Business Segments and Geographic Areas

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Business Segments and Geographic Areas

Business Segments and Geographic Areas

We are accounting and reporting for our business as a single operating segment entity engaged in the development, manufacturing and sale on a global basis of surgical devices and related equipment. Our chief operating decision maker (the CEO) evaluates the various global product portfolios on a net sales basis and evaluates profitability, investment and cash flow metrics on a consolidated worldwide basis due to shared infrastructure and resources.

Our product lines consist of orthopedic surgery, general surgery and surgical visualization. Orthopedic surgery consists of sports medicine instrumentation and small bone, large bone and specialty powered surgical instruments and service fees related to the promotion and marketing of sports medicine allograft tissue. General surgery consists of a complete line of endo-mechanical instrumentation for minimally invasive laparoscopic and gastrointestinal procedures, a line of cardiac monitoring products as well as electrosurgical generators and related instruments. Surgical visualization consists of imaging systems for use in minimally invasive orthopedic and general surgery procedures including 2DHD and 3DHD vision technologies. These product lines' net sales are as follows:

	2014		2013		2012
Orthopedic surgery	$	402,750	$	410,171	$	413,891
General surgery	279,356		286,747		286,606
Surgical visualization	57,949		65,786		66,643
Consolidated net sales	$	740,055	$	762,704	$	767,140

Net sales information for geographic areas consists of the following:

	2014		2013		2012
United States	$	360,960	$	375,473	$	382,256
Canada	63,686		73,457		73,746
United Kingdom	30,496		28,471		31,653
Japan	37,230		36,705		33,997
Australia	38,711		38,752		40,835
All other countries	208,972		209,846		204,653
Total	$	740,055	$	762,704	$	767,140

Sales are attributed to countries based on the location of the customer. There were no significant investments in long-lived assets located outside the United States at December 31, 2014 and 2013.  No single customer represented over 10% of our consolidated net sales for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012.