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Segment Information
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Segment Information

 

12. Segment Information

The Company operates primarily in the print and related services industry, with product and service offerings designed to offer customers complete solutions for communicating their messages to target audiences.

The Company’s segments and their product and service offerings are summarized below:

Publishing and Retail Services

The Publishing and Retail Services segment’s primary product offerings include magazines, catalogs, retail inserts, books, directories and packaging.

Variable Print

The Variable Print segment includes the Company’s U.S. short-run and transactional printing operations. This segment’s primary product offerings include commercial and digital print, direct mail, labels, statement printing, office products, forms and packaging.

Strategic Services

The Strategic Services segment includes the Company’s financial print products and related services, logistics services, digital and creative solutions and print management offerings.

International

The International segment includes the Company’s non-U.S. printing operations in Asia, Europe, Latin America and Canada. This segment’s product and service offerings include magazines, catalogs, retail inserts, books, directories, direct mail, packaging, forms, labels, manuals, statement printing, commercial and digital print, logistics services and digital and creative solutions. Additionally, this segment includes the Company’s business process outsourcing and Global Turnkey Solutions operations. Business process outsourcing provides transactional print and outsourcing services, statement printing, direct mail and print management offerings through its operations in Europe, Asia and North America. Global Turnkey Solutions provides outsourcing capabilities, including product configuration, customized kitting and order fulfillment for technology, medical device and other companies around the world through its operations in Europe, North America and Asia.

Corporate

Corporate consists of unallocated selling, general and administrative activities and associated expenses including, in part, executive, legal, finance, communications, certain facility costs and LIFO inventory provisions. In addition, certain costs and earnings of employee benefit plans, such as pension and other postretirement benefits plan expense (income) and share-based compensation, are included in Corporate and not allocated to the operating segments. Corporate also manages the Company’s cash pooling structures, which enables participating international locations to draw on the Company’s overseas cash resources to meet local liquidity needs.

Information by Segment

The Company has disclosed income (loss) from operations as the primary measure of segment earnings (loss). This is the measure of profitability used by the Company’s chief operating decision-maker and is most consistent with the presentation of profitability reported within the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

 

  

Total
Sales

 

 

Intersegment
Sales

 

 

Net
Sales

 

 

Income
(Loss)
from
Operations

 

 

Assets of
Operations

 

 

Depreciation
and
Amortization

 

 

Capital
Expenditures

 

Three months ended

March 31, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publishing and Retail Services

 

$

643.5

 

 

$

(0.8

)

 

$

642.7

 

 

$

9.9

  

 

$

1,303.6

  

 

$

37.7

 

 

$

11.9

 

Variable Print

 

 

809.0

 

 

 

(16.9

)

 

 

792.1

 

 

 

27.7

  

 

 

2,723.6

  

 

 

35.1

 

 

 

10.4

 

Strategic Services

 

 

650.6

 

 

 

(30.9

)

 

 

619.7

 

 

 

55.4

  

 

 

1,427.0

  

 

 

16.1

 

 

 

9.9

 

International

 

 

639.4

 

 

 

(20.1

)

 

 

619.3

 

 

 

30.2

  

 

 

1,919.5

  

 

 

24.9

 

 

 

12.0

 

Total operating segments

 

 

2,742.5

 

 

 

(68.7

)

 

 

2,673.8

 

 

 

123.2

  

 

 

7,373.7

  

 

 

113.8

 

 

 

44.2

 

Corporate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(27.2

 

 

220.7

  

 

 

1.7

 

 

 

4.8

 

Total operations

 

$

2,742.5

 

 

$

(68.7

)

 

$

2,673.8

 

 

$

96.0

  

 

$

7,594.4

  

 

$

115.5

 

 

$

49.0

 

 

Three months ended

March 31, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publishing and Retail Services

 

$

666.0

 

 

$

(1.6

)

 

$

664.4

 

 

$

21.8

 

 

$

1,439.2

  

 

$

43.4

 

 

$

12.5

 

Variable Print

 

 

663.8

 

 

 

(15.4

)

 

 

648.4

 

 

 

57.4

  

 

 

1,602.5

  

 

 

27.9

 

 

 

10.9

 

Strategic Services

 

 

627.7

 

 

 

(35.7

)

 

 

592.0

 

 

 

58.0

  

 

 

1,445.1

  

 

 

14.8

 

 

 

0.6

 

International

 

 

657.4

 

 

 

(23.7

)

 

 

633.7

 

 

 

27.9

  

 

 

1,962.3

  

 

 

25.9

 

 

 

11.0

 

Total operating segments

 

 

2,614.9

 

 

 

(76.4

)

 

 

2,538.5

 

 

 

165.1

 

 

 

6,449.1

  

 

 

112.0

 

 

 

35.0

 

Corporate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(25.3

)

 

 

557.7

 

 

 

1.6

 

 

 

2.9

 

Total operations

 

$

2,614.9

 

 

$

(76.4

)

 

$

2,538.5

 

 

$

139.8

 

 

$

7,006.8

 

 

$

113.6

 

 

$

37.9

 

 

Restructuring, impairment and other charges by segment for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013 are described in Note 6.