Segment Information (Notes)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2015

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Information

Segment Information

The Company's reportable segments are based on the Company's method of internal reporting, which generally segregates the operating segments by product line, inclusive of wholegoods and PG&A. The internal reporting of these operating segments is defined based, in part, on the reporting and review process used by the Company's President and Chief Operating Officer. The Company has four operating segments: 1) ORV, 2) Snowmobiles, 3) Motorcycles, and 4) Global Adjacent Markets, and three reportable segments: 1) ORV/Snowmobiles, 2) Motorcycles, and 3) Global Adjacent Markets. Prior to the third quarter ended September 30, 2015, we aggregated our four operating segments into one reportable segment. However, the Company now believes disaggregating one segment into three reportable segments provides more beneficial information for our financial statement users.

The ORV/Snowmobiles segment includes the aggregated results of our ORV and Snowmobiles operating segments. The Motorcycles and Global Adjacent Markets segments include the results for those respective operating segments. The Corporate amounts include costs that are not allocated to individual segments, which include incentive-based compensation and other unallocated manufacturing costs. Additionally, given the commonality of customers, manufacturing and asset management, the Company does not maintain separate balance sheets for each segment. Accordingly, the segment information presented below is limited to sales and gross profit data.

	Three months ended September 30,						Nine months ended September 30,
($ in thousands)	2015			2014			2015			2014
Sales
ORV/Snowmobiles	$	1,193,514		$	1,151,410		$	2,846,901		$	2,689,353
Motorcycles	188,679			83,746			535,699			296,327
Global Adjacent Markets	73,807			67,187			231,072			218,968
Total sales	1,456,000			1,302,343			3,613,672			3,204,648
Gross profit
ORV/Snowmobiles	388,542			377,683			927,803			876,900
Motorcycles	28,424			9,076			73,236			43,075
Global Adjacent Markets	21,200			15,717			61,988			58,867
Corporate	(22,543		)	(14,202		)	(34,259		)	(27,237		)
Total gross profit	$	415,623		$	388,274		$	1,028,768		$	951,605