Business Segment Information

12 Months Ended

Oct. 31, 2020

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Business Segment Information

Note 18. Business Segment Information

The Company is organized into three reportable segments based on management’s process for making operating decisions, allocating capital and measuring performance, and based on the similarity of products, customers served, common use of facilities, and economic characteristics. The Company’s segments are as follows: 

Fire & Emergency: This segment includes KME, E-One, Ferrara, Spartan ER, American Emergency Vehicles, Leader Emergency Vehicles, Horton Emergency Vehicles, REV Ambulance Orlando and REV Brazil. These business units manufacture and market commercial and custom fire and emergency vehicles primarily for fire departments, airports, other governmental units, contractors, hospitals and other care providers in the United States and other countries.

Commercial: This segment includes Collins Bus, ENC, Capacity and Lay-Mor. Collins Bus manufactures, markets and distributes school buses, normally referred to as Type A school buses. Capacity manufactures, markets and distributes trucks used in terminal type operations, i.e., rail yards, warehouses, rail terminals and shipping terminals/ports. Lay-Mor manufactures, markets and distributes industrial sweepers for both the commercial and rental markets.

Recreation: This segment includes REV Recreation Group (“RRG”), Goldshield Fiberglass, Inc. (“Goldshield”), Renegade, Midwest and Lance, and their respective manufacturing facilities, service and parts divisions. RRG primarily manufactures, markets and distributes Class A RVs in both gas and diesel models. Renegade primarily manufacturers, markets and distributes Class C and “Super C” RVs. Midwest manufactures, markets and distributes Class B RVs and luxury vans. Lance manufactures, markets and distributes truck campers and towable campers. Goldshield manufactures, markets and distributes fiberglass reinforced molded parts to a diverse cross section of original equipment manufacturers and other commercial and industrial customers, including various components for RRG, which is one of Goldshield’s primary customers.

For purposes of measuring financial performance of its business segments, the Company does not allocate to individual business segments costs or items that are of a corporate nature. The caption “Corporate, Other & Elims” includes corporate office expenses, results of insignificant operations, intersegment eliminations and income and expense not allocated to reportable segments.

Total assets of the business segments exclude general corporate assets, which principally consist of cash and cash equivalents, certain property, plant and equipment and certain other assets pertaining to corporate and other centralized activities.

Intersegment sales generally include amounts invoiced by a segment for work performed for another segment. Amounts are based on actual work performed and agreed-upon pricing which is intended to be reflective of the contribution made by the supplying business segment. All intersegment transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Selected financial information of the Company’s segments is as follows:

	Fiscal Year 2020
	Fire & Emergency		Commercial		Recreation		Corporate, Other & Elims			Consolidated
Net Sales	$	1,132.0	$	484.8	$	657.8	$	3.0		$	2,277.6
Depreciation and amortization	$	13.5	$	5.7	$	13.7	$	7.3		$	40.2
Capital expenditures	$	7.1	$	2.7	$	2.0	$	1.7		$	13.5
Total assets	$	731.3	$	207.1	$	305.4	$	68.5		$	1,312.3
Adjusted EBITDA	$	39.9	$	34.5	$	38.4	$	(45.3	)

	Fiscal Year 2019
	Fire & Emergency		Commercial		Recreation		Corporate, Other & Elims			Consolidated
Net Sales	$	967.9	$	720.0	$	716.3	$	(0.5	)	$	2,403.7
Depreciation and amortization	$	14.1	$	8.7	$	15.6	$	7.3		$	45.7
Capital expenditures	$	8.6	$	3.7	$	2.7	$	5.8		$	20.8
Total assets	$	617.2	$	317.7	$	316.4	$	95.8		$	1,347.1
Adjusted EBITDA	$	43.2	$	56.0	$	46.8	$	(43.9	)

	Fiscal Year 2018
	Fire & Emergency		Commercial		Recreation		Corporate and Other			Consolidated
Net Sales	$	956.6	$	638.5	$	811.9	$	(25.7	)	$	2,381.3
Depreciation and amortization	$	15.3	$	10.0	$	13.4	$	7.3		$	46.0
Capital expenditures	$	7.9	$	4.2	$	9.7	$	18.8		$	40.6
Total assets	$	612.4	$	293.2	$	383.2	$	119.3		$	1,408.1
Adjusted EBITDA	$	86.0	$	38.1	$	60.4	$	(36.5	)

The following tables present net sales by geographic region based on product shipment destination for fiscal years 2020, 2019 and 2018:

	Fiscal Year 2020
	U.S. and Canada		Europe/ Africa		Rest of World		Total
Fire & Emergency	$	1,088.8	$	0.5	$	42.7	$	1,132.0
Commercial		480.2		0.9		3.7		484.8
Recreation		652.7		0.2		4.9		657.8
Corporate, Other & Elims		3.0		—		—		3.0
Total Net Sales	$	2,224.7	$	1.6	$	51.3	$	2,277.6

	Fiscal Year 2019
	U.S. and Canada			Europe/ Africa		Rest of World		Total
Fire & Emergency	$	909.0		$	3.1	$	55.8	$	967.9
Commercial		713.5			0.2		6.3		720.0
Recreation		706.4			0.6		9.3		716.3
Corporate, Other & Elims		(0.5	)		—		—		(0.5	)
Total Net Sales	$	2,328.4		$	3.9	$	71.4	$	2,403.7

	Fiscal Year 2018
	U.S. and Canada			Europe/ Africa		Rest of World		Total
Fire & Emergency	$	938.2		$	3.3	$	15.1	$	956.6
Commercial		632.3			—		6.2		638.5
Recreation		808.2			—		3.7		811.9
Corporate & Other		(26.2	)		0.1		0.4		(25.7	)
Total Net Sales—External Customers	$	2,352.5		$	3.4	$	25.4	$	2,381.3

In considering the financial performance of the business, the chief operating decision maker analyzes the primary financial performance measure of Adjusted EBITDA. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income for the relevant period before depreciation and amortization, interest expense and income taxes, as adjusted for items management believes are not indicative of the Company’s ongoing operating performance. Adjusted EBITDA is not a measure defined by U.S. GAAP but is computed using amounts that are determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP. A reconciliation of this performance measure to net income (loss) is included below.

The Company believes Adjusted EBITDA is useful to investors and used by management for measuring profitability because the measure excludes the impact of certain items which management believes have less bearing on the Company’s core operating performance, and allows for a more meaningful comparison of operating fundamentals between companies within its industries by eliminating the impact of capital structure and taxation differences between the companies. Additionally, Adjusted EBITDA is used by management to measure and report the Company’s financial performance to the Company’s Board of Directors, assists in providing a meaningful analysis of the Company’s operating performance and is used as a measurement in incentive compensation for management.

Provided below is a reconciliation of segment Adjusted EBITDA to net (loss) income:

	Fiscal Year Ended
	October 31, 2020			October 31, 2019			October 31, 2018
Fire & Emergency Adjusted EBITDA	$	39.9		$	43.2		$	86.0
Commercial Adjusted EBITDA		34.5			56.0			38.1
Recreation Adjusted EBITDA		38.4			46.8			60.4
Corporate and Other Adjusted EBITDA		(45.3	)		(43.9	)		(36.5	)
Depreciation and amortization		(40.2	)		(45.4	)		(45.5	)
Interest expense, net		(25.7	)		(32.4	)		(25.3	)
Benefit for income taxes		15.6			3.5			12.2
Transaction expenses		(3.3	)		(1.0	)		(2.8	)
Sponsor expense reimbursement		(0.5	)		(1.4	)		(0.9	)
Restructuring costs		(9.9	)		(5.7	)		(7.0	)
Restructuring related charges		(10.5	)		—			—
Stock-based compensation expense		(7.8	)		(7.2	)		(6.3	)
Legal matters		(1.8	)		(7.7	)		(5.5	)
Loss on sale of business		(11.1	)		—			—
Gain on acquisition of business		8.6			—			—
Impairment charges		(12.1	)		(8.9	)		(35.6	)
Earnings (losses) attributable to assets held for sale		0.8			(4.7	)		(9.9	)
Deferred purchase price payment		(0.1	)		(3.5	)		(6.0	)
First year public company costs		—			—			(1.5	)
Non-cash purchase accounting expense		—			—			(0.9	)
Net (Loss) Income	$	(30.5	)	$	(12.3	)	$	13.0