SEGMENT INFORMATION (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

Information about the Company's segments follows:

	Memorialization						Brand Solutions
							Graphics		Marking		Merchandising
	Bronze		Casket		Cremation		Imaging		Products		Solutions			Other		Consolidated

Sales to external customers:
2011	$	224,773	$	238,753	$	43,816	$	268,975	$	61,938	$	60,566		$	-	$	898,821
2010		224,247		210,279		39,356		239,957		51,069		56,921			-		821,829
2009		215,934		203,247		30,909		234,966		42,355		53,497			-		780,908

Intersegment sales:
2011		251		207		5,616		177		21		90			-		6,362
2010		272		218		4,558		1		16		281			-		5,346
2009		192		276		4,182		64		30		34			-		4,778

Depreciation and amortization:
2011		2,955		6,335		280		13,580		530		1,949			2,032		27,661
2010		2,442		6,623		246		13,234		526		1,850			2,401		27,322
2009		4,136		7,081		251		14,677		614		2,088			1,445		30,292

Operating profit:
2011		52,474		26,785		5,733		22,427		7,819		3,278			-		118,516
2010		56,167		26,242		4,910		21,077		5,817		2,368			-		116,581
2009		57,598		17,716		5,036		19,217		1,500		(56	)		-		101,011

Total assets:
2011		197,127		310,862		35,997		351,595		67,193		60,491			74,190		1,097,455
2010		194,110		290,123		29,316		319,480		36,740		54,876			69,180		993,825
2009		182,194		253,012		22,541		337,407		39,569		51,492			63,438		949,653

Capital expenditures:
2011		1,618		3,840		511		10,820		295		3,165			2,191		22,440
2010		6,107		1,117		253		8,058		450		1,028			4,424		21,437
2009		3,017		2,648		138		8,011		251		492			4,853		19,410

Operations by Geographic Area

Information about the Company's operations by geographic area follows:

	United States		Mexico		Canada		Europe		Australia		Asia		Consolidated

Sales to external customers:
2011	$	559,362	$	-	$	13,086	$	298,773	$	13,437	$	14,163	$	898,821
2010		520,083		-		14,000		264,833		11,160		11,753		821,829
2009		498,782		-		11,995		251,823		9,647		8,661		780,908

Long-lived assets:
2011		380,059		5,726		476		259,860		6,752		9,459		662,332
2010		334,471		6,367		484		235,902		6,957		8,691		592,872
2009		303,342		5,685		466		256,271		3,987		8,529		578,280

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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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