Segment Information (Note)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 02, 2013

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 2, 2013			March 3, 2012
Net sales:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	117,675		$	120,283
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	122,626			121,114
Packaging	15,970			15,867
	$	256,271		$	257,264
Operating profit:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	23,449		$	23,297
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	9,678			10,705
Packaging	688			310
	33,815			34,312
Other income (expense), net	(11		)	646
Earnings before income taxes	$	33,804		$	34,958

	March 2, 2013		December 1, 2012
Identifiable assets:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	368,872	$	372,011
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	704,486		706,610
Packaging	37,974		36,350
Corporate	74,838		90,531
	$	1,186,170	$	1,205,502