Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

SEGMENT INFORMATION

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SEGMENT INFORMATION
 12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 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 previously titled Industrial segment was renamed in the second quarter of fiscal 2016 and is now referred to as the Industrial Technologies segment.  The Company believes this new segment name provides a better representation of the nature of business conducted within this segment. 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.

The accounting policies of the segments are the same as those described in Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Note 2).  Intersegment sales are accounted for at negotiated prices.  Operating profit is total revenue less operating expenses.  Segment assets include those assets that are used in the Company's operations within each segment.  Assets classified under "Other" principally consist of cash and cash equivalents, investments, deferred income taxes and corporate headquarters' assets.  Long-lived assets include property, plant and equipment (net of accumulated depreciation), goodwill, and other intangible assets (net of accumulated amortization).
Information about the Company's segments follows:

 
SGK Brand Solutions
 
Memorialization
 
Industrial Technologies
 
Other
 
Consolidated
Sales to external customers:
2016
$
755,975

 
$
610,142

 
$
114,347

 
$
—

 
$
1,480,464

2015
798,339

 
508,058

 
119,671

 
—

 
1,426,068

2014
497,328

 
508,420

 
100,849

 
—

 
1,106,597

Intersegment sales:
2016
346

 
43

 
99

 
—

 
488

2015
478

 
77

 
25

 
—

 
580

2014
463

 
35

 
31

 
—

 
529

Depreciation and amortization:
2016
41,238

 
19,223

 
2,503

 
2,516

 
65,480

2015
46,594

 
12,410

 
2,294

 
1,322

 
62,620

2014
27,700

 
11,486

 
2,203

 
1,475

 
42,864

Operating profit:
2016
42,909

 
68,252

 
7,654

 
—

 
118,815

2015
21,864

 
70,064

 
13,095

 
—

 
105,023

2014
2,536

 
67,937

 
11,049

 
—

 
81,522

Total assets:
2016
1,177,816

 
735,985

 
122,179

 
55,061

 
2,091,041

2015
1,157,771

 
762,028

 
115,664

 
108,148

 
2,143,611

2014
1,263,081

 
557,120

 
115,205

 
72,620

 
2,008,026

Capital expenditures:
2016
22,043

 
11,870

 
3,461

 
4,308

 
41,682

2015
23,676

 
10,922

 
5,866

 
7,787

 
48,251

2014
16,734

 
8,257

 
3,325

 
921

 
29,237


Information about the Company's operations by geographic area follows:
 
United States
 
Central and South America
 
Canada
 
Europe
 
Australia
 
Asia
 
Consolidated
Sales to external customers:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2016
$
1,018,129

 
$
10,160

 
$
27,589

 
$
360,678

 
$
20,043

 
$
43,865

 
$
1,480,464

2015
936,513

 
8,806

 
30,367

 
398,533

 
21,225

 
30,624

 
1,426,068

2014
676,764

 
3,272

 
14,471

 
380,229

 
13,994

 
17,867

 
1,106,597

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Long-lived assets:
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

2016
1,000,870

 
13,267

 
41,393

 
334,847

 
23,768

 
50,677

 
1,464,822

2015
1,016,703

 
17,488

 
41,690

 
349,533

 
22,072

 
50,650

 
1,498,136

2014
918,996

 
10,739

 
36,543

 
391,944

 
21,300

 
31,122

 
1,410,644