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Business Segment Data | Business Segment Data The Company’s chief operating decision-maker is its Chief Executive Officer. Operating segments are managed separately because each segment represents a strategic business that offers different products or services. The Company’s chief operating decision maker evaluates performance based on operating income or loss. The Company’s Corporate division is included in the following presentation since certain expenses of this division are not allocated separately to the two operating segments. Segment assets exclude cash equivalents, short-term investments, goodwill, and deferred taxes.
Management has determined that the Company has two operating segments which are also reportable segments based on the level at which the chief operating decision maker reviews the results of operations to make decisions regarding performance assessment and resource allocation. These operating segments are the Pet segment and the Garden segment. Substantially all of the Company’s assets and operations relate to its business in the United States.
The Pet segment consists of DMC, K&H Manufacturing, Four Paws Products, TFH Publications, Kaytee, C&S Products, Aquatics, Interpet, IMS, Pets International, Breeder’s Choice, Life Sciences, and Segrest. These businesses are engaged in the manufacturing, purchase, sale and delivery of internally and externally produced pet supplies, books, food, live fish and small animals principally to independent pet distributors, national and regional retail chains, grocery stores, mass merchants and bookstores. The Garden segment consists of Pennington Seed, Hydro Organics, AMBRANDS, Lilly Miller, the Pottery Group, Bell Nursery, Arden Companies and Gulfstream. Products manufactured, designed and sourced, grown or distributed are products found typically in the lawn and garden sections of mass merchandisers, warehouse-type clubs, home improvement centers and nurseries and include grass seed, bird feed, terra cotta pottery, live plants, herbicides and insecticides. These products are sold directly to national and regional retail chains, independent garden distributors, grocery stores, nurseries and garden supply retailers.
The Corporate division includes expenses associated with corporate functions and projects, certain employee benefits, interest income, interest expense and inter-segment eliminations.
The following table indicates each class of similar products which represented approximately 10% or more of the Company’s consolidated net sales in the fiscal years presented (in millions).
See Note 4 - Concentration of Credit Risk and Significant Customers and Suppliers for the Company’s largest customers by segment.
Financial information relating to the Company’s business segments for each of the three most recent fiscal years is presented in the table below (in thousands):
Noncontrolling interest is associated with the Garden segment.
(1) Includes a $2.5 million impairment charge in fiscal 2019.
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