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Segment information
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Segment information
Segment information. Prior to 2016, the Company reported three operating segments: title insurance and related services (title), mortgage services and corporate. Effective in the first quarter 2016, as a result of realigning and streamlining the management of the mortgage services operations, the Company began reporting two operating segments: title and ancillary services and corporate. The centralized title services business, previously included in the mortgage services segment, is now included in the title segment. The remaining operations of the mortgage services segment, principally search and valuation services, are not material, in the aggregate, for separate segment presentation and are now included in the ancillary services and corporate segment. In addition, the Company began allocating the costs of its centralized administrative services departments to the respective operating businesses. The operating segments reflect the current manner that management uses in allocating resources and assessing performance of the Company's businesses.

The title segment provides services needed to transfer title to property in a real estate transaction and includes services such as searching, examining, closing and insuring the condition of the title to the property. In addition, the title segment includes centralized title services, home and personal insurance services and Section 1031 exchanges. The ancillary services and corporate segment historically provided search and valuation services, loan file review, quality control services, government services, document management, recording and call center-related services offered to large mortgage lenders and servicers, mortgage brokers and mortgage investors. Beginning in 2017, the principal offering of ancillary services are search and valuation services. Also included in the ancillary services and corporate segment are expenses of the parent holding company and certain other enterprise-wide overhead costs, net of centralized administrative services costs allocated to respective operating businesses.

Selected statement of operations information related to these segments for the years ended December 31 is as follows (2015 amounts have been restated to conform to the new segment presentation):
 
2017
 
2016
 
2015
 
($000 omitted)
Title segment:
 
 
 
 
 
Revenues
1,899,462

 
1,922,422

 
1,904,258

Impairment of goodwill

 

 
1,569

Depreciation and amortization
21,384

 
21,176

 
18,767

Income before taxes and noncontrolling interest
103,361

 
139,083

 
119,032

 
 
 
 
 
 
Ancillary services and corporate segment:
 
 
 
 
 
Revenues
56,262

 
84,218

 
129,627

Impairment of goodwill

 

 
34,180

Depreciation and amortization
4,494

 
8,868

 
11,531

Loss before taxes and noncontrolling interest
(28,294
)
 
(51,057
)
 
(109,339
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Consolidated Stewart:
 
 
 
 
 
Revenues
1,955,724

 
2,006,640

 
2,033,885

Impairment of goodwill

 

 
35,749

Depreciation and amortization
25,878

 
30,044

 
30,298

Income before taxes and noncontrolling interest
75,067

 
88,026

 
9,693


In 2015, management determined a goodwill impairment of $35.7 million related to the ancillary services reporting unit and presented as impairment of goodwill in the 2015 consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss. As a result of the Company's realignment of its operating segments, as discussed above, an impairment of $1.6 million related to the centralized title services business was subsequently included as part of the title segment.

The Company does not provide asset information by reportable operating segment as it does not routinely evaluate the asset position by segment.

Revenues for the years ended December 31 in the United States and all international operations are as follows:
 
2017
 
2016
 
2015
 
($000 omitted)
United States
1,825,186

 
1,889,144

 
1,925,865

International
130,538

 
117,496

 
108,020

 
1,955,724

 
2,006,640

 
2,033,885