Note 5 - Segment Reporting

12 Months Ended

Apr. 30, 2012

Segment Reporting Disclosure [Text Block]

5.             SEGMENT REPORTING

The Company operates and measures the sales and gross margins of two primary business segments, Custom Electronic Manufacturing Services (“EMS”) and Proprietary Products (“Proprietary”).   The EMS business segment consists primarily of custom electronic assemblies, engineering services, custom liquid crystal displays and other interface technologies. The Proprietary business segment is made up of remote monitoring hardware and messaging services, ultra-rugged handheld computers, peripherals and maintenance contract revenues, and RFID solutions.  The following table (in thousands) presents segment revenues and gross margins which the Company evaluates in determining overall operating performance and the allocation of resources.  Other segment information such as components of the Statement of Operations below the gross margin total and assets or other balance sheet information are not presented.  As the Company’s operations of the two segments are so intertwined, the Company’s chief operating decision maker (Elecsys International Corporation’s President) does not review that financial information at a segment reporting level and that information is also not readily available.

	Year Ended April 30, 2012
	EMS		Proprietary		Total
Total sales	$	13,162	$	9,942	$	23,104
Segment gross margin	$	3,237	$	5,158	$	8,395
Goodwill	$	--	$	1,942	$	1,942

	Year Ended April 30, 2011
	EMS		Proprietary		Total
Total sales	$	13,807	$	9,747	$	23,554
Segment gross margin	$	2,969	$	4,911	$	7,880
Goodwill	$	--	$	1,942	$	1,942

The following table reconciles total revenues to the products and services offered by the Company (in thousands).

	Years Ended April 30,
	2012		2011
Products and services:
Electronic manufacturing	$	12,734	$	13,412
Remote monitoring solutions		6,534		5,928
Industrial data communications		711		535
Mobile data acquisition		2,278		2,945
Other services:
EMS related services		428		395
Proprietary product related services		419		339
Total sales	$	23,104	$	23,554

The Company had total export sales of approximately $1,505,000 and $1,628,000 for the years ended April 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively.  The top three export markets for the Company’s products and services for the year ended April 30, 2012 were South Africa, Canada and Thailand.  For the year ended April 30, 2011, the top three export markets were South Africa, Canada, and Brazil.