Five Year Summary

Consolidated Five Year Financial Summary
at 31 March 2011

  2011
£m
2010
£m
2009
£m
2008
£m
2007
£m
Consolidated income statement
Revenue
717.3

683.5

685.1

553.0

500.1
Trading profit from continuing
operations 1
49.7 51.1 61.7 51.9 44.4
Finance charges – interest (8.2) (12.1) (14.9) (8.3) (5.7)
Finance charges – other (6.3) (5.8) (2.9) (2.6) (1.2)
Profit from continuing operations before
exceptional items and tax (Underlying
Profit)
35.2 33.2 43.9 41.0 37.5
Amortisation of acquisition intangibles (3.9) (3.9) (3.8) (2.5) (1.1)
Exceptional items (10.1) (9.7) (10.8) (1.0) 6.9
Profit before tax from continuing
operations
21.2 19.6 29.3 37.5 43.3
Tax (7.8) (6.7) (7.8) (11.9) (14.0)
Exceptional Tax 8.5 5.2 (18.4)
Profit after tax from continuing
operations
21.9 18.1 3.1 25.6 29.3
Profit after tax from discontinued
operations
19.5 3.3 2.7 2.0
Profit for the year 21.9 37.6 6.4 28.3 31.3

Consolidated balance sheet
Non-current assets 767.9 878.7 874.4 726.6 561.8
Other assets less liabilities (163.1) (173.8) (166.1) (123.3) (81.2)
Net debt (207.4) (319.7) (408.7) (323.2) (256.9)
Net assets 397.4 385.2 299.6 280.1 223.7
Share capital and share premium 139.1 139.0 123.0 121.1 117.5
Reserves 258.3 246.2 176.6 159.0 106.2
Total equity 397.4 385.2 299.6 280.1 223.7
Financial ratios
Underlying earnings per share 6.5p 6.5p 10.4p 9.3p 8.6p
Basic earnings per share 5.5p 4.8p 1.0p 8.6p 9.9p
Dividends per share 3.25p 3.0p 1.7p 4.9p 4.7p

1 Trading profit from continuing operations is stated before exceptional items and amortisation of acquisition intangibles