SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:

SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:

NOTE 9—SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:

The Company operates as a single reportable segment encompassing the manufacture and sale of confectionery products. Its principal manufacturing operations are located in the United States and Canada, and its principal market is the United States. The Company also manufactures confectionery products in Mexico primarily for sale in Mexico, and exports products to Canada and other countries worldwide.

The following geographic data includes net product sales summarized on the basis of the customer location and long-lived assets based on their physical location:

	2016		2015		2014
Net product sales:
United States	$	475,055	$	492,450	$	488,795
Canada, Mexico and Other		42,318		44,242		51,100
	$	517,373	$	536,692	$	539,895
Long-lived assets:
United States	$	147,296	$	149,144	$	153,444
Canada		29,806		31,408		32,114
Mexico and Other		3,803		4,034		4,523
	$	180,905	$	184,586	$	190,081

Sales revenues from Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. aggregated approximately 23.3%,  23.7%, and 23.7% of net product sales during the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively. Some of the aforementioned sales to Wal-Mart are sold to McLane Company, a large national grocery wholesaler, which services and delivers certain of the Company products to Wal-Mart and other retailers in the U.S.A. Net product sales revenues from McLane, which includes these Wal-Mart sales as well as sales and deliveries to other Company customers, were 16.3% in 2016 and 16.7% in 2015 and 15.3% in 2014.