Segment Information

The Company has determined that it operates in a single operating segment that encompasses the design, manufacturing and marketing of peripherals for PCs, tablets and other digital platforms. Operating performance measures are provided directly to the Company's Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), who is considered to be the Company’s Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”). The CEO periodically reviews information such as net sales and operating income (loss) to make business decisions. These operating performance measures do not include restructuring charges (credits), net, share-based compensation expense, amortization of intangible assets, charges from the purchase accounting effect on inventory, acquisition-related costs, investigation and related expenses, or change in fair value of contingent consideration from business acquisition.

Net sales by product categories, excluding intercompany transactions, for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 were as follows (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended December 31,				Nine Months Ended December 31,
	2017		2016		2017		2016
Pointing Devices	$	140,983	$	142,166	$	386,700	$	382,249
Keyboards & Combos	126,372		125,289		361,685		359,824
PC Webcams	27,280		30,503		80,371		80,072
Tablet & Other Accessories	26,648		24,852		80,650		59,351
Video Collaboration	46,252		35,807		128,008		88,298
Mobile Speakers	147,377		106,578		300,843		261,046
Audio-PC & Wearables	84,435		67,225		197,082		186,058
Gaming	173,802		107,181		365,232		242,874
Smart Home	38,692		26,942		73,481		49,916
Other (1)	180		164		385		1,187
Total net sales	$	812,021	$	666,707	$	1,974,437	$	1,710,875

(1) Other category includes products that the Company currently intends to transition out of, or has already transitioned out of, because they are no longer strategic to the Company's business.

Net sales by geographic region (based on the customers’ locations) for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 were as follows (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended December 31,				Nine Months Ended December 31,
	2017		2016		2017		2016
Americas	$	380,130	$	290,724	$	887,523	$	753,179
EMEA	253,767		233,251		622,681		576,809
Asia Pacific	178,124		142,732		464,233		380,887
Total net sales	$	812,021	$	666,707	$	1,974,437	$	1,710,875

Sales are attributed to countries on the basis of the customers’ locations.

The United States and Germany each represented more than 10% of the total consolidated net sales for each of the periods presented herein. No other countries represented more than 10% of the Company’s total consolidated net sales for the periods presented herein.

Switzerland, the Company’s home domicile, represented 1% and 2% of the Company’s total consolidated net sales for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2017, respectively, and 2% for each of the three and nine months ended December 31, 2016.

Two customer groups of the Company each represented more than 10% of the total consolidated net sales for each of the periods presented herein.

Property, plant and equipment, net by geographic region were as follows (in thousands):



	December 31, 2017		March 31, 2017
Americas	$	36,688	$	37,242
EMEA	4,604		4,006
Asia Pacific	45,609		44,160
Total Property, plant and equipment, net	$	86,901	$	85,408

Property, plant and equipment, net in the United States and China were $36.6 million and $37.8 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2017, and $37.1 million and $37.2 million, respectively, as of March 31, 2017. No other countries represented more than 10% of the Company’s total consolidated property, plant and equipment, net as of December 31, 2017 or March 31, 2017. Property, plant and equipment, net in Switzerland, the Company’s home domicile, were $2.0 million and $2.1 million as of December 31, 2017 and March 31, 2017, respectively.