SEGMENT INFORMATION (Note)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 02, 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:

	Quarter Ended						Six Months Ended
	June 2, 2012			May 28, 2011			June 2, 2012		May 28, 2011
Net sales:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	130,677		$	131,276		$	250,960	$	242,604
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	134,629			133,499			255,743		245,618
Packaging	19,549			23,758			35,416		46,031
	$	284,855		$	288,533		$	542,119	$	534,253
Operating profit:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	29,628		$	29,592		$	52,925	$	50,794
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	17,747			16,179			28,452		23,427
Packaging	1,736			3,009			2,046		5,850
	49,111			48,780			83,423		80,071
Other income (expense), net	(36		)	(210		)	610		(417		)
Earnings before income taxes	$	49,075		$	48,570		$	84,033	$	79,654

	June 2, 2012		December 3, 2011
Identifiable assets:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	356,869	$	338,197
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	695,353		693,266
Packaging	38,336		39,571
Corporate	52,302		63,899
	$	1,142,860	$	1,134,933