Segment and Geographic Information (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2012

Schedule of Segment Reporting Information, by Segment

Information about our business operations based on the two geographic areas is as follows (in millions):



	Year Ended December 31,
	2012			2011			2010
Net sales:
United States	$	7,716.3		$	6,865.5		$	6,086.3
Canada	1,148.6			1,220.5			1,158.0
Corporate ⁽¹⁾	27.5			28.9			22.5
Total	$	8,892.4		$	8,114.9		$	7,266.8

Income (loss) before income taxes:
United States	$	48.6		$	50.4		$	35.6
Canada	2.3			(1.4		)	(4.7		)
Corporate ⁽¹⁾	4.5			(5.8		)	(3.7		)
Total	$	55.4		$	43.2		$	27.2

Interest expense:
United States	$	27.4		$	23.5		$	24.3
Canada	0.7			0.9			0.9
Corporate ⁽¹⁾	(25.9		)	(22.0		)	(22.6		)
Total	$	2.2		$	2.4		$	2.6

Depreciation and amortization:
United States	$	17.7		$	15.4		$	13.9
Canada	2.9			3.0			2.7
Corporate ⁽¹⁾	4.7			4.0			3.1
Total	$	25.3		$	22.4		$	19.7

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(1) Corporate consists of net expenses and other income that is not allocated to the U.S. and Canada, intercompany eliminations for interest and allocations of overhead, service fee revenue for our consolidating warehouses, LIFO income or expense and reclassifying adjustments.

Identifiable assets by geographic area are as follows (in millions):



	December 31,		December 31,
	2012		2011
Identifiable assets:
United States	$	821.7	$	768.6
Canada	97.5		101.6
Total	$	919.2	$	870.2

Revenue from External Customers by Products and Services

The net sales mix for our primary product category is as follows (in millions):




	Year Ended December 31,
	2012		2011		2010
Product Category	Net Sales		Net Sales		Net Sales
Cigarettes	$	6,139.4	$	5,710.6	$	5,119.7
Food	1,178.6		995.7		840.9
Candy	489.5		459.8		426.0
Other tobacco products	687.8		607.9		503.6
Health, beauty & general	269.2		237.5		220.6
Beverages	125.6		100.9		152.0
Equipment/other	2.3		2.5		4.0
Total food/non-food products	$	2,753.0	$	2,404.3	$	2,147.1
Total net sales	$	8,892.4	$	8,114.9	$	7,266.8

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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