Segment Information (Note)

9 Months Ended

Aug. 31, 2013

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Information

SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company operates in three principal product segments: Engine/Mobile Filtration, Industrial/Environmental Filtration and Packaging. Net sales represent sales to unaffiliated customers as reported in the Consolidated Condensed Statements of Earnings.  Intersegment sales were not material.  Unallocated amounts consist of interest expense, interest income and other non-operating income and expense items.  Assets are those assets used in each business segment.  Corporate assets consist of cash, deferred income taxes, corporate facility and equipment and various other assets that are not specific to an operating segment.  The Company operates as a consolidated entity, including cooperation between segments, cost allocating and sharing of certain assets.  As such, the Company makes no representation, that if operated on a standalone basis, these segments would report net sales, operating profit and other financial data reflected below.

Segment information is summarized as follows:

	Quarter Ended					Nine Months Ended
	August 31, 2013		September 1, 2012			August 31, 2013		September 1, 2012
Net sales:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	129,148	$	126,903		$	379,195	$	377,863
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	139,659		138,532			398,945		394,275
Packaging	20,319		21,298			54,840		56,714
	$	289,126	$	286,733		$	832,980	$	828,852
Operating profit:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	28,611	$	28,478		$	81,156	$	81,403
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	11,315		15,741			39,404		44,193
Packaging	2,059		1,962			4,641		4,008
	41,985		46,181			125,201		129,604
Other income (expense), net	235		(206		)	7		404
Earnings before income taxes	$	42,220	$	45,975		$	125,208	$	130,008

	August 31, 2013		December 1, 2012
Identifiable assets:
Engine/Mobile Filtration	$	389,296	$	372,011
Industrial/Environmental Filtration	701,511		706,610
Packaging	41,818		36,350
Corporate	103,119		90,531
	$	1,235,744	$	1,205,502