Business Segments

9 Months Ended

Sep. 29, 2013

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Reporting Disclosure [Text Block]

Business Segments

Our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is our chief operating decision maker ("CODM").  Our CODM evaluates both consolidated and disaggregated financial information at each manufacturing facility in deciding how to allocate resources and assess performance.  Each manufacturing facility functions as a separate cost center, manufactures the same products, ships product to the same group of customers, and utilizes the same cast manufacturing process and, as a result, production can be transferred among our facilities.  Accordingly, we operate as a single integrated business and, as such, have only one operating segment - original equipment aluminum automotive wheels.  Net sales and net property, plant and equipment by geographic area are summarized below.

(Dollars in thousands)	Thirteen Weeks Ended				Thirty-nine Weeks Ended
Net sales:	September 29, 2013		September 23, 2012		September 29, 2013		September 23, 2012
U.S. (1)	$	65,090	$	66,994	$	219,228	$	233,935
Mexico (1)	126,529		126,932		377,825		377,501
Consolidated net sales	$	191,619	$	193,926	$	597,053	$	611,436
Property, plant and equipment, net:					September 29, 2013		December 30, 2012
U.S.					$	60,028	$	52,458
Mexico					126,749		95,086
Consolidated property, plant and equipment, net					$	186,777	$	147,544

⁽¹⁾ For the thirteen and thirty-nine weeks ended September 23, 2012, net sales totaling $1.5 million and $2.3 million, respectively, were reclassified from the U.S. to Mexico as a result of reallocating intercompany sales transactions that eliminate in consolidation.