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|
|
 |
Earnings and dividends |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
|
|
|
| |
Basic earnings per share |
43.3p |
32.1p |
27.4p |
20.3p |
25.7p |
|
| |
Basic earnings per share before
amortisation of goodwill and |
|
|
| |
exceptional items |
38.9p |
38.8p |
34.5p |
37.2p |
41.7p |
|
| |
Dividend per share |
20.0p |
20.6p |
20.6p |
21.0p |
21.7p |
|
| |
Dividend cover |
1.9 |
1.9 |
1.7 |
1.8 |
1.9 |
|
| |
Interest cover |
n/a |
11.6 |
8.0 |
7.6 |
9.3 |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
Profit by division |
£m |
£m |
£m |
£m |
£m
|
|
|
|
| |
Experian |
141.9 |
193.7 |
200.6 |
216.6 |
229.1 |
|
| |
Argos Retail Group |
|
|
|
| |
Argos |
- |
117.0 |
137.4 |
160.8 |
204.0 |
|
| |
Home Shopping - UK & Ireland |
126.4 |
106.3 |
11.8 |
25.1 |
33.1 |
|
| |
Financial Services |
- |
- |
14.4 |
4.5 |
(4.8) |
|
| |
Home Shopping - Continental Europe
|
29.3 |
29.5 |
25.1 |
21.7 |
22.4 |
|
|
|
| |
|
155.7 |
252.8 |
188.7 |
212.1 |
254.7 |
|
| |
Reality |
- |
- |
2.8 |
5.1 |
0.5 |
|
| |
Burberry |
24.9 |
10.7 |
21.7 |
69.5 |
90.3 |
|
| |
Other |
128.6 |
105.0 |
98.1 |
57.8 |
44.0 |
|
|
|
| |
|
451.1 |
562.2 |
511.9 |
561.1 |
618.6 |
|
| |
Interest income/(expense)* |
104.0 |
(48.6) |
(64.0) |
(74.3) |
(66.5) |
|
|
|
| |
Profit before amortisation of goodwill,
exceptional items and taxation |
555.1 |
513.6 |
447.9 |
486.8 |
552.1 |
|
| |
Amortisation of goodwill |
- |
(72.6) |
(79.4) |
(92.3) |
(99.4) |
|
| |
Exceptional items |
68.6 |
9.4 |
11.1 |
(84.7) |
(72.6) |
|
|
|
| |
Profit before taxation |
623.7 |
450.4 |
379.6 |
309.8 |
380.1 |
|
| |
Tax on profit on ordinary activities
|
(181.6) |
(118.2) |
(104.5) |
(106.1) |
(122.1) |
|
|
|
| |
Profit after taxation |
442.1 |
332.2 |
275.1 |
203.7 |
258.0 |
|
|
|
| |
*The basis on which interest is
reported is consistent with the revised basis adopted in 2002. |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
Balance sheet |
£m |
£m |
£m |
£m |
£m |
|
|
|
| |
Goodwill |
- |
1,503.5 |
1,437.6 |
1,516.2 |
1,421.5 |
|
| |
Other fixed assets |
987.4 |
1,212.4 |
1,238.1 |
1,213.2 |
1,349.5 |
|
| |
Trading assets |
1,303.0 |
1,947.1 |
1,993.6 |
1,626.4 |
1,393.8 |
|
| |
Net cash/(borrowings) (including non-recourse borrowings)
|
284.9 |
(2,069.8) |
(1,931.4) |
(1,711.9) |
(1,485.4) |
|
| |
Dividends and taxation |
(276.9) |
(196.2) |
(271.6) |
(221.0) |
(256.8) |
|
|
|
| |
Net assets |
2,298.4 |
2,397.0 |
2,466.3 |
2,422.9 |
2,422.6 |
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