SEGMENT INFORMATION

3 Months Ended

Jun. 28, 2014

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

SEGMENT INFORMATION

SEGMENT INFORMATION

Segment Definition Criteria

We manage a global business which designs, manufactures and markets blood management solutions.  Our solutions are marketed through operating units organized based primarily on geography: North America Plasma, North America Blood Center and Hospital, Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan. 

ASC 280, Segment Reporting, permits aggregation of segments which are economically similar as well as similar in all of the following areas: (i) the nature of the products and services, (ii) the nature of the production processes, (iii) the type or class of customer for their products and services, (iv) the methods used to distribute their products or provide their services, and (v) the nature of the regulatory environment. We determined each operating segment is similar based on the criteria of ASC 280 and accordingly aggregate our five operating segments into one reportable segment. This conclusion is consistent with how our chief operating decision-maker views the business. Our chief operating decision maker primarily uses consolidated results to make operating and strategic decisions.

Enterprise-Wide Disclosures about Product and Services

We have four global product families: plasma, blood center, hospital, and software solutions.

Our products include whole blood disposables, equipment devices and the related disposables used with these devices. Disposables include part of plasma, blood center, and hospital product families. Plasma consists of the disposables used to perform apheresis for the separation of whole blood components and subsequent collection of plasma to be used as a raw material for biologically derived pharmaceuticals. Blood center consists of disposables which separate whole blood for the subsequent collection of platelets, plasma, red cells, or a combination of these components for transfusion to patients as well as disposables for manual whole blood collection. Hospital consists of surgical disposables (principally the Cell Saver® autologous blood recovery system targeted to procedures that involve rapid, high volume blood loss such as cardiovascular surgeries), the OrthoPAT® orthopedic perioperative autotransfusion system designed to operate both during and after surgery to recover and wash the patient’s red cells to prepare them for reinfusion, and diagnostics products (principally the TEG® Thrombelastograph® hemostasis analyzer used to help assess a surgical patient’s hemostasis during and after surgery).

Software solutions include information technology platforms that assist blood centers, plasma centers, and hospitals to more effectively manage regulatory compliance and operational efficiency.

Revenues from External Customers:

	Three Months Ended
(In thousands)	June 28, 2014		June 29, 2013
Disposable revenues
Plasma disposables	$	79,227	$	65,336
Blood center disposables
Platelet	38,170		34,446
Red cell	10,246		10,009
Whole blood	37,950		51,254
	86,366		95,709
Hospital disposables
Surgical	15,621		16,089
OrthoPAT	5,381		6,320
Diagnostics	9,598		7,594
	30,600		30,003
Total disposables revenue	196,193		191,048
Software solutions	17,738		16,746
Equipment & other	10,557		11,749
Net revenues	$	224,488	$	219,543