Segment Information (Note)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 01, 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					Nine Months Ended
	September 1, 2012			August 27, 2011		September 1, 2012		August 27, 2011
Net sales:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	126,903		$	129,467	$	377,863	$	372,071
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	138,532			132,380		394,275		377,998
Packaging	21,298			22,972		56,714		69,003
	$	286,733		$	284,819	$	828,852	$	819,072
Operating profit:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	28,478		$	30,175	$	81,403	$	80,969
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	15,741			13,650		44,193		37,077
Packaging	1,962			2,636		4,008		8,486
	46,181			46,461		129,604		126,532
Other income (expense), net	(206		)	99		404		(318		)
Earnings before income taxes	$	45,975		$	46,560	$	130,008	$	126,214

	September 1, 2012		December 3, 2011
Identifiable assets:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	362,870	$	338,197
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	704,820		693,266
Packaging	39,930		39,571
Corporate	73,799		63,899
	$	1,181,419	$	1,134,933