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Customer and Geographic Information | 9 Months Ended
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Apr. 30, 2012
Customer and Geographic Information [Abstract] |
Customer and Geographic Information | (15) Customer and Geographic Information Sales by geography and customer type, as a percentage of consolidated net sales, are as follows:
|  | Three months ended April 30, |  | Nine months ended April 30,
|  | 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2012 |  | 2011
United States |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
U.S. government |  | 48.6% |  | 49.0% |  | 47.8% |  | 63.0%
Commercial customers |  | 11.7% |  | 10.8% |  | 12.3% |  | 8.0%
Total United States |  | 60.3% |  | 59.8% |  | 60.1% |  | 71.0%
International |  | 39.7% |  | 40.2% |  | 39.9% |  | 29.0%
International sales for the three months ended April 30, 2012 and 2011, which include sales to U.S. domestic companies for inclusion in products that will be sold to international customers, were $39,653,000 and $52,706,000, respectively. International sales for the nine months ended April 30, 2012 and 2011, which include sales to U.S. domestic companies for inclusion in products that will be sold to international customers, were $124,621,000 and $137,024,000, respectively. For the three and nine months ended April 30, 2012 and 2011, except for sales to the U.S. government (including sales to prime contractors of the U.S. government), no other customer or individual country, including sales to U.S. domestic companies for inclusion in products that will be sold to a foreign country, represented more than 10% of consolidated net sales.

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- Definition Disclosure about revenues from external customers (1) attributed to the entity's country of domicile and (2) attributed to all foreign countries in total from which the entity derives revenues. If revenues from external customers attributed to an individual foreign country are material, those revenues must be disclosed separately. An entity must disclose the basis for attributing revenues from external customers to individual countries. An entity may also provide subtotals of geographic information about groups of countries. + References No definition available. + Details
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