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Business Segments and Foreign Operations (Table)

12 Months Ended

Aug. 31, 2012

Business Segments and Foreign Operations [Abstract]

Summarized information about reportable segments


		Americas				Europe				Asia-Pacific				Total
Fiscal Year Ended August 31, 2012
Net sales		$	177,394			$	116,936			$	48,454			$	342,784
Income from operations⁽¹⁾		$	19,747			$	23,524			$	8,458			$	51,729
Depreciation and amortization expense		$	3,468			$	1,224			$	177			$	4,869
Interest income		$	1			$	122			$	138			$	261
Interest expense		$	721			$	0			$	8			$	729
Total assets		$	188,194			$	99,091			$	13,585			$	300,870

Fiscal Year Ended August 31, 2011
Net sales		$	169,881			$	125,400			$	41,128			$	336,409
Income from operations⁽¹⁾		$	19,777			$	27,846			$	6,509			$	54,132
Depreciation and amortization expense		$	2,822			$	1,377			$	187			$	4,386
Interest income		$	8			$	108			$	112			$	228
Interest expense		$	1,066			$	0			$	10			$	1,076
Total assets		$	171,813			$	96,332			$	11,632			$	279,777

Fiscal Year Ended August 31, 2010
Net sales		$	179,867			$	110,367			$	31,282			$	321,516
Income from operations⁽¹⁾		$	25,095			$	25,075			$	5,028			$	55,198
Depreciation and amortization expense		$	2,856			$	1,236			$	156			$	4,248
Interest income		$	0			$	108			$	66			$	174
Interest expense		$	1,717			$	0			$	9			$	1,726
Total assets		$	195,991			$	83,683			$	9,434			$	289,108

⁽¹⁾	For the fiscal years ended August 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, income from operations for the Americas segment included corporate expenses of $19.7 million, $19.3 million and $17.5 million, respectively.

Schedule of net sales by product line


		Fiscal Year Ended August 31,
		2012				2011				2010
Net Sales by Product Line:
Multi-purpose maintenance products		$	286,480			$	278,763			$	258,095
Homecare and cleaning products			56,304				57,646				63,421

Total		$	342,784			$	336,409			$	321,516

Schedule of net sales and long-lived assets by geographic area


		Fiscal Year Ended August 31,
		2012				2011				2010
Net Sales by Geography:
United States		$	144,052			$	135,025			$	149,127
United Kingdom			23,402				26,188				22,367
Germany⁽²⁾			21,092				26,865				23,464
Latin America			17,689				18,720				16,609
Other international			136,549				129,611				109,949

Total		$	342,784			$	336,409			$	321,516

Long-lived Assets by Geography⁽³⁾:
United States		$	5,297			$	5,232			$	6,379
International			3,766				3,250				2,943

Total		$	9,063			$	8,482			$	9,322

⁽²⁾	Represents net sales from the Germanics sales region which includes Germany, Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands.

⁽³⁾	Includes tangible assets or property and equipment, net, attributed to the geographic location in which such assets are located.

Tabular disclosure of information concerning material long-lived assets (excluding financial instruments, customer relationships with financial institutions, mortgage and other servicing rights, deferred policy acquisition costs, and deferred taxes assets) located in identified geographic areas and/or the amount of revenue from external customers attributed to that country from which revenue is material. An entity may also provide subtotals of geographic information about groups of countries.

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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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