SEGMENT INFORMATION (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Aug. 27, 2011

Schedule of Segment Reporting Information, by Segment [Table Text Block]

Segment information is summarized as follows:



	Quarter Ended					Nine Months Ended
	August 27, 2011		August 28, 2010			August 27, 2011			August 28, 2010
Net sales:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	129,467	$	118,753		$	372,071		$	328,615
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	132,380		119,589			377,998			339,182
Packaging	22,972		24,428			69,003			67,973
	$	284,819	$	262,770		$	819,072		$	735,770

Operating profit:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	30,175	$	25,937		$	80,969		$	67,442
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	13,650		12,887			37,077			27,541
Packaging	2,636		2,868			8,486			5,817
	46,461		41,692			126,532			100,800
Other income (expense), net	99		(18		)	(318		)	(736		)

Earnings before income taxes	$	46,560	$	41,674		$	126,214		$	100,064



	August 27, 2011		November 27, 2010
Identifiable assets:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	340,158	$	292,196
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	701,351		650,530
Packaging	44,308		40,450
Corporate	32,142		59,235
	$	1,117,959	$	1,042,411

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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