SEGMENT INFORMATION (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 02, 2012

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

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

- Definition

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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