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Highlights
Electrocomponents distributes a wide range of products to development and maintenance engineers in all types of businesses around the world. We offer our customers unrivalled choice, support and reliability underpinned by an unrelenting commitment to service. This is reflected in our continued financial success.
Our strategy is simple: to exceed the expectations of customers everywhere with our service levels and product offer; to exploit new opportunities through electronic trading; to develop new markets by rolling out our business model worldwide; and we do all of this with the support of our established process infrastructure and expertise.
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2003 |
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| Turnover |
£759.3m |
£743.7m |
+2.1% |
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| Operating profit* |
£108.3m |
£102.1m |
+6.1% |
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| Profit before tax* |
£106.9m |
£100.9m |
+5.9% |
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| Earnings per share* |
17.5p |
16.5p |
+6.1% |
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| Free cash flow per share |
19.1p |
15.7p |
+21.7% |
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| Dividends per share |
18.2p |
17.0p |
+7.1% |
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