SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Net Sales

The following tables set forth information about the Company’s segments for the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014:

Third Party Net Sales

	Three Months Ended
(in thousands)	2015		2014
Dental Consumables, Endodontic and Dental Laboratory Businesses	$	310,316	$	339,281
Healthcare, Orthodontic and Implant Businesses	235,993		264,411
Select Developed and Emerging Markets Businesses	110,011		126,422
Total net sales	$	656,320	$	730,114

Net Sales, Excluding Precious Metal Content

Third Party Net Sales, Excluding Precious Metal Content

	Three Months Ended
(in thousands)	2015		2014
Dental Consumables, Endodontic and Dental Laboratory Businesses	$	292,091	$	305,072
Healthcare, Orthodontic and Implant Businesses	235,810		264,204
Select Developed and Emerging Markets Businesses	103,645		119,906
Total net sales, excluding precious metal content	631,546		689,182
Precious metal content of sales	24,774		40,932
Total net sales, including precious metal content	$	656,320	$	730,114

Intersegment Net Sales

Inter-segment Net Sales

	Three Months Ended
(in thousands)	2015			2014
Dental Consumables, Endodontic and Dental Laboratory Businesses	$	83,889		$	89,458
Healthcare, Orthodontic and Implant Businesses	1,774			2,461
Select Developed and Emerging Markets Businesses	2,876			3,517
All Other (a)	53,886			60,785
Eliminations	(142,425		)	(156,221		)
Total	$	—		$	—

(a) Includes amounts recorded at one distribution warehouse not managed by named segments.

Segment Operating Income

Segment Operating Income (Loss)

	Three Months Ended
(in thousands)	2015			2014
Dental Consumables, Endodontic and Dental Laboratory Businesses	$	103,407		$	106,769
Healthcare, Orthodontic and Implant Businesses	26,529			24,524
Select Developed and Emerging Markets Businesses	(3,886		)	(1,292		)
Segment operating income	126,050			130,001
Reconciling Items (income) expense:
All Other (b)	22,915			23,638
Restructuring and other costs	5,426			793
Interest expense	10,668			10,955
Interest income	(742		)	(1,435		)
Other expense (income), net	609			388
Income before income taxes	$	87,174		$	95,662

(b) Includes the results of unassigned Corporate headquarter costs, inter-segment eliminations and one distribution warehouse not managed by named segments.

Assets

Assets

(in thousands)	March 31, 2015		December 31, 2014
Dental Consumables, Endodontic and Dental Laboratory Businesses	$	1,339,795	$	1,358,018
Healthcare, Orthodontic and Implant Businesses	2,456,208		2,655,622
Select Developed and Emerging Markets Businesses	341,380		369,844
All Other (c)	247,447		266,781
Total	$	4,384,830	$	4,650,265

(c) Includes the assets of Corporate headquarters, inter-segment eliminations and one distribution warehouse not managed by named segments.