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 nine months ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 were as follows (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended December 31,				Nine Months Ended December 31,
	2018		2017		2018		2017
Pointing Devices	$	149,123	$	140,983	$	405,250	$	386,700
Keyboards & Combos	144,169		126,372		404,263		361,685
PC Webcams	33,021		27,280		90,916		80,370
Tablet & Other Accessories	35,757		26,648		104,903		80,650
Video Collaboration	74,186		46,252		190,154		128,008
Mobile Speakers	96,263		147,377		207,690		300,843
Audio & Wearables	98,629		84,435		212,343		197,083
Gaming	213,663		173,802		510,481		365,232
Smart Home	19,577		38,692		37,829		73,481
Other ⁽¹⁾	—		180		185		385
Total net sales	$	864,388	$	812,021	$	2,164,014	$	1,974,437

(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 nine months ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 were as follows (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended December 31,				Nine Months Ended December 31,
	2018		2017		2018		2017
Americas	$	385,598	$	380,130	$	946,240	$	887,523
EMEA	269,082		253,767		648,014		622,681
Asia Pacific	209,708		178,124		569,760		464,233
Total net sales	$	864,388	$	812,021	$	2,164,014	$	1,974,437

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 nine months ended December 31, 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 3% of the Company's total consolidated net sales for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2018, and represented 1% and 2% of the Company’s total consolidated net sales for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2017, respectively.

Two customers 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):



	December 31, 2018		March 31, 2018
Americas	$	31,178	$	35,404
EMEA	4,694		4,690
Asia Pacific	45,705		46,210
Total property, plant and equipment, net	$	81,577	$	86,304

Property, plant and equipment, net in the United States and China were $31.2 million and $37.9 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2018, and $35.3 million and $37.9 million, respectively, as of March 31, 2018. No other countries represented 10% or more of the Company’s total consolidated property, plant and equipment, net as of December 31, 2018 or March 31, 2018. Property, plant and equipment, net in Switzerland, the Company’s home domicile, were $1.7 million and $1.9 million as of December 31, 2018 and March 31, 2018, respectively.