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Segment Information

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Segment Information
3 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Segment Information
Segment Information

The Company manages its businesses under three segments: SGK Brand Solutions, Memorialization and Industrial Technologies. The SGK Brand Solutions segment includes brand development, deployment and delivery (consisting of brand management, printing plates and cylinders, pre-media services and imaging services for consumer packaged goods and retail customers, merchandising display systems, and marketing and design services).  The Memorialization segment consists primarily of bronze and granite memorials and other memorialization products, caskets and cremation equipment primarily for the cemetery and funeral home industries. The Industrial Technologies segment includes marking and coding equipment and consumables, industrial automation products and order fulfillment systems for identifying, tracking, picking and conveying consumer and industrial products.  Management evaluates segment performance based on operating profit (before income taxes) and does not allocate non-operating items such as investment income, interest expense, other income (deductions), net and noncontrolling interest amongst the segments.

Information about the Company's segments is as follows:
 
Three Months Ended
December 31,
 
2016
 
2015
Sales:
 
SGK Brand Solutions
$
175,801

 
$
178,291

Memorialization
145,622

 
147,611

Industrial Technologies
27,575

 
28,330

 
$
348,998

 
$
354,232

Operating profit:
 
 
 
SGK Brand Solutions
$
4,190

 
$
2,755

Memorialization
14,367

 
7,689

Industrial Technologies
506

 
1,594

 
$
19,063

 
$
12,038