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Segment Information

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Segment Information
6 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
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.

Information about the Company's segments is as follows:
 
Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
Six Months Ended
March 31,
 
2018
 
2017
 
2018
 
2017
Sales:
 
SGK Brand Solutions
$
207,052

 
$
190,120

 
$
398,818

 
$
365,921

Memorialization
168,689

 
162,108

 
313,578

 
307,730

Industrial Technologies
38,320

 
28,688

 
71,119

 
56,263

 
$
414,061

 
$
380,916

 
$
783,515

 
$
729,914

Operating profit:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SGK Brand Solutions
$
5,090

 
$
4,361

 
$
8,242

 
$
8,551

Memorialization
23,910

 
22,938

 
38,364

 
37,305

Industrial Technologies
791

 
(471
)
 
1,109

 
35

 
$
29,791

 
$
26,828

 
$
47,715

 
$
45,891