Segment Information

6 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

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 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 or change in fair value of contingent consideration from business acquisition.

Sales by product categories and sales channels, excluding intercompany transactions, for the three and six months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 were as follows (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended September 30,				Six Months Ended September 30,
	2019		2018		2019		2018
Pointing Devices	$	132,770	$	128,337	$	254,753	$	256,127
Keyboards & Combos	139,049		131,872		267,728		260,094
PC Webcams	28,748		28,221		56,876		57,895
Tablet & Other Accessories	33,847		36,710		72,186		69,146
Video Collaboration	89,553		57,176		162,977		115,968
Mobile Speakers	57,232		77,100		107,648		111,427
Audio & Wearables	68,018		61,560		126,642		113,714
Gaming	161,014		160,792		295,529		296,818
Smart Home	9,434		9,241		19,298		18,252
Other ⁽¹⁾	26		137		279		185
Total sales	$	719,691	$	691,146	$	1,363,916	$	1,299,626

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

Sales by geographic region (based on the customers’ locations) for the three and six months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 were as follows (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended September 30,				Six Months Ended September 30,
	2019		2018		2019		2018
Americas	$	296,837	$	283,714	$	590,282	$	560,642
EMEA	231,981		218,300		411,087		378,932
Asia Pacific	190,873		189,132		362,547		360,052
Total sales	$	719,691	$	691,146	$	1,363,916	$	1,299,626

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

The United States, Germany, and China each represented more than 10% of the total consolidated sales for each of the periods presented herein. No other countries represented 10% or more of the Company’s total consolidated sales for the periods presented herein.

Switzerland, the Company’s home domicile, represented 4% and 3% of the Company's total consolidated sales for the three and six months ended September 30, 2019, respectively, and represented 4% and 3% of the Company's total consolidated sales for the three and six months ended September 30, 2018, respectively.

Two customers of the Company each represented more than 10% of the total consolidated gross sales for each of the periods presented herein.

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



	September 30, 2019		March 31, 2019
Americas	$	27,213	$	29,813
EMEA	4,545		4,537
Asia Pacific	43,810		44,202
Total property, plant and equipment, net	$	75,568	$	78,552

Property, plant and equipment, net in the United States and China were $27.1 million and $36.0 million, respectively, as of September 30, 2019, and $29.8 million and $36.4 million, respectively, as of March 31, 2019. No other countries represented 10% or more of the Company’s total consolidated property, plant and equipment, net as of September 30, 2019 or March 31, 2019. Property, plant and equipment, net in Switzerland, the Company’s home domicile, were $1.8 million and $1.7 million as of September 30, 2019 and March 31, 2019, respectively.