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|
|
|
|
| |
 |
Acquisitions in 2005 |
|
|
| |
|
|
£m |
|
| |
|
France Medical Press & Services |
24 |
|
| |
|
The Publican |
21 |
|
| |
|
Light Reading |
15 |
|
| |
|
Informex |
13 |
|
| |
|
ABI |
12 |
|
| |
|
Other (including Black Hat, Japan Jewellery Fair) |
20 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
105 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Disposals in 2005 |
|
|
| |
|
|
£m |
|
| |
|
NOP |
383 |
|
| |
|
Five |
248 |
|
| |
|
Exchange & Mart/Auto Exchange |
50 |
|
| |
|
SDN |
31 |
|
| |
|
SIS |
23 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
735 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Financial Transactions in 2005 |
|
|
| |
|
|
£m |
|
| |
|
Special Dividend |
298 |
|
| |
|
Convertible Buyback |
133 |
|
| |
|
Bond Buyback |
102 |
|
| |
|
Purchase of Ordinary Shares |
17 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
550 |
|
| |
|
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