Segment Information

The Company has determined that it operates in a single operating segment that encompasses the design, manufacturing and marketing of peripherals for PCs, tablets and other digital platforms. Operating performance measures are provided directly to the Company's CEO, who is considered to be the Company’s Chief Operating Decision Maker. The CEO periodically reviews information such as net sales and adjusted operating income (loss) to make business decisions. These operating performance measures do not include restructuring charges (credits), net, share-based compensation expense, amortization of intangible assets, charges from the purchase accounting effect on inventory, acquisition-related costs, change in fair value of contingent consideration from business acquisition, or gain (loss) from investments in privately held companies.

Net sales by product categories and sales channels, excluding intercompany transactions, for the three and six months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 were as follows (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended September 30,				Six Months Ended September 30,
	2018		2017		2018		2017
Pointing Devices	$	128,337	$	123,643	$	256,127	$	245,717
Keyboards & Combos	131,872		119,200		260,094		235,313
PC Webcams	28,221		27,466		57,895		53,091
Tablet & Other Accessories	36,710		30,784		69,146		54,002
Video Collaboration	57,176		46,139		115,968		81,756
Mobile Speakers	77,100		90,548		111,427		153,466
Audio & Wearables	61,560		62,445		113,714		112,647
Gaming	160,792		113,722		296,818		191,430
Smart Home	9,241		18,323		18,252		34,789
Other (1)	137		200		185		205
Total net sales	$	691,146	$	632,470	$	1,299,626	$	1,162,416

(1) Other category includes products that the Company currently intends to transition out of, or has already transitioned out of, because they are no longer strategic to the Company's business.

Net sales by geographic region (based on the customers’ locations) for the three and six months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 were as follows (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended September 30,				Six Months Ended September 30,
	2018		2017		2018		2017
Americas	$	283,714	$	261,993	$	560,642	$	507,393
EMEA	218,300		218,323		378,932		368,914
Asia Pacific	189,132		152,154		360,052		286,109
Total net sales	$	691,146	$	632,470	$	1,299,626	$	1,162,416

Sales are attributed to countries on the basis of the customers’ locations.

The United States and Germany each represented more than 10% of the total consolidated net sales for each of the periods presented herein. China represented more than 10% of the total consolidated net sales for the three and six months ended September 30, 2018. No other countries represented 10% or more of the Company’s total consolidated net sales for the periods presented herein.

Switzerland, the Company’s home domicile, represented 4% and 3% of the Company's total consolidated net sales for the three and six months ended September 30, 2018, respectively, and 2% for each of the three and six months ended September 30, 2017.

Two customer groups of the Company each represented more than 10% of the total consolidated net sales for each of the periods presented herein.

Property, plant and equipment, net by geographic region were as follows (in thousands):



	September 30, 2018		March 31, 2018
Americas	$	33,508	$	35,404
EMEA	4,327		4,690
Asia Pacific	45,896		46,210
Total property, plant and equipment, net	$	83,731	$	86,304

Property, plant and equipment, net in the United States and China were $33.5 million and $38.2 million, respectively, as of September 30, 2018, and $35.3 million and $37.9 million, respectively, as of March 31, 2018. No other countries represented more than 10% of the Company’s total consolidated property, plant and equipment, net as of September 30, 2018 or March 31, 2018. Property, plant and equipment, net in Switzerland, the Company’s home domicile, were $1.6 million and $1.9 million as of September 30, 2018 and March 31, 2018, respectively.