Segment Information (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 29, 2015

Schedule of Sales to External Customers and Gross Profit by Segment

The following tables summarize various financial amounts for each of our business segments (in thousands):



	Thirteen Weeks Ended
	March 29, 2015		March 30, 2014
Sales to External Customers:
Industry Group	$	111,900	$	106,437
Science Group	108,916		119,827
Total	$	220,816	$	226,264
Gross Profit:
Industry Group	$	56,610	$	56,132
Science Group	48,661		50,192
Total	$	105,271	$	106,324

Schedule of Goodwill and Total Assets by Segment



	March 29, 2015		December 31, 2014
Goodwill:
Industry Group	$	78,867	$	76,858
Science Group	88,056		93,915
Total	$	166,923	$	170,773
Total Assets:
Industry Group	$	458,780	$	444,168
Science Group	416,403		470,899
Corporate and Eliminations	484,657		502,751
Total	$	1,359,840	$	1,417,818

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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