SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Net sales and profit by reportable segment for the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014 are as follows:



	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2015			2014
	(In thousands)
Segment Net Sales
Specialty Surgical Solutions	$	140,058		$	127,195
Orthopedics and Tissue Technologies	61,367			54,589
Spine	32,240			33,275
Total revenues	$	233,665		$	215,059
Segment Profit
Specialty Surgical Solutions	$	60,332		$	48,297
Orthopedics and Tissue Technologies	19,582			17,001
Spine	3,125			2,748
Segment profit	83,039			68,046
Amortization	(3,535		)	(3,033)
Corporate and other	(62,716		)	(56,275		)
Operating income (loss)	$	16,788		$	8,738

The Company attributes revenues to geographic areas based on the location of the customer. There are certain revenues managed by the various U.S. segments that are generated from non-U.S. customers and therefore are included in Europe and the Rest of World revenues below. Total revenue by major geographic area consisted of the following:



	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2015		2014
	(In thousands)
United States	$	180,960	$	163,382
Europe	26,764		25,324
Rest of World	25,941		26,353
Total Revenues	$	233,665	$	215,059

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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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