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Annual Report and Accounts 2000 Severn Trent Plc is now acknowledged as the UK's leading environmentally engaged company. The group, which includes Severn Trent Water, Biffa Waste Services and Severn Trent Services, generates revenues of £1.6bn and employs almost 14,000 people across the UK, US and Europe. As an inte...
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before interest (pre-exceptionals) (£m) Profit before interest (post-exceptionals) (£m) Profit before tax (pre-exceptionals) (£m) Profit before tax (post-exceptionals) (£m) Earnings per share (pre-exceptionals) (p) Earnings per share (post-exceptionals) (p) Gearing (%) Final dividend (p) Interim dividends (p) Total eq...
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57.5 1215.3 1251.3 1364.3 1566.6 373.0 391.0 376.2 361.4 338.7 89.6 93.9 95.0 92.4 92.8 32.37 36.50 39.76 43.00 45.00 96 97 98 99 00 Group turnover £m 96 97 98 99 00 Group profit before tax £m (before exceptional items) 96 97 98 99 00 Earnings per share pence (before exceptional items) 96 97 98 99...
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success, we were delighted this year to gain first place in Business in the Environment's Index of Corporate Environmental Engagement. Secondly, environmental leadership means using our environmental expertise to help our customers to discharge their own environmental responsibilities. The environment is our business....
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10.7 11.5 264.8 341.1 Percentage of ordinary shares % 3.6% 5.0% 6.4% 0.9% 3.1% 3.4% 77.6% 100.0% *Others 86% Shares held by category of shareholder (% of total shareholders) Shares held by category of shareholder (% of total shares) *Others e.g insurance companies, nominee companies, banks, pension funds, other c...
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21 722 6000 (Holding company) Directors V Cocker P P Davies # Held directly by the company Country of incorporation, registration and main operation is Great Britain unless otherwise stated. All subsidiary undertakings are wholly owned unless otherwise indicated and all shareholdings are in ordinary shares. All subsi...
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Annual report & accounts 2000 Contents 1 Chairman's statement 2 Operations review 7 Financial review 9 Directors and advisors 10 Directors' report 16 Corporate governance 20 Remuneration report 24 Directors' responsibilities statement 25 Auditors' report 26 Consolidated profit and loss account Consolidated statemen...
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manufacturing engineering, fundamental to achieving our quality and cost objectives. Internally, the pace of change in the development of our technology has continued to accelerate. Development has focused primarily on progressing the Series 3 transmissions to the stage of vehicle installation and software calibratio...
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enhanced later this year as our new assembly facilities come on stream. This will supply pre-production and prototype volumes for evaluation by our licensees, and will provide valuable experience in Torotrak's share price has been much more variable than we would wish. This has not been a reflection of what is happen...
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Operations review Investment Progress The group continues to invest in the delivery of our primary corporate goal of market launch of the Infinitely Variable Transmission by our licensees. During the year we have invested £11.4 million in our technology (capital expenditure and development costs). The funds were ...
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the company during normal business hours on any weekday, Saturdays excepted, from the date of this notice until the date of the meeting, and at 7 Devonshire Square, Cutlers Gardens, London EC2M 4YH from 9.00am on 20 July 2000 until the close of the meeting. 47 How to reach us By road Leave the M6 Motorway at Junct...
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contracts for such purposes which would or might be executed wholly or partly after such expiry. 1 Aston Way Leyland Lancashire PR5 3UX By order of the board Rebecca Joyce Secretary 19 June 2000 Notes 1. Any member entitled to attend and vote at the annual general meeting may appoint one or more proxies to attend a...
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Annual Report 2000 AIT Group plc AIT ­ THE BEST e-CRM SOLUTIONS FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES PERFORMANCE HISTORY Revenue and Earnings Growth 25,000 5,000 20,000 21,693 17,460 4,000 Earnings (£000's) Revenue (£000's) 15,000 13,556 10,000 5,000 0 11,216 2,483 7,495 1,888 1,427 998 721 financial year Reven...
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2,203 1,982 15 14% 1,509 14 1,000 1,033 790 13 416 Licence Fees 0 278 financial year 12 R&D Spend 1997 1998 1999 2000 Strong licence growth driving up margins and fuelling important R&D spend ­ 2000 licence up 92%, R&D spend tripled (increasing barrier to entry) Operating Margin We believe that high q...
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24 Group balance sheet 24 25 Group cash flow statement 25 26 Company balance sheet 26 27 Notes to the financial statements 27 Chairman's statement ait.co.uk Annual Report 2000 CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT I am delighted to report another successful year for AIT with excellent results demonstrating further growth a...
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5 million) with, as predicted, strong second half growth of 32% over the respective period in 1999. Operating profit has risen 34% to £3.6 million from £2.7 million in 1999, with strong licence growth of 92% generating £3.8 million (1999: £2.0 million) from software. Our research and development spend has almost triple...
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hours before the time fixed for the adjourned meeting or, if the Company gives notice of the adjourned meeting, at the time specified in that notice. 5 Copies of all contracts of service under which directors of the Company are employed by the Company and the register of directors' interests are available for inspect...
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A form of proxy is enclosed. The appointment of a proxy will not prevent a shareholder from subsequently attending and voting at the meeting in person, in which case any votes cast by the proxy will be excluded. 3 To be effective the instrument appointing a proxy must 38 be deposited at the Company's registered off...
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THOMAS POTTS PLC REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2000 R & A 2000 11/8/00 05:48 am Page 1 Thomas Potts plc Directors S T Hargrave P R Smith E Slater FCA J G Turner J R Peace (chairman) (chief executive) (finance director) (managing director) (non-executive) Secretar y E Slater FCA Auditors Rees Pollock 7 Pilgrim Street Londo...
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1 R & A 2000 11/8/00 05:48 am Page 2 Chairman's Statement This year's results show further progress for the Thomas Potts group, which has now been further enlivened by a significant acquisition and the appointment of our first group chief executive. We are looking forward with confidence. In the twelve months ended 3...
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the Government's drive to encourage the enterprise economy. New Britain, new taxes. The figures also reflect a positive contribution from G & E 2000 Ltd, which we established in October 1999 to acquire the business and assets of Goodfellow & Egan. This acquisition took the group into some of the most progressive areas...
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the group was the appointment of Paul Smith as group chief executive on 3 April 2000. Following an outstanding academic career he made rapid progress in senior management and managing director positions in a number of major companies. I persuaded him to join us on the understanding that together we would endeavour to ...
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c Unapproved Share Option Scheme be amended in accordance with the changes summarised in the Report of the Directors to Shareholders dated 27 June 2000 forming part of the Report and Accounts of the Company of which this Notice forms part and in the form presented to the Annual General Meeting on 21 July 2000 and initi...
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may be so acquired is 10 per cent of the Company's issued share capital as at the date of this resolution; (ii) the minimum price which may be paid for a Share is 3p; (iii) the maximum price which may be so paid for a Share which the Company contracts to purchase on any day shall be no higher that 5 per cent above the...
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Annual Report 1999 BTV AG at a glance Balance sheet (in million) Balance sheet total Loans and advances to customers Fixed interest securities Customers accounts Including savings deposits Including other liabilities Debts evidenced by certificates Capital resources (without Tier 3 capital) Capital resources surplus...
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7 542.2 1,896.0 931.5 964.5 666.2 + 12.4% 272.5 + 2.6% 62.3 + 21.4% 4,013.9 Income Statement (in million) Operating result 615.8 597.5 + 3.1% 44.8 Results from ordinary business activities 328.0 272.5 + 20.4% 23.8 Annual surplus 213.2 186.5 + 14.3% 15.5 1 Company reference figures Return on equi...
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ividend per share Price/earnings ratio common share Price/earnings ratio preference share Common share: Highest price Lowest price Closing price Preference share: Highest price Lowest price Closing price 65.3 15 27.6 10.5 1830 1576 1803 806 688 688 52.6 13+2 30.0 15.4 1853 1350 1576 830 551 811 +12.7 0 - 2.4 - 4.9 ...
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. The historic introduction of the single currency into Europe took place in the context of a strong American economy and economic uncertainty in Euroland. These factors massively influenced the development of the Euro in the first year of its existence. Although for our company the predicted decrease in return in the ...
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BKS) 3. Bank für Tirol und Vorarlberg AG, Innsbruck (BTV) The following companies are commonly operated by the "3 Banken Gruppe": 1. Drei-Banken EDV-Ges.m.b.H., Linz: almost all EDP services for the 3 Banks are carried out by this company. 2. Drei-Banken Versicherungs AG, Linz: this com- pany deals mainly with li...
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leasing.si Prag (OBK Finance s.r.o., Oberbank AG) Vodockova 40 CZ-11000 Praha 1 Telephone 00420 (2) 96 23 64 44 Fax 00420 (2) 96 23 64 48 e-mail: obk-fin@obk-fin.cz Verona (BTV AG) Via Prima Traversa Spianà 3 I-37138 Verona Telephone 0039 (045) 8 10 15 66 Fax 0039 (045) 8 10 16 30 e-mail: bionda.mr@tin.it Zagreb (BKS A...
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Leaders in Internet based supply chain management Kewill Systems plc annual report and accounts 2000 Kewill Systems plc Cedar Court, Guildford Road, Fetcham, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 9RX England Tel: +44 (0)1372 366500 Fax: +44 (0)1372 366400 www.kewill.com info@kewill.com Registered number 1037515 the year's highli...
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notice of annual general meeting 37 the year's highlights Sales up 25% to £75.2 million (1999 - £60.1 million) Operating profits1 of £9.6 million (1999 - £10.8 million), representing an operating margin on sales of 12.8% E-Commerce Division sales2 up 58.8% and representing 36% of total sales2 ERP Division sales2 up ...
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to, and enthusiastically received by, the SME market Disposal of non-core Design Division (Germany) raising £1.7 million 1 The figures quoted above are before the adjustments required under the FRS IO accounting standard under which the Group is writing down goodwill arising on acquisitions over 10 years 2 Based on co...
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). Kewill Systems plc annual report & accounts 2000 page 2 chairman's statement INTRODUCTION In a year of rapid progress and change, the Board is pleased to announce that Kewill has further strengthened its position as a leading innovator and supplier of business to business e-commerce solutions - as demonstrated by t...
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resolution number 5 above, the Directors be and are hereby empowered in accordance with Section 95 of the Companies Act 1985 to allot equity securities (as defined in Section 94(2) of the Companies Act 1985) pursuant to the authority conferred by resolution number 5 above as if Section 89(1) of the Companies Act 1985 ...
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and unconditionally authorised in accordance with Section 166 of the Companies Act 1985 to make market purchases (within the meaning of Section 163 of the Companies Act 1985) of shares in the capital of the Company ("Shares") provided that: the maximum aggregate number of Shares hereby authorised to be purchased is 3,...
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PowderJect...making medicines work better Annual Report 2000 Achieved ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Key objectives set out in last year's annual report Lidocaine FDA end of Phase II review Results of lidocaine paediatric Phase II trials1 Out-license lidocaine product2 Complete first alprostadil Phase II trial Results of DNA cance...
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clinical development Promising progress towards development of HIV DNA vaccine Glaxo Wellcome purchased further DNA vaccine licence Hepatitis B DNA vaccine clinical trial initiated at Mayo Clinic Alprostadil Phase II study shows clinical proof of concept in patients Positive results of European clinical study wit...
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profit and loss account 46 Statement of total recognised gains and losses 46 Consolidated company balance sheets 47 Consolidated cash flow statement 48 Notes to the financial statements 49 Annual general meeting 63 Notice of meeting 64 Professional advisers 66 Glossary of terms 67 01 PowderJect Pharmaceuticals plc P...
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-stick injuries in hospitals each year. In addition, disposal of sharps, such as needles, is a major problem, with as many as one-third of all sharps injuries being related to the disposal process. This puts workers at risk of exposure to pathogens such as HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. To help address this problem,...
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to have tertiary structure. Peptides can be either individually biologically active or a segment of a protein. Clinical trials normally conducted in healthy human volunteers following pre-clinical studies, usually to assess the safety and pharmacokinetics of a drug candidate. Clinical trials to assess short-term safet...
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Peptide/Polypeptide Phase I clinical trials Phase II clinical trials Phase III clinical trials PowderJect® System Pre-clinical studies Prophylactic Protein Recombinant RNA Small molecules Stratum corneum Stratum basale Subcutaneous Subcutaneous layer Systemic Therapeutic Transdermal Transmucosal Vaccine Dendritic cel...
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Expro International Group PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2000 The Expro Group provides a closely related range of specialised services and products to companies engaged in oil and gas exploration and production. These services and products are fundamental to the safe, efficient and economic exploitation of hydrocarbo...
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ividend maintained at 9.8p · Enquiry levels and bid activity now increasing Turnover £'M 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 EPS/Year end share price pence £ 25 6 20 5 15 EPS 10 4 SP 3 5 2 0 1 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 Operating profit £'M 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 1996 19...
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m. "We have made considerable progress in executing our strategy and are now well placed to deliver " material growth. Introduction The last year was dominated by the impact of significant fluctuations in the price of crude oil. With Brent Crude having reached a twenty five year low, in real terms, of $10 a barrel in...
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Last year overall turnover reduced by 12% to £136m (1999 - £153m). Gross margins Annual Report and Accounts 2000 3 remained unchanged, reflecting the added-value nature of our services and products. As the business is highly operationally geared, the reduction in turnover resulted in pre-tax profits falling 26% on ...
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,280) ­­­­­­­ 20,111 (6,134) ­­­­­­­ 13,977 11 ­­­­­­­ 13,988 (6,260) ­­­­­­­ 7,728 ­­­­­­­ 22.0p ­­­­­­­ 16,984 (2,130) ­­­­­­­ 14,854 (4,530) ­­­­­­­ 10,324 (2) ­­­­­­­ 10,322 (6,278) ­­­­­­­ 4,044 ­­­­­­­ 16.1p ­­­­­­­ ­ ­ ­ 24.0p 17.3p ­­­­­­­ ­­­­­­­ ­­­­­­­ ­­­­­­­ ­­­­­­­ Basic earnings per ordinary share ...
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­­­­­ 14,303 (3,832) ­­­­­­­ 10,471 (44) ­­­­­­­ 10,427 (4,170) ­­­­­­­ 6,257 ­­­­­­­ 17.6p ­­­­­­­ 18,212 (448) ­­­­­­­ 17,764 (4,933) ­­­­­­­ 12,831 (101) ­­­­­­­ 12,730 (4,818) ­­­­­­­ 7,912 ­­­­­­­ 21.2p ­­­­­­­ 21,718 (1,286) ­­­­­­­ 20,432 (5,953) ­­­­­­­ 14,479 (9) ­­­­­­­ 14,470 (5,545) ­­­­­­­ 8,925 ­­­­­­­ ...
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Annual Report and Accounts 2000 `Nationwide's consistent performance in delivering value for money mortgage products and quality customer service has been recognised by the award of Lender of the Decade. Nationwide has shown that mutuality offers real benefits to members.' Andrew Stuart, Editor Your Mortgage magazine...
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UAL BUSINESS STATEMENT 65 INDEX www.nationwide.co.uk We provide a wide range of top value financial services through our branches and self-service machines and by telephone, post and the internet. SAVINGS AND INVESTMENTS Our members can choose from a range of instant access and notice accounts and cash ISAs to suit ...
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Our total assets have increased by more than 20% to over £64 billion. I Our measures of efficiency have improved for the eleventh consecutive year. I Our lending policies remain prudent to protect our members if economic conditions worsen. BUSINESS GROWTH It is a pleasure to be able to report to you that the Society ...
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our provisions to cover possible bad debts has continued to fall, reflecting high standards of lending controls as well as a buoyant economy. We remain prudent in our calculations, however, in order to protect our members if economic conditions worsen. During the year we took the opportunity to raise 2 NATIONWIDE BUI...
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11 Lending limit 60 Liquid assets 16,43,55,57,61 Loans and advances to credit institutions (Note 10) 38 Loans and advances to customers (Note 12) 40 Logo 9 Long term life assurance business, assets and liabilities (Note 19) 46 Macmillan Cancer Relief 4 Memorandum items (Note 31) 52 Mortgages 6,12 Na...
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Debt securities in issue (Note 23) Derivatives Directors' emoluments (Note 6) Directors' loans and related party transactions (Note 36) Directors' Report Directors' Responsibilities Divisional directors 39 48 54-58 36 59 16-18 24 21,64 Economic and Monetary Union Employees ­ information and policies Employees (Note ...
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Take a fresh look Annual report and accounts 2000 Financial summary Sales (including VAT and sales tax) £ million Underlying profit before tax2 £ million Underlying earnings per share2 pence Dividend per share pence3 2000 52 weeks 17,414 580 20.5p 14.32p 19991 52 weeks 16,378 755 27.0p 14.32p % change 6.3 (23.2) ...
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Group. 1 Chairman's statement 2 J Sainsbury plc at a glance 2000 4 Group Chief Executive's review Themes: 6 Recapturing a passion for food 8 Taking pride in customer service 10 Seizing e-commerce opportunities 12 Designing our stores to meet customer needs Operating review: 14 Sainsbury's Supermarkets 17 Sainsbury's ...
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of customers and the confidence of staff. The steps we are taking to speed up the rate of change and improvement in Sainsbury's are clearly necessary in the light of these results. Last year was a difficult year for the Sainsbury Group, in which strong performances at Shaw's and Homebase were unable to compensate for...
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Roger Matthews who has joined us from Compass Group as Group Finance Director. I would also like to thank Sir David Scholey, who retired in February, and Sir Terence Heiser, who will retire at the Annual General Meeting, for their valued contribution in their capacity as Non-Executive Directors. We welcome June de Mol...
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22 December 27 March 7 June Other dates Interim results announced Interim report circulated Results for the year announced Report and accounts circulated Annual General Meeting November 2000 November 2000 May 2001 June 2001 July 2001 Registered office J Sainsbury plc Stamford House Stamford Street London SE1 9LL Re...
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For Capital Gains Tax purposes, the market value of ordinary shares on 31 March 1982 is 69.375 pence. Dividend Reinvestment Plan The Company has a dividend reinvestment plan for the forthcoming and future dividends which allows shareholders to reinvest their cash dividend in shares bought on the London Stock Exchange ...
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Registered Office Sugar Quay, Lower Thames Street London EC3R 6DQ Tel: 020 7626 6525 Fax: 020 7623 5213 Web Site http://www.tateandlyle.com Share Registrar Lloyds TSB Registrars The Causeway, Worthing West Sussex BN99 6DA For telephone enquiries please phone 0870 600 3970 This is a Lloyds TSB Registrars Helpline servic...
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consumer products around the world. Contents Chairman's Statement 1 The Signposts to Shareholder Value 3 Our Products 10 Chief Executive's Review 12 Operating and Financial Review 17 Community 24 Environment 25 Board of Directors 26 Directors' Report 27 Corporate Governance 29 Directors' Remuneration Report 31 Directo...
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aberg 20 Tate & Lyle Citric Acid 18 Tate & Lyle International 19 Tate & Lyle Process Technology 20 Tate & Lyle Reinsurance 20 Tate & Lyle Sugars 18 Subject Tate & Lyle Swire Taxation Ten Year Review UFIC Group United Sugar Company Web Site Year 2000 Zambia Sugar ZSR Corporation Page Number 19 23, 46 74, 75...
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ended 27 March 1999 are also included. Sir David Lees Chairman Diluted earnings per share pence Before exceptional items Years ended March 50 47.2 40 38.3 30 35.1 28.4 29.9 20 10 96 97 98 99 00 Financial Results 52 weeks ended March 2000 1999 Sales £4 090m £4 359m Profit before interest* £284m Profit...
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ordinary shares represented by their ADRs by completing and returning a voting card that will be mailed to them by The Bank of New York. Financial Calendar 0000000000000051 Dates are provisional except those in italics Meetings and Announcements 2000 Annual General Meeting 27 July 2000 Interim results for 6 mont...
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s') The Company's shares trade in the United States on the NASDAQ over the counter (`OTC') market in the form of ADSs and these are evidenced by American Depositary Receipts (ADRs). The shares are traded under the symbol TATYY. Each ADS is equivalent to four ordinary shares. For information contact The Bank of New York...
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Annual Report 2000 C o n t e n t s 1 Development of Carclo 2 Chairman's statement 4 Chief executive's review 6 Carclo Technical Plastics 8 Carclo Specialist Wire 10 Finance director's review 13 Directors and advisers 14 Director's report 17 Statement of Corporate Governance 19 Remuneration report 23 Report of the aud...
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9 / 0 0 s Precision Engineering s Specialist Wire s Technical Plastics Dividend and Underlying EPS ­ pence 2 5 2 0 1 5 1 0 5 0 1 9 9 5 / 9 6 1 9 9 6 / 9 7 1 9 9 7 / 9 8 1 9 9 8 / 9 9 1 9 9 9 / 0 0 s Dividend s Underlying EPS "Today, Carclo is clearly focused on serving its global customer base with a rang...
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establishment of a manufacturing facility in India. In tandem with the development of its technical plastics and specialist wire businesses, Carclo has been progressively disposing of non core engineering businesses culminating with the sale of its major steel strip business in 1999. CARCLO TECHNICAL PLASTICS CTP Car...
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Roubaix, France Albano, Italy ECC Platt, Turkey Istanbul, Turkey English Card Clothing Huddersfield, England Cleckheaton, England Francis W. Birkett & Sons Cleckheaton, England John Shaw (NZ) Auckland, New Zealand Joseph Sykes Brothers Huddersfield, England Cleckheaton, England Ecclesfield, England Platt Nederland Til...
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condition is not met, the options will lapse. Exercise of options Options may normally only be exercised between 3 and 10 years after the date of grant, subject to satisfaction of the performance condition. Options may be exercised early, at the discretion of the remuneration committee if an optionholder dies, or if h...
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for the time being may, in aggregate, be issued or be issuable under the Scheme and all executive share option schemes adopted by the company; in any 3 year period, not more than 3 per cent of the issued ordinary share capital for the time being may, in aggregate, be issued or issuable under the Scheme and all executi...
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Annual Report 1999/2000 Financial highlights 474.1 458.9 473.7 535.8 577.4 538.6 20.2 23.3 24.3 12.07 13.07 13.94 8.7 4.9 8.3 333.8 329.0 316.1 70.1 31.5 29.8 98 99 00 Profit before tax (£m/$m) (excluding exceptional items) £473.7m $757.9m 98 99 00 Total operating profit (£m/$m) £538.6m $861.8m 98 99 00 Basic ear...
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been expressed at the exchange rate on 31 March 2000 of £1= $1.60 98 99 00 Total shareholder returns (%) 29.8% Contents Statement by the Chairman and the Group Chief Executive 2 Electricity networks 6 Telecoms networks 12 The Board of Directors 16 Financial review 17 Corporate governance 20 Directors' r...
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and deliver significant value in the longer term through our skills in developing start-up telecoms networks, gained in the creation of Energis Electricity networks Telecoms networks Argentina ­ our joint venture has a majority stake in Transener and operates 95 per cent of the Argentine transmission system, some 8...
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joint venture, Copperbelt Energy Corporation, owns and operates the transmission network of some 500 miles supplying electricity to the mines of the Zambian Copperbelt. Brazil ­ we own 50 per cent of Intelig, Brazil's second national and international telecoms service provider. Voice services were launched on 23 Janu...
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prepared a Report on Form 20-F for filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of the Report for the year ended 31 March 2000 may be obtained, free of charge, from the Shareholder Enquiry Unit (see "Enquiries" below). Unsolicited mail We are obliged by law to make our share register available to oth...
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/2000 preliminary results and recommended final dividend announced National Grid shares go ex-dividend Record date for 1999/2000 final dividend Annual General Meeting 1999/2000 final dividend paid to qualifying shareholders 2000/01 interim results and interim dividend announced National Grid shares go ex-dividend Recor...
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Plasmon Plc Annual Repor t 1999/2000 Plasmon Plc Annual Repor t 1999/2000 1999/2000 Highlights · 41% increase in turnover to £70.3m from £49.9m ·157% increase in operating profit before exceptional costs and goodwill amortisation to £6.6m (1998/9 £2.6m) · Pre-tax profit before goodwill amortisation £4.9m (1998/9 £0....
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recognised gains and losses 23 Consolidated balance sheet 24 Company balance sheet 25 Consolidated cash flow statement 26 Notes to the financial statements 44 Directors and advisers Cover image: Pre-format marks and recorded data on a 30GB optical disk at 8,000X magnification. Chairman's Statement Chairman J. Barri...
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of our major challenges during the past year has been the integration of the LMS acquisition into the Plasmon Group. Overall, this has gone extremely smoothly but as we disclosed in our Interim Statement, we were forced to cease production of NCTP tape drives in mid-year. While the lost business opportunity was disapp...
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range of tape libraries in the coming year to capitalise on the enormous opportunities presented by the mid-range tape automation market. Overall, the data storage market continues to grow strongly and we expect to make further progress in the coming year. On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank all our staff fo...
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no material difference between the fund's assets and its accrued liabilities. The assets of all the Group's pension schemes are held separately from those of the Group. Plasmon Plc Annual Report 2000 43 Directors and advisers Directors John Barrie Morgans (Chairman) Nigel Street Timothy Arthur Henri Zinsli (Switz...
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two 401K plans in the United States) and also makes contributions to the private pension plans of a number of employees (including the two executive Directors).The total pension cost charge relating to these arrangements was £448,000 (1999: £110,000).There were no material outstanding or prepaid contributions in respe...
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Shanks Group plc Annual Report and Accounts 2000 Contents 1 Financial Highlights 2 Chairman's Statement 4 Operating Review 10 Financial Review 14 The Environment, the Community and the Group 18 Directors 19 Report of the Directors 21 Corporate Governance 24 Remuneration Report 28 Auditors Report 29 Accounting Policie...
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cleaning operations also features amongst Shanks activities in all three countries. Financial Highlights 2000 Turnover £315m Profit before taxation and goodwill amortisation £37.5m Basic earnings per share before goodwill amortisation 11.5p Dividend 5.25p Net debt £273m Interest cover 8x Net asset value ...
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7%. Group turnover increased by £54m to £315m as a result of organic growth, acquisitions and the higher rate of UK landfill tax. Profit after taxation and goodwill amortisation amounted to £22.7m (1998/9 : £22.5m). A strong trading performance in Belgium, growth from acquisitions, and contract gains were the major su...
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/9 : £61.5m). Interest expense increased from £4.3m to £5.1m but interest cover remained strong at eight times. These results exclude any trading from the acquisition of the former Waste Management Nederland B.V. (WMN) which was completed on the last working day of the year and to which I refer below. However, the Grou...
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be available for inspection at the registered office of the Company at Shanks House, A8 Edinburgh Road, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire ML5 4UG during normal business hours, on any weekday (Saturday and public holidays excluded) from the date of this notice up to and including the date of the Annual General Meeting and at the...
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Registered office: Shanks House A8 Edinburgh Road Coatbridge Lanarkshire ML5 4UG The notes below form part of this notice. Notes 1. A member entitled to attend and vote at the meeting convened by the foregoing Notice is entitled to appoint one or more proxies (who need not be a member or members) to attend and, (on...
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HALMA ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2000 HALMA Annual Report and Accounts 2000 Contents Financial Highlights Chairman's Statement Chief Executive's Review Financial Review Recent Acquisition Activity Understanding Halma Operating Review Directors and Advisers Non-executives Executives Report of the Directors Corporate ...
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41,823 12,021 102,101 Earnings per ordinary share before exceptional items and goodwill amortisation Net tangible assets per ordinary share +5% ±12% 8.41p 24.9p 7.99p 28.2p Profit before taxation, exceptional items and goodwill amortisation as a % of turnover Turnover to net tangible assets Return on capital emplo...
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HALMA Chairman's Statement Results Cash flow Dividends 2 ``worldwide strengths in product development, material procurement, production and marketing'' David Barber, Chairman In my statement in the Interim Report I commented that the figures then achieved would provide a solid platform for the Group's second half re...
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2.7 million on the repurchase of Halma shares, the Group ended the year with positive net cash balances of £7.2 million. The Directors again recommend an increase of 20% in the dividend per share. The total dividend is covered 2.1 times by profit before exceptionals and amortisation of goodwill but after taxation and p...
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IMAGINATION TECHNOLOGIES GROUP PLC ANNUAL REPORT 2000 Contents Chairman's Statement 1 Strategy & Vision 4 PowerVR Technologies 8 Ensigma Technologies 14 VideoLogic Systems 16 Patent Licensing 18 Recognition for Imagination Technologies 18 Directors and Advisers 20 Director's Report 21 Corporate Gov...
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the new millennium it would be a period of rewarding and exciting progress for Imagination Technologies Group plc. This has certainly been the case. Financial Results We have made great strides in the last year resulting in an increase of 162% in pre-tax profits of £4.7m for this year versus £1.8m in 1999. Earnings pe...
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over 200% to £4.3m. We incurred a tax charge of £0.7m during the year, which relates to tax deducted at source on overseas revenues. Our balance sheet remains strong and we are generating cash. Operating cash flow during the year increased from £1.4m last year to £3.9m for 2000 and net cash at year end stood at £10.1m...
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igma is £5.3m with goodwill arising of £4.5m. This goodwill is being amortised over its estimated life of 7 years. In the current, fast evolving high technology marketplace we are confident that we are set apart by being a profitable and cashgenerating enterprise with a proven strategy designed to place us at the heart...