Financial Summary

Consolidated Five Year Financial Summary
at 31 March 2009

2009
IFRS
£m
2008
IFRS
£m
2007
IFRS
£m
2006
IFRS
£m
2005
IFRS
£m
Consolidated income statement
Revenue 696.5 563.7 508.5 442.5 420.4
Trading profit from continuing operations1
Finance charges – interest
Finance charges – other

66.4
(15.0)
(2.9)
55.9
(8.5)
(2.6)

47.3
(5.8)
(1.2)

38.9
(4.2)
(0.7)

36.0
(4.7)
(0.6)
Profit from continuing operations before exceptional items and tax (Underlying Profit) 48.5 44.8 40.3 34.0 30.7
Amortisation of acquisition intangibles (3.8) (2.5) (1.1) – –
Exceptional items (10.8) (1.0) 6.9 (3.7) (11.0)
Profit before tax from continuing operations 33.9 41.3 46.1 30.3 19.7
Tax (9.1) (13.0) (14.8) (10.5) (7.1)
Exceptional Tax (18.4) – – – –
Profit after tax from continuing operations 6.4 28.3 31.3 19.8 12.6
Profit after tax from discontinued operations – – – 10.6 65.0
Profit for the year 6.4 28.3 31.3 30.4 77.6
Consolidated balance sheet
Non-current assets 874.4 726.6 561.8 466.0 433.7
Other assets less liabilities (150.5) (119.8) (80.7) (68.6) (66.0)
Net debt (424.3) (326.7) (257.4) (188.8) (178.7)
Net assets 299.6 280.1 223.7 208.6 189.0
Share capital and share premium 123.0 121.1 117.5 117.2 116.6
Reserves 176.6 159.0 106.2 91.4 72.4
Total equity 299.6 280.1 223.7 208.6 189.0
Financial ratios
Adjusted basic earnings per share 14.5p 12.9p 11.7p 9.6p 8.7p
Basic earnings per share 2.7p 12.0p 13.3p 13.0p 33.1p
Dividends per share 2.1p 6.2p 5.9p 5.7p 5.7p

 

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

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