Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

SEGMENT INFORMATION

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SEGMENT INFORMATION
12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 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, 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.

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:
2018
$
805,274

 
$
631,392

 
$
165,914

 
$

 
$
1,602,580

2017
770,181

 
615,882

 
129,545

 

 
1,515,608

2016
755,975

 
610,142

 
114,347

 

 
1,480,464

Intersegment sales:
2018
310

 
2

 
9

 

 
321

2017
356

 

 
2

 

 
358

2016
346

 
43

 
99

 

 
488

Depreciation and amortization:
2018
47,055

 
20,005

 
5,796

 
4,118

 
76,974

2017
41,941

 
19,808

 
2,863

 
3,369

 
67,981

2016
41,238

 
19,223

 
2,503

 
2,516

 
65,480

Operating profit:
2018
35,443

 
86,370

 
11,021

 

 
132,834

2017
24,919

 
80,652

 
7,032

 

 
112,603

2016
42,909

 
68,252

 
7,654

 

 
118,815

Total assets:
2018
1,300,785

 
814,800

 
198,864

 
61,036

 
2,375,485

2017
1,276,295

 
741,148

 
161,472

 
65,734

 
2,244,649

2016
1,177,816

 
735,985

 
122,179

 
55,061

 
2,091,041

Capital expenditures:
2018
22,133

 
15,513

 
2,577

 
2,977

 
43,200

2017
22,941

 
8,078

 
4,622

 
9,294

 
44,935

2016
22,043

 
11,870

 
3,461

 
4,308

 
41,682


Information about the Company's operations by geographic area follows:
 
North America
 
Central and South America
 
Europe
 
Australia
 
Asia
 
Consolidated
Sales to external customers:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2018
$
1,066,367

 
$
6,171

 
$
456,078

 
$
23,276

 
$
50,688

 
$
1,602,580

2017
1,043,924

 
6,518

 
396,242

 
21,507

 
47,417

 
1,515,608

2016
1,045,718

 
10,160

 
360,678

 
20,043

 
43,865

 
1,480,464

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Long-lived assets:
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

2018
1,182,250

 
16,535

 
365,455

 
23,037

 
58,302

 
1,645,579

2017
1,069,862

 
13,882

 
382,940

 
24,887

 
66,138

 
1,557,709

2016
1,042,263

 
13,267

 
334,847

 
23,768

 
50,677

 
1,464,822