Information on Business Segments (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Schedule of Segment Reporting Information, by Segment



	Three months ended March 31,
	2012			2011
Net sales
Aerospace	$	97,250		$	90,560
Industrial	115,348			111,430
Distribution	93,425			89,912
Intersegment sales	(2,927		)	(2,312		)
Total net sales	$	303,096		$	289,590

Operating profit
Aerospace	$	14,218		$	13,683
Industrial	10,105			10,958
Distribution	8,690			6,076
Total operating profit	33,013			30,717
Interest expense	2,368			3,655
Other expense (income), net	853			408
Income from continuing operations before income taxes	$	29,792		$	26,654



	March 31, 2012		December 31, 2011
Assets
Aerospace	$	534,397	$	544,943
Industrial	473,387		453,279
Distribution	284,357		278,139
Other ^(A)	173,277		164,004
Total assets	$	1,465,418	$	1,440,365

- Definition

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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