Segment Reporting

3 Months Ended

Jul. 30, 2016

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Reporting

Segment Reporting

We present three reportable segments: Dental, Animal Health and Corporate. Dental and Animal Health are strategic business units that offer similar products and services to different customer bases. Dental provides a virtually complete range of consumable dental products, equipment and software, turnkey digital solutions and value-added services to dentists and dental laboratories throughout North America. Animal Health is a leading, full-line distributor in North America and the U.K. of animal health products, services and technologies to both the production-animal and companion-pet markets. Our Corporate segment is comprised of general and administrative expenses, including home office support costs in areas such as information technology, finance, legal, human resources and facilities. In addition, customer financing and other miscellaneous sales are reported within Corporate results. Corporate assets consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, property and equipment and long-term receivables. We evaluate segment performance based on operating income. The costs to operate the fulfillment centers are allocated to the operating units based on the through-put of the unit.

The following table presents information about our reportable segments:

	Three Months Ended
	July 30, 2016			August 1, 2015
Net sales
Dental	$	555,015		$	575,117
Animal Health	762,631			557,297
Corporate	14,790			10,456
Consolidated net sales	$	1,332,436		$	1,142,870
Operating income (loss) from continuing operations
Dental	$	60,295		$	67,252
Animal Health	14,829			12,972
Corporate	(9,708		)	(18,047		)
Consolidated operating income from continuing operations	$	65,416		$	62,177

	July 30, 2016		April 30, 2016
Total assets
Dental	$	917,235	$	994,113
Animal Health	2,082,686		2,064,302
Corporate	499,346		462,389
Total assets	$	3,499,267	$	3,520,804

The following table presents sales information by product for all of our reportable segments:

	Three Months Ended
	July 30, 2016		August 1, 2015
Net sales
Consumable	$	1,076,221	$	895,307
Equipment and software	160,946		153,483
Other	95,269		94,080
Consolidated net sales	$	1,332,436	$	1,142,870