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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

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Note 15.
Segment Reporting:

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Domestic Tobacco Legal Settlement—During 2003, PM USA and certain other defendants reached an agreement with a class of U.S. tobacco growers and quota-holders to resolve a lawsuit related to tobacco leaf purchases. During 2003, PM USA recorded pre-tax charges of $202 million for its obligations under the agreement. The pre-tax charges are included in the operating companies income of the domestic tobacco segment.

Losses (Gains) on Sales of Businesses—During 2004, Kraft sold a Brazilian snack nuts business and trademarks associated with a candy business in Norway, and recorded aggregate pre-tax losses of $3 million. During 2003, Kraft sold a European rice business and a branded fresh cheese business in Italy and recorded aggregate pre-tax gains of $31 million. During 2002, Kraft sold a Latin American yeast and industrial bakery ingredients business, resulting in a pre-tax gain of $69 million, and Kraft sold several small businesses, resulting in pre-tax gains of $11 million.

Integration Costs and a Loss on Sale of a Food Factory—Altria Group, Inc.’s consolidated statements of earnings disclose the following items as integration costs, which are costs incurred by Kraft as it integrated the operations of Nabisco, and a loss on sale of a food factory. During 2003, Kraft reversed $13 million related to the previously recorded integration charges.

For the years ended December 31, 2003 2002
Closing a facility and other consolidation programs North American food $(13 )   $98
Consolidation of production lines and distribution
networks in Latin America
International food   17
Loss on sale of a food factory North American food (4 )
    Total   $(13 ) $111

Provision for Airline Industry Exposure—As discussed in Note 8Finance Assets, net, during 2004 and 2002, in recognition of the economic downturn in the airline industry, PMCC increased its allowance for losses by $140 million and $290 million, respectively.

Miller Transaction—As more fully discussed in Note 4. Miller Brewing Company Transaction, on July 9, 2002, Miller was merged into SAB to form SABMiller. The transaction resulted in a pre-tax gain of $2.6 billion or $1.7 billion after-tax.

See Notes 4, 5 and 6, respectively, regarding the Miller Brewing Company transaction, divestitures and acquisitions.

(in millions)
For the Years Ended December 31, 2004  2003 2002
Depreciation expense from
     continuing operations:
            Domestic tobacco $       203 $      194 $      194
            International tobacco 453 370 307
            North American food 555 533 497
            International food 309 266 207
            Beer 61
             1,520 1,363 1,266
            Other 66 63 53
            Total depreciation expense
                 from continuing operations 1,586 1,426 $   1,319
Depreciation expense from
     discontinued operations 4 5 5
            Total depreciation expense $    1,590 $   1,431 $   1,324
Assets:
     Tobacco $  27,472 $ 23,298 $ 18,329
     Food 60,760 59,735 57,245
     Financial Services     7,845 8,540 9,231
          96,077 91,573 84,805
    Other            5,571 4,602 2,735
             Total Assets               $101,648 $ 96,175 $ 87,540
Capital expenditures from
     continuing operations:
            Domestic tobacco $        185 $     154 $     140
            International tobacco 711 586 497
            North American food 613 667 719
            International food 389 402 410
            Beer 84
             1,898 1,809 1,850
            Other 11 149 104
            Total capital expenditures from
                 continuing operations 1,909 1,958 1,954
Capital expenditures from
     discontinued operations 4 16 55
            Total capital expenditures $    1,913 $  1,974 $  2,009


Altria Group, Inc.’s operations outside the United States, which are principally in the tobacco and food businesses, are organized into geographic regions within each segment, with Europe being the most significant. Total tobacco and food segment net revenues attributable to customers located in Germany, Altria Group, Inc.’s largest European market, were $9.0 billion, $8.5 billion and $7.4 billion for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively.

Geographic data for net revenues and long-lived assets (which consist of all financial services assets and non-current consumer products assets, other than goodwill and other intangible assets, net) were as follows:

(in millions)
For the Years Ended December 31, 2004  2003 2002
Net revenues:
     United States—domestic $37,729 $36,312 $40,637
                        —export 3,493 3,528 3,654
     Europe 36,163 30,813 26,090
     Other 12,225 10,667 9,552
            Total net revenues $89,610 $81,320 $79,933
Long-lived assets:

 

     United States $26,347 $25,825 $24,308
     Europe 6,829 6,048 4,939
     Other 3,459 3,375 2,981
             Total long-lived assets $36,635 $35,248 $32,228

 

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