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Segment Information

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Segment Information
3 Months Ended
Dec. 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, pre-media services, printing plates and cylinders 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.

Note 11.   Segment Information (continued)

Information about the Company's segments is as follows:
 
Three Months Ended
December 31,
 
2017
 
2016
Sales:
 
SGK Brand Solutions
$
191,766

 
$
175,801

Memorialization
144,889

 
145,622

Industrial Technologies
32,799

 
27,575

 
$
369,454

 
$
348,998

Operating profit:
 
 
 
SGK Brand Solutions
$
3,152

 
$
4,190

Memorialization
14,454

 
14,367

Industrial Technologies
318

 
506

 
$
17,924

 
$
19,063