SEGMENT INFORMATION (Note)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 03, 2012

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

SEGMENT INFORMATION

SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company operates in three principal product segments: Engine/Mobile Filtration, Industrial/Environmental Filtration and Packaging. Net sales represent sales to unaffiliated customers as reported in the Consolidated Condensed Statements of Earnings.  Intersegment sales were not material.  Unallocated amounts consist of interest expense, interest income and other non-operating income and expense items.  Assets are those assets used in each business segment.  Corporate assets consist of cash, deferred income taxes, corporate facility and equipment and various other assets that are not specific to an operating segment.  The Company operates as a consolidated entity, including cooperation between segments, cost allocating and sharing of certain assets.  As such, the Company makes no representation, that if operated on a standalone basis, these segments would report net sales, operating profit and other financial data reflected below.

Segment information is summarized as follows:

	Three Months Ended
	March 3, 2012		February 26, 2011
Net sales:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	120,283	$	111,328
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	121,114		112,119
Packaging	15,867		22,273
	$	257,264	$	245,720
Operating profit:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	23,297	$	21,202
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	10,705		7,248
Packaging	310		2,841
	34,312		31,291
Other income (expense), net	646		(207		)
Earnings before income taxes	$	34,958	$	31,084

	March 3, 2012		December 3, 2011
Identifiable assets:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	351,850	$	338,197
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	682,802		693,266
Packaging	38,194		39,571
Corporate	52,892		63,899
	$	1,125,738	$	1,134,933