Segment Information

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2014

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment Information

Segment Information.

The operating segments reported below are the segments for which separate financial information is available and for which segment results are evaluated by the chief operating decision makers. Our operating segments are organized based on factors including, but not limited to, type of business transactions, geographic location and store ownership. All operating segments offer merchandise from four basic product categories: consumer electronics, appliances, computers, furniture and accessories. On January 1, 2014, the Company realigned its reporting structure to include its 18 Canadian stores in the Core U.S. segment, which were previously reported in the International segment. These stores now report into the Core U.S. segment, and the chief operating decision makers no longer analyze their operating results as a part of the International segment. The accompanying prior-year disclosures have been revised to reflect this change, and we now refer to the segment formerly reported as "International" as "Mexico" since only that country's results are reported therein. Reportable segments and their respective operations are defined as follows.

Our Core U.S. segment primarily operates rent-to-own stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico whose customers enter into weekly, semi-monthly or monthly rental purchase agreements, which renew automatically upon receipt of each payment. We retain the title to the merchandise during the term of the rental purchase agreement and ownership passes to the customer if the customer has continuously renewed the rental purchase agreement through the end of the term or exercises a specified early purchase option. This segment also includes the 45 stores operating in two states that utilize a retail model which generates installment credit sales through a retail sale transaction. Segment assets include cash, receivables, rental merchandise, property assets, goodwill and other intangible assets.

Our Acceptance Now segment operates kiosks within various traditional retailers’ locations where we generally offer the rent-to-own transaction to consumers who do not qualify for financing from the traditional retailer. The transaction offered is generally similar to that of the Core U.S. segment; however, the majority of the customers in this segment enter into monthly rather than weekly agreements. Segment assets include cash, rental merchandise, property assets, goodwill and other intangible assets.

Our Mexico segment consists of our company-owned rent-to-own stores in Mexico, and the nature of this segment’s operations and assets are the same as our Core U.S. segment.

The stores in our Franchising segment use Rent-A-Center’s, ColorTyme’s or RimTyme’s trade names, service marks, trademarks and logos, and operate under distinctive operating procedures and standards. Franchising’s primary source of revenue is the sale of rental merchandise to its franchisees who, in turn, offer the merchandise to the general public for rent or purchase under a rent-to-own program. As franchisor, Franchising receives royalties of 2.0% to 6.0% of the franchisees’ monthly gross revenue and initial fees for new locations. Segment assets include cash, receivables and property assets.

We incur costs at our corporate headquarters that benefit our Core U.S., Acceptance Now and Mexico operating segments. Accordingly, we allocate such costs among these segments based on segment revenue to determine segment operating profit. Likewise, certain corporate assets used to support these operating segments, including the land and building in which the corporate headquarters are located and related property assets, cash and prepaid expenses are also allocated to these operating segments based on segment revenue. Because our Franchising segment has maintained a separate, independent corporate office, no additional corporate costs or assets have been allocated to that segment.

Segment information for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013 is as follows (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended March 31, 2014
	Core U.S.		Acceptance Now		Mexico			Franchising		Total
Revenue	$	634,763	$	174,207	$	15,873		$	8,903	$	833,746
Gross profit	456,589		92,907		11,478			1,903		562,877
Operating profit (loss)	43,857		21,577		(6,277		)	606		59,763
Depreciation of property assets	16,037		1,424		1,643			35		19,139
Amortization and write-down of intangibles	605		142		—			—		747
Capital expenditures	18,036		2,784		2,288			—		23,108

	Three Months Ended March 31, 2013
	Core U.S.		Acceptance Now		Mexico			Franchising		Total
Revenue	$	672,408	$	127,163	$	9,493		$	10,217	$	819,281
Gross profit	475,072		67,107		6,698			1,801		550,678
Operating profit (loss)	67,078		15,650		(4,647		)	703		78,784
Depreciation of property assets	16,174		1,089		1,190			20		18,473
Amortization and write-down of intangibles	747		143		—			—		890
Capital expenditures	15,052		1,940		2,645			—		19,637

Segment information – selected balance sheet data (in thousands):
	March 31, 2014
	Core U.S.		Acceptance Now		Mexico		Franchising		Total
Rental merchandise, net
On rent	$	580,767	$	293,048	$	18,526	$	—	$	892,341
Held for rent	185,664		6,852		10,756		—		203,272
Total assets	2,565,076		391,844		71,612		2,531		3,031,063

	December 31, 2013
	Core U.S.		Acceptance Now		Mexico		Franchising		Total
Rental merchandise, net
On rent	$	612,517	$	284,421	$	17,680	$	—	$	914,618
Held for rent	195,654		3,837		10,959		—		210,450
Total assets	2,569,057		375,920		71,888		1,688		3,018,553