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(1) Excludes the extraordinary loss on the early retirement of debt.
(2) Net sales include $31.3 million of sales from the Company's acquisition of G.S. Blodgett Corporation, a commercial cooking equipment manufacturer in the fourth quarter of 1997. Excludes the extraordinary loss on the early retirement of debt.
(3) Net sales include $40.4 million of sales from the Company's acquisition of a 50.5 percent ownership in a joint venture of home appliances in China in the third quarter of 1996. Operating profit includes a $40 million charge for the restructuring of the Company's major home appliance business. The after-tax charge for this restructuring of $24.4 million is included in income (loss) from continuing operations. Excludes the extraordinary loss on the early retirement of debt.
(4) Net sales include $181.2 million made by the Company's European Operations which was sold effective June 30, 1995. Income (loss) from continuing operations includes a $135.4 million after-tax loss on the sale of the Company's European Operations; a $9.9 million after-tax charge to settle a lawsuit relating to the closing of the former Dixie-Narco plant in Ranson, West Virginia; a $3.6 million after-tax loss on the sale of the Eastlake Operation; and a $10.8 million after-tax loss arising from a guarantee of indebtedness relating to the sale of one its manufacturing plants in 1992. Excludes the extraordinary loss on the early retirement of debt.
(5) Net sales include $399 million made by the Company's European Operations which was sold effective June 30, 1995 and $142 million made by the Company's Australian Operations which was sold effective December 31, 1994. Income (loss) from continuing operations includes a $20 million one-time tax benefit associated with European operating losses and reorganization costs and a $16.4 million after-tax loss from the sale of the Company's Australian Operations. Excludes the cumulative effect of an accounting change.