Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

SEGMENT INFORMATION

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SEGMENT INFORMATION
 12 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
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 consists of brand management, pre-media services, printing plates and cylinders, engineered products, imaging services, digital asset management, merchandising display systems, and marketing and design services primarily for the consumer goods and retail industries.  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.

Beginning in fiscal 2019, the Company changed its primary measure of segment profitability from operating profit to adjusted earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization ("adjusted EBITDA"). Adjusted EBITDA is defined by the Company as earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation, amortization and certain non-cash and/or non-recurring items that do not contribute directly to management’s evaluation of its operating results. These items include stock-based compensation, the non-service portion of pension and postretirement expense, acquisition costs, ERP integration costs, and strategic initiatives and other charges. This presentation is consistent with how the Company's chief operating decision maker (the “CODM”) evaluates the results of operations and makes strategic decisions about the business. For these reasons, the Company believes that adjusted EBITDA represents the most relevant measure of segment profit and loss.

In addition, the CODM manages and evaluates the operating performance of the segments, as described above, on a pre-corporate cost allocation basis. Accordingly, for segment reporting purposes, the Company has discontinued allocating corporate costs to its reportable segments beginning in fiscal 2019. Corporate costs include management and administrative support to the Company, which consists of certain aspects of the Company’s executive management, legal, compliance, human resources, information technology (including operational support) and finance departments. These costs are included within "Corporate and Non-Operating" in the following table to reconcile to consolidated adjusted EBITDA and are not considered a separate reportable segment. Management does not allocate non-operating items such as investment income, other income (deductions), net and noncontrolling interest to 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.  Segment assets include those assets that are used in the Company's operations within each segment.  Assets classified under "Corporate and Non-Operating" 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: (Segment financial information for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 has been revised to present the prior period information on a comparable basis.)
 
SGK Brand Solutions
 
Memorialization
 
Industrial Technologies
 
Corporate and Non-Operating
 
Consolidated
Sales to external customers:
2019
$
743,869

 
$
636,892

 
$
156,515

 
$
—

 
$
1,537,276

2018
805,274

 
631,392

 
165,914

 
—

 
1,602,580

2017
770,181

 
615,882

 
129,545

 
—

 
1,515,608

Intersegment sales:
2019
703

 
25

 
48

 
—

 
776

2018
310

 
2

 
9

 
—

 
321

2017
356

 
—

 
2

 
—

 
358

Depreciation and amortization:
2019
59,684

 
19,731

 
6,195

 
5,183

 
90,793

2018
46,300

 
20,005

 
5,796

 
4,873

 
76,974

2017
41,941

 
19,808

 
2,863

 
3,369

 
67,981

Adjusted EBITDA:
2019
119,493

 
134,286

 
24,082

 
(56,989
)
 
220,872

2018
150,233

 
145,487

 
25,864

 
(66,470
)
 
255,114

2017
144,783

 
139,192

 
18,481

 
(63,773
)
 
238,683

Total assets:
2019
1,106,276

 
830,377

 
191,533

 
62,417

 
2,190,603

2018
1,285,053

 
814,800

 
196,855

 
61,036

 
2,357,744

2017
1,276,295

 
741,148

 
161,472

 
65,734

 
2,244,649

Capital expenditures:
2019
22,310

 
9,352

 
2,382

 
3,644

 
37,688

2018
22,133

 
15,513

 
2,577

 
2,977

 
43,200

2017
22,941

 
8,078

 
4,622

 
9,294

 
44,935


A reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA to net income follows:
 
 
2019
 
2018
 
2017
Total Adjusted EBITDA
 
220,872

 
255,114

 
238,683

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Acquisition costs (1)**
 
$
(10,872
)
 
$
(10,918
)
 
$
(17,722
)
ERP integration costs (2)**
 
(7,508
)
 
(10,864
)
 
(8,026
)
Strategic initiatives and other charges (3)**
 
(13,449
)
 
(5,266
)
 
(9,209
)
Loss recoveries, net of costs (4)
 
—

 
—

 
10,683

Joint Venture depreciation, amortization and interest expense (5)
 
(1,514
)
 
—

 
—

Goodwill write-down (6)
 
(77,572
)
 
—

 
—

Net realized (losses) gains on divestitures and asset dispositions:
 
 
 
 
 
 
Loss on divestitures (7)
 
(6,469
)
 
—

 
—

Realized (loss) gain on cost-method investments (8)
 
(4,731
)
 
3,771

 
—

Net gains from the sale of buildings and vacant properties (9)
 
7,347

 
—

 
—

Stock-based compensation
 
(7,729
)
 
(13,460
)
 
(14,562
)
Non-service pension and postretirement expense (10)
 
(3,802
)
 
(5,723
)
 
(8,773
)
Depreciation and amortization *
 
(90,793
)
 
(76,974
)
 
(67,981
)
Interest expense
 
(40,962
)
 
(37,427
)
 
(26,371
)
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interests
 
(901
)
 
(260
)
 
(435
)
(Loss) income before income taxes
 
$
(38,083
)
 
97,993

 
96,287

Income tax (provision) benefit
 
(806
)
 
9,118

 
(22,354
)
Net (loss) income
 
(38,889
)
 
107,111

 
73,933

(1) Includes certain non-recurring costs associated with recent acquisition activities.
(2) Represents costs associated with global ERP system integration efforts.
(3) Includes certain non-recurring costs primarily associated with productivity and cost-reduction initiatives intended to result in improved operating performance, profitability and working capital levels. 
(4) Represents loss recoveries, net of related costs, related to the theft of funds by a former employee.
(5) Represents the Company's portion of depreciation, intangible amortization and interest expense incurred by non-consolidated subsidiaries accounted for as equity-method investments within the Memorialization segment.
(6) Represents the goodwill write-down for a reporting unit within the SGK Brand Solutions segment.
(7) Represents a loss on the sale of a controlling interest in a subsidiary and divestiture of a business within the Memorialization segment.
(8) Includes gains/losses related to cost-method investments, and related assets, within SGK Brand Solutions and Memorialization segments.
(9) Includes significant building and vacant property transactions resulting in a gain of $8,663 within the Industrial Technologies segment and losses of $915 and $401 within the SGK Brand Solutions and Memorialization segments, respectively.
(10) Non-service pension and postretirement expense includes interest cost, expected return on plan assets and amortization of actuarial gains and losses. These benefit cost components are excluded from adjusted EBITDA since they are primarily influenced by external market conditions that impact investment returns and interest (discount) rates. The service cost and prior service cost components of pension and postretirement expense are included in the calculation of adjusted EBITDA, since they are considered to be a better reflection of the ongoing service-related costs of providing these benefits. Please note that GAAP pension and postretirement expense or the adjustment above are not necessarily indicative of the current or future cash flow requirements related to these employee benefit plans.
* Depreciation and amortization was $59,684, $46,300, and $41,941 for the SGK Brand Solutions segment, $19,731, $20,005, and $19,808 for the Memorialization segment, $6,195, $5,796, and $2,863 for the Industrial Technologies segment, and $5,183, $4,873, and $3,369 for Corporate and Non-Operating, for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2019, 2018, and 2017, respectively.
** Acquisition costs, ERP integration costs, and strategic initiatives and other charges were $8,903, $11,044, and $14,453 for the SGK Brand Solutions segment, $3,073, $613, and $612 for the Industrial Technologies segment, and $19,853, $13,961, and $19,050 for Corporate and Non-Operating, for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2019, 2018, and 2017, respectively. Acquisition costs, ERP integration costs, and strategic initiatives and other charges were $1,430, and $842 for the Memorialization segment for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2018, and 2017, respectively.

Information about the Company's operations by geographic area follows:
 
North America
 
Central and South America
 
Europe
 
Australia
 
Asia
 
Consolidated
Sales to external customers:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2019
$
1,038,268

 
$
5,853

 
$
426,253

 
$
20,885

 
$
46,017

 
$
1,537,276

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

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Long-lived assets:
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

2019
1,047,505

 
15,585

 
342,802

 
21,278

 
57,729

 
1,484,899

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