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Segment Information

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Segment Information
 6 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
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 related 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.

Note 11.   Segment Information (continued)

Information about the Company's segments is as follows:
 
Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
Six Months Ended
March 31,
 
2017
 
2016
 
2017
 
2016
Sales:
 
SGK Brand Solutions
$
190,120

 
$
184,384

 
$
365,921

 
$
362,675

Memorialization
162,108

 
157,376

 
307,730

 
304,987

Industrial Technologies
28,688

 
25,416

 
56,263

 
53,746

 
$
380,916

 
$
367,176

 
$
729,914

 
$
721,408

Operating profit:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SGK Brand Solutions
$
4,361

 
$
5,500

 
$
8,551

 
$
8,255

Memorialization
22,938

 
19,470

 
37,305

 
27,159

Industrial Technologies
(471
)
 
1,465

 
35

 
3,059

 
$
26,828

 
$
26,435

 
$
45,891

 
$
38,473