Note 19 - Foreign Operations and Sales

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

Notes to Financial Statements

Geographic Areas Revenues and Long Lived Assets Disclosure [Text Block]

(1 9 ) Foreign Operations and Sales

The following summarized data represents the gross sales and long lived assets for the Company’s domestic and foreign entities for

2016,

2015

and

2014:

	Domestic		Foreign		Total
2016
Gross sales	$	270,773	$	220,765	$	491,538
Long-lived assets		136,692		135,523		272,215
2015
Gross sales	$	237,146	$	196,710	$	433,856
Long-lived assets		93,142		132,099		225,241
2014
Gross sales	$	186,735	$	187,415	$	374,150
Long-lived assets		64,995		151,386		216,381

Export sales, included in domestic gross sales, in

2016,

2015

and

2014

amounted to

$182,215,

$159,048

and

$101,101,

respectively.

Sales to geographic areas consist of the following:

	2016		2015		2014
Europe	$	321,525	$	280,593	$	232,894
North America		138,328		127,024		117,477
Asia		17,996		14,024		12,865
Other		13,689		12,215		10,914
Total	$	491,538	$	433,856	$	374,150

One

customer accounted for

36.9%,

34.5%

and

24.0%

of

2016,

2015

and

2014

consolidated gross sales, respectively.