Note 18 - Foreign Operations and Sales

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

Notes to Financial Statements

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

( 1 8 ) 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

2017,

2016

and

2015:

	Domestic		Foreign		Total
2017
Gross sales	$	312,895	$	213,041	$	525,936
Long-lived assets		143,540		168,253		311,793
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

Export sales, included in domestic gross sales, in

2017,

2016

and

2015

amounted to

$195,193,

$182,215

and

$159,048,

respectively.

The following table shows the destination of gross sales by geographic area:

	2017		2016		2015
Europe	$	327,309	$	321,525	$	280,593
North America		170,490		138,328		127,024
Asia		17,625		17,996		14,024
Other		10,512		13,689		12,215
Total	$	525,936	$	491,538	$	433,856

One customer accounted for

35.1%,

36.9%

and

34.5%

of

2017,

2016

and

2015

consolidated gross sales, respectively.