SEGMENT INFORMATION (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Oct. 31, 2014

The following table presents sales and segment profit by business segment reconciled to earnings before income taxes for the three months ended October 31, 2014 and October 31, 2013.



	Three Months Ended
	Oct 31, 2014		Oct 31, 2013
Sales:
Life Sciences	$	352,464	$	318,946
Industrial	344,028		310,833
Total	$	696,492	$	629,779
Segment Profit:
Life Sciences	$	86,480	$	73,045
Industrial	64,232		50,482
Total segment profit	150,712		123,527
Corporate Services Group	16,737		15,964
ROTC	9,240		9,198
Interest expense, net	6,702		5,977
Earnings before income taxes	$	118,033	$	92,388

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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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