Segment Information

9 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 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 nine months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 were as follows (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended December 31,				Nine Months Ended December 31,
	2019		2018		2019		2018
Pointing Devices	$	154,540	$	149,123	$	409,293	$	405,250
Keyboards & Combos	156,333		144,169		424,061		404,263
PC Webcams	32,165		33,021		89,041		90,916
Tablet & Other Accessories	31,256		35,757		103,442		104,903
Video Collaboration	91,964		74,186		254,941		190,154
Mobile Speakers	92,969		96,263		200,617		207,690
Audio & Wearables	81,934		98,629		208,576		212,343
Gaming	245,736		213,663		541,265		510,481
Smart Home	15,790		19,577		35,088		37,829
Other ⁽¹⁾	—		—		279		185
Total sales	$	902,687	$	864,388	$	2,266,603	$	2,164,014

(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 nine months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 were as follows (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended December 31,				Nine Months Ended December 31,
	2019		2018		2019		2018
Americas	$	380,493	$	385,598	$	970,775	$	946,240
EMEA	308,907		269,082		719,994		648,014
Asia Pacific	213,287		209,708		575,834		569,760
Total sales	$	902,687	$	864,388	$	2,266,603	$	2,164,014

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 sales for each of the periods presented herein. China represented more than 10% of the total consolidated sales for the nine months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018. 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% of the Company's total consolidated sales for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2019, respectively, and represented 3% of the Company's total consolidated sales for the three and nine months ended December 31, 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):



	December 31, 2019		March 31, 2019
Americas	$	26,837	$	29,813
EMEA	4,451		4,537
Asia Pacific	44,791		44,202
Total property, plant and equipment, net	$	76,079	$	78,552

Property, plant and equipment, net in the United States and China were $26.7 million and $37.0 million, respectively, as of December 31, 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 December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2019. Property, plant and equipment, net in Switzerland, the Company’s home domicile, were $1.6 million and $1.7 million as of December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2019, respectively.