: 58-1451243
 
     
Plan Number: 002
 
     
Form: 5500
 
                   
   
(b)
(c)
       
(e)
 
   
Identity of
Description of
 
(d)
   
Current
 
(a)
 
Issuer
Investment
 
Cost
   
Value
 
                   
  *  
T. Rowe Price Settlement Fund
Uninvested cash
    a     $ 499  
                         
     
Common Collective Trusts:
                 
                         
  *  
T. Rowe Price Stable Value Fund
16,564,594 units
    a       16,564,594  
                         
     
Mutual Funds:
                 
     
Ariel Appreciation Fund
73,416 shares
    a       3,161,312  
     
N&B Socially Responsible Fund
40,457 shares
    a       1,077,377  
     
Delaware Select Growth Fund
105,908 shares
    a       3,201,610  
  *  
T. Rowe Price Equity Index 500 Fund
62,453 shares
    a       2,458,168  
  *  
T. Rowe Price Balanced Fund
513,928 shares
    a       10,586,925  
  *  
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund
520,253 shares
    a       14,619,111  
  *  
T. Rowe Price Spectrum Income Fund
258,024 shares
    a       3,150,476  
  *  
T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund
294,793 shares
    a       11,859,517  
     
William Blair Small Cap Growth Fund
50,988 shares
    a       1,188,021  
     
Allianz RCM Technology Admin
18,161 shares
    a       933,279  
     
Invesco Ret Trust Intl Equity
53,397 shares
    a       2,135,873  
     
Retirement Income Fund
3,339 shares
    a       44,413  
     
Retirement 2005 Fund
1,961 shares
    a       23,117  
     
Retirement 2010 Fund
27,564 shares
   
a
      446,813  
     
Retirement 2015 Fund
54,368 shares
    a       687,756  
     
Retirement 2020 Fund
39,652 shares
    a       703,434  
     
Retirement 2025 Fund
39,125 shares
    a       515,667  
     
Retirement 2030 Fund
29,448 shares
    a       560,977  
     
Retirement 2035 Fund
16,560 shares
    a       223,721  
     
Retirement 2040 Fund
17,961 shares
    a       344,843  
     
Retirement 2045 Fund
28,682 shares
    a       365,119  
                         
     
Total Mutual Funds
              58,287,529  
                         
     
TradeLink Investments – Self Directed Brokerage
302,316 shares
    a       302,316  
                         
  *  
Interface, Inc. Stock Fund – Employer Securities
652,998 shares
    a       10,656,920  
                         
  *  
Participant loans
731 loans with interest rates ranging
between 5.00 to 9.50 percent
    -       2,435,179  
                         
     
Total Investments
            $ 88,247,037  
*Party-in-interest
a – The cost of participant-directed investments is not required to be disclosed.


 
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