Segment Information

6 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Segment Information [Abstract]

Segment Information

Note 11.   Segment Information

The Company manages its businesses under three segments: SGK Brand Solutions, Memorialization and Industrial Technologies. The SGK Brand Solutions segment includes brand development, deployment and delivery (consisting of brand management, printing plates and cylinders, pre-media services and imaging services for consumer packaged goods and retail customers, merchandising display systems, and marketing and design services).  The Memorialization segment consists primarily of bronze and granite memorials and other memorialization products, caskets and cremation equipment primarily for the cemetery and funeral home industries.  The previously titled Industrial segment has been renamed in the second quarter of fiscal 2016 and will be referred to as the Industrial Technologies segment.  The Company believes this new segment name provides a better representation of the nature of business conducted within this segment. The Industrial Technologies segment includes marking and coding equipment and consumables, industrial automation products and order fulfillment systems for identifying, tracking, picking and conveying consumer and industrial products.  Management evaluates segment performance based on operating profit (before income taxes) and does not allocate non-operating items such as investment income, interest expense, other income (deductions), net and noncontrolling interest.

Information about the Company's segments follows:

	Three Months Ended				Six Months Ended
	March 31,				March 31,
	2016		2015		2016		2015
Sales:
SGK Brand Solutions	$	184,384	$	191,722	$	362,675	$	392,556
Memorialization		157,376		130,255		304,987		246,478
Industrial Technologies		25,416		27,417		53,746		53,944
	$	367,176	$	349,394	$	721,408	$	692,978

Operating profit (loss):
SGK Brand Solutions	$	5,500	$	(1,600	)	$	8,255	$	250
Memorialization		19,470		18,173			27,159		39,659
Industrial Technologies		1,465		2,702			3,059		4,951
	$	26,435	$	19,275		$	38,473	$	44,860