Segment Information

3 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2012

Segment Information

12. Segment Information

During the three months ended January 31, 2012, the Company changed the name of its Engineering segment to Facility Solutions to better reflect the variety of end-to-end integrated facility services, building operation and maintenance, and bundled energy solution services provided to its clients. The Company is organized into four reportable operating segments, Janitorial, Facility Solutions, Parking and Security, which are summarized as follows:

		September 30,			September 30,
	Three Months Ended January 31,
(in thousands)	2012			2011
Revenues
Janitorial	$	594,340		$	594,606
Facility Solutions		233,773			192,648
Parking		153,450			152,866
Security		91,982			88,756
Corporate		240			293
	$	1,073,785		$	1,029,169
Operating profit
Janitorial	$	30,508		$	29,864
Facility Solutions		6,365			7,450
Parking		4,750			4,734
Security		845			1,301
Corporate		(24,672	)		(26,433	)
Operating profit		17,796			16,916
Income from unconsolidated affiliates, net		3,132			787
Interest expense		(2,834	)		(4,046	)
Income from continuing operations before income taxes	$	18,094		$	13,657

Most Corporate expenses are not allocated. Such expenses include current actuarial developments of self-insurance reserves relating to claims incurred in prior years, certain legal costs and settlements, certain information technology costs, share-based compensation costs, branding initiative costs, direct acquisition costs, severance costs associated with acquisitions, and certain chief executive officer and other finance and human resource department costs.