SEGMENT INFORMATION (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Sep. 29, 2013

Net Sales, End Market and Long Lived Assets by Geographic Area

Property and equipment, net by geographic area are as follows (amounts in thousands):



	2013		2012		2011
United States	$	100,736	$	93,496	$	69,647
Europe	12,558		13,253		12,632
Asia	10,209		7,912		7,643
Other	1,655		1,485		—
Total	$	125,158	$	116,146	$	89,922

Net sales based on a customer's ship-to location and by estimated end market are as follows (amounts in thousands):



	2013		2012		2011
Net Sales:
United States	$	514,632	$	501,257	$	452,802
Europe	142,343		165,942		186,505
Asia	292,589		320,430		181,440
Other	26,380		24,866		15,107
Total	$	975,944	$	1,012,495	$	835,854

Aerospace	$	187,006	$	212,293	$	212,127
Communications	278,126		311,952		148,792
Defense & Security	306,311		286,430		299,503
Industrial	204,501		201,820		175,432
Total	$	975,944	$	1,012,495	$	835,854

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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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