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Segment Reporting
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2011
Segment Reporting  
Segment Reporting

Note 7. Segment Reporting:

The products of Altria Group, Inc.'s consumer products subsidiaries include cigarettes manufactured and sold by PM USA, smokeless products manufactured and sold by or on behalf of USSTC and PM USA, machine-made large cigars and pipe tobacco manufactured and sold by Middleton, and wine produced and/or distributed by Ste. Michelle. Another subsidiary of Altria Group, Inc., PMCC, maintains a portfolio of leveraged and direct finance leases. The products and services of these subsidiaries constitute Altria Group, Inc.'s reportable segments of cigarettes, smokeless products, cigars, wine and financial services.

Altria Group, Inc.'s chief operating decision maker reviews operating companies income to evaluate segment performance and allocate resources. Operating companies income for the segments excludes general corporate expenses and amortization of intangibles. Interest and other debt expense, net (consumer products), and provision for income taxes are centrally managed at the corporate level and, accordingly, such items are not presented by segment since they are excluded from the measure of segment profitability reviewed by Altria Group, Inc.'s chief operating decision maker.

Segment data were as follows:

 

     For the Six Months
Ended June 30,
    For the Three Months
Ended June 30,
 
     2011     2010     2011     2010  
     (in millions)  

Net revenues:

        

Cigarettes

   $ 10,735      $ 10,712      $ 5,709      $ 5,589   

Smokeless products

     783        771        404        390   

Cigars

     266        290        149        155   

Wine

     217        201        116        106   

Financial services

     (438     60        (458     34   
                                

Net revenues

   $ 11,563      $ 12,034      $ 5,920      $ 6,274   
                                

Earnings before income taxes:

        

Operating companies income (loss):

        

Cigarettes

   $ 2,883      $ 2,680      $ 1,536      $ 1,450   

Smokeless products

     415        376        222        198   

Cigars

     69        103        47        56   

Wine

     31        19        19        12   

Financial services

     (442     60        (463     39   

Amortization of intangibles

     (11     (10     (5     (4

General corporate expenses

     (111     (99     (61     (52

Reduction of Kraft and PMI tax-related receivables

       (169       (169

Corporate exit costs

       (1       (1
                                

Operating income

     2,834        2,959        1,295        1,529   

Interest and other debt expense, net

     (572     (577     (294     (290

Earnings from equity investment in SABMiller

     344        251        155        113   
                                

Earnings before income taxes

   $ 2,606      $ 2,633      $ 1,156      $ 1,352   
                                

 

Items affecting the comparability of net revenues and/or operating companies income (loss) for the segments were as follows:

PMCC Leveraged Lease Charge – During the second quarter of 2011, Altria Group, Inc. recorded a one-time charge of $627 million related to the tax treatment of certain leveraged lease transactions entered into by PMCC ("PMCC Leveraged Lease Charge"). Included in this charge was a pre-tax charge of $490 million that was recorded as a decrease to PMCC's net revenues and operating companies income (see Note 8. Finance Assets, net, Note 10. Income Taxes and Note 11. Contingencies for further discussion of matters related to this charge).

Asset Impairment, Exit, Implementation and Integration Costs - See Note 2. Asset Impairment, Exit, Implementation and Integration Costs for a breakdown of asset impairment, exit, implementation and integration costs by segment.