OPERATING SEGMENTS (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2015

Schedule Of Segment Reporting Information By Segment [Table Text Block]

Information on the Company’s two operating segments, the FSG and ETG, for the three months ended January 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively, is as follows (in thousands):



					Other, Primarily Corporate and Intersegment			Consolidated Totals
	Segment
	FSG		ETG
Three months ended January 31, 2015:
Net sales		$182,057		$89,221		($3,093	)		$268,185
Depreciation and amortization	4,812		5,892		200			10,904
Operating income	30,703		19,418		(3,715		)	46,406
Capital expenditures	2,614		1,631		9			4,254

Three months ended January 31, 2014:
Net sales		$181,585		$87,492		($2,251	)		$266,826
Depreciation and amortization	4,920		6,925		205			12,050
Operating income	32,203		22,904		(4,722		)	50,385
Capital expenditures	2,025		1,708		257			3,990

Reconciliation of Assets from Segment to Consolidated [Table Text Block]

Total assets by operating segment as of January 31, 2015 and October 31, 2014 are as follows (in thousands):



					Other, Primarily Corporate		Consolidated Totals
	Segment
	FSG		ETG
Total assets as of January 31, 2015		$776,695		$681,818		$116,747		$1,575,260
Total assets as of October 31, 2014	676,824		703,144		109,246		1,489,214

- 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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