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38 Brother Annual Report 2007
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Brother Industries, Ltd. and Consolidated Subsidiaries
For the Years ended March 31, 2007 and 2006
15. Contingent Liabilities
At March 31, 2007, the Group had the follow ing contingent liabilities:
16. Segment Information
Prior to April 1, 2006, the Group classified its business segment as follow s:
"Information and Document" consists of sales and production of fax machines, MFCs
(multi-function centers), printers, typew riters, netw ork karaoke machines and information distribution
services for cellular phones.
"Personal and Home" consists of sales and production of electronic stationeries and domestic
sew ing machines.
"M achinery and Solution" consists of sales and production of industrial sew ing machines and
machine tools.
"Others" consists of real estate, leasing parts and other areas of business.
Effective April 1, 2006, the Group reorganized its business segment integrating the printing
operations in order to strengthen the marketing, sales and service function by combing printing
business resources in the Group.
The Group moved the electric stationary business, w hich was formerly included in the
“ Personal & Home” segment, into the "Information & Document" segment, and netw ork karaoke
services and information distribution services for cellular phones w ere regrouped from the
"Information & Document" segment to the "Others" segment.
Furthermore, the Group renamed "Information & Document" segment as "Printing & Solutions"
segment.
Information about business segments, geographic segments and sales to foreign customers
of the Group for the years ended M arch 31, 2007 and 2006 is as follow s:
(1) Business Segments
Information about business segments for the years ended M arch 31, 2007 and 2006 is summa-
rized as follows:
(a) Sales, operating expenses and operating income:
Guarantees of bank loans for customers' housing loans
Thousands of
U.S. Dollars
Millions of Yen
¥ 5 $ 42
63,024
-
63,024
54,550
8,474
Sales to customers
Intersegment sales
Total sales
Operating expenses
Operating income
Consolidated
Eliminations
/CorporateOthers
Machinery
and Solution
Millions of Yen
2007
¥
¥
34,224
-
34,224
31,759
2,465
Personal
and Home
¥
¥
397,630
-
397,630
360,203
37,427
Printing and
Solutions
¥
¥
67,395
8,232
75,627
72,738
2,889
¥
¥
-
(8,232)
(8,232)
(8,232)
-
¥
562,273
-
562,273
511,018
51,255
¥
¥