Description Of Business

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Description Of Business [Abstract]

Description Of Business

Note 1 Description of Business

Zebra Technologies Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiaries (Zebra) design, manufacture, sell and support a broad range of direct thermal and thermal transfer label printers, radio frequency identification printer/encoders, dye sublimation card printers, real-time locating solutions, related accessories and support software. These products are used principally in automatic identification (auto ID), data collection and personal identification applications and are distributed world-wide through a network of resellers, distributors and end users representing a wide cross-section of industrial, service and government organizations.

In 2008 and 2007, we acquired WhereNet Corp., proveo AG, Navis Holdings, LLC (Navis) and Multispectral Solutions Inc., which we referred to as Zebra Enterprise Solutions Group (ZES). On January 31, 2011, we announced a definitive agreement to sell the Navis operations and certain other assets of ZES. Upon completion of the transaction we consolidated the remaining operations of ZES and no longer report ZES as a separate segment since it is not greater than 10% of Zebra's consolidated totals.

Reclassifications. Prior-period financial results have been reclassified to account for the impact of the disposition of Navis, Zebra Enterprise Solutions GmbH (formerly "proveo AG"), and other immaterial Zebra operations. In January 2011, Zebra announced its entry into an agreement to sell Navis to Cargotec Corporation and on March 18, 2011, Zebra completed the transaction. In August 2011 Zebra sold its interest in proveo AG to F Two NV. Our audited balance sheet at December 31, 2010, has been adjusted to reflect these transactions by separately classifying assets and liabilities of Zebra's discontinued operations. As a result, the statement of earnings for the Navis business, proveo AG and other immaterial Zebra operations as of and for the all periods presented are reported as discontinued operations. Prior-period amounts will differ from amounts previously reported because of the classification of the above operations as discontinued. See Note 23 Discontinued Operations.