School Specialty Inc. - SCHS- Profile

School Specialty, Inc.. The Group's principal activity is to market supplemental educational supplies to schools and teachers for pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. The Group operates through two segments: Essentials and Specialty. Traditional segment consists of consumables (classroom supplies, instructional materials, educational games, art supplies and school forms), school furniture and indoor and outdoor equipment. The Specialty segment offers product lines for specific educational disciplines, such as art, industrial arts, physical education, sciences, and early childhood. Specialty segment also supplies student academic planners. Specialty businesses include the following brands such as Childcraft, ClassroomDirect, Sax Arts and Crafts, Frey Scientific, Sportime, Teacher's Video and Brodhead Garrett. On 01-Sep-2005 the Group acquired The Delta Education LLC and Speech Bin Inc on 14-Dec-2005. The Group operates in the United States and Canada. Specialty Segment accounted for 55% of fiscal 2006 gross revenues, Essentials, 45% and Others, nom