Note 9 Business Segment, Geographic and Customer Information

6 Months Ended

Mar. 30, 2013

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 are 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						Six Months Ended
	March 30, 2013			March 31, 2012			March 30, 2013			March 31, 2012
	(In thousands)
Gross sales:
IMS	$	1,159,005		$	1,184,354		$	2,362,640		$	2,419,040
CPS	309,464			314,440			637,081			618,409
Intersegment revenue	(40,827		)	(35,712		)	(77,134		)	(72,001		)
Net sales	$	1,427,642		$	1,463,082		$	2,922,587		$	2,965,448
Gross profit:
IMS	$	69,365		$	77,813		$	139,284		$	162,352
CPS	32,551			29,843			63,920			55,340
Total	101,916			107,656			203,204			217,692
Unallocated items (1)	(1,612		)	(1,308		)	(5,972		)	(2,319		)
Total	$	100,304		$	106,348		$	197,232		$	215,373

(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						Six Months Ended
	March 30, 2013			March 31, 2012			March 30, 2013			March 31, 2012
	(In thousands)
Net sales
Domestic	$	260,911		$	285,638		$	520,565		$	563,512
Mexico	344,391			319,496			687,413			609,133
China	351,236			390,566			766,213			841,803
Other international	471,104			467,382			948,396			951,000
Total	$	1,427,642		$	1,463,082		$	2,922,587		$	2,965,448
Percentage of net sales represented by ten largest customers	50.3		%	47.4		%	49.5		%	48.2		%
Number of customers representing 10% or more of net sales	1			—			—			1