Segment Information

3 Months Ended

Mar. 01, 2014

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 1, 2014		March 2, 2013
Net sales:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	122,497	$	117,675
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	174,863		122,626
Packaging	15,325		15,970
	$	312,685	$	256,271
Operating profit:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	22,874	$	23,449
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	8,146		9,678
Packaging	246		688
	31,266		33,815
Other income (expense), net	3,678		(11		)
Earnings before income taxes	$	34,944	$	33,804

	March 1, 2014		November 30, 2013
Identifiable assets:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	357,950	$	397,545
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	1,033,373		715,759
Packaging	37,747		41,030
Corporate	20,944		294,509
	$	1,450,014	$	1,448,843