Reportable Business Segments (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Reportable Business Segments [Abstract]

Summary of nature of operations of reportable segment

	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2011			2010			2009
Net Sales
Residential Heating & Cooling	$	1,341.0		$	1,417.4		$	1,293.5
Commercial Heating & Cooling		696.0			620.0			594.6
Service Experts		528.6			590.3			535.4
Refrigeration		805.2			550.9			512.7
Eliminations(1)		(67.2	)		(82.2	)		(88.7	)
	$	3,303.6		$	3,096.4		$	2,847.5

Net sales, segment profit (loss) by business segment and reconciliation of segment profit (loss) to Income from Continuing Operations before Income Taxes

Segment Profit (Loss)(2)
Residential Heating & Cooling	$	75.1		$	132.3		$	111.7
Commercial Heating & Cooling		79.4			69.3			49.3
Service Experts		1.5			19.3			16.6
Refrigeration		77.5			61.4			48.9
Corporate and other		(54.4	)		(65.5	)		(62.5	)
Eliminations(1)		(0.6	)		0.2			0.5
Subtotal that includes segment profit and eliminations		178.5			217.0			164.5
Reconciliation to income from continuing operations before income taxes:
Special product quality adjustments		(4.3	)		(0.2	)		18.3
Items in losses (gains) and other expenses, net that are excluded from segment profit(3)		4.5			11.2			(10.9	)
Restructuring charges		16.0			15.6			41.5
Impairment of assets		7.0			—			6.4
Goodwill impairment		7.6			—			—
Interest expense, net		16.8			12.8			8.2
Other expense, net		0.3			1.0			0.1
Income from continuing operations before income taxes	$	130.6		$	176.6		$	100.9

(1) Eliminations consist of intercompany sales between business segments, such as products sold to Service Experts by the Residential Heating & Cooling segment.

(2) We define segment profit and loss as a segment’s income or loss from continuing operations before income taxes included in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations, excluding:

o Special product quality adjustments.

o Items within Losses (gains) and other expenses, net that are noted in(3).

o Restructuring charges.

o Goodwill and equity method investment impairments.

o Interest expense, net.

o Other expense, net.

(3) Items in Losses (gains) and other expenses, net that are excluded from segment profit are net change in unrealized gains and/or losses on open future contracts, realized gains and/or losses on marketable securities, special legal contingency charge, acquisition expenses and other items. For more information about Losses (gains) and other expenses, net see Note 24.

Total assets by business segment

	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2011			2010
Total Assets
Residential Heating & Cooling	$	481.2		$	519.8
Commercial Heating & Cooling		257.3			252.7
Service Experts		182.0			186.2
Refrigeration		558.2			389.7
Corporate and other		234.8			354.9
Eliminations(1)		(7.8	)		(11.3	)
Total assets		1,705.7			1,692.0
Discontinued operations (See Note 19)		—			—
Total assets	$	1,705.7		$	1,692.0

(1) Eliminations consist of net intercompany receivables and intercompany profit included in inventory from products sold between business segments, such as products sold to Service Experts by the Residential Heating & Cooling segment.

Summary of capital expenditures by business segment

	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2011		2010		2009
Capital Expenditures
Residential Heating & Cooling	$	12.1	$	19.4	$	31.7
Commercial Heating & Cooling		6.5		6.2		6.8
Service Experts		0.8		0.8		0.7
Refrigeration		13.2		6.9		7.4
Corporate and other		10.6		12.5		12.2
Total capital expenditures	$	43.2	$	45.8	$	58.8

Summary of depreciation and amortization expense by business segment

	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2011		2010		2009
Depreciation and Amortization
Residential Heating & Cooling	$	22.3	$	21.7	$	22.2
Commercial Heating & Cooling		7.7		8.0		8.0
Service Experts		2.0		2.2		1.9
Refrigeration		14.8		8.7		9.9
Corporate and other		13.6		12.9		10.9
Total depreciation and amortization	$	60.4	$	53.5	$	52.9

Schedule of equity method investees

	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2011		2010		2009
Income from Equity Method Investments
Refrigeration	$	2.5	$	1.3	$	0.5
Corporate and other(1)		7.1		8.8		6.8
	$	9.6	$	10.1	$	7.3

(1) A significant portion of income for equity method investments is allocated to our Residential Heating & Cooling and Commercial Heating & Cooling segments. We allocated $4.9 million, $5.6 million, and $5.9 million to those segments in 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

Summary of financial information relating to geographic area based operations

	For the Years Ended December 31,
	2011		2010		2009
Net Sales to External Customers by Point of Shipment
United States	$	2,370.8	$	2,255.4	$	2,033.1
Canada		329.2		336.6		327.0
International		603.6		504.4		487.4
Total net sales to external customers	$	3,303.6	$	3,096.4	$	2,847.5

	As of December 31,
	2011		2010
Property, Plant and Equipment, net
United States	$	238.0	$	225.5
Mexico		28.0		33.0
Canada		5.2		6.0
International		38.7		59.8
Total property, plant and equipment, net	$	309.9	$	324.3