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Segment Information
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Segment Information  
Segment Information

1. Segment Information

The Company has two reportable segments and two operating segments based on its geographic locations: the Americas and Europe. These two segments are aligned with the Company’s internal approach to managing, reporting, and evaluating performance of its global glass operations. Certain assets and activities not directly related to one of the segments or to glass manufacturing are reported with Retained corporate costs and other. These include licensing, equipment manufacturing, global engineering, certain equity investments and the remaining businesses in the Asia Pacific region that do not meet the criteria of an individually reportable segment after the sale of the Company’s Australia and New Zealand businesses in 2020. Retained corporate costs and other also includes certain headquarters administrative and facilities costs and certain incentive compensation and other benefit plan costs that are global in nature and are not allocable to the reportable segments.

The Company’s measure of profit for its reportable segments is segment operating profit, which consists of consolidated earnings (loss) before interest income, interest expense, and benefit (provision) for income taxes and excludes amounts related to certain items that management considers not representative of ongoing operations and other adjustments, as well as certain retained corporate costs. The Company’s management, including the chief operating decision maker (defined as our chief executive officer), uses segment operating profit, in combination with net sales and selected cash flow information, to evaluate performance and to allocate resources. Segment operating profit for reportable segments includes an allocation of some corporate expenses based on both a percentage of sales and direct billings based on the costs of specific services provided. Segment operating profit is not a recognized term under U.S. GAAP and, therefore, does not purport to be an alternative to earnings (loss) before income taxes. Further, the Company's measure of segment operating profit may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.

Financial information for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 regarding the Company’s reportable segments is as follows:

    

Three months ended March 31,

2022

 

2021

 

Net sales:

Americas

$

940

$

837

Europe

 

708

639

Reportable segment totals

 

1,648

 

1,476

Other

44

24

Net sales

$

1,692

$

1,500

Three months ended March 31,

    

2022

    

2021

 

Earnings (loss) before income taxes

$

170

$

(65)

Items excluded from segment operating profit:

Retained corporate costs and other

50

35

Gain on sale of divested business

(55)

Charge related to Paddock support agreement liability

154

Interest expense, net

66

51

Segment operating profit

$

231

$

175

Americas

129

100

Europe

102

75

Reportable segment totals

$

231

$

175

Financial information regarding the Company’s total assets is as follows:

March 31,

December 31,

March 31,

    

2022

2021

2021

Total assets:

Americas

 

$

5,097

 

$

4,853

 

$

4,755

Europe

 

3,378

 

3,513

 

3,536

Reportable segment totals

 

8,475

 

8,366

 

8,291

Other

 

402

466

534

Consolidated totals

 

$

8,877

 

$

8,832

 

$

8,825