Segment Reporting

9 Months Ended

May 31, 2025

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Reporting

16. Segment Reporting

Operating segments are identified as components of an enterprise for which separate discrete financial information is available for evaluation by the chief operating decision-maker, or decision-making group, in making decisions on how to allocate resources and assess performance. The Company’s chief operating decision maker is the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. The Company has six operating segments based on the information reviewed by its Chief Executive Officer: U.S. Rental and Cleaning, Canadian Rental and Cleaning, Manufacturing (“MFG”), Specialty Garments, First Aid and Corporate. The U.S. Rental and Cleaning and Canadian Rental and Cleaning operating segments have been combined to form the U.S. and Canadian Rental and Cleaning reporting segment, and as a result, the Company has five reporting segments.

The U.S. and Canadian Rental and Cleaning reporting segment purchases, rents, cleans, delivers and sells uniforms and protective clothing and other non-garment items utilized at the customer locations in the U.S. and Canada. The laundry locations of the U.S. and Canadian Rental and Cleaning reporting segment are referred to by the Company as “industrial laundries” or “industrial laundry locations.”

The MFG operating segment designs and manufactures uniforms and some of the other non-garment items primarily for the purpose of providing these goods to the U.S. and Canadian Rental and Cleaning reporting segment. MFG revenues are primarily generated when goods are shipped from the Company’s manufacturing facilities, or its subcontract manufacturers, to other Company locations. These intercompany revenues are recorded at a transfer price which is typically in excess of the actual manufacturing cost. Manufactured products are carried in inventory until placed in service at which time they are amortized at this transfer price. On a consolidated basis, intercompany revenues and income are eliminated and the carrying value of inventories and rental merchandise in service is reduced to the manufacturing cost. Income before income taxes from MFG net of the intercompany MFG elimination offsets the merchandise amortization costs incurred by the U.S. and Canadian Rental and Cleaning reporting segment as the merchandise costs of this reporting segment are amortized and recognized based on inventories purchased from MFG at the transfer price which is above the Company’s manufacturing cost.

The Corporate operating segment consists of costs associated with the Company’s distribution center, sales and marketing, information systems, engineering, procurement, supply chain, accounting and finance, human resources, other general and administrative costs and interest expense. The revenues generated from the Corporate operating segment represent certain direct sales made by the Company directly from its distribution center. The products sold by this operating segment are the same products rented and sold by the U.S. and Canadian Rental and Cleaning reporting segment. No assets or capital expenditures are allocated to this operating segment in the information reviewed by the Chief Executive Officer. However, depreciation and amortization expense related to certain assets are reflected in income from operations and income before income taxes for the Corporate operating segment. The assets that give rise to this depreciation and amortization are included in the total assets of the U.S. and Canadian Rental and Cleaning reporting segment as this is how they are tracked and reviewed by the Company. The majority of expenses accounted for within the Corporate segment relate to costs of the U.S. and Canadian Rental and Cleaning segment, with the remainder of the costs relating to the Specialty Garment and First Aid segments.

The Specialty Garments operating segment purchases, rents, cleans, delivers and sells, specialty garments and non-garment items primarily for nuclear and cleanroom applications and provides cleanroom cleaning services at certain customer locations. The First Aid operating segment sells first aid cabinet services and other safety supplies, provides certain safety training and maintains wholesale distribution and pill packaging operations for non-prescription medicines.

The Company refers to the U.S. and Canadian Rental and Cleaning, MFG, and Corporate reporting segments combined as its “Core Laundry Operations,” which is included as a subtotal in the following table (in thousands):

	Thirteen Weeks Ended						Thirty-Nine Weeks Ended
	May 31, 2025			May 25, 2024			May 31, 2025			May 25, 2024
Revenues:
U.S. and Canadian Rental and Cleaning	$	521,220		$	512,572		$	1,555,694		$	1,531,116
MFG		69,805			77,862			214,033			233,939
Net intercompany MFG elimination		(69,805	)		(77,862	)		(214,033	)		(233,939	)
Corporate		11,968			15,882			40,588			43,747
Subtotal: Core Laundry Operations		533,188			528,454			1,596,282			1,574,863
Specialty Garments		47,803			47,582			138,160			135,713
First Aid		29,787			27,292			83,463			76,988
Total consolidated revenues	$	610,778		$	603,328		$	1,817,905		$	1,787,564
Operating income (loss):
U.S. and Canadian Rental and Cleaning	$	87,548		$	81,867		$	252,310		$	234,903
MFG		23,133			24,958			69,884			69,446
Net intercompany MFG elimination		(662	)		(3,063	)		(2,864	)		(7,453	)
Corporate		(73,282	)		(66,833	)		(215,303	)		(198,830	)
Subtotal: Core Laundry Operations		36,737			36,929			104,027			98,066
Specialty Garments		10,915			11,373			30,515			33,391
First Aid		525			148			380			(1,927	)
Total consolidated operating income	$	48,177		$	48,450		$	134,922		$	129,530
Other (income) expense:
Interest income, net	$	(2,514	)	$	(1,406	)	$	(7,422	)	$	(4,590	)
Other expense, net		(2,704	)		522			(1,620	)		1,813
Total consolidated other income, net	$	(5,218	)	$	(884	)	$	(9,042	)	$	(2,777	)
Total consolidated income before income taxes	$	53,395		$	49,334		$	143,964		$	132,307