SEGMENT INFORMATION (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2015

The following table presents sales and segment profit by business segment reconciled to earnings before income taxes for the three and six months ended January 31, 2015 and January 31, 2014.



	Three Months Ended				Six Months Ended
	Jan 31, 2015		Jan 31, 2014		Jan 31, 2015		Jan 31, 2014
Sales:
Life Sciences	$	358,456	$	353,230	$	710,920	$	672,176
Industrial	315,338		323,739		659,366		634,572
Total	$	673,794	$	676,969	$	1,370,286	$	1,306,748
Segment Profit:
Life Sciences	$	88,882	$	90,856	$	175,362	$	163,901
Industrial	50,939		46,891		115,171		97,373
Total segment profit	139,821		137,747		290,533		261,274
Corporate Services Group	15,095		14,766		31,832		30,730
ROTC	11,534		9,170		20,774		18,368
Interest expense, net	6,238		5,195		12,940		11,172
Earnings before income taxes	$	106,954	$	108,616	$	224,987	$	201,004

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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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