SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

NOTE 9—SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:

The Company operates as a single reportable segment encompassing the manufacture and sale of confectionery products. Its principal manufacturing operations are located in the United States and Canada, and its principal market is the United States. The Company also manufactures confectionery products in Mexico primarily for sale in Mexico, and exports products to Canada and other countries worldwide.

The following geographic data includes net product sales summarized on the basis of the customer location and long-lived assets based on their physical location:


	2017		2016		2015
Net product sales:
United States	$	472,222	$	475,055	$	492,450
Canada, Mexico and Other		43,452		42,318		44,242
	$	515,674	$	517,373	$	536,692
Long-lived assets:
United States	$	145,210	$	147,296	$	149,144
Canada		30,823		29,806		31,408
Mexico and Other		2,939		3,803		4,034
	$	178,972	$	180,905	$	184,586

Sales revenues from Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. aggregated approximately 24.0%, 23.3%, and 23.7% of net product sales during the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Some of the aforementioned sales to Wal-Mart are sold to McLane Company, a large national grocery wholesaler, which services and delivers certain of the Company products to Wal-Mart and other retailers in the U.S.A. Net product sales revenues from McLane, which includes these Wal-Mart sales as well as sales and deliveries to other Company customers, were 16.9% in 2017 and 16.3% in 2016 and 16.7% in 2015.