Reporting Segment And Geographic Information

12 Months Ended

Dec. 30, 2011

Reporting Segment And Geographic Information [Abstract]

Reporting Segment And Geographic Information

NOTE 6: REPORTING SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

Trimble is a designer and distributor of positioning products and applications enabled by GPS, optical, laser, and wireless communications technology. The Company provides products for diverse applications in its targeted markets.

To achieve distribution, marketing, production, and technology advantages, the Company manages its operations in the following four segments:

• Engineering and Construction — Consists of products that provide solutions in a variety of survey, construction, infrastructure, and geospatial applications.

• Field Solutions — Consists of products that provide solutions in a variety of agriculture, geographic information systems (GIS) utilities, and energy distribution applications.

• Mobile Solutions — Consists of products that enable end-users to monitor and manage their mobile assets by communicating location and activity-relevant information from the field to the office.

• Advanced Devices — The various operations that comprise this segment are aggregated on the basis that no single operation accounts for more than 10% of the Company's total revenue, operating income, and assets. This segment is comprised of the Component Technologies, Military and Advanced Systems, Applanix, Trimble Outdoors, and ThingMagic businesses.

The Company evaluates each of its segment's performance and allocates resources based on segment operating income before income taxes and some corporate allocations. The Company and each of its segments employ consistent accounting policies.

The following table presents revenue, operating income, and identifiable assets for the four segments. Operating income is revenue less cost of sales and operating expense, excluding general corporate expense, amortization of purchased intangible assets, amortization of acquisition-related inventory step-up, acquisition costs and restructuring costs. The identifiable assets that the Company's Chief Operating Decision Maker, its Chief Executive Officer, views by segment are accounts receivable, inventories, and goodwill.

Fiscal Years	2011		2010		2009
(in thousands)
Engineering & Construction
Revenue	$	906,497	$	719,053	$	578,579
Operating income		149,015		110,965		58,282
Field Solutions
Revenue	$	413,721	$	318,137	$	291,752
Operating income		160,139		116,373		104,498
Mobile Solutions
Revenue	$	218,540	$	154,254	$	154,881
Operating income		4,461		1,873		14,341
Advanced Devices
Revenue	$	105,307	$	102,493	$	101,047
Operating income		13,891		18,325		17,227
Total
Revenue	$	1,644,065	$	1,293,937	$	1,126,259
Operating income		327,506		247,536		194,348
At the End of Fiscal Year	2011		2010		2009
(in thousands)
Engineering & Construction
Accounts receivable	$	160,218	$	131,808	$	118,033
Inventories		128,433		123,780		91,248
Goodwill		697,237		432,364		389,702
Field Solutions
Accounts receivable	$	63,542	$	52,065	$	37,178
Inventories		51,756		33,964		22,025
Goodwill		68,268		26,211		26,776
Mobile Solutions
Accounts receivable	$	36,465	$	24,806	$	29,572
Inventories		31,262		16,721		16,826
Goodwill		508,260		348,166		333,265
Advanced Devices
Accounts receivable	$	14,976	$	14,141	$	17,510
Inventories		20,612		18,387		13,913
Goodwill		23,927		21,996		14,450
Total
Accounts receivable	$	275,201	$	222,820	$	202,293
Inventories		232,063		192,852		144,012
Goodwill		1,297,692		828,737		764,193

A reconciliation of the Company's consolidated segment operating income to consolidated income before income taxes is as follows:

Fiscal Years	2011			2010			2009
(in thousands)
Consolidated segment operating income	$	327,506		$	247,536		$	194,348
Unallocated corporate expense		(71,052	)		(55,758	)		(52,034	)
Acquisition costs		(14,892	)		(6,537	)		(3,822	)
Amortization of purchased intangible assets		(85,160	)		(57,639	)		(52,672	)
Consolidated operating income		156,402			127,602			85,820
Non-operating income, net		11,052			13,485			1,801
Consolidated income before taxes	$	167,454		$	141,087		$	87,621

Unallocated corporate expense includes general corporate expense, amortization of acquisition-related inventory step-up and restructuring cost.

The geographic distribution of Trimble's revenue and long-lived assets is summarized in the tables below. Other non-US geographies include Canada, and countries in South and Central America, the Middle East, and Africa. Revenue is defined as revenue from external customers.

Fiscal Years	2011		2010		2009
(in thousands)
Revenue (1):
United States	$	733,171	$	595,563	$	561,082
Europe		402,548		286,705		261,966
Asia Pacific		251,234		227,478		186,588
Other non-US countries		257,112		184,191		116,623
Total consolidated revenue	$	1,644,065	$	1,293,937	$	1,126,259

(1) Revenue attributed to countries based on the location of the customer.

No single customer or country other than the United States accounted for 10% or more of Trimble's total revenue in fiscal years 2011, 2010, and 2009.

Long-lived assets indicated in the table below primarily include property and equipment, net, demo inventory net, non-qualified stock compensation plan, deposits, deferred cost of sales, and debt issuance cost.

At the End of Fiscal Year	2011		2010
(in thousands)
Long-lived assets:
United States	$	63,021	$	52,115
Europe		18,022		19,012
Asia Pacific and other non-US countries		11,170		8,148
Total long-lived assets	$	92,213	$	79,275