Safeway 2013 Annual Report Download - page 97

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The Company maintains “disclosure controls and procedures,” as such term is defined under Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e), that are
designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the Company’s Exchange Act reports is recorded, processed, summarized
and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to
the Company’s management, including its President and Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely
decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, the Company’s management
recognized that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving
the desired control objectives, and in reaching a reasonable level of assurance, the Company’s management necessarily was required to
apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. The Company’s disclosure controls and
procedures have been designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives. The Company also has investments in certain
unconsolidated entities, including Casa Ley S.A. de C.V. As the Company does not control or manage these entities, its disclosure controls
and procedures with respect to such entities are necessarily more limited than those it maintains with respect to its consolidated subsidiaries.
The Company has carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of the Company’s management, including the
Company’s Chief Executive Officer along with the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the
Company’s disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(b). Based upon the foregoing, as of the end of the
period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer along with the Company’s Chief Financial
Officer concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level. There has been
no change during the Company’s fiscal quarter ended December 28, 2013 in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that
was identified in connection with the evaluation required by Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(d) which has materially affected, or is reasonably
likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Management of Safeway Inc. has prepared an annual report on internal control over financial reporting. The Company’s independent
registered public accounting firm has rendered an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Management’s report
and the opinion of the independent registered public accounting firm is set forth in Part II, Item 8 of this report.
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