Note 9 Business Segment, Geographic and Customer Information

3 Months Ended

Dec. 29, 2012

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Reporting Disclosure [Text Block]

Business Segment, Geographic and Customer Information

ASC Topic 280, Segment Reporting, establishes standards for reporting information about operating segments, products and services, geographic areas of operations and major customers. Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise for which separate financial information is available and evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision maker or decision making group in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance.

The Company's operations are managed as two businesses: Integrated Manufacturing Solutions (IMS) and Components, Products and Services (CPS). The Company's CPS business consists of multiple operating segments which do not meet the quantitative threshold for being presented as reportable segments. Therefore, financial information for these operating segments will be presented in a single category entitled "CPS" and the Company has only one reportable segment - IMS.

The following table presents information for the following periods:

	Three Months Ended
	December 29, 2012			December 31, 2011
	(In thousands)
Gross sales:
IMS	$	1,203,635		$	1,234,686
CPS	327,617			303,969
Intersegment revenue	(36,307		)	(36,289		)
Net sales	$	1,494,945		$	1,502,366
Gross profit:
IMS	$	69,919		$	84,539
CPS	31,369			25,497
Total	101,288			110,036
Unallocated items (1)	(4,360		)	(1,011		)
Total	$	96,928		$	109,025

(1) Represents amounts associated with items that management excludes from its measure of gross profit. These items include stock-based compensation expense, amortization of intangible assets, charges or credits resulting from distressed customers and similar items that either occur infrequently or are of a non-operational nature.

Net sales by geographic segment, determined based on the country in which a product is manufactured, was as follows:

	Three Months Ended
	December 29, 2012			December 31, 2011
	(In thousands)
Net sales
Domestic	$	259,654		$	277,874
Mexico	343,022			289,637
China	414,977			451,237
Other international	477,292			483,618
Total	$	1,494,945		$	1,502,366
Percentage of net sales represented by ten largest customers	49		%	49		%
Number of customers representing 10% or more of net sales	—			1