Parker merges groups
Parker Hannifin Corporation has consolidated its Climate and Industrial Controls (CIC) group into other existing operating groups within the company's Industrial Segment.
As a result of this consolidation and the resulting change in management structure, the company will have two reporting segments beginning with fiscal year 2014, Diversified Industrial (which will continue to include supplemental sales and profitability data for North America and International) and Aerospace Systems.
"We have completed strategic divestitures within the CIC group during this past year, including our previously announced transaction to sell the automotive air conditioning portion of our Mobile Climate Systems Division to ContiTech AG," said chairman, CEO and president, Don Washkewicz. "We believe this change in group and management structure will better leverage the natural synergies among our operating groups and will foster greater focus, efficiencies and opportunities for growth. Our new reporting segment names more accurately describe the breadth of our capabilities and the position we have achieved as an innovative provider of highly engineered aerospace systems to our customers."
In fiscal year 2014, the financial results of the CIC group will be reported in the Diversified Industrial Segment. On a geographic basis, approximately 70% of CIC group sales will be reported within Diversified Industrial North America and approximately 30% of CIC group sales will be reported within Diversified Industrial International.
The company also announced that, beginning with the first quarter of fiscal year 2014, it will provide supplemental information, including sales, on three global technology platforms. This supplemental information is expected to provide greater clarity into the operations that comprise the Diversified Industrial Segment. The three global technology platforms are strategically aligned based on complementary technologies and will be called Motion Systems, Flow and Process Control, and Filtration and Engineered Materials.
"This supplemental information will provide greater transparency and showcase the breadth of the technologies that we leverage in unique ways to meet our customers' needs around the world," added Washkewicz. "We believe that this information will broaden awareness of our competitive strengths and the scope of our global footprint, end markets, sales channels, products and applications."
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