Segment Information

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Segment Information

15. Segment Information

The company’s management considers its business to be a single segment entity — the manufacture and sale of medical devices. The company’s products generally share similar distribution channels and customers. The company designs, manufactures, packages, distributes and sells medical, surgical, diagnostic and patient care devices. The company sells a broad range of products to hospitals, individual healthcare professionals, extended care health facilities and alternate site facilities on a global basis. In general, the company’s products are intended to be used once and then discarded or implanted either temporarily or permanently. The company’s chief operating decision makers evaluate the various global product portfolios on a net sales basis. The company’s chief operating decision makers generally evaluate profitability and associated investments on an enterprise-wide basis due to shared geographic infrastructures. Net sales based on the location of the external customer and identifiable assets by geographic region for the following years ended December 31 are:

	2012		2011		2010
(dollars in millions)
Net sales
United States	$	1,967.7	$	1,956.0	$	1,889.0
Europe		501.6		514.1		474.8
Japan		163.2		142.8		131.9
Other		325.6		283.5		224.5
	$	2,958.1	$	2,896.4	$	2,720.2

Long-lived assets
United States	$	390.5	$	390.8	$	362.0
Europe		49.6		52.5		43.1
Other		17.8		14.2		11.0
	$	457.9	$	457.5	$	416.1

Total net sales by product group category for the following years ended December 31 are:

	2012		2011		2010
(dollars in millions)
Vascular	$	845.0	$	842.4	$	755.9
Urology		757.8		734.8		718.1
Oncology		812.4		779.5		724.8
Surgical Specialties		455.1		450.0		434.6
Other		87.8		89.7		86.8
	$	2,958.1	$	2,896.4	$	2,720.2